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Bob Saget. He was a raunchy comedian who is probably ironically most famous for playing a TV Dad on a very lighthearted and corny sitcom during the late 80s and 90s. He hit his head from a fall and died shortly after.
Don't forget Amerca's Funniest Videos, or whatever it was called. It was sort of like a precursor to YouTube. I wonder if the creators of YouTube were inspired by it. Saget also directed Norm Macdonald's Dirty Work film.


Yeah I know, I'm a total Norm fanboy. So sue me. :)
 
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Don't forget Amerca's Funniest Videos, or whatever it was called. It was sort of like a precursor to YouTube. I wonder if the creators of YouTube were inspired by it. Saget also directed Norm Macdonald's Dirty Work film.


Yeah I know, I'm a total Norm fanboy. So sue me. :)

Yeah. We lost a lot of comedians in the past few years including Gilbert Gottfried (which I guess I am a fanboy of) who interacted with those two occasionally. Now they're all gone.
 
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Yeah. We lost a lot of comedians in the past few years including Gilbert Gottfried (which I guess I am a fanboy of) who interacted with those two occasionally. Now they're all gone.
Yeah all three of those were friends and they all died relatively young and close together.
 
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in intensive care they x-ray my head so many times, even at 3am,

but they said nothing.
Really? They took x-rays and didn't share the results with you? :scratch:
Head injuries are not to be trifled with. Once came up on a minor wreck, where someone ran off the road. They seemed fine, but their condition rapidly deteriorated. An ambulance arrived rather quickly, took the driver to the hospital, where they made a full recovery.
Soccer is not a game considered particularly dangerous, and not one where you could die. But there were these two high school aged club teams playing. Someone kicked a long, high ball falling towards the goal, and players tend to crowd up in the goal mouth when that happens. This one kid was standing in front of one of the upright metal goal posts. Another kid was standing right in front of him. They both jump up to try to get their head on the ball and apparently the kid in front of the other one adjusted to slightly jump backwards, and he knocked the back of the other kid's head into the goalpost.

The kid was knocked unconscious, but came to after less than a minute. He was able to stand up and walk around and said he felt fine. But people had already called for an ambulance. Even though he said he felt fine, people said he needed to go get checked out. During the ambulance ride he went to sleep again, they couldn't revive him, and he died on the way to the hospital. Yeah I agree, head injuries are not to be trifled with.
 
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Really? They took x-rays and didn't share the results with you? :scratch:

Soccer is not a game considered particularly dangerous, and not one where you could die. But there were these two high school aged club teams playing. Someone kicked a long, high ball falling towards the goal, and players tend to crowd up in the goal mouth when that happens. This one kid was standing in front of one of the upright metal goal posts. Another kid was standing right in front of him. They both jump up to try to get their head on the ball and apparently the kid in front of the other one adjusted to slightly jump backwards, and he knocked the back of the other kid's head into the goalpost.

The kid was knocked unconscious, but came to after less than a minute. He was able to stand up and walk around and said he felt fine. But people had already called for an ambulance. Even though he said he felt fine, people said he needed to go get checked out. During the ambulance ride he went to sleep again, they couldn't revive him, and he died on the way to the hospital. Yeah I agree, head injuries are not to be trifled with.

No, they said nothing, all I have is a report i recieved on leaving the hospital.
It says, "Skull fracture "plus fractured ribs, water and blood in left lung and air in right lung (whatever that means)

Also, believed lung inflamation caused by water in lungs.

It was my first time in hospital, so now I can say, "Bin there dun it."
 
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No, they said nothing, all I have is a report i recieved on leaving the hospital.
It says, "Skull fracture "plus fractured ribs, water and blood in left lung and air in right lung (whatever that means)

Also, believed lung inflamation caused by water in lungs.

It was my first time in hospital, so now I can say, "Bin there dun it."
That's weird. Over here I'm always hearing how free Socialist healthcare is the greatest thing since sliced bread.
 
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That's weird. Over here I'm always hearing how free Socialist healthcare is the greatest thing since sliced bread.

Not entirely free, there is a small fee, but you do not have to go shopping,
otherwise hospitals would be overfull.

And why not, good food, good room service, nice nurses and everything one could wish for.
 
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...and everything one could wish for.
Yeah apparently everything except an accurate diagnosis.

(I'm just kidding around with you. :) )

But when you said you don't have to go shopping, what does that mean? Can you choose your doctor or does the government just assign you one?
 
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Yeah apparently everything except an accurate diagnosis.

(I'm just kidding around with you. :) )

But when you said you don't have to go shopping, what does that mean? Can you choose your doctor or does the government just assign you one?

No, what I meant was, as long as I or anyone is in hospital we are not spending money on food.

The bill I recieved was not much and compared to what it must cost to run such a service it boggles my mind how it ticks over

Everything cost money and with all the services that a society provide it is for me a riddle just how it works.

So all in all we have it good, would reckon.
 
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Right now I have more questions than concerns. Such as, from today:
  1. why posters on Stormfeont are so antisemitic
  2. Did all trees that drop their leaves in the winter, stem from a common ancestor? Or did this ability evolve multiple times across different species.
 
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Or did this ability evolve multiple times across different species.
Consider it seems to be agreed upon that the first trees able to survive in a soilless world were what we call evergreens.
 
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Did all trees that drop their leaves in the winter, stem from a common ancestor? Or did this ability evolve multiple times across different species.
That's a really interesting question, so I went googling. Apparently, it's convergent evolution; that is, it arose multiple times independently. This is an interesting read: Convergence, Consilience, and the Evolution of Temperate Deciduous Forests - PubMed

As to Stormfront, it's a neo-Nazi site, isn't it? I guess you'd have to expect anti-semitism there. :(
 
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Man, this is not good. I just realized I'm madly in love with this insecure hippie chick who's into bomb-making and enjoys reading the exact same books that I always burn.

Edit: I just noticed that one of her elbows is larger than the other. Never mind.
 
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Man, this is not good. I just realized I'm madly in love with this insecure hippie chick who's into bomb-making and enjoys reading the exact same books that I always burn.

Edit: I just noticed that one of her elbows is larger than the other. Never mind.

But her right heel I’m told is much admired by connosieurs, and her circulation is known to be the largest in the world.

(Gilbert and Sullivan fans should get the reference)
 
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Man, this is not good. I just realized I'm madly in love with this insecure hippie chick who's into bomb-making and enjoys reading the exact same books that I always burn.

Edit: I just noticed that one of her elbows is larger than the other. Never mind.

But her right heel I’m told is much admired by connosieurs, and her circulation is known to be the largest in the world.

(Gilbert and Sullivan fans should get the reference)
 
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