“It was dark, I had had a few drinks…”
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Lol, not sure that would go down well for any of the parties involved.
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“So tell me, why exactly did she shoot you?”
“Well officer, her sister looks a lot like her and…”
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Was talking to an acquaintance last night - a waitress I’m friendly with.
We end up talking about a friend of hers and she says:
“He’s like me, very empathetic, well he’s gay so of course…”
It was at that point I knew I was talking to an idiot.
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Buddy and his girlfriend have applied to be ambassadors for a supplement brand, it makes me uncomfortable to think of them attempting to push a brand on me and use their discount code so that they can get their kick back, because if, somehow, they were able to make it through the application process and were ‘hired’ as brand ambassadors, they would most definitely ask us (their friends) to ‘support’ them by using their discount code, ha, this is an uncomfortable feeling and thought, for me.
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Get 'em before they get you. Tell them it will be awesome because they can hook you up with all kinds of free goodies!
Thing that makes me uncomfortable: Watching the Notre Dame Cathedral burning to the ground right now.
Indescribable to see something like that.
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I like that, “Hey, they give you a 25% off personal code, right? Well you can hook me up, yeah? I’ll pay you back!”
yea man … surreal
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What a week for it to happen too. It’s hard to believe I’m watching something ~800 years old disappear.
Good to know that they have decided the fire was related to construction work, and had nothing to do with the threats against the church or the average of 2 churches per day for 3 years that have been seriously vandalized in France.
That’s some quick, decisive, detective work.
My only surprise is that it wasn’t swamp gas or a weather balloon that caused it.
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As soon as I saw scaffolding I thought “Idiot with a torch.”.
It’s always an idiot with a torch.
I’m sure when I say idiot with a torch you can think of several people right off the bat.
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I’m with you. But the fire first being noticed at 7pm bothers me. The French are notorious for not working overtime. Maybe someone set down a hot tool and it smoldered or they left a space heater on.
Or maybe it was arson. Who knows at this point?
It took 100 years to build. 100 years! I wonder if that was a solid 100 years of work or it was done by someone like me.
Did the first 5% in the first 2 weeks then 40 years go by and they did another 5% then the last 90% was done in the last week.
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Jean de Chelles from 13th century is the best contractor ever. His 750 year old rose window has survived the conflagration.
That’s good craftsmanship.
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It’s been officially declared, since before the fire trucks got there, that it was an accident. Never mind it survived 850 years with people burning candles in there.
Sorry, (1) ISIS threatened to burn it down, (2) ISIS tried to blow it up in 2016, (3) all sorts of church arsons by Muslims are happening in Europe, (4) the lady who tried to blow it up was sentenced to prison Friday, and (5) Muslims in Europe all over social media laughing about the fire, saying it is proof of allah’s greatness.
Think of Notre Dame as a wife that died under mysterious circumstances.
If her husband had done 1-5, would the husband not be a reasonable suspect?
Doesn’t mean he did it, but the police sure would look hard.
Here? Nope, it’s been declared an accident since before the fire trucks got there.
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Government’s lying to their people is always bullshit … but I can see why they’d do it.
Unchecked non-western immigration is the biggest issue in Europe right now. It’s the reason that UKIP is polling 29% in the UK and populists are getting more popular everywhere.
Now imagine if the yellow vest type rioters decided that Muslim immigrants did this. Angry French mobs aren’t known for discernment in just targeting the guilty. There’s a chance they’d go level an entire Muslim neighborhood in retaliatory fire.
It did sound incredibly convenient they determined the cause while it was burning. They have some top shelf fire marshalls lol.
Is #2 on the list an idiot with an angle grinder? Once, I almost burnt my house down angle grinding iron pipe right next to spray foam insulation…I mean it was a fountain of sparks going right into the foam from about 3" away.
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OK, I’m happy to hear someone say this out loud. I was beginning to think I was a paranoid weirdo.
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Eh, I dunno. You still have all of your fingers, right?
That’s a real world test of that foams fire resistance. I’ve gone through a few green jackets too.
Just re-read this … yes I was channeling my inner Biden when I wrote this
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