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Ah. Thank you for the well-constructed - and useful - feedback. However, I'm afraid that thousands (and some items tens of thousands) of people disagree with you.
Too bad, so sad. I will be continuing as long as Chris wants me (not you).
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Don't let the dipstik annoy you, the editorialisation can be the most amusing thing sometimes.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Thank you very much for the kind words!
(And really - your kid brother - you're far smarter than he is.  )
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Fear not, Kent, you have a loyal fan-base which includes ... moi.
bill
Google CEO, Erich Schmidt: "I keep asking for a product called Serendipity. This product would have access to everything ever written or recorded, know everything the user ever worked on and saved to his or her personal hard drive, and know a whole lot about the user's tastes, friends and predilections." 2004, USA Today interview
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Thank you, kind sir
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Dammit, did the Bieber fans sneak into CP recently?
Burn the heretic, he's not taking part in the Bieber bashing.
By the way, I am with Mycroft.
You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named "Bush", "Dick", and "Colon."
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His star, thankfully, is waning. An ad for Tesco's supermarket stores have heaviliy discounted his T-shirts. They were £10 a go but to get rid of them they're now 39p and they still can't shift them. Do I buy a packet of cheap cloths for washing cars for 38p and wait a day or two to get them or take advantage of his T-shirts in-store, ready to grab for 39p?
I'd wait a couple of days.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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Nooooooooooo! This just isn't right, unless this turns out to be the episode in which Robin is disemboweled by hordes of animatronic rodents which, due to an unfortunate programming error, tragically mistake the real "actor" for the stunt dummy they're meant to consume.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Nooooooooooo! This just isn't right, unless this turns out to be the episode in which Robin is disemboweled by hordes of animatronic rodents which, due to an unfortunate programming error exceptionally good bit of programming, tragically mistake the real "actor" for the stunt dummy they're meant to consume.
FIFY
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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why disturbing? it a defense mechanism by mayweather (he probably had a death threat)
to protect himself he got Bieber to walk next to him, no assassin would pass up the oppotunity to off Bieber giving Mayweather a chance to escape
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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  It's the only explanation that makes any sense.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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I gave up reading at the second line, when it became obvious that the author was smoking some serious crack:
Chris Matyszczyk wrote: And, hey, he can sing.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Why not? Ben Affleck is going to play Batman...If they are giving up on the franchise might as well go all out and toss everything out.
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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I remember being outraged (about as outraged as I can get anyway) that Michael Keaton was going to play Batman. That turned out OK.
Of course, there is always the counter example[^].
The people at Marvel must just be laughing their heads off. They can get two Thor movies (I'm assuming the second one will be a success) and a frigging Guardians of the Galaxy movie made, but DC can barely keep Batman and Superman going.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: The people at Marvel must just be laughing their heads off. They can get two
Thor movies (I'm assuming the second one will be a success) and a frigging
Guardians of the Galaxy movie made, but DC can barely keep Batman and Superman
going.
Putting it that way, makes you wonder what they are doing over there that no one will stay around? So now they are drawing from the bottom of the acting pool (at this point sounds more like they are in the toxic waste pool) 
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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I've done it so many times! 
* This dude[^] however, definitely gets points for originality
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If money is your hope for independence, you cannot reach it.
Being loved gives you strength,
while loving gives you courage.
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The trick is to do it only once.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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Indeed!
That's the reason for the selected Message Type in the post 
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If money is your hope for independence, you cannot reach it.
Being loved gives you strength,
while loving gives you courage.
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Did you follow the links? £10 a pack for cigarettes in Oz!  And I thought the UK £7:50 a pack was expensive...
Mind you, I gave up nine years ago, so it doesn't bother me, but still... 
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For about 30 years now every govt in Oz has felt it is perfectly safe to whack a tax hike on smokes, and booze, although that one bites them when they get too greedy. Smokes have been fair game and the nanny state that Oz govt has become delights in "it is for your own good" and stump up the price again.
Like you I managed to give up a decade ago, I think once you get to a certain age and realise you are actually mortal you get the will power to give them up. Or maybe I'm just too miserable to pay the price!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I gave up because I got bored with being controlled by cigarettes and my need for them, instead of it being the other way round. I wasn't enjoying them, I needed them - so after twenty years I moved to the patches. Not saying it was easy - it wasn't, particularly - but I believe that unless you actually want to give up you won't succeed. And "These are getting ludicrously expensive" just isn't sufficient justification.
It was interesting to see that very little encourages people to stop: when my mother died of the Big C a few years later (after a lifetime of heavy smoking) as soon as people got outside the crematorium they lit up... 
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Griff wrote: and my need for them ... instead of it being the other way round
So ... you had an aspiration that the cigarettes will need you  in what way?
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Without the smoker, cigarettes have no purpose in life.
This is quite likely to result in depression, and even cigacide...
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