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Originally posted by Moscow Mule View PostNope.
Make a plan, so if you're able you can get out. If you're not able, accept your mortality...You can lead a fool to wisdom but you can't make him think.Comment
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The odds against that are astonishingly improbable.
EDIT: Unless there's a massive conspiracy theory and NWO (etc) are going after everyone who was on the flight or supposed to be.Comment
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Maybe she was the real target of the airplane crash - or maybe the husband was - having survived both, I would say if he has a further "accident" that confirms my conspiracy theory. What will be next? Chicken bone stuck in his throat?"take me to your leader"Comment
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Originally posted by SallyAnne View PostI dont believe in your time being up at all - it's probably more likely to be psychological effects.
For example, if you are being followed by a police car, you're more likely to do something stupid.
If you are being watched while typing, you're more likely to make a mistake.
If you've just dodged death in quite a spectacular way, I reckon you'd be very superstitious and be "looking" for death. You'd be on edge, and it'd probably be more likely that you'd be in an accident. Do yous not think?
AP's example is very wierd though - the odds of that are quite extrodinary!!
One thing that definitely can't be explained by any rational means though are T-junctions. Where you would prefer not to slow down too much or use a gear lower than 2nd to negotiate it, a car will be coming in the opposite direction at the exact wrong time and another car will not come down that road for about a month. Okay, I exaggerate a little, but it is infuriating.Comment
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Originally posted by TimberWolf View PostPlus it's easy to believe an event is extraordinary after the event. I could roll a die 10 times and get : 2,2,4,2,6,5,2,1,3,1 (or any other sequence) and say that the odds of that happening are millions to 1.
Next time you're on the motorway, pick out another (UK-registered) vehicle at random. As there are about 35 million vehicles registered in the UK, the chance of you seeing that particular one is twice as unlikely as you winning the National Lottery jackpot - must be your lucky day!Comment
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Originally posted by scooterscot View PostSpeaking of planes and doom, does anyone else here find that as they et older you become more terrified on flying?
Everything week now I get on those flying machinea I hold my breath at take off and landing...
I was flying to Aberdeen on a prop engined plane for a month earlier this year and the sight of two 20ft steel mincers rotating at 20,000rpm 10 inches from my head didn't exactly allay my fears.Some people are like slinkys, totally pointless but the thought of pushing them down a flight of stairs never fails to put a smile on your face.Comment
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Originally posted by Menelaus View PostThe odds against that are astonishingly improbable.
EDIT: Unless there's a massive conspiracy theory and NWO (etc) are going after everyone who was on the flight or supposed to be.Behold the warranty -- the bold print giveth and the fine print taketh away.Comment
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Originally posted by BrilloPad View Posthttp://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle6479203.ece
Woman who missed Flight 447 is killed in car crash
An Italian woman who arrived late for the Air France plane flight that crashed in the Atlantic last week has been killed in a car accident.
Johanna Ganthaler, a pensioner from Bolzano-Bozen province, had been on holiday in Brazil with her husband Kurt and missed Air France Flight 447 after turning up late at Rio de Janeiro airport on May 31.
All 228 people aboard lost their lives after the plane crashed into the Atlantic four hours into its flight to Paris.
The ANSA news agency reported that the couple had managed to pick up a flight from Rio the following day.
It said that Ms Ganthaler died when their car veered across a road in Kufstein, Austria, and swerved into an oncoming truck. Her husband was seriously injured.Insanity: repeating the same actions, but expecting different results.
threadeds website, and here's my blog.Comment
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Originally posted by threaded View PostSorry, but that is a fallacy. Confusing Cause and Effect is quite a common fallacy.
Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post...Ms Ganthaler died when their car veered across a road in Kufstein, Austria, and swerved into an oncoming truckComment
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