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wood

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  1. Most Ferraris and other high-end sports/supercars deserve better owners.
  2. wood replied to RPM's topic in Cloak Room
    I'm a big fan of Senator Kelly. Really hope he makes a POTUS run at some point.
  3. It's been 20 years and 2 days, y'all. Wow. Amazing how quickly it all flies by. BTW, looks like VY had a little twitter message this afternoon for a certain WR who transfered away.
  4. Yeah it's crazy. I've always (long before becoming a FF) had this thing about sparklers and fireworks in general, and how casually people treat them. You fuck around with them indoors, and you're asking for trouble. They're bad enough outdoors (and I love fireworks shows). You use them indoors consistently, then it's just a matter of time. Throw in some very flammable materials all over the place + a bunch of people and alcohol, and you have a disaster just waiting to happen.
  5. There were people saying early on that doing the sparkler thing was common practice at this bar, going back several years. A witness has supplied a video to the media of the same bottle sparklers being used at the bar six years ago with a warning to be careful of the ceiling foam when holding them in the air. Here ya go ... Translation: A young woman, who was present that day and the originator of the video, testifies anonymously. In it, the servers are seen saying: « Watch out for the foam! », warning customers of the danger it poses in the presence of SPARKLING CANDLES, to avoid a fire. Wow, Mo Bamba playing in the background.
  6. Welp. There it is. I was afraid of that. I figured there was no way their code was so out of date as to allow the state of affairs in that bar, so I figured that (a) inspection & enforcement must have been lax, or (b) the club was reticent to comply and had worked the system for a long time, dragging their feet (yes, this happens, and some businesses are very good at it). Could actually be both. ETA: It turns out that somehow the place had not been inspected since 2019. Wow. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/world/europe/switzerland-le-constellation-fire-inspections.html?unlocked_article_code=1.CVA.urc2.B2GL8pxhyzMo&smid=nytcore-ios-share
  7. Yep. Nance talks about a lot of this in the video.
  8. Actually SIAP this time. I'm still like 7 pages behind on this thread & wanted to get it out there asap. Malcolm Nance sums it all up: 'The only thing that's changed is that Maduro has left the country'. So good. One of very few videos of this type that I found to be worth my time to watch it. Moves quickly. Full of good info. I'm sure some of you already knew this guy. I didn't. Dude knows his shit. Great listen.
  9. Yeah that was a particularly hilarious take. And why stop at a cruise line. How about if another country performed missile strikes on American fishing boats. I'm sure we'd all be fine with that, right? Or how about a strike on a US warship in intl waters? I mean, it'd be all good 'because international waters', right? JFC, the shit these people come up with.
  10. Interesting piece which, among other things, looks at the disputed question of whether the bar had more than one emergency exit on the basement floor. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/world/europe/switzerland-fire-avoidable-hazards.html?unlocked_article_code=1.B1A.1kSO.8wN4n7XVSLf-&smid=nytcore-ios-share Interesting that the number of exits is in dispute. I'm sure the fire department investigators know the answer. They would have inspection records and pre-fire plans on file, and it would very likely still be physically evident in the building itself if there are actually two exits, and whether they were operational, blocked, or in disrepair (which is depressingly common). Most people think that when there's a fire, there's nothing left afterward but ashes. The truth is that hardly anything gets completely consumed by the fire, and the whole scene can be pretty accurately reconstructed, step by step. It just takes time and lots of digging through debris. They'll know the origin point of the fire, it's path, and the basics of the building, and pretty much everything that happened. It's just a matter of how long it takes. Judging from the description of the location of a possible second emergency exit near the restroom, I would bet that if it exists and was clear and operational, it wasn't well marked with emergency exit signs leading the way out. This is also depressingly common. It's common for business owners to not take these simple things seriously and indeed to treat them with utter disdain. Especially - amazingly - many club operators. The descripiton of the bystanders outside having to force the doors open to help people escape makes me think there was no panic hardware on the doors. But who knows? It's all so frustrating.
  11. Y'all hear about the grandfather & grandson shooting & killing each other in Circle C on the 23rd? Not a very merry Christmas for that family. https://www.kvue.com/article/news/crime/southwest-austin-shooting-grandfather-grandson/269-224ae018-cae6-4b6b-8565-f41f382ec23d
  12. Of course he is!! Just wait until people begin to understand that Venezuela won't be getting the leader they want, but rather the leader Trump chooses for them. Liberation? Democracy? Remedy for a stolen election? Eh, not so much.
  13. Yeah I know. I just thought it was funny. The fentanyl isn'twasn't coming from Venezuela either, so ...
  14. I mean .... narcoterrorism (made-up word) .... duh, ya stoopid ag!
  15. Re: the Station, here's a drawing showing where the bodies were found. 61 bodies right near the front doors. The drawing shows the doors opening outward, but they actually opened inward. Had they opened outward, the death toll would have much lower.
  16. Yep. If the fire reaches flashover conditions, even firefighters are in big trouble. Imagine what it's like for people without fire gear. When the smoke starts to come down, that's a very bad sign. When it's up high at the beginning of the video, that's because the air temperature is stratified in the room, with hotter air & smoke at the top and cooler air at the bottom. The smoke is hot and rises. When the smoke starts coming down, that's because the rest of the air is starting to reach the same temperature as the hot smoke/air at the top ... i.e. all the air/smoke in the room is reaching the same extremely hot temperature. Eventually, even the smoke itself will ignite.
  17. Wow. So needlessly similar to the Station fire. If these club owners had learned anything at all about that fire and acted accordingly, this wouldn't have happened. For whatever laws and codes were violated by the club owners, they should face stiff penalties. These codes aren't in place for the hell of it or to annoy the owners and managers. They're in place to prevent exactly this kind of thing from happening. You wouldn't believe how much grief some of them give FD inspectors, claiming they're just being harassed for no good reason. 100% this.
  18. Yeah that fire (along with the Coconut Grove fire) is a cautionary tale most firefighters learn about in detail during training. It was also the first thing that came to mind when I heard about this Swiss tragedy. In the Station nightclub fire in R.I., the pyrotechnics were only the start of the story. There were also major issues with the exits. There was only one main emergency exit - the front entry, which most of the people in the club entered through. There were three other exits, but iirc none of them were marked as emergency exits, as one was behind the stage and was designated as an exit for the bands, and the other two were behind the bar and in the kitchen. So naturally most people tried to leave through the front door, which is what most people tend to do anyway. There was just one major problem. The front door opened inward. It should have opened outward and should have been equipped with panic hardware. Neither of those things had been installed, despite repeated directives from local fire inspectors. 90 people did manage to get out the front door, but when the fire got bad enough that people began to panick and also could not see, they flooded the narrow front entry hallway, trying to push their way out, which prevented the people nearest the door from being able to open it. They were jamming the door shut. 61 of the 100 dead were found near the front door. Sickening. The lessons learned from that single fire are extensive, and are the main reason why whenever I go to a club, movie theater, large opera house, stay in a hotel, etc, etc,the first thing I do upon arrival is scope out the exits and know which way I'm going if the shit hits the fan. Yeah, now add flammable acoustic foam on the ceiling.
  19. I mean, yeah, I understand it could still happen, but if we end up keeping those two after their units have sucked so badly, then wtf are we even doing?
  20. Ah, sweet. It's so awesome that his buds get to stay and continue sucking.
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