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13 hours ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

Politics aside, the number of celebs that have died in the last couple of years is probably no more nor less than in years past.   Maybe there are just more celebrities in our group consciousness since media has been thrusting itself more and more into our lives over th last 50 years or so

 

10 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said:

I removed that out of deference to him...

Also, the sentiment doesn't change.  The fact that I'm being attacked for that speaks volumes about the face-less provincial, petty a-holes the frequent this forum.  

 

in what way is Hubb's post an attack on you? he is simply offering a counter-argument to your original post pre-edit. and what exactly did he say in his post to prompt you to call him a petty a-hole?

yeah, your post was out of line. i fully expect a reply to my post calling me a petty a-hole for calling you out. but whatever.

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1 hour ago, Typhoon Tip said:

I removed that out of deference to him...

Also, the sentiment doesn't change.  The fact that I'm being attacked for that speaks volumes about the face-less provincial, petty a-holes the frequent this forum.  

Besides, I've recently looked that up and there has been an rise in celebrity deaths in the last 2 years.  anyway.  It's just that the headlines of lot of pages/articles out on the general web are confusing the hell out of the subject matter.

Can in point, MIT did a steady.. There title says 2016 did not show an increase, but summarize their findings as:

"...

But when they looked at the mega-famous — the group that made it into an article in 70 languages of Wikipedia — there were 16 deaths, substantially higher than in recent years.

So that answers that. Nobody is allowed to die in 2017. Let’s all work our hardest on that one...."  

If anything that adds to the sentiment that '...now is not the time to lose these figures' - the whole point. 

Good stuff indeed.  

 

Jeez John.. sensitive much?   Not sure how that was an attack on you at all.  

A few points...

1)  I have met you face to face before, so I am not sure how I am faceless.

2) Thank you for calling me (on appearance) an a-hole and petty and provincial

3) The number of deaths thing I mentioned was based on several articles I had read toward the end of 2016 / early 2017

Here is an example from the BBC

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-38329740

The key line that I would break out is this...

"He thinks that the increase isn't particularly surprising, because we're now half a century on from the flourishing of both TV and pop culture in the 1960s, which massively expanded the overall pool of public figures. " , which was the point I was making.  We have more people we are calling celebs.  I had not read your MIT study and have no issues with it.

I really think that on this matter, you seem to be the one who is being rather petty.   Once again, you claim an intellectual superiority on all subjects, and broad brush a large number of people on this forum in an attack.  You have done this countless times and yet you accuse others of misbehaving.

 

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Some guy went skimming down the entire length of the Weirs channel on a snowmobile while towing a water skier.  I saw his first pass without the skier, but didn't get out of my chair for his second. This used to be a really common activity until it was made illegal. 

Fish and game are going after them. 
 

 

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Some guy went skimming down the entire length of the Weirs channel on a snowmobile while towing a water skier.  I saw his first pass without the skier, but didn't get out of my chair for his second. This used to be a really common activity until it was made illegal. 

Fish and game are going after them. 
 

 


Lol that's killer
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3 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Ski season to Maine has been decimated 

 

Who ski's in Bangor? 

Station      Flood  Since   River   Present   Temperature     Snow
             Stage/ Prev    Stage/  Weather   Cur Max Min   New  Tot
             Flow   7am     Flow
Andover               T                 1      12  31  11     T   37
Auburn         13            8.46
Augusta        13   0.00     9.68              23  36  19
Aziscohos           0.00
Bath                0.00                1      29  43  19   0.0    4
Bethel              0.00                1      24  35  17   0.0   12
Bingham             0.00     8.87              15  35  14
Brassua lake          T      4.68              21  29  12     T   18
Bridgton            0.00                1      22  42  22         29
Cape Neddick
Comstock Township            7.87              28  29  10
Cornish                      5.52              27  42  21
Durham              0.00                1      25  42  21   0.0   14
Eliot
Eustis              0.00                       20  28  16         26
Farmington            T                 1      17  37  11     T   25
The Forks           0.20     4.06              20  33  15
Fryeburg            0.00                       28  37  20
Gilead                       4.13
Gorham
Gray                0.00                1      25  39  22   0.0   12
Gulf Island                  16698
Harmony             0.00                1      14  39  14   0.0   17
Harris Dam          0.00
Hartford            0.00                1      19  33  18   0.0   22
Hiram Falls                  2253
Hollis              0.00                1      20  39  20   0.0   19
Jackman             0.13                2      23  27   8   0.0    3
Kennebunkport
Kingfield             T                 1                     T   26
Lewiston                                       26  47  25
Lincolnville                 3.11              18  42  17
Livermore falls
Long Falls Dam      0.00                       26  28  14
Mercer              0.00     8.60              16  35  12
Moosehead           0.02     4.85              20  28  13     T   17
New Sharon          0.00                1      24  35  16   0.0   15
North Anson         0.00     8.22              14  38  14
North Anson         0.00                1      17  42  17   0.0
North Sidney                11.46
North Whitefield             3.95              18  40  17
Oquossoc            0.00                       21  28  13
Phillips            0.00                1                   0.0   23
Pittston Farm
Poland              0.00                1      24  37  20   0.0   11
Portland            0.00                       28  41  25
Rangeley            0.00                3      21  28   8   0.0   17
Roxbury                      3.26              13  33  11
Rumford
Rumford        15   0.00     7.92
Sanford                                        26  45  24
Skowhegan           0.00     18718
Spencer Stream               7.18
South Paris                  5.13
Stoney Brook                 4.26
Turner              0.00                1      22  36  20   0.0    6
Upper Dam
Waterville
Waterville ARPT                                31  37  17
Wells RCNWR         0.00                       37  45  24
Wells Reserve       0.00                       33  41  25
Westbrook                    6.46
West Buxton                  4839
West Rockport                                  35  40  21
Williams Dam                 7990
Windham             0.00                1      26  40  26   0.0   17
Winthrop
Wiscasset           0.00                       37  42  19
Wyman Dam           0.00     7879

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2 hours ago, eekuasepinniW said:

Some guy went skimming down the entire length of the Weirs channel on a snowmobile while towing a water skier.  I saw his first pass without the skier, but didn't get out of my chair for his second. This used to be a really common activity until it was made illegal. 

Fish and game are going after them. 
 

 

That is epic.

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2 hours ago, eekuasepinniW said:

Some guy went skimming down the entire length of the Weirs channel on a snowmobile while towing a water skier.  I saw his first pass without the skier, but didn't get out of my chair for his second. This used to be a really common activity until it was made illegal. 

Fish and game are going after them. 
 

 

Way way too many things to go wrong for me. (Ski comes off just before hitting ice etc...)

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agree with dendrite. after the 4 deaths earlier this month on the lakes, F&G is on high alert and very sensitive to this type of illegal activity. I am sure it is fun for the participants, but the first responders who might have to fish a dead body out of the lake probably feel differently.

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12 hours ago, Damage In Tolland said:

Ski season to Maine has been decimated 

 

Probably had to close the sledding hill off Essex Street.  Nearest ski area is more than 50 miles from there.  A co-worker said the X-C skiing was great this past Saturday; he was using central Maine snomo trails, and the sleds had left a well-groomed surface with enough "bite" to allow hill climbs without needing to herringbone.

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