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There must be a reason why we allow elected idiots to trample over common sense at our expense rather than just telling them to piss off and get a proper job.

With interest i noticed that medical negligence is the third leading U.S. cause of death. How Many Die From Medical Mistakes in U.S. Hospitals?
At least airline pilots have some skin in the game and if they get it wrong, they will share the fate of their passengers. Perhaps if doctors had to share the outcome of their balls-ups, they'd be more careful!

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Mornin' guys...one dimension of this problem is the ripple effect it has internationally. Governments are quick to adopt similar and even harsher measures than those adopted by the FDA. BT operate on a global scale and as such will quickly promote these measures globally with even harsher tones in the case of developing countries with more corrupt and less accountable governments. One still remembers the case of Philip Morris vs. Ecuador (I think it was Ecuador) that attempted to stand up against BTs. In the case of Egypt the link between our corrupt dictatorship and BT is more clear. The Egyptian Intelligence (yes!!) is a major shareholder in the government owned cigarettes production company which owns all cigarettes production lines and leases them out to BT and can then tax the consumers to their heart's content. When a group of vapers asked senior health officials we were told flat out that e-cigarettes are a threat to "sovereign revenues". Please note that Egypt has one of the highest (if not the highest) prevalence of smoking in the world.


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3 years ago in Oman, I had one ecig confiscated. The customs guy said it is banned in all gulf and it is more dangerous than cigarettes "as per gulf medical body". It was funny as if I was a criminal.

After a while the guy was convinced of the absurdity of his claims against mines, and then he just said he would return it to me when I leave the country. Which I did. It was an ego. I had 2 more in the bag that they didn't see on the scanner.
 

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our government is very confused

we kinda copy USA and UK, you guys decide to asplode iraq then we do to

UK like ecigs, USA don't, Aus government is having an existential crisis
I watch masterchef australia daily ... people seem happy there
 

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Masterchef Australia is the best - i have watched it since it began and HRH has too. Back in the days when Gary and Matt meringue were in it.

It's not a snide .....ing fest like Masterchef UK or US, once upon a time they actually taught people how to cook. It's one of the few programmes i'll bother to watch at all, even though i can hardly suvee an egg.

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Masterchef Australia is the best - i have watched it since it began and HRH has too. Back in the days when Gary and Matt meringue were in it.

It's not a snide .....ing fest like Masterchef UK or US, once upon a time they actually taught people how to cook. It's one of the few programmes i'll bother to watch at all, even though i can hardly suvee an egg.

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they... talk... too... slow

those judges are considered meanies by many aussies
 

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Aussie never met me. Well one did. 'Greg'.

'So Greg, how come your father was too stupid to spell George?'

After i removed his hand from my throat we got on fine.
It's an English thing and i concede the cricket.

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i gave up on watching cricket

tubby boon in a test match, drinking half a slab of beer during tea is cricket

2 hours of elite athletes is not
 
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