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The outside ashtray getting closer to the door the colder it gets. Sorry smokers 25 feet is 25 feet. Step back.

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Smoking is gross

I agree. Two of my brothers smoke...they ask if I mind if they smoke when I'm around them but of course I say, "nope go ahead". I don't get too close so it doesn't bother me that much.

Dawn smoked a few years ago (way before we met or knew each other) but I'm glad she doesn't any more. My dad smoked a lot a long time ago but between stress and smoking he eventually had a mild heart attack and had to have a five heart bypass surgery. That made him quit cold turkey that day. Smoking definitely is nasty and it's very bad for your health....

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I just don't like the smell. It gets in your cloths your hair the fabric in your cars.

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If anyone else visits joins some of those Poltergeist fan groups on Facebook, your feed is likely to become bombarded with weird posts by people who take these movies way too seriously.

Some of these nutty fans are so into it, whether they have lives outside of the Poltergeist fandom is in doubt.

I find their obsessive fixation on Heather O'Rourke to be particularly bizarre. Many of them seem to be reclusive men in their 40s and 50s and lonely old housewives and probably relatively harmless, but they can't seem to accept that the actress has been dead for nearly three decades and just move on with their lives. This is the same lot that was outraged at DirecTV using a clip of the "They're here" line from Poltergeist in its ad campaign a few years ago.

Their crazy fixation on some of the other deceased actors in the series also borders on excessive. If you simply point this out to them in a matter-of-fact manner, they respond hysterically as if you verbally assaulted them. And don't you dare even think about saying Poltergeist III was a shitty movie! "It woz heather's final moovey god bless her sweet angel!"

And I thought SW fans were nuts.

Reclusive middle-aged men with a fixation on a child actress sounds way creepier than any of the Poltergeist movies, to be honest.

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Reclusive middle-aged men with a fixation on a child actress sounds way creepier than any of the Poltergeist movies, to be honest.

I am reminded.............

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If anyone else visits joins some of those Poltergeist fan groups on Facebook, your feed is likely to become bombarded with weird posts by people who take these movies way too seriously.

Some of these nutty fans are so into it, whether they have lives outside of the Poltergeist fandom is in doubt.

I find their obsessive fixation on Heather O'Rourke to be particularly bizarre. Many of them seem to be reclusive men in their 40s and 50s and lonely old housewives and probably relatively harmless, but they can't seem to accept that the actress has been dead for nearly three decades and just move on with their lives. This is the same lot that was outraged at DirecTV using a clip of the "They're here" line from Poltergeist in its ad campaign a few years ago.

Their crazy fixation on some of the other deceased actors in the series also borders on excessive. If you simply point this out to them in a matter-of-fact manner, they respond hysterically as if you verbally assaulted them. And don't you dare even think about saying Poltergeist III was a shitty movie! "It woz heather's final moovey god bless her sweet angel!"

And I thought SW fans were nuts.

Reclusive middle-aged men with a fixation on a child actress sounds way creepier than any of the Poltergeist movies, to be honest.

And a dead child actress, at that.

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Middle aged women, too. So I can't work out the common denominator.

The common denominator is middle age.

It's simple arithmetic.

Middle-Aged Men & Middle-Aged Women = 0

Men & Women = Middle-Aged <<<

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So basically, these folks obsess over Poltergeist due to some factor arising from middle age?

Maybe they're leaving sexual maturity (Hot flashes, anyone?). Or having some kind of identity crisis related to middle age. Whatever the reason, it drives them to obsess over such a movie.

This explains why middle-aged women and even grandmothers obsess over the Twilight franchise, too.

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Pedantic and overzealous work colleagues who overthink things and become preoccupied with inconsequential details.

They tend to misread instructions because their overthinking has led them to interpret the message differently to how it was intended. As a result, they force everyone to waste their time by solving problems that don't exist.

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I don't like people who pronounce the word "mischievous" as if it has an extra letter 'i' between the 'v' and the 'o'. I want them to stop.

The sort of inverse of that is when non locals 'incorrectly' pronounce the first 'i' in Scarisbrick, when the common/correct pronunciation is "Scays-brick."

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarisbrick

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My DVD's round.

My DVD is round.

Correct. Contraction.

My DVD's label contains text.

My DVD has a label that contains text.

Correct. Possessive.

I have 100 DVD's.

And... What else?

No. I have 100 DVDs.

Would you use an apostrophe to make a plural if you spell out the word? Do you have 100 digital video disc's? No.

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I don't like people who pronounce the word "mischievous" as if it has an extra letter 'i' between the 'v' and the 'o'. I want them to stop.

The sort of inverse of that is when non locals 'incorrectly' pronounce the first 'i' in Scarisbrick, when the common/correct pronunciation is "Scays-brick."

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarisbrick

They're probably just being a bit mischieviiiiiiiiiious, Quint.

In fairness I think it's forgivable (and often quite amusing) when it's a place name, especially when so many in Britain have unusual and unexpected pronunciations - for example, I wonder how many people from overseas could pronounce correctly the likes of Beaulieu, Leominster, Torre, etc. without hearing them first? The inhabitants of Shrewsbury even disagree how to pronounce the name of their own town!

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I hate it when you're busting your ass moving and the neighbor who has barely given you the time of day suddenly wants to be chattie when you're moving a refrigerator.

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Are you sure it's not correct? And why wouldn't it be?

It's incorrect if they're writing it as a plural.

My DVD's round. My DVD is round. Correct. Contraction. My DVD's label contains text. My DVD has a label that contains text. Correct. Possessive. I have 100 DVD's. And... What else? No. I have 100 DVDs. Would you use an apostrophe to make a plural if you spell out the word? Do you have 100 digital video disc's? No.

Funniest post I've read all day. well done. :lol:

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Autocorrect when texting.

I hate with people say "supposably" when they clearly mean to say "supposedly."

Or "pacific" when they mean"specific."

...or "specially", when they mean "especially".

I hate "specialty", when people mean "speciality".

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SPOTIFY just ruined Vaughan-Wiliams's PIANO CONCERTO for me with not one, nor two, but three of its insanely loud, normalized commercials.

If anything, can't they have non-normalized commercials for people listening to more delicate music, and normalized ones for the other kind, or maybe just automatically lower the volume of the commercials for the former? It shouldn't be that hard to label every new CD they plan to host as either apt for loud commercials or not. It only takes a bit of diligence.

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Spotify is amazing. I happily pay them $10 / month and listen to it every day - at home, in the car, and at work. Never heard an ad on their service a single time.

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WRONG!!!!!!!!!

You simply accidentally hit the Shuffle button at some point, didn't realize it, and haven't noticed it again to turn it back off.

Look harder at the screen! There's a shuffle button there, you can toggle it on or off!

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WRONG!!!!!!!!!

You simply accidentally hit the Shuffle button at some point, didn't realize it, and haven't noticed it again to turn it back off.

Look harder at the screen! There's a shuffle button there, you can toggle it on or off!

Wrong, doing that now gets you a pop-up that offers you spotify Premium for free for 7 days. It can not be turned off on the free version, which is therefore worthless.

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Josan gets kick-backs for advertising spotify here!

In-freaking-deed.

Yea or you can just listen to the suite free on Spotify

No I just found it on Spotify and hit play on the first track..

It's on Spotify US

http://open.spotify.com/album/4MaXQAzgpi1UGNNia9r7fx

Spotify version includes the bonus instrumental song tracks

Bear McCreary - Outlander

This is on Spotify now.

I need to listen to this Yo Yo Ma CD

Luckily, it's on Spotify!

http://open.spotify.com/album/2800bR51TkUq4zpIAF2EBT

It'll be on spotify soon and you can listen to the whole thing that way before deciding whether to import the CD or not

Karim Elmahmoudi - Orbit: A Symphonic Fantasy

Like this more every time I hear it!

It is available on Spotify: https://play.spotify.com/user/1219032234/playlist/0vBAhLy5yRCIrjNFSqZ1QO

It's free on Spotify, that's how I listened.

I really enjoyed Joe Kraemer's Favor too. I listen to it on Spotify.

Just finished listening to the OST again on Spotify.

It's not on Spotify!

The list goes on...

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