XPost: talk.politics.misc, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh   
   From: PFWTM@cumcast.net   
      
   On 1/2/2026 3:16 PM, pothead wrote:   
   > On 2026-01-02, Person Familiar With the Matter  wrote:   
   >> On 1/2/2026 5:26 AM, c186282 wrote:   
   >>> MASS quantities of people killed or horribly burnt.   
   >>>   
   >>> The CAUSE was documented on a cell vid ... a bartender   
   >>> put a bar-girl on his shoulders, and she had a big lit   
   >>> 'sparkler'. It set fire to the ceiling.   
   >>>   
   >>> However, it LOOKS like an ordinary wooden ceiling.   
   >>> Wood burns, but shouldn't burn like THAT. The whole   
   >>> place was ablaze in under a minute. Nobody had time   
   >>> to react/evac.   
   >>>   
   >>> Some kind of hyper-flammable paint/varnish on   
   >>> the woodwork ??? Not even 'oil'-based should   
   >>> have gone up THAT quick.   
   >>>   
   >>> LONG back, nitrocellulose concoctions were used   
   >>> as wood varnish ... maybe the place dated THAT   
   >>> far back ???   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> One should make it a rule to check a "club" venue for fire exits and   
   >> other escape routes before deciding to be part of a large group of   
   >> people who are inebriated and likely to behave recklessly.  A basement   
   >> or upper level venue with one exit is to be avoided at all costs.   
   >>   
   >> I was in Germany in an old, walled village while visiting my son and   
   >> noticed that a hotel I had booked had only one exit and lots of people   
   >> smoking cigarettes in a dance hall in the hotel. The rooms on upper   
   >> floors had windows bricked up.  The place was a fire trap, so my wife   
   >> and two of our kids decided to find a different hotel and write off the   
   >> cost of not staying at the fire trap.   
   >>   
   > The 10 second rule for situational awareness should always be followed.   
   > It might actually save your life someday.   
   >   
      
   What is the 10 second rule for situational awareness?   
      
   --   
   "The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of   
   doubt, while the stupid people are full of confidence.” —Charles Bukowski   
      
   "When guns are outlawed, only foreign invaders and the government   
   officials that invited them in will have guns."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)