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   Message 131,111 of 131,166   
   pothead to Person Familiar With the Matter   
   Re: Swiss Club Fire Disaster ... Sort of   
   02 Jan 26 22:33:50   
   
   XPost: talk.politics.misc, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh   
   From: pothead@snakebite.com   
      
   On 2026-01-02, Person Familiar With the Matter  wrote:   
   > 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?   
   >   
      
   Here is one example.   
   There are others.   
      
   https://www.sportskeeda.com/us/reality-tv/10-second-rule-shark-t   
   nk-mentor-lori-greiner-shares-key-rule-staying-alert   
      
   --   
   pothead   
      
   “Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular   
   political solutions, then you don’t really care about   
   the people that they claim to want to help.”   
      
   ― Thomas Sowell   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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