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Disney World is arguing a man cannot sue it over the death of his wife because of terms he signed up to in a free trial of Disney+.
Jeffrey Piccolo filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Disney after his wife died in 2023 from a severe allergic reaction after eating at a restaurant at the theme park.
However, Disney argues its terms of use, which Mr Piccolo agreed to when creating his Disney account in 2019, means they have to settle out of court.
Maybe should go in the WTaF thread
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I flew from Malaysia to the UK in 99 and they forgot to load any films but one had been left behind. The 1998 Kris Kristofferson "classic" Dance With Me. They played it four or five times. That it was on one of those drop down screens and the projector was ideal as it meant I couldn't really see it.
Also... anyone else remember the strange headphones which were just tubes? Or is that some sort of fever dream?
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anyone else remember the strange headphones which were just tubes
Like stethoscopes. They were real.
https://apex.aero/articles/sound-tube-surprising-history-airline-headsets/
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raw dogging before it was a trend
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Yes! I remember the tubes - they were definitely a thing.
And the screen - those prime legroom seats (I never sat in them) at the bulkhead just meant you presumably got a big projector screen inches from your face :)
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On planes smoking improved the in cabin air quality
Weeeell, when smoking was banned the airlines used the opportunity to filter the air less, because it's really obvious if you don't filter the air a lot when there are smokers, less when there aren't. But I doubt many non-smokers back in the day were thinking "Gee, this smoke floating into my face is improving my experience compared to less frequently filtered air. At least it's going to be filtered out after blowing in my face. This is totally worth the secondary-smoking cancer risk."
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Another person jailed for trolling. 15 months. For going on Facebook and posting "Don’t protect the mosque. Blow the mosque up with the adults in it." https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz6x105wgz5o
Apparently the prosecution accepted her post "was made out of anger, not because of racism, and was reckless rather than genuinely intended to put people in fear." The judge said no-one had suggested she would have taken part in any violence, but "so called keyboard warriors like her, have to learn to take responsibility for their inflammatory and disgusting language".
She's 53, no criminal record, and the primary carer for her husband. Wouldn't a suspended sentence have been more just?
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Why did she say it? And what was she so angry about? And why was she directing it at one religion? A very odd thing to say if you’re not racist/anti-Islam.
No views on sentencing, I suppose it’s partly the unlubed dildo of consequence and partly an example for others. I hope and assume what she got was within the bounds of normal sentencing for what she said. I also doubt the “primary carer” bit, as that’s exactly what you’d say if you were defending.
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I was on a 48 hour flight from Warsaw to Melbourne back in 1983. The flight was overbooked so people had to share seats, one hour sitting, one hour standing up. The in-flight entertainment was a bag full of supermarket receipts which one of the stewardesses passed round for us to read. Somewhere over the Persian Gulf the pilot fell in to a coma so we were redirected to Khartoum where the plane was only partially successfully landed by the co-pilot who, we later learned, was actually the pilot's son and only 12 years old.
After a week in Sudan (home to some of the best Black Forest Gateau you will ever taste) we continued our journey without incident. -
this is in the news that we have been waiting for.
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Why did she say it? And what was she so angry about? And why was she directing it at one religion?
FWIW the Telegraph says: "Following a post that showed white and Asian people involved in the clean-up from the aftermath of the Southport disorder, Sweeney posted: “It’s absolutely ridiculous. Don’t protect the mosques. Blow the mosques up with the adults in it.”
What we don't know is whether she believed the myth about the knifeman, i.e. that "Ali Al-Shakati was the suspect. He was an asylum seeker who came to the UK by boat last year and was on an MI6 watch list.” Someone called Christine Spofforth has been accused of being the first to spread that. Her case has not come to trial yet.
If only Musk was subject to British law.
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The court heard Cann, of Patna Place, who has 26 convictions for 170 offences, referred in a police interview after his arrest to the cost to taxpayers of immigrants and said he thought the protest was “because an immigrant had killed some girls”.
The judge said the “person in question was not an immigrant but they and you didn’t care, it was just an excuse”.
Judge Linford said he wanted to talk about the cost to the taxpayer of Cann's activities, saying he had 10 aliases, four fictitious birthdates and 170 offences for which he had been sentenced to 357 months in prison for - most of which had run concurrently.
“That Mr Cann is what you’ve been costing this country,” Judge Linford said.
“You have no right whatsoever to say who should and shouldn’t be in this country.”
The court heard Ryan Bailey, 41, of no fixed abode, Plymouth, who also admitted violent disorder, was seen picking up a can and throwing it and also chanting about immigrants not being welcome.