Death Pool

[prisma]

My dad grew up poor and they didn't celebrate birthdays so I think he thinks a big to-do for birthDAYs are ridiculous, unless it's some kind of a milestone.

It's another good thing about being off Facebook--I don't see that birthday month attention-courting stuff any more. None of the people I'm good friends with in real life do that sh*t.

[Mutagen]

This isn't a wishful entry, but Wendy Williams is clearly in a spiral.

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I've been waiting for someone to bring up WW! Is this all in reaction to her husband having an outside child? Poor Wendy! This has been a terrible few months.

[Mutagen]

I guess her husband has been a POS for a long time, but she's determined to ride or die??? I know this is the ultimate "internet stranger commenting on someone else's relationship" but I don't think things will get better for her until she throws in the towel with him. God knows she's had enough wake-up calls about this.

[Beyle]

Apr 7, 2019 8:53:25 GMT -4 Brookie said:

People on Facebook who advertise their "birthday month". Lookit me! Lookit me!

Shut up.

I have friends who do this. I hate them in this mode.

It's a birthDAY.

Not birthweek. Or birthmonth. Or six-month countdown.

Shut up already.

[PearlySweetcake]

Twenty years after being treated for tongue cancer, Eddie Van Halen has undergone surgery for throat cancer in Germany. Never a good diagnosis, but here's hoping for a successful recovery.

[madangela]

Oct 13, 2019 21:24:29 GMT -4 PearlySweetcake said:

Twenty years after being treated for tongue cancer, Eddie Van Halen has undergone surgery for throat cancer in Germany. Never a good diagnosis, but here's hoping for a successful recovery.

I am very sad to read this.

[Babycakes]

Pardon my ignorance, but how would a guitar pick cause cancer? Is it made from a toxic material? Just from looking at Eddie, he looks like a smoker.

ETA: I just googled it myself, and this popped up in an article:

Van Halen revealed that he’s given up smoking cigarettes but blames guitar picks for his cancer diagnosis.

“I used metal picks – they’re brass and copper – which I always held in my mouth, in the exact place where I got the tongue cancer,” Van Halen said.

“Plus, I basically live in a recording studio that’s filled with electromagnetic energy. So that’s one theory. I mean, I was smoking and doing a lot of drugs and a lot of everything. But at the same time, my lungs are totally clear. This is just my own theory, but the doctors say it’s possible.”

So yeah. Highly unlikely. I thought picks were made from asbestos or something.

[Carolina]

Oct 17, 2019 20:36:26 GMT -4 Babycakes said:

Pardon my ignorance, but how would a guitar pick cause cancer? Is it made from a toxic material? Just from looking at Eddie, he looks like a smoker.

ETA: I just googled it myself, and this popped up in an article:

Van Halen revealed that he’s given up smoking cigarettes but blames guitar picks for his cancer diagnosis.

“I used metal picks – they’re brass and copper – which I always held in my mouth, in the exact place where I got the tongue cancer,” Van Halen said.

“Plus, I basically live in a recording studio that’s filled with electromagnetic energy. So that’s one theory. I mean, I was smoking and doing a lot of drugs and a lot of everything. But at the same time, my lungs are totally clear. This is just my own theory, but the doctors say it’s possible.”

So yeah. Highly unlikely. I thought picks were made from asbestos or something.

This is sad and frustrating. I recall Valerie Bertinelli saying that one of the reasons behind their divorce was his refusal to quit smoking after his first cancer diagnosis.

[Ginger]

Oncology can probably be a depressing field, but I imagine that Eddie's doctor had a very hard time keeping a straight face when he told Eddie that yes, it's possible his cancer was caused by guitar picks and electromagnetic recording studio energy, and not 5 decades of smoking.