Popcorn Bullshit Bingo
When it comes to vaping I am completely neutral.
I have tried a variety of devices and they weren’t for me. Herself is the same. So when it comes to the battle to ban them I am completely indifferent. The vaping mob allied themselves with the anti-smokers hoping for an alliance to further their business, but of course the anti-smokers have now shifted their sights and are after vapers. Very predictable. I have no sympathy for them.
Yesterday Herself was listening to Joe Duffy on the radio. Now there’s a topic where I have very strong feelings. I hate the sound of the bloke. He is patronising, rude and full of obvious fake concern for his listeners. How he became one of RTE’s top ten presenters is baffling in the extreme.
Anyhows, yesterday some bloke phoned the programme and started wailing about his thirteen year old daughter being addicted to disposable vapes. Duffy of course went into his caring mode and tut-tutted away with the odd “that’s shocking”. He positively oozed false sincerity.
This of course ignited the Great Unwashed and they started phoning in with their horror stories. A bloke came on and said he was a professional singer and that a mate of his once sparked up a vape in the same room whereupon he completely lost his voice. On another occasion he had been singing in a pub somewhere and suddenly lost his voice again. Apparently some women were vaping beside the stage and the lethal second-hand vape was of course the reason. Vaping should be banned, naturally.
Someone else phoned in and said that vaping was far worse than cigarettes because the “smoke went further down into the lungs than cigarette smoke”. They cited some friend who had gone back to smoking cigarettes because they were less dangerous. Vaping should be banned of course. None of these claims was challenged.
I stuck my head into Herself’s room and announced I was going to play Bullshit Bingo and my line was “popcorn lung”. I said I’d give them ten minutes before the line was used.
I was overly generous.
Within a minute, a woman phoned in and didn’t everyone know that vaping causes a deadly and fatal thing called Popcorn Lung?
BULLSHIT!
RTE seems to be awash with highly paid no-talent.
But then National taxpayer funded broadcasting all over the world suffers from this.
Post mortem must be fun when the body died of popcorn lung. Does the surgeon invite all his mates? Or is it a case of having to wear upper body armour and clearing the room?
Hah! A SWAT team in full body armour? Or maybe they use one of those robot things normally used for defusing bombs?
Popcorn lung is caused by one of the chemicals used to make microwave popcorn, hence its name. Apparently it affected a lot of workers and was banned. It is supposedly in vapes so therefore vapes must cause popcorn lung, although I’m not sure what evidence there is.
The Popcorn Lung vaping scare was just in a small area of the States and was traced to one garden shed manufacturer who had used too much of some ingredient. It was a small scare but the anti-vaping mob latched onto it and made sure it became an urban legend which still circulates widely.
Why am I not surprised?