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Chris Fehr's avatar

Now I feel I'm going to have to make time to watch it again.

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Mike Phelan's avatar

TBL is iconic and so’s Jeff. I’ve spent a good amount of my working life in cardiology as a nuclear tech and your comments about Donnie’s Rt arm pain was news to me. Thanks for sharing your experience.

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Rodney Johnson's avatar

Wonderful. I now forgive you for Neil Young :)

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Ross Shawn Rogers's avatar

I find the fictitious Donnie argument remarkably weak. The Dude responds with obvious distress when Donnie collapses, and reacts quite strongly to Walter letting Donnie's ashes fly into his face. Besides, why would he be there at all except to scatter Donnie's ashes? Besides, he breaks down when Walter is apologizing afterwards. He seems awfully sad about the loss of an imaginary friend. All that aside, even if he doesn't speak directly to him, he looks at him when Donnie is speaking. Just before Walter tells him to shut the fuck up, of course.

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Gail Pickens Barger's avatar

What are the classic symptoms for women, then, as I understand, they present differently. Thanks!

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The Skeptical Cardiologist's avatar

From a recent meta-analysis

During a suspected ACS, women present more dyspnea, arm pain, nausea and vomiting, fatigue, palpitations and pain at the shoulder than men, with RR (95%CI) of 1.13 [1.10; 1.17], 1.30 [1.05; 1.59], 1,40 [1.26; 1.56], 1.08 [1.01; 1.16], 1.67 [1.49; 1.86], 1.78 [1.02; 3.13], respectively. They are older by (95%CI) 4.15 [2.28; 6.03] years compared to men.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8910933/

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Jeanne Doornbos's avatar

Shut up, Donnie! That’s a nice marmot. Is there a Ralph’s nearby? Lingonberry pancakes. Oh, I can get you a toe.

Thoroughly enjoyed your article!

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The Skeptical Cardiologist's avatar

That's just, like, uh, your opinion, man.

It's like Lenin said: you look for the person who will benefit, and, uh, uh, you know...

Certain things have come to light.

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Jeanne Doornbos's avatar

Certain things have come to light—one of the best TBL quotes!

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Douglas L. Decker DDS's avatar

Awesome!!! Great article!!!

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Steven Bornfeld's avatar

Stormare is great. Also, "I DON'T ROLL ON SHABBOS!!!"

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Gary Schwitzer's avatar

But if Donnie was really only a figment of Walter’s imagination, whose ashes blew back into the Dude’s face at the windy oceanside farewell? This theory may call for a sequel.

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The Skeptical Cardiologist's avatar

There are several Reddit threads on this topic and critics of the Donnie not real theory have cited the ash in the Dude's face. Supporters have pointed out that the Dude does not react to the ash.

The other major anti-donnienot real point is that Donnie says Phones ringing Dude and the Dude answers him saying "thanks Donnie"

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CanAmSteve's avatar

Good to know

Fun fact - I sometimes used a Widelux as a newspaper photographer in Toronto back in the 1980s. I had at least one image published (of a subway mural) shot with it (35mm version)

I've never seen TBL

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The Skeptical Cardiologist's avatar

You should definitely head to NoCal where Bridges is repeating his San Diego performance in the next few days.

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