# Auld Lang Sighin' (January mini-rants)

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**Created:** [January 1, 2025, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auld-lang-sighin-january-mini-rants/1012421 "2025-01-01T05:10:34Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 1, 2025, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/auld-lang-sighin-january-mini-rants/1012421/346 "2025-02-01T18:55:22Z")

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> [@DocCathode](#):
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> Second, at 6 pm a plane crashed in northeast Philadelphia. Sometimes they say Roosevelt and Cottman. Sometimes that say Bustleton and Cottman. It doesn’t really matter, those intersections are a block or two apart. It is already a high traffic area with many auto accidents. I am assuming that besides the people who were on the plane, several carloads of people were killed.

I’m not sure why an accident is deserving of a rant, but at this point, approx 20 hrs after the crash the media is citing seven dead (all six on the plane & only one on the ground) & 19 injured, so no, several carloads of people were not killed.

> [@Die\_Capacitrix](#):
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> I just found a scratch on one of my lenses of my daily wear glasses

[![](https://i0.wp.com/spazzytees.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/45752-99.jpg) ](https://i0.wp.com/spazzytees.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/45752-99.jpg)

I like how you turned a scratched pair of glasses into 4-5 new pairs & two eye exams, & a colonoscopy, & a mammogram, & a \_\_\_

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