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A SEQUEL TO the 1984 cult classic film This Is Spinal Tap is coming to cinemas this September, 41 years on from the original.
Spinal Tap II: The End Continues is set to feature cameos from Paul McCartney, Elton John, Garth Brooks, and Lars Ulrich and a teaser trailer was released earlier this week.
The mockumentary comedy features fictional heavy metal band Spinal Tap, who are “one of England’s loudest bands”.
With the fictional rockers returning to our screens for one last show this September, we want to test your knowledge of some bona fide stars.
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Same old same old… women really are treated like second class citizens in this country! Theres no way man would be treated so badly…!
@Pat Kelly: An yet, women in Ireland have a greater life expectancy than men. Strange isn’t it.
@Pat Farrelly: Women live longer than men in general, all over the world, even in less developed countries, it’s got nothing to do with their treatment.
@Pat Farrelly: the female advantage in longevity is based on an extensive number of factors which vary from area to area. Too many to list. But is mainly chromosomal and hormonal (eg males tend to have fattier organs and females have fattier skin) But the advantage is shortening in recent years in most developing countries.
So you can be less bitter soon maybe.
Of course they were,nothing to see here it was an oversight or just a “side effect”.
You might get an enquiry but no one will be held accountable and if you drop the case we might even compensate you.
It’s so sad, I was started on that medication over 20 years ago , and from day 1 I was warned about the risks , about 10 years ago they took me off it, they said that women of childbearing age shouldn’t be on it if possible. It’s scandalous that I was warned about it 20 years ago by my doctors, and other doctors never mentioned it to other women.
@Kim Keoghan: Doesn’t that suggest it was more a failing by doctors not the state? There is a problem with consultants with specialisations only treating that area and ignoring the whole patient. There is also a problem with communications between Drs and patients, which is not entirely on the Drs side. I suspect we’ll eventually have to introduce some form of recording of Dr – patient interactions that can be accessed if cases like this comes up so that we can actually hear what was discussed and what warnings, if any were provided. We’ve all taken medication that can have side effects, and many times we put the warnings out of our minds because we need the treatment. It’s only later if the side effects arise and if they’re serious that we try to remember if we were warned and was the warning strong enough.
Doctors have been dismissing women since medicine began. I’ve dealt with it many times.
Women have always been seen as hypersensitive or hypochondriac or too emotional or over anxious etc etc etc. That’s my experience and that was with female and male doctors. sodium valporate was first introduced in 1964, by 1984 it was already been associated with a number of anomalies affecting the neural tube, heart, limb, reproductive and urinary system, skin and facial features. And yet it took ’till 2019 for the warning to be put onto the product. 35 years! An apology is far from what is needed.
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