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You're being quite the bengal here, mate.

wow, a yank that can learn, we have a breakthrough

It's okay, not everyone's parents can afford a decent education.

and what kind of education is that? your mum is so fat she cant be bothered to cook, so she throws you some money to eat gakky food each night and learn about it?

Don't worry, we'll bring civilization to your country soon enough. We even have something called "electricity". It's very cool, it can make pictures move!

hey, we know the difference between an iraqi troop and a US troop, your still learning that one
electricity doesent make pics move numbnuts, that would be the pixels that are moving.

Orkeosaurus wrote:

I loves me a good burger!!!

Hey JD21290,

You know what the difference between a British Soldier and a French Soldier are?

At least the French Show up to the show before they run away screaming like schoolgirls!
You just hide in subways and get the snot bombed out of you and pray that the enemy cant cross a small body of water.

JD21290 wrote:wow, a yank that can learn, we have a breakthrough

WE'RE NUMBER ONE!

and what kind of education is that?

A decent one.

your mum is so fat she cant be bothered to cook, so she throws you some money to eat gakky food each night and learn about it?

Your mum is so fat when she wears a red shirt everyone yells "Hey Koo-Aid!"

Hey, we know the difference between an Iraqi troop and a US troop, you're still learning that one.

Fixed your errors.

electricity doesent make pics move numbnuts, that would be the pixels that are moving.

wat

all fear the moving pixels

Last time around the image in the TV 24h a day was of guys in HazMat suits throwing sacks of dead (or in some cases still alive) birds in hastly dug mass graves around the world. This time we´ll have guys wearing masks, dead pigs might be to gross for the daily News.

But I swear that the big labs are sponsoring this mess, in Japan the health minister already told everyone that millions of Tamiflu doses will be available. IIRC at 100$ a pop somebody is very happy.

M.

We're actually not allowed to call it Swine Flu anymore. It's now been renamed Mexican flu, so as not to offend Israel. It seems stupid, but at least now there won't be any whining.

i dont think that it will be a big prob were i live
the only reason lots of people died in mexico is because of poor health care

Wait, what? Since when was naming a deadly pathogen after a nation of 109 million people less offensive than naming it after an animal some people believe to be bad because their personal iteration of an invisible man said so? Especially when you can't actually get the flu virus from eating the meat of an infected pig.

Because apparently the rest of the world doesn't like Mexico much. Let's be fair, it wouldn't exactly be a great place to live... it's stinking hot, the drug cartels are after your blood, and your backyard is full of pigs and children.

Although the resorts are nice...and EDIT_____...

WAIT!!!! Pictures can MOVE now? Great just as soon as we get these camera things you all have to go and step us up by one more notch!!!



Nah jokes lol



-Orkishly

when i first read this threads title, my first thought was of an old cartoon network short about some guy who had to help organize a mad scientists collection'o'horrible diseases and illnesses while said scientist went off to battle the local PTA

Cheese Elemental wrote:We're actually not allowed to call it Swine Flu anymore. It's now been renamed Mexican flu, so as not to offend Israel. It seems stupid, but at least now there won't be any whining.

Why would it matter either way?

It's a disease, if a someone thinks pigs are unclean it should make more sense to name it after them.

The PC politicians strike again! Next in News at 9 "Why you need to use biological challenged instead of the ugly mineral word"

M.

BTW back in the 70s (76 perhaps?) there was another swine flu scare, after 40 million US guys were vaccinated and 32 deaths due to allergies the scare never came to be, it was another episode of fear mongering.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8020552.stm

Swine flu hits the UK and Spain

Yeah, feth you guys, I'm moving to Madagascar before the Port closes

but Gwar!, wouldn't it be cooler to use this time to invest in an island stronghold, super villain style

Yeah, feth you guys, I'm moving to Madagascar before the Port closes

On a more serious note...

Here in Sunny Queensland the health beuracrats are going bananas blasting my general practice and the hospital I'm working in with updates and protocols every couple of hours.

To a town of 1800 with the nearest airport 80km away and the state capital (where the international flights land) 500 or so km away).

There was a huge beat up in the state newspaper today about Swine Flu being detected, acctual reading of the story revealed a couple of paragraphs in that the 5 people had tested positive to the influenza A virus.... sigh.

We had no Bird Flu, and no SARS here in Australia and they must have spent tens of millions in that beat up.

It would be nice it the media would stop the beat up. They are just craving a pandemic as every time it looks like one is to kick off they go bananas, but it invariably ends up less than the regular influenza virus...

"...and now I cast upon you...every disease that starts with S!"
"Oh no...not swine flu! NOOOO!"
"So, you're not worried about Superridiculousheadexplosionitis?"
"I've got that disease everyone is scared of! I might die, or worse, be a social pariah!!"
"Nutter."

I'm sorry, I'm kind of numb to diseases in general right now, as I had a friend contract a kind of cancer that roughly 50 or so people in the States come down with each year, and was given three months to live. Her tumor has since gone down 90% and is in full remission over the course of those three months, and her doctors are calling it nothing short of a miracle. Merely having her nearby gives my friends and I at least a 3+ invulnerable save versus illness.

And if this swine flu mutates into a rampant disease that turns people into swine (or, at least, with four stubby hooves and curly tail and all that rot as I know a good many people in my town that could optimistically be described as swine) then I might worry a tad. 'Til then...Media Earplugs. Take two and call me when it all blows over.

Aparantly the UK next to france is the best set up for a pandemic in the world, with a better drug stckpile than the us. + my mother works in infection control. So I aint woried.

I might or might not have it,my body aches I have a sore throat and a runny nose then again I might just have flu,the latter is what I'm going for.

At least the French Show up to the show before they run away screaming like schoolgirls!
You just hide in subways and get the snot bombed out of you and pray that the enemy cant cross a small body of water.

very good JP, now wasnt it the french that actually managed to get lost on the way to a war?
and i guess we are just in iraq too for the fun of it, nothing about the fact you started a war that you couldnt handle and needed help.

Deff Dread red Edition wrote:I might or might not have it,my body aches I have a sore throat and a runny nose then again I might just have flu,the latter is what I'm going for.

Yeh, maybe. Stop posting so close to me!

This will probably be just like the time we all died from SARs..


...oh wai

Well I really think we can blame the media,even though people died in Mexico I think the media has overhyped it.The darn media,and whats up with CNN reminding us that we can twitter(or whatever its called)them every freakin five minutes.

jp400 wrote:You just hide in subways and get the snot bombed out of you and pray that the enemy cant cross a small body of water.

Whilst you rely on two oceans...

Pah, you wish. Australia saved you all in WW2; without us, Japan would have annihilated America.

Cheese Elemental wrote:Pah, you wish. Australia saved you all in WW2; without us, Japan would have annihilated America.

Well, you have a point, but then you gave us Neighbours and Fosters pisswater so that counterbalanced all the good will.
If you'd exported VB instead I might have given you credit.

And I ammended my reply, to avoid the off-topics.