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Guess who has Pig Aids!
Topic Started: Jul 21 2009, 04:12 AM (1,449 Views)
Trotim
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Huh. And here I thought you guys had a list of like 100 minor gods.
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AstroFenn
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Hope it clears up soon, you should try honey and lemon with hot water (mix it up like a tea.) it's pretty good for combatting flu (of all types) and strangely Chocolate is pretty good too since it helps your lungs I use this remedy all the time and give it to people, usually clears up between 2 days-a week depending on the person.

Swine flu only really kills people who don't deal well with normal flu... so far i've not heard of anyone in the uk dying of it.
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Swine flu kills/affects the Canadian Aboriginal population, children, pregnant women, and people with underlying (sometimes unknown) medical issues.

How do I know this? I'm inundated with this info every day where I work...
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LGHunter,Jul 24 2009
07:12 PM
Swine flu kills/affects the Canadian Aboriginal population, children, pregnant women, and people with underlying (sometimes unknown) medical issues.

How do I know this? I'm inundated with this info every day where I work...

Same here he damn workplace chatters on about it like there's no tomorrow... its gettin' annoying not to mention my roomates who're studying the blasted thing in her Microbiology course and nursing X_X
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flyboy254
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Sadly, the US is still in a slight panic since a Mexican national died in US borders more than a month ago.

If you need me, I'll be plotting.
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LGHunter,Jul 24 2009
07:12 PM
Swine flu kills/affects the Canadian Aboriginal population, children, pregnant women, and people with underlying (sometimes unknown) medical issues.

How do I know this? I'm inundated with this info every day where I work...

...oh jeez, why am I not surprised? Swine flu doesn't seem to be serious enough to cause mass death, but vulnerable populations are screwed.
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Sabre_Justice,Jul 24 2009
06:33 PM
LGHunter,Jul 24 2009
07:12 PM
Swine flu kills/affects the Canadian Aboriginal population, children, pregnant women, and people with underlying (sometimes unknown) medical issues.

How do I know this?  I'm inundated with this info every day where I work...

...oh jeez, why am I not surprised? Swine flu doesn't seem to be serious enough to cause mass death, but vulnerable populations are screwed.

Yep, pretty much the same as regular flu.
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Kaempfer,Jul 25 2009
02:42 AM
Yep, pretty much the same as regular flu.

It's not the same at all; regular flu doesn't sell nearly as many newspapers.
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deathninja
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Brother got it at graduation (along with pretty much the whole of Essex Uni's class of '09), gave it mum and dad, who gave it me.

I had it subclinical (so I just got tired and had a bit of a temperature) but the rest all had a few days of what looks like really bad 'normal' 'flu.

The only real issue seems to be secondary infections in people with reduced immune response (pregnant, already hospitalised etc.)

Also, Tamiflu does jack shit.
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Feldoon
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Because of it, we now have that alcohol gel stuff in the staff toilets and canteen.

I just like to smell it.
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It does nothing for my hands except dry the skin out to the point where it cracks and bleeds.

Besides, it doesn't work as well as people think it does. Think about it: there is 10x MORE germs on your keyboard right now then there are on the average toilet seat.

As soon as you touch a pen, or anything, the sanitizer is negated, as your hands are re-covered in germs.

Personally, I think it's more of a gimmick to make a company money. Sure, in the short term it works, but you cough, you sanitize. You cough, you sanitize. You cough, you sanitize. If you're coughing constantly for 10 minutes, and sanitize your hand every freaking time you remove your hand from your mouth, that's some pretty abused skin.
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LGHunter,Jul 25 2009
08:26 PM
It does nothing for my hands except dry the skin out to the point where it cracks and bleeds.

Besides, it doesn't work as well as people think it does. Think about it: there is 10x MORE germs on your keyboard right now then there are on the average toilet seat.

As soon as you touch a pen, or anything, the sanitizer is negated, as your hands are re-covered in germs.

Personally, I think it's more of a gimmick to make a company money. Sure, in the short term it works, but you cough, you sanitize. You cough, you sanitize. You cough, you sanitize. If you're coughing constantly for 10 minutes, and sanitize your hand every freaking time you remove your hand from your mouth, that's some pretty abused skin.

Ah yes, an oversanitized society has problems
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HunteRS,Jul 25 2009
02:49 PM
LGHunter,Jul 25 2009
08:26 PM
It does nothing for my hands except dry the skin out to the point where it cracks and bleeds.

Besides, it doesn't work as well as people think it does.  Think about it: there is 10x MORE germs on your keyboard right now then there are on the average toilet seat.

As soon as you touch a pen, or anything, the sanitizer is negated, as your hands are re-covered in germs.

Personally, I think it's more of a gimmick to make a company money.  Sure, in the short term it works, but you cough, you sanitize.  You cough, you sanitize.  You cough, you sanitize.  If you're coughing constantly for 10 minutes, and sanitize your hand every freaking time you remove your hand from your mouth, that's some pretty abused skin.

Ah yes, an oversanitized society has problems

...that was just plain weird... I kinda liked it! :D
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LGHunter,Jul 25 2009
11:23 PM
HunteRS,Jul 25 2009
02:49 PM
LGHunter,Jul 25 2009
08:26 PM
It does nothing for my hands except dry the skin out to the point where it cracks and bleeds.

Besides, it doesn't work as well as people think it does.  Think about it: there is 10x MORE germs on your keyboard right now then there are on the average toilet seat.

As soon as you touch a pen, or anything, the sanitizer is negated, as your hands are re-covered in germs.

Personally, I think it's more of a gimmick to make a company money.  Sure, in the short term it works, but you cough, you sanitize.  You cough, you sanitize.  You cough, you sanitize.  If you're coughing constantly for 10 minutes, and sanitize your hand every freaking time you remove your hand from your mouth, that's some pretty abused skin.

Ah yes, an oversanitized society has problems

...that was just plain weird... I kinda liked it! :D

Yuck, that was both disgusting and funny, what a combo.
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The Virus
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Col.Feren,Jul 26 2009
12:46 PM
Yuck, that was both disgusting and funny, what a combo.

Speaking of which, there's another contagious disease going round.
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The Virus,Jul 26 2009
01:16 PM
Col.Feren,Jul 26 2009
12:46 PM
Yuck, that was both disgusting and funny, what a combo.

Speaking of which, there's another contagious disease going round.

Y'know my GF hadn't seen Weebl and Bob before.
I took it upon myself to educate her and now she has the Crabs song in her brain.
Go me.
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HunteRS,Jul 26 2009
02:40 PM
Y'know my GF hadn't seen Weebl and Bob before.

LGHunter,Jul 25 2009
11:23 PM
HunteRS,Jul 25 2009
02:49 PM

...that was just plain weird... I kinda liked it! :D

Apparently neither has mine :P
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One of my friends is convinced that the Government are hyping this up to see how the public reacts. Like a nationwide fire drill, except with more throwing up.

It's probably the least crazy conspiracy theory I've ever heard.
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The Virus,Jul 26 2009
01:16 PM
Speaking of which, there's another contagious disease going round.

It's not the first time Lurgi Strikes Britain:

http://www.thegoonshow.co.uk/scripts/lurgi.html .

Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to hide in that dustbin....

[FX: Trad. BBC *WHOOSH* ]

:)
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onFyre,Jul 26 2009
04:36 PM
One of my friends is convinced that the Government are hyping this up to see how the public reacts. Like a nationwide fire drill, except with more throwing up.

It's probably the least crazy conspiracy theory I've ever heard.

Going towards the other side of the Loony Spectrum:

When I ran for Governor of Arizona in '98, I began receiving mail from (An Individual Who Will Not Be Named, Because He'd Prolly Like The Attention), who informed me he could help out with my campaign. He didn't say how, but presented a sizable raft of documents indicating he'd supported numerous other big-name politicos such as George Bush the Elder and Bill Clinton. I politely wrote back thanking him for his interest and saying I would be inclined to hear him out --- I wasn't getting much finanical support for that campaign, so I figured it couldn't hurt to see what he might be able to do.

Instead of being straightforward, he began sending me ever-more-secretive suggestions that he might be able to single-handedly help me win. The more he talked about what he could "easily" do, but didn't just come right out with it, the more skeptical I got, and finally I stopped writing him back.

That apparently triggered his decision to let me in on the Grand Plan. A pile of documents appeared in my mail. They described how he had been visited by the Being of the Universe when he was just a child in the early '40s, and...yeah. It went downhill from there. Apparently an alien (which he drew as a big globe with smaller globe-nodes sticking out of its sides) had implanted in his brain All The Knowledge Of The Universe, and using this, he wanted to:

* Eliminate all world governments

* Create a one-world "perfect" government (he was nothing if not sketchy as to how this would be achieved)

* Cure, feed, house, etcetera, everyone on the planet at little or no cost (details again, not forthcoming)

And on and on in that vein.

What the Great Space Alien apparently hadn't told him, though, was anything about politics. He wanted me to adopt him as Lieutenant Governor, despite the fact that Arizona hasn't got one. We would sweep to victory simply by calling Janet Napolitano, who wasn't running for the office that year, a lesbian. Then he wanted me to "swap places" after we won, to make HIM Governor. After a term as a "successful Western Governor" (how he'd manage THAT he didn't say), he'd run for President with me as his Veep.

STEP 47: WURLD DOMINNATUN.

...yeah. :lol: :<_<:
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....I'd vote for him. XD
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He'd do better than Rann.

...waitasec, you ran for Governor of Arizona?
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Man, Calbeck, those statements sound sane compared to the far religious right.
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Calbeck,Jul 29 2009
10:05 PM
When I ran for Governor of Arizona in '98,

Democrat, Reform, or Write-In? ('Cause I'm pretty sure you ain't female. :) )

http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.p...0&off=5&elect=0
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Reform. Was and still is the most sane, balanced, centrist platform of any party in the US...in essence, fiscal and ethical responsibility comes first. One can hack on Ross Perot's eccentricities, but not the issues of national debt and government inefficiency he raised. Not to mention the number of similarly eccentric folks routinely elected by the major parties anyways.

When it comes to social issue positions, they aren't dictated by the party, but instead by the individual candidates, and settled by the primary election process. So Reform candidates in different states or districts might vary widely on their concerns regarding abortion or church-and-state relations, but they would still represent the Reform voters in their area.

The effect was that everyone got heard, and then a consensus would be adopted.

An example of this was when I attended the 2000 Reform Party National Convention --- yes, the one that split when Buchanan hijacked it with his "Buchanan Brigades" --- as an Arizona delegate.

While the Buchanan event had only Buchanan himself as a candidate, and the Brigades roundly chased off all other comers or booed them off the stage, the real event had a good half-dozen or so candidates with views ranging from far-right to centrist to far-left. We had a bishop talking about "moral values" and a hippie calling for legalized marijuana. All candidates were heard, and even the hippie (a woman in a flower-print muu-muu) received polite applause.

In my own campaign, we took advantage of a loophole in election law the Repubs and Dems had written up to make their own ballot petitions easier --- if you were with a "major party", you only had to obtain signatures from 1/2 of 1% of the registered voters for your party in the area you were running.

Well, the Reform Party in Arizona had never engaged in major membership drives and only had 800 registered voters in 1998. However, we still qualified for "major party" status because Perot had obtained more than 5% of the national vote in his 1996 run for President.

So I only needed four signatures to run. I got nine just to be on the safe side...so I can legitimately claim I obtained more than twice the signatures needed to run for Governor of Arizona. -:D

From the beginning, we knew it was an essentially unwinnable campaign unless the press took notice. I did not try to raise any serious funds, because it would have been pouring whatever was raised down a rathole. Only if the campaign got traction in the press, thus generating the interest to sustain a real fundraising process, would I even try, so I ran the whole thing on about $1000 and simply went to as many public debate events as I could get invited to or legitimately crash. My focus was really just about getting the word out that the Reform Party wasn't yet dead and presenting our platform as centrist in hopes of attracting more registrants.

The debates, well...in all honesty, I usually did very well when given any time to build up a head of steam. What little press I *did* get acknowledged I was a force to be reckoned with on the stump.

Problem was, the press simply ignored me, even when I would walk right into a newspaper office or TV station and announce I was available to talk frankly with reporters. That flew in the face of the public stances most of the news agencies claimed to have adopted, whereby they supposedly considered themselves a necessary part of the political system by informing the public about the candidates and their positions on various issues.

Their decision not to cover my candidacy revolved around the fact I didn't have a significant warchest, and so despite being on the ballot I was deemed "unelectable" and not newsworthy. Therefore I only got coverage when major debate events were reported upon, and even then it was rarely more than a passing notice.

The Arizona Republic gave, I think, the best statement of my character: "[His] inability to obfuscate does not portend a bright political future".

I continue to consider that the highest of compliments.

In the end, I took about 8500 votes, perhaps half of one percent. Then again, the Libertarian candidate Kat Gallant didn't do much better despite representing the most organized and substantial third party in Arizona, spending over $100K into the bargain.
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