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# Bring it on. I got the yearly tea-cosy death to worry about first.
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:40, archived)
# PANIC!!!!!!!!
my local rag is well happy - there are confirmed cases in the area!!
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:42, archived)
# OK
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:46, archived)
# How do the Dutch panic exactly?
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:47, archived)
# They put on wooden shoes and run around a windmill
spitting in the air.
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:48, archived)
# hahaha

[mental image]
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:49, archived)
# HAHAHA
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:50, archived)
# calmly
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:48, archived)
# They light 2 spliffs at once
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:49, archived)
# pfffft
Best bit of blatant stereotyping evar!
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 13:17, archived)
# ^ all this ^, at the same time
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:52, archived)
# It doesn't bother me... I have Lemsip.
AND IT'S MAX STRENGTH!
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:53, archived)
# and BACON flavour!
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:54, archived)
# don't be silly... I use Vick's Baco'-rub
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:56, archived)
# CURE YOUR PIGS NOW
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 13:01, archived)
# HAHAHAHAH!
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 13:02, archived)
# Hahah
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 13:03, archived)
# haha
3-in-1?
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:55, archived)
# Seems to be 2 in 1
Dual action: 1) Pressure Pain, 2) Blocked Sinuses.

I feel a bit cheated out, now.
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:59, archived)
# I am eating spicy tomato soup

so there
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:56, archived)
# i have a bag of maltesers.
I may go and have some proper lunch in a moment, if I can be bothered to get up.
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:57, archived)
# You'll love you for it, so do it

Maltesers is not lunch.
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 13:06, archived)
# I have rectified the situation, and now have a ham and tigerbread sandwich
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 13:12, archived)
# ham and tigerbread in a sandwich?
weird
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 13:17, archived)
# don't be facetious, young man.
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 13:23, archived)
# Hahahah
Two completely different viewpoints on the news last night.

ITV - OMG PANDEMIC PANIC WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!

BBC - Well, all the cases outside of Mexico have been quite mild so far...



Media hype lols.
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:42, archived)
# but the BBC have been all "WE'RE JUST TWO STAGES AWAY FROM A GLOBAL PANDEMIC!" too
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:43, archived)
# Well they were quite considered last night I thought.
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:44, archived)
# One the one hand we're all going to die
but on the other hand here's a cat stuck up a tree *whimsy whimsy whimsy*
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:46, archived)
# BUT THE CAT HAS CAT FLU
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:48, archived)
# *loads cat into bucket*
"FIRE WORRY TREBUCHETS!"
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:51, archived)
# clearly people don't know what pandemic means
or they wouldn't be adding global.
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:45, archived)
# I planted that there for someone to point that out
ATM MACHINES PIN NUMBERS
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:45, archived)
# £2.50p
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:47, archived)
# Strangly enough, I haven't noticed that sort of irritant here
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:47, archived)
# do you have dollars and cents?
you being indicative of australia
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:49, archived)
# they've started using the Zimbabwean dollar
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:51, archived)
# yeh but I haven't noticed anything like $3.50c before,
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:53, archived)
# GAH FUCK!!!
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:47, archived)
# i do, it's when Pandas run around spreading disease
with dirty bamboo
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:49, archived)
# If you're brown and in a poor country you're fucked.
If you're white and rich you're ok.

I'm not too sure how England is with this right now! - I am have gotten this very very wrong.
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:45, archived)
# pffft
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:46, archived)
# haha
yes - we are at TAUPE alert
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:49, archived)
# Oh god, only one step away from BISCUIT!

(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:57, archived)
# I wish I had biscuits
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 13:06, archived)
# I dunno man
WE MAY HAVE TO PUT IT UP TO BEIGE IF THIS SHIT KEEPS UP
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:57, archived)
# we are really fucked it it hits PUCE!
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 13:02, archived)
# The ITV news is the Daily Mail in 3D
It's a pure work of horror.

The evening news is the worst. I believe one b3tan summed it up perfectly when he described it as the 'fear news'
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:48, archived)
# I hate thier OTT 3d look
Its brass eye/ day today personified.

Gimme the warm, genuine duo of suzanne virdee and nick owen any day.
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:49, archived)
# west midlandser then?
nick owen has sardonic eyebrows.

Watch them.. they never stop moving.
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:51, archived)
# i think i will
i have never noticed - im usually looking at Virdee's fudging lully eyes and hair

Fittest newsreader evar innit

Im sure nick owen wouldnt be as bad as that bloke off ITV news with the GIANT eyebrows, that are always in a smug/ worried shape - even during the comic relief stories.

TRUFAX - Nick owen did a speech and stopped for drinks when the place i used to work at opened its doors. Kay alexander was there too! No virdee tho :-(
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:55, archived)
# haha
tis true - I watched ITN last night for the first time in ages
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:50, archived)
# I wonder if they also broadcast in surround sound?
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:54, archived)
# I think it's sensurround
the sound system they designed for the movie Earthquake
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:55, archived)
# Yeah, this also gets on my nerves
Why the fuck is ITV about 10 times louder than all the other channels?
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:59, archived)
# The advertisements usually are - i've found
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 13:00, archived)
# It seems to be for all the programmes at the moment
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 13:03, archived)
# All the news channels have their own quirks
BBC: Leftist arsekissers
ITV: Fear mongerers
CH4: Everyone else is racist
CH5: Tits and fluff


Anyone else miss the days of Jasmine Lowson on the Big Breakfast?
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:55, archived)
# Jasmine Lowson... MMMMMMMMMMMM......................
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 13:01, archived)
# oh, man she was GORGEOUS!
Now she does rubbish celeb news things on bbc15 or something

I used to piss myself laughing at Tommy Vance's voicover work on that dumb and dumberer clips show that she co-presented.
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 13:02, archived)
# There are times when a google search for a name proves worthwhile
this is one of those times
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 13:03, archived)
# Good call!
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 13:06, archived)
# Goodness!
That's a rather fetching young lady.
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 14:22, archived)
# Teh Fear news?
I'd actually watch it if it was that.

I find it irritatingly mawkish.
"FAMILY STABBED TO DEATH WHILE THEIR BABY WATCHES AND CRIES, OH GOD WHAT A WORLD I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE!!!
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:56, archived)
# you should make a program that scans news headlines and then appropriately updates the image.
while factoring in the daily birth rate.

yup.

EDIT: *is pretty sure the death percentage would be falling constantly*
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:42, archived)
# just take a quick shuffty at the McKendrick von Foester equation.
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:44, archived)
# Why, are you trying to bore us to death?
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:44, archived)
# he likes playing with drills...?
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:46, archived)
# I think I will stomp off and feel unappreciated.
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:46, archived)
# Julia Gillard is again on her way to your place
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:48, archived)
# mmm delicious julia, I truly hope the red hair isn't dye.
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:50, archived)
# I'd like to look at the Colonel Sanders equation, which defines the amount of herbs and spices required when added to deep fried chicken
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:47, archived)
# There are 11 unknowns. And if there's only one equation the system can't be solved!!!
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:49, archived)
# There are known knowns.
These are things we know that we know.
There are known unknowns.
That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know.
But there are also unknown unknowns.
There are things we don't know we don't know.
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:50, archived)
# I thought for a sec that was yes minister, but unfortunately it was real
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:54, archived)
# Donald Rumsfeld
The man's a genious :)
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:55, archived)
# It is actually an interesting point
in that we can't predict what future knowledge is going to be - obviously, otherwise we'd already have it - and yet we can somehow know what type of information it is that we're trying to find out. Whatever that means.
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 13:05, archived)
# There is some good commentary in
wikipedia.

We do our best to "know what type of information it is that we're trying to find out", but that meta-knowledge is itself something we continually struggle to find out. I suppose that's why prototyping is such a successful strategy.
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 13:39, archived)
# Ha
Marvelous.
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 13:52, archived)
# It is scarily similar to a scene in Yes, Minister
EDIT:
The fact that you needed to know was not known at the time that the now known need to know was known, and therefore those that needed to advise and inform the Home Secretary perhaps felt that the information that he needed as to whether to inform the highest authority of the known information was not yet known, and therefore there was no authority for the authority to be informed because the need to know was not, at that time, known or needed.
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:57, archived)
# *claps*
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 13:07, archived)
# If this was Jane Austen, it would, eventually, make sense.
(And more: the words chosen would approximately be both necessary and sufficient).
But try as I might, I can't unravel that! [Edit: I mean, it doesn't seem to make sense without some further context]
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 13:20, archived)
# im amazed that this 'global epidemic' has actually
provide proper news, rather than some vague celebrity pish like that suzanne bint did a fart that sounded like an angel, or becks gets a new pair of socks.
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:52, archived)
# SUZANNE BINT DID A FART THAT CONTAINED FLU VIRUS
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:54, archived)
# What?
New socks for Becks? When?
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:55, archived)
# the news loves anything that they can get self important about
WE GIVE YOU THE FACTS THAT HELP YOU TO STAY ALIVE!!!

(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:55, archived)
# boy, will your face be red when the world is a wasteland and only a select few human settlements remain!
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:42, archived)
# interesting it's only america and britain
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:43, archived)
# also, I think that about five people were quarantined in NZ
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:44, archived)
# that was for sheep dipping...
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:45, archived)
# Hahaha
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:59, archived)
# absolute fucking sham is what it is..
pig flu my arse..control by fear
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:46, archived)
# shit...
so that's how you're sure catnipppp's a fake...?


YOU'RE THE REAL DAVID DEES!


:P
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:53, archived)
# catnippp and Dave Dee are 2 different people
and if you're scared or buy into this pig flu shite then you are as pathetic as the rest of them.
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 13:01, archived)
# I generally treat all facets of life with a hefty dose of surrealism
which I then mock from a far in my golden jellied ivory tower.
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 13:13, archived)
# i don't think it's that crazy, but there is certainly a massive amount of hype over it.
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:56, archived)
#
Mexico: 152 suspected deaths from swine flu - 20 confirmed cases
US: 50 confirmed cases
Canada: 6 confirmed cases
New Zealand - 3 confirmed cases
UK - 2 confirmed cases
Spain: 2 confirmed cases
Israel - 1 confirmed case
Countries with suspected cases: Brazil, Guatemala, Peru, Australia, and South Korea, and seven EU states
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 13:19, archived)
# for fuck sake..that's fuck all
how many people in those countries have a really bad common cold..I bet the numbers would outshine that.

(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 13:25, archived)
# but do common colds kill 10% of people infected?

(OK, I know no one outside Mexico has died)
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 13:40, archived)
# Wasn't there also something in Spain and France?
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:47, archived)
# first case in Europe was Barcelona
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:53, archived)
# oh for fuck sake
the 2 people who have it in scotland are in the hospital 10 mins up the road from me.

I know a nurse who works in The Monklands hospital and he says they're fucking fine.

It's pathetic fear mongering
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:57, archived)
# you're going on ignore
IT CAN SPREAD THROUGH THE INTERNET
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 13:04, archived)
# heh
*does the donald sutherland bodysnatchers point/screech at prodigy69*
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 13:09, archived)
# How does she know how well they fuck?

Wait...don't tell me... ;)
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 13:07, archived)
#
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 13:16, archived)
# Yes its the media's biggest bandwagon since SARs and bird flu
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:43, archived)
# Eventually the entire world population is going to be dulled by potential pandemics
so that when a real one comes along we're all like "Pfft, yeah, whatever."

it's the boy who cried wolf but everyone dies :(
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:44, archived)
# WOLF FLU?
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:45, archived)
# haha if I encountered a wolf I wouldn't be worrying about what viruses it has
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:46, archived)
# And perhaps only the elite or the illuminati will have an antidote....
/Catnipppp
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:52, archived)
# I'm still shooting every pig and mexican I see
you can never be to careful
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:44, archived)
# STAY AWAY FROM THE PORK NACHOS
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:45, archived)
# Yes, but that's just everyday normal business
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:45, archived)
# Some people believe that this is border patrol
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:49, archived)
# La Migra! La Migra! La Migra! La Migra!

(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:53, archived)
# Yeah.... but....
We have until the end of time to stop counting!
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:44, archived)
# Wh yis it only killing Mexicans?
and why hasn't the press hilariously called it Pinata Flu yet?

Also, from "The Centre for Disease Control and Prevention"
"About 36,000 Americans die on average per year from the complications of flu."

Now can we please stop panicing, ta
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:46, archived)
# The Mexicans are Hispanicking all over the place
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:49, archived)
# the situation looks gringo
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:51, archived)
# dead and burrito'd
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:59, archived)
# ^this wins
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 13:01, archived)
# *dies a little inside*
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:51, archived)
# HAHAHAHAH
*standing ovations*
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:51, archived)
# Stop it you two!

This is a matter of meximum gravity
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:57, archived)
# 36000 is 0.001% of the cases of seasonal flu in the US each year
In Mexico, the current outbrak has a mortality rate of 10%
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 13:14, archived)
# LOLPIGS
I hope this porktacular epidemic means that Chiquitos will be lowering their prices.
I lurve that place, and this being b3ta, i predict that everyone else hates it.
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:46, archived)
# aaaaaaaaargh a really nasty cold
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:48, archived)
# I've got a snuffly nose, am I going to die?
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:48, archived)
# Yes, As long as your nose is not stuffed with ham
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:50, archived)
# YES
Panic. Panic like you've never panicked before.

The 4 porkmen of the aporkalypse will come for you.
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:50, archived)
# not if you wear a thin tissue paper mask

(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 13:23, archived)
# I'm just waiting for the dead victims to suddenly get up as zombies.
after I survive the pandemic, I'll write my memoirs. I'll call it "Resident Steve-il"
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:49, archived)
# Did the media learn nothing from bird flu?
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:54, archived)
# if you feed dead pigs to live pigs
what do you expect?
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:57, archived)
# Why, pig zombies of course!
You silly...
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:59, archived)
# mmmm
zombie bacons

nom nom
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 13:04, archived)
# the IKEA cafe?
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 13:00, archived)
# hahahahaha!
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 13:01, archived)
# :)
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 13:02, archived)
# OMG
Maybe I should join %RELIGION_WHERE_ALL_MEMBERS_ARE_SAVED_FROM_SUCH_THINGS%
(, Tue 28 Apr 2009, 12:58, archived)