Cat's Are Cunts - Except Mine
US man catches plague from a stray cat.
The plague has fascinated me since I was a nipper. Such a perfect killing machine. These days, it's easily treated with antibiotics but, before they were around, it was pretty much a death sentence.
True facts: One of the first sign of plague in your neighbourhood is dead rats. See one dead rat, keep away from it. See several, call the council and keep well the fuck away from the dead rats. The reservoir for the plague bacterium is rats. It lives in the rat population for decades, rarely even making them sick. Then, suddenly, it changes it's behaviour and starts killing the rats. The dying rats come out from underground and die. The fleas that live on the rats leave them and go looking for new hosts. Little Billy goes to poke a dead rat with a stick and the fleas suddenly have a new host. They bite and the bite is infected with millions of crawling microbes and Billy gets a dose.
As I said before, plague is no longer really dangerous (even the pneumonic, airborne version) and is easily treated. That can't be said for it's evil sister, The Spanish Lady. When she, or more likely a variant of her, dances then they'll be piling the bodies up in the streets. No treatment, no cure, just death. And she's overdue.
Cheers
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Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Thu 19 Jul 2012, 1:35,
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Spent a while in Arizona standing in the middle of a prairie dog area
watching the cute little critters sunning themselves and drinking from a dripping faucet. THey were running all around us, playing and fighting and generally having a good time.
Then on the way out passed a sign which said, "Warning: Prarie dogs are host to fleas which can sometimes carry bubonic plague"
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mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Thu 19 Jul 2012, 1:45,
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There Was An Experiment
in the early 1900s where they tried to eradicate plague from an African town. The thinking went - we'll kill off all the rats, destroy the plague reservoir and be free of the disease.
So they started on a massive baiting program, killed millions of rats - who all crawled above ground to die releasing their fleas and, Hey Presto! - instant plague outbreak.
Cheers
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Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Thu 19 Jul 2012, 1:58,
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His name is Mr Gaylord.
MR GAYLORD!!!
WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU B3TA?!?!?!
GAAAAAYLOOOOORD!!!
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Kung_Fu_Russ ran out of amusing signatures on, Thu 19 Jul 2012, 1:55,
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Fuck!
Missed that. Good spot.
Cheers
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Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Thu 19 Jul 2012, 1:58,
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Thanks for that
breakfast went down a treat
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Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Thu 19 Jul 2012, 7:22,
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All this proves is that he didn't wash his hands after
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Bamboo Steamer, Thu 19 Jul 2012, 10:21,
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Poor fucker, how unlucky can you get, first you are called Gaylord then you catch the plague.
It's almost as bad as the prizes in Cillas Dream Directory.
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skeltonator Needs some new daps., Thu 19 Jul 2012, 10:44,
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