About time...
Monkeypox to be renamed mpox to avoid stigma, says WHO
(, Mon 28 Nov 2022, 14:07, Reply)
I know this will probably get a lot of people on here into a right lather,
but it's an eminently sensible move. Words have connotations, logical or not, and plenty of people around the world will stigmatise the disease and people with it because it's got "monkey" in the name. To a large extent the genie is already out of the bottle, but it's a move with clear benefits in terms of public health education, and no downside.
(, Mon 28 Nov 2022, 14:22, Reply)
Well, I can't speak for the rest of the board,
but I know that all my friends with Mpox will be absolutely delighted that they will no longer be stigmatised for having a sexually transmitted disease that presents as a blistery rash all over their mouth and bollocks.
(, Mon 28 Nov 2022, 14:35, Reply)
I hear you can also catch it off 5G phone masts
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Turtle Power & Knuckles, Mon 28 Nov 2022, 14:45,
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wearing a mask won't help the spread but it will certainly cover those ugly dripping blisters from the rest of us
(, Mon 28 Nov 2022, 14:56, Reply)
Look if you're rubbing your mouth and bollocks against a 5G phone mast then you've only got yourself to blame
(, Mon 28 Nov 2022, 21:53, Reply)
It's not so bad
just as long as you're the first person to do it.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Tue 29 Nov 2022, 10:44,
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Well that's great then, because they'll be more likely to seek treatment and less likely to spread it around even more.
When applied to a large population, this delight should result in fewer cases.
(, Mon 28 Nov 2022, 15:17, Reply)
I think they should have moved a little further away than just remove five letters.
"Er, what does the M stand for?" Asks anyone with even a vaguely curious mind. "Monkey." Replies anyone who can remember anything that happened recently.
Remember when we were all calling Covid Corona? That Mexican breweryβs PR team somehow swung a rebrand. Should get them on the case.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Mon 28 Nov 2022, 16:11,
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Wasn't that a song by Hanson?
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Invisible Wizard - 12th Level Errorer, Mon 28 Nov 2022, 14:54,
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as far as primates are concerned
monkeys are at a lower evolutionary stage than apes. humans are apes.
everyone feeling offended by "monkey" is just stupid/uneducated/a wanking cunt.
I vote for renaming to "apepox" then, AND ONLY THEN EXCLAMATION MARK, is anybody of the species homo sapiens allowed to ...
as if I care lol
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Woodkovsky βΉοΈβπ»βπ½βπ£βπ©βπ§»βπ, Mon 28 Nov 2022, 15:07,
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Please elaborate on lower and higher evolutionary stages.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Mon 28 Nov 2022, 16:07,
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brb's mum -> trilobite -> mudskipper -> scouser -> brummy -> ape -> homo sapien
(, Mon 28 Nov 2022, 16:29, Reply)
Monkey is a really weird term - I had a very long-winded discussion about it, which at least resulted in me learning about paraphyletic grouping, and thence an amazing podcast called "No Such Thing as a Fish".
(, Mon 28 Nov 2022, 16:31, Reply)
Apparently monkey is an offensive term for black people.
I only found out that my Nan had been unjustly racially abusing me for years when Primark stopped selling that t-shirt.
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jonbob loves you, Tue 29 Nov 2022, 9:00,
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Apparently, 'Eggplant' also has racist connotations.
Looking forward to that bout of social media outrage.
(, Tue 29 Nov 2022, 9:39, Reply)
I'm not sure how I feel about this
because I caught it when I fucked an ox.
(, Mon 28 Nov 2022, 16:02, Reply)
now he's got oxpox
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Woodkovsky βΉοΈβπ»βπ½βπ£βπ©βπ§»βπ, Mon 28 Nov 2022, 16:57,
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Most non-human animal carriers of this virus are rodents
Monkeys are going to be safe now. Unlike chickens who are still persecuted and grilled for spreading chickenpox
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Mon 28 Nov 2022, 20:31,
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