SARS/Bird Flu

Globe-trotting travellers will remember this. A few years ago, I was passing through Hong-Kong airport. It was a stopping-off point on the way to Oz. A two hour break while they refuelled the plane and swapped pilots.

As you exited the gate and headed for the transit lounge you had to go through a series of body-scanners that were manned by scary looking Asians wearing surgical facemasks. The thing was, these scanners weren't metal detectors - they were heat detectors designed to pick up anyone who was running a temperature. Sure enough, they pulled two pretty blondes from the line and they were whisked away into isolation.

We were told this was protective quarantine to help stop the spread of SARS. I wasn't fooled for a minute. It was obviously just a plot to pick-up hot women.

Cheers
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Mon 5 Dec 2011, 23:44, 6 replies)

Cheers.

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 0:10, closed)

That reminds me, we've not had a good blind-panicky health scare for a few years now.
Let's run a book on the contents of next year's papers. My money is on:

ZOMG HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU HORSE FLU (etc.)
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 0:11, closed)

Horse Flu?

There's neigh chance of that.
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 0:20, closed)

You may think its unlikely, but if it were to happen, I reckon it would be a complete 'mare..
(anvil, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 12:12, closed)

Always trotting out the same old jokes.
( Draconacticus Reject shampoo. Demand real poo!, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 13:09, closed)

Somehow I didn't read that as Horse Flu but Flu Horse
And I thought to myself, What's a Flu Horse?
Is it a type of very small horse that inhabits the chimney?
(SpangoTheWonderBadger is brewing beer, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 9:38, closed)

^^ Arf ^^
The cheesy ones are still the best Legless. :-)
( The Mock Turtle ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 8:14, closed)