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Osem 29-04-2009 12:24

Re: Pandemic Flu - This one could be for real......
 
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Originally Posted by Pierre (Post 34785131)
I will quite happily bet my years salary, which isn't bad, that this is over in a week.

The world was a different place when Spanish flu epidemic broke out.

:erm: you might want to rethink that offer..... ;)

Derek 29-04-2009 12:39

Re: Pandemic Flu - This one could be for real......
 
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Originally Posted by Osem (Post 34785138)
:erm: you might want to rethink that offer..... ;)

Well if it all does go a bit 28 days later then there is a good chance either Pierre or the person taking on the bet will be dead and he won't have to pay out. :)

Pierre 29-04-2009 12:40

Re: Pandemic Flu - This one could be for real......
 
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Originally Posted by Osem (Post 34785138)
:erm: you might want to rethink that offer..... ;)

Nah, I'm confident.

I've got it in treble with SARS and Bird flu, for three giant worldwide needless panics spread by misinformation and sensationalist media.

Damien 29-04-2009 12:56

Re: Pandemic Flu - This one could be for real......
 
What odds are you offering because I am quite tempted :D May be unlikely but if your offering 1/1000+ then yould have to be an idiot not to take em odds! P

Caspar 29-04-2009 13:04

Re: Pandemic Flu - This one could be for real......
 
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Originally Posted by Pierre (Post 34785148)
Nah, I'm confident.

I've got it in treble with SARS and Bird flu, for three giant worldwide needless panics spread by misinformation and sensationalist media.


I partly agree I don't think it's misinformation, more over-information and sensationaslist reporting by the media. With the first death outside of Mexico, the 23month baby in Texas (which borders with Mexico) I think we're all concerned at some level, but I feel many of the news agencies are taking it to the extreme and scarying the crap out of us!!! :(

Sayign that if the media just reported the official facts, no-one would watch the news cause it'd be boring! I tuned into Fox news last night and cor-blimey, they are sensational alright! By the time I stopped watching Fox news I believed we were on the edge of a 28days later scenario!!!

I'm supposed to be flying to Boston, US, on the 9th May, I'm tbh quite worried about doing so :(

Hugh 29-04-2009 13:20

Re: Pandemic Flu - This one could be for real......
 
Isn't it fortunate that all these world-ruling evil masterminds are really, really crap at it.

Osem 29-04-2009 13:48

Re: Pandemic Flu - This one could be for real......
 
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Originally Posted by foreverwar (Post 34785175)
Isn't it fortunate that all these world-ruling evil masterminds are really, really crap at it.

Not many!!! :D

Chris 29-04-2009 13:51

Re: Pandemic Flu - This one could be for real......
 
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Originally Posted by Caspar (Post 34785160)
I'm supposed to be flying to Boston, US, on the 9th May, I'm tbh quite worried about doing so :(

I wouldn't be. Sitting here in the UK you're already in closer proximity to two victims than you will be in Boston.

Gary L 29-04-2009 13:55

Re: Pandemic Flu - This one could be for real......
 
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Originally Posted by foreverwar (Post 34785175)
Isn't it fortunate that all these world-ruling evil masterminds are really, really crap at it.

If it was them that's done it. they are hardly likely to do it all in one big go. they will want it to become a worldwide fear and it's a kind of flu type virus, then they will let it rip :)

Chris 29-04-2009 13:57

Re: Pandemic Flu - This one could be for real......
 
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Originally Posted by Gary L (Post 34785215)
If it was them that's done it. they are hardly likely to do it all in one big go. they will want it to become a worldwide fear and it's a kind of flu type virus, then they will let it rip :)

Well, there you go, you've blown their conspiracy wide open. I'd apply for MI6 if I were you, it'll be a shoo-in. They probably won't even make you sit the entrance exam.

Gary L 29-04-2009 13:59

Re: Pandemic Flu - This one could be for real......
 
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Originally Posted by Chris (Post 34785219)
Well, there you go, you've blown their conspiracy wide open. I'd apply for MI6 if I were you, it'll be a shoo-in. They probably won't even make you sit the entrance exam.

You know I'm right Chris. that's what you're afraid of :)

Chris 29-04-2009 14:03

Re: Pandemic Flu - This one could be for real......
 
I'm not afraid of anything. ;)

STONEISLAND 29-04-2009 14:05

Re: Pandemic Flu - This one could be for real......
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Chris (Post 34785219)
Well, there you go, you've blown their conspiracy wide open. I'd apply for MI6 if I were you, it'll be a shoo-in. They probably won't even make you sit the entrance exam.

:rofl:

Turkey Machine 29-04-2009 14:09

Re: Pandemic Flu - This one could be for real......
 
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Originally Posted by Derek S (Post 34785122)
http://www.siberianlight.net/wordpre...03/dr-evil.jpg


You have failed me. I wanted a virus to kill billions. Mr. Bigglesworth is not happy.

I LOL'd, does that make me a bad person? :D

Hugh 29-04-2009 14:27

Re: Pandemic Flu - This one could be for real......
 
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Originally Posted by Turkey Machine (Post 34785229)
I LOL'd, does that make me a bad person? :D

If it does, I am also a very bad person......;)

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Originally Posted by Chris (Post 34785227)
I'm not afraid of anything. ;)

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself* - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. Franklin Delano Roosevelt





(that, and running out of beer)

---------- Post added at 15:24 ---------- Previous post was at 15:23 ----------

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Originally Posted by Gary L (Post 34785224)
You know I'm right Chris. that's what you're afraid of :)

Amazing - two incorrect assumptions in one short statement. ;)

To be fair, he got your name right......:D

---------- Post added at 15:27 ---------- Previous post was at 15:24 ----------

Regarding earlier posts about masks, informative article on the BBC website


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