29-04-2009, 12:24
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Re: Pandemic Flu - This one could be for real......
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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.
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 you might want to rethink that offer..... 
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29-04-2009, 12:39
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Re: Pandemic Flu - This one could be for real......
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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. 
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29-04-2009, 12:40
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Re: Pandemic Flu - This one could be for real......
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Originally Posted by Osem
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.
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29-04-2009, 12:56
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Re: Pandemic Flu - This one could be for real......
What odds are you offering because I am quite tempted  May be unlikely but if your offering 1/1000+ then yould have to be an idiot not to take em odds! P
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29-04-2009, 13:04
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Re: Pandemic Flu - This one could be for real......
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Originally Posted by Pierre
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.
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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
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29-04-2009, 13:20
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laeva recumbens anguis
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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.
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29-04-2009, 13:48
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Re: Pandemic Flu - This one could be for real......
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Originally Posted by foreverwar
Isn't it fortunate that all these world-ruling evil masterminds are really, really crap at it.
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Not many!!!
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29-04-2009, 13:51
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Re: Pandemic Flu - This one could be for real......
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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.
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29-04-2009, 13:55
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Re: Pandemic Flu - This one could be for real......
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Isn't it fortunate that all these world-ruling evil masterminds are really, really crap at it.
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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
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29-04-2009, 13:57
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Re: Pandemic Flu - This one could be for real......
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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.
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29-04-2009, 13:59
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Re: Pandemic Flu - This one could be for real......
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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.
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You know I'm right Chris. that's what you're afraid of
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29-04-2009, 14:03
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Re: Pandemic Flu - This one could be for real......
I'm not afraid of anything.
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29-04-2009, 14:05
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Re: Pandemic Flu - This one could be for real......
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Originally Posted by Chris
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.
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29-04-2009, 14:09
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Re: Pandemic Flu - This one could be for real......
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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?
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29-04-2009, 14:27
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laeva recumbens anguis
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Re: Pandemic Flu - This one could be for real......
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I LOL'd, does that make me a bad person? |
If it does, I am also a very bad person......
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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)
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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......
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Regarding earlier posts about masks, informative article on the BBC website
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