| Author | Message | ||
     Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.151.125.173 |
...Supposed to be going to Mexico in two weeks....hmmm. gcw ..  | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.177.115.127 |
Fingers crossed you get to go mate, but it looks a bit grim at the moment there... | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.151.125.173 |
Yeah, we will have to see how things pan out...Frankly, I will get on a plane to anywhere hot as long as its reasonably germ free. gcw | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.177.115.127 |
Germ-free adolescence! | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.47 |
There's a comment on the Times Online story where some daft git from London reckons that we should close our borders with Mexico... Isn't British education great. I didn't do Geography at GCSE but I'm pretty certain that we don't share a land border with the southern tip of the USA... | ||
| Jonathan (Jonathan) Username: Jonathan Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.143.178.131 |
This thing is sparking all kinds of ridiculous opinion and cretinous comments. The media reaction and general ignorance is more scary than the actual virus itself. Indeed, go to the Shocklines forum for some ridiculous hysteria. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
I hope this doesn't ruin your trip, GCW... | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.47 |
Just remember to pack a hazmat suit and several spare air filters. if you can get oxygen cylinders through customs so you don't even need to breath the local air, even better. | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 61.216.33.176 |
Jonathan, I know what you mean. I used to find those kinds of threads faintly amusing, the first couple of times. Now they're just incredibly tiresome, and it makes me wonder if the people posting that kind of ignorant nonsense are trolling, or whether they are genuinely stupid. It's a shame, because while there are some interesting folk there (not as interesting and cool as the people on here, of course!) I find it's often laugh-a-minute (or cringe-a-minute) stuff, in terms of both conspiracy theories and the handful of deluded people who act as if they are the peers of the genuine authors who frequent the place. | ||
| Jonathan (Jonathan) Username: Jonathan Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.143.178.131 |
Charlie Brooker wrote an excellent short article on conspiracy theorists for The Observer, where he basically concluded -in his words - that they were massive wankers. Also, love David Cross's comment on people who think that 9/11 was an inside job: "Well, I think the terrorists attacked the World Trade Centre because they hated the west and they had been planning this for a long time. Do you know why I think that? It's because that what they fucking said!" I don't entirely trust the government, sure, but neither do I believe they're a bunch of elite illuminati members, who deal with aliens and need to repress the rights of the population for nefarious and evil means. Mostly, poilitical mess is down to bad judgments and greed. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.47 |
Anyone with sense knows that the conspiracy theorists are the people who are really planning all these things. they just try to divert attention by blaming the Illuminati and the governments... | ||
| Jonathan (Jonathan) Username: Jonathan Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.143.178.131 |
Actually I think that you'll find that it's the Knights Templars. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.47 |
Anyone seen the American dad episode with the Illuminutty, the secret society trying to protect the horrible secret behing peanut butter... | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.47 |
behind... i'd sell my soul for an edit button | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.47 |
Anyway, it's only swine flu. Don't worry about it, just pack plenty of oinkment... | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.47 |
http://www.hpa.org.uk/webw/HPAweb&Page&HPAwebAutoListName/Page/1240732817665?p=1 240732817665 the accurate latest info | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
"Behing" - isn't that the present participle of the verb "to beh" ("to emit a sound of mild disgust or irritation")? | ||
| Steven_pirie (Steven_pirie) Username: Steven_pirie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 138.253.18.127 |
We certainly seem primed to focus on negative stories these days. And there's me eating bacon over the weekend  | ||
| Jonathan (Jonathan) Username: Jonathan Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.143.178.131 |
Yes, this insane chicken-little approach that some people have taken to the crisis is quite ridiculous. I'm not including anyone on this board here, by the way. I'm looking forward to Charlie Brooker's Newswipe this week to see what he makes of this. I notice the offending thread on the Shocklines board has been taken down as it quite quickly descended into the usual idiocy. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.255.58 |
Remember the good old days when you'd hear "swine flu" and know they were just talking about a chimney stuffed with pigs?... | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.47 |
I've been waiting for a swine flu/flew pigs might fly joke because I can't think of a good one myself. Oinkment was the best I could manage. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.255.58 |
In your jokes there's something lacking - what you need's a damn good whacking....  | ||
| Steven_pirie (Steven_pirie) Username: Steven_pirie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 138.253.18.127 |
A lion, an elephant, and a pig go into a bar, and the lion says: "I'm the most feared animal in the jungle. One roar and everyone runs for cover." The elephant says: "No, when I charge, I'm the most feared creature." And the pig says: "That's nothing. I just have to sneeze and the world shits itself." | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.68 |
GCW, the latest advisement from the Foreign Office is not to travel to Mexico unless you absolutely have to. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.47 |
The link I posted above is a genuine link to the HPA website section about swine flu | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.229.195 |
Should I be worried? I've just checked my pet pig for a fever, and he's bacon. | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.68 |
Oink if you're horny. The Prime Minister today reiterated the advice for folk to avoid Mexico unless they absolutely have to go. | ||
| Chris_morris (Chris_morris) Username: Chris_morris Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 12.165.240.116 |
If you're going to Mexico, I think you'd be better off worrying about Bullet Flu or Kidnap Flu. This swine flu stuff is more nonsense driven by a 24/7 news cycle. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.255.200 |
And if you do go, whatever you do, don't hit on any Babes. | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.151.125.173 |
Well chaps, joking aside, my holiday is snafu. We won't be going anywhere on the 11th May, except perhaps back to work, plus any holiday of similar quality we now re-book is likely to cost us an extra £1000. Plus I have a disraught girlfriend who's at the end of her tether to comfort. Anyone got any Swine Flu jokes? - I could do with a laugh. A beaten gcw | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.47 |
I've got plenty but none worth the effort of telling. sadly, the best ones I've heard are on this thread already. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.110.137.137 |
Very sorry to hear this, GCW, though it's no surprise. I would suggest you take a few days off (maybe half your planned holiday time) and go somewhere quiet in the UK. Or, if you're feeling disposed towards imagination, hire lots of films set in Mexico (The Wild Bunch, The Treasure of the Sierre Madre, etc), cook some fajitas and drink some tequila while listening to Los Lobos. And read or re-read Dennis Etchison's 'The Dark Country', Ray Bradbury's 'The Next in Line' and Harlan Ellison's 'Neither Your Jenny nor Mine' – guaranteed to make you feel better about not going. | ||
| Jonathan (Jonathan) Username: Jonathan Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.143.178.131 |
Oh Lord, Next In Line is one of the most chilling, disturbing tales I've ever read. When you think about Bradbury, you tend to think of balmy, endless summer evenings where there's a touch of magic, or something supernatural in the air. Then you read Next In Line and realise just how dark he can get. The Small Assassin, the collection I read it in, is one of my favourite horror short story collections. It's Bradbury but hard as nails. | ||
| Karim Ghahwagi (Karim) Username: Karim Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 80.167.124.163 |
Yes not cool with the missed trip GCW- but a good choice to stay clear of Mexico just now. The bloody timing right. Doesn't travel insurance cover this stuff- here in Dk customers have been getting their Mexico tickets refunded completly... | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.233.179 |
I think "The Next In Line," as I've stated before, is one of the top 5 horror stories of the 20th Century - not that I'm even sure what the other 4 are, but I know this one's on the list. | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.170.1.181 |
Better to live and sneeze another day, GCW . . . Doesn't half feel like we're living in the science fiction world I've been reading about in SF novels for more years than I care to think about, though. Alas, none of the bloody utopian novels either . . . (Just started Eric Brown's HELIX; another un-cheery and probably accurate appraisal of our short-term future.) | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.78.49.90 |
I don't often get involved with arguments on Shocklines but I'm standing my ground on this one. I've heared everything today from 750,000 people could die of it the U.K. to the young honeymoon couple's friend is having mild symptoms at home whilst celebrating a birthday party in his flat. The hype is all crap and all it serves to do is reduce school children to tears - as if we haven't got enough to think about with the economy. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.177.5.67 |
Hey GCW - why is it going to cost £1000 more to get a similar holiday? Are your insurers stitching you up? We'll have to try to cheer you guys up on sunday... | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.151.125.173 |
Hi mate, Hope you had a great time in Italy! Well, the travel insurers have invoked a dusty clause which basically says 'we don't want to pay out on this' as have Barclaycard which we used to book it - so it's insured yeah? - er, no thats another waste of time. The problem is the standard of holiday we had booked has now gone up a lot...So yeah, the travel agents would give us a holiday to the value of what we have paid, it would just not be as good (say 3 star instead of 5 star). The long and the short of it is, we are not going anywhere at the moment, but we we are looking at going to Jamaica in 2010. Perhaps we will grab a week in the sun in a couple of months when we feel a bit less demoralised. gcw | ||
| Steven_pirie (Steven_pirie) Username: Steven_pirie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.150.70.246 |
Bastards. I hate insurance companies. Sorry about your missed trip... | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.151.125.173 |
Cheers Steve - Appreciate it. gcw |