We're all gonna die!

*curtseys*

While typing it I thought 'Have I maybe gone just a little too far this time?' Then I remembered where I was and posted it.

 

Hmm...I wonder why I find the process so interesting. It may be something to do with the thought of this image:

*Drifts into thought.*

 

Which temperature must be the washmachine?

The batteries are not included.

Further on the list:

Germany: Bratworsten, bicycles or other Second World War references.
England: Stiff and hairy.
Netherlands: Drugs, whores, money-gripping.
Jews: Most of them are about money, or about themselves.

 

Well not much issues, only that you have in England two kind of girls, very ugly or very hot (There is no between.) The other one issue is that the English are very stiff.

 

England is a waste of space. I've known a good many in-betweeners, and most people here are loose and stupid. I have to socialise with them on a day-to-day basis, knowing that I'd never be able to get away with killing them. Being that I'm neither stiff nor hairy, and hate England, feel free to rip the hell out of us to your heart's content. Biased and uninformed generalisation isn't smart though.

Hmm. It's so difficult to put my laid back attitude into my posts. Meh.

 

It's the forum that does it. I'm much nicer in person than I am here. HoL tends to filter a person down to their base elements, systematically destroying the facade we each present to the civilized world.

 

On topic, we've all heard the news and evidence that the Swine Flu is actually no worse than any other flu, and the people who have died from it had weak immune systems anyways, right?

Seriously, there are hardly even enough people with it to worry. Oh no, 200 people out of 6.5 billion have Swine Flu? I don't know what that means, but lock the fucking world down!

Pigs get flu all the time, we were just having a slow news month.

 

It's especially charming when you consider that most of Africa is actually dying of AIDS right this second.
"Oh no! Swine flu! We're all going to die! What's that you say? There's a real pandemic happening right now? Oh, but that's in Africa. Fuck Africa! We have the sniffles!"

 

Well put, Rosie, and entirely too true to be comfortable.

 

Except you don't get the aids from some moron sneezing on you.
Well, at least not yet.
We'll just have to wait and see how it mutates after they start vaccinating for it.

 

The media are always quick to make something out to be the worst threat to the human race. It was the same case with the bird flu. I remember the news following it closely for weeks as it came closer and closer. Suddenly there was a reported case in Sweden, right next door! Then a bird was found dead here, people started having their cats put down or kept them indoors. Then, out of the blue, the media stopped reporting it and all that ever happened might have been that one bird, which wasn't even certain it was the bird flu.

I'm not sure why the media always scare people like this, but they do it whenever they can. I believe it's the same with this disease. Sure, some people have died from it, but it's mostly poor people that go. Not to say they're worth less, but if you have access to moderate healthcare and an average immune system, you'll almost certainly be fine. How many have died in the U.S. now? Still just one? Meanwhile, 36,000 people die in the States from regular flu each year.

Not to offend anyone who feels differently about it, of course, this is just how I feel.

 

It keeps people glued to the boob-tube watching reports with little substance and a lot of speculation and forecasting.

You can go ahead and start omitting this disclaimer from your opinions. It makes you sound like a pussy.

 

Oh, but I am. It's how I survived this long.

I know, and I wasn't sure, but it's a new forum and I don't know people so I always try to be nice. I know from experience that some people don't like a new guy saying things like that. Next time I will remember to put a nice "Fuck you if you disagree with my opinion."

 

True, but they only seem to do it with some scary things, like disease, crime and terrorism. There seemed to be at least some worry about the CERN reactor thing, but they mostly skipped that or tried to calm people. There are also scientists who talk of a solar superstorm that could cause serious damages to the world with EMP or whatever it is they cause. I've only seen one article about that.

I'm thinking, and this is where people call me paranoid, that they have other interests than to just sell papers or get viewers. Disease panic will make people buy medication. Hell, they even mention names (tami-flu) right on the news. Terrorism and crime will make us want more protection from the government, surveillance and such. But worldwide disaster that would exterminate everything, there isn't much to do against that. And EMP that would destroy the whole economy, that would just cause people to sell everything and that wouldn't be good either.

This is just my...I mean, I'm fucking right here! Can't you see?

 

Truth manifests itself in odd ways. Like the time I saw something odd in the sky, and moments later, a military plane heading thereabouts at a very high speed. A few minutes later it came back the way it went, which is when I noticed the wing-shape and things mounted up-front.

I could dwell on it and invent many a winding theory, but in all honesty, I don't care enough to spend that much time on it and inevitability is always abound. If governments plan to fuck over their people, they're going to do it whether or not I like mint-choc icecream.

 

Perhaps, but I think it'd be nice knowing what's going on. I may not be able to do something about it, but I wouldn't want to live in ignorance of what was going on.

 

I understand what you're saying. I just don't care about much because I'm an easy-going person. I'd like to know what's going on in many things, but more often than not people are forced to keep to their assumptions, especially where governments and ruling powers are concerned. I've accepted that fact, and believe very little I see in the media. Ignorance comes in many forms, and I in my assumptions am pretty much as satisfied as a depressive can be, come ignorance or knowledge.

 

I prefer to live in semi-blissful ignorance wherever possible. The world is filled with plenty of things that make me go 'WTF, are you all fucking insane?' and the news just seems to exacerbate that these days.

Ah, how I long for the blissful days of my youth when the news was taken up by actual news instead of ten-minute reports on who won what mindless award or which 'award-winning' (HAH!) program is going to be on that channel later in the evening. (Win, Southern Cross, I'm looking at YOU bastards...)