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HarukaTheTrophyWife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 09:48 AM
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I don't get it -- you'd think the sky was falling in GD due to pig flu
I'm a total germophobe, live close to NYC, and am not freaked out.
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mainegreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 09:50 AM
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1. Everyone has turned into Chicken Little, apparently.
Edited on Fri May-01-09 09:50 AM by mainegreen
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HarukaTheTrophyWife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 09:51 AM
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3. The other day somebody was suggesting stocking up on bottled water
It's like "WTF? Pig flu isn't going to invade our water supplies."
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HopeHoops Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 09:50 AM
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2. Just stay away from Catholic schools
:hide:
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HarukaTheTrophyWife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 09:53 AM
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6. Easy enough
I have my own uniform.
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Pierre.Suave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 09:51 AM
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4. The sky is always falling in GD...
Just for different reasons every day. It would be real fun to ask them why the sky hasn't hit any of them yet...
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av8rdave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 09:52 AM
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5. Had friends that wouldn't go to dinner with us last night because he fears the pig flu
What makes it even funnier: He says, "How about next week?"

Of course, this guy also fears Obama, the Mayan calendar, etc., etc.

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HarukaTheTrophyWife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 09:53 AM
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7. Yeah, cause there will be less next week
Mayan calendar is another good stupid freakout thing.
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TreasonousBastard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 10:04 AM
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10. When you do have dinner, be sure to tell him about...
that bigass volcano in Yellowstone that's about to blow, the New Madrid fault, and the asteroids on their way to hit us.

Don't leave out any details.

Treasonous the Terrified
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av8rdave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 10:26 AM
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14. Oh, he's all over the Yellowstone volcano
This guy is convinced that there is an imminent calamity of some kind that will wipe us all out.

Ironically, he does not believe in global warming. (He watches a lot of Glenn Beck).
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TreasonousBastard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 10:01 AM
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8. Well, evolution hasn't quite finished the job yet...
and it's amazing we survive at all, much less make stuff and run the planet, as stupid as we can be.



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hobbit709 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 10:03 AM
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9. I keep saying that the human race has survived despite itself.
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TZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 10:10 AM
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11. Thats only half of GD
According to the other half of GD--this is a made up disease being pushed and promoted by Big Pharma/Donald Rumsfeld/Karl Rove to sell "deadly" vaccines...:eyes:
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HarukaTheTrophyWife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 10:31 AM
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15. I'm just like, it's the fucking flu, chill
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TZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 10:48 AM
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18. Thats a good attitude
Reading between the lines from the WHO and CDC...I can see they are concerned but not panicking. I think actually its good practice for something that may not be as somewhat harmless as this is turning out to be...
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 10:13 AM
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12. I'm not freaked out either.
The more the general population freaks out, the more irritable I get.
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HarukaTheTrophyWife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 10:36 AM
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17. Yeah, pretty much
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LostinVA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 12:04 PM
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21. Me too
Even my father The Hypochondriac isn't worried about it, nor does he think the cold he picked up in Miami (FULL of Hispanics) is the Porky Flu. If even HE isn't freaking out...
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HarukaTheTrophyWife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 12:22 PM
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30. There's Hispanic people in Miami?
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Nicole Lambeth Donating Member (419 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 10:22 AM
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13. some people are freaking out...see?
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HarukaTheTrophyWife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 10:34 AM
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16. That's awesome
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Debi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 12:30 PM
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32. I just sent that to my Mom!
:rofl:
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TZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 10:54 AM
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19. I wonder if its the same crowd
That was saying a few months ago we are all gonna be standing in bread lines and need guns to fend off our starving neighbors...
This kind of sums it up:
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HarukaTheTrophyWife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 12:21 PM
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26. At least a gun is more useful protection than a case of hand sanitizer
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JustABozoOnThisBus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 11:19 AM
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20. SARS, Bird Flu, Y2K
This is worse than all of them! This is the apocalypso dance of death! TEOTWAWKI!

I just want to live long enough to see one more "talk like a pirate day"

Arrr!

:hi:
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HarukaTheTrophyWife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 12:21 PM
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27. I piratized my facebook page yesterday
Everyday can be talk like a pirate day now
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LostinVA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 12:05 PM
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22. Great -- wtf am I supposed to do with the 10 cases of bottled water I bought us at Costco?
Let alone the beef jerky and Listerine.
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HarukaTheTrophyWife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 12:20 PM
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24. I don't even fucking eat beef jerky
Now, salmon jerky...that's something Costco should carry.
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LostinVA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 12:20 PM
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25. That's why I only bought five cases of it
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HarukaTheTrophyWife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 12:22 PM
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29. You and Mick will be set
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 12:34 PM
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35. You have to try this stuff
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 12:12 PM
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23. I live close to UDel - they found 4 confirmed cases there
life goes on as usual
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HarukaTheTrophyWife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 12:22 PM
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28. The spread of pig flu has been slowed down by all the tolls there
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 12:31 PM
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typo there - shouldn't it be the word "here"
since you can't go to the grocery store without paying a toll. Probably have one at the end of your driveway
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HarukaTheTrophyWife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 12:33 PM
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34. Unless I'm going down the shore, I don't pay tolls
And, only suckers pay the tolls on the parkway, anyway. You can just throw anything in. It doesn't actually have to be 35 cents.
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 12:36 PM
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36. All those out-of-staters coming to DE for cheap smokes & booze
we gotta get them somehow.

I don't pay tolls either
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 12:31 PM
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33. typo there - shouldn't it be the word "here"
since you can't go to the grocery store without paying a toll. Probably have one at the end of your driveway
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Sky Masterson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 12:27 PM
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31. I'm not falling for pig flu.
I don't think pig flu is all that cute.:silly:
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