|
|  |
 |
Members: 5,592
Threads: 17,268
Posts: 215,126
Online: 260
Newest Member:
KevlarFox |
|
|
| Free Fire Zone Any non-military topic is fair game here. |
April 6th, 2006, 06:41 PM
|
 |
WW2F Veteran
|
|
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: The Library
Posts: 3,188
Salute!: 7
Saluted 6 Times in 4 Posts
|
|
'scientists' today found a dead swan with H5N1 in the Cellardyke area of Anstruther, Fife, and the chattering classes have been having a field day ever since.
You really have to go to the 'Have Your Say' section on the BBC'S news page to see the amount of sheer ****ing hysteria rampant there.
Most of the whingers are Home Counties types convinced it's the end of the world, and earlier today some twat in Canada(US?) asked if he should cancel his family's JUNE holiday in Cellardyke to avoid infection.
If we're still allowed to have national stereotypes, most supposedly intelligent British people resemble Dad's Army's Corporal Jones right now! [img]graemlins/no.gif[/img]   |
April 6th, 2006, 08:58 PM
|
 |
Acting Wg. Cdr.  |
|
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: London
Posts: 9,126
Salute!: 1
Saluted 4 Times in 3 Posts
|
|
Oh my God !!!!  Naturally, it would have to be Scotland..... [img]graemlins/no.gif[/img]
Obviously, Hadrian's Wall should be re-fortified immediately, the border should be sealed, and the RAF should bomb Scotland with disinfectant.
There - I feel better already..... 
M Bull
London
Home Counties [img]tongue.gif[/img]
__________________
"Stand by to pull me out of the seat if I get hit" - Guy Gibson
|
April 6th, 2006, 09:14 PM
|
|
WW2F Veteran
|
|
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: The Library
Posts: 3,188
Salute!: 7
Saluted 6 Times in 4 Posts
|
|
Your name vill also go in the book; vot ist it? [img]tongue.gif[/img]
It's obviously a plot by you London types, Martin. After all, you tried the Poll Tax on us first too!  |
April 6th, 2006, 09:24 PM
|
 |
Member
|
|
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Posts: 437
Salute!: 0
Saluted 0 Times in 0 Posts
|
|
Is "twat" a common word used on the British Isles in general and in Scotland in particular?
In the states you were calling them a certain part of the female anatomy.
Just wondering.
|
April 6th, 2006, 09:32 PM
|
 |
Kenraali |
|
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Kotka, Finland
Posts: 14,364
Salute!: 30
Saluted 10 Times in 9 Posts
|
|
Yeah,
it seems we´ll be having a major dilemma every two years from now on. Last time it was SARS that was going to kill us all, now the bird flu. I´m not saying we should not be careful, it´s just the papers etc that make it such a big thing and people start doing crazy things.
For example over here we have ducks that spend the winter in Finland because the city/people feed them all this time. ANyway, now because of the bird flu they decided to move the feeding place far away from people but ....they forgot to tell the ducks about this. Finally the ducks started walking around the city in great numbers because they were hungry and thus the end result was quite the opposite that was expected...I´m happy to tell that this problem has been solved and the ducks are all right now.
__________________
|
April 6th, 2006, 09:37 PM
|
|
Acting Wg. Cdr. |
|
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: London
Posts: 9,126
Salute!: 1
Saluted 4 Times in 3 Posts
|
|
Oh nooooooo !! ..... I just read Gordon's post without wearing rubber gloves and a facemask !!
Maybe he should be suspended from the forum until the crisis has passed..... 
And I'm certainly not going to have any porrage oats for breakfast tomorrow, that's for sure ! [img]graemlins/no.gif[/img]
__________________
"Stand by to pull me out of the seat if I get hit" - Guy Gibson
|
April 6th, 2006, 09:40 PM
|
|
WW2F Veteran
|
|
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: The Library
Posts: 3,188
Salute!: 7
Saluted 6 Times in 4 Posts
|
|
Martin,
Thought you were wearing your face mask?!
Quote:
Originally posted by jpatterson:
Is "twat" a common word used on the British Isles in general and in Scotland in particular?
|
It's a very common expression in Britain JP-and also has the US meaning too, depending on context!
Kai,
Very true. It now turns out there was an instance of H5N1 found on a farm in Norfolk in 1991.The govt put up an exclusion zone, culled large numbers of birds...and there was no human bird flu pandemic. Then again, the media didn't get the chance to blow it up out of all proportion.
All it needs is some twa...sorry, arse [img]tongue.gif[/img] to insist that Nostradamus predicted all this 500 years ago. |
April 7th, 2006, 06:59 AM
|
|
Acting Wg. Cdr. |
|
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: London
Posts: 9,126
Salute!: 1
Saluted 4 Times in 3 Posts
|
|
Having just finished my typical Home Counties breakfast of smoked salmon and champagne, I've realised that a calmer, more measured approach is appropriate.
'Scorched Earth' is of course the only answer ; Cellardyke must be immediately razed to the ground and the surrounding 50-mile area should be napalmed. Of course, the inhabitants should be given reasonable time to leave - 10 minutes ought to do it.
'Aaaaaaahhhhhh....choo !!'
Quick ! Get me an ambulance...!
( Oh - maybe it was the black pepper I put on the smoked salmon.... [img]redface.gif[/img] )
__________________
"Stand by to pull me out of the seat if I get hit" - Guy Gibson
|
April 7th, 2006, 08:56 AM
|
|
Kenraali |
|
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Kotka, Finland
Posts: 14,364
Salute!: 30
Saluted 10 Times in 9 Posts
|
|
A while ago heard this joke about the bird flu.
Tiger,Bear and Chicken were discussing who was the most feared animal.
Tiger said " If I roar all the people in nearby villages will run 20 miles without looking behind them!"
Bear said " If I roar all the people in nearby villages will climb into the trees and won´t come down for a week!"
The chicken said " If I sneeze the whole world will c*** in its pants!"
Oops...
__________________
|
April 7th, 2006, 11:49 AM
|
|
WW2F Veteran
|
|
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: The Library
Posts: 3,188
Salute!: 7
Saluted 6 Times in 4 Posts
|
|
Martin,
I liked the idea of rebuilding Hadrian's Wall better...with minefields, razor wire and machine gun towers on the southern side, naturally! [img]tongue.gif[/img]
It's about time we took Berwick back! [img]graemlins/panzer.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/stugg.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/tiger.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/gi.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/armcar.gif[/img]
A 50 mile exclusion zone is still comfortably nowhere near me, so that's fine! |
April 7th, 2006, 12:05 PM
|
|
Acting Wg. Cdr. |
|
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: London
Posts: 9,126
Salute!: 1
Saluted 4 Times in 3 Posts
|
|
Joking and Scot-o-phobia aside for a moment ( ), overseas readers may like to know what happens when Britain goes onto 'high alert' in a case like this.
The unfortunate fowl was spotted in Cellardyke harbour by a switched-on civilian on Wednesday of last week. She immediately called the police. Not interested. Try the RSPCA. She does. Not interested. Try DEFRA ( a Government department ) they tell her. [img]graemlins/no.gif[/img]
Have you ever tried getting through to a Government department ?
She eventually calls a researcher at St Andrews University who finally manages to get hold of someone at DEFRA.
Someone removes the carcass at mid-day on the Thursday, by which time half the cats, dogs and seagulls in Eastern Scotland have probably had a peck or two at it. Tests are completed and news breaks a week later.
Police are now keeping people away from the harbour.
__________________
"Stand by to pull me out of the seat if I get hit" - Guy Gibson
|
April 7th, 2006, 12:45 PM
|
|
WW2F Veteran
|
|
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: The Library
Posts: 3,188
Salute!: 7
Saluted 6 Times in 4 Posts
|
|
Who was joking?! [img]tongue.gif[/img]
They've just announced a 1,000 square mile exclusion zone, stretching from Cellardyke to Forfar in Angus. A classic example of the hysterical over-reaction which Britain is now famous for.
People quite happily walk Scotland's hills, letting their dogs drink from bubbling streams oblivious to the fact that there's probably a dead sheep lying in it further up. Ever hear of an outbreak of Ptomaine poisoning or Botulism? Me neither...but one dead swan, and suddenly we're back to the nuclear war-style paranoia of the 70s and 80s. [img]graemlins/no.gif[/img] |
April 7th, 2006, 01:06 PM
|
|
Acting Wg. Cdr. |
|
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: London
Posts: 9,126
Salute!: 1
Saluted 4 Times in 3 Posts
|
|
|
__________________
"Stand by to pull me out of the seat if I get hit" - Guy Gibson
|
April 7th, 2006, 01:21 PM
|
|
WW2F Veteran
|
|
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: The Library
Posts: 3,188
Salute!: 7
Saluted 6 Times in 4 Posts
|
|
|
We're doomed...DOOMED, Ah tell ye!
|
April 7th, 2006, 04:59 PM
|
|
Kenraali |
|
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Kotka, Finland
Posts: 14,364
Salute!: 30
Saluted 10 Times in 9 Posts
|
|
If it doesn´t get us this time there´ll be another one coming in 2008 I´d suspect...
Wonder what they´ll call it that time?!
__________________
|
April 7th, 2006, 05:28 PM
|
|
Acting Wg. Cdr. |
|
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: London
Posts: 9,126
Salute!: 1
Saluted 4 Times in 3 Posts
|
|
Scottish 'flu, of course !
Things have calmed down a bit on this evening's news ; the Home Counties seem safe enough for the time being so all of us down here can breathe easy. A very lady-who-lunches type was interviewed by the BBC as she came out of Lidgates Butchers in Holland Park :
'Aren't you worried about bird 'flu?'
'Of course not - I'm English !'
That's the spirit ! [img]tongue.gif[/img]
__________________
"Stand by to pull me out of the seat if I get hit" - Guy Gibson
|
April 7th, 2006, 10:56 PM
|
 |
Member
|
|
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: New York
Posts: 366
Salute!: 0
Saluted 0 Times in 0 Posts
|
|
Vogelkrieg!
__________________
|
April 8th, 2006, 12:29 AM
|
|
Member
|
|
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Posts: 437
Salute!: 0
Saluted 0 Times in 0 Posts
|
|
Thanks Historian.
Over hear, there's no contextual difference so that helps to know.
You know, in case you ever get mad at me.
Later
|
April 8th, 2006, 09:33 AM
|
|
WW2F Veteran
|
|
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: The Library
Posts: 3,188
Salute!: 7
Saluted 6 Times in 4 Posts
|
|
Quote:
Originally posted by jpatterson:
You know, in case you ever get mad at me.
Later
|
Yes, I don't think you've had a shot yet, have you?! [img]tongue.gif[/img]
Stevin,
Beggars belief, doesn't it? [img]graemlins/no.gif[/img] |
April 8th, 2006, 12:29 PM
|
|
| |
