ashamed of myself (aka porcine panic)

[bawdy-nan]

I've spent hours:

followingtwitter updates on swine flu which have lead me to ... freakish analyses by economists on the potential impact of flu pandemic on personal finance

reading the news about swine flu and feel like I'm watching it spread - mexico, new york, heathrow ...

exploring quite why the 1918 pandemic killed mostly the healthy, early middle aged

checking out flu-wiki and reading crazy shopping lists for pandemic social meltdown scenarios (apparently I don't need to worry so much about stockpiling "creamer" as likely as not I'll have plenty in but 106 loo rolls are pretty much essential)

checking out the price of counterfeit tamiflu online

so, just the usual saturday night self-torture then - not looking forward to a day with the sunday papers and more armageddon-lite with my kippers

[RosieH]

nah, go for it. after a medical professional (though in an entirely social context) suggested that my headache might actually be a tumour, I googled away and came up with the conclusion that I had mere hours to live. I consider having outlived that by some months to be a massive bonus.

So should you - every day you survive the pig disease is a day snatched from the reaper's scythe - embrace, dance, celebrate, eat bacon

[Huguenot]

Ah, pigs eh?

I thought swine referred to unattractive men who embezzle the profits at jam factories and make off with plump receptionists.

The swine.

[bawdy-nan]

I shouldn't have watched Survivors. Nor read this. I'm mapping back onto ED.

[????]

Were the swine organic?

[Mikecg]

Someone I know had a medical book and whenever they had a twinge a sniffle or a combination of the like they would run to the medical book and convince themselves that they had the most terminal illness known to man. So I spent hours convincing them to ditch the book and stop being silly, In the end they took my advice and recovered from the hysteria of it all.

Ignore the profits of doom no good can come from thinking "Were all gonna die" which is going to happen anyway it's just a question of when.

[daizie]

Very right Mike. Dont take life too seriously, none of us get out alive .

[Tony.London Suburbs]

Mikecg Wrote:

Ignore the profits of doom no good can come from thinking "Were all gonna die" which is going to happen anyway it's just a question of when.

As a Businessman I can't ignore any Profits, even doom-laden ones.

Now Prophets Of Doom, I steer well clear of those jokers...:)

As for "We're all gonna die"....speak for yourself Mikey! I don't intend going anywhere, for one.

The'll have to drag me out kickin' and screamin'......and anyway we've just finished off the garden fencing so it would be MOST inconvenient at this present time...

[Mikecg]

OK TLS You neo spelling Nazi you youre as bad as me on a good day. I'm an Auto Pilot Poster dont even think about spelling most days I'ts just one of those things really.

[HonaloochieB]

So is the bacon in my frigde safe?

I was intending to fry six rashers, with three tomatos and put them between the halved slces of some white baps.

Baps I had smeared with Branston's Gherkin Relish and all.

So should I carry on with this gourmet treat or not?

[Mikecg]

You should be alright mate I recon if you use lard and have the gas quite low so it cooks slowly it should kill any bugs. I could murder a bacon sarni I'm quite jealous, there's no bacon in my house. 6 rashers is quite a lot of fat though however knock yourself out.

[HonaloochieB]

Mikecg Wrote:

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> You should be alright mate I recon if you use lard

> and have the gas quite low so it cooks slowly it

> should kill any bugs. I could murder a bacon sarni

> I'm quite jealous, there's no bacon in my house. 6

> rashers is quite a lot of fat though however knock

> yourself out.

Thanks Mike, lard and low gas you say? When I receive sound scientific advice of this sort I know I'm in safe hands.

I'm reckonong on preparing it quite a bit later, I'm not working tomorrow and fancy watching the late night showing of Chinatown, so I may well save this gastronomic treat for round about then.

I'll let you know tomorrow how it turns out.

If I survive.

I'm joking of course.

[SimonM]

>>So is the bacon in my frigde safe?

>>I was intending to fry six rashers, with three tomatos and put them between the halved slces of some white baps.

>>Baps I had smeared with Branston's Gherkin Relish and all.

>>So should I carry on with this gourmet treat or not?<<

You could always try using bread instead.... B)

[PeckhamRose]

If the earth has been in existance for say 24 hours, then man has walked the earth for the equivalent of the last minute.

This being the case - and the fact that having worked at a funeral directors I regularly had to hold my breath when loved ones spent THOUSANDS on a coffin and a big expensive funeral when, if it were me, I'd want to have that money NOW -

let's just live a little!

[HonaloochieB]

SimonM Wrote:

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> >>So is the bacon in my frigde safe?

> >>I was intending to fry six rashers, with three

> tomatos and put them between the halved slces of

> some white baps.

> >>Baps I had smeared with Branston's Gherkin

> Relish and all.

> >>So should I carry on with this gourmet treat or

> not?

> You could always try using bread instead.... B)

Thanks for that SimonM, I appreciate being included in this sort of laddish innuendo.

But right now in reality, the odds of the likelihood of me placing bacon, tomatos and Branson's Gherkin Relish between the breasts of a woman are long indeed.

In some part, no doubt due to my being partial to six rashers of bacon, tomatos and Gherkin Relish on two large baps.

And so it goes.

[macroban]

Useful information for a pandemic in Southwark. Last updated March 2009.

[macroban]

Comfort from Clapham

[bawdy-nan]

mmm nice

Key Points ?Health impacts of an influenza pandemic in the UK

? All age groups are likely to be affected, but children and otherwise fit adults

could be at relatively greater risk.

? Clinical attack rates may be of the order of 25% to 35%, but up to 50% is

possible.

? Between 55,000 and 750,000 deaths are possible, across the UK.

mmmm and just for London:

3.12 An influenza pandemic (as detailed in WHO Pandemic Flu Phase 6) will result in a

large number of deaths throughout London. The above planning assumptions

predict a range of permutations of case fatality and clinical attack rates in London. It

is possible that the pandemic influenza virus will have a 50% clinical attack rate and

a 2.5% case fatality rate. For London, this means planning for approximately

94,0001 possible excess deaths.

[Mikecg]

Well you can only die once!

So what's the point of worrying and feeling blue, it's up to you, just spread a little happiness as you go by, don't sigh. even though the darkest clouds are in the sky, you mustn't sigh, and you mustn't cry, spread a little happiness as you go by

a dottle dottle a dottle dottle tiiiiiissssshhhhhhh.