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or....maybe....just maybe....he didn't want to get a cold?
which to me.....seems to be perfectly rational behaviour?
Yep, that's why I said he might be germ averse anyway
I think it's a bit extreme to be so obviously nervous, and a bit rude, and I've never seen that much of a reaction to someone sniffling.
Just a thought A runny nose doesn't seem like a huge deal, that's all. 0 -
FullblownRose wrote: »I think it's a bit extreme to be so obviously nervous, and a bit rude, and I've never seen that much of a reaction to someone sniffling.
Yeah, but there's lots of weird and phobic people out there, may not have been intentionally rude.
Either way, I think it's probably a bit early to start breaking out the medical masks.
(never too early for rubber gloves though
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(never too early for rubber gloves though )
Bus Pants I say...the solution to all of life's obsessive compulsive awkwardness
But in other news, this is how i feel right now about Ebola....
Leaving aside any panic, manufactured or otherwise, about the spread of a horrible disease, and the western-centric shock-horror that we die too from that virus ~ imagine! ~ I find it interesting that the UN and other western nations come out to decry the lack of funding available to them to fight Ebola.
Ban Ki Moon set up a fund aiming at getting $1 Billion to fight Ebola in Africa, where, panic aside, the disease is no doubt gaining a foothold.
The Centre for Disease Control in America reckons that statistically speaking, and given its present trajectory, the number of cases of Ebola infections could reach 1.4 million by January in Sierra Leone and Liberia. That would be a potential death toll of 700,000 - 1,000,000 Africans by Spring time...
The fund Ban Ki Moon set up has received approximately $100,000, and funding from elsewhere is said to be at a trickle, so these incredibly impoverished African nations (that the west has plundered and pillaged for generations) are left to fight a battle against this disease without proper help from those who could afford it.
And how could we afford it? Haven't we been brought to our knees by a global recession? Hmmmm. Well, as of 2012 Global spending on the military was running at 1.75 trillion dollars per year. A trillon is one million million. Divide that by 400 (to make it easier) representing approximate daily spend, and we get 4.3 billion spent every single day throughout the planet on arms.
Whatever one might think about conspiracies with respect to Ebola, and I have no particular opinion on this, I consider this fact of choosing ,military spending over humanitarian spending to be gross and despicable.0 -
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Autonomous Cowherd wrote: »Bus Pants I say...the solution to all of life's obsessive compulsive awkwardness
But in other news, this is how i feel right now about Ebola....
Leaving aside any panic, manufactured or otherwise, about the spread of a horrible disease, and the western-centric shock-horror that we die too from that virus ~ imagine! ~ I find it interesting that the UN and other western nations come out to decry the lack of funding available to them to fight Ebola.
Ban Ki Moon set up a fund aiming at getting $1 Billion to fight Ebola in Africa, where, panic aside, the disease is no doubt gaining a foothold.
The Centre for Disease Control in America reckons that statistically speaking, and given its present trajectory, the number of cases of Ebola infections could reach 1.4 million by January in Sierra Leone and Liberia. That would be a potential death toll of 700,000 - 1,000,000 Africans by Spring time...
The fund Ban Ki Moon set up has received approximately $100,000, and funding from elsewhere is said to be at a trickle, so these incredibly impoverished African nations (that the west has plundered and pillaged for generations) are left to fight a battle against this disease without proper help from those who could afford it.
And how could we afford it? Haven't we been brought to our knees by a global recession? Hmmmm. Well, as of 2012 Global spending on the military was running at 1.75 trillion dollars per year. A trillon is one million million. Divide that by 400 (to make it easier) representing approximate daily spend, and we get 4.3 billion spent every single day throughout the planet on arms.
Whatever one might think about conspiracies with respect to Ebola, and I have no particular opinion on this, I consider this fact of choosing ,military spending over humanitarian spending to be gross and despicable.
Yeah totally agree its a feckin joke really. Was waiting for a bus to Salthill in Galway city centre the other day, when this coach pulled in with Japanese tourists, at least 5 or 6 of them had these blue surgical masks on, then they take them off at Eyre Square, what was the point of wearing them in first place.
If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)
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I've been told that the Japanese, being extremely polite, tend to wear masks when they have a cold to avoid spreading it.bodhrandude wrote: »Yeah totally agree its a feckin joke really. Was waiting for a bus to Salthill in Galway city centre the other day, when this coach pulled in with Japanese tourists, at least 5 or 6 of them had these blue surgical masks on, then they take them off at Eyre Square, what was the point of wearing them in first place.0 -
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FullblownRose wrote: »What are bus pants?
Ahhhh...they are my beloved Sheldon's contribution to modern OCD
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Bus+Pants&defid=54999190 -
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Autonomous Cowherd wrote: »Ahhhh...they are my beloved Sheldon's contribution to modern OCD
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Bus+Pants&defid=5499919 0 -
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wildefalcon wrote: »They have nukes?
Never spoil a good story rant with facts in AH.
And also : of course they have nukes, this Fukushima thing was a cover up dont you know.
Gotta go, digging a fallout and ebola shelter, then it's off to Lidl to buy beans and bottled water. And toilet paper, if I'm going to be living off beans I'll need toilet paper.
Maybe some Sudocrem as well
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Never spoil a good story rant with facts in AH.
And also : of course they have nukes, this Fukushima thing was a cover up dont you know.
Gotta go, digging a fallout and ebola shelter, then it's off to Lidl to buy beans and bottled water. And toilet paper, if I'm going to be living off beans I'll need toilet paper.
Maybe some Sudocrem as well
Damn! You're right! Mea Culpa.0 -
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