EllieForPresident

I try not to be a phomo but tend to fail.

Now I'm going to have that stuck in my head for like...a year!

Really? People go past me in their cars who are in my class with it blaring, I'm not even joking! Aero dynamik, anyone?

Don't most people like Royksopp and Kraftwerk? My house is filled with live DVDs by them

Sam that man's hair is actually hilarious.

I like Placebo's cover of Where Is My Mind by the Pixies:

Anyone got any suggestions for this thread? Personally... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJfzo_VZUtg&feature=player_embedded

Now there's some good advice!

I work in a piercing place. Beat that if you can. I'm primarily an art student, with a bit of History and English Literature thrown in the mix . Full-time Jono carer also. Going to university in September to study Radio Production BSc.

It doesn't mention her going to Mexico at any point, or that she'd been in contact with anyone with swine flu. Weird.

She means JK as in Jeremy Kyle, not JK from Jamiroquai

I've found that. What's wrong with yours?

The jokes are often difficult to sieve out. It's like finding a needle in a haystack.

That's really interesting, I heard an NHS quote saying it was mostly the old who would be effected. How weird. I wish the government would get their facts straight. :confused: On the other hand, they're sending information leaflets out within the next week instructing people what do in event of a pandemic, so hopefully that will at least prepare people.

I don't think it's right saying stuff like that, because for the family of those mexican victims it really is the end of their worlds. I just think it's important to keep up to date on world affairs like this, especially when it's perfectly possibly that it could hit Britain in a few months, that's all.

Aaaand the little boy in America who died today. Why would it upset me any less that they're from Mexico and dying?

I don't only care about myself and my family, I care about other people, and not just British people either. If anyone's dying of a new virus, personally I don't see it as being unnecessary stress. Just my opinion.

Actually, that is exactly what the NHS will suggest if it becomes a national crisis. What else would you suggest? Don't you think staying at home for a while would be preferable to dying? I'm sure being quarantined wouldn't effect most geeks on here much, me included. Would like a nice excuse to stay on the computer all day

Apparently it's better to get it now and become immune, before it mutates into something worse. Swine flu spreads easily and is not necessarily deadly. Bird flu does no spread easily and is very deadly. The government's worry is that the two will combine making a fast-spreading killer disease.

Mexico is a really poor country. Very little that happens in that kind of poverty-stricken country is considered important enough to reach news over here in Britain. Think how much you know about current news in Mexico, or anywhere else poor like that - other than the whole Comic Relief show once a year we hear nothing else of people in poverty, in fact, other than America, there aren't really any countries outside the UK that we seem to care about in the news. The way I see it, it must be, at least potentially, a fairly big story to attract the attention of the BBC.

SCOTT STALKER AND UNOFFICIAL MILLS HOST JONO READ will also be in the Surgery tent all weekend, exhibiting his numerous illnesses and giving away free paracetamol for all.

The "black death" is still reported thousands of times per year to the World Health Organisation, particularly in Africa and some parts of Asia. I find it highly unlikely that people from Europe are any less likely to catch a disease, and even less likely that immunity from such things can be passed down centuries through genes. Plus even if it did, what on earth would the bubonic plague have to do with swine flu?

Stop making up crazy conspiracy theories or I'll be forced to use a face palm picture.

That would be really clever of them, considering there's one every 60-80 years, and has been for a very long time. -_______-. PS: It's not called Mexico flu, it's called Swine flu, and it already more serious than Bird flu because of how quickly it mutated into a human virus.

Who is it?