Swine flu
What a stupid name for it.
We’ve had bird flu which affects birds but swine flu seems to only affect Mexicans. It should be called ‘Mexican Death Flu’ or ‘Tequila Canker’ or something better.
These fuckers don’t know how to market a disease at all. Swine flu makes you think of a pig with a Lemsip Max Strength. ‘Taco pestilence’ is far more evocative sounding.
Anyway, at this point it’s only Mexicans. If people in Louth or Meath start dying then I might get worried.
April 28th, 2009 at 9:38 am
you can follow the “worldwide outbreak” as it happens on the mail website…
April 28th, 2009 at 9:48 am
Apparently the correct name is “H1N1 human swine influenza”.
The government must be shitting themselves.
April 28th, 2009 at 10:02 am
Louth ? The sooner the better!
April 28th, 2009 at 10:04 am
If it spreads to Louth and Meath,that would wipe Dubliners from the face of the country..oh.
April 28th, 2009 at 10:05 am
bunch of swins
April 28th, 2009 at 10:05 am
I think “Arriba-arriba! Andale-andale! Influenza” would be the best name for it.
April 28th, 2009 at 10:08 am
JERUSALEM (AP) — The outbreak of swine flu should be renamed “Mexican” influenza in deference to Muslim and Jewish sensitivities over pork, said an Israeli health official Monday.
Deputy Health Minister Yakov Litzman said the reference to pigs is offensive to both religions and “we should call this Mexican flu and not swine flu,” he told a news conference at a hospital in central Israel.
The Associated Press: Israeli official: Swine flu name offensive
April 28th, 2009 at 10:09 am
Speedy Death Gonzales juanita villa lobos disease is what the locals are calling it..
April 28th, 2009 at 10:11 am
Queues of wastrels at Dundalk doctors complaining they feel Louthy.
April 28th, 2009 at 10:13 am
They have kosher diseases ?
April 28th, 2009 at 10:15 am
The Associated Press: Israeli official: Swine flu name offensive
Only until an Israeli gets it,the it will be renamed The Chosen Flu..
April 28th, 2009 at 10:21 am
My God – it is official – Twenty warned us!
http://www.thetechlounge.com/news/13666/Swine-Flu-Fun-Facts/
” We all know that the swine flu has been cultured and designed by dolphin separatists set on domination and subjugation of mankind. They will need us to build them worldwide above-ground tunnel networks to every attraction ever made or discovered. (For conquest-bound mammals, they’re kinda touristy.)
What, you think the tsunamis were natural disasters? How else do you think the dolphins were going to get their fins on some sweet, sweet swine? “
April 28th, 2009 at 10:49 am
I fucking told you!
The Associated Press: Israeli official: Swine flu name offensive
Fuck me, there really is nothing which can’t be made offensive by Israelis. I posted on Twitter, as a joke, “Israel finds first swine flu case – immediately brands virus anti semitic”.
Then that. Fucking hell.
Only until an Israeli gets it,the it will be renamed The Chosen Flu..
haha
April 28th, 2009 at 10:59 am
I expect Benjamin Netanyahtchoo will make a statement.
April 28th, 2009 at 11:01 am
I’ll bet there will be a paper trail connecting Cheney and Haliborange – bio weapons division- to the Dolphins!
April 28th, 2009 at 11:02 am
I expect Benjamin Netanyahtchoo will make a statement.
Excellent.
April 28th, 2009 at 11:03 am
Yeah,Isreal is under threat from microscopic organisms now.. They will be launching pre-emptive strikes against the invisible enemy..
April 28th, 2009 at 11:32 am
“the reference to pigs is offensive to both religions” – it’s good to see jews and muslims finally united, even if it is in hatred of pigs, and probably mexicans and everyone else for that matter
April 28th, 2009 at 11:55 am
Deputy Health Minister Yakov Litzman said the reference to pigs is offensive to both religions and “we should call this Mexican flu and not swine flu,” he told a news conference at a hospital in central Israel.
What a fucking spazmatron.
Even referring to pigs is offensive is it? so if he sees an image of a pig is he offended too?
is he offended by police because they have the nickname of pig?
Dickheads like that should be rounded up into a big . . . oh… i’ll leave it at that.
April 28th, 2009 at 12:01 pm
What kind of religion decided that dolphin fish are kosher yet dolphin mammals are not ? It’s crazy. Makes no sense at all unless dolphins are part of the great Zionist conspiracy.
I wonder of that great man and uber-loon Felix Quigley has pronounced on this yet ? I must check!
April 28th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
On behalf of pigs, I find the term ’swine’ offensive. I also find the term ‘pigs’ offensive (even though I just used it). They prefer to be called ‘non-equine, hairless mini-horses’.
Please people, have some respect for our four-legged brethren (mmmmm, breaded hen).
April 28th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
Apparently the Mexican flu virus breeds in your underlay.
April 28th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
couldn’t resist:
pablo and manuel are crawling through the desert when they see a tree covered in rashers (cured, of course). manuel crawls forward and is just about to pick some bacon off the tree when he’s cut down by a hail of gunfire. with his last breath, he shouts to pablo “stay away – it’s not a bacon tree, it’s a ham bush”
i’ll get my hat..
April 28th, 2009 at 1:26 pm
Love it
April 28th, 2009 at 1:27 pm
“the reference to pigs is offensive to both religions”
So what do they call it if they gat a sty in their eye?
April 28th, 2009 at 1:32 pm
Didn’t this shit happen before with a poster of a piggy bank?
April 28th, 2009 at 3:30 pm
So you can’t pork a Jewish or Muslim girl, then.
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An old one: What’s green and smalls of pork?
Answers on a postcard pleas.
April 28th, 2009 at 3:31 pm
So you can’t pork a Jewish or Muslim girl, then.
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An old one: What’s green and smells of pork?
Answers on a postcard pleas.
April 28th, 2009 at 3:32 pm
Didn’t this shit happen before with a poster of a piggy bank?
How do you mean DD?
Did Israelis demanded to have a kosher Mexican on the poster instead of a pig?
April 28th, 2009 at 3:39 pm
Maggot asked: “What kind of religion decided that dolphin fish are kosher yet dolphin mammals are not …”
The same one that says it’s OK to take someone from Uzbekistan who has never even heard of the Mediterranean and, just because he professes that particular religion, house him in an illegal settlement on confiscated land and provide him with grants from foreign sympathisers and taxpayers as well as a lavish supply of water from the huge aquifer below, leaving the native farmers short and impoverished and very disgruntled.
That religion. But it’s probably no worse or harmful overall than a few others.
I’ve nearly finished reading Richard Dawkins’ The God illusion and recommend it.
April 28th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
Kermit the Frog?
April 28th, 2009 at 5:53 pm
from the 70’s….made me laugh
“poor old betty, she had a heart condition…now she’s dead”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?hl=en&v=T_qJ2tOY7ss&gl=US
April 28th, 2009 at 8:45 pm
I suppose they’ll come up with some sort of an oinkment to treat the cases
April 28th, 2009 at 8:47 pm
Richard Whitely RIP
April 28th, 2009 at 8:54 pm
JJ, some knob bank manager made a big piss his panties fuss over posters showing piggy banks. Apparently they were potentially offensive to nobody. Religion would be funny if only it was a minority interest.
April 28th, 2009 at 11:06 pm
Religion stopped being fun when they were no longer allowed to use torture.
April 29th, 2009 at 7:31 am
SuperGrover said:
April 28th, 2009 at 3:54 pm
Kermit the Frog?
As the Swedish Chef would say: “Deed oon. Bork bork bork! I see-a yuoo ere-a a Mooppets fun.”
See: http://www.rinkworks.com/dialect/
April 29th, 2009 at 10:17 am
:D !!!
Fintan, this dilectizer is fantastic! You just made my day :)
DD, surely, this bank manager or whoever he was must have some difficult childhood memories relating to pigs and being offensive.
maggot, religion was never fun, not for us, witches.
April 29th, 2009 at 9:08 pm
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April 30th, 2009 at 11:06 am
I’m with Mr Litzman on this. If there is an outbreak of swine influenza in Israel we should call it Jew Flu to avoid giving offence.
May 1st, 2009 at 12:49 am
well if it kills lots of jews i think the adolf eichman flu would be a more suitable name.
but i much prefer the mexican staring frog from southern sri lanka
May 2nd, 2009 at 6:57 am
I dunno but there quite alot of people that keep saying that “It is all part of the federal government’s plan. They have made this flu up. Where are the pictures of any casualty. Where are they? YOu know what pictures we have, we have proof that 9/11 was an inside job done by Bush. We have proof of FEMA concentration camps for people that do not agree with them. We have proof that the bankers and the Rothschild family are the ones that caused this big crash. We know that Obama is one of the NWO. He is also an illuminati scum. He is not the people’s president, he is the slave of UN and the NWO. There is no such thing as the swine flu. This is Obama’s 9/11 cover-up!”. I hope this flu epidemic clears out as soons as possible. Too much conspiracing rise about this and all..