maqroll Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 (edited) He's so unforgettable even his name gets spelt wrong ... Mind you did also call Cameron "Cameroon " a few times in the past as well BULLSHIT Unless you were talking to Ginko Edited September 30, 2014 by maqroll Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meath_Villan Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 First confirmed case of ebola in the usa .....watch how quick a vaccine will be found now 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villaajax Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 He's so unforgettable even his name gets spelt wrong ... Mind you did also call Cameron "Cameroon " a few times in the past as well Camoron* 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 Political humour at its finest. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
troon_villan Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 Terrible few pages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 You get the feeling it might be quick. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villaajax Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 Can weave in and out of traffic and cut up innocent car drivers a lot quicker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtsimonw Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 (edited) You get the feeling it might be quick. It's a Transformer. Edited September 30, 2014 by kurtsimonw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 It's a Transformer. There's definitely shades of mecha about the tail end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 national holiday tomorrow so he was expecting 100k people there preotesting I'd have thought they could have found a better place to try out those newfangled hybrid cars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paddywhack Posted September 30, 2014 Share Posted September 30, 2014 Terrible few pages. I know. I did try and spark up a discussion about pubes a few pages back but no one was having it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted October 1, 2014 Share Posted October 1, 2014 Terrible few pages.I know. I did try and spark up a discussion about pubes a few pages back but no one was having it. Cough Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted October 1, 2014 Share Posted October 1, 2014 First confirmed case of ebola in the usa .....watch how quick a vaccine will be found now How dare they find a vaccine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turnbull Posted October 1, 2014 Share Posted October 1, 2014 Can weave in and out of traffic and cut up innocent car drivers a lot quicker. It's not an Audi. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dont_do_it_doug. Posted October 1, 2014 Share Posted October 1, 2014 First confirmed case of ebola in the usa .....watch how quick a vaccine will be found now How dare they find a vaccine Not the point he was making was it. I don't think it was even anti American per se, more a general point about the nature of man kind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted October 1, 2014 Share Posted October 1, 2014 Dunno, maybe I've misinterpreted the post, ain't no thing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dont_do_it_doug. Posted October 1, 2014 Share Posted October 1, 2014 (edited) Dunno, maybe I've misinterpreted the post, ain't no thing Not like you lot to show humility, I was all prepared for an invasion Edited October 1, 2014 by dont_do_it_doug. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted October 1, 2014 VT Supporter Share Posted October 1, 2014 I miss the SIFF world cup. Only 4 more years! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapal_fan Posted October 1, 2014 Share Posted October 1, 2014 I **** don't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Posted October 1, 2014 Share Posted October 1, 2014 First confirmed case of ebola in the usa .....watch how quick a vaccine will be found now How dare they find a vaccine Owen Jones sums it up nicely: The focus on first US Ebola case shows how cheaply we value African lives The sad reality is that African victims continue to suffer an excruciating death, while westerners are flown out, treated and become near-celebrities http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/01/us-ebola-cheap-value-african-lives "The life of a westerner is judged to be of greater worth than that of a black African – and by a number of factors, too. That it’s such a statement of the obvious, rendered glib, met with an instinctive “Well, duh”, simply underlines the point. And so it is unsurprising that the case of Ebola in the US should attract headlines. We do not know yet whether the patient is a US citizen - but the widespread media attention is due to the threat being transported to US soil and therefore putting westerners at risk. That is not to belittle the suffering of the victim, and I hope the treatment that has been successful with the westerners who contracted the virus returns them to good health. But in due course, we will undoubtedly learn more personal details about this victim treated in a Dallas hospital than we know about the 3,000-plus Africans who have so far perished. When aid workers have succumbed to Ebola, they have been invariably flown out and given ZMapp, an experimental drug that seems to have saved their lives. British nurse William Pooley is one and – having been flown out and saved – he wants to return. But this treatment is denied to Africans dying from an agonising hemorrhagic fever, which leaves victims bleeding on both the outside and the inside. One defence of this practice is straightforward. The safety and effectiveness of ZMapp has not been proven through clinical trials. For westerners to start using such a drug on African victims – with consequences we cannot be entirely confident about – would risk claims that pharmaceutical companies are using Liberians and Sierra Leoneans as experimental fodder. But it has, after all, already been judged to be worth using on westerners. No wonder human rights activists in Africa are saying that it proves that “the life of an African is less valuable”. My colleague Joseph Harker wrote two weeks ago about his brother-in-law’s sister, Olivet Buck, a Sierra Leonean doctor risking her life to help the dying. When she contracted the disease, a campaign was mounted to evacuate her to Germany where a hospital in Hamburg was ready to take her. But the World Health Organisation refused to fund such a lifesaving move, and Dr Buck died. Advertisement According to Médecins Sans Frontières, the western response has been “lethally inadequate”. But you can be sure that if such an epidemic had broken out in, say, Chicago, Paris or Rome, every possible resource available to the western medical world would be thrown at the problem. But instead the western response too often has been “what about us?”. The Bloomberg Businessweek carries an alarmist Ebola Is Coming front cover. This is a nonsense. Ebola is a disease of poverty. It is very difficult to spread, and depends on direct contact with the bodily fluids of the infected, rather than being an airborne (and thus catastrophic) illness. If Liberia had a functioning public health system, the epidemic would be shut down. It needs trained health workers, isolation wards and protective gear to combat it – infrastructure that, in our grossly unequal world, simply is not there in a countries like Liberia or Sierra Leone. In Nigeria and Senegal, where there is a far more effective public health system, the countries appear to have put a stop to the onward march of Ebola. The disease has no real chance of spreading in western countries, because any victims would be quickly isolated and treated. The sad reality is that African victims will continue to suffer an excruciating death, denied of basic dignity, drowning in their own fluids. As they do so, they will remain nameless and forgotten, except to their forever mourning relatives. Westerners, on the other hand, will be flown out, treated and become near-celebrities. Perhaps some are resigned to such a disparity, believing that this is the inevitable way of the world. I tend to differ: it is perverse, and it is unjust. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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