h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Yep, DQ. They just said the exact thing on the news here. But what I'm wondering is that if we all become compulsive hand washers how are they going to diagnose OCD?

If you wash your hands again right after, when you've come in contact with nothing and no one?

Yeah but how does one not let their hands come into contact with air? Should I think of buying some rubber surgeon's gloves?

I blame 2legs for this ridiculous hysterical but sort of fun idea.

And this seems kind of appropriate...when the pigs take over in Animal Farm, the refrain is 4legs good, 2legs bad

The ones with the real OCD will be the ones who spend hours shining their sinks......
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Surgical gloves need caution and in say operating theatres they need to be disposed of correctly or just spread nasty stuff around.
Again if surgical gloves aren't used with thought they can cause more problems than cure, they also can have small puncture holes which let things through. I beleive you can fill them with coloured water to test this, again simply washing hands after activities is the best. Even before all this I knew that 40% of colds could be stopped by simple hand washing.
Normal 'flu seems to kill more than this piggy 'flu which is just a long line in things that were going to kill every one of us, remember SARS? Actually most don't as a non event.
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Do you know what I think the real risk of this piggy 'flu is? The real risk is that someone will sneeze loudly on the tube and there will be a panic as people run en mass on escalator and fall, or a tube train in a tunnel will be full of panicking people and dozens get crushed.

there IS a risk that the virus will mutate into something worse and kill a significant percentage of the human race

but then there is also a risk that a big asteroid will smash the into smithereens

why worry as long as it does not happen? so far we have been lucky

and i won't blame 2legs for that

you know what? none of us are getting out of here alive. WHich is 2legs fault.

But just think of all the poor ickle piggys sneezing everywhere.....

Perspective. somethign like 36000 people die each year in the USA from Flu. Not* sards, not avian flu, not piggy/swine flu, just common garden human flu.
How many has swine flu gotten so far?
Simularly we are happy in the west' to let millions of people die each year from curible diseases (E.G., Malaria), and we don't care because the people who get them and die from them are both poor and have dark skin colour.

Possibility of a few white people getting a dose of a nasty flue, from which the vast majority of people wil not* die, and its no cost too high, no measure too difficult.

Jaded? naa.... 2cents>

I blame 2legs for injustice and donuts.

And cheese

and my grocerys not arriving until much later and me wanting food now

I blame 2legs for don'tnuts

I blame 2legs for nobbys nuts.

>Perspective. somethign like 36000 people die each year in the USA from Flu.<

I don't much care about that. I'm more concerned about sarf east London, and a little kentish village where my aged parents live.

I blame 2legs for my lack of caring about my yanky cousins as of now, and pure selfishness.

I blame 2legs that Effers doesn't care about me and the ickle baby



(OK, you can blame sleep deprivation as well as 2legs for my not being able to resist...)

I blame 2legs for my grocerys still having not arrived.... It'll be far too late for breckfast.... or lunch... by the time they do turn up early dinner...

I blame 2legs for early dinner.

I CERTAINLY blame 2legs every time i run out of cigarettes..... Does he eat them or what!

I blame 2legs for being very curious about what he has on his groceries list

(And sorry Amy...I'm now having soft caring thoughts about you and the ickle one. 2legs is to blame for me suddenly getting all gooey about this ).

I blame 2legs that I'm suddenly thinking it'd be funny if it turned out Effers and I really were cousins, and that I'll likely never know, as 1) I don't know Effer's real name and 2) I don't have enough info to look into my geneaology. Though I could likely write Grandpa Hopper and get some of the info...

I blame 2legws for my grocerys including.
Toilet rolls.
Washign up liquid.
Pain o levain,
2 X organic butter.
Bovarian smoked cheese.
Double gloster cheese.
WEnslidale cheese.
Garlic sausge ham.
Crumbed ham.
12 organic eggs.
Onions.
Spring onion.
Mushrooms.
Beansprouts.
GArlic.
Ginger.
Veg samosa.
Chickena and coconut samosa.
Onion bhaji.
Sugar cubes.
Coffee.
Lemon juice.
Fresh apple juice.
Frozen sweetcorn.
Frozen pizzas.
2 X packs streaky bacon.
1 pack fresh chicken thighs.
Scotch bonnet chilis
Green chilis.
Birdseye chilis.
High baked water biscuits.
fresh pasta, fusilli.
err and probably some other stuff I've forgotten

I blame 2legs for the veg samosa I just ate .... the first thing I've eaten today
Oh, and a tin of sardines and a tin of macril fillets... things I've not had for like years and years, so thought I'd investigate them again
I blame 2legs for it being a fairly* small shop as I still had a fair few things left in and I blame 2legs for tonights dinner probably being singapore noodles or egg-chicken-fu-yun....

I blame 2legs for suddenly making me wonder about the health of the descendents of my ancestors who moved to America in the 18th century.
I also blame 2legs for this being blatantly untrue and the fact that I only typed it because I thought it was funny.
Clearly, I also blame 2legs for this not being particularly funny and the fact that I can't decide whether to even bother posting it.

I blame 2legs for your descision to post it
I also blame 2legs for my still being hungry... but that its so* close to tea/dinner time now that I don't think I should eat anymore now