Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted October 27, 2009 Share Posted October 27, 2009 Originally Posted By: Hypno Hypno's Okay. YES! I am now above babling idiot! Well, you were, but then you made that post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Goldengirl Posted October 27, 2009 Share Posted October 27, 2009 Well, we survived Mad Cow disease, but can we survive Ornk Flu? The answer is dubious, but if Swine Flu (H1N1) is beating us up so badly, the chances that humanity will not go extinct are pretty... slim. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted October 27, 2009 Share Posted October 27, 2009 Swine flu is not "beating us up". You have a higher chance of dying from the normal flu than from the swine flu. The swine flu is incredibly contagious, just not very deadly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast keira Posted October 27, 2009 Share Posted October 27, 2009 It just makes you feel worse. Comparing h1n1 to the regular flu is like comparing getting hit with a .22 to getting hit by a nuke. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Goldengirl Posted October 27, 2009 Share Posted October 27, 2009 Originally Posted By: Dantius Swine flu is not "beating us up". You have a higher chance of dying from the normal flu than from the swine flu. The swine flu is incredibly contagious, just not very deadly. With that phrase, I was referring to how contagious Swine Flu is. It's not dreadfully severe, it's just strong enough to spread fast, and force people to stay home sick. And, with its ability to spread, it can spread fast amongst many. So, if you've got up to 30% of a population, such as a student body, on sick days, then you're going to have a harder time operating. So, while it's not beating us up so much physically, it is doing damage to our efficiency at the institutional level. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotghroth Rhapsody Hypnotic Posted October 27, 2009 Share Posted October 27, 2009 Originally Posted By: Dantius Originally Posted By: Hypno Hypno's Okay. YES! I am now above babling idiot! Well, you were, but then you made that post. We're talking about Ornks and Cave Cows. Some babling Idiot-ism is acceptable in this thread. Just like if I were to say Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoeconiosis. Ornk Flu, isn't bird Flu derived from pigs aleady? What difference would a pig Hybrid make? Unless it makes a Super deadly Pig, Sheep, Bird, Human, Shaper, Martian, Astronuahgt flue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Callie Posted October 27, 2009 Share Posted October 27, 2009 Originally Posted By: The Mystic Seriously, who'd want to pick up a cow and throw it? It'd be pretty useful for biological warfare. Originally Posted By: Hypnotic Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoeconiosis Please, I have hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia. I like cave cows, though this is really more of an Avernum vs. Geneforge argument, I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Alorael at Large Posted October 27, 2009 Share Posted October 27, 2009 Originally Posted By: Anyone Else with Them It just makes you feel worse. Comparing h1n1 to the regular flu is like comparing getting hit with a .22 to getting hit by a nuke. Except neither one is as likely to kill you as getting shot, let alone getting nuked. H1N1 is highly contagious, less deadly (I'll accept this premise without examining data), and worrisome mostly as something against which vaccines weren't available and that doesn't seem to obey seasonal rules. The biggest problem? Now you can get the flu twice in a row. —Alorael, who shudders to imagine what two concurrent cases of the flu would feel like. Possibly like getting nuked and not dying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotghroth Rhapsody Hypnotic Posted October 27, 2009 Share Posted October 27, 2009 I feel so sorry for those who have hippopotmonstresesquipedaliophobia. How are they actually supposed to tell someone about it? Its not like they can use the acutal word as they would be afraid to. Since we are on the topic, may I presnt to you Titin . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Lilith Posted October 27, 2009 Share Posted October 27, 2009 Originally Posted By: Eponymous Heroics Except neither one is as likely to kill you as getting shot, let alone getting nuked. H1N1 is highly contagious, less deadly (I'll accept this premise without examining data), and worrisome mostly as something against which vaccines weren't available and that doesn't seem to obey seasonal rules. The biggest problem? Now you can get the flu twice in a row. Swine flu mortality is comparable to an average seasonal flu outbreak, if you don't count victims of the initial outbreak in Mexico. It's not really clear what happened there; it's possible that people who didn't get extremely sick simply weren't included in early case records, either because they didn't bother seeking medical treatment or their doctors didn't think it was serious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ineffable Wingbolt Milla Posted October 27, 2009 Share Posted October 27, 2009 Quote: One of the definitions of 'bovine' is slow-moving and dull-witted. I would argue, therefore, that ornks are more bovine. When cows were sent down to Avernum, most died, only the strongest and smartest could survive, so they must have lost some of their bovineness in order to continue life in such harsh conditions. Ornks, on the other hand, were specifically created to be slow and dumb, for easy harvesting, so the Shapers would have maximized their boviness, perhaps making them even slower and stupider than real life cows. Ornks are thus the more bovine. smile Re: Which is more 'bovine' in the sense of slow-wittedness Are there any talking cows in Avernum canon? Nethergate doesn't count as there is a talking Ornk in G5 and those religious Ornks in G1 (Which weren't altered they had just been left alone for a few centuries. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon The Almighty Doer of Stuff Posted October 27, 2009 Share Posted October 27, 2009 I don't know about Avernum, but in Exile III there are cave cows who respond to anything they aren't programmed to respond to with "Mooo. Never heard of it. Mooo." The poll didn't specify that it had to be Avernum and not Exile. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall A less presumptuous name. Posted October 27, 2009 Share Posted October 27, 2009 On the topic of swine/H1N1, I believe that the regular seasonal flu is also classified as H1N1. According to Wikipedia, H and N just refer to protein markers in the capsid. Hence my distaste for calling "swine" flu H1N1. Also, true swine flu is different, and "swine" flu is more of a combination of multiple different strains (as of the last time I wiki'd it). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast The Mystic Posted October 28, 2009 Share Posted October 28, 2009 Originally Posted By: Enraged Slith Meat is murder. Eat more chicken. Sort of reminds me of what I told a female coworker back in the late 90's. She told me that it was a sin to eat anything that once had a face (ironic beyond words, because we both worked at a Wendy's at the time), to which I replied--lying through my teeth--that I'd once eaten a bell pepper that had won a Col. Sanders look-alike contest. I also later told her that there probably was no plant matter on this earth that, at one time, had not been part of an animal; therefore, the salad she was eating on her break would be sinful to consume because there was a good chance it once had a face. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ineffable Wingbolt JadeWolf Posted October 28, 2009 Share Posted October 28, 2009 H1N1 does in fact signify quite a number of different types of flu. The French name for it, "grippe A" also does, though most people don't know that. Yesterday I announced to a group of people I had grippe A. They started backing away, and didn't believe me when I told them it was a pun until I got out a fairly large dictionary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall A less presumptuous name. Posted October 28, 2009 Share Posted October 28, 2009 Sounds like influenza A. "There are several subtypes, labeled according to an H number (for the type of hemagglutinin) and an N number (for the type of neuraminidase). There are 16 different H antigens (H1 to H16) and nine different N antigens (N1 to N9)"(Wiki!) There is more info there about different strains of flu. H1N1 is one of the two main seasonal flues, along with H3N2. Again from wiki: Influenza A (H1N1) virus is a highly contagious subtype of influenzavirus A and the most common cause of influenza (flu) in humans. Some strains of H1N1 are endemic in humans and cause a small fraction of all influenza-like illness and a large fraction of all seasonal influenza. H1N1 strains caused roughly half of all human flu infections in 2006. Other strains of H1N1 are endemic in pigs (swine influenza) and in birds (avian influenza). In June 2009, World Health Organization declared that flu due to a new strain of swine-origin H1N1 was responsible for the 2009 flu pandemic. This strain is often called "swine flu" by the public media." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast VCH Posted October 29, 2009 Share Posted October 29, 2009 Wasn't there a cow in one of the Avernum/Exile games that starts up a conversation with your party? I swear I remember talking to some cow, somewhere in Avernum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Enraged Slith Posted October 29, 2009 Share Posted October 29, 2009 Originally Posted By: The Mystic Originally Posted By: Enraged Slith Meat is murder. Eat more chicken. Sort of reminds me of what I told a female coworker back in the late 90's. She told me that it was a sin to eat anything that once had a face (ironic beyond words, because we both worked at a Wendy's at the time), to which I replied--lying through my teeth--that I'd once eaten a bell pepper that had won a Col. Sanders look-alike contest. I also later told her that there probably was no plant matter on this earth that, at one time, had not been part of an animal; therefore, the salad she was eating on her break would be sinful to consume because there was a good chance it once had a face. That's a horrible pick-up line. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyshakk Koan Sss-Chah Posted October 29, 2009 Share Posted October 29, 2009 i bet it worked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast The Mystic Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 It wasn't a pick-up line at all, just part of an ongoing, somewhat witty banter between the two of us. Besides, she already had a boyfriend, and I had long since put in place a self-imposed rule of not dating coworkers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ineffable Wingbolt JadeWolf Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 "Meat is murder. Eat more chicken." "Ooh, you are sooo smart! *swoons*" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast The Mystic Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 Sorry, flattery will get you nowhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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