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I had a laugh last night on the radio I heard France is demanding £360,000 compensation from the EU for one dead duck killed by bird flu. And I bet they get it. :yep:
Takeda Shingen
02-20-06, 06:40 AM
That duck must have had powerful friends.
The Avon Lady
02-20-06, 06:50 AM
This could go down the the Guiness Book of World Records as the duck with the largest bill.
This could go down the the Guiness Book of World Records as the duck with the largest bill.
:rotfl: :rotfl:
French people are poo-poo heads. :yep:
tycho102
02-20-06, 09:57 AM
That was a pretty decent joke, Avon. :rotfl: :up:
JSLTIGER
02-20-06, 10:07 AM
This could go down the the Guiness Book of World Records as the duck with the largest bill.
:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:
:up: great stuff lol!
mind you i think the jist of it is that the farmers want some compensation for loss of buisness due to the decrease in consumer demand for chicken (think about it) and especailly so if the government demands that they cull their stock to prevent the spread of the desease ...working on the basis that if and when the crisis passes -without help most of the chicken farmers will have by that time gone bankrupt---especailly the free-range guys who are going to get hit first--then where will we get our chicken and chips!! from abroad which makes the future rapid spread of such deseases more likely
:up: great stuff lol!
mind you i think the jist of it is that the farmers want some compensation for loss of buisness due to the decrease in consumer demand for chicken (think about it) and especailly so if the government demands that they cull their stock to prevent the spread of the desease ...working on the basis that if and when the crisis passes -without help most of the chicken farmers will have by that time gone bankrupt---especailly the free-range guys who are going to get hit first--then where will we get our chicken and chips!! from abroad which makes the future rapid spread of such deseases more likely
May Be :hmm:
XabbaRus
02-20-06, 06:24 PM
I think they should demand compensation from the media due to the false hysteria being generated.
Here in the UK several papers, and one of them a decent paper, had headlines along the lines of "Bird Flu coming this way, The govt doing nothing!!" "Govt says things are in hand, didn't they say this about foot and mouth."
The media in this country especially the gutter press have got a lot to answer for for voter apathy and cynicism.
Personally I don't give a damn. you get bird-flu from coming into contact with infected bird-**** or blodd or work closely with infected birds. I don't intend to touch bird ****, I run from pigeons and ifyou see a dead bird, don't go any where near it.
Sometimes I despair at my country.
Interesting link http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4721598.stm
Good news the whole of the population of the UK are to be given shot guns, all birds are to be shot on sight, and this will guarantee 100% in keeping bird flu out the UK, thank you Tony Blair. I feel a lot safer now. :-j
SUBMAN1
02-20-06, 08:17 PM
They can have it after they pay the US for their WWII bill that France refused to pay through shear Arrogance!
The duck bill thing made me laugh too! That was good thinking!
-S
Skybird
02-20-06, 08:23 PM
I think they should demand compensation from the media due to the false hysteria being generated.
Here in the UK several papers, and one of them a decent paper, had headlines along the lines of "Bird Flu coming this way, The govt doing nothing!!" "Govt says things are in hand, didn't they say this about foot and mouth."
The media in this country especially the gutter press have got a lot to answer for for voter apathy and cynicism.
Personally I don't give a damn. you get bird-flu from coming into contact with infected bird-poo poo or blodd or work closely with infected birds. I don't intend to touch bird poo poo, I run from pigeons and ifyou see a dead bird, don't go any where near it.
Sometimes I despair at my country.
Interesting link http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4721598.stm
Bird flu is not the problem. The potential of this virus to mutate is the problem. While i amnot worried about H5N1, I may be worried about one of it's offsprings in the future, if Junior happens to behave bad.
I'm with Xab and Skybird on this one. The media (as per bloody usual) have hyped this one up to the point where it's almost like the Black Death is coming. While I am concerned about Bird Flu, I think the real time to worry is when we get reports of the mutated version arriving....and god alone knows what the media will make of that.
I just feel sorry for our bird population, it's not gonna know what hit it over the coming months, I think H5N1 will be the least of its concerns.
Abraham
02-21-06, 04:13 AM
I've heard that there are already signs that the virus is mutating. Every human infected with the H5N1 virus could be a lab for mutation to a new human virus, the more so if that person is suffering from a virus disease like influenza himself. That's why I am certainly concerned about H5N1 and it's possible disasterous potential towards mankind.
XabbaRus
02-21-06, 04:57 AM
Good maybe it will wipe out a whole bunch of the worlds population.
Too many people as it is....
Good maybe it will wipe out a whole bunch of the worlds population.
Too many people as it is....
And may be you? :hmm:
XabbaRus
02-21-06, 07:40 AM
Hmm seems people think I was being serious.
Thing is will it mutate into a human to human transmitable virus?
Quite possibly, but when? If you read all the stuff about bird-flu going back over the last couple of years then according to various experts it was supposed to have already mutated and we'd be suffering from a pandemic. It hasn't happened.
Also the precautions are quite simple. It seems that everyone has forgotten the "coughs and sneezes spreads diseases" saying and thus a lot of people don't cough into hankies, or they spit in the street.
As for my comment above. It was harsh, and I will admit I did write it to see what kind of response would be written. Thing is pandemics are natures extreme population control. These things seem to rise up when populations are closely packed and hygeine and health conditions are not the greatest.
If it mutates, could I catch it? Maybe. I have no intention of doing so but that will depend on the roll of the dice.
Thing is simple measures such as coughing into a hanky and not spitting in the street are effective ways of combatting the spread of disease.
When I lived in Russia I used to think the Russians over reacted when they wanted me to stay home because I had flu like symptoms or was coughing with some nasty infection. I now see the point, it is to stop spreading disease. Along these lines is annoys the hell out of me when I see mothers dragging their kids round the shop when these children are obviously not well and are coughing all over the place and don't cover their mouth or anything.
Of course I don't want to see people wiped out, but if it happens it happens. The best we can do is to try not to put ourselves in the situation.
As for bird-flu even the pandemic talk, I still believe the media is over hyping it.
If it’s going to happen well, today next year, ten years from now so what.
As you say why work your self up just live your life.
It would have seemed more logic to demand the country where bird flu first originated :hmm:
Anyway....all this damn hysteria already happened with the SARPS or whatever it was called some years ago, and thankfully it didn't become massive. Will HN51 be? Who knows...the only thing I'm sure about is we at Europe have a better public health system and resources to deal with it than most of Asia. So we are as prepared as we can...al the rest is worrying innecessarily :yep: .
Tower's ravens are kept indoors -
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/4734402.stm
And this one-
Man bites chicken to make news in Italy Tuesday February 21, 08:29 PM
ROME (AFP) - An Italian news-reader bit into a piece of roast chicken live on his nightly news programme, saying he was demonstrating that consumers had nothing to fear from bird flu in cooked poultry.
"I just want to show Italians that as far as I'm concerned, you have nothing to fear from eating chicken," Lamberto Sposini told millions of viewers of his prime time programme on Canale 5 before biting into a leg of chicken.
Italy has recorded a total 16 cases of the deadly strain of bird flu since it was first announced to have killed several wild swans two weeks ago.
Despite being detected to date only in wild birds, the discovery has led to a 70 per cent drop in poultry consumption in Italy and threatened 30,000 jobs.
Italy has asked the EU for aid for its stricken poultry industry.
This reminds be of the time a Conservative Government Minister eating a hamburger years ago when we had a break out of BSE here in the UK. :hmm:
France finds second bird flu case
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4742536.stm
Hang on are they about to put in for more money?
micky1up
02-23-06, 03:22 PM
hey i think the uk should demand compensation from france for bailing them out of two world wars know your place french dog's
XabbaRus
02-23-06, 04:32 PM
What bugs me is the countries asking the EU to bail out the faltering poultry industry.
Now before I jump on my high horse did the EU compensate the UK over BSE and Foot and mouth when it decimated many farms.
If yes then I'll go no further, if no then sort it out yourselves.
hey i think the uk should demand compensation from france for bailing them out of two world wars know your place french dog's
Now that's an idea. :yep:
Kapitan
02-25-06, 02:31 AM
France should stick thier finger up thier gazzoo and whistle dixie i hope they get nothing, next they be wanting compo for the common cold :nope:
next they be wanting compo for the common cold :nope:
SSSHHHHH Don't put ideas in their head. :yep:
hey i think the uk should demand compensation from france for bailing them out of two world wars know your place french dog's
LOL
Quoting Winston Chruchill in WW1: "Britain will fight till the last french"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4749666.stm
France confirms bird flu strain, their still working out how much money they want.
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