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  1. Ah, the Spanish-speaking countries are usually "EL CAMINO". ("The path".) "El Camion" would translate to "The Truck."
  2. Next song. "I said 'where you goin' with that gun in your hand?' 'Alright. I'm goin' down to shoot my old lady, you know I caught her messin' 'round with another man.' "
  3. Next song. "I said 'where you goin' with that gun in your hand?' 'Alright. I'm goin' down to shoot my old lady, you know I caught her messin' 'round with another man.' "
  4. Be careful. "LIFE IN THE FAST LANE" will surely make you lose your mind, even if you were one of THE EAGLES.
  5. Um, how about "IT'S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD"?
  6. Tom Hanks Catch Me If You Can Christopher Walken
  7. It sounds familiar, but I'm just not placing it yet.
  8. Correct! The answer was "Sherlock Holmes." (The Guy Ritchie one with RDJr and Jude Law as "Hotson" (as RDJr called him in jest.)
  9. No. Wrong movie, and wrong continuity. Right time-frame, approximately.
  10. "Out here in the fields I fight for my meals! I get my back into my living!"
  11. "There is nothing more elusive than an obvious fact." "Whatever he was working on, he obviously succeeded." "How do you know?" "Otherwise, he'd still be alive." "Well, I may not have a choice, hm? After all, I may be paying the rent on my own, soon. Thanks to you." "Get that out of my face." "It's not in your face, it's in my hand." "Get what's in your hand out of my face." "More importantly, let's see what he was trying to dispose of." "Facts, gentlemen, facts. I cannot make bricks without straw." "Why are you always so suspicious?" "Should I answer chronologically or alphabetically?" "You know, in another life, you'd have made an excellent criminal." "Yes, and you, sir, an excellent policeman." "It's a matter of professional integrity! No girl wants to marry a doctor who can't tell if a man's dead or not!"
  12. Colin Firth Love, Actually Martin Freeman
  13. A) It's affecting 1 in 50,000, as your link pointed out. That's still more than I'd like, but the risks of Covid are far, far greater than the risks of that clotting. How great is that risk? The odds of being hit by lightning sometime in my lifetime are 1 in 15,300. So, I'm almost 4x as likely to be hit by lightning in my lifetime as get the clotting problem- if I took the Astrazeneca or the Moderna vaccines. As I took neither, I'm neither sweating out the clotting nor the lightning. B) According to your own link, they're not sure what's causing the clotting. According to you, you've got it figured out. You should notify the scientists you're ahead of them and help them out. "Despite fervent work by researchers such as Nicolson, the mechanism that links the vaccines and VITT is still uncertain. Establishing a mechanism could reveal ways to prevent and treat the condition, and improve the design of future vaccines."
  14. This one has already saved a LOT of lives. Actually, the Spanish Flu seems to have been too early in our preventative medicine cycle to have gotten a timely vaccination- too hard to identify with the tools of a century ago. If they'd somehow had a shot as "ineffective" as ANY of the current Covid shots, the public would have jumped at it, and rightly so.
  15. Out in the world, there's doctors who have been working on this for DECADES. They've been trading information, and updating what they know. They've found a handful of partial successes, and qualified them carefully. So far, globally, this has been the only known case where there's no qualification. That's why she's from Argentina, she's being treated in Boston, and you're in Australia reading about it. It's news because it's so singularly significant. So, if you had money on that bet, you'd lose.
  16. Some highlights from that linked article: "Walensky also noted that the risk of hospitalizations and death is still greatest for those who are unvaccinated." "'Studies show that those who are unvaccinated continue to be more likely to be infected, more likely to be in the hospital and more likely to have severe complications from COVID-19,' she said during the briefing." As for the fully-vaccinated getting Covid, what did Fauci actually say? "'It's a significant proportion, but not the majority by any means.' " So, yes, get those boosters. Decrease your risks as much as possible.
  17. In all of the history of HIV, a single woman's immune system managed to overcome HIV completely, and no reason why seems evident. Lots and lots of people have died of HIV (co-morbidities), and lots of people are alive and taking medication which is keeping them alive and functioning. There's always some sort of odd outlier with anything. I'm unclear what's so amazing about the immune system if this is any standard to go by. Actually, I'm less-impressed than I was before I opened the link.
  18. According to your linked article, the Spanish Flu took a heavy toll on the young and healthy specifically because it caused immune systems to overreact, which meant that healthy people with healthy immune systems were WORSE HIT since their "healthy" immune systems overreacted more, which was a greater risk to the person. I'm not quite sure what points about the immune system one can draw from this, but if I were struggling through the Spanish Flu's time, I'd be trying to get the vaccine as fast as I could and hoping my immune system wouldn't react like a healthy person's to the illness.
  19. For those who have no idea what Allan's talking about, I'll translate: "experimental drug" - all the different forms of vaccines formulated, made and distributed around the world, from a variety of countries "because the Government told you to"- all the dialogues around the world between elected officials and the public, including health officials, all from countries that normally disagree on everything "disregard all the side effects (including deaths) and unknown mid-to long-term debilitating effects"- the few known dangers for a few people getting vaccinated (as always happens) is far more dangerous than the far greater risks of death or permanent injury from getting Covid because Allan says so "just so you can 'be part of the crowd' or 'peer pressure' or a 'misguided sense of duty to fellow man" - paying attention to the medical experts and understanding them and agreeing, rather than bucking the establishment because it's the establishment and following the secret knowledge like Allan "I don't see how this topic could be uplifting in any way regardless" - decreasing the body counts doesn't matter much "It really could be a matter of life or death, just exactly whose, we'll have to wait it out"- let's ignore all the stats that say that the innoculated survive Covid at greater rates than the uninnoculated and claim all the facts aren't in when plenty are in and conclusions can already be drawn as to whether the vaccines are safer than the illness "I'm just glad I don't have to go to bed at night worried if some of those spike proteins are going to turn on my own bodies immune system after the 1st or 2nd or third or fourth or fifth or sixth jab !! " - I'm glad none of us have to worry about that, since it's a make-believe illness based on a misunderstanding of the biology. I'm also glad I don't have to go to bed at night worried about catching the gol-bloots from the hind legs of the boo-shoo bird. The world I live in doesn't even superficially resemble the world Allan thinks he sees. Then again, my world overcame the Spanish Flu, I don't know what the story is in his world.
  20. "There is nothing more elusive than an obvious fact." "Whatever he was working on, he obviously succeeded." "How do you know?" "Otherwise, he'd still be alive." "Well, I may not have a choice, hm? After all, I may be paying the rent on my own, soon. Thanks to you." "Get that out of my face." "It's not in your face, it's in my hand." "Get what's in your hand out of my face." "More importantly, let's see what he was trying to dispose of." "Facts, gentlemen, facts. I cannot make bricks without straw."
  21. "We Are the Champions," Queen. " Sitting on a park bench, eyeing little girls with bad intent."
  22. skyrider: "As one comment explained......"From the article, "It's waning to the point that you're seeing more and more people getting breakthrough infections, and more and more of those people who are getting breakthrough infections are winding up in the hospital." So......what you are really saying is that the vaccine really isn't all that effective in either preventing contracting the disease, nor is it as effective in preventing serious symptoms or from preventing death as the media has been pushing down our throats the past year. " =============================================== Anyone who thinks that this meant the vaccine isn't effective don't understand what's happening. The people winding up in the hospital are the people who are still refusing vaccinations. The "breakthrough" infections are from the variants, with Delta being the most popular one to catch right now. If you catch a variant, you might not be 100% protected against the infection- but if you were totally innoculated with 2 shots before, then you're going to have a lot of resistance against the variant. If you actually get sick, the severity and length will both be way down. Anyone heard of Gabriel Iglesias? He's a stand-up comedian from the US, Mexican-American, and he's rather corpulent. His nickname is "Fluffy." "Why do I drink diet soda? So I can eat regular cake." He's not that young anymore. He's seriously overweight, and has related problems (Type 2 diabetes, etc.) He got one of the breakthrough infections from the Delta variant. He's got a load of pre-existing problems. He took to his bed and was fine the next day. He said that's entirely due to him having both doses. He said he's had worse incidents from HANGOVERS. Want to risk ending up in the hospital from one variant of Covid or another? Just keep skipping the shots. The shots decrease the risk of getting sick at all, and they decrease the severity of the illness if you DO get sick. Or, you know, you can just keep thinking that governments all agreed on innoculations as part of some conspiracy, and that every country manufacturing one or another is including some weird spying thing or something when they make it.
  23. Ah, you've posted this Sunday, November 14, 2021. The event, according to your post, was November 07, 2021. This event already happened 7 days ago.
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