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Where I live now is even larger, but quite a bit of it is rocks, trees, water, and beavers.
But it still manages to produce as much bullsh!t as Texas!
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I can already see this evolving into a new theory of conservation of bullshit. 
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I remember a T-Shirt that was being sold in Colorado shops some 40 years ago.
It read: If God wanted Texans to ski, He would have made bullshit white.
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Is the University statue in honour of the subject matter in most University courses? 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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No, Torero is not taught in the University.  
The real story is:
Those bulls were the advertisement of a brandy brand. When alcohol / tobacco publicity got prohibited, the owners of that alcoholic drink, just took away the letters and left the bull behind. In the over 70 years that they have been placed near our highways all around the country (IIRC there were over 60 units of them), people started to see it as a identity mark (some of them put a sticker in the car, other have done themselves a tatoo...).
The point is, when some local authorities made public that they wanted to take the bulls away (because it still remembered to the alcoholic drink and was like indirect publicity), there were some resistance against it. Up to the point that a group of students gathered together, went to the place were the "biggest enemy" of the bull was and dismounted one of them, took it to the campus and mounted it again within the ground of the university, where it has been visible but safe (nowadays I think there are less than 10 of them) for the last 30 years aprox.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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tall "tail"
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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The devil is in de tail !
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Just got Herself back from the Thoracic Medicine department after a hour long exam / chat post her CAT scan, blood work, and lung function tests. And the good news is it isn't the Big C - it's "Long Covid" Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD) causing a thickening of the lungs and reducing oxygen take up. Which explains why her SATs are almost never in the 90s, and more often in the low 80s ... the X-Rays and CAT show loads of white lines throughout the lungs where the interstitial material has thickened considerably.
So the next bit is a "Bronchoscopy and Bronchoalveolar Lavage" (shove a camera into her lungs and wash'em out to see what is in there) in a few weeks, and a delivery of oxygen tanks tomorrow! Then we'll see if steroids can start to reverse the problem or not.
Looks like I got off pretty lightly - my Sats are 96~98 most of the time, and the dizzy spells seem to have worn off. Oh, and my hair seems to have stopped falling out!
This isn't "just a bad flu" - this really does damage to as many systems as it can ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Yesterday I came across an article on the damage Covid-19 can do. It makes rather scary reading. Let's hope the NHS can fix, or at least improve, things for your good lady.
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It's like a "teenage boy" of a disease: it wants to breed and it doesn't really care what it does to get there. So it's found a "new club" full of "opportunities" and it's determined to sample them all ... while getting drunk on a half of shandy
So far I can catalogue Covid hair, ear, eye, toes, and lung - but there is also heart, brain, kidney, nervous system, ...
It's not a pretty future.
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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... and it can survive in the lungs of a dead person for at least 27 more days.
But 49% think it's all B.S. The thickness of it is staggering.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Gerry Schmitz wrote: The thickness of it is staggering.
With respect to those who think it's a rumor, we're rounding the corner, or there haven't been that many deaths . . . I explain them to you with a comment I've made before:
"There's No Cure for Stupid"
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No vaccination for it either.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Hear hear.
Tomorrow at 10pm the UK enters another lockdown and I can guarantee now the TV pictures of gangs of idiots filling the streets at 10:01 breaking every distancing rule there is.
Cos as we all know, this is a thing that only affects other people and every moron has an excuse why just one little rule breach by them is okay.
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OriginalGriff wrote: It's like a "teenage boy" of a disease
OK, so tell us what an "adult" of a disease would be like. 
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Civilized: wants to breed, sure - but not at the expense of killing or permanently damaging it's host.
We live with a lot of "adult diseases": they infect us, breed and infect others - but they do it with an eye to the long term, rather than just short term gain. Killing the host is a poor long term strategy compared to being able to reinfect him again next year!
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Mainly, though, so long as the host lives long enough (and is capable of when contagious) to spread to at least one more host then it will work out.
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I have read similar articles and yes, it is scary.
It almost seems that the after effects on the body (damage, etc.) are far worse then the actual infection period, when non-life threatening, of course.
modified 2-Nov-20 13:45pm.
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Yes, after the initial effects it seems more like Syphillis, and I can't think of few things worse.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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Don't take this the wrong way, it isn't aimed at you personally, but at people not understanding what the flu is.
There is no such thing as "just the flu". The flu is something people die from.
It's also something you might get once or twice in a lifetime. What most people think is a flu is just a cold.
When my daughter was one week old she and my wife both got the flu (H3N2) and they both became hospitalized for a week.
While my daughter is fine nowadays, my wife was knocked out for months, and she still has the cough every winter since eight years now and probably has to live with it. Lung damage after the flu is normal.
1988 1989 I got the Flu (H1N1), and also went to hospital for two days.
Last year my father died from flu induced pneumonia. Well at least it was quick.
<edit>corrected year.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Never stop dreaming - Freddie Kruger
modified 2-Nov-20 13:16pm.
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Well - admittedly, most people with the flu/cold dilemma don't go having themselves tested for precisely which one it is.
But the differences between the two are pretty easily enumerated (CDC)[^]
Now, once upon a time, dying from the flu was basically "death by natural causes" - certainly in my grandmother's generation this was true.
But your declaration - that the flu is something you get "once or twice in a lifetime" - on what basis do you make that declaration. You clearly do the alphabet soup (H3N2, H1N1, and there are others) and that should indicate to you that the flu live in variations and thus degrees of severity. Hell - there are currently, and have been for quite a while, other forms of COVID going around . . . typically mistaken for a cold.
The virulence of the flu varies a good deal on the sub-type[^]. The most common bad-actor subtypes are of the type A flu strains. Type B generally doesn't cause as much grief. Type C, comparatively uncommon, was also described as very mild.
Your experience with a couple of the bad ones, and sever reactions at that - by no means indicates that all the other flu cases were probably colds. Recheck the symptom chart: most people can tell how they fell lousy.
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I have had the flu (not cold virus) 8 times in my lifetime, confirmed, by a doctor. I have the medical records to prove it.
Now that I am an insulin dependent diabetic, I am more at risk for EVERYTHING in the ENTIRE universe, current, future, and make believe.
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