Mongolian couple die of bubonic plague after eating marmot
A Mongolian couple have died of the bubonic plague after eating raw marmot kidney, triggering a quarantine that left tourists stranded in a remote region for days.
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A six-day quarantine was declared in the region, preventing nine tourists from Russia, Germany and Switzerland from leaving.
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Authorities have warned people against eating raw marmot meat because it can carry Yersinia pestis, the plague germ. Some people ignore the warnings as they believe that consuming the innards of the large rodent is good for their health.
You know what really grinds my gears? Recipe websites. I just want to look at like one paragraph of text, and these damn sites feel the need to strangle my laptop with like 800 scripts and embedded videos.
Don't forget reading past 50 paragraphs of text on how the author "just loves autumn so much" and this dish has "great fall flavors that her family loves" and other stupid bullshit that has nothing to do with the recipe.
Mongolian couple die of bubonic plague after eating marmot
A Mongolian couple have died of the bubonic plague after eating raw marmot kidney, triggering a quarantine that left tourists stranded in a remote region for days.
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A six-day quarantine was declared in the region, preventing nine tourists from Russia, Germany and Switzerland from leaving.
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Authorities have warned people against eating raw marmot meat because it can carry Yersinia pestis, the plague germ. Some people ignore the warnings as they believe that consuming the innards of the large rodent is good for their health.
I read once an interesting report about the medieval plagues in Europe. Obviuosly they were caused by bad hygiene, lousy water quality etc. But it turns out that the most important factor was the lack of cats. The stupid peasantry had somehow started to believe that cats came from the devil and they exterminated almost all of them with mostly the few intelligentsia and aristocracy retaining them. In some countries they almost died out. The result was a massive infestation of rats and mice which had these pathogens in them. It infected not only their food, their water, but sometimes the people ate the rats out of hunger. Many if not most of the bubonic plagues were caused by the people getting rid of cats. I am also grateful for my cat who eats the few flies and spiders that come inside
Mongolian couple die of bubonic plague after eating marmot
A Mongolian couple have died of the bubonic plague after eating raw marmot kidney, triggering a quarantine that left tourists stranded in a remote region for days.
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A six-day quarantine was declared in the region, preventing nine tourists from Russia, Germany and Switzerland from leaving.
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Authorities have warned people against eating raw marmot meat because it can carry Yersinia pestis, the plague germ. Some people ignore the warnings as they believe that consuming the innards of the large rodent is good for their health.
< They have 1 case per year of bubonic plague in Mongolia! I would take it as quite credible.
Rabies on the other hand - that's a strange disease that is not even proven. A veterinarian did a study once, took tissues from a bunch of peaceful pug-like dogs and sent them out to the few laboratories that supposedly can prove perfectly whether an animal has rabies. The results were totally random with 50% coming back having rabies. The vet would have to kill a bunch of pugs and poodles whose biggest crime is stealing food from the kitchen.
So if there is no biological proven track record, what is there? They rely only on behavioral patterns, but thsoe are caused by a myriad things - from severe malnutrition, to various pathogens and animals are known to get massive behavioral problems under certain conditions. Since they claim the disease to be "eradicated", then they would have to roll back the time 120 years and first prove that it exists, because they have zero proof so far. Also you have to remember that people are bitten by dogs and wild animals tens of thousands of times in every country in Europe and no case of rabies?
You would really have to get real biological proof, then get a study of a supposed rabies animal infecting others at great probability.
The human cases are even rarer. That some kind of infection occurs is no surprise, but infections can also cause a ton of repercussions, add to it the current ever greater antibiotic resistence of pathogens in hospitals and you can have a dangerous situation - especially for someone working at a hospital with an open wound.
Tried to call up my ISP to sort it out. But they don't work at 7pm at night.
Got 4 or 5 calls from some horsey girls that wanted to do some modeling for a designer friend of mine. Can't access their messages. Will probably be deleted when I get re-connected. Can't even remember the original source of how I got to them. Was one of a few people I know in that world but I'm not going to go back and go through it all again.
Horsey women are mad, but a lot of fun. Oh well.
I was surprised that they left messages, as I've only recently got back home. Couple of days later, phone cut off again. No unpaid bills remember.
So I now have no Amazon, no Paypal, can't use my Visa or debit cards to pay for anything over a 100 quid (they seem to let me pay for stuff less than that). Can't complain. Can't speak to a human. Totally shut down and depersoned.
Tomorrow I shut down and close my ISP internet/phone account (found a better deal). And I shut down my bank account of 30 years as well. I pay off all my debts (not much) - credit card and overdraft.
And I start again.
I have a bit of food in the cupboards but no means to buy anymore. Having said that, I can use my card to pull out cash from an ATM, but they won't allow me to buy anything on line.
I feel rage, despair, anger. A kind of acceptance and calm as well.
I can see this is a new phase of the game, and it's going to be a long road.
Shame about those horsey gals. I always enjoy new pics of girls in tight jods whacking their riding crops against their boots.
I wasn't going to earn any money from it really, but it would have been good to help some old friends out.
Can't post on youtube comments. Don't have a phone line. Can't buy anything on line with my debit/credit card. Is this some kind of fucking social experiment?
I mean, yeah, cut my phone off, but stop me from accessing messages?
I have never had a single unpaid bill.
I'll be going offline for a bit. But the good news is that I'll have a cheaper internet/phone package when I get back on.
I actually found out that I am paying double of what I need to pay. And they still cut my fucking phone off.
Wish me luck.
Tomorrow is going to be a lot of "pleased to be shitting with you good sir!".
He makes some pretty interesting videos. I guess most people in Oz don't live like that, but he's making a go of it.
He seems like a decent enough guy, but a bit of a tit sometimes. He flew his drone low enough for his dog to get cut by it. He ate a small fish on camera just for shits and giggles. Everything must die, but such disrespect to sentient life, and all for youtube kudos, well...
But his greatest sin of all is his shit taste in music. Quite embarrassing. Brave new world.
Actually, I'm wondering if this guy really is cool or not.
Then I notice something in the youtube headline: Amberleigh West
I thought it was his girlfriend, but she's an instagram whore.
Shit.
Imagine having a life like that. Boats, helicopters, Australian coast...
I ain't hating on the guy. Good luck to him. His vids are worth a watch.
But it just disappoints me more and more how little you have to dig to get to the bottom of people's vacuousness.
You'd like to think that people at the other end of the world are immune to all the shit that goes on, but no, they just perpetrate it.
My intention wasn't to shit-talk someone doing well in life and be bitter about it. I genuinely just wanted to share some great shots of someone 'living the life'. But as I dug a bit deeper to find the best videos, it all played out in front of me.
You can make your own mind up.
Australia is a very beautiful country though I must say.
Even more beautiful than the picture I had in my mind's eye.
There is nothing quite like calling your mom to wish her a happy Mother's Day, and instead of being happy you called she bitches that you "didn't do anything on Facebook to show how much you (I) care about her". I barely even use social media because it's a complete waste of time, yet my mom is "embarrassed" that all of her other friends had kids who posted about "how great their mothers are" on fucking Facebook while my sister and I "didn't do anything". W-T-F? Maybe this post belongs in the Clown World thread?
As for the rest of the call, it was spent pointing out how much better my cousins (she mentioned each one by name) are because of how much they showed their love to their moms on Facebook and how "depressed" she was that we didn't do something similar for her. What's really crazy is that I actually logged on to Facebook for the first time in forever this morning to update my profile picture to one of me and my mom for Mother's Day, and this was the response I get for simply calling her today? I'm absolutely blown away by this.
Thanks for hearing me out, didn't know where to rant about this.
^^^ That's awesome. I had a linguist once work with me just on pronunciation for Spanish, I just had a few private lessons with him in Medellin but it made an impression.
Its fascinating stuff, trying to change the way you speak and how you actually pronounce certain words and sounds with your tongue.
I like this guys analysis, he knows when they are on (Whitakker as Mugabe, Kingsley as Gandhi) and when they are off (Biggie)
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(05-10-2019 07:12 PM)BortimusPrime Wrote: You know what really grinds my gears? Recipe websites. I just want to look at like one paragraph of text, and these damn sites feel the need to strangle my laptop with like 800 scripts and embedded videos.
So bloody annoying. I have switched 100% back to old note books and hard-copy cook books for recipe inspiration.
100% on the Mothers Day FB crap.
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I've been slowly eliminating my book collection since I bought a Kindle Paperwhite. The one group of books I am holding onto are my cookbooks. Way better than finding recipes online, with long diatribes about how they learned to cook whatever dish etc.
Over the years I've also been collecting handwritten recipes from grandmothers etc. That binder is my favorite cookbook.
I'm the opposite. I actually bought Game on iPad and decided "fuck this screen shit" and bought the paperback (hey, more money in Rooshes pocket, good.)
The only book I use on the pad is the electrical code, because I only use it for reference and it's over $100.
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(05-12-2019 11:01 PM)Diop Wrote: There is nothing quite like calling your mom to wish her a happy Mother's Day, and instead of being happy you called she bitches that you "didn't do anything on Facebook to show how much you (I) care about her". I barely even use social media because it's a complete waste of time, yet my mom is "embarrassed" that all of her other friends had kids who posted about "how great their mothers are" on fucking Facebook while my sister and I "didn't do anything". W-T-F? Maybe this post belongs in the Clown World thread?
As for the rest of the call, it was spent pointing out how much better my cousins (she mentioned each one by name) are because of how much they showed their love to their moms on Facebook and how "depressed" she was that we didn't do something similar for her. What's really crazy is that I actually logged on to Facebook for the first time in forever this morning to update my profile picture to one of me and my mom for Mother's Day, and this was the response I get for simply calling her today? I'm absolutely blown away by this.
Thanks for hearing me out, didn't know where to rant about this.
That's really sad. I thought Stan's dad in South Park was a funny exaggeration. I didn't know it was a real thing.
I mean my mom is approaching 70, so it may be an age thing. She's on facebook, but it would never enter her mind to bring something like this up (even if she thought it).
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Living in a part of HCMC with few foreigners, I've noticed it's a little awkward when you spot another one. Just walked into a cafe only to notice another white guy staring, startled to see me. I knew we were both thinking "oh white dude!".
We need to come up with our own greeting, a Vulcan salute of sorts.
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