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[AugustWest]

Clearly, the dude dying of fuck*ng consumption is not enough for you jackals.

Consumption, eh?  I wonder if he'd be my huckleberry...

[Noah]

i'm not talking about tb and how terrible it is

everybody has lapses in judgment, i'm saying that just because this guy had one with potentially horrible consequences mean he is a terrible person. i doubt he even understood the implications of it. all i really know about tb is from a van morrison song.

it just really bothers me when people get together and agree on how much they hate somebody. i'm not even defending this guy so much as defending the fact that none of you really have any idea what kind of moral decision he made.

[Nabubrush]

i'm not talking about tb and how terrible it is

everybody has lapses in judgment, i'm saying that just because this guy had one with potentially horrible consequences mean he is a terrible person. i doubt he even understood the implications of it. all i really know about tb is from a van morrison song.

it just really bothers me when people get together and agree on how much they hate somebody. i'm not even defending this guy so much as defending the fact that none of you really have any idea what kind of moral decision he made.

Well, I hate you because you don't use capitals. You are basically Hitler-flavored cancer.

[AugustWest]

Well, I hate you because you don't use capitals. You are basically Hitler-flavored cancer.

with rusty razor blades hidden inside.

[pmcd9]

Clearly, the dude dying of fuck*ng consumption is not enough for you jackals.

Consumption?  I thought consumption was Cancer.

[Doc]

Nah consumption is TB.
What is rickets though? Is it polio or is it it's own thing.

[Bobby Isosceles]

Nah consumption is TB.
What is rickets though? Is it polio or is it it's own thing.

Rickets is a vitamin deficiency. Beriberi is a deficiency in Vitamin B and Rickets is a deficiency in vitamin D. Scurvy is a deficiency in vitamin C.

[CortJstr]

Rickets is a vitamin deficiency. Beriberi is a deficiency in Vitamin B and Rickets is a deficiency in vitamin D. Scurvy is a deficiency in vitamin C.

Yeah, some people are worried about rickets making a come back. Kids are switching from milk to soda at a younger age and supposedly spending less time outside so they aren't getting their vitamin D fix.

[iron_felix]

Oh, TB.  Why, why did someone have to breathe near a monkey?

However much of an asshole the guy is, Jough does have a pretty good point.  Dude's already looking at at least the possibility of a horrible, agonizing death from the inside out.  Further hypothetical punishment just seems a bit redundant, really.

Rickets is a vitamin deficiency. Beriberi is a deficiency in Vitamin B and Rickets is a deficiency in vitamin D. Scurvy is a deficiency in vitamin C.

Beriberi, along with Boccaccio's Decameron, was basically a ubiquitous answer for anything at academic bowl tournaments when I was in high school.  Seemed like one of those two was right at least half the time.

"It seems every time a story pops up about somebody who has suddenly contracted some strange or incurable disease, it's somebody who is either from the third world, or was traveling through some godforsaken hellhole, and somehow managed to contract ooga booga fever."

http://mediamatters.org/items/200706010003

Just... wow.

Yikes.

[bongo drums]
By Jove, hand me my rifle, Fortesqueue!  The Watusi are coming!  Don't shoot until you see the whites of their eyes!

From the rest of the quote it sounds like he's taking the asshole's side, too.  Typical.

[V-Adore]

This is not really a reply to anything in the thread, but a vaguely-related thought:

Sometimes I wonder if Oregon Trail has done a grave disservice to the public-health awareness of my generation. So many people I knew in school first learned about a lot of diseases through that game, and I suspect that, even now, when you say "cholera" or "dysentary" to many of these people, they think back to a tiny digitized wagon train. (Hell, in my middle school, "name your passengers after people you disliked and see how miserably you could make them die" was the second most popular use of Oregon Trail, right behind the perennial winner "see how many tons of food you can shoot in one hunting trip.") I wonder if these diseases essentially becoming a catchphrase/punchline has contributed to the perception that they are, basically, outmoded -- as opposed to being continuing threats to world public health.

[Nabubrush]

Yeah, some people are worried about rickets making a come back. Kids are switching from milk to soda at a younger age and supposedly spending less time outside so they aren't getting their vitamin D fix.

You know, OJ had rickets.

[side_show]

Yeah, and look at everything he's done!

[Lister]

Beriberi, along with Boccaccio's Decameron, was basically a ubiquitous answer for anything at academic bowl tournaments when I was in high school.  Seemed like one of those two was right at least half the time.

For us it was El Greco or Italian Sonnet.

Anyway, I think I'll label this guy as "selgiraffe, oblivious asshole" rather than "thought 12 Monkeys was a pretty good idea."  Both are tragedies, but I actually think the selgiraffeness is harder to forgive for.  Hell, I didn't even think TB was still a going concern.  To me it was like hearing someone had smallpox. 

His father in law, though, definitely should've put the kibash on the proceedings... even though he was actually paying for them.  Hmm... New pariah?

[linnea]

Looks like drew and Natalie had something to say about this: http://www.marriedtothesea.com/060607/drug-resistant.gif

[Bobby Isosceles]

Looks like drew and Natalie had something to say about this: http://www.marriedtothesea.com/060607/drug-resistant.gif

Something stupendously unfunny, it seems.

As usual.

Keep it up, guys.