... no one remembers .. THE SARS?

remember how that went no where because it is... just not that big a deal?

you're more likely to die from reading this post then to even get swine flu.

I miss SARS.

SARS= Severe Asian Racist Syndrome


ps. thats me.

>> ^Tuco:
Why do some Asians wear those face masks? It is sooo creepy.


Good ol' SARS.

On a positive note, if you watch the video again but mute the sound, it's easily twice as enjoyable.

>> ^CaptainPlanet420:
>> ^Fusionaut:
Yeah! He made the country safer... Anyone that criticizes Bush obviously can't fathom all the good he's done for his country...

I'm glad someone here sees things clearly. If Hussein boy had been here the last 8 years, who knows what other attacks on U.S. the crazies would have tried.




Ummm, talk about selective quoting...

sar·casm (sär'kāz'əm) Pronunciation Key
n.
A cutting, often ironic remark intended to wound.
A form of wit that is marked by the use of sarcastic language and is intended to make its victim the butt of contempt or ridicule.
The use of sarcasm. See Synonyms at wit1.

irony1   Show Spelled Pronunciation [ahy-ruh-nee, ahy-er-] Show IPA Pronunciation

–noun, plural -nies. 1. the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning: the irony of her reply, “How nice!” when I said I had to work all weekend.

(from dictionary.com)

Actually, I read a while back that "Spitting" had gotten so bad there that they had to make it illegal. It was so bad that you couldn't walk in the street without stepping in it and disease control had to step in!

"Apparently, spitting in public is very common in China. "They consider phlegm excrement," explained a coworker of mine who recently visited Shanghai. With SARS spreading in airborne saliva and mucous particles (aka respiratory secretions, China has had to tackle the challenge of outlawing a practice as "common as breathing."


http://www.china.org.cn/english/China/64853.htm

Tags for this video have been changed from 'mum, green grass tunnel, cover, beautiful, guitar' to 'mum, green grass tunnel, cover, beautiful, guitar, sars' - edited by calvados

sar·casm
Pronunciation[sahr-kaz-uhm]

–noun 1. harsh or bitter derision or irony.

2. a sharply ironical taunt; sneering or cutting remark: a review full of sarcasms.

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hy·per·bo·le
Pronunciation[hahy-pur-buh-lee]
–noun Rhetoric. 1. obvious and intentional exaggeration.
2. an extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally, as “to wait an eternity.”

Clearly you haven't spent much time with a dictionary.

oh, come on - 200 yards and he missed the whole target? it's not the gun, buddy - you suck! In my experience AK-47 can be as accurate as any other gun, whether it's 7.62mm caliber or standard NATO 5.56mm.
I usualy got great groupings on targets up to 300m range (say in a 20cm circle) and my rifle was pretty much fucked up (old Yugoslavian army stock that they left lying around after the war). If you know your gun well, you can't possibly miss the whole target even at twice that range - that's single shot action of course, not automatic (AK's accuracy goes waaay down in automatic mode, like in the standard bullshit you see in any guerilla war footage on TV, a guy loosely stretching out his gun, some assholes even one handed, and bursting the whole clip...). Short controlled bursts of 3-4 shots is still useful in most combat situations (that usualy happen inside 300 yards range) if you know what you're doing (not like the guy in the video).
And as for durability and reliability - you can't compare it to any other gun in the world. The things i've done with my AK... M16 would probably rust in a week. Not to mention what a bitch it is to put it back together once you open it up - I haven't fired any guns since the army, but if you give me an AK now, I can disassemble it and put it back together in under 30 seconds (blindfolded if you like) That shit can save your life in combat. I never held M16 but i tested the Singapore replica of M16 called SAR-80. It almost identical. I didn't like it much. Plus we got just a couple of those SAR-80s just after the war (while still under arms embargo) and SAR-80 has aluminum clips casings meant for one-time use only. But since our army didn't have enough equipment at the time, we used same clips daily. Of course they got bent with use so when we were out in the field our clips would start falling out imagine something like that happening to you in a war zone

This is what it ended up sounding like:

o say can you see by the dawn's early lightsh o so proudly we ent tat otilit so sleeming. who sro SARS and bite stripes tho the perilous fight or the ramparts we wash r so gallandly sleeming. and the rocket's red glare babombs bursting in air gave proof through danight dat our flag wash still there. o say doesh that shar spangled banner yesh waahave or the laaand of the free and the home of the baaaaaave


The only reason it sounds intelligible is because you already know the lyrics to "Star Spangled Banner" and you're using top-down processing.

There was an excellent article written about this very idea in Harper's by Garret Keizer titled Specific Suggestion: General Strike, quote:

"Of all the various depredations of the Bush regime, none has been so thorough as its plundering of hope. Iraq will recover sooner. What was supposed to have been the crux of our foreign policy—a shock-and-awe tutorial on the utter futility of any opposition to the whims of American power—has achieved its greatest and perhaps its only lasting success in the American soul. You will want to cite the exceptions, the lunch-hour protests against the war, the dinner-party ejaculations of dissent, though you might also want to ask what substantive difference they bear to grousing about the weather or even to raging against the dying of the light—that is, to any ritualized complaint against forces universally acknowledged as unalterable. Bush is no longer the name of a president so much as the abbreviation of a proverb, something between Murphy’s Law and tomorrow’s fatal inducement to drink and be merry today.

If someone were to suggest, for example, that we begin a general strike on Election Day, November 6, 2007, for the sole purpose of removing this regime from power, how readily and with what well-practiced assurance would you find yourself producing the words “It won’t do any good”? Plausible and even courageous in the mouth of a patient who knows he’s going to die, the sentiment fits equally well in the heart of a citizen-ry that believes it is already dead.

Any strike, whether it happens in a factory, a nation, or a marriage, amounts to a reaffirmation of consent. The strikers remind their overlords—and, equally important, themselves—that the seemingly perpetual machinery of daily life has an off switch as well as an on. Camus said that the one serious question of philosophy is whether or not to commit suicide; the one serious question of political philosophy is whether or not to get out of bed. Silly as it may have seemed at the time, John and Yoko’s famous stunt was based on a profound observation. Instant karma is not so instant—we ratify it day by day.

The stream of commuters heading into the city, the caravan of tractor-trailers pulling out of the rest stop into the dawn’s early light, speak a deep-throated Yes to the sum total of what’s going on in our collective life. The poet Richard Wilbur writes of the “ripped mouse” that “cries Concordance” in the talons of the owl; we too cry our daily assent in the grip of the prevailing order— except in those notable instances when, like a donkey or a Buddha, we refuse to budge.

The question we need to ask ourselves at this moment is what further provocations we require to justify digging in our heels. To put the question more pointedly: Are we willing to wait until the next presidential election, or for some interim congressional conversion experience, knowing that if we do wait, hundreds of our sons and daughters will be needlessly destroyed? Another poet, César Vallejo, framed the question like this:

A man shivers with cold, coughs, spits up blood.
Will it ever be fitting to allude to my inner soul? . . .
A cripple sleeps with one foot on his shoulder.
Shall I later on talk about Picasso, of all people?

A young man goes to Walter Reed without a face. Shall I make an appointment with my barber? A female prisoner is sodomized at Abu Ghraib. Shall I send a check to the Clinton campaign? "

uh? strano, mi pareva di no, bo, sarà un bug o un salcazzide ritorto

In reply to your comment:
“perché senza h giá c´era

In reply to your comment:
“ah, come mai l'h?””u

I always got a kick out of that SARS benifit concert. What better way to raise awareness of a contagious disease then packing 400,000 people in a feild together.

This is the music video to the song featured in the film Les Triplettes de Belleville, mentioned in http://cute.videosift.com/video/Les-Triplettes-de-Belleville-Intro-2003-Amazing-animated-film

Wikipedia says:

Les Triplettes de Belleville is a 2003 French-Belgian-Canadian animated feature film directed and written by Sylvain Chomet. Featuring the voices of Michèle Caucheteux, Jean-Claude Donda, Michel Robin, and Monica Viegas, it was highly praised by audiences and critics for its unique (and somewhat retro) style of animation. Though there is some dialogue, the majority of the film story is told through pantomime.

It was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song (Benoît Charest and Sylvain Chomet for the song "Belleville Rendez-Vous", sung by artist Matthieu Chédid in the original version). It has won the César of the Best Film Music. As a co-production with Canada it also won the Genie Award for Best Motion Picture.

No Man's Land (Bosnian: Ničija Zemlja) is a war drama that is set in the midst of the Bosnian war in 1993. The film is a parable with a tone of ironic black comedy. The film marked the debut of writer and director Danis Tanović. The film is a co-production between companies in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Slovenia, Italy, France, Belgium and the UK.

No Man's Land has been compared to The Good Soldier Švejk, Catch-22, M*A*S*H and Waiting for Godot for containing equal parts of irony and futility.

* Best Foreign Language Film, 2003 74th Annual Academy Awards
* Best Foreign Language Film, 2002 Golden Globe Award
* Best Screenplay, 2001 Cannes Film Festival

No Man's Land won Prix du scénario at the Cannes Film Festival, followed by numerous awards, including the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2001, while in competition with French Amélie. Tanović was presented the Oscar by John Travolta and Sharon Stone. Briefly after, Tanović thanked everyone who worked with him on the film and supported its creation. He ended his acceptance speech by saying, "This is for my country".

In total, No Man's Land won 42 awards, including the Oscar for Best Foreign Film, the European Film Academy Award for Best Screenplay, the César Award for Best Debut in 2002 and the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2002. It is probably the most awarded first feature film in a history of film making.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0283509/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Man%27s_Land_%282001_film%29