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May 7th, 2009 at 6:02 am
I got my Government-approved Swine Flu leaflet in the post yesterday. It never mentioned that I could simply “block swine flu”.
May 7th, 2009 at 6:13 am
Well now you know (and knowing is half the battle…)
May 7th, 2009 at 6:25 am
Looks like somebody beat me to the ‘block swine flu’ joke
May 7th, 2009 at 10:20 am
I think you’re making an unfounded assumption in that it requires sentience to use social networks. I’m sure we could find quite a bit of evidence to the contrary (Ashton Kutcher, for example).
May 7th, 2009 at 11:05 am
Thanks to you, I now need an absorbent squeegie for my keyboard.
May 7th, 2009 at 12:15 pm
Oh noooooooes! we’re all gonna die!
May 7th, 2009 at 3:18 pm
Thanks for the laugh!