Well, rible assholes used to be seen only in amusement arcades and movie theater lobbies, but with the current pandemic, the home versions are suddenly becoming very popular.
The subject line of this thread was also the title of this Full Frontal Nerdity. Considering what happens in it, I think it’s an appropriate addition to this thread. (For those unfamiliar with FFN, it’s a webcomic.)
I remember a scene, early in “The Stand” in which Gary Sinise is being quarantined by the government because he’s been exposed to the plague but seems immune. Workers in hazard suits come on to examine him, and he’s royally piseed of at how he’s being treated. So as they approach he coughs at them and laughs when they leap backwards.
That reminds me wasn’t one of the scientists or security guards so angry towards the end that Gary Sinise wasn’t infected that they tried to kill him pretty much cause they didn’t think he deserved to be immune? Seemed like something I could see happening in real life in such an event, because humans really are that messed up.
Jerk move. Jerkiest of moves, in fact.
Suppose you are harboring the virus and don’t know it. Still think you’re clever?
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I don’t remember that part, but it’s been a long time since I saw it, so I could have forgotten.
I don’t know anything about those movies, but there was definitely a scene in the book when one of the last surviving scientists comes in to shut down the project (which had failed to produce a vaccine) by means of automatic pistol; it had nothing to do with what he “deserved”, he was just another lab animal/guinea pig to them.
Earlier they had their agents release the plague in the capitals of Russia, China, the UK, etc., just as soon as it was clear the epidemic was uncontrollable, because obviously why not. (The rationale in the book was so that they could deny the plague came from the USA if it looked like it popped up everywhere at more or less the same time.)
You made me laugh so hard, I can’t really type because I am still laughing. Such a good feeling, thank you!
Doing things that may be legal in some situations does not mean they are legal in all situations. Firing a gun, for example. Shouting “fire.” Coughing in a crowded place in the middle of a pandemic.
As bad as it is for people to crowd each other right now, trying to frighten people with serious illness is a seriously fucked up idea. It isn’t funny, it is psychopathic.
I was grocery shopping a couple of weeks age just as the Canadian government started the social messaging message. Store employees were making sure we were all appropriately spaced in the check-out lines, about a minute after I’d joined the end of the line I accidentally inhaled a bit of saliva, resulting in a coughing fit. Everyone ahead of me turned and glared, even though I was both coughing into my elbow and simultaneously trying to mime “not infected”…
Never heard of “to bolger”. What’s that? (I looked it up, but only found some proper names and a dodgy Urban Dictionary listing that doesn’t fit.)
To move like a scarecrow? Mostly kidding, but could be tied to Ray . . .
Might be a typo for bulger–a pretty unsocial way to act.
I guess the OP wanted one thread leading nowhere, just for show.
Yeah if I took random people on the internet seriously I’d think fake coughing (when nobody even if they feel fine can be 100% sure they aren’t infected) was pretty screwed up. As far as scaring people, that wouldn’t be good either, although the people who are highly stressed out by this probably aren’t the same ones walking right down the middle of narrow sidewalks even after I go all the way to one side. I suppose there could be other people in earshot who’d freak out. Anyway I wouldn’t do it…but again wouldn’t necessarily assume people are serious on the internet. I do shake my head a bit (internally so to speak) at those right down the middle of the sidewalk people though.
I need a T-shirt (or a face mask) with screen-printed words: I’m not sick! It’s spring and I have allergies!
I want a facemask made to look like I just sneezed and there is goo dripping out of it. Maybe I can make convincing-looking goo with rubber cement.