Comments on: Poland’s Biological Defensive

By: Darkhog

Darkhog — Sat, 10 Sep 2016 23:53:22 +0000

I’m Polish and I’ve never knew about this. DI indeed.

By: MacAvity

MacAvity — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:18:01 +0000

[quote]nukebass said: “If would exist a “Clever Nobel” prize, these doctors really would deserves it!”[/quote]

Indeed there should be a Nobel Prize in Cleverness. Cleverness is something of which the world has a lot already but could use even more, and it frequently has incredible effects.

As to the article, my great-aunt got an extra ration of butter because she tested positive for tuberculosis in Nazi-occupied Holland. I don’t think anybody infected her with fake tuberculosis though. And it didn’t stop the Nazis from living in her home.

By: elphaba

elphaba — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:10:29 +0000

I love it when the good guys fight dirty.

By: Scharneeigh

Scharneeigh — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 04:00:22 +0000

Captain Blowhard said: "Ok , I have been hoping I would keep quite. But I cant …

As far as UFO's or flying saucers are concerned. I cant bear for people to de-bunk the possibility in such an off-hand way . Yeah , Yeah , give me the "There's no evidence" nonsense. Simply put , if you really think that then you are meatheads. There is MASSES of evidence. Pictures , film footage and eyewitness accounts. And you can say that they are hoaxers , loonies or seeking attention. However , I have never seen a dolphin before in my life, Should I then discount peoples stories of swimming with them. Or poo-poo the films of them as fakes ? Should I never believe they exist until I have a chunk of Dolphin meat in my hands ? Is that what it will take to convince you ?

Captain Blowhard (is there a little innuendo in that name? My friend's nickname is "The Vacuum" lol but slightly offensive) AAAAAAAaanywho, I have seen a dolphin, swum with dolphins, and fed a dolphin very very stinky fish. Just to give you some confidence in the existence of dolhins. they smell bad. Also, i believe that aliens exist! (I'm not like you guys...) And i also believe that i have seen one. Yeah, that's right!

By: tfeasel

tfeasel — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 05:52:59 +0000

Years ago I had a Proteus infection. I was given a myriad of atibiotics.

By: Dottie1985

Dottie1985 — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 22:42:42 +0000

Ok so I had to let the cynics know that I agree with Captain Blowhard's "rant"...

oh and if I already sent a comment saying pretty much the same thing...sorry bout the repeat...my pc froze up on me!

By: Dottie1985

Dottie1985 — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 22:40:59 +0000

I totally agree with Captain Blowhard’s “rant”…just wanted to let the cynics know…

By: Cynthia Wood

Cynthia Wood — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 21:28:49 +0000

Thanks, Tink. The Tartars simply used catapaults to launch the bodies over the city walls. On the good side, there were probably very few people infected by doing the loading - for the same reason it probably wasn't the bodies that spread the plague into Kaffa. The fleas that spread plague abandon a dead body pretty quickly, and bubonic plague does not generally spread human to human. More likely Kaffa was infected by infected rats getting through the walls in their own way.

I agree, I'd rather peel taters anyway.

By: Tink

Tink — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 03:58:27 +0000

Wow this is DI! Love all the comments too. Am surprised that no one LOL'ed the link in Cynthia's article though: "Buy Plagues and Poxes on Amazon.com " (And it wouldn't surprise me if you could not find a few on Ebay for sure. Ha!) I do wonder, how did people "launch the bodys of black death victims to the enemy" with out reinfecting the whole army? Talk about your yucky work detail! Makes peeling tators look pretty silky.

By: animal

animal — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 15:19:24 +0000

Dustin Barbour said: "Cheers on knowing the TRUE meaning of the word "decimated!" Decimation was a Roman punishment for an under-performing army. They would, in fact, line soldiers up, count off every tenth man and kill him. Talk about incentive to perform!"

In general I believe decimation was used mostly when a large group of soldiers were recaptured after having gone awol or for mutiny type offenses. Either a "random" person would be selected per 10 or as you say by counting off one at every 10. Then more often that not the other 9 would have to stone that 10th man, thereby providing that extra bit of incentive for sticking with the army.

In the context of the comment decimation didn't really fit in. Saying that an army has been decimated and then went on to the last ditch onslaught is a bit odd since having lost only 1 in 10 men they should still have been doing relatively well. Most likely if read from a more modern description it would have meant the modern equivalent of "To destroy or kill a large part of (a group)".