The prevailing viewpoint in Austria about swine flu is about the same in other countries. Doctors continue to warn of an impending national epidemic (look up Christoph Wenisch or Herwig Kollaritsch); about struggles to meet the demand for the vaccines all over the country; that the peak is expected to be in January.
Pismetrovic seems to be highly sceptical of this hype and here he is blaming big pharma to be behind the over-hype.
His other cartoons shown here these past few days seem to show the same scepticism.
Suid Afrika. Afrikaans is only one of 11 official languages in the Republic of South Africa. To refer it as Sud Afrika here (which can be mangled Afrikaans or mangled German, even mangled French) is inane.
Coincidently, Southern Africa is known as Africa Austral in most latin languanges.
austral: Of, relating to, or coming from the south.
(Latin austrlis, from auster, austr-, south)
Austria or Australia simply means land in the south.
However, Austria’s name in German is Österreich. The latin name is a mistranslation of the Old High German Ostarrîchi meaning ”eastern realm”.
Why it remains to this day as a mistranslation in all other languages is just weird.
So, no idea why an Austrian cartoon depicting swine flu resides in ViewsAfrica.
EDIT:sigh So he edits his comment to correctly spell Suid in Afrikaans after I point it out. The fact he uses the Afrikaans name for SA and speaks out about white farmers & doctors should tell us more about his sources on his news Africa. i.e disaffected former rulers.
In a previous post he also managed to confuse Zimbabwe with South Africa.
Ja boet, jy kan baie kak praat maar jy bly ‘n vkn onosel.
omQR, someone at GoComics needs to study a world atlas, perhaps.
Just a note on Mad Cow disease …. it’s a deadly, deadly disease (Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease) that is entirely preventable. Don’t feed cows the remains of other cows. Couple hundred people died from it in Britain; the disease progresses similar to Alzheimers, the brain dengerates. It’s been found in the U.S., but reporting of suspected cases of CJD hasn’t been mandated here as it is in Britain.
I read ignorant from people like this scott freitas guy and wonder what he has to say about the centuries of slaughtering the native peoples of Africa?
Where was your racist butt then, coward?
I know, Bwana has god given rights to rape, pillage, both land and people as long as they’re both dark and bear fruit in one form or another.
I hope you had your tubes tied, the world can do without any more of you!
OmqR-IV.0 over 14 years ago
The prevailing viewpoint in Austria about swine flu is about the same in other countries. Doctors continue to warn of an impending national epidemic (look up Christoph Wenisch or Herwig Kollaritsch); about struggles to meet the demand for the vaccines all over the country; that the peak is expected to be in January. Pismetrovic seems to be highly sceptical of this hype and here he is blaming big pharma to be behind the over-hype. His other cartoons shown here these past few days seem to show the same scepticism.
Suid Afrika. Afrikaans is only one of 11 official languages in the Republic of South Africa. To refer it as Sud Afrika here (which can be mangled Afrikaans or mangled German, even mangled French) is inane. Coincidently, Southern Africa is known as Africa Austral in most latin languanges. austral: Of, relating to, or coming from the south. (Latin austrlis, from auster, austr-, south) Austria or Australia simply means land in the south.
However, Austria’s name in German is Österreich. The latin name is a mistranslation of the Old High German Ostarrîchi meaning ”eastern realm”. Why it remains to this day as a mistranslation in all other languages is just weird.
So, no idea why an Austrian cartoon depicting swine flu resides in ViewsAfrica.
EDIT:sigh So he edits his comment to correctly spell Suid in Afrikaans after I point it out. The fact he uses the Afrikaans name for SA and speaks out about white farmers & doctors should tell us more about his sources on his news Africa. i.e disaffected former rulers. In a previous post he also managed to confuse Zimbabwe with South Africa. Ja boet, jy kan baie kak praat maar jy bly ‘n vkn onosel.
a.c.d over 14 years ago
Obridago omQ R, o Scott falha sobre tudo, mais não sabe de nada!
parkersinthehouse over 14 years ago
omQR -
i just love having you guys – the intelligentsia – in the forum
brawny80 over 14 years ago
omg SWINE FLU BIRD FLU IS DIRTY DEATH TO ALL BIRDS COWS IS NASTY
believecommonsense over 14 years ago
omQR, someone at GoComics needs to study a world atlas, perhaps.
Just a note on Mad Cow disease …. it’s a deadly, deadly disease (Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease) that is entirely preventable. Don’t feed cows the remains of other cows. Couple hundred people died from it in Britain; the disease progresses similar to Alzheimers, the brain dengerates. It’s been found in the U.S., but reporting of suspected cases of CJD hasn’t been mandated here as it is in Britain.
Imajs Premium Member over 14 years ago
Size matters, the bigger the poster the greater attention to the problem.
musicseawater over 14 years ago
I read ignorant from people like this scott freitas guy and wonder what he has to say about the centuries of slaughtering the native peoples of Africa?
Where was your racist butt then, coward?
I know, Bwana has god given rights to rape, pillage, both land and people as long as they’re both dark and bear fruit in one form or another.
I hope you had your tubes tied, the world can do without any more of you!
pilotx over 14 years ago
Don’t mind Scott, he’s our resident racist.