Pattaya update

Mii_Kwaam_suk · #1 21st June 2009, 05:18 AM

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Originally Posted by scoops

Well would you take a boy at the moment, given that you don't know who he's had close contact with over the last few days, could be from anywhere in the world, and you don't know if he's been kissing his clients?.

I took off a boy in Pattaya who, once we were back chez moi, was coughing and seemed a bit feverish.

He spoke of the flu, calling it "Mexico."

Since the main focus of my attention was not directly connected to his respiratory system, I figured que sera sera.

A few days later I woke with a killer sore throat that lasted less than 24 hours and have since had very mild common cold symptoms along with off and on slight fever.

This last week I was visited by a friend from Laos who had been treated in hospital for pneumonia and was still a little off during his visit. I was totally impressed that he wrote "pneumonia" in an SMS he sent me before coming for his visit.

I figure whatever is going around, it's better to be exposed now while it's in its formative stages than wait until it turns into THE PLAGUE. Assuming it doesn't mutate too much, I think I should have a degree of immunity now.

Mii_Kwaam_suk · #2 22nd June 2009, 12:10 AM

This should be of considerable comfort to several of our posters.

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American adults over age 65 account for only 1% of cases of H1N1 flu (swine flu), according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The 5- to 24-year-old age group accounts for 64% of all cases, with the remaining 35% falling in the 24-64 range (and not broken down further).

One possibility, said the CDC’s Dr. Anne Schuchat on May 21, is “that older people (over 60) might have been exposed to H1N1 strains a long time ago that might have some relation to the strain we’re seeing now.” That exposure could have come from previous infection or vaccination.

She pointed to laboratory findings published in the CDC’s May 22 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report that suggest the elderly, “who are at great risk for seasonal influenza,” have managed to avoid this strain.

During typical seasonal flu epidemics, the elderly frequently have the highest death rates, according to the New England Journal of Medicine; but in pandemics, they are often spared. A pandemic is defined as an epidemic, or sudden outbreak, that spreads over large areas, even worldwide. Pandemics often target the young and healthy, rather than the very young and old. Two health experts believe this is because of the way the body responds to the virus.

What makes younger people more susceptible is that their “vigorous immune systems pour out antibodies to attack the new virus. That can inflame lung cells until they leak fluid, which can overwhelm the lungs,” Dr. Anne Moscona, a flu specialist at Cornell University, told the New York Times in April. Older people, who have had the flu over their lifetimes, “may have some antibodies that provide cross-protection to the new strain,” she said, “and immune responses among the aged are not as vigorous,” which would prevent the same kind of lung problems that the young are experiencing.

“It’s counterintuitive,” Dr. Sanjay Gupta wrote on his blog in April. “Typically, someone with a weakened immune system would be most at risk—the elderly and young—but in this case, it is people with the strongest immune systems. Why? At least in the cases of SARS and avian flu, it was not so much the virus that did the killing, as the body’s response to it—an overwhelming immune response, with inflammation that was deadly to the patients. Think about that. A stronger immune system means a stronger response and a more likely death.”

As the number of cases continues to climb, older adults should not assume that they are immune from the virus. “More seniors might get infected over time as the strain circulates deeper and deeper into our community,” said the CDC’s Dr. Anne Schuchat.

silomGWM · #3 22nd June 2009, 12:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Mii_Kwaam_suk

This should be of considerable comfort to several of our posters.

As George Bernard Shaw said, "Youth is wasted on the young".

scoops · #4 22nd June 2009, 05:55 AM

Let's please be fair, the language of this webboard is rightly or wrongly English, but there are many members from many countries who make interesting contributions and their first language is not English (and I don't mean that as any form of criticism).

Just wondering whether some members might like to contribute using English which most can understand by all contributors.

Mii_Kwaam_suk · #5 22nd June 2009, 06:52 AM

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Originally Posted by scoops

Let's please be fair, the language of this webboard is rightly or wrongly English, but there are many members from many countries who make interesting contributions and their first language is not English (and I don't mean that as any form of criticism).

Just wondering whether some members might like to contribute using English which most can understand by all contributors.

Well, your contribution is in English, but I don't understand it.

If you could reference your carping to some specific non English usage, that would be a big help in understanding what you find not understandable.

scoops · #6 22nd June 2009, 07:33 AM

I don't mean "non-English". And I'm not suggesting broken English.

I mean using words which are more likely to be known by the members who have English as their second or third language.

Mii_Kwaam_suk · #7 22nd June 2009, 12:37 PM

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Originally Posted by scoops

I don't mean "non-English". And I'm not suggesting broken English.

I mean using words which are more likely to be known by the members who have English as their second or third language.

So you'd prefer we all resort to messages such as:

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See Dick. See Spot. Look at the Spots on Dick's Dick.

If someone is unfamiliar with a word, then he can ask. If he chose to read an English message board, then this will give him an opportunity to expand his English vocabulary, rather than requiring that everyone who is fluent in English edit their messages to suit the slowest wits in the house.

I wonder how one of these alleged 2nd or 3rd language voyeurs is coping with the likes of this:

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Originally Posted by sextile

--
MIKE HOTEL.,

- loc'n.: above MIKE'S SHOPPING PLAZA, ..., wch. stretches between Pattaya Beach rd. and Pattaya 2nd. rd. ...
- Main ent'ce. is on 2nd. rd.;
- NB.: Recept'n. is UP on the 2fl., (US.),; ...

- We chose std. rooms on 5fl. at 800.oo. nett per diem;
- Rooms are std. *** with the usual F&F., but no IN-room coffee/tea-making facilities, and apart from a couple of M*rs B*rs no small snacky foods; although drinks,(alc. & non-alc.), are available; rooms are clean, comfortable and adequate enough;
- Note that C*nd*ms are not provided in the bedrooms;

-- E&OE.. -- Usual disclaimer. -- Bibi. --

Incidentally, there are people who post here in non-standard English ... Pong comes to mind and quite often Sextile... are they to be banished if some of their words can't be understood by someone for whom English is a first language?

silomGWM · #8 22nd June 2009, 03:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Mii_Kwaam_suk

I wonder how one of these alleged 2nd or 3rd language voyeurs is coping with the likes of this?

I agree - I think it's very silly of posters on a board that is exclusively about sex to use * in the middle of words like condom, fuck or cock. Indeed the word "twee" comes to mind (or is that "tw*e"?) - Twee Definition | Definition of Twee at Dictionary.com

sextile · #9 22nd June 2009, 07:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Mii_Kwaam_suk

... .
I wonder how one of these alleged 2nd or 3rd language voyeurs is coping with the likes of this:
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-- Should someone not understand what I've written then there's nothing to prevent him/her from sending me a PM., is there?

-- As a matter of interest: in the passage of mine that you have quoted are there any non-standard English words, abbreviations or whatever that you do not understand? I shall be happy to explain them if asked.
-- Bibi. --

silomGWM · #10 22nd June 2009, 08:04 PM

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Originally Posted by sextile

Should someone not understand what I've written then there's nothing to prevent him/her from sending me a PM., is there

There should be no need for them to send you a PM if you stopped your extremely silly practice of putting an * in certain words.

Mii_Kwaam_suk · #11 23rd June 2009, 12:27 AM

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Originally Posted by sextile

-- As a matter of interest: in the passage of mine that you have quoted are there any non-standard English words, abbreviations or whatever that you do not understand? I shall be happy to explain them if asked.
-- Bibi. --

I don't understand how a std rm cn be d'scrib'd as p*ssessing the usual f*c*able & f*rgettable (both of which seem to be adj*ct*ves) or is that Fr*dge & fl**rlamps or maybe e'vn fr*LICKsome f*lderol

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Rooms are std. *** with the usual F&F.,

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sextile · #12 24th June 2009, 12:43 AM

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Originally Posted by scoops

Let's please be fair, the language of this webboard is rightly or wrongly English, but there are many members from many countries who make interesting contributions and their first language is not English (and I don't mean that as any form of criticism).
... .

-- Faute de mieux English is the working language of this web-site, and agreed for those whose English is a 2nd. or 3rd. language this can be a problem.
- However, fear not, help is at hand -

Client for Google Translate - free translation

which is a free download and will offer you help!
- I have looked briefly at it and it seems to do an adequate enough job.
- source: techie. pages of today's,(24th.), BKK. Post. 'paper.

-- E&OE.. -- Usual disclaimer. -- Bibi. --