A thought for when complaining.

Irishcrx

Thought for reflection. When you think that you’re the most unlucky person on the planet, that the hangover you have will never clear, that life couldn’t be much worst…think of this.



The Bubonic plague or Black death spread throughout the world between much of the 1300’s and returning through the next 1,000 years. Through its epidemic the following facts occurred.



75 MILLION people died from this disease.
50 Million in Europe
It killed 60 percent of Ireland population alone, leaving entire towns empty.
Families often lost all of its members once 1 had become infected.
It spread through the air and was extremely contagious.
Symptoms included the following, extreme high temperature 101 – 105, extreme blisters and boils dementia, vomiting, lung failure.
It spread through entire cities in a matter of weeks.
Victims died within 4-7 days of infection.
The mortality rate was 80 percent.


Morbid as it is, if you think about it in the bigger picture and see how close we all could have come to complete extinction early in our history. It makes you think about how unimportant some of our moaning is , the price of petrol, how rich we are , closing times in pubs and off licences, bad drivers, bad weather all the bickering's that go on here everyday. For a change maybe think.

we are lucky to be alive and healthy.



IT COULD BE WORST…SO STOP COMPLAINING.SOME PEOPLE NEVER GOT ANYTHING LIKE THE CHANCES WE HAVE.

copacetic

yep, really glad you made it.

Wreck

Stop complaining about people complaining.

Magpie!

Someones cheery this monday.

14000 died in dublin at the rate of 100 a day.

Bring back the plague I says.

Turd Ferguson

Just reading about all those deaths...
I now have a huge erection.


Thanks Irishcrx!!

drunkmonkey

Have you been in a Hospital latley....It's more complaining we need!!!

Irishcrx

I wasn't complaining, I was being appreciative, I'm sure if anyone ever caught this plague it wouldn't be so funny.

Sm0ke

at least they have the black plague to kill them

back to ****in old fashioned suicide for me.

Magpie!

It can be treated with anti-biotics now. Damn science taking all the fun out of the world.

Whyner

Irishcrx wrote: »

I wasn't complaining, I was being appreciative, I'm sure if anyone ever caught this plague it wouldn't be so funny.

Everything is relative, I orderd soup the other day and the got annoyed when I saw my girlfriend with some lovely chicken wings...

Most people do appreciate the way we live but complaining is part of life, standards drop otherwise. In general, Irish people are known to complain less than our European counterparts.

Turd Ferguson

Sm0ke wrote: »

at least they have the black plague to kill them

back to ****in old fashioned suicide for me.

Remember kill yourself the real way!!

thelordofcheese

Irishcrx wrote: »

Thought for reflection. When you think that you’re the most unlucky person on the planet, that the hangover you have will never clear, that life couldn’t be much worst…think of this.



The Bubonic plague or Black death spread throughout the world between much of the 1300’s and returning through the next 1,000 years. Through its epidemic the following facts occurred.



75 MILLION people died from this disease.
50 Million in Europe
It killed 60 percent of Ireland population alone, leaving entire towns empty.
Families often lost all of its members once 1 had become infected.
It spread through the air and was extremely contagious.
Symptoms included the following, extreme high temperature 101 – 105, extreme blisters and boils dementia, vomiting, lung failure.
It spread through entire cities in a matter of weeks.
Victims died within 4-7 days of infection.
The mortality rate was 80 percent.


Morbid as it is, if you think about it in the bigger picture and see how close we all could have come to complete extinction early in our history. It makes you think about how unimportant some of our moaning is , the price of petrol, how rich we are , closing times in pubs and off licences, bad drivers, bad weather all the bickering's that go on here everyday. For a change maybe think.

we are lucky to be alive and healthy.



IT COULD BE WORST…SO STOP COMPLAINING.SOME PEOPLE NEVER GOT ANYTHING LIKE THE CHANCES WE HAVE.

Yes, we just have the modern plague of shitty email forwards.

I'd rather the black death over this kind insipid bleating.

LouOB

I read about one monk who treated plague victims - then contracted the disease himself. He actually treated his own boils and lanced (errr medical word) his wounds and didnt die. Never regained full 'health' but beat the bug.

Wreck

LouOB wrote: »

but beat the bug.

Is that a euphemisim?

Quazzie

Think of the free houses you could 'claim' if entire villages were wiped out. I'd be Lord of the Manor

MCMLXXXIII

You make a good point, and I'm not complaining, BUT...

It's complaining that makes us improve. No very many people will be motivated to do anything better if people didn't complain.

Have you taken an Aspirin lately?
Do you think Bayer would have invented it if no one complained about their hangovers, headaches, and the like?

You are right, and it is irritating when someone complains about a hangover and doesn't take an aspirin, because the solution is right there in the cabinet. But complaints, in general, make us improve as a species over time.

I think it's worth it.

Magpie!

Quazzie2002 wrote: »

Think of the free houses you could 'claim' if entire villages were wiped out. I'd be Lord of the Manor

I bags Killiney.

Irishcrx

drunkmonkey wrote: »

Have you been in a Hospital latley....It's more complaining we need!!!

MCMLXXXIII wrote: »

You make a good point, and I'm not complaining, BUT...

It's complaining that makes us improve. No very many people will be motivated to do anything better if people didn't complain.

Have you taken an Aspirin lately?
Do you think Bayer would have invented it if no one complained about their hangovers, headaches, and the like?

You are right, and it is irritating when someone complains about a hangover and doesn't take an aspirin, because the solution is right there in the cabinet. But complaints, in general, make us improve as a species over time.

I think it's worth it.

Of course, I wasn't saying that nobody should complain, was just a simple thought of how small we are in the bigger scheme of things. When I get major aggrovated or annoyed I think of these kind of things and how hard the people before us had it and it cheers me up al a little, just thought i'd share that's all.

Wreck

Irishcrx wrote: »

When I get major aggrovated or annoyed I think of these kind of things and how hard the people before us had it and it cheers me up al a little, just thought i'd share that's all.

Thinking about other people's misfortunes cheers me up too.

Quazzie

Wreck wrote: »

Thinking about other people's misfortunes cheers me up too.

Hurting other people also makes me happy!




I might have missed the point here

Kold

You know what I'd say to those whiney f*ckers dying of bubonic plague? Cheer the f*ck up, you could be locked inside your father's basement for 20 years being systematically raped and having your incest babies snatched from you when they're born.


It's all comparitive. People are always going to complain, we only know as bad as we have it, and it's our right to whinge.

Turd Ferguson

Kold wrote: »

you could be locked inside your father's basement for 20 years being systematically raped and having your incest babies snatched from you when they're born.

Exactly. And if she started moaning about living in a cellar
I would tell her to stfu and it could be worse...
she could be BONO. So yeah it is all comparitive.

Kold

Turd Ferguson wrote: »

Exactly. And if she started moaning about living in a cellar
I would tell her to stfu and it could be worse...
she could be BONO. So yeah it is all comparitive.

And Bono's ALWAYS bitching about sh*t. I mean come on man, you could be Sinead O'Conner.

Turd Ferguson

Dont even start on Sinead O Connor, she is the ultimate moaner.
It could be worse,its not like she is Pope John Paul II or anything.






(Lets try and keep this going!!)

Howard the Duck

Watched a documentary a while ago on bbc4 about how they think the black death was actually the Ebola virus and they expect it to happen again.

Magpie!

Howard the Duck wrote: »

Watched a documentary a while ago on bbc4 about how they think the black death was actually the Ebola virus and they expect it to happen again.

No it wasn't. And it still exists.

Howard the Duck

They didn;t say that the black death doesn;t exist they said they from the way it was spread that the plague was actually the ebola virus... if you have an issue with this take it up with bbc4 :P

Kold

Now in fairness to JP, he doesn't moan so much now. Maddie's still moaning contrary to popular belief though.

Wazdakka

Kold wrote: »

Now in fairness to JP, he doesn't moan so much now. Maddie's still moaning contrary to popular belief though.

No she isn't...

She did tho

:eek: :pac:

Kold

Wazdakka wrote: »

No she isn't...

She did tho

:eek: :pac:

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............ Did you just hi-jack my joke?

Wazdakka

Ummm.....

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Nooo?..?

OH MY GOD LOOK OVER THERE!!!
*Points*



*Runs for it*

dsmythy

OP has half a point.

For example complaining about the rain on Saturday for increasing your journey time.

Meanwhile in Vietnam.

Call Me Jimmy

Irishcrx this doesn't allow you much room to feel any emotion without being a hypocrite. Unless you never get angry or sad or happy, then you're automatically a hypocrite.

Example

You: "Oh **** my mother died"

Jimmy Angel: Ah but a 2 year old in Africa's mother has died also, and the 2 year old has aids and nobody to look after it... it will probably die. So cheer up!

Turd Ferguson

Kold wrote: »

Did you just hi-jack my joke?

pwned

Kold

^^ He didn't even add anything to it. I mean there wasn't a whole lot of subtlety there but what there was of it, he raped it... *OBVIOUS CUE*





G'wan. Hit it out of the ballpark.

Turd Ferguson

Cue?


*sits on chair staring out to space*

ZygOte

Irishcrx wrote: »

The Bubonic plague or Black death spread throughout the world between much of the 1300’s and returning through the next 1,000 years.

returning through the next 1000 years eh so by my math thats 708 years down another 292 to go. Im staying inside. :pac: