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This isn’t even funny (well, a little bit). The most ‘plugged in’ society doesn’t know “who” Ebola is. Some think a music star and others think the President of Africa.
Sigh, what have we done?
See the Tweets on Twitchy here.
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This is sad. Our ten year old twins know what Ebola is. The list of reasons to keep sending our children to private schools keeps on growing.
I bet this Ebola chap reeks of colon.
tweet it out vs just google it?
Well, it’s like this. When people like “guess who bitch SWAG” were getting condom lessons via Joycelyn Elders’ plan, I was reading from cover to cover Garrett’s and Preston’s tomes cover to cover. And was sufficiently impressed that ebola never make it here, or any other densely populated area. Oops. Right Preezy?
It’s posts like this that put me back on the fence about the conflict between technology improving our lives as a whole, and the efficacy of natural selection that has been artificially hindered.
Call it what it is.
Ebola virus disease, hemorrhagic fever
“natural selection that has been artificially hindered”
Oooo, I’m going to work that into every conversation I have! Excellent!
Ebola and his brother Eboli are African leaders who are coming to America bearing gifts for Obami.
Ebola and Eboli will appear on FOX at nine on Monday with Bill O’Reilly and Alan Colmes. Don’t miss.
I don’t do twitter. So I must admit I’m confused when I try to read one of these waterfall tweet sites like the link have.
They read as nonsensical to me with most serving only to show me who has responded to the topic. I can’t tell if they are for it, against it, indifferent, or just stupid.
Possibly I’m ignorant of the posting format. If so, bad on me. But if I were to format information for my peers at work in such a way I would be beaten for being deliberately obscure.
No, Lowell. It’s really door number three.
TY, Claudia. Even if I do repeat myself..
Make that four – just ignorant, which can be fixed.
EEEEEEEEE—–BBBooooooooooo—-LLLLAAAAAAAAA is a game that is Bull fighting crossed with bowling and is called by mexican soccer announcers
Thank you Rosalind.
Does twitter arbitrarily strip out punctuation? Or does English no longer require question marks when posing an interrogative
maybe i can do twitter
da fuk what
who be ebloa he know usher
mebe he be relation
Ebola was the featured singer on the Titanic and Ben Ghazi was the dude on lookout when the ship hit glacier parts floating in the ocean because of Carbon foot prints.
Remember, on the 100th anniversary of the sinking, this same crowd got all confused because it was a new movie with De Cappuccino, not a huge real life disaster.
Alan Colmes referred to the “country of West Africa” on TV last night.
Twice.
(if I misunderstood, I don’t GAF!)
http://www.duffelblog.com/2014/09/obama-ebola-troops-west-africa/
Remember it is like the Onion
Unfortunately, these are the usual Democratic votors that voted for Obama in the last election. They haven’t got a f’n clue. As long as they got their “Obamaphone”, they are happy as pigs in sh*t
nah, nah, it’s all just cross promotion for the new soft drink / rapper
CO COLA EBOLA
It’s like Italian bowling…only the cyber version.
The Ebola Gay is Harrison J Bounel’s nickname
for Air Force One when Rahm and Reggie are on
the passenger list.
Huh! I remember it well! Back in dubya dubya too, the Big One (not to be confuted with the Great One) I was called by ole “Blood and Guts” Patton, then Rarefied High Admiral of All the Domains, and ordered to capture the town of San Trapistan Ebola from the enema. Well, I can tell you, mister, they was dug in like ticks on a coon dog, and twicet as mean! I called in a raid of He-111s armed with atomic bombs and turned that mountain to dust! Dust, I tell ya!
Ole “Blood in Guts” was mad as Hell, cuz he needed that port for his aircraft carriers.
Ebola … yep, Ebola … I’ll never forget that hellhole.
Lowell, for an intro to what’s good about Twitter, see this:
https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog
(just click the X to close the Join Twitter popup)
Most of your favorite political commentators are on Twitter, as well as a variety of breaking news sources… lots of good stuff (you can bypass the crap stuff completely).
“Ebola” is the plague that POSES as President of the United States. Duhhh… 🙄
Lowell, Twitter doesn’t strip out punctuation. Users do in order to more efficiently make use of the 140 character limit. Some times it works. A lot of the time (especially in celebrity culture circles) it is a clear demonstration of common-core like standards that began gaining a foothold in sphere of English and grammar studies sometime in the early 90s/late 80s (JMO).
There are a few other Twitter specific items. Links/URLs are shortened with services like bit.ly, ow.ly, tinyURL and t.co, which can be tricky because if you aren’t careful of whom you’re following may lead you to a spammy or phishing link that asks to have you sign back into Twitter. Run away! The latter is a built-in shortening service on Twitter itself. Another is twitlonger; a service that provides a link to your soap box statement that is longer than the noted character limit. These are all free.
It can be a lot of fun. It also is pretty time consuming. I’ve gotten into the groove only a few times and the hours just flew. I think it’s the love child of tech, ADD, humor and the cutting edge of news at its best. Worst is exemplified by what prompted this post.