The Biggest Scare story of your lifetime

[Gargamel]

Over the years I reckon I have been told that we are all doomed on quite a few occasions, Which load of old phooey scared you the most.

Personally I'd say the one about 20million people in the UK dying of HIV/AIDS was the one that had the biggest effect on me, and who knows perhaps it was the changes in behaviour it brought about that saved all those lives. Aids has certainly proved to be a major killer elsewhere.

So far I reckon Mad Cow has been the biggest Scare story without the full apocalypse. (some sad stories for sure, but comparable to hedge trimmers deaths)

[mattviatura]

Millenium Bug

Global Warming

Bird Flu

Cold War nuclear attack

and the one we all missed but really happened with devastating consequences.. Labour

[V8mate]

Labour winning the next General Election.

[Blib]

SARS was a goodun.

[Simpo Two]

You forgot 'SARS' - which despite dire warnings of pandemic killed about three people in Hong Kong.

Sometimes it seems like a plot to kill every farm animal in the UK. We have to destroy all our pigs and cattle every few years to please the French (who simply ignore their own diseases) then we import more dodgy meat from South America.

[Tony*T3]

mattviatura said:

Millenium Bug

Global Warming

Bird Flu

Cold War nuclear attack

and the one we all missed but really happened with devastating consequences.. Labour

Theres no such thing as a "cold war nuclear attack". Never was.


I dont think we've heard the last of Bird Flu, or, scarily, global warming.


Biggest threat to the world right now though is global food production meltdown caused by the finacial mess.

[V8mate]

Blib said:

SARS was a goodun.

And ebola. Weren't we all at risk of turning into dead monkeys or something...

[Sheets Tabuer]

I think the one where a guy got caught spraying graffiti in portsmouth on friday night, he also had a firework and the police had conferences saying how they foiled a G20 attack.

No seriously, they foiled a G20 attack.

[mattviatura]

Tony*T3 said:

mattviatura said:

Millenium Bug

Global Warming

Bird Flu

Cold War nuclear attack

and the one we all missed but really happened with devastating consequences.. Labour

Theres no such thing as a "cold war nuclear attack". Never was.


That was kind of my point

[FarleyRusk]

Tony*T3 said:

mattviatura said:

Millenium Bug

Global Warming

Bird Flu

Cold War nuclear attack

and the one we all missed but really happened with devastating consequences.. Labour

Theres no such thing as a "cold war nuclear attack". Never was.


I dont think we've heard the last of Bird Flu, or, scarily, global warming.


Biggest threat to the world right now though is global food production meltdown caused by the finacial mess.

I say you're wrong. Commodity prices are falling not rising.
Biggest threat is MMGW of course. WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE.


ARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

[AndrewW-G]

V8mate said:

Labour winning the next General Election.

Oi that's not something to joke about

[Funk Odyssey]

Paedogeddon

[thompp]

Tories winning the next general election.

[rhinochopig]

It was a dark and stormy night...

[Road Pest]

I have an appointment at the hospital in a week and a half, I'll let you know after that!

[Gargamel]

I'm old enough to remember the stories in the mid seventies that a mini ice age was due, and that we should be preparing for Glaciers to cover the land from Scotland to Derby !

[minerva]

The only thing we have to fear is the sky falling on our heads!





asterix comics....

[boobles]

Gargamel said:

I'm old enough to remember the stories in the mid seventies that a mini ice age was due, and that we should be preparing for Glaciers to cover the land from Scotland to Derby !

Not such a bad thing is it?

[mrmaggit]

You realise that DEFRA stands for "Destroy Every Farm Reared Animal", Don't you?

[randomman]

Gargamel said:

I'm old enough to remember the stories in the mid seventies that a mini ice age was due, and that we should be preparing for Glaciers to cover the land from Scotland to Derby !

So THATS where the whole 'south is better' thing came from!