Who says the news is dull?

[Mr Pig]

Just watching BBC NEWS 24 and saw the funniest thing I've seen on the news for ages! You know how headlines scroll across the bottom of the screen during the program? Well immediately after "Michael Jacson to be buried in LA" the following scrolled across the bottom of the screen. I was in stitches:

"If zombies existed their attacks would lead to the breakdown of civilisation if not dealt with swiftly and aggressively scientists say"

Superb :0)

 

[Kovu]

That is utter class.

 

[marinyork]

Shame that wasn't on Sky News whilst Jeremy Thompson was on air, I'd have really laughed. We do know this, we had all the warnings in Shaun of the Dead.

 

[Kovu]

" ... by removing the head and destroying the brain."

 

[Radius]

Ha! Good to see some people have a sense of humour.....unless they were taking it seriously, in which case, we're all going to die of brain malfunction in 10 years. Send that one to the newsrooms.

 

[Mr Pig]

When I told my wife she said "I'll bet it's a couple of students in for the summer; 'Let's stick this up, it's after midnight, no one will notice' " :0)

 

[ianrauk]

Obviously been watiching too much Resident Evil

 

[Arch]

I enjoyed hearing earlier in the week, when that Russian ship turned up:

"Arctic Sea found off African coast"

No wonder the ice is melting...

 

[ComedyPilot]

Just watching BBC NEWS 24 and saw the funniest thing I've seen on the news for ages! You know how headlines scroll across the bottom of the screen during the program? Well immediately after "Michael Jacson to be buried in LA" the following scrolled across the bottom of the screen. I was in stitches:

"If zombies existed their attacks would lead to the breakdown of civilisation if not dealt with swiftly and aggressively scientists say"

Superb :0)

I prefer my news to be dull, and factual, not celebrity/entertainment-inspired bollix. The beeb editor that let that make it onto the ticker tape should be shot. That sort of muck was derided years ago as headlines in the Sunday Sport, now the beeb is at it.

 

[Mr Pig]

The beeb editor that let that make it onto the ticker tape should be shot.

Not at all. I'm sick of humourless balloons making life as dull as possible for the rest of us. Promote the guy I say!

 

[ComedyPilot]

Not at all. I'm sick of humourless balloons making life as dull as possible for the rest of us. Promote the guy I say!

One man's promotion is another man's bullet.

 

[Arch]

I prefer my news to be dull, and factual, not celebrity/entertainment-inspired bollix. The beeb editor that let that make it onto the ticker tape should be shot. That sort of muck was derided years ago as headlines in the Sunday Sport, now the beeb is at it.

To be fair, it was a serious report, I heard about it on Today, I think it was a study of epidemiology, using 'zombies' as a proxy for a fast spreading infection, looking at speed of spread and issues of dormancy and re-eruption.

 

[ComedyPilot]

To be fair, it was a serious report, I heard about it on Today, I think it was a study of epidemiology, using 'zombies' as a proxy for a fast spreading infection, looking at speed of spread and issues of dormancy and re-eruption.

For a thickie, is that the study of diseases that spread after using dead bodies as hosts?

 

[Arch]

For a thickie, is that the study of diseases that spread after using dead bodies as hosts?

Epidemiology is the study of the spread of any disease. I think the 'zombie' hook was a way of making the link with any sort of infection - especially one that is hard to kill off completely, and may lay dormant.

Someone on the Today programme made the point that a lot of our folklore/horror staples are 'infectious' - zombies, werewolves, vampires, and that this might be a due to a deep seated human fear of the spread of infectious disease, before the mechanisms were understood.

Digressing slightly, I heard a story the other day of an A and E doctor who took on a study of the epidemiology of injuries in A and E at the weekend. By treating it like an infection, and tracing the movements of people injured in assaults, he identified a couple of troublesome pubs, and they've had to switch to plastic glasses, thus cutting the number of serious cut wounds seen in A and E

 

[montage]

" ... by removing the head and destroying the brain."

you got red on you