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(Scientific American)   Evidently somebody out there wasn't tired of farking these farking snakes, and now a snake virus is infecting humans. Samuel Jackson disapproves   (scientificamerican.com) divider line
    More: Scary, Severe acute respiratory syndrome, Infection, new coronavirus 2019-nCoV, samples of the virus, outbreak of a deadly infectious respiratory illness, new coronavirus, genetic code of the virus, wholesale market  
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2020-01-23 2:37:45 AM  
The Lizard people must be panicking.
 
2020-01-23 2:42:53 AM  
You're better off licking a chicken's butthole than eating/handling raw reptile meat
 
2020-01-23 2:46:02 AM  
Thousands of years of anthropocentrism have convinced humans that the same diseases that affect animals can't possibly affect humans, and this will eventually be the cause of human extinction.
And it can't come a minute too soon.
 
2020-01-23 2:54:32 AM  

Dick Hammer: Thousands of years of anthropocentrism have convinced humans that the same diseases that affect animals can't possibly affect humans, and this will eventually be the cause of human extinction.
And it can't come a minute too soon.


I'm still rooting for "giant asteroid". It'll be quicker.
 
pup.socket  
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2020-01-23 2:55:40 AM  
It's that farking bad motherfarker's fault.
 
2020-01-23 2:55:54 AM  
Damn, it'd be awesome to get clipped by something called the Viper Flu.
 
i ignore u  
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2020-01-23 2:56:03 AM  
Snakes?  Again?  Enter Tim Apple...

I think that Genesis was written by a time traveler who tried to explain the future.

Future Guy: "No, listen!  There'll be a company called Apple that makes these "iPhones" and through them you can learn things!"
Cave Man: "Apple give knowledge, ok?"
Future Guy: "Yes!"
Future Guy: "And then we used this knowledge unwisely, destroying the ecosystem that sustained us!"
Cave Man: "wut?"
Future Guy: "Because of this knowledge the garden in which we lived was ruined."
Cave Man: "Ok!  Knowledge bad!  Apple bad!  Future man has knowledge!  Save garden!"
<stab stab stab>
 
2020-01-23 3:02:34 AM  
You can most likely thank Chinese traditional medicine for this recent outbreak. According to other news reports, the outbreak was traced back to a market in Wuhan illegally selling parts of wild animals.
 
2020-01-23 3:07:09 AM  
I also find it ironic that the flagship lab for identifying infectious pathogens in China is located in Wuhan.
 
2020-01-23 3:18:59 AM  

FormlessOne: You can most likely thank Chinese traditional medicine for this recent outbreak. According to other news reports, the outbreak was traced back to a market in Wuhan illegally selling parts of wild animals.


The snakes in the market were probably food. Snake soup is popular China in the fall and winter. It's considered a "warming" food.
 
2020-01-23 3:24:02 AM  
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2020-01-23 3:33:16 AM  

Dickson Poon: FormlessOne: You can most likely thank Chinese traditional medicine for this recent outbreak. According to other news reports, the outbreak was traced back to a market in Wuhan illegally selling parts of wild animals.

The snakes in the market were probably food. Snake soup is popular China in the fall and winter. It's considered a "warming" food.


Yep - could go either way. Snakes are also very popular for Chinese medicinal preparations. Given the illicit nature of the trade, I'd gone towards the medicinal use side, but you could be right as well.
 
evilsofa  
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2020-01-23 3:36:20 AM  
Snakes-the Chinese krait and the Chinese cobra-may be the original source of the newly discovered coronavirus that has triggered an outbreak of a deadly infectious respiratory illness in China this winter.

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Of course, it's the Toxic Alliance. What has the Nightmare Court been up to now?
 
Wendigogo [TotalFark]  
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2020-01-23 3:54:22 AM  

Dick Hammer: Thousands of years of anthropocentrism have convinced humans that the same diseases that affect animals can't possibly affect humans, and this will eventually be the cause of human extinction.
And it can't come a minute too soon.


You really need some serious help.
 
2020-01-23 4:29:14 AM  
I thought people who put limes in beer were responsible
 
2020-01-23 6:10:52 AM  

Sorelian's Ghost: I thought people who put limes in beer were responsible


Nah - the cervezavirus is largely a South American problem.
 
2020-01-23 6:13:57 AM  

i ignore u: Snakes?  Again?  Enter Tim Apple...

I think that Genesis was written by a time traveler who tried to explain the future.

Future Guy: "No, listen!  There'll be a company called Apple that makes these "iPhones" and through them you can learn things!"
Cave Man: "Apple give knowledge, ok?"
Future Guy: "Yes!"
Future Guy: "And then we used this knowledge unwisely, destroying the ecosystem that sustained us!"
Cave Man: "wut?"
Future Guy: "Because of this knowledge the garden in which we lived was ruined."
Cave Man: "Ok!  Knowledge bad!  Apple bad!  Future man has knowledge!  Save garden!"
<stab stab stab>


Good story but you left out the snek...
 
2020-01-23 6:39:23 AM  

FormlessOne: I also find it ironic that the flagship lab for identifying infectious pathogens in China is located in Wuhan.


Are you saying something slipped out?
 
Mollari  
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2020-01-23 7:10:01 AM  
We need a new holiday.   "Whacking Day" it is.

Whacking Day
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amb  
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2020-01-23 7:25:22 AM  
I've had it with these motherfarkin' snakes in these motherfarkin' veins.
 
dennysgod  
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2020-01-23 7:48:50 AM  
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2020-01-23 7:58:35 AM  
Ah, the old "snake up the drainpipe" routine.
Certainly difficult but a baby rattler all the way in, up to the rattle (rattle-deep, if you will), is rather impressive.
 
2020-01-23 8:30:47 AM  
Huh, you would figure the alcohol in the baijiu would kill the virus.

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2020-01-23 8:39:45 AM  
Religious nuts documenting the source of the "crown" in the coronavirus in ....
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Rock Krenn  
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2020-01-23 9:43:29 AM  
FTA

In the case of this 2019 coronavirus outbreak, reports state that most of the first group of patients hospitalized were workers or customers at a local seafood wholesale market which also sold processed meats and live consumable animals including poultry, donkeys, sheep, pigs, camels, foxes, badgers, bamboo rats, hedgehogs and reptiles...and rabbits!

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2020-01-23 11:47:56 AM  
So just keep them away from monkeys and Monday-Friday planes and we should be ok......
 
2020-01-23 3:46:09 PM  

Rock Krenn: FTA

In the case of this 2019 coronavirus outbreak, reports state that most of the first group of patients hospitalized were workers or customers at a local seafood wholesale market which also sold processed meats and live consumable animals including poultry, donkeys, sheep, pigs, camels, foxes, badgers, bamboo rats, hedgehogs and reptiles...and rabbits!

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The result?

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