7 Worst Killer Plagues in history
Published on 10/15/2007

1. Smallpox (430 BC? - 1979):
Killed more than 300 million people worldwide in the 20th century alone, and most of the native inhabitants of the Americas

Smallpox (also known by the Latin names Variola or Variola vera) is a contagious disease unique to humans. Smallpox is caused by either of two virus variants named Variola major and Variola minor. The deadlier form, V. major, has a mortality rate of 30–35%, while V. minor causes a milder form of disease called alastrim and kills ~1% of its victims. Long-term side-effects for survivors include the characteristic skin scars. Occasional side effects include blindness due to corneal ulcerations and infertility in male survivors.

Smallpox killed an estimated 60 million Europeans, including five reigning European monarchs, in the 18th century alone. Up to 30% of those infected, including 80% of the children under 5 years of age, died from the disease, and one third of the survivors became blind.

As for the Americas, after the first contacts with Europeans and Africans, some believe that the death of 90 to 95 percent of the native population of the New World was caused by Old World diseases. It is suspected that smallpox was the chief culprit and responsible for killing nearly all of the native inhabitants of the Americas. In Mexico, when the Aztecs rose up in rebellion against Cortés, outnumbered, the Spanish were forced to flee. In the fighting, a Spanish soldier carrying smallpox died. After the battle, the Aztecs contracted the virus from the invaders’ bodies. When Cortes returned to the capital, smallpox had devastated the Aztec population. It killed most of the Aztec army, the emperor, and 25% of the overall population. Cortés then easily defeated the Aztecs and entered Tenochtitlán, where he found that smallpox had killed more Aztecs than had the cannons.

Smallpox was responsible for an estimated 300–500 million deaths in the 20th century. As recently as 1967, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that 15 million people contracted the disease and that two million died in that year. After successful vaccination campaigns throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, the WHO certified the eradication of smallpox in 1979. To this day, smallpox is the only human infectious disease to have been completely eradicated from nature.

2. Spanish Flu (1918 - 1919):
Killed 50 to 100 million people worldwide in less than 2 years

In 1918 and 1919, the Spanish Flu pandemic killed more people than Hitler, nuclear weapons and all the terrorists of history combined. (A pandemic is an epidemic that breaks out on a global scale.) Spanish influenza was a more severe version of your typical flu, with the usual sore throat, headaches and fever. However, in many patients, the disease quickly progressed to something much worse than the sniffles. Extreme chills and fatigue were often accompanied by fluid in the lungs. One doctor treating the infected described a grim scene: “The faces wear a bluish cast; a cough brings up the blood-stained sputum. In the morning, the dead bodies are stacked about the morgue like cordwood.”

If the flu passed the stage of being a minor inconvenience, the patient was usually doomed. There is no cure for the influenza virus, even today. All doctors could do was try to make the patients comfortable, which was a good trick since their lungs filled with fluid and they were wracked with unbearable coughing. The “bluish cast” of victims’ faces eventually turned brown or purple and their feet turned black. The lucky ones simply drowned in their own lungs. The unlucky ones developed bacterial pneumonia as an agonizing secondary infection. Since antibiotics hadn’t been invented yet, this too was essentially untreatable. The pandemic came and went like a flash. Between the speed of the outbreak and military censorship of the news during World War I, hardly anyone in the United States knew that a quarter of the nation’s population — and a billion people worldwide — had been infected with the deadly disease. More than half a million died in the U.S. alone; worldwide, more than 50 million.

3. Black Death (1340 - 1771):
Killed 75 million people worldwide

The Black Death, or The Black Plague, was one of the most deadly pandemics in human history. It began in South-western or Central Asia and spread to Europe by the late 1340s. The total number of deaths worldwide from the pandemic is estimated at 75 million people; there were an estimated 20 million deaths in Europe alone. The Black Death is estimated to have killed between a third and two-thirds of Europe’s population.

The three forms of plague brought an array of signs and symptoms to those infected. Bubonic plague refers to the painful lymph node swellings called buboes, mostly found around the base of the neck, and in the armpits and groin. The septicaemic plague is a form of blood poisoning, and pneumonic plague is an airborne plague that attacks the lungs before the rest of the body. The classic sign of bubonic plague was the appearance of buboes in the groin, the neck and armpits, which oozed pus and bled. Victims underwent damage to the skin and underlying tissue, until they were covered in dark blotches. Most victims died within four to seven days after infection. When the plague reached Europe, it first struck port cities and then followed the trade routes, both by sea and land. The bubonic plague was the most commonly seen form during the Black Death, with a mortality rate of thirty to seventy-five percent and symptoms including fever of 38 - 41 °C (101-105 °F), headaches, painful aching joints, nausea and vomiting, and a general feeling of malaise. Of those who contracted the bubonic plague, 4 out of 5 died within eight days. Pneumonic plague was the second most commonly seen form during the Black Death, with a mortality rate of ninety to ninety-five percent.

The same disease is thought to have returned to Europe every generation with varying virulence and mortalities until the 1700s. During this period, more than 100 plague epidemics swept across Europe. On its return in 1603, the plague killed 38,000 Londoners. Other notable 17th century outbreaks were the Italian Plague of 1629-1631, the Great Plague of Seville (1647-1652), the Great Plague of London (1665–1666), the Great Plague of Vienna (1679). There is some controversy over the identity of the disease, but in its virulent form, after the Great Plague of Marseille in 1720–1722 and the 1771 plague in Moscow it seems to have disappeared from Europe in the 18th century. The fourteenth-century eruption of the Black Death had a drastic effect on Europe’s population, irrevocably changing Europe’s social structure. It was a serious blow to the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in widespread persecution of minorities such as Jews, foreigners, beggars and lepers. The uncertainty of daily survival created a general mood of morbidity influencing people to “live for the moment”, as illustrated by Giovanni Boccaccio in The Decameron (1353).

4. Malaria (1600 - today):
Kills about 2 million people per year

Malaria causes about 400–900 million cases of fever and approximately one to three million deaths annually — this represents at least one death every 30 seconds. The vast majority of cases occur in children under the age of 5 years; pregnant women are also especially vulnerable. Despite efforts to reduce transmission and increase treatment, there has been little change in which areas are at risk of this disease since 1992. Indeed, if the prevalence of malaria stays on its present upwards course, the death rate could double in the next twenty years. Precise statistics are unknown because many cases occur in rural areas where people do not have access to hospitals or the means to afford health care. Consequently, the majority of cases are undocumented.

Malaria is one of the most common infectious diseases and an enormous public-health problem. It’s parasites are transmitted by female Anopheles mosquitoes. The parasites multiply within red blood cells, causing symptoms that include symptoms of anemia (light headedness, shortness of breath, tachycardia etc.), as well as other general symptoms such as fever, chills, nausea, flu-like illness, and in severe cases, coma and death. The disease is caused by protozoan parasites of the genus Plasmodium. It is widespread in tropical and subtropical regions, including parts of the Americas, Asia, and Africa.

5. AIDS (1981 - today):
Killed 25 million people worldwide

Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) has led to the deaths of more than 25 million people since it was first recognized in 1981, making it one of the most destructive epidemics in recorded history. Despite recent improved access to antiretroviral treatment and care in many regions of the world, the AIDS epidemic claimed approximately 3.1 million (between 2.8 and 3.6 million) lives in 2005 (an average of 8,500 per day), of which 570,000 were children. UNAIDS and the WHO estimate that the total number of people living with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has reached its highest level. There are an estimated 40.3 million (estimated range between 36.7 and 45.3 million) people now living with HIV. Moreover, almost 5 million people have been estimated to have been infected with HIV in 2005 alone.

The pandemic is not homogeneous within regions with some countries more afflicted than others. Even at the country level there are wide variations in infection levels between different areas. The number of people living with HIV continues to rise in most parts of the world, despite strenuous prevention strategies. Sub-Saharan Africa remains by far the worst-affected region, with 23.8 million to 28.9 million people living with HIV at the end of 2005, 1 million more than in 2003. Sixty-four percent of all people living with HIV are in sub-Saharan Africa, as are more than 77% of all women living with HIV. South & South East Asia are second most affected with 15%.

The key facts surrounding this origin of AIDS are currently unknown, particularly where and when the pandemic began, though it is said that it originated from the apes in Africa.

6. Cholera (1817 - today):
8 pandemics; hundreds of thousands killed worldwide

In the 19th century, Cholera became the world’s first truly global disease in a series of epidemics that proved to be a watershed for the history of plumbing. Festering along the Ganges River in India for centuries, the disease broke out in Calcutta in 1817 with grand - scale results. When the festival was over, they carried cholera back to their homes in other parts of India. There is no reliable evidence of how many Indians perished during that epidemic, but the British army counted 10,000 fatalities among its imperial troops. Based on those numbers,, it’s almost certain that at least hundreds of thousands of natives must have fallen victim across that vast land. Cholera sailed from port to port, the germ making headway in contaminated kegs of water or in the excrement of infected victims, and transmitted by travelers. The world was getting smaller thanks to steam-powered trains and ships, but living conditions were slow to improve. By 1827 cholera had become the most feared disease of the century.

The major cholera pandemics are generally listed as: First: 1817-1823, Second: 1829-1851, Third: 1852-1859, Fourth: 1863-1879, Fifth: 1881-1896, Sixth: 1899-1923: Seventh: 1961- 1970, and some would argue that we are in the Eighth: 1991 to the present. Each pandemic, save the last, was accompanied by many thousands of deaths. As recently as 1947, 20,500 of 30,000 people infected in Egypt died. Despite modern medicine, cholera remains an efficient killer.

7. Typhus (430 BC? - today):
Killed 3 million people between 1918 and 1922 alone, and most of Napoleon’s soldiers on Russia

Typhus is any one of several similar diseases caused by louse-borne bacteria. The name comes from the Greek typhos, meaning smoky or lazy, describing the state of mind of those affected with typhus. Rickettsia is endemic in rodent hosts, including mice and rats, and spreads to humans through mites, fleas and body lice. The arthropod vector flourishes under conditions of poor hygiene, such as those found in prisons or refugee camps, amongst the homeless, or until the middle of the 20th century, in armies in the field.

The first description of typhus was probably given in 1083 at a convent near Salerno, Italy. Before a vaccine was developed in World War II, typhus was a devastating disease for humans and has been responsible for a number of epidemics throughout history. During the second year of the Peloponnesian War (430 BC), the city-state of Athens in ancient Greece was hit by a devastating epidemic, known as the Plague of Athens, which killed, among others, Pericles and his two elder sons. The plague returned twice more, in 429 BC and in the winter of 427/6 BC. Epidemic typhus is one of the strongest candidates for the cause of this disease outbreak, supported by both medical and scholarly opinions. Epidemics occurred throughout Europe from the 16th to the 19th centuries, and occurred during the English Civil War, the Thirty Years’ War and the Napoleonic Wars. During Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow in 1812, more French soldiers died of typhus than were killed by the Russians. A major epidemic occurred in Ireland between 1816-19, and again in the late 1830s, and yet another major typhus epidemic occurred during the Great Irish Famine between 1846 and 1849.

In America, a typhus epidemic killed the son of Franklin Pierce in Concord, New Hampshire in 1843 and struck in Philadelphia in 1837. Several epidemics occurred in Baltimore, Memphis and Washington DC between 1865 and 1873. During World War I typhus caused three million deaths in Russia and more in Poland and Romania. De-lousing stations were established for troops on the Western front but the disease ravaged the armies of the Eastern front, with over 150,000 dying in Serbia alone. Fatalities were generally between 10 to 40 percent of those infected, and the disease was a major cause of death for those nursing the sick. Following the development of a vaccine during World War II epidemics occur only in Eastern Europe, the Middle East and parts of Africa.

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I’ve been watching smallville ever since season 1… and i still do not know what the fuck is wrong with Clark and Lana… 6 seasons and 132 episode later (excluding season 7) it is still the same…

seldom the lead actor and the lead actress doesn’t get hooked up. quite sad actually, but anyways a nice video of Clark and Lana.

The Fray - Look After You

if you do not know what the fuck happened, this is the post and it started from here

you are so ugly and you still say you are so pretty, where i’m so handsome and you say that i’m ugly, what the helllll? whatdevil! whatdevil!! whatdevil!!! - (actual quote from video, poor pronunciation included.)

steven lim my friend, you have just proved xiaxue’s point…

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Pouring Ketchup
The full technical explanation. Impress your friends.

Are you one of those people who taps at the bottom of an inverted ketchup (catsup) bottle, waiting in frustration for the sauce to pour? I am speaking of traditional ketchup bottles, not squeeze tubes, wide-mouth jars, or bottles designed to stand on their heads. Have you ever wondered if there is a right way to do it – a way that works, and makes scientific sense?

Yes, folks, there is a right way to do it, and it does make sense. Here is how, and why:

First, let’s look at the most common wrong way to do it. Remember the old “anticipation” commercials from the 1970s? The bottle is held upside down, then the hungry diner waits… and waits. Most people I know attempt to improve on this by tapping the bottom (that is, the upper end when the bottle is upside-down). That may help, but not necessarily for the reasons you imagine.

upside-down bottles

Ketchup can be regarded as a highly viscous liquid, or a thixotropic (flows under pressure) solid. Neither term is exactly correct, but the problem is not what to call it. The problem is how to get the ketchup out of the bottle, in measured quantities, without making a mess.

In order for the ketchup to emerge, air must enter the bottle. With an ordinary liquid such as water, a very narrow (dropper) neck would prevent the displacement of water by air. But a ketchup bottle has a neck that would be much too wide to prevent water escaping, and air rising in, when a bottle containing water is inverted. In the case of ketchup, the sauce is thick enough that the gravitational pull on the ketchup does not suffice.

Ketchup will certainly fall, of its own accord. In the case of a partly empty bottle, tapping the base can expel some ketchup without the need for air to enter. This is because the air that is already inside the bottle can slightly de-pressurize. Tapping the inverted base may slightly liquify the ketchup, enough for some to drop out even though no air is taken in. But in a full bottle, the ketchup must move to the side so that the air can rise through the neck at the same time that the ketchup escapes. The weight of ketchup is not great enough for this to happen in most circumstances.

So, in the case of the full ketchup bottle, the problem can be divided into two issues: (1) How can I get the ketchup to move aside, so that air can enter on the opposite side? (2) How can I give the ketchup “extra weight,” so that it will be pulled out of the bottle faster?

The first issue is solved by holding the bottle sideways, with a slight downward tilt, rather than upside-down. In this position, the ketchup naturally is pulled to the lower side of the neck, and the air naturally will channel along the higher side of the neck. Anyone who pours an ordinary liquid from a bottle knows this. Yet it is amazing how the experience is forgotten when it comes to ketchup.

sideways bottles

Merely holding the bottle in the correct position is not very effective. It is necessary to “increase the weight” of the ketchup by applying some G-force. This can be done by tapping the bottle downwards against your hand, to bring the bottle to an abrupt halt. In other words, the bottle moves downward and is stopped by the stationary hand. The picture shows a fist, but an open palm may be better. Don’t hurt yourself! If your hands are delicate, you may try some other method of applying an abrupt stop to the bottle, provided that the stop is not rigid or fragile, and that you mind where the ketchup is going to emerge. Striking the bottle at the upper side of the neck is much less effective, since it applies the G-force in the wrong direction.

Tapping the inverted bottom of a full bottle – the customary way – is counterproductive. If you do that, most of the G-force will tend to keep the ketchup in the bottle. But now you know the right way, thanks to the amazing power of the Internet to unleash this kind of information. Of course, it would be possible to print instructions on the side of the ketchup bottle, but you wouldn’t read them if they were there, now would you?

Footnote: A year after I posted this page, I happened to be in the same pub where I first got the idea to write about pouring ketchup. At a nearby table was a couple, who had ordered hamburgers. After the woman failed to get ketchup out of the bottle by using the various wrong ways shown above, the man showed how to do it the right way. The only difference is that he bumped the bottle against his open palm, rather than against his clenched fist. (That’s a better idea, but I didn’t have a graphic image of an open palm.)

I asked the man where he had learned the right way to get the ketchup. He told me that he learned it while stationed in Germany (U.S. Army) around 1985. I didn’t think of asking whether he had learned it from the Army, or from the Germans.

I have also been told that long ago, one of the major ketchup manufacturers once ran ads instructing users to tap the label (on the bottle neck). But I don’t recall seeing such ads; in any case, no explanation was given.

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Tue Jun 26, 5:34 PM ET

MIAMI (Reuters) - Professional wrestling superstar Chris Benoit killed his wife and 7-year-old son before hanging himself from his weight machine, authorities said on Tuesday.

Investigators said the murder-suicide happened over Friday and Saturday in the suburban Atlanta home where the bodies of Benoit, his wife and young son were found on Monday.

Nicknamed “The Rabid Wolverine” and “The Canadian Crippler,” Benoit had canceled two events in Texas over the weekend citing an undisclosed “family emergency,” his employer, World Wrestling Entertainment, said on its Web site.

Benoit then sent “several curious text messages” to friends early Sunday morning and this prompted authorities to check on him and his family at their home, the statement said.

Autopsy results showed that Benoit first murdered his wife, Nancy. She was bound at the feet and wrists and died of asphyxiation sometime on Friday, Fayette County District Attorney Scott Ballard told a news conference.

She was wrapped in a towel and some blood was found under her head but Ballard said there were no other signs of a struggle.

The couple’s son, who also died of asphyxia, was apparently killed as he lay in bed on Saturday morning, hours before Benoit hung himself, Ballard said.

“It was the cord from the weights,” he said, describing how Benoit managed to strangle himself.

Benoit left no suicide note but placed bibles alongside the bodies of his wife and son, Ballard added.

“In a community like this it’s bizarre just to have a murder-suicide and certainly involving the death of a 7-year-old child,” said Ballard. “I don’t think we’ll ever be able to wrap our minds around that completely.”

Lt. Tommy Pope of the Fayette County Sheriff’s Department said it could be several weeks before toxicology reports were available. But he said anabolic steroids were among the prescription drugs found in Benoit’s house.

In some cases, use of muscle-building steroids has been linked by U.S. health officials to uncontrolled outbursts of anger or combativeness.

The Atlanta Journal Constitution said the Benoits had lived together since 1997 and were married in 2000 but separated about the same time Nancy Benoit filed for divorce in May 2003.

In an accompanying petition, the newspaper said Nancy Benoit had sought protection from domestic abuse, claiming she was intimidated by threats of violence from her husband.

She later filed to have the divorce and protective petitions dismissed.

Benoit began his career in his native Canada more than 20 years ago and wrestled in Japan before moving back to North America.

to the muthafucking lorry driver whom parked your fucking lorry on the fucking pavement and tried to reserve onto the fucking main road without checking for traffic, fuck you.

How cool is that?

i think the transformation is really too much as compared to the older cartoons that we used to watch… but hey, they look very cool!

Link here.

taken from here.

some understands, and some don’t. retard morons. can’t live with it, my solution for you, stop blogging.

Part 1

The Electric New Paper :
Why post online if you can’t take flamings?
Netizens slam blogger who filed police report after she’s ‘flamed’ for her photos and comments
THE pictures were personal and revealing. When Michelle Quek, 18, put them up on her blog last year along with some comments about herself, she did not expect a fiery reaction.
06 April 2007

THE pictures were personal and revealing.

When Michelle Quek, 18, put them up on her blog last year along with some comments about herself, she did not expect a fiery reaction.

But that was exactly what she got.

It became so bad she filed a police report. When she posted a copy on her blog, it sparked off another wave of ‘flamings’ against her for ‘over-reacting.’

Which raises the question: How far should one go to defend oneself as the Internet becomes more and more like the Wild Wild Web?

Michelle’s problems started when an Internet user named Chao_turtle came across her blog and started a thread on a popular Internet forum last October.

Literally translated, ‘Chao turtle’ means smelly turtle.

In response to the post, other users started subsequent threads about Michelle in the following months.

Michelle, a student, said there were four threads, each with hundreds of postings, and there have been about 2,000 postings.

She was upset when many forum members commented on her pictures, and they took postings from her personal blog and put them on theforum.

Some comments were polite, but many others were nasty and insulting.

Soon, the flamers even moved the forums to her blog. The flaming went on for almost a week.

That was when she threatened to make a police report. The forum users taunted her - and she went ahead..

On 28 Mar, Michelle filed the report at the Serangoon Neighbourhood Police Post against one Chao_turtle.

Michelle said she uploaded her personal photos on her blog knowing that it would be open to the public.

‘I’m fine with people viewing and keeping my photos, but not putting them all over a forum and insulting me over it,’ she said.

That night after going to the police post, she uploaded a digital copy of the report on the blog for all to see.

The next morning, someone posted the picture of the report on the forum.

The thread received a staggering 1,400 posts and 27,000 views in one day before it was closed by the forum administrators.

Michelle said: ‘These people have gone too far with their abuse of my photos and defacing of my blog.’

She claimed they ‘defaced’ her blog by posting nasty comments on her tagboard, which is an electronic message board designed by her.

In defending herself in the forum over these photos, Michelle said they should not be criticising her because there was nothing wrong with what she did. She was free to post her pictures, she had a family lawyer who would help her and her father supported what she was doing.

Some forum members found her tone condescending. Others did not like the way she flaunted her lifestyle on her blog, about how her brother drove a Honda Integra Type R, a sportscar, and how she couldn’t wait to get her licence so she could drive one.

She also wrote about how her mother bought her a Louis Vuitton bag, from the Damier Azur Speedy collection.

Other more daring users went on to flame her on her blog’s tagboard.

One anonymous post on her blog read: ‘You are an open target… but you don’t know who am I… hahaha… scared right…’

With the overwhelming attention that she was receiving, Michelle started feeling paranoid.

‘Will I get into trouble outside because lots of people now know how I look?’ she asked The New Paper when we spoke to her last week.

‘I’m from a middle-income family. I never said that I was rich,’ she added.

For Michelle, all she wants now is to be out of the spotlight. She feels more at ease after making the police report.

After the report was posted on the forum, the flaming died down for a while.

‘I’m a bit relieved now. I don’t have to worry… If the flaming stops, I won’t pursue this case,’ she said.

Is she over-reacting? Some netizens think so.

Ms Helen Leong, 28, a regular forum user who read the posts, said: ‘If she can’t take the flamings on the forum, then why did she post her pictures online?

‘It’s common sense: if you post anything online, you have to be prepared for flamings.

‘The correct thing to do if your pictures are leeched and posted on other forums is to inform the forum administrators to remove the pictures.’

Some others acknowledged that users like Chao_turtle may have overstepped the line by using words like ’slut’.

A 24-year-old engineering undergraduate who took part in the forum wrote: ‘Chao_turtle is entitled to his opinion, although I do not agree with the way he started the issue.’

Forum user Han Ming Guang, 22, an undergraduate from the National University of Singapore, said that making a police report was ‘ludicrous’.

‘Flaming happens everywhere,’ he said. ‘If she can’t handle it, ignore it. If she can’t ignore it, then she should just make her blog private.’

Michelle has now locked her blog pictures with a password to restrict access.

When contacted, a police spokesman said: ‘We found no criminal elements disclosed and have advised Michelle to liaise with the service providers to remove the objectionable content.’
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Part 2

The Electric New Paper :
Taking flamers to task
SHOULD victims of online flaming go to the police? Is it the same as disputes with your neighbours, void deck quarrels or family fights that turn ugly?
06 April 2007

SHOULD victims of online flaming go to the police?

Is it the same as disputes with your neighbours, void deck quarrels or family fights that turn ugly?

Under the Computer Misuse Act, people who hack or deface a website, blogsite or e-mail account can be jailed up to three years or fined up to $10,000.

In Ms Quek’s case, anyone found defacing her site can be taken to task.

Dr Ang Peng Hwa, chair of the Nanyang Technological University’s Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, said: ‘Though there are exceptions, flaming generally isn’t criminal.’

He added that most online flamings are civil disputes.

And the likeliest civil suit would be for defamation, he said.

But do such cases need to end up in court?

Dr Ang feels that it is better to approach forum moderators or even the Internet service providers (ISPs) like SingNet for help.

DOUSE THE FLAME

Ask them to remove the flaming threads on the forums.

Ban errant users from visiting and defacing others’ blogs.

But you would need proof.

‘A police report or lawyer’s letter, to show that you are serious in your claims,’ Dr Ang said.

In the US, ISPs play a major role in policing the Internet and can even ban defamatory posts and even restrict their authors’ activities.

This is due to laws that hold ISPs accountable for the online services they provide to users.

Dr Ang feels that local ISPs can play a greater, more active role, with the right regulations in place.

Then, ISPs might just be suited to handle a new kind of ‘neighbourhood’ dispute - online flamings.
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You be the judge.

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I was on the line with my Chinese partner when one of my Marketing Executives, Josephine, rushed in. She looked hot and flustered. She waited for me to finish my call before telling me in an urgent tone.

“Boss! Boss! Gerard needs ER! He’s in the Men’s Room!”

“Huh? What ER? What happened? He fell?”

“Quick! You go and see lah!”

I rushed towards the Men’s Room where several of
the female staff, who have not gone for lunch yet, were gathered outside. They were giggling and shouting out to the men inside the washroom. I barged into the Men’s Room, leaving the gals gasping loudly at my action.

I saw Man and Arshad standing outside a cubicle. I went forward and saw Joe kneeling down in front of Gerard who had his pants half-way down. Gerard got a shock when he saw me and yelled,”Close the door!!!”

“What the Hell is happening? What are you doing, Joe? ” I raised my voice. I was disgusted by the scene right in front of me and put out my right hand to stop the door from closing.

“Gerard’s got his dick caught in the zipper! hahahaha….” Arshad offered an explanation.

“What? Let me take a look!” I tried to push the door open.

“No! No! No! Joe’s helping me.”

“I cannot do anything lah! You have to go to the hospital.” Joe stood up and declared defeat.

“What? How can I go out like this? It’s lunch time, the whole Suntec City is packed! Owww …. sh*t! Can you all get Boss out? Call her for what! ”

“Let me see!” I dragged Joe out of the cubicle and charged in.

“weiiii!”

Despite Gerard’s protest, I knelt down, brushed his hands away and tried to survey the extent of the damage. I could hear the other guys sniggering away. The poor fellow has got a teeny piece of foreskin caught in his zipper. The zipper could neither go up nor down then. Ouch! I could almost feel his pain. hmmmm…. it’s a tricky task as to how I’m going to get his dick freed.
“Get me a pair of scissors! And my glasses. I can’t see so near.”

“Weiii! Don’t anyhow cut arh! I still want to celebrate Father’s Day! Wait! Wait!Wait!”

“You want to walk through the lunch time crowd in this condition or not? This type of small case no need to go to the hospital lah! Who ask you not to wear underwear huh? Want to be hip and never think of the consequences.”

I couldn’t help chiding these youngsters. Either they don’t wear underwear, or they would wear a teeny weeny piece of cloth over their private parts, …… young men and women nowadays, tsk tsk tsk…….

Whenever I tried to gently pry the zipper from the skin, Gerard would be howling in pain. I was sweating in the hot cubicle. There was a commotion outside now as more people came to know of it. We had to lock the door of the toilet.

I examined the dick ahem ……, area carefully, trying to find a solution. Half an hour had passed and we were clueless. Seems like the only thing to do was to go to the hospital. But this is such a minor accident. Gerard is would be a laughing stock.

I called Chris, twittered and pinged. Hoping someone can come up with a solution. Finally after an hour of trying and serious brainstorming, we have to make this announcement to Gerard.

“Joe and Man are going to hold you down. Remember how our Moms used to tear the plaster from your healed wounds? I’m gonna do a very fast zip down. It’ll be over in seconds. Bear the pain for a while. Be a man, ok?”

“Noooooo!!!”

“Don’t anyhow move or I’ll tear a whole strip of skin from your pecker! Arshad, get me the rubber bone from my table, let him bite on it. er…. Gerard, you pee already or not yet? Don’t pee on me hor.”

By then, another few guys returned to the office because of an ‘emergency sms’. The kaypohs (busybodies)! Henry (remember my Creative Director) was doubling up in laughter. He offered to be the Executor. Everyone was poking fun at poor Gerard.

The moment finally arrived. I had to be the ruthless Executor (Gerard trusts me more). We made Gerard lie down on his back across two chairs, 4 guys held down his hands and legs. Henry covered Gerard’s face with a jacket.

Secretly and silently, trying very hard to contain our laughter, we posed for a few pictures first, hahahaha…. We were so wicked hor! Then we told Gerard to take a deep breath and then zippp! It was over!

Sounds so easy. Gerard almost jumped out of his skin and the guys have to really hold him down. A tiny piece of skin and a little speck of blood was sacrificed. Gerard took it like a man! There was a drop of tear at the edge of his right eye though. awwww…… hehehe….

After washing my hands, I told Gerard,”From now on, your dick is mine! I saved it.” muahahahaha…..

A warning to all my staff, if any of my photos go public, your dicks and pussies would be mine. No hehehe.

And to those ‘pig frenz and dog buddies’ who thought I was having an affair - go fug yourself! Geez………