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    #11
    Originally posted by TimberWolf View Post
    True businessmen would be looking at ways of making money out of pig flu and other media created frenzies. Why should the pharma companies and Doctors get all the action?
    I think you are missing the point.

    True businessmen are way ahead of you and are manipulating the media so that that they can make money out of pig flu and other media created frenzies.

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      #12
      Originally posted by Gonzo View Post
      I think you are missing the point.

      True businessmen are way ahead of you and are manipulating the media so that that they can make money out of pig flu and other media created frenzies.
      Carbon taxes, Carbon credits, Carbon offsetting, Carbon trading.....

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        #13
        Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
        Carbon taxes, Carbon credits, Carbon offsetting, Carbon trading.....

        six different coloured bins


        (\__/)
        (>'.'<)
        ("")("") Born to Drink. Forced to Work

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          #14
          Originally posted by TimberWolf View Post
          True businessmen would be looking at ways of making money out of pig flu and other media created frenzies. Why should the pharma companies and Doctors get all the action?

          Anyone got any good business ideas?

          E.g.

          Selling miracle pig flu cures on eBay
          Books on pig flu tulip
          Surgical masks
          A specialist pig flu website (probably already done)
          Self-cure books and videos
          Fake Tamiflu tablets
          Drive by coughings and other flu related robbings
          Information on how to build a pig flu bunker
          Courses on how to hunt for Truffles

          Does anyone have any more great business ideas like this?
          I'd patent Swine Flu Oinkment.
          Knock first as I might be balancing my chakras.

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            #15
            If you're on the bench, contract swine flu immediately.

            Once your immune system has killed it off, make this clear to the barrage of agencies that are looking for contingent staff over the next month or so.

            Even demand a higher rate as you're unlikely to fall ill from it again.

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              #16
              Originally posted by Gonzo View Post
              I think you are missing the point.

              True businessmen are way ahead of you and are manipulating the media so that that they can make money out of pig flu and other media created frenzies.
              That's out of my league at present, I'm just a small start-up company. From little acorns oaks grow...

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                #17
                Some of these old dodgy campaigns by trusted household-names are excellent examples of corporate greed and playing us for fools in these scary times:

                http://timesonline.typepad.com/times...-epidemic.html

                "Don’t worry about influenza, drink Ovaltine"

                "In view of the immense value of Bovril during an Influenza epidemic, the proprietors of Bovril are making every effort to meet the demand"

                "It takes less than three minutes for MILTON to knock out the Influenza germ. We have overwhelming proof of this fact"

                The scary thing is, if it wasn't for stronger advertising regulation today, they would still do it...

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                  #18
                  Originally posted by Gonzo View Post
                  I think you are missing the point.

                  True businessmen are way ahead of you and are manipulating the media so that that they can make money out of pig flu and other media created frenzies.
                  Al Capone said, "Taxation: now there's a racket I'd like to get into".

                  ISTM that companies who make and sell things that the government makes you have, have indeed got into that racket: they have got the force of the law to make you give them money.

                  Don't worry, just drink the Ovaltine.

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                    #19
                    Originally posted by CheeseSlice View Post
                    If you're on the bench, contract swine flu immediately.

                    Once your immune system has killed it off, make this clear to the barrage of agencies that are looking for contingent staff over the next month or so.

                    Even demand a higher rate as you're unlikely to fall ill from it again.
                    Turn your phlegm into a highly dissolved homeopathic remedy. That's the great thing with homeopathy; you only need a tiny amount of the original toxin and the less of it you put in the solution the more money you make.
                    And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014

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