From the state of most drivers that I see, they need to lay off the bacon butties.
No excuse at all for being a fat, sweaty, lazy stinking pile of crap.
eagerbeaver:
From the state of most drivers that I see, they need to lay off the bacon butties.No excuse at all for being a fat, sweaty, lazy stinking pile of crap.
I agree, I could not let myself get into the state that drivers you see today sat in trucks. No excuses for eating crap and not exercising especially in this kind of a job. I am 57 and look like I am in my forties, no one believes me when I tell them my age, it isn’t just having good genes, it is about adopting a healthy life style. Fat people are generally lazy people or depressed, very few fat people are fat through medical problems.
UKtramp:
Santa:
You are talking through your hat (or some other part of your anatomy). Each year, a global flu surveillance team - with input from WHO (World Health Organisation) flu labs in Atlanta, London, Melbourne and Tokyo - tries to predict which strains of the virus are most likely to be prevalent in the coming year. Information from the analysis of thousands of influenza viruses identified by the different laboratories is pooled and, on the basis of this, the WHO advises governments on the vaccine composition for the next season.
.I will relay this info to my brother in law who has not got your knowledge, he oddly enough has never warned me before about this, I will take his advice rather than yours to be honest. I think he may just repeat what you have said back though. We will see.
Why have you quoted Santa’s post completely out of context ?
Santa:
IndigoJo:
Not taking the ■■■■ at all: the flu jabs that are available now will be of no use against a new strain of influenza that comes from pigs or birds and is hybridised with a current human flu strain. They are developed to fight viruses that currently exist or at least are known of. The new flu will be deadly precisely because it’s new, and we have no immunity to it, much as was the case with the 1918 flu pandemic. In time a new jab will get developed, but thousands will die first, whether here or anywhere else.You are talking through your hat (or some other part of your anatomy). Each year, a global flu surveillance team - with input from WHO (World Health Organisation) flu labs in Atlanta, London, Melbourne and Tokyo - tries to predict which strains of the virus are most likely to be prevalent in the coming year. Information from the analysis of thousands of influenza viruses identified by the different laboratories is pooled and, on the basis of this, the WHO advises governments on the vaccine composition for the next season.
Three key strains of flu virus are identified by WHO to be incorporated into a “trivalent” vaccine that will tackle the predicted forthcoming strains. These recommendations are made six months in advance of the flu season so that pharmaceuticals companies have enough time to make and distribute the vaccine.
As far as I’m aware what Santa has said is bang on, occasionally there will be a new and unexpected strain of flue that will require a new vaccine to be developed but for the more common types of flue that come round every year what Santa has said is precisely what happens.
I can find nothing on the internet about any new strain of flue that will not be touched by known vaccines so the advice has to be, especially for vulnerable people, get the flue jab done.
tachograph:
I can find nothing on the internet about any new strain of flue that will not be touched by known vaccines so the advice has to be, especially for vulnerable people, get the flue jab done.
As I stated, it is on advice from my brother in law who is a consultant physician who advised me, I am relaying this information on from his advice not from google? Are you suggesting that Santa and Google are somehow more knowledgeable than a consultant chest physician? I have not taken Santa reply out of context at all, I said I would rather take my brother in laws advice than his. What is wrong with that reply?
OK UKtramp, how many more times are you going to inform us what your brother in law does on this thread?
I’m beginning to suspect ■■■■■■■■!
Your latest post adds the word “chest” to his profession… I suspect that you are full of the proverbial and that if you do have a brother in law he really works at Morrisons and collects trolleys round the car park.
Aaah I see your point with what Santa has posted, apologies Santa is correct, I thought he was replying to me saying I am talking out of my hat, I didn’t see he was replying to another poster, my apologies Santa and yes I agree with your post. I cannot understand how I confused this with a reply to me.
UkTrumps brother in law probably knows as much about flu as UKT knows about fridges …I.e. Nothing at all.
The Daily Star ran this story months ago based upon nothing other than a higher than normal rate of flu in Australia.
The flu jab works by giving you a dose of the flu in the hope that it won’t be as bad as the real thing…it’s very hit and miss and for anyone who is of average fitness below the age of sixty five it’s a waste of time.
My brother in law says it’s going to be the worst winter for a million years…if people keep churning out the same rubbish then one year it might just come true…
And another thing…it doesn’t seem plausible that UKTrump would be invited to a dinner party anyway.
UKtramp:
Tgtrucker:
For once, and don’t bank on it happening again, I have to agree with UKtramp.Well that is a nice opening line to my advice and the thanks I get for the sharing of my knowledge. Thanks for that!! I certainly wouldn’t ever agree with you either, arrogance at its finest.
Pot, kettle, black…
In all your posts I see a high level of arrogance that comes to the fore whenever someone dares to offer a different opinion to yours. You frequently resort to personal attacks to try and defend your position. I strongly disagree with this low life tactic and is why I don’t bother, in the main, to post anything on a thread that you’re involved with.
Please feel free to use your response here as an example.
I do not believe there is any arrogance on my part at all, I didnt say I would never agree with you, as witnessed by my post agreeing with you.
On this occasion you said something I agreed with, but I can’t say with any certainty that it will happen again, my holding different opinions to yours doesn’t indicate arrogance, I’m happy to accept other people’s different opinions, but unfortunately you seem unable to grasp the incredibly simple concept of a different opinion to your own.
However, having said all that I think it would be a sad day if you changed your style or stopped posting all together as I do find so much comedic value in your posts, I just hope for your own sake that it’s a false personality you portray here purely for our entertainment.
Keep it up uktramp,
Tgtrucker:
However, having said all that I think it would be a sad day if you changed your style or stopped posting all together as I do find so much comedic value in your posts, I just hope for your own sake that it’s a false personality you portray here purely for our entertainment.Keep it up uktramp,
Ok I accept your apology.
UKtramp:
IndigoJo:
Not taking the ■■■■ at all: the flu jabs that are available now will be of no use against a new strain of influenza that comes from pigs or birds and is hybridised with a current human flu strain. They are developed to fight viruses that currently exist or at least are known of. The new flu will be deadly precisely because it’s new, and we have no immunity to it, much as was the case with the 1918 flu pandemic. In time a new jab will get developed, but thousands will die first, whether here or anywhere else.Sent from my LG-H870 using Tapatalk
I am sorry but my brother in law is a consultant and has advised me to get the jab which he has never done before, this strain is known and the vaccine will help to fight the more serious affects of this strain. It takes six months with current egg-based technology to produce sufficient quantities of vaccine for the annual campaign. You are correct that a vaccine may work in one country but possibly not in another, they had prepared this vaccine which is the best defense we currently have against it. It is fast running out, you have been warned. It will be the worst flue epidemic for 50 years.
all very well uk tramp but I understand there are a few side affects to the flu jab,i will say though i’m in two minds whether to get it or not as I get it for free being diabetic,so I may enquire about it next week
truckman020:
UKtramp:
IndigoJo:
Not taking the ■■■■ at all: the flu jabs that are available now will be of no use against a new strain of influenza that comes from pigs or birds and is hybridised with a current human flu strain. They are developed to fight viruses that currently exist or at least are known of. The new flu will be deadly precisely because it’s new, and we have no immunity to it, much as was the case with the 1918 flu pandemic. In time a new jab will get developed, but thousands will die first, whether here or anywhere else.Sent from my LG-H870 using Tapatalk
I am sorry but my brother in law is a consultant and has advised me to get the jab which he has never done before, this strain is known and the vaccine will help to fight the more serious affects of this strain. It takes six months with current egg-based technology to produce sufficient quantities of vaccine for the annual campaign. You are correct that a vaccine may work in one country but possibly not in another, they had prepared this vaccine which is the best defense we currently have against it. It is fast running out, you have been warned. It will be the worst flue epidemic for 50 years.
all very well uk tramp but I understand there are a few side affects to the flu jab,i will say though i’m in two minds whether to get it or not as I get it for free being diabetic,so I may enquire about it next week
I will give you a jab mate if you want one.
Followed by a right hook and a knockout uppercut.
truckman020:
UKtramp:
IndigoJo:
Not taking the ■■■■ at all: the flu jabs that are available now will be of no use against a new strain of influenza that comes from pigs or birds and is hybridised with a current human flu strain. They are developed to fight viruses that currently exist or at least are known of. The new flu will be deadly precisely because it’s new, and we have no immunity to it, much as was the case with the 1918 flu pandemic. In time a new jab will get developed, but thousands will die first, whether here or anywhere else.Sent from my LG-H870 using Tapatalk
I am sorry but my brother in law is a consultant and has advised me to get the jab which he has never done before, this strain is known and the vaccine will help to fight the more serious affects of this strain. It takes six months with current egg-based technology to produce sufficient quantities of vaccine for the annual campaign. You are correct that a vaccine may work in one country but possibly not in another, they had prepared this vaccine which is the best defense we currently have against it. It is fast running out, you have been warned. It will be the worst flue epidemic for 50 years.
all very well uk tramp but I understand there are a few side affects to the flu jab,i will say though i’m in two minds whether to get it or not as I get it for free being diabetic.
Well I am no doctor but the jab affects different people in different ways from flue like symptoms to a snivel, only reason he told me I would be well advised to get it this year is the fact that it could well be an epidemic and a good chance of getting it. He has had it himself this year and he has never had it in previous years. He told me the flu that is coming from Australia is a real nasty one and you wouldn’t want to catch it. Obviously you don’t want to catch any flu. Both my wife and I are getting it done as a precaution.
Grumpy_old_trucker:
OK UKtramp, how many more times are you going to inform us what your brother in law does on this thread?
I’m beginning to suspect [zb]!
Your latest post adds the word “chest” to his profession… I suspect that you are full of the proverbial and that if you do have a brother in law he really works at Morrisons and collects trolleys round the car park.
Your just talking crap, I am not saying I am a chest physician, my brother in law is, wheres the big deal with that? I am stating what he is as he told me, if it comes from me it isn’t very credible advice now is it but from him it is. Likewise its like saying your a driver, you aint and you never will be so why do you come on here it is a truckers forum?I added chest as that is what his speciality is, he is a consultant physician a chest consultant physician is his full title, any clearer for you!
total pish.were always doomed by the medias need for some form of scaremongering…bird flu,mad cow,pandemics every year.
as soon as snow is forecast its going to be a whiteout.just total pish.
theres as many folk get decked cos of the jab as dont,as itl either kill you or cure you…complete waste of time unless your in the steven hawkings catagory.
dieseldog999:
total pish.were always doomed by the medias need for some form of scaremongering…bird flu,mad cow,pandemics every year.
as soon as snow is forecast its going to be a whiteout.just total pish.
theres as many folk get decked cos of the jab as dont,as itl either kill you or cure you…complete waste of time unless your in the steven hawkings catagory.
I actually agree with what you have said, however I am taking this serious only because it’s £7 so no big deal right or wrong is it really.
I wouldn’t believe anything this roaster says. The law of averages says we probably will get a serious flu outbreak eventually, same as the theory about giving a room full of chimps a typewriter each and enough time and they’ll knock out the works of Shakespeare. Keep going lads,some of you are almost there!
GOG47:
I wouldn’t believe anything this roaster says. The law of averages says we probably will get a serious flu outbreak eventually, same as the theory about giving a room full of chimps a typewriter each and enough time and they’ll knock out the works of Shakespeare. Keep going lads,some of you are almost there!
I could quite imagine the chimps doing that after a while of being left alone in a room full of typewriters, you though I wouldn’t bet on.
One of the joys of late night driving is the occasional interesting guest. I was listening to an interview the other night with some consultant (can’t remember the details I’m afraid). He seemed to think that this season’s flu wouldn’t be any more dangerous than last year’s (although ANY type of flu is a killer). However, he was concerned about the NHS’s ability to cope. The numbers were staggering, cant remember them all, but several thousand people die in this country from flu. Worthwhile getting the jab if only to keep you out of hospital.
Captain Caveman 76:
One of the joys of late night driving is the occasional interesting guest. I was listening to an interview the other night with some consultant (can’t remember the details I’m afraid). He seemed to think that this season’s flu wouldn’t be any more dangerous than last year’s (although ANY type of flu is a killer). However, he was concerned about the NHS’s ability to cope. The numbers were staggering, cant remember them all, but several thousand people die in this country from flu. Worthwhile getting the jab if only to keep you out of hospital.
Definitely is, the flu doesn’t usually kill you , it is the after math of infection from chest complaints to pneumonia, if that doesn’t get you then the Hospital more than likely will. At £7 for the jab I think it is worth edging your bets a bit really.