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Subject: 
Scary Survey results about the US First Amendment (was a slur of a subject line
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Date: 
Thu, 18 Oct 2001 21:14:51 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks writes:

C) It appears that many more Brits die of sickness.  Why?  Is the UK just a
wildly more contaminated place (could be, given history and density -- I just
don't know)?

Well it could just be those pesky UN statistics... but I just went to the
Red Cross site to check on blood donation criteria and they don't want your
blood if you have spent more than 3 months total in the UK or Ireland since
1980 (or 6 months in the Rest of Europe), presumably due to CJD since it's
right after the other CJD high risk things.

I have 2.5 months of UK and one month of Rest of Euro on my odometer. Math
problem, does that make me ineligible or not? I honestly wasn't sure.

I know it couldn't be a faulty health care system...I read
somewhere recently that the healthcare system in the UK was really good!

I was very careful not to get sick while I was there. Well sort of. I didn't
have any unprotected sex anyway.



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  What's the beef? (was Spam Spam Spam etc ) (Was *not* Spam & Chips)
 
Perhaps you may have been here long enough to catch "mad cow disease"? Does your brain feel a little spongy? :-) I have not eaten beef more than ~12 years now due to BSE. Needless to say I have never eaten any beef from the USA, as it is unfit for (...) (23 years ago, 19-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: More LP S P A M : (was Re: Scary Survey results about the US First Amendment)
 
(...) Interesting. A) Does the difference in these stats and the ones I cited suggest that one set is incorrect, or do you think the difference between violent crimes (my stats) and murder (your stats) is really that lopsided? It makes it sound like (...) (23 years ago, 18-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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