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there's no evidence that it's passed through pork products yet, but it's not confirmed that it isn't, either, according to an article i just read on CNN. i don't see why it's so brainless to take an extra precaution that doesn't cost you that much to take.

my mom just told me my great-grandmother died of the flu in 1918, which was of the same strain as the current swine flu. interesting. and i get what everyone's saying about this being almost over-reported in the media. that's what the media does with everything that can be considered a big story, and you're right about the number of people that die from the flu each year, regardless of pandemics. however, you can't deny the right of people in affected areas to be concerned and scared, which i think is what a lot of what you're saying is coming off as to people in heavily hit areas. just because a lot of people die from some kind of flu every year doesn't make it any less scary to a person that's living in an area where it's especially prevalent. for people in the rest of the world, it's not just scary because the media is suddenly reporting it when they don't the rest of the time, but because this has a much larger risk of spreading to pandemic proportions human to human, unlike most other strains of flu we've seen in many years. while the media is over-reporting and is scaring thousands more people than they need to, that doesn't make this flu strain any less deadly, scary, or widely threatening, and people like the ones in this thread are scared for real reasons. i'm just saying be sensitive, since if i was in mexico city right now, i think i would have taken some offense to people telling me it's all a lot of fuss over nothing :smiley:.

there is a large number of reasons why i've always wanted to go to iceland, but sigur ros is reason #1, currently :P. heima sealed the deal. and yes, you can come! :dance:

*good vibes to pris* :dance:

i'd probably wet my pants if this happened. but i hope the boys would ACTUALLY be in it :P

i've been on a ridiculously huge sigur ros kick this past week. i don't know what started it, but i can't get enough, and i'm back on a huge iceland kick, too. i've been planning to go to iceland next spring for a few years now, but sigur ros inspired me to start looking at travel packages :lol:

i've also been singing "night cheese" every time i eat cheese. maybe we can...eat cheese in line? :lol:

ooh ooh, can we? i've been saying the word "slanket" all weekend just because i like how it sounds :P ugh, toooooo excited. i can't fricking wait.

I CAN GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! :dance: memorial service is officially on the 17th, so the coldplay weekend withh the coldplaying girls is good to go! oh, i'm so relieved, i can't tell you :bomb: now i can come to this thread again without feeling worried :wacky:

:dozey: way to hold out on us.

thanks for bumping so often, mel :D

i love that apple has a blankie. blankies rock :wacky: and guess they didn't cut moses's hair after he turned three...

glimmer of hope! glimmer of hope! i'm not holding my breath, but the scales may have been sliiiightly tipped to the may 16th weekend. still, i'm not allowing myself to get too hopeful just in case.

i've always dreamed that chris and gwyneth would send their kids to my old school...:P well, of course, they'd have to relocate to the CT suburbs of NYC first :sneaky:

a gesture life by chang-rae lee. i don't have the time to be pleasure-reading, yet i am :dozey:

apparently, it wasn't discussed further, my dad just said they're now considering may 16 for the date, since some relatives can fly out then. that's good for my case, but now i feel somewhat bad because if it's may 16, my cousin will have to miss her boyfriend's college graduation, and i don't want to take that away from her either. and my parents aren't really willing for it to be june 6, since my brother has exams the next week, and on may 31 my other cousin is graduating from college, so that's out. UGH :bomb: i just told my mom to reiterate (diplomatically) how important this gig is to me, and how much it would kill my wallet and her wallet to miss it. i hope she gets a chance to say this again, because i don't want them to forget that i have plans (expensive ones) on may 23. anyway, sorry for ranting about the technicalities in here...they don't exactly have to do with the concert, do they? :P

oh GOD, i googled :stunned:. i sure HOPE that's an urban legend...

ugh, my mom is going to argue our case to my dad tonight back at home. i'm a bit nervous...as much as i want to go to the concert, i don't want my dad or family to be insulted or mad.

haha, YAY! :dance: nah, i'm just really divided...i see both sides completely. i guess just to make everyone happy and be safe, i'm for removing the address and just passing the information through more private venues :smiley: though i still can't believe i had such a part in this :uhoh: :lol:

dare i ask what richard gere did with a gerbil?! :lol: i don't believe the shakespeare in love thing, though...it has urban legend written all over it, and i don't think winona would have been considered for the part anyway :P

i tend to agree with jamie in that they brought it all on themselves by airing the outside of it on TV. if they didn't foresee someone being able to find it based on a bright-purple bistro and an estate agent with only two locations in london, they really underestimate the powers of the internet. and since we did find this all out a year ago and nothing has happened, i'm not too too concerned, especially since phil was stunned a few weeks ago when fans knew where it was. there haven't been problems thus far, and i don't really think there will be many in the near future. i also think the address would have leaked out at some point, with the aid of this thread or not. as the years rolled on, more and more people would know about it, so i guess all this thread did was expose it a bit earlier than it would have been naturally exposed. on the other hand, i'm somewhat ashamed of the fact that i played a part in finding its location. i don't want to be in any way responsible for something that might happen based on loonies and people we don't know, and as much as i'm a huge fan, i don't want to compromise their privacy in the slightest. for this reason, i have to say i'm all for taking down the address from this thread. even though everyone has respected their privacy beautifully so far, i'd hate to see this get out of hand in any way. i think i was so excited and willing to help at the time because i was going to london and would get a chance to visit, but i still don't know what i was thinking, being such a stalker. i have to say that i think the address/directions to it should be taken down from being publically found, but we all know that it'll spread by word of mouth, which, although not completely safe, is a more controllable way of passing on this information :smiley:

i have a twitter that i got a while ago just to follow coldplay. i don't really see why twitter is necessary, since it's just like facebook-lite with less things you can do with it, but i'm trying to get myself to see the attraction. http://twitter.com/acrossunvrs if anyone's interested.

yes, i think i need coldplay karma vibes! i've had good coldplay karma twice: today show passes from ian and seat upgrades, but i think i REALLY need the vibes for this! (and then i'll need them for wembley, but i'm not even thinking about that yet :P).

thanks, everyone :nice:. for now, i just have everything crossed and am begging whoever's up there for the date to be june 6 so i can go. my mom will hopefully mention exactly how much money and how much fun we will lose to my dad, and i hope that has some impact on the decision. i think i'm mostly angry because literally EVERY TIME i've seen coldplay (including wembley, which hasn't happened yet!) there has been some sort of conflict which has made me feel guilty. the first time, we only said we'd go with friends two days before the show and almost physically lost the ticket. second time, i nearly lost my job. third time, i was flying to amsterdam a few hours afterwards. fourth time, i had to miss an exam, fifth time i had to keep it secret from my dad, and sixth time...is this (and seventh, wembley, is going to be nuts). i've never seen coldplay without a conflict, so there was something fishy about this show: it was too easy :lol:. anyway, we'll see what happens, but i'd just like to KNOW. i hate this not knowing.

haha, thanks christa :D. i'm not beating myself up, it's just...i've never seen coldplay in concert without some sort of conflict :lol:. wembley's already a tough gig for me to get to, so i was looking forward to this smaller one to make up for that one perhaps not going as planned (AND to be with all you guys, of course! and a million other reasons), and nothing's ever easy for me where coldplay is concerned. it just angers me because i actually saw this coming, and knowing the way my life works, my timing is terrible again. secretly, i have a bit of hope. and my mom is on my side, if you can call it a side. but it's easier for me to just pretend like i'm not going, so if i do actually get to go it will feel a thousand times better, and if i don't...well, i expected it anyway. i guess right now it's just frustrating that i don't know how it's going to work out, and i'd like to know whether i should wallow or whether i can get excited again about something.