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Fixing Fox | 94 comments (94 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

I do not know if it has been mentioned before, but I noted something on the scaremongering angle.

Swedish evening press (low standards for truthiness) had a field day with the plane. "Radioactive planes landed on Arlanda" and so on. (Arlanda is the mayor airport in Sweden.) Basically playing on fear of radioactivity. It is strange and dangerous.

Anyone seen other scaremongering campaigns related to this? Ducktape against polonium?

A vote for PES is a vote for EPP! A vote for EPP is a vote for PES! Support the coalition, vote EPP-PES in 2009!

by A swedish kind of death on Tue Dec 5th, 2006 at 10:03:58 AM EST

Re: Scaremongering (4.00 / 7)

Okay, let's stop this advocacy for animal cruelty. It's duct-tape. It is used to tape ducts, not ducks.

duck

duct

duct-tape

duck + duct-tape

by someone (s0me1smail(a)gmail(d)com) on Tue Dec 5th, 2006 at 10:48:53 AM EST
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Re: Scaremongering (4.00 / 2)

You know that these misconceptions would never exist, if the english speaking world could use the proper name of the product. Gaffa.

A vote for PES is a vote for EPP! A vote for EPP is a vote for PES! Support the coalition, vote EPP-PES in 2009!

by A swedish kind of death on Tue Dec 5th, 2006 at 10:57:41 AM EST
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Re: Scaremongering (none / 0)

Actually, gaffer tape is a different thing entirely.

And, of course, there's also the Duck® brand duct tape....

by the stormy present (stormypresent aaaaaaat gmail etc) on Tue Dec 5th, 2006 at 11:11:14 AM EST
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Re: Scaremongering (none / 0)

I stand corrected.

A vote for PES is a vote for EPP! A vote for EPP is a vote for PES! Support the coalition, vote EPP-PES in 2009!

by A swedish kind of death on Mon Dec 11th, 2006 at 07:52:17 AM EST
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Re: Scaremongering (4.00 / 2)

Is it me, or is there something rather fowl about this post?

The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman

by dvx (dvx.clt ät gmail dotcom) on Tue Dec 5th, 2006 at 12:13:32 PM EST
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