Random Thoughts

[The Valkyrie]

If a vampire bites someone with AIDS, do they contract it as well?

I remember seeing an old vampire comedy where Dracula ambushes and feeds from a drunk.

The next day there is horrible, drunken singing coming from Dracula's coffin.

So I suppose it is possible.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

If a vampire bites someone with AIDS, do they contract it as well?

No. Vampires aren’t technically alive, so the HIV wouldn’t be able to hijack the cell reproduction process. Furthermore, I doubt that a vampire who swallowed AIDS-infected blood could even become a carrier. Their lower body temperature would make it exceedingly difficult for the virus to survive.

Boru

[Angrboda]

If a vampire bites someone with AIDS, do they contract it as well?

No. Vampires aren’t technically alive, so the HIV wouldn’t be able to hijack the cell reproduction process. Furthermore, I doubt that a vampire who swallowed AIDS-infected blood could even become a carrier. Their lower body temperature would make it exceedingly difficult for the virus to survive.

Boru

Oh c'mon. They've got to have some type of metabolism and that metabolism obviously involves blood. I'm calling bullshit on this one.

[no one]

Then could the virus evolve into Vampire AIDS?

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Since the witnesses of jehovah don't celebrate holidays, do they reap the rewards of the added pay?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

No. Vampires aren’t technically alive, so the HIV wouldn’t be able to hijack the cell reproduction process. Furthermore, I doubt that a vampire who swallowed AIDS-infected blood could even become a carrier. Their lower body temperature would make it exceedingly difficult for the virus to survive.

Boru

Oh c'mon.  They've got to have some type of metabolism and that metabolism obviously involves blood.  I'm calling bullshit on this one.

Vampiric cells don’t divide - this is why vampires don’t age (source: Anne Rice). If cells don’t divide, viruses can’t reproduce.

But the chief argument against AIDS-infected vampires is that HIV doesn’t survive room temperature for more than about six days (source on vampiric body temperature: Bram Stoker)


Boru

[The Valkyrie]

Would suicidal lemmings be more entertaining if they exploded?

Would it help with their tendencies to set up a Lemming Samaritans hotline?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Would suicidal lemmings be morecentertaining if they exploded?

Would it help with their tendencies to set up a Lemming Samaritans hotline?

EVERYTHING is more centertaining [sic] if it explodes.

Boru

[The Valkyrie]

Would suicidal lemmings be morecentertaining if they exploded?

Would it help with their tendencies to set up a Lemming Samaritans hotline?

EVERYTHING is more centertaining [sic] if it explodes.

Boru

Centertaining is a word I devised to mean the centre of attention and entertaining.

It's not a typo.

Honest!


No, really!

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

EVERYTHING is more centertaining [sic] if it explodes.

Boru

Centertaining is a word I devised to mean the centre of attention and entertaining.

It's not a typo.

Honest!


No, really!

Then you have my cinserest apologies.

Boru

[Angrboda]

In 1901, a routine White House press release was issued on behalf of new president Theodore Roosevelt headlined, “Booker T. Washington of Tuskegee, Alabama, dined with the President last evening.” While prominent black political leaders had visited the White House before, a dinner with a leading African American political figure was, as one historian has described it, a violation of “the prevailing social etiquette of white domination.” The response was immediate and vicious.

One newspaper described it as “the most damnable outrage which has ever been perpetrated by any citizen of the United States.” Senator William Jennings Bryan commented, “It is hoped that both of them [Roosevelt and Washington] will upon reflection, realize the wisdom of abandoning their purpose to wipe out race lines.” In the face of the uproar, the White House’s press operation first denied the event happened, later said it had “merely” been a lunch, and then defended it by saying that at least no women had been present.

How Democracies Die. Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt.

Never has a president flouted so many unwritten rules so quickly. Many of the transgressions were trivial—President Trump broke a 150-year White House tradition by not having a pet. Others were more ominous. Trump’s first inaugural address, for example, was darker than such addresses typically are (he spoke, for example, of “American carnage”), leading former President George W. Bush to observe: “That was some weird shit.”

How Democracies Die. Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt.