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How to survive the Aporkalypse

Posted: April 28th, 2009 | Author: Aaron | Filed under: culture, humour, pointlessly, world | 5 Comments »

Obviously the swine flu is very worrying. I mean, who really wants trotters, a snout, and wiry hair on their neck? Anyway, rather than spending your life in terror and looking suspiciously at sausage rolls, why not use the epidemic to your advantage?

Below are a few ideas. Feel free to add your own in the comments. The best one gets a bag of pork scratchings.

  • Carry a pack of bacon at all times. If someone annoys you simply rub it in their face and watch them freak out.

  • Start historically informed rumours. For example: Apparently, the U.S. is considering the forcible internment of people with slightly upturned noses.

  • Wrap a piglet in a towel and carry it under your arm. Find that queues at the supermarket dissolve as you approach, and that getting an empty seat on the bus is a doddle.

  • Show that you’re internets-cool by tagging your flu-related tweets with a look-at-me-I’m-clever hashtag. Try #epigdemic, #aporkalypse, #snoutbreak, #swineflu, or my favourite, #hamdemic.

  • Take random days off work by claiming that you have a runny nose, achy bones, and a strange compulsion to roll around in your own faeces.

  • Rehash those oh-so-lame pig jokes.

  • Make the case to cancel that stressful family holiday on the continent. Spend a fortnight vegetating on the couch watching sports and adding to your collection of belly-button fluff.

  • Finally you have a socially acceptable excuse for forgoing that vile custom of shaking people’s hand. YES!

  • If your wife catches you in a bar without your wedding ring, tell her that it’s unhygienic and harbours the virus.

  • Start ill-informed superstitions. For example: I heard that, if you wash your genitals in rose-oil after having full-sex with a pig, you won’t catch the flu.

  • Write openly hateful comments about pigs (pigist?) on the websites of national newspapers and the Big British Castle.

  • Demand that Five cancels Peppa Pig, if only to desperately discourage your 2-year-old daughter from demanding every piece of cat-shit merchandise it inspires.

  • Finally, remember this, some people you don’t like might die.

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  • 5 Comments on “How to survive the Aporkalypse”

    1. 1 jameshigham said at 11:21 am on April 28th, 2009:

      I feel a pork kebab coming on.

    2. 2 Daniel Hoffmann-Gill said at 5:20 pm on April 28th, 2009:

      A few things:

      1) I already have wiry hair on my neck.
      2) I’m trying to start a meme where people refer to it as PIG AIDS
      3) The Jews and Muslims are laughing SO hard right now

    3. 3 Aaron said at 5:56 pm on April 28th, 2009:

      2) Is that similar to Dog Aids? My brother in law, Matt, has that.

    4. 4 Sunny said at 1:37 am on May 1st, 2009:

      ace list!

    5. 5 jams O'Donnell said at 6:12 pm on May 1st, 2009:

      Aporkalypse… I love it, but I think you hamming it up Tyger