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MY SINCEREST APOLOGIES FOR JOKING ABOUT SWINE FLU

 Thursday, April 30th, 2009 at 12:30pm by

I know that many of you are upset that I made light of the swine flu epidemic yesterday. Following a pretty harsh e-mail from longtime MetalSucks Maniac Mark Moritz-Rabson scolding me for making light of such a dire situation, I realized that this time I may have finally gone too far.

I implore you to go to this site to get the facts about swine flu. And, again, my apologies.

UPDATE: Thanks to Rob at Metal Injection for pointing us towards this site, which is also very informative.

-AR

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  • TheMetalLizard

    LIKE A GIRL!

  • Vikingfromhell890

    WAH WAH WAH WAH!

  • Damotello

    It’s grand, people are just being moany. Aporkalypse Now won’t happen. *goes off to make out with a pig*

  • Gary S.

    My salami/pepperoni sandwich from Subway is delish!

    • keepitwolf

      you dont get it from eating pigs. they have already found out most pigs arent infected

      • Cougar Party

        Don’t be a nerd.

  • PigVirus

    I am usually one to sit back and lurk in the comments, but did someone really complain about a joke? Do they even read this fucking site? The name “swine flu” alone is funny. Hey Mark, lighten up. The regular flu kills 250,000 – 300,000 people a year. Is that taboo now too? Axl, do your thing.

    • metalguy

      thats what i thought 2 a guy commented who im pretty sure said hes in the hosopital with it and he sounded fine

    • ughhh

      word

      let’s not make fun of anything that takes life away. snowboarding, tree squashing a guy, war, oh and TIME.
      do it UP axl, your buddy is legendary in my eyes.

  • Carnage9

    dont apologize i totally agree with what you said.

  • Noel

    holy crap! more than 2 people are on this site at once!!!! my god…

    • Noel

      god, go to hell.

      • Noel

        hey, fuck you,asshole.

        • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QU0BKUbflc Garske

          lmao

  • Sacajawea

    You know what’s funny? Swine flu.

  • Lorenzo

    Wait really? Someone is that big of a fag to complain about this on the internet?

    Fuck you Mark.

  • Sacajawea

    Hahaha, just clicked the link, shoulda done that to begin with.

  • poopsmcgee

    i want some of that swine flu spam from the ad on the left

  • bearbomb

    This apology isn’t official until you change the MS banner to, “You MAY have fucking swine flu.”

  • DemonicLemming

    Someone seriously bitched about a fucking “pandemic” created by the media because they were bored?

    More fucking people die of rabies every year, but I haven’t seen the fucking WHO say that’s a “pandemic” yet. Jesus Christ. People need to stop fucking blindly believing every goddamn thing a news channel says and take the time to do a little research on their own.

  • Sammy

    You know what the symptoms of swine flu are? THE SAME AS REGULAR FUCKING FLU.

  • bob

    DemonicLemming look up what a pandemic is, or read my post in the last thread about this topic. Rabies is endemic.

    • keepitwolf

      adjective
      1. Also, ep⋅i⋅dem⋅i⋅cal. (of a disease) affecting many persons at the same time, and spreading from person to person in a locality where the disease is not permanently prevalent.
      2. extremely prevalent; widespread.

      rabies is not an epidemic

      • balls

        he said endemic, not epidemic

        god damn

        you’re all acting like a bunch of fucking jews

  • jamie

    dude
    apologizing?
    no im sorry no
    youve made fun of worse
    and now your apologizing because you made light of it?
    how many people die opf flu each year?
    how many form car accidents
    thoser are ‘on limits’
    and swine flu is ‘off limits’?
    i hope when it becasue a zombie infection (as swine flu obviously will)
    mark is the first to become infected.

  • jamie

    oh wow
    my bad
    i didnt check the link
    so i feel dumb now
    and i am

  • Metal Fuckin’ Dave

    HAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Excellent work. Fucking fantastic, really.

  • j

    I have another informative site for all things swine flu. http://www.doihavepigflu.com

  • http://www.myspace.com/somethinglikesweet CJ

    Mark, it’s because of people like you that I fucking hate people. Lighten the fuck up. While you’re at it, go fuck yourself.

    • http://www.myspace.com/somethinglikesweet CJ

      P.S. Axl, it’s because of people like you that I may slowly regain my faith in people.

      • PAULO JR

        Didn’t you check the link you stupid fucking wanker?

        • http://www.myspace.com/somethinglikesweet CJ

          HAHA! Did you really just call me a Wanker? lol Dude, that’s awesome! My mental image of you is fuckin’ hilarious!

  • http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/4492/candiancarnage3.jpg pigchop

    It’s best to keep the ‘situation’ in perspective. People are too quick to freak out about these things. In fact, various strains of flu are in circulation year-round – we are always at risk. Yes, it’s true that this particular strain is a strong one – that it has killed people in Mexico only. The one case in which a child died in Texas should not be used to say the swine flu is now killing people outside of Mexico. That child was from Mexico and was only transferred to a hospital in Texas in hopes of saving the kid’s life.

    There is no pandemic as too many people are already freaking out about. The media chas a ‘killer’ story and are running with it. As well – those people who did die in Mexico – we do not know what their health status was at the time of contracting the flu. hey man…if the total amount of active diseases and such were broadcast on the news every day, we might all begin freaking out and killing each other off at a much faster rate than many of us already do.

  • pokesmot

    is the you listen to emo crunk you will get swine flu

  • pokesmot

    lol IF YOU LISTEN TO EMO CRUNK YOU WILL GET SWINE FLU
    look ma I CAN SPELLZ WORDZ

  • iolanach

    Tried to be funny.

    Failed.

  • cookie

    more like WHINE flu

    go watch some george carlin

  • Brytallica

    HA! Love it!

  • Brytallica

    Some actual facts.

    http://www.who.int/csr/don/2009_04_30_a/en/index.html

    As of 17:00 GMT, 30 April 2009, 11 countries have officially reported 257 cases of influenza A (H1N1) infection.
    The United States Government has reported 109 laboratory confirmed human cases, including one death. Mexico has reported 97 confirmed human cases of infection, including seven deaths.
    The following countries have reported laboratory confirmed cases with no deaths – Austria (1), Canada (19), Germany (3), Israel (2), Netherlands (1), New Zealand (3), Spain (13), Switzerland (1) and the United Kingdom (8).

    ONLY 8 DEATHS!

  • exor666t

    And here I thought Swine Flu was a new band- they’re touring this summer with Pig Destroyer aint they?

  • The Greys

    Sorry, Axl. It wasn’t funny yesterday and it’s not funny today.

    Stick to metal.

  • Sammy

    Worldwide there are 257 confirmed cases (by lab test) with 8 deaths (all in Mexico, counting the Mexican child who died in Texas). So, by my calculations, about 0.00000384% of the world’s population is infected, or about one in every 26 million people.

  • justin

    as far as humor is concerned, nothing is off the table. any sensitive little nancy that got pissed about a joke (not a great joke, for sure… but that’s besides the point) needs to go change their tampon.

  • http://www.myspace.com/whiskeyrambleproject x101whiskey_ramble101x

    oh geez, oh god! looks like you only apologize when pigs fly…or swine flu…. or….well you know what I mean… argh ha ha! charade you are!

  • balls

    post the email plz

  • keepitwolf
  • http://www.wvvy.org ezra

    you know what it’s called when you’re not allowed to joke about some(any)thing?
    Censorship.

  • http://infinitybasement.wordpress.com billybob

    Dude you should’ve told them to fuck off and then made another joke about it, fuck those assholes!

    • http://infinitybasement.wordpress.com billybob

      oh you did. good.

  • Rolling Thunder

    Someone once said:

    “A black president?! Yeah, when pigs FLY!”

    THEN BAM! Swine flu.

    LAWLZ!

  • dissapointed

    This proves once again that this site is run by dickless jew faggots.

  • metalguy

    ive learned more about this flu from reading these comments than any news station. and i agree with all off you.
    BTW Axl i actually did kick someone in the balls today for constantly saying i have swine flu because of my bad cough

  • http://hungrocks.com Sam Roon

    Swine flu is a normal flu… it can only kill people who would die from a regular flu anyway. This is stupid.

  • tsongas

    i’m loving this panic. you been to the store? ribs and bacon are on sale because people are dumb. my bbq this weekend is going to rule!!!!

  • ben

    For the record, I sneezed at work and someone made a swine flu joke. It annoyed me. I logged on and saw Axl’s post, and i thought it was right on. For people to get up in arms about it is lame.

  • http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/4492/candiancarnage3.jpg pigchop

    A general campaign against stupidity (best friend to fear mongering) is in order. And it would help if rock stars/ celebrities were to get involved (because we all know that the average idiot places stock in such people) .

    Sure…it could be something along the lines of:

    http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/5500/jamesswineflu.jpg

  • Some Random Dude

    You guys should try the links.

  • Sacajawea

    I’m scared of Sars.

  • Matt

    Hey Mark, harden the fuck up you blubbering pussy.

  • Sammy

    The most recent “pandemics” that were going to kill us off: SARS, MRSA, mad cow disease, avian flu, spinach salmonella, tomato salmonella, peanut salmonella, pistachio salmonella.

    • jamie

      there was pistachio salmonella? O_o

  • RyanK

    Hundreds of people have already died from the flu this year…the normal fucking flu. This is not a fucking epidemic. Same shit happened with the swine flu in the 70′s, and I’m pretty sure more people died of the vaccination than the shot itself.

    Pull your fucking heads out of your asses people.

    • keepitwolf

      1976 i believe and yes you are right more died from the vaccination than did from the “outbreak”

  • taog36

    i think joking about it is funny, and i think you were right with what you said in yesterdays post. the fact theres some jack offs geting offended by what you said shows real well how many fucking retards there are in the shit hole of a country. also whos me they arnt much of a man, go read maddox alphbet of manlyness. i mean if you cant take a joke, why the fuck are you even on the interweb, i mean about everything on the interwab is a joke and anyone offended bout the swine flue shit can go fuck off and die, and also only pussies die

  • taog36

    lol just checked out the links, awsome

  • http://www.thrashhits.com Hugh DoVoodoo

    We at Thrash Hits take Swine Flu very seriously. Like the internet, Swine Flu = SERIOUS BUSINESS.

    http://www.thrashhits.com/2009/04/poll-swine-flu-gave-us-an-excuse-to-turn-band-names-into-pig-related-band-names/

  • Owen

    It’s obviously all a muslim plot to take over the west.

    I knew there was a good reason those fuckers didnt want to eat bacon.

  • linh

    so apparently, swine flu has entered seattle, which i live nearby.
    should i be worried? i don’t really think so.
    i agree with you axl. but you’ve joked about worse, so that person shouldn’t have gone all apeshit.

  • Jizzmaster3000

    Politically correct sackless pussy. -100 diginity points.

  • Kye

    Just saying…it’s only confirmed to have killed 8 people. 8. As in probably the same number of people that will die from falling out of a chair this year.

  • wata

    LOL @ anyone with a medical mask in public.

  • ughhh

    People here seem to think you were right the first time Axl. Maybe you should apologize to the metal maniacs for apologizing?

    • http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/4492/candiancarnage3.jpg pigchop

      Fuck that. He should simply acknowledge a weak, knee jerk reaction and say: ‘fuck you all, have a nice day’.

  • Mark

    @ EVERYONE!
    I didn’t complain, I sent him the link. It’s a joke, chill.

    • http://www.myspace.com/somethinglikesweet CJ

      Yeah, well, maybe you should think about that next time you decide to…umm…..uhh….fuckin’….. alright. I got nothin’. lol That’s actually pretty damn cool. Well done.

      • mark

        thanks. I also find this epidemic hilarious

        • http://www.myspace.com/somethinglikesweet CJ

          Word. Because of all this, I was called a Wanker, which, correct me if I’m wrong, is the coolest insult this side of fuck-knuckle.

  • anthoniii

    Horse shit! We need people to joke about things to keep it in perspective… Otherwise we would all be a bunch of sheep lovin kiwi’s.

  • andre pacheco

    this kid mark goes to myschool hes a total fag jew

    • mark

      andre, shut the fuck up

      • andre pacheco

        NO YOU

  • Negrooowwwww

    Ya that kid marks a faggot, i heard that he takes it up the butt sometimes, while listening to his favorite band black tide! he says they are the most metal band ever

    • Mark

      ANDRE SHUT THE FUCK UP

  • http://www.myspace.com/hateband666 Wanga

    I actually have the flu right now. But, I think I have the right to name it whatever the hell I want. Therefor, I wish to announce that I have the “It’s The First Day of My Holidays and I Have The Fucking” Flu. It’s a super-pandemic – 100% of the people in my house have it. The cure? Listen to the new Sabbath album.

  • Anselmowitz

    Thats what you get when you fuck pigs. Who fucking cares, people get murdered & die of stupid shit all the time & its funny – what makes this off limits? What happened to the notion that this flu is blown wide out of proportion, a way to herd & control just like bird flu & the next super flu chemists are no doubt working on? Mexican flu wasn’t cute enough, people weren’t taking it seriously thinking the virus would be too lazy to get them – so they re-dub it swine flu – NOW 10x MOAR SERIOUS THAN MANG FLU, FUCK, LINE UP FOR YOUR INOCULATIONS KIDS.

    Give me a break. Write a letter to the United Nations instead of some pissant metal site, ask them for sympathy. They might even send you a free sample of “Ass Flu” they’ve been working on, save them the hassle of infecting you.

  • PrMcPotSmoker

    I think this is chimaira’s way of promoting a album… it’s pretty metal too

  • COSK!

    fuck that. you dont need to apologize. I thought coughing in that dudes face was funny as fuck. you need more of this shit.

  • ninja

    here i was getting ready to call you a pussy