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Apparently the virus has already mutated to a new and more virulent strain. The Benshaw virus is said to be sweeping through Lancashire.
 
Exponential model:
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Current Infection and death toll:
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davek1808 said:
You need to start worrying if it mutates into the alpine virus.
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I would sooner metamorphosise into Bear Grill's and drink my own piss than sup that elixorial madness. It came off the rounds if I remember rightly delivering door to door and was about a pound a gallon and overpriced at that. The bad old days indeed and nowadays kids don't know their born with the Coke Tango and Fanta. It can't of been Alpine spring water they used in the manufacturing process, maybe Peckham spring. But I'm being harsh as it's all subjective however I had chosen my corner and would always be a Ben Shaw man and nothing more satisfying to marry with a with pie and pea supper than a bottle of Dandelion and Burpdock. I do not know if it had any healing powers to ward of the nasties but all I know was that I never got ill throughout my childhood except from the government harvesters who stole my tonsils and appendix when all I had was a touch of gripe and a sore throat. To this day I think they sold them on like the Chinese do but maybe a discussion for a different thread as I have no desire to derail. I hope our wuhun brothers get better soon and they manage to contain the worst of the outbreak.

ALPINE POP (1960s/70s ) Sunderland-based fizzies delivered, memorably, to outlying towns via the Alpin lorry. Rob Dixon – “It came in loads of different sugar laden flavours My favourite was pineapple. It was always delivered by well hard kids, who used to hang off the van, and leg it round in huge oxford bags, and mashed up two- tone big heeled shoes. My mum always made me pay for it, and I used to hate it , as I always got the lad with the feather cut, and the knotted Sunderland scarf round his neck, who would give me the fingers as they sped off up the road. What nightmares are made of.”

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Two Gun Bob said:
I would sooner metamorphosis into Bear Grill's and drink my own piss than sup that elixorial madness. It came off the rounds if I remember rightly delivering door to door and was about a pound a gallon and overpriced at that. The bad old days indeed and nowadays kids don't know there born with the Coke Tango and Fanta. It can't of been Alpine spring water they used in the manufacturing process, maybe more Peckham spring. But I'm being harsh as it's all subjective however I had chosen my corner and would always be a Ben Shaw man and nothing more satisfying to marry with a with pie and pea supper than a bottle of Dandelion and Burpdock. I do not know if it had any healing powers to ward of the nasties but all I know was that I never got ill throughout my childhood except from the government harvesters who stole my tonsils and appendix when all I had was a touch of gripe and a sore throat. To this day I think they sold them on like the Chinese do but maybe a discussion for a different thread as I have no desire to derail. I hope our wuhun brothers get better soon and they manage to contain the worst of the outbreak.

ALPINE POP (1960s/70s ) Sunderland-based fizzies delivered, memorably, to outlying towns via the Alpin lorry. Rob Dixon – “It came in loads of different sugar laden flavours My favourite was pineapple. It was always delivered by well hard kids, who used to hang off the van, and leg it round in huge oxford bags, and mashed up two- tone big heeled shoes. My mum always made me pay for it, and I used to hate it , as I always got the lad with the feather cut, and the knotted Sunderland scarf round his neck, who would give me the fingers as they sped off up the road. What nightmares are made of.”

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As me Mam couldn't afford Alpine, Ben Shaws or Corona I wouldn't know which was best but as I still have my tonsils and appendix perhaps the Ben Saws D&B was the reason you lost yours.
 
Blue Mist said:
As me Mam couldn't afford Alpine, Ben Shaws or Corona I wouldn't know which was best but as I still have my tonsils and appendix perhaps the Ben Saws D&B was the reason you lost yours.
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same here.
Fizzy drinks in our house were orange squash with Andrews liver salts stirred in.
 
Blue Mist said:
As me Mam couldn't afford Alpine, Ben Shaws or Corona I wouldn't know which was best but as I still have my tonsils and appendix perhaps the Ben Saws D&B was the reason you lost yours.
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No they just took them Musty and no child was safe back then. On our ward at Birch hill I recognized another 5 school mates who tried desperately to warn me but could not speak as they had already been harvested. I think they sold them on but can offer little in the way to substantiate except a sixth sense but the truth will out. For families who could not afford fizzy drinks there was always what we affectionately called Spo which was a home made liquorice drink. Traditionally it was made with a chemist's hard liquorice stick cut into pieces and dropped into a bottle of cold water. This was left in a cool dark place for a week or so. Once infused the liquorice water could be enjoyed by shaking the bottle and sucking the brown foam and liquid from the neck of the bottle and if that did not stir the imagination you could always rely on good old Corporation pop as Mr Stoke just espoused..
 
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Two Gun Bob said:
No they just took them Musty and no child was safe back then. On our ward at Birch hill I recognized another 5 school mates who tried desperately to warn me but could not speak as they had already been harvested. I think they sold them on but can offer little in the way to substantiate except a sixth sense but the truth will out. For families who could not afford fizzy drinks there was always what we affectionately called Spo which was a home made liquorice drink. Traditionally it was made with a chemist's hard liquorice stick cut into pieces and dropped into a bottle of cold water. This was left in a cool dark place for a week or so. Once infused the liquorice water could be enjoyed by shaking the bottle and sucking the brown foam and liquid from the neck of the bottle and if that did not stir the imagination you could always rely on good old Corporation pop as Mr Stoke has just espoused..
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A liquorice stick left in water for a week in a cupboard, what could possibly go wrong. I do remember those Liquorice twigs though, you needed your gran to chew them soft first.
 
Blue Mist said:
Hang on a minute. China had a policy of one child per couple for donkeys years, they are now moaning that there are not enough young people to look after the elderly. Now a virus is killing the elderly. Oh I do like a good conspiracy theory.
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Blue Mist said:
Hang on a minute. China had a policy of one child per couple for donkeys years, they are now moaning that there are not enough young people to look after the elderly. Now a virus is killing the elderly. Oh I do like a good conspiracy theory.
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I have had 2 people in real life tell me that the US implanted this virus to weaken China, what an age we're living in ehh ;)
 
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