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Michael O'Leary - Virus Expert ?
By Patrick Lockerby | April 28th 2009 11:45 AM | 13 comments | Print | E-mail | Track Comments
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This isn't bad science.  It's a whole new ball game.  It's below the level of pre-school science.
It's unterkindergartnischwissenschaft.


Is Michael O'Leary a virus expert ?

Michael O'Leary is the boss of RyanAir, a budget airline with a not-so-good reputation.

Various sources today quote Michael O'Leary as saying that the swine flu outbreak is only a risk to Asian and Mexican slum dwellers.  He thinks that the viral infection can be cured with a common anti-bacterial sweet.

I predict that one of two things will now happen: either people will take this idiot's advice and die, or Ryanair will go bankrupt.  Which would you prefer to see happening?

I hereby nominate Michael O'Leary for Josh Witten's Festival of Idiots.

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Fossil Huntress's picture
Nicely done, Patrick. Top vote in the Festival. I was just glad to read Michael O'Leary's comments instead of hearing the interview. Hard to understand him at the best of times, what with the accent and that fact that his head is in his @$# - that's hand's kids. He should have been talking Avian flu. Better for eating crow.

Heidi Henderson | 04/28/09 | 15:41 PM
Steve Davis's picture
Yes. nicely done Patrick.
But what's nischwissenschaft?

Steve Davis | 04/28/09 | 18:41 PM
Gerhard Adam's picture
unterkindergartnischwissenschaft - It's sort of like "pre-school knowledge".  Roughly ....

Gerhard Adam | 04/28/09 | 18:50 PM
Steve Davis's picture
Thanks mate. I got the pre-school bit, the rest had me beat though!

Steve Davis | 04/28/09 | 19:09 PM
Gerhard Adam's picture

If I recall correctly the breakdown is as follows:

unter = under or pre-
kindergartnisch - kindergarden like
wissenschaft - learning or science


So I put it together as pre-school knowledge, although you can see how it may vary a bit.



Gerhard Adam | 04/28/09 | 19:21 PM
logicman's picture
unter = under = below
kinder = children
garten = garden
-isch = -ish
wissenschaft = science

under-kindergartenish-science

It's below the level of pre-school science.
It's unterkindergartnischwissenschaft.
:)

Patrick Lockerby | 04/28/09 | 19:28 PM
Gerhard Adam's picture
Patrick

It simply isn't fair that you should challenge my Unterkindergartnish Sprachkenntnisse.

or

детский сад языка

Gerhard Adam | 04/28/09 | 19:48 PM
logicman's picture
Gerhard:  I've never seen Росси́йская акаде́мия нау́к spelled that way before.  :-)

Patrick Lockerby | 04/28/09 | 19:59 PM
Gerhard Adam's picture
Oops ... did I say Russian ... I meant National :))

Gerhard Adam | 04/28/09 | 20:26 PM
Steve Davis's picture
Remind me to never ask for an explanation again. It's all Greek to me!

Steve Davis | 04/28/09 | 20:11 PM
Gerhard Adam's picture
My bad .... never said I could spell that well ...(must've been a typo)  :))

Gerhard Adam | 04/28/09 | 20:23 PM
Fossil Huntress's picture
Is детский сад языка, kindergarten of the language? The phrase used for the teaching of minors? 


Heidi Henderson | 04/28/09 | 20:23 PM
Gerhard Adam's picture
... actually it describes my language skills .... pre-school

Gerhard Adam | 04/28/09 | 20:28 PM

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