I first read that as "naked," and it made sense anyway.

Oh. Is she pregnant?

Man, if it turns out the radiation has spread to innocents in that restaurant and throughout London, the Brits are going at the Russians' throats to get to the bottom of this. I smell an international incident.

Your enemy cannot betray you, she poisoned the bastard and embroiled us in their domestic dispute,


or not.

TheSilverOne

Me thinks yer smeller works good

Time to go on ebay and get one of these:

He found that little man in the boat.

Isnt being positive for radiation a prerequisite for being Russian?

Is it just me, or is half the UK radioactive these days?

Lotus: "Is it just me, or is half the UK radioactive these days?"

Actually radiation poisoning is not that widespread. Although several cases over the years have resulted in contamination, only a about 1% of UK has been exposed to and suffers from radiation poisoning (Statreportsradiation.com/fak3/5+AtS/UK)

I laughed so hard I farked myself.

I hope it turns out that she's pregnant too because her child would totally be like that super villian in Superman IV.

Frinking my Nog!

Yeh, and who's going to have to keep an eye on her and call in the specialists?

Guess who - 'socialised medicare' - the NHS.

See, once the sh** hits the fan, you need the professionals.

All these performance based fancy franchise freemarketeers aint what you want when it's your life on the line.

Private/capitalist medicare systems seriously suck.

Haha...did we miss Yakov's catchphrase? I guess I missed a meeting.

Why the hell is this such big news? Am I missing something here? Every farking day this is front-page news, yet I cannot figure it out. Please, someone explain it to me.

I can't see Britain doing anything about this. What are they going to do? At most, restrict the travel of Russian nationals.

lotus

Russia is not in the UK

Anyone want wasabi?

Yes pass the wasabi please.

/Ordering pizza

holy shiat thatd be crazy if you died and had to be buried in a special fukken radioactive-proof coffin. i imagine it being made of very thick steel with lots of nuts and bolts sticking out of it and rivets and stuff. yeah. russian spies are hardcore.

The Bush Crime Family murders rivals with more discreation.**

Pooty Poot could learn from them.

**Since the days when they were murdering JFK and RFK, that is.

"Why the hell is this such big news? Am I missing something here? Every farking day this is front-page news, yet I cannot figure it out. Please, someone explain it to me."

That, is a farking good question. Apart from this, and the Antikythera Mechanism, there's been nothing else on the news.

I get the impression it might be one of these media smoke screens that diverts attention from the 1000+ Iraqi civilians who will be killed this week.

They take any old story and 'Monster' it, to use a Murdoch Fox Neoconcorp expression.

Someone who works in my company's London office goes to that sushi place a lot. He called in sick today. Coincidence???

discreation?

Stop or there will be... Trouble.

Mr Xhin:

It's not that we don't have our own conspiracy here. It's just that ours is better for American interests than the Russian, Chinese, Japanese, German, Indian, or Islamic conspiracies.

Vladmir has 'splain' to do...

The whole Joseph Stalin imitation is getting old. Figure it out or next time the Chechens act up, the only help coming from the West might be to the other side.

--h

SLOPPY WORK!
\Or a poin't being WELL made.

barneyfifesbullet

Yakov Smirnoff, is by far, the most Patriotic person I've ever met.

I wish Yakov Smirnoff was my father...

:(

Least clandestine assassination ever..

Why the hell is this such big news? Am I missing something here? Every farking day this is front-page news, yet I cannot figure it out. Please, someone explain it to me.

Rewind to the beginning and it clears up a tad:

*Russian spy poisoned in unlikely manner. Comes with the territory.
*Spy was outspoken critic of Russian government. Eyes turn to one Vladimir Putin, who's already got eyes on him due to a string of other high-profile Russian anti-Putinites getting offed mysteriously. Putin denies everything. You know, as if he would admit to such a thing.
*It comes out that the spy was poisoned with polonium, which is something you're not going to have laying around unless you're... dun dun dunnnnn... a government. And what government would want him offed? Why, Russia, of course! Which is led by Vladimir Putin!
*Putin denies again.
*The UK, where he was poisoned, realizes, oh wait a minute, RADIATION? In downtown London? OH SHIAT! Calls immediately go out to people who were in that area to get themselves tested.
*Turns out we've got innocent bystanders hit by the polonium. Including the spy's wife. This makes UK citizens hit with Russian radiation, in the UK. That's an international incident if I've ever seen one.
*Oh, and did I mention that several planes that have left London since then have also tested positive, and have been going all over the European continent?

Damn, didn't close the italics tag.

Must be something in the water.

nice...

Fox has just signed Putin to do a book/show called "If I Did It".

I want to know what the chances are of some of this stuff being carried onto connecting flights and then aspirated or ingested during the in-flight service.

I was on a BA 737 GLA-LGW two weeks ago.

Having some knowledge on the subject and not being sick I'm not worried about it but I wonder if I and many thousands of others have been exposed through cross-contamination of the BA fleet.

The upside is that it has a half life of 138 days so it shouldn't be around *that* long. :) Another upside is that aspiration or ingestion is required to harm you. At least it's an alpha emitter.

Uhm... Hittable upon first glance. Do Not Want after realizing that she's positively glowing...

slykens1: I wonder if I and many thousands of others have been exposed through cross-contamination of the BA fleet.

What I wonder is how the concentration of all these 'traces' compares to the amount of naturally-occuring polonium-210. You'll get some of it anywhere that has radon in the air or uranium in the soil, and it's even found in cigarette smoke. With a sensitive enough detector you could get a lot of false positives.

Chances are that any exposure due to cross-contamination was well below the amount of extra radiation you were exposed to just by being at a high altitude.

Radiation poisoning starts with symptoms, then the symptoms seem to go away, but then they come back and then...whatever else happens...

(just finished Intro to General Chem *takes a bow*)

I feel like Putin isn't connected to this simply because it's just so painfully obvious. Dude is ex-KGB, and the best he can do to silence the opposition is to use an easily detected radioactive poison with obvious effects?

"I read the news today, oh boy"

gjs_cds: um... the lady in the photo isn't the spy's widow. that's maria gaidar, the daughter of former premiere yegor gaidar, who became violently ill at a conference in ireland the day after the spy died. he and his daughter are also very critical of the current russian govt. doctors are saying her pops was poisoned, but arent saying much beyond that.

(lyrics for no reason... sorry)


I read the news today oh boy
About a lucky man who made the grade
And though the news was rater sad
Well I just had to laugh
I saw Ihe photograph.
He blew his mind out in a car
He didn't notice that the lights had changed
A crowd of people stood and stared
They'd seen his face before
Nobody was really sure
If he was from the House of Lords.
I saw a film today oh boy
The English Army had just won the war
A crowd of people turned away
But I just had the book.
I'd love to turn you on
Woke up, fell out of bed,
Dragged a comb across my head
Found my way downstairs and drank a cup,
And looking up I noticed I was late.
Found my coat and grabbed my hat
Made the bus in seconds flat
Found my way upstairs and had a smoke,
Some body spoke and I went into a dream
I read the news today oh boy
Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire
And though the holes were rather small
They had to count them all
Now they know how many holes it takes to fill fhe
Albert Hall.
I'd love to turn you on

If the purpose of killing an opponent isn't just to silence that opponent but to scare others, you don't make the killing look like an accident -- or like, say, a mugging. You stage the killing in a way that sends a clear message.

Granted, having a few people riddle the victim with bullets from automatic weapons while he's passing a fruit stand also is pretty clearly not a mugging, but it also is much more likely to draw immediately attention from law enforcement, whereas radiation poisoning might let you get out of the country before then.

If it really was Putin then he should have his Master Of The Universe ring taken away from him.

That's just unforgivably sloppy. Radioactive crap all over half of Europe when one bullet would have done the job. Ridiculous.

Mr. Xhin:

The Bush Crime Family murders rivals with more discreation.**

Pooty Poot could learn from them.

**Since the days when they were murdering JFK and RFK, that is.

*****



Not impressed.

Meet the new Russia, same as the old Russia.