June 29th, 2008 by Denise
Hey you! Yea, you on 35th Street who casually dropped your napkins. And you, Mr. Crush-your-can-and-leave-it-on-the-subway-guy!
Do you know what you’re actually doing?
Did you know…
“Litter can end up in rivers and canals, polluting the water supply.”
“Paper cups and beverage cans can hold rainwater, providing breeding locations for mosquitoes - which have been known to cause disease like the West Nile Virus.”
“It is also a road hazard and can occasionally contribute to accidents.”
(source: Answers.com)
This is New York City, man. Manhattan, The Big Apple.
No one wants to see it littered with a bunch of garbage.
FYI – your careless act of indifference did not go unnoticed. I am silently (ok, maybe not so silently) waiting for karma (the environment’s super BFF) to do its thing.
Should you slip and fall by way of a discarded banana peel, or forget to mind the gap on the train and stub your toe… this will be natures way of saying “right back atcha”.
Does littering make you just as mad? Help out by answering these Littering questions on WikiAnswers, and let’s spread the message that it is not ok!
Posted in Everything else: Some things are too awesome to describe.
Tags: banana peel • Big Apple • can • cups • disease • environment • Garbage • green • karma • Litter • Manhattan • mosquitos • napkins • New York City • subway • West Nile Virus
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Remember Jim? Of course you do!
He’s managed to make contact with me from the depths of Africa, where he is currently hiding from assassins researching banana leaves. He sent this WikiAnswers Wednesday question via Morse code and after decoding it, I realized there is something very important to be said for vaccination research.
Do mosquitoes have tails?
I don’t know if mosquitoes have tails, but I can tell what they do have:
malaria.
Malaria’s a bitch, and I know first hand after having gone through some pretty miserable days with it a few weeks back. I was all set to get on a boat on Lake Tanganyika, when I felt like dying. The first day is pretty awful, in part because the medicine you take in helping you get rid of the disease also goes ballistic on your body. The next day was bad, but I didn’t feel like dying. After that I felt a lot better.
Still, I hate mosquitoes, and I don’t think your question is the right one in this case. The correct question should be how do we get rid of all mosquitoes forever, regardless of any negative consequences this might have on the natural balance of the world or whatever. Does this help?
Why do you even care if they have tails? Does it matter? Yes, they do have tails… Do you feel better now? Or… No, they don’t; has your life significantly changed?
Anyways, have a nice day and I hope you don’t get malaria.
Jim
Posted in WikiAnswers Wednesday: Celebrating the most curious day of the week.
Tags: Africa • disease • Jim • Lake Tanganyika • malaria • mosquitoes
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February 19th, 2008 by Shara
Bless me!
Wow. I don’t know about you all, but I know I’ve been sick for what seems like months now. All this sneezing and coughing…fevers and chills. I never remember the rules of nursing my illness. Do I feed the fever? Does chicken soup really help? I am always asking 100 questions when I get sick. Now I turn to WikiAnswers where I can ask anything! Check it out…one contributor even wanted to know if he was guilty of murder for passing on his cold to someone who died! Poor guy must be laden with guilt.
Luckily, we here at WikiAnswers have a growing database of cold and flu questions and answers just in time for the season.
Snuggle up under your blankets! Grab your tissues, your cough syrup…and most importantly, your lap top! Ask and answer questions about colds and the flu…find out what other people are talking about…and for goodness sake, cover your mouth next time you sneeze!
We can overcome the flu season together!
Posted in Featured topic: Looking at the Q&A’s of what’s on our minds today.
Tags: answers.com • chicken soup • cold • common cold • disease • flu • flu season • illness • sick • tissue • wikianswers
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