I love it when people use big words to try to make themselves sound smarter than they are. And usually it's a similar word to the word they should have used. When I came home today I found my housemate watching Outbreak, that virus/panic movie with Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo and a bunch of other people in it, including a youngish Kevin Spacey with a dreadful dye job. I say "youngish" but Kevin Spacey was never really young. I think he was born in his late twenties but had a really hard life in the womb. For me the best part of that movie is watching Patrick Dempsey die and fantasising that without him Grey's Anatomy would never have been made. But it was and the world is a worse place for it. So I noticed the movie was on and said "Oh is this that virus movie from years ago where the monkey kills Patri..."
"Outbreak. Movies that deal with the desecration of the human race just appeal to me sometimes"
I guess if you take "desecration" to mean "violation", then she is sort of right.
Anyway, the movie kicks on and people intestines start melting in a hospital and she says "And that's why it's better to stay at home in your house sometimes"
Yes. It IS better to stay at home in your house in case of a sudden outbreak of a fictional strain of an Ebola-like virus that melts your organs within 24 hours.
The movie goes on and now the military are involved in quarantining a town.
"It makes you wonder what they've got hidden at the bottom of the pentagon doesn't it? You know, like what viruses they've got down there and weapons and that. It's scary to think they could basically make a weapon out of the AIDS virus"
"I guess"
All of a sudden, she is an AIDS expert.
"You know they have finally worked out who Patient Zero is for the AIDS virus was?
"No, I did not kno..."
"Yeah it was someone from in the Congo from back in like 1930 or something."
EDIT* So she may have been right about Patient Zero. http://www.radiolab.org/story/169879-patient-zero/
Decimation, perhaps.
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