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  1. gembo
    Member

    Was coughed at repeatedly at nice little seminar yesterday. The cougher finally left the table and went to cough outside. Just as i was about to leave.

    The last person who transferred their cold to me at work (a pal actually) has some interesting views on the rhino virus e.g. I don’t do colds, I am not infectious when coughing etc

    Obviously we have to have contact with each other and various surfaces are covered in virus. Perhaps handkerchiefs will make a comeback? They do tend to contain at least some of the contagion? Also helpful for @IWRATS tears?

    Posted 4 years ago #

  2. jdanielp
    Member

    @gembo just as well I didn't make PY then since I would've almost certainly coughed at you.

    Posted 4 years ago #

  3. gembo
    Member

    @jdanielp, thanks for staying indoors. I spent 5 nights on the respiratory ward in St. John’s with the old guys pissing on each other. Has made me very very intolerant of people without handkerchiefs, which lets face it is basically people

    Posted 4 years ago #

  4. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    @gembo

    I am still using a suite of handkerchiefs I inherited from my grandfather in the eighties. They are a bit grey and threadbare. I am not sure that you can even buy handkerchiefs any more?

    Almost cried as I waded into the Holyrood crowd after work and caught the emotion.

    Posted 4 years ago #

  5. gembo
    Member

    Hankie would come in handy in the surge

    I have about 20 including one of my dad’s i found in his golf bag when i inherited his clubs.

    As long as you wash and iron them and change them frequently, they do the trick

    They are old fashioned but maybe they will make a comeback when we run out of surgical masks

    See also `nosegays

    Posted 4 years ago #

  6. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    Posted 4 years ago #

  7. chdot
    Admin

    Unlimited supply -

    https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_nkw=mens+handkerchiefs

    Posted 4 years ago #

  8. minus six
    Member

    Perhaps handkerchiefs will make a comeback?

    atomisation caused by motoring culture put paid to the hankie, same reason that people aren't wearing enough hats

    I spent 5 nights on the respiratory ward in St. John’s with the old guys

    similar, at little france, although i discharged myself prematurely, delirious with 40c pneumonia, after three nights of other people hell

    haven't smoked a fag since though, so its all good

    Posted 4 years ago #

  9. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    people aren't wearing enough hats

    Testify, brother.

    Posted 4 years ago #

  10. gembo
    Member

    Yes as an eminent Victorian I appear to have a number of hats

    Posted 4 years ago #

  11. Rosie
    Member

    A friend of mine is recovering from pneumonia and will be resting for a while yet. I know quite a few people who have had it. I'm always vaguely surprised, thinking it's one of those illnesses that's controllable by anti-biotics, and though it used to be a huge killer, is pretty much under control. But it's still quite common.

    My dad had it when I was born, and nearly died. He first saw me through the glass at a sanatorium. He'd been a heavy smoker and was frightened into giving up. We then became a rabidly anti-smoking household.

    Posted 4 years ago #

  12. gembo
    Member

    I had the pneumonia jab upon release but other lower lung infections still could get me

    I have the flu jab each year, not sure if that helps

    Posted 4 years ago #

  13. minus six
    Member

    the long recovery period is outrageous, even a minor laugh is like being knifed in the ribs

    and scarring of the lower lung leaves you vulnerable, but i reckon the cycling cancels it all out

    pneumonia jab? is that a thing ? bah, never got the offer

    Posted 4 years ago #

  14. neddie
    Member

    Surgical masks completely useless against coughs & sneezes, as they don’t seal tightly enough around the face to actually hold anything in

    Posted 4 years ago #

  15. LaidBack
    Member

    Pavement gritter out at Viewforth Bridge an hour ago. Wet on bike but above zero. Expect frost later tonight?

    Posted 4 years ago #

  16. ejstubbs
    Member

    @rosie & gembo: Pneumonia isn't a disease caused by a specific micro-organism, like smallpox. It's the medical term for inflammation of the alveoli which can be triggered by a number of different causes. In that sense it's bit like gastroenteritis: a name for a collection of symptoms which doesn't of itself identify the cause.

    From Wiki (with my emphases & comments):

    Pneumonia is usually caused by infection with viruses or bacteria and less commonly by other microorganisms, certain medications and conditions such as autoimmune diseases.

    Vaccines to prevent certain types of pneumonia are available. [This is probably what gembo had, once they thought they'd identified the underlying cause/type of pneumonia.]

    Treatment depends on the underlying cause. Pneumonia believed to be due to bacteria is treated with antibiotics. [If the cause was believed to be a viral infection then antibiotics would be ineffective.]

    Posted 4 years ago #

  17. gembo
    Member

    @ejstubbs, yes sorry i did stress I was aware the jab they gave me only covered certain strains as it were.

    I had been cycling in to work and train home instead of laying up with big doses of antibiotics, silly me so the hospital sojourn was for intravenous antibiotics. There was the small matter of draining fluid from my right lung which remiains a little scarred. They had me up as far as Empyema but downgraded this when the fluid was found to be lacking any bacteria/infection

    Hope that makes sense. Basically I am sharing such detail to warn anyone else about the risks of avoiding doctors.

    The consultant who later moved to the village informed Mrs Garto that under no circumstances was I to give up cycling. Good egg.

    Posted 4 years ago #

  18. wingpig
    Member

    I am also a bearer of handkerchieves. Currently on the phlegmy-lungs stage of a snot infection which started last week, which raised my awareness of the number of different people to whom I am exposed at work even if I get there in such a way as to avoid the interiors of buses.

    Posted 4 years ago #

  19. gembo
    Member

    I am junking my campaign for shorter cars in favour of Campaign for Compulsry Reinstatment of the handkerchief. CFCROTH

    Actually in an advert after rugby yesterday vinnie jones was selling a fecking huge motor 4x4 for £19995. There is little hope for the future if that is how Cheap these gas guzzling behemoths have become.

    There used to be a scenario where smaller Japanese cars were encroaching on Lincoln Continentals in America as gas became dearer than ten cents a gallon. Trump has top trumped this has he? (A great deal of my motor vehicular knowledge comes from a pack of Top Trumps cards. From 1975? Longest car - THe Lincoln Continental. Largest Turning Circle Rolls Royce Phantom IV, lowest fuel consumption at one mile per gallon the Lamborghini Countach et cetera. NB these are memories not facts).

    Posted 4 years ago #

  20. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    Largest Turning Circle Rolls Royce Phantom IV

    As class egghead I was once asked to adjudicate on this point. Is it the largest or smallest turning circle that wins? I said smallest. This is probably a good test for future politica lbeliefs?

    If the rumours are to be believed the guy who asked for the ruling went on to be a failure in the armed robbery business.

    Posted 4 years ago #

  21. SRD
    Moderator

    I used cotton handkerchiefs for many years, then introduced MrSRD to them. Have lots of plain white ones, but was particularly proud of my multi-coloured bandana-style ones. However, he now has taken over my entire collection (except the embroidered ones). And I am back to disposables.

    Posted 4 years ago #

  22. gembo
    Member

    @iwrats, a bit like pool, you can mix the rules with top trumps, so your adjudication is good. My favourite ever top trumps hand was when I won with Likeability on the Road Dahl pack with the kids. I was trying to lose. I had Mrs Twit and she had a likeability socre of zero. But my youngest had Mr Twit and his likeability score was minus 1

    Also @iwrats, if I remember that rumour correctly he had forgotten your adjudication and tried to rob the bank in a very dilapidated rolls Royce phantom IV and the turning circle was so wide he became stuck in the alley? Dang he said I should have listened more carefully to IWRATS

    @srd gonna have to add Uses Handkerchiefs (cotton) to the CCE Venn diagram

    Posted 4 years ago #

  23. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    @gembo

    No, he thought incorrectly that he could carry his free shot.

    Posted 4 years ago #

  24. gembo
    Member

    @iwrats, but i heard he did nominate his pocket?

    Posted 4 years ago #

  25. gembo
    Member

    Should say of course despite being almost no wind earlier some terrible and dreadful weather outside leading to these alarming pensees. Instead of hitting the road

    Posted 4 years ago #

  26. LivM
    Member

    @srd @gembo My mother made me some lovely handmade Liberty lawn handkerchiefs for Christmas. I use them every day. My nose is much happier than with paper.

    Posted 4 years ago #

  27. Ed1
    Member

    A bit windy today

    Posted 4 years ago #

  28. fimm
    Member

    Mr fimm likes a handkerchief and makes sure he always has one in his pocket. They tend to get washed in the pocket too, so it is probably just as well he uses cotton ones (he even has one with bicycles on it).

    It is quite windy today.

    Posted 4 years ago #

  29. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    There was a very large trampoline propped against this traffic sign on top of the adjacent hedge this morning.

    Was it windy last night?

    Posted 4 years ago #

  30. Frenchy
    Member

    So that's what that sign's for!

    Posted 4 years ago #

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