Why isn't there already a topic for this? Winter is coming, and in its train rides snot and a rattling cough. Both of which I woke up with. Bah! Though at least this explains why Dundas Street had become mysteriously much steeper than usual on Friday. Now experimenting with medicinal properties of Macedonian red wine. That ought to kill the invaders off quickly, right?
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Today's rubbish germing
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Posted 5 years ago #
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I've a nagging suspicion it has appeared in the forum at some point, possibly in relation to stopping cycling to work in the winter and taking the germ-filled sneeze-ridden overheated public omnibus, possibly by @threefromleith or another winter mode-changing commuter.
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I may not have searched very hard.
Germs gaining ground. Mucus ascendant. All is snatters.
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Is Macedonian wine more likely to kill off invaders or be an invader itself?
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I did wonder. If the wine starts naming every germ stronghold they conquer after themself then the latter.
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I had flu jab yesterday. I walked into GPs, they said Oh you are in the youngst group. Cheered me up until I got to the room it said age Range 18-64. There were two other age groups.
I also wash hands obsessively at work with anti-bacterial liquid soap. Also if anyone coughs near me on a bus or train, I move. Five nights in the respiratory ward at St. John's is an experience I never want to repeat.
Had some white wine from turkey recently Cybele brand. Good.
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Top tips for avoiding current viruses:
1) Avoid being near people inside
2) Wash hands immediately after touching anything
3) Don't touch ANYTHING
4) Avoid buses, or anywhere humid (shops etc)
5) Avoid dry air conditioned areas like planes or hotel rooms, they dry out your mucus membranes
6) Don't let your ill child cough into your mouth while you lay on your back playing with her
You can trust me - I have a degree in Microbiology. If you do get a cold put a poltice of mustard and brown paper on your chest and eat an orange*
*I said a degree in microbiology not medicine
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You could probably have stopped at Avoid being near people.
I like the prohibition against both humid & dry locations. Somewhere in Edinburgh there is a human-free space that is perfectly balanced between humidity & aridity. All I have to do is find it...
p.s. (6) - why do small children DO that?
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Somewhere in Edinburgh there is a human-free space that is perfectly balanced between humidity & aridity
Finally...suddenly...Picardy Place plans make sense.
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The Picardy Place traffic island could become an isolation area for when antibiotics stop working. Hadn't thought of that.
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If they kept the monkeys there 28 days later would have been much shorter.
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@wingpig It wisnae me, honest! Though I am snottering, sneezing and coughing right now and back to riding the No.22 Mobile Furnace again (though this morning it was the Mobile Freezer - seems that now it's winter, they turn the heating off after having it running full-blast all summer).
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@gembo: Also if anyone coughs near me on a bus or train, I move.
Coming back from That London on the train a couple of weekends ago, a woman sitting opposite me had a persistent couch and the manners of a Neanderthal*. She barely managed to put her hand over her mouth when she coughed, and never actually turned away to that her ejected sputum might not actually permeate the air being breathed in by the passengers seated opposite her.
My wife pulled her quilted jacket over head and went to sleep. I put my noise-cancelling headphones on and read stuff on my phone. There was no option of moving seats, the train was fully booked as far as York where Madame Urti disembarked.
Sure enough, despite dosing myself with First Defence morning and evening, I was laid low with the snot lurgi the following Wednesday evening. It was a nasty one, too: torpedoed my plans for mountain biking and socialising at the weekend, and kept me away from work until the Tuesday after.
* This may actually be unnecessarily derogatory to Neanderthals.
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@ejstubbs that is a bad one
I was at a party at new year - Coming up six years ago - chatting to a couple who were perhaps a few years younger than me. THe chap I will call Little Starsky because he looked a bit like Paul Michael Glaser but smaller (and I think was wearing some sort of jumper with toblerone lines on it just like Starsky sported in the mean streets of New York).
Little Starsky is coughing a lot. I say - are you OK - he says yes just recovering from The Flu. I am like FFS that is you now Little Starsky giving me the flu. Which did happen. Lying delirious with pain, drugged up listening to the owls outside and David Bowie's late work Dark Star or maybe the one before anyway very atmospheric.
Back at the party, prior to the flu felling me, my pal Wilco (who has never met my partner) goes up to Little Starsky's wife and says Hi, are you Gembo's wife? Little Starsky's wife is horrified. [I used to think I was quite a catch but obviously NOT]
So I take Wilco round the house to where Mrs Gembo is and I say - This is my wife.
Mrs Gembo is very nice and chats to Wilco. She points out we are not in fact married. The host's mother overhears this and is horrified. This then gets back to me and apparently it has been decided that I should propose. It was a very snowy night so I had on walking shoes. I was given a pair of the host's husbands shoes as more appropriate to propose in. The host has a front room which is quite nice, big room, lot of original art works that her husband collects. Mrs Gembo and I are in this room. THe rest of the party is crammed in the dining room off the art room. I propose, Mrs Gembo does the Gladiator thing with her thumb on the horizontal, she starts dipping it below the meridian, we can hear them all going Awwww nooo. Mrs Gembo flips the thumb up to twelve o'clock and they all start cheering and popping champagne bottles. We were married six weeks later on Valentine's day. Flu had gone by then. Little Starsky's profession? - Doctor.
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@gembo hilarious. i had somehow assumed you got married for purely pragmatic reasons (i.e. simplifying financial matters in case of you not surviving flu)
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top germing anecdote there, gembo
couldn't be bettered
i too have danced the horrorshow pneumonia respiratory ward dance but discharged myself after three nights, with temp still at 40c
just couldn't handle the ward, and harboured the deliriously unwarranted notion that i could make it along to a hugh cornwell gig at marcos
convinced that the pneumonia was community acquired post-badminton at meadowbank leisure centre changing facilities
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@SRD, earlier proposal based on tax breaks rejected. Even earlier proposal linked to bridal advert in the Edinburgh herald where the model had a sort of bikini top and tutu combo, also rejected.
@bax, I had a tube failing to drain fluid out of my right lung into a pail (the very excellent specialist had drained as much as was willing to come out when he stuck the needle between the ribs). My suggestion that I would go home after that met with hilarity. Intravenous antibiotics for a week. Apparently the IV can be done at home now. The old boys on the ward asked me if I was there to help them
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Can people please only post high quality content in threads with titles that are relevant to that content and likely to catch my attention please?
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@Iwrats, is that not what we do?
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I like to reiterate definitively, reinforcing previous good practice.
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Are you slagging my thread title?
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Are you IWRATS?
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I used to think @instography was @iwrats and they had fashioned an argument between themself as it were.
But now I know only two of them have a beard
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The incubation period for colds and flus is normally 2 or 3 days. Also, by the time symptoms are visible, the host is not nearly as contagious as they were before symptoms became apparent.
So if you got the cold the next day after being near someone with an apparent cold, you probably didn't catch it from them.
The most common way germs are spread is by touching things like public door handles and stair banisters* (especially with wet hands) then rubbing your eyes.
@ArobComp
7) Never rub your eyes, unless you are sure your hands are clean.
*I recommend always holding stair banisters, as a fall is far more serious than a cold.
Posted 5 years ago # -
@neddie I suppose picking your nose after touching a door handle or stair bannister is also best avoided?
Not that it's something I do personally, you understand...
Posted 5 years ago # -
Probably best avoided before touching a door handle or stair banister as well. (Especially if I happen to be following you and you are of a sensitive disposition.)
Posted 5 years ago # -
Probably shouldn't have gone to pub yesterday. Cold back with vengeance - I don't generally need a lie down to recover from the energy expended on having a shower & getting dressed. Ooofr. (Bored with this now!)
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Are you IWRATS?
Is IWRATS coughing up green stuff? If so: probably.
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Little Starsky definitely coughed his flu all over me on 31.01.12 approx. 10 pm
I succumbed to the Little Starsky flu several days later.
I have bought antibacterial handwash and am Lady Macbeth with the handwashibng
I do have a kittle tickle in my throat from being in pub with Unhurt last night though accept Neddie time line.
@unhurt - GP - antibiotics - secondary infection? Better by far than 5 nights in the respiratory ward.
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