Something’s in my craw…

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As we move into cold and flu season, I see this more and more, and it really bothers me. So, public service announcement:

[size=+1]Don’t cough or sneeze into your hands![/size]

That’s such a disgusting disgusting disgusting disgusting disgusting habit. Now you have germy hands, and you touch doorknobs and the water faucet handle and everything else and Sage is going to catch a cold because of that.

Cough into the fold of your arm (i.e., the opposite side of your elbow). That way you don’t send your ickiness airborne, but you also don’t get it onto your hands so that you can spread it all over the place when you touchy touch everything.

Anyway, just wanted to get that out. Hopefully at least one person this season doesn’t catch a cold because their roommate read this and avoided coughing into their hands.

(Why do mothers teach their kids to do this?)
 
As we move into cold and flu season, I see this more and more, and it really bothers me. So, public service announcement:

Don’t cough or sneeze into your hands!

That’s such a disgusting disgusting disgusting disgusting disgusting habit. Now you have germy hands, and you touch doorknobs and the water faucet handle and Sage is going to catch a cold because of that.

Cough into the fold of your arm (i.e., the opposite side of your elbow). That way you don’t send your ickiness airborne, but you also don’t get it onto your hands so that you can spread it all over the place when you touchy touch everything.

Anyway, just wanted to get that out. Hopefully at least one person this season doesn’t catch a cold because their roommate read this and avoided coughing into their hands.

(Why do mothers teach their kids to do this?)
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Agreed.
 
What was it? OCD of washing your hands? Yeah, I have that with good reason. It amazes me how so many people say wash your hands after going to the bath room and there are so many signs about washing your hands yet I'll see people all over not even touch soap and water when they leave the bathroom... WTF. just WTF...

Anyone seen those Lysol commercials where they render "germs" all over stuff in the room and say would you let your children touch things now? This is the only propaganda I WILL listen to.
 
I like the people who try to swallow their sneezes. It sounds like they're about to blow an eyeball out of its socket.

No matter how you or others around you expel the germs, washing your hands frequently is a good idea, especially before eating.
 
V1P3R
What was it? OCD of washing your hands? Yeah, I have that with good reason. It amazes me how so many people say wash your hands after going to the bath room and there are so many signs about washing your hands yet I'll see people all over not even touch soap and water when they leave the bathroom... WTF. just WTF...
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I'm gonna have to start a new thread.
 
I got a flu shot, so I don't feel too at risk.

It was actually a free drive-thru flu shot. You rode up, signed a paper, stuck out your arm, got the shot, and drove on your way. I know it sounds sketchy, but it was a hospital who was hosting it.
 
Where did this sudden fear of germs come from in this country? The media constantly running stories on the latest infections, salmonella, ecol i, hangda virus, bird flu. And the Americans, they panic easily, so everyone is running around scrubbing this, spraying that, and overcooking their food and repeatedly washing their hands, trying to avoid all contact with germs. Take a ****ing chance, bunch of goddamn pussies. Besides, what do you think you have an immune system for? It's for killing germs! But it needs practice. It needs germs to practice on. So listen, if you kill all of the germs around you and live a completely sterile life, and when germs come along, you're not gonna be prepared. And nevermind ordinary germs, what are you gonna do when some supervirus comes along that turns your vital organs into liquid ****? I'll tell you what you're gonna do, you're gonna get sick, you're gonna die, cause you're ****ing weak and you got a ****ing weak immune system.

Personally, I never take any special precautions against germs. I don't shy away from people who sneeze and cough, I don't wipe of the telephone, I don't cover the toilet seat and if I drop food on the floor, I pick it up and eat it! Even if I'm at a sidewalk cafe! In Calcutta! In the poor section! On New Year's morning during a soccer riot! And you know what, in spite of all of the so called risky behavior, I never get sick, I never get infections, I don't get 'em! I don't get colds, I don't get flus, I don't get headaches, I don't get upset stomachs. And you know why? I got a good, strong immune system cause it gets a lot of practice. My immune system is equipped with the biological equivalent of fully automatic miliraty assault riffles with night vision and laser scopes. And we have recently acquired phosphorus grenades, cluster bombs and anti-personnel fragmentation mines. So, when my white blood cels are on patrol wreaking order in my blood stream, seeking out strangers and other undesirables, if they see any, ANY suspicious germs of any kind, they don't **** around. They whip out the weapons, they wax the unlucky mother****er, and they deposit the unlucky fellow directly into my colon. First defense, BAM! Into to colon you go!

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exigeracer
Where did this sudden fear of germs come from in this country?
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I'm not afraid of germs. I just don't want your filthy snot all over everything I may unwittingly touch. Same as I don't want to see your personal hairs in the soap at the gym shower. It's not about fear, it's about common courtesy.

I always sneeze as Sage does unless I absolutely cannot avoid it.
 
Zrow
It was actually a free drive-thru flu shot. You rode up, signed a paper, stuck out your arm, got the shot, and drove on your way. I know it sounds sketchy, but it was a hospital who was hosting it.
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Did you get cheese with it?
 
Duke
I'm not afraid of germs. I just don't want your filthy snot all over everything I may unwittingly touch. Same as I don't want to see your personal hairs in the soap at the gym shower. It's not about fear, it's about common courtesy.

I always sneeze as Sage does unless I absolutely cannot avoid it.
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It was just a George Carlin rant that I thought of immediately as I entered the thread.

I do have a wicked-strong immune system though.
 
I’m not a germaphobe at all – as I posted in Danoff’s thread, I don’t even use soap (and I must confess that sometimes my idea of “doing the dishes” is to use a sponge to get off the cruft, then a one second rinse in cold water). But sneezing into your hands is no different than spitting into your hands or hacking a loogie into your hands, and all three of those are just vile.
 
Sage
I’m not a germaphobe at all – as I posted in Danoff’s thread, I don’t even use soap (and I must confess that sometimes my idea of “doing the dishes” is to use a sponge to get off the cruft, then a one second rinse in cold water). But sneezing into your hands is no different than spitting into your hands or hacking a loogie into your hands, and all three of those are just vile.
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What's wrong with spit? I can see the loogie being gross, but spit is relatively benign - and that's usually all that sneezes contain.

Coughing on the otherhand...
 
Sneezes go through the nose and do expel mucus – in fact, sneezes are triggered by particles in the nasal mucus, and the whole point of a sneeze is to expel said particles.
 
Sage
Sneezes go through the nose and do expel mucus – in fact, sneezes are triggered by particles in the nasal mucus, and the whole point of a sneeze is to expel said particles.
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I usually sneeze through my mouth. I think most sneezes are through the mouth. People rarely choose to relieve that pressure through their nose - though it does happen sometimes.
 
Duke
I'm not afraid of germs. I just don't want your filthy snot all over everything I may unwittingly touch.
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I agree on this. I also keep sanitizer on my desk at all times that I use every time I go away from my desk, shake hands, or cough/sneeze.

Same as I don't want to see your personal hairs in the soap at the gym shower.
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Please tell me you do not use communal soap at the gym. I either take my own shower stuffs or wait the 3 minutes it takes me to drive home.
 
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I often sneeze extra loud and dirty like, keeps everyone in the office from coming over and bothering me.
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Brother, where have you been?!?!

EDIT: While we're talking about weird decompressions, I once had to burp. I felt it in my throat, right at the back of my tongue. I opened my mouth and pushed...and I farted instead. :dunce:

Also, I'm surrounded by sick people recently. Both my parents and more than half my coworkers have a cold, but the worst I've gotten is a sore throat yesterday and earlier today. I think it's gone. Last night i popped a few antibiotics to give my immune system a 150 shot of NOS, and I do believe my 2 day cold is on its way out very quickly.
 

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