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Short story:
Yesterday i had a big dinner with my whole family and family friends. The wife of my cousin had a hudge flu, coughing every 2 minutes & sniffing ...
And here comes the drama.
I told her she couldn't come with us at the table because of the risk of infecting other people. Everybody jumped at me saying she can come and saying i'm a rude person trying to keep her out blabla...
I tried to explain them the basic about how flu is spreading from one people to another but they just ignored me, laughing at me, almost calling me a nasty idiot.
That was just pathetic and a hopeless case so i stopped arguing.
She spreaded the flu all the dinner, coughing non-stop near me, on the food, on the plates and everywhere.
Today i have a sore throat and i feel tied, i think it's the beginning of a flu.
How can people still allow sick person to eat at the same table in 2010? It's fucking insane.
Stupid people always win because there are more of them, you cant fight against the swarm.
I'm in a terrible mood at the moment, i feel the flu overrun my body.
Happy new year tl.net
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You know, I never heard of flu being contagious only at a dinner table.
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On January 02 2010 04:01 gds wrote:Short story:Yesterday i had a big dinner with my whole family and family friends. The wife of my cousin had a hudge flu, coughing every 2 minutes & sniffing ... And here comes the drama. I told her she couldn't come with us at the table because of the risk of infecting other people. Everybody jumped at me saying she can come and saying i'm a rude person trying to keep her out blabla... I tried to explain them the basic about how flu is spreading from one people to another but they just ignored me, laughing at me, almost calling me a nasty idiot. That was just pathetic and a hopeless case so i stopped arguing. She spreaded the flu all the dinner, coughing non-stop near me, on the food, on the plates and everywhere. Today i have a sore throat and i feel tied, i think it's the beginning of a flu. How can people still allow sick person to eat at the same table in 2010? It's fucking insane. Stupid people always win because there are more of them, you cant fight against the swarm. I'm in a terrible mood at the moment, i feel the flu overrun my body. Happy new year tl.net
no offense, but sounds like you have a pretty dumb or uneducated family
I hope all of them catch the flu, its unfortunate you might have though
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you're not offending me, i totally agree with you.
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Wow... Why would she laugh at you, there is absolutely no argument as to why she is right.
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When you suggested the sick person stay away and everyone got offended, that was the time to choose to exclude yourself instead. If nobody will listen to you, then just don't join them. If they get upset/offended about that then just wait one day for them to all get sick so you can show them who was right!
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Dont want to catch a cold, get away from other people.
In Sweden everyone gets sick around christmas time. This is because is gets so freaking cold that people decides that's its a good idea to go to one common warm spot somewhere in doors and gather around there. Now, since EVERYONE are gathered in one tight spot it becomes extremly easy to get colds and other shit from other people therefor ALLOT of people gets it.
The majority of the Swedish population thinks it is the cold that gives them the virus and not other people. My way to solve this is during november till february is to stay the fuck AWAY from crowds.
I Started this 5 years ago and I have only been sick twice since then and I spend 85% of my time OUTSIDE during the really cold periods since there won't be ANYONE around there. Compared to before when i was sick twice per year and tried to stay away from the cold by being in the most cramped warm place along with all the other people.
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you should've sat further away from her and had all those people arguing against you sit next to her.
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Yeah take some food and eat in another room obv
edit:alternatively, wait for her to cough and then get a giant sheet of glass and hold it in front of her face,
then,
change the lighting to make all her nasty infected mucus visible and get childs books explaining how germs works for your entire family
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The only way to make them learn is to take your newly gained flu and spread it to your family at tonight's dinner
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As micronesia said, there are ways to deal with people who won't listen to reason. You gotta be charismatic and phrase things the right ways.
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That's what i wanted to do, leaving the room and eat somewhere else but it's very hard to do at a new year dinner with all the family and friends. I felt traped really.
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On January 02 2010 04:33 gds wrote:
That's what i wanted to do, leaving the room and eat somewhere else but it's very hard to do at a new year dinner with all the family and friends. I felt traped really.
If you feel you have a good reason, then do it. If you think you don't have a good reason, then it's not worth it.
Clearly you thought you had a good reason if you were willing to argue with your family/friends for a little while about it.
Something you gain with experience is the ability to decide when it is/isn't worth it to take a stand on some issue, right?. With hindsight you can decide for yourself if it would be worth getting sick to avoid having to skip out on the meal. Even in hindsight not everyone will agree on that one. Personally, I'd leave.
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On January 02 2010 04:26 Liquid`NonY wrote:
As micronesia said, there are ways to deal with people who won't listen to reason. You gotta be charismatic and phrase things the right ways.
Funny/weird story: so last night I ended up sleeping at around 6:00AM and kept on getting woken up by people leaving the house, so I had a bunch of weird/disjointed dreams. You happened to be in one of them. We were in a classroom and there was some kind of new learning method that would track your eye movements. I remember a graph on some computer screen. Also the instructor saying that there'd be a really bright flash of light every once in a while and that it could be really painful for some reason. Also at the last slide of his powerpoint type thing there was this button that looked like a sheet of paper and he clicked it and was like "the best part is something something something don't even have to something you can print right from the screen!" and then the dragged or something and made a little trail off of the screen into the printer (the trail was this green arrow thing) and then stuff just got printed out. Also you wouldn't stop smiling.
EDIT: actually that's not funny at all.
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Wow... I can;t believe they don't know how the flu is spread... but then again my mom doesn't believe that there are cancer survivors. Sucks that you got sick, if they did then they would realize you were right.
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Don't be a bitch.
It's your fucking duty to make sure you are healthy and I'm sure your family feel the same.
Take a fucking stand and tell them why you don't want to spend time with them.
If you want to do something but you don't even want to fight for it then you don't fucking deserve it.
Are you Cause or are you simply Effect in this world.
Was this only a "I'm a victim and I will not do anything about my situation so i'll just make this post as a proof of that I'm a bitch and that I'm satisfied with that position and thus won't do anything."
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On January 02 2010 04:39 Empyrean wrote:Show nested quote +On January 02 2010 04:26 Liquid`NonY wrote:
As micronesia said, there are ways to deal with people who won't listen to reason. You gotta be charismatic and phrase things the right ways. Funny/weird story: so last night I ended up sleeping at around 6:00AM and kept on getting woken up by people leaving the house, so I had a bunch of weird/disjointed dreams. You happened to be in one of them. We were in a classroom and there was some kind of new learning method that would track your eye movements. I remember a graph on some computer screen. Also the instructor saying that there'd be a really bright flash of light every once in a while and that it could be really painful for some reason. Also at the last slide of his powerpoint type thing there was this button that looked like a sheet of paper and he clicked it and was like "the best part is something something something don't even have to something you can print right from the screen!" and then the dragged or something and made a little trail off of the screen into the printer (the trail was this green arrow thing) and then stuff just got printed out. Also you wouldn't stop smiling. EDIT: actually that's not funny at all.
What? There were a lot of "something"s towards the end your story...
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On January 02 2010 04:44 Archaic wrote:Show nested quote +On January 02 2010 04:39 Empyrean wrote:On January 02 2010 04:26 Liquid`NonY wrote:
As micronesia said, there are ways to deal with people who won't listen to reason. You gotta be charismatic and phrase things the right ways. Funny/weird story: so last night I ended up sleeping at around 6:00AM and kept on getting woken up by people leaving the house, so I had a bunch of weird/disjointed dreams. You happened to be in one of them. We were in a classroom and there was some kind of new learning method that would track your eye movements. I remember a graph on some computer screen. Also the instructor saying that there'd be a really bright flash of light every once in a while and that it could be really painful for some reason. Also at the last slide of his powerpoint type thing there was this button that looked like a sheet of paper and he clicked it and was like "the best part is something something something don't even have to something you can print right from the screen!" and then the dragged or something and made a little trail off of the screen into the printer (the trail was this green arrow thing) and then stuff just got printed out. Also you wouldn't stop smiling. EDIT: actually that's not funny at all. What? There were a lot of "something"s towards the end your story...
Yeah I couldn't remember much of it.
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For fucks sake give this guy a break,
like any of you pricks would've left a fucking new years dinner table rofl with the best food and shit. God this is just fucking priceless how many of u guys have pins up your assholes.
For gds, sorry to hear that man, i hope the flu will pass you very soon^^
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Honestly, if you feel like people are being unreasonable just make a sacrifice, I mean they're some kind of family to you either way. Just take your plate and go to the living room to watch TV and eat there or w.e
Well at least that's what I would have done. It maybe would have offended a couple of them, but they're the ones being unreasonable about this. Plus they're family so they prolly won't care about it after like 5 minutes.
Or ask to switch seats with someone who doesn't care about sitting next to a sick person.
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On January 02 2010 04:49 SanguineToss wrote:
For fucks sake give this guy a break,
like any of you pricks would've left a fucking new years dinner table rofl with the best food and shit. God this is just fucking priceless how many of u guys have pins up your assholes.
For gds, sorry to hear that man, i hope the flu will pass you very soon^^
I have, everytime, I bring the food with me to another room. Later on other people started to copy me so we ended up sitting in different rooms.
Btw, how is it to be a guy without a pair of balls, do you really get a high pitch voice like they claim?
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On January 02 2010 04:59 Integra wrote:Show nested quote +On January 02 2010 04:49 SanguineToss wrote:
For fucks sake give this guy a break,
like any of you pricks would've left a fucking new years dinner table rofl with the best food and shit. God this is just fucking priceless how many of u guys have pins up your assholes.
For gds, sorry to hear that man, i hope the flu will pass you very soon^^ I have, everytime, I bring the food with me to another room. Later on other people started to copy me so we ended up sitting in different rooms. Btw, how is it to be a guy without a pair of balls, do you really get a high pitch voice like they claim?
i have no time to argue with kids like you, so what you are saying is that at big family reunions/dinners/parties/get togethers/name it if some person is sick you just walk out? ROfl totally defeats the purpose of the get together in the first place.
It just shows me that your 12 just by looking at your immature excuse of an insult.
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dude that is rude. so what if you catch a flu..
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And yet you are here "argueing". In my family we are respectful enough that if someone wants to avoid being sick we let them, even if we have planned something beforehand.
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If she had the flu, there is no way she would have been able to sit at the dinner table at all, discounting the fact she would have no appetite. People use the word flu way too liberally.
Sounds to me like she had a cold.
And there is an incubation period from when you are exposed to when the virus replicates enough within your body to start causing symptoms. You won't start having a cold the day after you were exposed to her. If you really are sick, you got it somewhere else, earlier. Don't blame her.
All this doesn't negate the fact that I agree with you and I definitely would not want someone hacking all over my nice dinner. She was being unreasonable.
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On January 02 2010 05:15 sutureself wrote:
If she had the flu, there is no way she would have been able to sit at the dinner table at all, discounting the fact she would have no appetite. People use the word flu way too liberally.
Sounds to me like she had a cold.
And there is an incubation period from when you are exposed to when the virus replicates enough within your body to start causing symptoms. You won't start having a cold the day after you were exposed to her. If you really are sick, you got it somewhere else, earlier. Don't blame her.
All this doesn't negate the fact that I agree with you and I definitely would not want someone hacking all over my nice dinner. She was being unreasonable.
Not true, 24 hours is plenty of time for the virus to replicate en cause the symptoms.
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On January 02 2010 04:25 Thegilaboy wrote:
The only way to make them learn is to take your newly gained flu and spread it to your family at tonight's dinner
LOL. I agree with Thegilaboy's idea.
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On January 02 2010 05:20 disco wrote:Show nested quote +On January 02 2010 05:15 sutureself wrote:
If she had the flu, there is no way she would have been able to sit at the dinner table at all, discounting the fact she would have no appetite. People use the word flu way too liberally.
Sounds to me like she had a cold.
And there is an incubation period from when you are exposed to when the virus replicates enough within your body to start causing symptoms. You won't start having a cold the day after you were exposed to her. If you really are sick, you got it somewhere else, earlier. Don't blame her.
All this doesn't negate the fact that I agree with you and I definitely would not want someone hacking all over my nice dinner. She was being unreasonable. Not true, 24 hours is plenty of time for the virus to replicate en cause the symptoms.
And to add that people react differently with the flue, some people just experinces minor headaces or slight fatigue and coughing and nothing else. The symtpons are not the same or in same degree for everyone. But they are still spreading that shit just fine.
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I don't care if I'm eating/drinking/smoking with a sick person because I never seem to get sick.
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Take your vitamin D man..
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I think you're overreacting. Also, you sound like a hypochondriac.
I don't mean to be an ass, but saying she sat there "spreading the flu" during dinner just gets to me. Placing an ill person on the end of the table should be enough, you can still have dinner with her. You're extremely unreasonable.
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On January 02 2010 05:56 eshlow wrote:
Take your vitamin D man..
lolwut......
i agree with OP's motives, but the way he expressed himself was outright rude. im sure if you put it in a different way, you wouldve got what you wanted.
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On January 02 2010 04:24 Integra wrote:
Dont want to catch a cold, get away from other people.
In Sweden everyone gets sick around christmas time. This is because is gets so freaking cold that people decides that's its a good idea to go to one common warm spot somewhere in doors and gather around there. Now, since EVERYONE are gathered in one tight spot it becomes extremly easy to get colds and other shit from other people therefor ALLOT of people gets it.
The majority of the Swedish population thinks it is the cold that gives them the virus and not other people. My way to solve this is during november till february is to stay the fuck AWAY from crowds.
I Started this 5 years ago and I have only been sick twice since then and I spend 85% of my time OUTSIDE during the really cold periods since there won't be ANYONE around there. Compared to before when i was sick twice per year and tried to stay away from the cold by being in the most cramped warm place along with all the other people.
you are actually only partially correct.. cold DOES make you get sick because it forces your body to spend energy on heating itself which leads to immune defense decreasing which leads to the bacteria that are _ever present_ in your body making you sick.
you're correct about viruses specifically, but enough cold is going to make you sick even if you have no contact with anyone whatsoever.
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why would someone with the flu go out for dinner? What a dumbass, she should stay home and rest...
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On January 02 2010 06:13 ramen247 wrote:lolwut...... i agree with OP's motives, but the way he expressed himself was outright rude. im sure if you put it in a different way, you wouldve got what you wanted.
Vitamin D improves the immune system to help fight against upper respiratory tract infections.
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On January 02 2010 06:24 Liquid`Drone wrote:Show nested quote +On January 02 2010 04:24 Integra wrote:
Dont want to catch a cold, get away from other people.
In Sweden everyone gets sick around christmas time. This is because is gets so freaking cold that people decides that's its a good idea to go to one common warm spot somewhere in doors and gather around there. Now, since EVERYONE are gathered in one tight spot it becomes extremly easy to get colds and other shit from other people therefor ALLOT of people gets it.
The majority of the Swedish population thinks it is the cold that gives them the virus and not other people. My way to solve this is during november till february is to stay the fuck AWAY from crowds.
I Started this 5 years ago and I have only been sick twice since then and I spend 85% of my time OUTSIDE during the really cold periods since there won't be ANYONE around there. Compared to before when i was sick twice per year and tried to stay away from the cold by being in the most cramped warm place along with all the other people. you are actually only partially correct.. cold DOES make you get sick because it forces your body to spend energy on heating itself which leads to immune defense decreasing which leads to the bacteria that are _ever present_ in your body making you sick. .
As a medical student this made no sense to me, could you explain this please.
you're correct about viruses specifically, but enough cold is going to make you sick even if you have no contact with anyone whatsoever.
Yes, this is called Hypothermia, which is nothing close to what I described or what everyone else tries to bullshitt people into believing.
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On January 02 2010 07:55 yhnmk wrote:
why would someone with the flu go out for dinner? What a dumbass, she should stay home and rest...
Yeah, what manners. If I were sick, I'd stay away from everyone so that they don't suffer because of me. Also, going around when you're sick doesn't exactly help your healing.
I understand it's a family holiday, but it's still wrong. Just stay home and heal, there's plenty of interesting things on tv or something; and you won't die for being away.
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