I don’t believe you. 
I can believe that you got a bad cold 12 years straight, but serious for-real knock-you-on-your-ass-for-weeks influenza? 12 years straight. Nah. Tell us another one.
That reminds me of one. People that tell you about the horrible flu they have and they look totally fine. Excuse me, if you truly had the flu you would be home in bed feeling absolutely miserable.
I had such a bad time with the flu one year, I make sure to get immunized every season because of the fear I have in getting the flu again. The flu is HORRIBLE! I was off work for ten days and it took 2 weeks longer until I felt completely back to normal again.
One good thing though, it helped me to finally quit smoking since I was so sick.
Same thing with headaches too. No, you don’t have a migraine, you just have a little headache. Big difference.
My top peeve hasn’t changed all year: lazy colleagues. Get off yer bums and do what you are supposed to be doing.
Either scenario is entirely possible. I’m not a doctor and don’t even look like one. I wasn’t diagnosed to that detailed level (an “actual, antibody-testing-verified influenza”) upon each occurrence of illness. But each case was diagnosed by a medical doctor as the flu, and I contracted each of them without fail within days of getting that year’s flu shot. And with the exception of a case of strep throat a couple of years ago, I haven’t been ill since after I stopped having to get the jabs.
Sorry you feel that way.
Which would be just fine if the twitlets didn’t try to blame me for their stupidity, and occasionally take it out on the truck. Along those same lines, knowing that I would be at fault should I someday squish one of these incautious people tends to make it hard to chill.
So, wake up, focus and get the hell out from behind my vehicle! and off my lawn!
Apology accepted.
That reminds me of a pet peeve - passive aggressive-ness.
AAARRRGHH! This is like taking your kid to the slasher flicks and then complaining that some nubile girl flashed her boobs before getting disemboweled and beheaded! You’re at a fucking hockey game. “Hey, see that guy get his head shoved through the boards?” “Yeah, great hit”. Just before a fight breaks out.
Your little precious has heard it all before, lady. The only person you’re protecting is yourself having to hear the words while you’re with them and the slight embarrassment you’ll feel because of it.
And ‘kid friendly’? Fuck that. Let them play on the highways and in parking lots. Years ago we had cave bears to clean out the idiots. Now we let them grow up and vote. Jezzuus.:rolleyes:
Does a dishwasher actually get hot enough to sterilize dishes? I’ve never heard that.
I’m not sure who you’re asking, but the answer is “yes, sometimes”. And it’s “sanitize” rather than “sterilize”. Sanitizing reduces bacteria to acceptable levels (that is, low enough to make illness extremely unlikely), while sterilizing kills everything.
Home dishwashers usually have a “heat dry” setting that does get hot enough to sanitize dishes.
Commercial dishwashers come in two varieties - chemical sanitization and temperature sanitization. The first variety uses a chemical, obviously. Temperature-sanitizing machines get the job done with a rinse cycle that hits at least 190 degrees F.
Sorry, I should have quoted. See Post 93:
Ah yes, those kinds. I have a relative that bought a bunch of water filters not because of the taste of the water, but because of the flouride. They told me they live their life in a way to do as much as possible to try and not get cancer. That’s also why they don’t like to use the microwave if they can help it.
There were a few odd seconds between me laughing and me realizing they were being serious.
One of my pet peeves is a lack of posts on SD that make me laugh, sitting in a room alone. This one did.
Did you ask them what they are doing about not breathing the air?
Trolls posing as me in forums…
And when you are doing it, quit bitching about how much you don’t want to be doing it. It doesn’t matter; it’s your job. If you don’t like it get another job. There are no other jobs? EXACTLY. STFU and be glad you’re getting paid.
I just remembered one (though how I forgot this is beyond me):
Young “adults” who don’t see the problem with talking and laughing at the top of their voices in the middle of the street in a residential area between 12:00 and 3:00 in the morning. Oddly, this is almost always the young women.
Shut the !@#$ up! And get off my … block!
Also, the young men with the loud pipes, for whom every quick trip to the store (or wherever they’re going) requires first racing up and down the block two or three times before finally heading off to their destination.