# Problems arising from indoor living (this means you). **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [March 17, 2006, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problems-arising-from-indoor-living-this-means-you/348761 "2006-03-17T16:02:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Fuel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df705f/32.png) [@Fuel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuel)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problems-arising-from-indoor-living-this-means-you/348761/21 "2006-03-17T19:04:00Z")
> [@Rico](#): > > \ > > You’re off on this. Final warning. Don’t let it happen again. > > \ This is truly a _domesticated_ message board, so I will conform to this policy, sorry. Well, there is a hefty price to having 0% defects in courtesy… but at least I have a quality message board to use. ---
**Author:** ![Fuel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df705f/32.png) [@Fuel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuel)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problems-arising-from-indoor-living-this-means-you/348761/22 "2006-03-17T19:06:14Z")
> [@sunfish](#): > > No one is required to accept posts in GQ without courtesy. In fact, no one is required to do anything for you here. I never said they MUST accept, I said they SHOULD accept. ---
**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problems-arising-from-indoor-living-this-means-you/348761/23 "2006-03-17T19:18:40Z")
> [@Fuel](#): > > my friend is unable to do his job to his fullest ability because he is always sneezing and sniffling and such. That ain’t no way to live… Why do you think that people weren’t “always sneezing and sniffling” in previous generations? Today, we think a sneeze and a sniffle are health problems.But that’s because we don’t have any major health problems-- compared to 100 years ago. In my great-grandmothers village (czarist Russia), every single family suffered the death of a child from measles/TB/cholera/etc. Whenever a woman gave birth, nobody cheerfully asked how much the baby weighs, they _fearfully_ asked “did the mother survive?”. Their health concerns were about life and death, not a stuffy nose. So they probably sneezed and sniffled as much as your friend does–but thought it was nothing to complain about. Also, your friend is unable to do his job due to sneezing and sniffling–but that’s because he works in a modern office. If he had lived with my great grandmother, he could have sniffled all day long working in the muddy fields as a serf, and nobody would think he is not doing his job “to his fullest ability” ---
**Author:** ![flex727](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/258eb7/32.png) [@flex727](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flex727)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problems-arising-from-indoor-living-this-means-you/348761/24 "2006-03-17T19:25:09Z")
> [@Fuel](#): > > Personally, I would rather die at 33 of botulism or Tuberculosis in my prime than slowly die of CHF at 78, but again, this preference has no value here in General questions, so why am I posting it??? Why wait around for botulism or Tuberculosis when hari-kari is always available? Go for it! ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problems-arising-from-indoor-living-this-means-you/348761/25 "2006-03-17T19:26:53Z")
> [@Fuel](#): > > I know it ain’t as bad as living decade after decade in subtly deteriorating health, as I see my elders doing, again IMO Your knowledge is flawed, TB is a horrible way to die over a long time. > [@Fuel](#): > > Quit bothering me and my thread with unrelated material while I am trying to do research. This seems a rather odd response after declaring your “questions” to be infinitely complex as you did in your opening post. If one truly asks infinitely complex questions, one should expect multi-faceted answers. After which, you were the one who raised the issue of tuberculosis to which I replied. ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problems-arising-from-indoor-living-this-means-you/348761/26 "2006-03-17T19:31:05Z")
> [@flex727](#): > > Why wait around for botulism or Tuberculosis when hari-kari is always available? Go for it! \ **flex** , it’s not acceptable to wish or suggest death to another poster in the Pit, why would you think it’s acceptable in GQ? Knock it off. \ ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problems-arising-from-indoor-living-this-means-you/348761/27 "2006-03-17T19:39:24Z")
\ Heck with it, this is really GD material. Take the discussion there. \ ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problems-arising-from-indoor-living-this-means-you/348761/28 "2006-03-17T20:11:31Z")
> [@Bill Door](#): > > SAD, or seasonally affected disorder I believe it’s _seasonal affective_ disorder. “Affective” from “affect,” meaning feeling or emotion. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problems-arising-from-indoor-living-this-means-you/348761/29 "2006-03-17T22:00:43Z")
> [@Fuel](#): > > I know it ain’t as bad as living decade after decade in subtly deteriorating health, as I see my elders doing, again IMO (why are we talking about this and not the General Question?). You didn’t post a General Question. As to your claim TB wouldn’t be as bad as living to old age… I laugh at this. Spoken like a young, healthy man. If you had TB you’d be begging every doctor that crossed your path to save you so you’d have a shot at old age. > [@](#): > > For instance, my friend is unable to do his job to his fullest ability because he is always sneezing and sniffling and such. That ain’t no way to live… Try Claritin. ---
**Author:** ![Fuel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df705f/32.png) [@Fuel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuel)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2006, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problems-arising-from-indoor-living-this-means-you/348761/30 "2006-03-18T05:27:04Z")
Try Claritin? Try this. You know what, this site (GQ) is a friggin joke, I am fed up. No one knows how to think on their own, everyone gets offended, everyone is oblivious to the joke “needle in the ass”, conveyor belt healthcare system, no one wants to stop being ENTERTAINED by the message board for a second while they actually ponder the relevant issues of the day, no one wants to make a difference and test common knowledge, everyone is seething at the mouth for a chance to correct somebody’s meaningless error, and so on. Just admit it. The Straight Dope will never make a difference with the things that matter, it is just a place where people’s asses get flatter from sitting in front of a screen, heads getting puffed up by knowledge. I bet it makes you feel really good when you get to point out other people’s errors, isn’t that the main attraction here? Top priority is to make sure no one’s wrong, while no one ever gets around to being right. Joke. End of Story. Most of you in GQ are pompous and you know it, so keep it up. I can’t wait to see where it will take ya. Until then, keep “fighting ignorance” with your own style of sloppy ignorance. Popular opinion is the boat that so many people jump on, it eventually sinks. See if I throw out a line. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2006, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problems-arising-from-indoor-living-this-means-you/348761/31 "2006-03-18T05:54:45Z")
> [@Fuel](#): > > You know what, this site (GQ) is a friggin joke, I am fed up. No one knows how to think on their own, everyone gets offended,… > > Most of you in GQ are pompous and you know it, so keep it up. I can’t wait to see where it will take ya. Until then, keep “fighting ignorance” with your own style of sloppy ignorance. Popular opinion is the boat that so many people jump on, it eventually sinks. See if I throw out a line. The first one in this thread to act offended was you. You have used your umbrage as a crutch to beat other posters in spite of several attempts by the Mod to get you to reconsider your manners. We get lots of “brilliant” people through here who just “know” that they are smarter than the collected abilities of actual practitioners of medicine or other scientific fields. Generally they display a lot of ignorance and hostility and little knowledge or brilliance. You may wish to consider that while [you are on vacation from the SDMB](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=363385). [/Moderating] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problems-arising-from-indoor-living-this-means-you/348761.md?page=1)