It’s an epidemic. Seriously, I heard half of the local school children are sick. I’ve got it. You probably have it. If you don’t have it, you should be very, very scared. We’ve put together some images from the CDC to help you realize what a substantial problem the flu is. Oh, and of course, this is the year I neglect to get a flu shot. Next year will be different!
Also, could everyone please share their best home remedies for curing the flu?
Where is the flu?
The Flu is kicking human ass.
Whose fault is the flu?
UVA students of course. They live close together, hookup, drink out of the same beer bongs and end up smack dab in the middle of Charlottesville. Where does the flu go? It doesn’t pass out in a frat bathroom, trust me.
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I got it, fought it, wrastled it to the floor while screaming epithets, strapped it down on the table and made it my bitch. Now it does my bidding without so much as a peep. Full transcript at midnight.
I once received a blood infusion from Chuck Norris- so I’m still immune
immune, hell, you should be immortal
Chuck Norris isn’t hung like a horse, horses are hung like Chuck Norris
I had that motherbitch for two weeks. Sickest I have been in twenty years, easily. I generally don’t get sick very much but this one layed me out. Laying in bed, feverishly contemplating making a will… it was just an unrelenting vast conveyor bely of suck.
Fear this one.
i like the graphics. any chance you can whip me up a video of the missile shooting down the satellite? feel free to use crayons or whatever. i’m easy.
any chance you can whip me up a video of the missile shooting down the satellite?
Are you snubbing my post in the eclipse thread? For shame, parlie, for shame.
Get Tamiflu- knocks out the flu in half the time and with half the pain. Just amke sure you get the script in the first 24 hours….
Preventative strategies include beer and LOTS of hot sauce.
that video was laaaaaaaaaame. i want actual, hardcore, missile-on-satellite visual. for the love of god we televised the aerial bombardment of baghdad, and i’m supposed to believe nobody videotaped the missile launch?
i want actual, hardcore, missile-on-satellite visual.
oh, you mean like this linkypoo
Wow, everyone has the flu.
So far so healthy - I give 100% credit to Bikram Yoga and the copious amounts of water you have to drink everyday to not die in there. I am someone who always got sick before I started doing yoga at least 3 days a week and I don’t even have seasonal alergies anymore. Not that it will help you when you are already sick, but in terms of preventing future ailments, get thee to a 110 degree studio.
That being said, a ton of vitamin water and french onion soup (plus some cayanne pepper) always seemed to fix things for me. Feel better!
Oh, and of course, this is the year I neglect to get a flu shot. Next year will be different!
Chances are, that mightn’t have mattered this year. Cf. this article:
Basically, they make an educated guess at which strain will dominate in a given year, and this year, they guessed wrong.
That said, I hope the flu-bound feel better. This year’s strains seem to be really rough.
A series of hot salt water baths over the course of several day, maybe 12 oz of salt per bath. soak for at least 30 minutes.
@ 14 - That’s just plain wierd mister
@14 Like cooking a potato? I have the flu-resistance-gene, i have never taken a vaccine and I have never had the flu, not as a wee danish girl. Anyone else never been touched by the flu?….
@ 16 - i don’t recall ever having had it, not even as a kid. a couple of years ago an ex was completely bedridden by it and i spent the better part of a fortnight taking care of him, and got nary a sniffle. i never bother with a flu shot, either. man, if we could have kids? i bet they’d be wonderful little fortresses of immunity!
@17 Some species manage to reproduce without males, I just can’t remember how….;)
I just can’t remember how…
Well, don’t forget the camcorder whilst you all try to figure it out.
Um…
Sorry.
Weaklings. I did have a runny nose for a few days last week, but I chugged a huge Dos Equis and it went away.
The flu was the best diet I ever tried.. i lost 5lbs in four days! beat that ATKINS
Thor, you have to get lots of rest, so if you feel like you need to pass out just give in ..don’t fight it.b/cuz it already kicked your butt. and you have to binge drink scolding hot chicken soup because it will make your flu symptoms subside for two minutes.
and you have to cover your entire body from head to toe in Vicks Vapor Rub..
Silver lining indeed, I dropped over ten pounds by puking up everything I tried to eat. It was like some sort of biological sorrority or something.
Yes, thor, iffin’ you’re sick, just sleep. Enjoy the fever dreams, for they can be spectacular.
I had it a couple of weekends ago — 103 fever, body spasms, pissing out of the wrong end for days… ecch! fuck that flu! I think I definately experienced a worse strain(almost had to go to the ER). Stanley suggested I take an ice-cold shower, and even though I was screaming in pain, it did help bring my fever down. Although he did make me shove ice-packs underneath my arm-pits as well, and that was just silly:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stanleysparks/2229370379
with roommates like that, who needs the flu?
oscillococcicinum (spellcheck on that) can get it from gnc… DEF. WORKS. homeopathic remedy that is preventative and only costs 14 bucks, and up the vitamin C!!! can get really yummy chewable vitamin C’s at gnc too— eat em like candy
i’m really sorry for those of you who you got sick.i hope speedy recovery if you are… and express your love by keeping me out of it! xoxo!
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p.s. i’m glad you on the other side are feeling better!
I have a hellacious sore throat today, but no fever/other symptoms. Of course this means I’m at work. And I’m just fine with that.
@27 - You don’t have the flu, silly, you have Gonorrhea. No need to worry.
it’s the flu for your johnson.
drip.
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