Published on 12, July, 2020
Anyone else get mildly irritated when people say "Bless you!" after you sneeze?
For me, it's "Great! Not only was I interrupted by having to sneeze, now you've added the obligation to say 'Thank you' to my troubles!". Also, can we drop the ritualised superstition given that the year starts with a 20?
Fair enough! Sounds like he needed to see this:
Do they still wake during the night or just wake up too early?
Kitsune said:Do they wake you from your beauty sleep?
No - we don't have any for exactly that reason! Too old to miss much sleep these days :-).
It slapped off the back of my head, and ran down my neck. I was more than annoyed, that's just one level from punching me in the face on my scale. I usually like to have a romantic evening with someone I'm mutually attracted to before handling their bodily fluids, not a bus ride at rush hour!
Eww! I’d be so annoyed (and completely grossed out!) if some random person coughed phlegm on me!!
Be nice if one of mine would let me sleep!
I have no problem with it. It's a harmless gesture, that I don't really care about.
I do however have a problem with people who sneeze, and cough, without covering their noses and mouths. I was on a bus once and someone coughed, and their phlegm hit me in the back of the neck. I didn't take it too well. I'll just leave it there.
Do they wake you from your beauty sleep?
Probably, I did get a bit interested in the Ebola outbreak but I guess the plague taps into my interest in medieval history of this country too
...Greetings. I know that this is said to be "Light-hearted trivia", but here is a partly serious Posty from Me...
I do so hate it when my so-called Brother Sneezes --- his coughs are like Gunshots and his sneezes are as loud as Cannon Fire... they always wake me up from trying to sleep.
Here, now. When someone Sneezes upon Public Transport and I hear/see someone else say "Bless You!", then the general feeling is as if that second person is "weird" or "old fashioned" or "cute"... especially if when the first sneezes over and over and each time there is the Blessing and the Thanks... three times, five times, ten times... I think that to escape this, just one of the Party simply leaves that area...!
Lastly, I wanted to try some advice about what I call a "Sneezing Fit": This is when one feels a certain pain/squeeze/tingle in the nose, and should come to know by then that this is going to trigger a 'Sneezing Fit'... Sneezing at least 8 times in a row, non-stop...? Learn to recognise the pain/squeeze/tingle, and then do NOT breathe through the NOSE until that feeling disappears.
This technique more often works than not working. But as I said, this is Me, taking a non-serious Thread a trifle seriously...? Good Luck, anyone in anycase...!:-)
No you need to embrace your sneeze it's an enjoyable experience!
Yes! I try to sneeze as quietly as possible so no one notices because it annoys me so much when someone says that
You are probably like me, I got like that about Ebola, morbid curiosity, I found it terrifying but was totally fascinated at the same time
so True
Religion isn't necessarily bad. In fact religion can often be very good. I have a deep distrust of the majority of *organised* religion however, because it mostly seems to end up being used as a tool to wield power over people.
I like "unignorable biological alarm clocks" :-)
Yes that sounds like a very apt term for any school
We liked it! The primary school I work in is referred to as the "petri dish" which also seemed quite appropriate!
‘Pestilence demons’ Love it! That sounds like a very accurate description of my two litluns
In our house "bless you" has been replaced with "get a tissue" or "blow your nose" anything to try and stop my beloved pestilence demons from spreading their germs!