• FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    I get annoyed when people say that they have the flu

    They have a cold. If they have influenza, they’d fucking well know it

    Australia is great because it’s laid back, but sometimes it’s a touch too laid back about things and Aussies have a habit of not worrying about something until they’re personally affected

    • repomonkey@aussie.zone
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      19 days ago

      If they have influenza, they’d fucking well know it

      100%. I had full-blown influenza in my mid-20s, when I was the ideal age to fight it and extremely fit - and it well and truly fucked me up. I was completely out of it for three weeks in bed and it wasn’t until about six months later that I began to feel even remotely like my old self. If you’ve ever actually had influenza, you never call the ‘sniffles’ the flu ever again.