I've got lurgy of the highest order but have to go to work in a minute anyway.
I've been putting cold spoon handles into my ears to try and cool my temperature.
I am cheerful but shambolic in the morning.
I once saw a bride wearing one of my Coast dresses. I'm glad I wasn't there, wearing it.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 8:07, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

That is the most wonderful remedy for a lurgi I have ever heard

(Bazongaloid, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 8:09, Reply)

I feels really nice, momentarily.
But then they start to get warm and you have to put them back in the cold water.
I have these teaspoons with very solid thin 'tubes' for handles. Fit right down your ear.
What's the name for a tube/cylinder when it has no hollow bit? Pole?
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 8:13, Reply)

A rod.

(Bazongaloid, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 8:14, Reply)

Yeah well they have rods for handles.
Cooling rods. Topical. Oh Al I don't want to go to work.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 8:16, Reply)

Don't go Roots, stay at home and let your cat lick you better.

(Bazongaloid, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 8:18, Reply)

it's so Wrong and yet so Right

( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 8:19, Reply)

Especially when they butt your chin with their heads to get extra cuddles.

(Bazongaloid, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 8:20, Reply)

Awwwwww, I love when he does that.

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 8:21, Reply)

I would but the lecturers are on strike so if any of us plebs stay off we will have pay docked unless we show a doctor's note.
I'm not gonna get a doc's note for a bad cold.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 8:20, Reply)

I'm pretty sure that's not allowed
you are allowed to self certify up to 4 or 5 days off work.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 8:21, Reply)

Not while there's industrial action in which we are under suspicion of taking part, in a secondary way.

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 8:24, Reply)

I also want you to know that I will have made a miraculous recovery by tomorrow.

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 8:26, Reply)

Awwww, don't make yourself feel worse on my account though
if you're still feeling rough then stay in bed.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 8:28, Reply)

Fuck off!

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 8:45, Reply)

yeah, you're right, but you have to be careful on a strike day.
it's fucking irritating. I was in hospital having an operation last Thursday and I might still have to prove it. Even though I'm not in any way actually contractually obliged to be in work at any specific point anyway.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 8:26, Reply)

lurgY
that is all

poor roota, get better!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 8:17, Reply)

Ta
I keep thinking he's saying Luigi
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 8:18, Reply)

That may be all, but it's still wrong
Lurgi is of Italian derivation.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 8:18, Reply)

Which means I was close with Luigi.
I don't know Luigi. Never met him.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 24 Mar 2011, 8:19, Reply)