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Randy Winkman said:
It might not be quite what you meant, but that does read to me as if you are suggesting they could simply decide not to cough. I don't think they like coughing.
I do. I’ve got a watch that counts them and I aim for 10,000 a day. Keeps your chest muscles lovely and toned. I carry a cough cushion (it’s wipe clean) though to cough into - some people cannot stand the fact that the air they breathe in have just been exhaled by others. (In fact, each day you’ll breathe a few molecules once breathed by hitler).
glennjamin said:
A bit like complaining about someone sneezing. It's not a hobby......If they had a choice don't think they would...
Sigh... I gues a lot of people have difficulty reading.It is 100% a choice not to cover your mouth when coughing or sneezing.
Edited by captain_cynic on Thursday 8th February 10:38
Motorman74 said:
If you need to cough, you need to cough.
The ones who annoy me are the ones who weren't brought up well enough to know to cover their mouth when they do it. But generally I agree with the comment above, avoid public transport.
Avoid people altogether, especially the crumbling ones. Horrible, unthinking, self-centred, carriers of the plague that they are. I caught Covid in a post office when some old dear decided to splatter her lungs all over me. It was the same yesterday when shopping, people coughing everywhere, quite disgusting really.The ones who annoy me are the ones who weren't brought up well enough to know to cover their mouth when they do it. But generally I agree with the comment above, avoid public transport.
Was it Billy Connely who told the tale of a fellow sat on a bus whilst wearing a hoodie?
Said hood was hanging over the seat back and a drunken person sat down in the seat behind, leaned forward, grabbing the hood and vomited.
Hoodie wearer pondered on the possibility of needing the hood if it was raining when leaving the bus....
Said hood was hanging over the seat back and a drunken person sat down in the seat behind, leaned forward, grabbing the hood and vomited.
Hoodie wearer pondered on the possibility of needing the hood if it was raining when leaving the bus....
My Mother-in-Law has had a cough for the past 17 years.
It is particularly bad when she is eating certain foods. She starts coughing and whilst doing so explains that the food is making her cough, in parallel with shovelling more of the food into her mouth. Usually this culminates in her spraying the food around whilst coughing and explaining about how the food is making her cough. At no point does she seem to consider (a) stopping eating or (b) stopping f
king talking. The cough usually becomes sufficiently severe that it triggers her weakened bladder control. As you can imagine, I try to keep visits to a minimum.
It is particularly bad when she is eating certain foods. She starts coughing and whilst doing so explains that the food is making her cough, in parallel with shovelling more of the food into her mouth. Usually this culminates in her spraying the food around whilst coughing and explaining about how the food is making her cough. At no point does she seem to consider (a) stopping eating or (b) stopping f
king talking. The cough usually becomes sufficiently severe that it triggers her weakened bladder control. As you can imagine, I try to keep visits to a minimum. Got onto a bus a few months ago in London. There was an obviously ill looking woman coughing her guts up, on the phone to work telling them in a very hoarse voice that she felt like she'd been kicked in the chest by a donkey and wouldn't be going in. I got up and moved to the opposite end of the bus. Maybe her journey was unavoidable, but she could have worn a sodding mask, it's not as if the concept is unfamiliar these days.
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