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Title: Flu Jab? Will ya?
Post by: watty on October 13, 2017, 06:46:14 pm
It's that time of year again when we're all advised to get the flu jab.  Apparently there's a nasty version coming from Australia.

I never bothered in the past but this year, I'm thinking I might..

Will ya? Won't ya?  Or will you rely on a half bottle of whiskey after each shift to kill all the germs  :2cheers
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Post by: Dr. Martin Gooter Bling on October 13, 2017, 07:28:43 pm
a couple of years ago I got a really bad dose.
I was out of action for a week.
I had a dreadful chesty tickley cough that would'nt go away.
My sides were killing me from all the coughing and I was dreading it when I had to sneeze.
I crawled out of bed and limped to dunnes stores and got this cough medicine that was specific to phlegm and drank the whole yoke.
A couple hours later I coughed and all the shit down my pipe came up in one go in my mouth.
It was like a big green golf ball in my mouth.
Spat it out down the toilet.
Terrific it was.
Title: Re: Flu Jab? Will ya?
Post by: watty on October 13, 2017, 07:39:56 pm
I'm guessing you're a 'yes' then?
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Post by: Dr. Martin Gooter Bling on October 14, 2017, 12:12:45 am
big time.
some little bender sneezed in my direction and thats how I got it.
Title: Re: Flu Jab? Will ya?
Post by: Tony on October 14, 2017, 03:52:39 am
I was actually thinking about getting it myself, we are open to every cunt coughing and sneezing all over our work space.
Maybe the nta should pay for it.
Title: Re: Flu Jab? Will ya?
Post by: Shallowhal on October 14, 2017, 04:15:06 am
I was actually thinking about getting it myself, we are open to every cunt coughing and sneezing all over our work space.
Maybe the nta should pay for it.

They'd weigh up the cost of that first Tony,then say...let the cunts die!!
Title: Re: Flu Jab? Will ya?
Post by: The Liffey Lip on October 14, 2017, 07:38:37 am
It's that time of year again when we're all advised to get the flu jab.  Apparently there's a nasty version coming from Australia.

I never bothered in the past but this year, I'm thinking I might..

Will ya? Won't ya?  Or will you rely on a half bottle of whiskey after each shift to kill all the germs  :2cheers

Flu doesn't normally specify where it's headed. Try the HPV vaccine if yer worried.
Title: Re: Flu Jab? Will ya?
Post by: mercenary for hire on October 14, 2017, 08:12:44 am
Tony yer more likely to get the oul Ebola virus living in Laois..
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Post by: markmiwurdz on October 14, 2017, 09:41:12 am
Can one jab inoculate against all the different types of flu?  ???
Title: Re: Flu Jab? Will ya?
Post by: The Liffey Lip on October 14, 2017, 11:18:38 am
Can one jab inoculate against all the different types of flu?  ???

No.
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Post by: Bubba Ho-Tep on October 14, 2017, 12:19:10 pm
Got mine last week.
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Post by: markmiwurdz on October 14, 2017, 12:33:46 pm
Can one jab inoculate against all the different types of flu?  ???

No.

Thanks.
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Post by: Rat Catcher on October 14, 2017, 01:32:00 pm
a couple of years ago I got a really bad dose.
I was out of action for a week.
I had a dreadful chesty tickley cough that would'nt go away.
My sides were killing me from all the coughing and I was dreading it when I had to sneeze.
I crawled out of bed and limped to dunnes stores and got this cough medicine that was specific to phlegm and drank the whole yoke.
A couple hours later I coughed and all the shit down my pipe came up in one go in my mouth.
It was like a big green golf ball in my mouth.
Spat it out down the toilet.
Terrific it was.

You got off light. Had a dose last month myself, 1000 times worse than your little cough, lucky to get out with my life.
Title: Re: Flu Jab? Will ya?
Post by: mercenary for hire on October 14, 2017, 01:52:03 pm
I only started getting man flu after driving the taxi.Despite years of bicycles and motorbikes in the cold and wet never bothered me.I always thought it strange that someone will send an employee home in the taxi because they're sick but never think of the driver in the confined space with them.
Title: Re: Flu Jab? Will ya?
Post by: Rat Catcher on October 14, 2017, 02:10:35 pm
It seems that most taxis up above in Dublin are driven by African immigrants, I suppose folk just think they've survived a lot worse than influenza and, if thy don't, what of it there's plenty more where they came from. Of course, the alternatives would be to risk your own or another staff members's health or put a bus or train load of commuters at risk. No-brainer, I guess.
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Post by: mercenary for hire on October 14, 2017, 04:40:48 pm
I know my place,just open the window and hope for the best.
Title: Re: Flu Jab? Will ya?
Post by: Shallowhal on October 14, 2017, 05:17:22 pm
I know my place,just open the window and hope for the best.

Just to let the hum out maybe?

Did ye bring back the duty free btw?
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Post by: mercenary for hire on October 14, 2017, 06:11:27 pm
Only 4 liters of Smirnoff Hal apparently it's less fattening than Bulmers.. the buffet in the hotel now means I can no longer see my feet for the first time in years.Going out to by a new ab roller..the last one got binned by the wife because I was using it to hang my clothes on.
Title: Re: Flu Jab? Will ya?
Post by: Rat Catcher on October 15, 2017, 04:47:03 am
Assuming you've been hanging your clothes on the floor since, she won't be so quick to discard the new clothes horse.
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Post by: mercenary for hire on October 15, 2017, 11:40:52 am
I'm getting better.The ab roller used to be hung on the back of a door so I was actually creating storage space.She didn't see the advantages.
Title: Re: Flu Jab? Will ya?
Post by: Belker on October 16, 2017, 08:50:16 am
It's that time of year again when we're all advised to get the flu jab.  Apparently there's a nasty version coming from Australia.

I never bothered in the past but this year, I'm thinking I might..

Will ya? Won't ya?  Or will you rely on a half bottle of whiskey after each shift to kill all the germs  :2cheers

I prefer to stick with nature rather than science Watty, some alcohol (or cannabis if your in to it)
to relax you after a shift and help you sleep will also kill most of the bugs going around.
Title: Re: Flu Jab? Will ya?
Post by: IrishTim1 on October 17, 2017, 03:50:52 pm
It's that time of year again when we're all advised to get the flu jab.  Apparently there's a nasty version coming from Australia.

I never bothered in the past but this year, I'm thinking I might..

Will ya? Won't ya?  Or will you rely on a half bottle of whiskey after each shift to kill all the germs  :2cheers

It's all scaremongering, the flu jab is next to useless due to the rate of mutation of the virus. The flu jab is based on last years virus meaning it is totally different to this years mutated version, if anything it will make you feel worse and lower your immune system. Stay away!

You're much better off taking a Vitamin D3 supplement at 4000 iu per day and high strength vitamin C, as well as Magnesium and zinc. That's what I've done and I haven't had a bad flu in years.
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Post by: Shallowhal on October 17, 2017, 04:20:49 pm
I find the thallium great aswell....the missus doesn't though!!
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Post by: Lizzzy on October 17, 2017, 06:38:46 pm
The flu jab is nothing more than a placebo, it stops people running to the doctor every time they have a sniffle.
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Post by: TheDevilHimself on October 17, 2017, 07:16:29 pm
Why would anyone want to get a flu jab ?     rofl