to feel irrational hatred everytime someone refers to a bacterium as a virus?

[WidowWadman]

Might be just the hormones, but it makes me want to scream.

Does it happen that often?

God that's happened to me AT LEAST no times to me today.

Oh God yeah...winds me up no end. I was only saying this to my DH earlier (WTF???)

YANBU it gets right on my tits.

Annoys me too. The Daily Mail is a prime offender. It's like any really nasty infection has to be a virus - even if it is a fungus. It's like a big red flag advertising, "Our science reporters are really shit".

hatred? really?

Drives me to distraction too. I'm forever shouting at the TV about it as even the BBC is guilty. My family accuse me of being like one of the nerds in "The Big Bang Theory." I can't see the problem with that though.

If it makes you feel any better, I've made up some words for the last page of the Usborne touch-and-feel book 'That's not my monkey' because saying 'That's my monkey!' about an orang-utan grated on my soul.

YANBU I'm sure there is an advert on tv (maybe for dettol?) that states "kills one hundred per cent of bacteria including the flu virus" arrrgh!

YANBU!!!

But then again, I also hate 'bug'.

Ooh yes, but then I used to work at a Centre for Infectious Disease so I'm a wee bit pedantic about things like that.

That and people pronouncing nuclear as 'new-kew-lar'. Grr.

What is the difference then?

Bacteria - full set of DNA so can replicate all by themselves.
Viruses - ??? er they need to hijack another cell's DNA to make copies of their own genetic material (RSA?) .

Wow yeah, all the time

YANBU.

I started gibbering when BBC news referred to the 'virus' that causes vCJD.

It's a bit like saying an elephant is a kind of fish. Only more so. Viruses are weird

Bacteria is a living organism, virus isn't. Viruses "become" living organisms as soon as they "invade" a living cell, and they will not grow on a non-living surface.

YANBU!

And don't get me started on people who say they've been to the doctors and got antibiotics 'for a virus'

and prions?

The ex mil used to get right on my nerves when she's go on and on about getting antibiotics for a cold, sore throat or anything that was a sodding virus. I don't know how many times I said to her that I wouldn't take the kids to the doctor as antibiotics don't work on viruses and they'd be better off staying home, having calpol and not spreading their germs.

Yup. I agree.

Am also irrationally irked that my children have been studying "minibeasts" at school.

ER I LOVE your name!

YANBU

me too

and Dont get me started on shows like House, CSI and NCIS where they can sample, grow, type and identify bacteria and fungii within 5 minutes
with no lab staff, no other patients needing samples done
and never labelling anything
never mind the free run on X ray depts and MRI

still watch the shows though

Yup. "We analysed their chromosomes in the last 5 minutes and they have ".

Hmmm...so not the fortnight or so it normally takes then? You didn't have to culture the cells for 72 hours first? Gosh, I want your protocols!

Yeah...I know...artistic license...suspension of disbelief...blah blah.

This.Drives.Me. Insane
ratspeaker i once screamed at my TV because on CSI they perfromed a PCR reaction in about 4 mins.