To get the RAGE when people claim to have 'flu - Yohan Blake I am looking at YOU

[BalloonSlayer]

Blake ran 100m in 9.69 this evening. (WR is 9.63)

Interviewed afterwards, he said "I've been fighting off 'flu all week."

DH thinks I am being unreasonable to scoff and sneer and invoke the concept of manflu. Apparently "people can have 'flu and not know they have got it."

I maintain that if you have Influenza you cannot get up the stairs to the khazi without thinking you are going to die.

I would forgive the beast anything, especially when he does the "beast hands"

Yabu!

OMG OMG I Get utter RAGE when people 'have a touch of flu' NO YOU FUCKING WELL DON'T YOU DICK. Arghhh. And breathe.

No one, who has ever actually had 'flu, would ever say they were 'fighting it off'.

I have bad 'flu three times in my life, truly truly awful times. Oh, and I'd you can post on Facebook, you don't have flu. If you can watch TV, you don't have flu.

I have had flu twice, and anyone who has had it KNOWS the difference between it and a cold. I was sweating, hallucinating, not eating or wanting to do anything but sleep for the best part of five days, feeling fucking dreadful. You can continue to function with a cold although you feel a bit crap at the same time.

My Mum would have totally agreed with you all........But my DD had swine flu, she still managed to run around (well straight after Calpol to bring the temperature down a degree or two) for a while most days. At the same time the rest of us felt "a bit achy or coldy" it's quite possible from what I've read that we all had it. I believe I got it mildly because I also had it mildly back in the 1970s, caught from my Grandma who was very ill.

I have also had flu, where I wouldn't have got up for £50 but did get up to change a Nappy, so was this real Flu?

YANBU!

YANBU - he most definately did not have flu, I have been involved in international athletics for many years and there is NO WAY he could have run anything like that time, even if he'd had a sore throat, sniffles etc his medical team would have been checking his blood daily and advising him whether to run or not. It takes only the very slightest infection/virus to knock a top athlete off their game, as, despite being at the very top of the tree they are incredibly susceptible to every little germ around as athletes at this level are always close to the edge of a compromised immune system.

Other than that - it was bloody brilliant !!!

During the Swine flu outbreak a couple of years ago, towards the end of the first season, one district in the UK tested a large sample of school children for Swine Flu anitbodies. From memory about 50% had anitbodies. Most of them claimed never to have been ill.

So I reckon it is possible to have a touch of flu (although BIL has flu at least 3 times a year, and I'm not sure that's possible).

I used to get the 'flu' al the time, until 2 years ago when I actually got the flu - there could have been £1000 in my garden and I still wouldn't have been able to get out of bed!

MY BF said he used to call a bad cold "flu" until he actually had flu and thought he was going to die! Now he appreciates there is no such thing as "man flu" it's always just a cold. (phew, glad I won't have to contend with that bullshit!)

My aunt always said she had flu when really she just had a stinking cold. Then one year she had a full on miserable flu. Now she gives out yards about people saying they have the flu when they don't, without once mentioning that she was guilty of this herself at least a few times a year. Now, whenever she's sick, it's a virus. Which I suppose is at least factually correct, but why not just say "I have a miserable cold and feel like crap". Gah.

I have a friend whois always claiming he has flu when it's really just a cold

I've had flu once years ago over Christmas. I couldn't even get to the loo without help, I was out of it for days - I went to bed boxing day feeling a bit shitty and didnt really wake up until New Years Eve

I'm not sure, tbh.

I went to work and repeatedly to the doctor as i was convinced that i had Pneumonia.

He said that i couldn't have had as i was still standing, it took me nearly dying and my DP getting an ambulance, to get me diagnosed, the hospital was impressed with the level that i had, but how i was still coping.

My DH took himself to hospital and they didn't take it seriously, he had cancer throughout his body, when i asked the doctor how long he had to live, he said he didn't know, as he shouldn't be alive and out of pain (he died 6 weeks later). At first they told me he had months, as they didn't think he could have had the tumours that he had and still walk.

Some people's bodies cope with things better.

Just to add, when i had Pneumonia i was doing 12 hour night shifts.