To not understand the sick voice?

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DH does a weak quiet voice when he’s ill and I just don’t get it.

Speak the fuck up man! You’ve got an upset stomach why the fuck are you speaking like that 🙄

Thankfully he doesn’t have a dressing gown.

My DH puts on a hat. It's how I know he's sick. The hat of doom. (It might make me a little bit annoyed. )

Maybe hats / small voices are used to signal "I'm sick", just in case we don't pay them enough attention.

Omg, my husband wears an old faded and baggy pair of joggers when he feels ill. They never see the light of day otherwise.
I have no idea why any of his other clothes won’t do!
Makes me laugh and feel slightly annoyed too!

It sounds like he's aiming for maximum sympathy 🙄

They’re such bizarre creatures aren’t they!

Sick hats and joggers 😂

He’s such a get on with it type of bloke usually but when he takes to his bed the sad little voice comes out 🙄

My mum used to do that!

She could be sitting there chatting perfectly normally, but if you asked how her health was, she'd put on a 'sick voice' to tell you 😂

Mine has a woolly hat, wraps a blanket around himself and walks stooped over when he's ill. He also gets a weak voice and coughs a lot. It's like living with an 1800s consumptive 🙄

Whenever people call in to work sick I know that they are putting it on and exaggerating if they use the stupid sick voice. I work with a load of men, so that probably tells you everything you need to know.

He’s totally not like that normally.

It’s why I find it so weird.

I cannot be doing with the sick voice. Its almost as bad as the " I am so ill no matter what my condition I can no longer speak so have to get somebody to ring in sick for me". How on earth would these people manage if they lived alone?

😂😂😂 This is making me howl (voices, joggers and hats)
My perpetually ill ex (note EX) did the sick voice too, he also did this narrowing of eyes thing for full effect. HE WAS NEVER ACTUALLY ILL. God, so lucky I will never have to deal with his fuckeries any more.

It's pitiful, isn't it? I know when mine is feeling completely back to normal - I ask him how he is and will he answers 'not too bad'.

My ex, when he had a cold, would sit on a particular chair, open his mouth and let all his facial orifices drip onto the floor.

Mine does pathetic little coughs and sighs and the 'sick shuffle' around the house.

Why doesn't it have a dressing gown, the poor, poorly man?
You are a bad wife. Get him one opr Xmas.

my dad used to do that whiny child voice. It used to piss me right off.

He's dead now and I know I'm supposed to say how much I'd love to hear that whiny it 'urrrrrrts voice but fuck it. I'd still slap him.

I know, clearly failing in my wifely duties. Poor little lamb.

Luckily mine just goes back to bed and doesn't like any fuss making.

My vagina would glue itself shut on witnessing this stuff. Permanently. Or at least until a not-sick-voice bloke appeared.

If I'm feeling very ill I do tend to speak in a quieter voice than normal as I'm feeling weak and don't see the point in wasting energy on speaking loudly. DH does the same. Neither of us do it very often. Just every few years if a nasty bug comes along.

I'd think it's normal? I think I'd feel pretty hurt if I was feeling rotten anyway and then DH got annoyed at me for how I talked

DH has a pathetic sick voice too. He also has an 'Upset' voice too. When he's really upset, he sounds like Sweep, from Sooty & Sweep.

Mine limps, regardless of the ailment. Headache? Oh I’ll just limp to the medicine cabinet.

The sick voice is the one thing that’s guaranteed to elicit zero sympathy from me.

🤣🤣

This thread is pretty nasty tbh, referring to people as "it" 🤨

Thinking about it I think it's normal for your voice to change when you're I'll. Mum talks softly when she has a migraine or a flare up of collitis, dad was quiet when he got a really serious case of flu.

He doesn’t need to speak loudly, just loud enough for me to actually hear him!

I was probably 8 feet from him offering tea or water etc and I literally couldn’t hear the pathetic mumbling coming from him.

My lovely MIL always greets us with a hoarse whisper, signalling towards her throat that she’s almost lost her voice. 5 minutes later it’s all forgotten and she’s talking normally 🤷🏼‍♀️🤣