To hate the phrase ‘I’ve got the lurgy’

[Heronious]

Just this t it grates on me! - you better get rid of the lurgy before your holibobs 😭😭😭😭😭

I like it.

Yep it’s one of my favourites, sorry OP

I'll give you holibobs, but lurgy covers every sniffle and plague.

What do you call them?

I quite like it, but would definitely internally scream over 'holibobs'.

Being perfect an’ pure an’ all - I don’t call them anything because such topics of conversation don’t come up! 🤣

Nah I like it, lurgy ridden is a phrase I use when I fall ill.

Its 1000 times better than "Poorly" - I hate that bloody word.

Ugh I hate that too !

'Lurgy' is great! 'Hollibobs' on the other hand... nope.

It’s better than “full of cold” which always conjures up images of bubbling, snot-choked throats and nostrils 🤢

Poorly is for wee babies or pathetic men donning the dressing gown of doom.
Lurgy covers you for anything someone else really doesn't want, the flu, the shits, all the sicks.

I hate the word poorly too and I can’t stop saying it.

got the lurgy is much better - thanks!

So how do you describe it then? Do you ring your manager with symptoms and colour of snot?

You must call it something.

Never taken a day off work !!

Strictly speaking it's "the dreaded lurgy".

I quite like lurgy, it covers a multitude of sins 😄

Holibobs, I'll reach out to you and especially would of rather than would have etc, drives me round the bend! 😤

Indeed it is. I think the Goons started it

Dude.

You must call it something. You can't say you never have a cold, sick bug, general bug. You would be lying

You know what I mean. Give it up.

I sometimes have the lurgy but I'm with the other poster on finding 'full of cold' revolting. I'd never heard it until a few years ago. Why can't they just say 'I have a cold'.

Worse is 'full of flu' for every single cold.

No you don't!

Realistically-cold

So you call everything a cold? Even a stomach bug?

Edit..ooo that sounded intense. Soz. I was hoping you had another word for a catch all like lurgy. There's some mint words out there

I’ve never used the word lurgy because I don’t actually know what a lurgy is. 😆

'under the weather' is a great catch all phrase without being graphic.

“I feel shite”

That covers it.