What's the latest in people's lives?

[Mikey]

Thanks. I was concerned - well, I guess any parent would be, even for an outpatient procedure such as this was - but for all his tae kwon do, baseball, and football playing, my son was never as tough as his big sister. She was always the one who would limp her way back onto the field after an injury, take her base after getting beaned, or otherwise overcome injury. He seems to have inherited the two positive traits I possess - lack of fear of needles and injections, and resistance/tolerance for side effects of drugs.

Per the follow-up, the doc says he's healing quite normally, and his eye alignment looks spot-on.

[RK_Striker_JK_5]

Well, my little guy made it through his surgery yesterday like a real trooper. Came out of anesthesia relatively quickly and in quite a bit of pain, but fell into a more normal sleep a little bit after that and woke feeling much better. Plus he seems to have tolerated the anesthesia - not being too vertiginous or nauseous - better than most folks I know, including adults. We'll find out later today how effective the procedure was, but he did great.

Good to read he's doing okay.

[Mikey]

Thanks.

[McAvoy]

Girlfriend of two months gave me strep throat. Took me a week to finally to go to the doctor.

Also took me a week figure out she gave me cooties.

[Mikey]

Also took me a week figure out she gave me cooties.

I'm going back in forth in my head as to whether this a joke addendum to the anecdote, or if you're seeing a woman who has an insect infestation.

[Graham Kennedy]

What the hell are 'cooties', anyway? I thought they were a made up thing...

[IanKennedy]

According to Wiki they are? However, that says that it's like the dreaded lurgi. It then goes on to start talking about bugs, which is kinda odd as the dreaded lurgi is nothing to do with bugs, real or otherwise. It's just a a name for a illness of indeterminate nature. For example if you had flu, and it hadn't been diagnosed as such, it could be described as 'the dreaded lurgi'.

Cooties according to them is an imaginary thing you might catch from the opposite sex.
The dreaded lurgi is a fake name for a real illness you can catch from just about anyone who has it.

Not really the same thing at all.

[McAvoy]

Also took me a week figure out she gave me cooties.

I'm going back in forth in my head as to whether this a joke addendum to the anecdote, or if you're seeing a woman who has an insect infestation.

Just a joke. Honestly I think there are very few people who actually think cooties is a real thing. A kid thing that you stay away from girls. Just a joke that if girl gets you sick, she gave you cooties. It's also used a mock joke about girls being icky and all that.

She gave me strep throat. When I told her she gave me cooties she laughed her ass off.

You guys are too serious.

[Teaos]

Just rounded Cape Horn. The wife loves it, I'm getting sick of selfies.

[Mikey]

Just rounded Cape Horn. The wife loves it, I'm getting sick of selfies.

Did you use a file or a rasp? go ahead

[Mikey]

According to Wiki they are? However, that says that it's like the dreaded lurgi. It then goes on to start talking about bugs, which is kinda odd as the dreaded lurgi is nothing to do with bugs, real or otherwise. It's just a a name for a illness of indeterminate nature. For example if you had flu, and it hadn't been diagnosed as such, it could be described as 'the dreaded lurgi'.

Cooties according to them is an imaginary thing you might catch from the opposite sex.
The dreaded lurgi is a fake name for a real illness you can catch from just about anyone who has it.

Not really the same thing at all.

In general, "cooties" is used as described; that is, a pretend infection that one can receive from members of the opposite sex - a game obviously played by kids of an age before members of the opposite sex held any type of interest. In specific geographical areas, though, it colloquially referred to parasitical insects: lice, bedbugs, etc.

IDK what the hell "lurgi" are.

[IanKennedy]

That's my point lurgi are not a thing. They are an illness. Sure illnesses are typically a virus or bacteria but not all of them, for example poisons can cause shut down of the body's systems that can produce an illness. It seems to originate from a "The Goon Show" episode written by Spike Milligan and Eric Sykes (Reference)

[Captain Picard's Hair]

I don't have cooties, since it's a fictional illness. Unfortunately I am a couple of weeks into a stretch of something; I thought I was feeling better a couple of days ago but now it could be a new bug or a recurrence or whatnot.

[RK_Striker_JK_5]

The Walmart I work at had to be evacuated for a little over two hours due to a gas leak. I spent it in my car, getting paid for the time.

[Captain Picard's Hair]

... and as soon as I complain about feeling ill, I start to feel better. Even my sugar readings came back down to numbers quite good for a diabetic and have stayed level for a couple of hours. So now I'll go to the gym as I'd expected to do earlier on my day off today and get a sandwich on the way home.

If anyone else wants a reverse jinx... I'm quite sure it was just coincidence. However, I'd still accept payment for such services.