Pointless thread!

toiletduck

Do you say "god bless you" when someone sneezes? i say kaniciwha (i sure that spelling is ****)

Gurgle

toiletduck wrote:

Do you say "god bless you" when someone sneezes? i say kaniciwha (i sure that spelling is ****)

If you mean Konnichiwa, thats japanese for hello.

Asiaprod

Gurgle wrote:

If you mean Konnichiwa, thats japanese for hello.

Yes thats right but you spell it Konichiwa. I just duck.....quickley

toiletduck

****! ye know what i meant, gesuntite (spelling again)

Gurgle

toiletduck wrote:

****! ye know what i meant, gesuntite (spelling again)

Isnt that hebrew or yiddish or something for 'God bless you'?

robindch

> Isnt that hebrew or yiddish or something for 'God bless you'?

Nothing to do with god:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesundheit

Dades

Is this what we're reduced to here!*

I don't really really feel the necessity to comment when someone sneezes.
Unless of course they sneeze on me.

*mental note: start a controversial thread when work commitments ease...

Zillah

The Atheist wrote:

I don't really really feel the necessity to comment when someone sneezes.

But...how do you stop their soul falling out?!

Dades

Zillah wrote:

But...how do you stop their soul falling out?!

You don't - instead you share your soul with all the other people on the bus/train.
No doubt they'll thank you for it.

It's when all the chickens start sneezing we're in trouble

Asiaprod

The Atheist wrote:

You don't - instead you share your soul with all the other people on the bus/train.
No doubt they'll thank you for it.

It's when all the chickens start sneezing we're in trouble

Ah-ha, so thats how reincarnation works. I am now enlightened....Ah, ah, aaa..CHooooooo. Damn, I skipped a life with that one.

Zombrex

The Atheist wrote:

You don't - instead you share your soul with all the other people on the bus/train

So thats what the smell was on the Luas this moring ...

Back to the OP, I say Gesundheit (when I could be arsed), since, as the Wikipedia article explains, it is a non-religous phrase but people still expect you to say something when they sneeze ... of course people are dumb, but what you going to do

But at the same time I have no great feelings which way or the other about saying "bless u" either, which I do sometimes, normally when a girlfriend has sneezed and I haven't said anything yet and she is looking over to me as if I just forgot her birthday/v-day/christmas present all at once.

Just cause you are an atheist doesn't mean you can't go along with stupid stuff (see "people are dumb" above). I doubt most Christians actually believe their soul is falling out when the sneeze, but it has become a cultural thing to comment when someone sneezes.