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Would you give yourself the flu for £3750?

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    #2
    Rekop dog
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,584 ✭✭✭Rekop dog


    No
    Ah yeah, although proper flu is pretty awful. Still would for that money though.


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    #3
    Links234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    Yeah, I'd do it. It wouldnt be fun, but **** it, I've gone through glandular fever last year, if I get sick I might as well get something out of it


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    #4
    The Backwards Man
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    Not for all the tea in China. The flu is an awful dose.


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    #5
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users Posts: 71,799 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    No
    What happens if you have a good immune system, do you have to give the money back?


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    #6
    Foxhound38
    Registered Users Posts: 2,547 ✭✭✭Foxhound38


    No
    Rekop dog wrote: »
    Ah yeah, although proper flu is pretty awful. Still would for that money though.

    I haven't had the proper flu in years, but I remember it as being pretty much the worst thing imaginable


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    #7
    Norfolk Enchants_
    Registered Users Posts: 661 ✭✭✭Norfolk Enchants_


    The money wouldn't be much good to you if the flu killed you.


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    #8
    shopaholic01
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    I've never had a proper flu so I probably could be tempted.


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    #9
    thecatspjs
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    No
    Had it once. On the one hand, it was terrible ... but on the other hand £3750 would make me happy. I'd do it.


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    #10
    Rasheed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,117 ✭✭✭Rasheed


    Not a hope. I've had flu once in my life, it's horrific, wasn't right for about two months.


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    #11
    Rekop dog
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,584 ✭✭✭Rekop dog


    No
    Foxhound38 wrote: »
    I haven't had the proper flu in years, but I remember it as being pretty much the worst thing imaginable

    I'm sure I could think of one or two worse things but yeah you'd be bed ridden for the guts of a week, and feeling lowsy for up to 3 weeks. The high temperature delerious nightmares/ profuse sweating is the worst part imo.


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    #12
    Conmaicne Mara
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    I was sick before Christmas and am still not back to normal. First doctor I went to said I had acute bronchitis. Never had that before so when the tablets ran out and I still wasn't well I went to see a different doctor (first doctor was the only available, while second was locally available after the Christmas period). Second doctor reckoned I had flu.

    Well if what I had was the proper flu then they can keep their £3750, and a lot more on top of it. No way, no thanks.


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    #13
    Agent Coulson
    Registered Users Posts: 60,415 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    That's only €4570.88 they would have to round it up to at least the €5000 mark.


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    #14
    [Deleted User]
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    I'm a very healthy young(ish!) woman. The flu is unlikely to kill me. I'd have to go without Internet for a few days because when I have the flu I can hardly open my eyes or lift my head. But if I was getting a few grand at the end of it then I'd manage!


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    #15
    suicide_circus
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    only had proper flu once in my life, the only time I have literally collapsed onto the floor. took me twenty minutes to crawl up the stairs and into bed where I passed out. probably still would though, daddy needs a new pair of shoes.

    I got swine flu there a few years back, confirmed in hospital but it wasnt as bad as that first one. sweated profusely and was apparently speaking in tongues in my semi conscious stupor


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    #16
    Foxhound38
    Registered Users Posts: 2,547 ✭✭✭Foxhound38


    No
    Deleted User wrote: »
    I'm a very healthy young(ish!) woman. The flu is unlikely to kill me. I'd have to go without Internet for a few days because when I have the flu I can hardly open my eyes or lift my head. But if I was getting a few grand at the end of it then I'd manage!

    It is some dose all the same...

    I'm tempted but I know I'd probably be cursing myself for my insolance while I'm struck down with it


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    #17
    Ficheall
    Registered Users Posts: 9,027 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    http://www.flucamp.com/testimonials

    "An opportunity to meet new friends!" God yes.


    -See her over there?
    -What? In the foetal position with snot dribbling out of her nose like a tap?
    -Yeah.
    -Yeah?
    -I'd do 'er.
    -Hm.
    -'cept I'd have to be on top, obviously...
    -Of course, mate. 'course.


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    #18
    [Deleted User]
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    Foxhound38 wrote: »
    It is some dose all the same...

    I'm tempted but I know I'd probably be cursing myself for my insolance while I'm struck down with it

    Aw yeh, you really do feel like this is it. This is how you're gonna leave this world. Like someone has sellotaped your eyes shut. Put your head in a vice grips while standing on your face with a 10 foot steal capped boot. Injected you with a paralysing but pain inducing drug, while squeezing tightly on your neck. You feel like someone has been pouring water over you all night but then you realise it's sweat. You can't eat and flat 7up is a struggle. You swear that if anyone ever says "I think I have flu" while supping on a lempsip at their desk, you'll punch them right in the fanny.

    Still though. €4,000 :p


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    #19
    Foxhound38
    Registered Users Posts: 2,547 ✭✭✭Foxhound38


    No
    Ficheall wrote: »
    http://www.flucamp.com/testimonials

    "An opportunity to meet new friends!" God yes.


    -See her over there?
    -What? In the foetal position with snot dribbling out of her nose like a tap?
    -Yeah.
    -Yeah?
    -I'd do 'er.
    -Hm.
    -'cept I'd have to be on top, obviously...
    -Of course, mate. 'course.

    That made me laugh - well done sir! :)


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    #20
    Yamanoto
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    Though it comes and goes over a relatively short period, there can be subtle long-term repercussions from exposure to it, which may compromise your health to some degree in later life.

    That's a fairly small payoff for taking such a gamble.


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    #21
    [Deleted User]
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    Yamanoto wrote: »
    Though it comes and goes over a relatively short period, there can be subtle long-term repercussions from exposure to it, which may compromise your health to some degree in later life.

    That's a fairly small payoff for taking such a gamble.

    Be graaaand.


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    #22
    blaze1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,559 ✭✭✭blaze1


    No
    Depends, if its only a flu I'd would, but not a chance in hell if it was full blown man flu.


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    #23
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users Posts: 71,799 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    No
    Getting paid to be off work sure why not.

    Get sick cert & still be paid from work, getting paid twice.


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    #24
    Foxhound38
    Registered Users Posts: 2,547 ✭✭✭Foxhound38


    No
    Ted_YNWA wrote: »
    Getting paid to be off work sure why not.

    Get sick cert & still be paid from work, getting paid twice.

    Yeah, but the flu...


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    #25
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users Posts: 71,799 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    No
    Foxhound38 wrote: »
    Yeah, but the flu...

    Be grand, takes a lot to ground me. Made of strong stuff.


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    #26
    Peter Tork
    Registered Users Posts: 27 ✭Peter Tork


    No. Your health is your wealth.


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    #27
    Vito Corleone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,753 ✭✭✭Vito Corleone


    Yes, most definitely.


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    #28
    [Deleted User]
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    Rekop dog wrote: »
    I'm sure I could think of one or two worse things but yeah you'd be bed ridden for the guts of a week, and feeling lowsy for up to 3 weeks. The high temperature delerious nightmares/ profuse sweating is the worst part imo.


    Thats flu-lite. Proper flu has you in bed, insensible, aching all over, unable to walk unaided, drowning in your own mucus, and maybe even slightly incontinent. And you're too sick to care.

    I had flu once, hopefully never again.


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    #29
    Dacelonid
    Registered Users Posts: 1,112 ✭✭✭Dacelonid


    Would I infect myself with the flu for ~€4000? Yes, Absolutely. Have had the flu a few times including Swine Flu and while it was really really horrible I got over it.
    Would I sign up for a clinical trial to be infected with the flu and take whatever drugs they thought I had to take? No!! Had to take tamiflu when i had the swine flu, and the side effects of that were way worse than the flu I was suffering from


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    #30
    Legs.Eleven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,987 ✭✭✭Legs.Eleven


    No
    Ehhh....without a doubt. I've had the proper flu once in my life and it was one of the worst months I've ever had but for that kinda cash, I'd go through it again.


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    #31
    Murt10
    Registered Users Posts: 1,190 ✭✭✭Murt10


    Participation in our 'FluCamp' can give you the time and freedom to catch up on work and study?????


    Must have been something much worse than the flu I had about 15 years ago. I thought I was going to die, and I couldn't have cared less.

    As for worrying about work or study. It must be a really really mild dose of the flu that they give you.


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