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Would you give yourself the flu for £3750?

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    #62
    MonaPizza
    Registered Users Posts: 1,014 ✭✭✭MonaPizza


    What's so bad about the flu? It's not that bad. You're dizzy, your joints ache, you are congested, snotty, spluttering, wheezing, throat like razorblades, etc.

    (sounds like my usual Saturday morning)

    Jokes aside...you just stay in bed and overdose on liquids, sleep, with low volume gentle music playing in the corner.
    A week of that sounds like the perfect vacation. Sh!t, I'd pay for a week in the cot being brought lem-sips and having my temperature checked.

    Not 3750 quid but maybe 50.


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    #63
    whirlpool
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,574 ✭✭✭whirlpool


    I got cold sweats and shivers just reading the title of this thread, so I'm gonna go with no.


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    #64
    Cienciano
    Registered Users Posts: 14,232 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    Absoluvely wrote: »
    Influenza, commonly known as "the flu", is an infectious disease of birds and mammals caused by RNA viruses of the family Orthomyxoviridae, the influenza viruses.

    It can be difficult to distinguish between the common cold and influenza in the early stages of these infections, but a flu can be identified by a high fever with a sudden onset and extreme fatigue.

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

    Thanks wikibot


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    #65
    Arthur Beesley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,537 ✭✭✭Arthur Beesley


    Tax free?

    Does the flu shot not give you the flu? :)


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    #66
    Chazz Michael Michaels
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,822 ✭✭✭Chazz Michael Michaels


    No. People underestimate the flu. It can and does kill.


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    #67
    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    No
    Oranage2 wrote: »

    Anyway no, 4k is pocket change, not worth risking my health over it.

    Can I have your pocket change?


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    #68
    galwayrush
    Registered Users Posts: 12,815 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    I have the flu atm. If I knew I could have gotten paid to feel like this, of course I would have taken the money.


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    #69
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    masti123 wrote: »
    what exactly is a flu and how is it similar to a cold?

    If you heard there was €50 stuck in a rosebush in your back garden, then if you go out to find it then it's a cold you have. If you say it's too much trouble then it's the flu you have.

    People who say flu isn't that bad haven't actually had the flu, just a bad cold. You'd not be up, you'd not be on the internet, you'd not be back at work in a week. The flu is an awful disease.


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    #70
    RobertKK
    Registered Users Posts: 33,730 ✭✭✭✭RobertKK


    No, I got the flu a number of years ago, a young adult and it took about 3 weeks to feel fully recovered.
    It can potentially kill and shouldn't be underestimated, that is why there is the flu vaccine and updated every year.


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    #71
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users Posts: 29,294 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    MonaPizza wrote: »
    What's so bad about the flu? It's not that bad. You're dizzy, your joints ache, you are congested, snotty, spluttering, wheezing, throat like razorblades, etc.

    (sounds like my usual Saturday morning)

    Jokes aside...you just stay in bed and overdose on liquids, sleep, with low volume gentle music playing in the corner.
    A week of that sounds like the perfect vacation. Sh!t, I'd pay for a week in the cot being brought lem-sips and having my temperature checked.

    Not 3750 quid but maybe 50.

    Thats just a cold thats taken a day or two than normal to clear up.


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    #72
    BillyMitchel
    Registered Users Posts: 3,324 ✭✭✭BillyMitchel


    No
    I've survived swine flu. Yes I'd do it no problem.


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    #73
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    No
    I had the flu once, my nose was a bit runny and I had a bit of a cough...couple of hot whiskeys and I was as right as rain again. I'd do it again for €3750 in fact I'd do it for €37.50...


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    #74
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    CJC999 wrote: »
    I had the flu once, my nose was a bit runny and I had a bit of a cough...couple of hot whiskeys and I was as right as rain again. I'd do it again for €3750 in fact I'd do it for €37.50...

    Some antibiotics would have cleared that up in less than a day.


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    #75
    Red Pepper
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,567 ✭✭✭Red Pepper


    No
    Foxhound38 wrote: »
    Worth it? It's a daycent bit of cash but the flu is some pain in the bollocks all the same!

    I only had the real flu once but it was a nightmare.

    These people that take a couple of days off work with "flu" and then land in fresh as a daisy wreck my head. The real flu marks you for life!


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    #76
    Tzardine
    Registered Users Posts: 3,884 ✭✭✭Tzardine


    No
    Conmaicne Mara wrote: »
    First doctor I went to said I had acute bronchitis.

    Aint nobody got time for that


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    #77
    Paulie Gualtieri
    Closed Accounts Posts: 420 ✭✭Paulie Gualtieri


    No
    Of course I'd take it . sure I get the flu anyway so might as well get paid for it. Plus the longest flu I ever had only lasted a week . so a nice little payday.


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    #78
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    No
    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Some antibiotics would have cleared that up in less than a day.

    The hot whiskey worked after a few hours, I think. Not sure as I was so pissed.


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    #79
    McChubbin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,080 ✭✭✭McChubbin


    No
    I had swine flu once. Jesus, that was rotten. There were parts of me I never knew existed that ached and trembled. My head felt like it weighed a ton and I was barfing for Ireland. Even so, provided it's just your common garden variety flu, I'd take the shot if it meant getting a few grand.
    I could use a holiday. :/


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    #80
    COYVB
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,660 ✭✭✭COYVB


    CJC999 wrote: »
    I had the flu once, my nose was a bit runny and I had a bit of a cough...couple of hot whiskeys and I was as right as rain again. I'd do it again for €3750 in fact I'd do it for €37.50...
    You had a cold. Not influenza


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    #81
    smurgen
    Registered Users Posts: 6,933 ✭✭✭smurgen


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Some antibiotics would have cleared that up in less than a day.

    Antibiotics don't work on colds or flu.I'd do it no bother.realively fit young male so it would be a few days of hell and at the end of it I'd have a few grand,probably lost a bit of weight aswell.before anyone asks I had the real flu twice and it wasn't so bad. I know it can kill but some people here are being overly dramatic.


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    #82
    Jesus Wept
    Registered Users Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    No
    Oranage2 wrote: »
    I'd be more worried about the drugs they'd give you to cure it.

    Anyway no, 4k is pocket change, not worth risking my health over it.

    No it isn't.


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    #83
    the_syco
    Registered Users Posts: 37,295 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    Oranage2 wrote: »
    I'd be more worried about the drugs they'd give you to cure it.
    Agreed. The clinical trials are not to see what the flu does to you, it's to see which drug gives the least side effects over the course of the trial period.

    Example of when sh|t goes wrong.
    The men had serious symptoms, including vital organ failure, fever and low blood pressure. They had to be treated in the intensive care unit at the NHS Northwick Park Hospital in Middlesex. The men survived, but their health was permanently compromised.


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    #84
    dee_mc
    Registered Users Posts: 7,175 ✭✭✭dee_mc


    No
    Hell yeah I would, have had the (real) flu more than once and survived it so set me up with a supply of DVDs, water and my bed - bring it on!


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    #85
    Filibuster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 361 ✭✭Filibuster


    No way. I once had a very bad flu which led to pneumonia. I wouldn't accept any money to suffer through that again.


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    #86
    rosiem
    Registered Users Posts: 273 ✭✭rosiem


    No way have only ever had one flu and I would never wish it on anybody never mind bring it on yourself


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    #87
    Foxhound38
    Registered Users Posts: 2,547 ✭✭✭Foxhound38


    No
    CJC999 wrote: »
    The hot whiskey worked after a few hours, I think. Not sure as I was so pissed.

    I've had the flu a few times more than I'd like...

    Drinking was not what sounded appealing to me at the time, as I recall


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    #88
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 50,630 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    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!

    I take it all back. Karma got me and now I have flu and I'm getting no monies. I'm currently drugged up to my eyeballs which is why I can post for now but it won't last. It lures you into this false sense of security and then BAM you feel like you're about to die again.

    I can't swallow. I'm absolutely soaking wet but if I take my duvet off I'll be freezing. I'm getting what feels like electric shocks all over me. Everything aches. My bones. My joints. My skin. It feels like someone is sitting on my chest and one side of my throat resembles the elephant man. Sudden movements make it feel like someone is trying to vacuum pack my brain. Yesterday I managed to eat a petit filous and have a hot whiskey. Light hurts my head and I can't stand up without feeling like I'm going to cry.

    I'd rather be put down that given €4,000 right now >.<


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    #89
    [Deleted User]
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    I'm tempted to say yes since I'm young and (relatively) healthy so it would be unlikely to kill me and would probably pass after a few days. I've never had flu before though so I can't know for sure if it really is as bad as people describe.


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    #90
    bobwilliams
    Registered Users Posts: 1,050 ✭✭✭bobwilliams


    No
    I got it once and it was great.....I don't mean having it was great but it was the first time ever that I rang in sick and didn't have to put that voice on.:D

    I got it from swimming in the Irish sea in the middle of summer probably for too long, swallowing some water and jesus it knocked me for six.


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    #91
    Feisar
    Registered Users Posts: 6,609 ✭✭✭Feisar


    Had a flu once when I was a nipper, wouldn't chance it now as I'm getting on in years, thirty next month.

    First they came for the socialists...



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