I hate

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Motorcyclists using hazard lights when filtering on the motorway. Why?
That annoys me more than it should.

Extra visibility so someone might see you in their mirror before suddenly changing lanes

Raconteurs are alright

the vast number of people (who, as far as I know, are not qualified to undertake such responsibility) who say 'Bless you\him\her' in a manner that really strives for the pinnacle of patronising/belittlement or (as an alternative to goodbye) 'God bless'

I say "no thank you".

I prefer 'aw, bless'...

A cunt I work with says gesundheit when someone sneezes.

I hope his next shite is a hedgehog.

Not German/Swiss/Austrian then, I take it?

(I don't mean the hedgehog)

An old flat mate of mine used to hate it when people said thank you after someone said bless you when they sneezed. She said once "it kills the fairies". I was never quite sure whether she was serious. Needless to say I was quite careful around her after that.

I like saying "bless you" when someone sneezes.

Just a little reminder that plague (H5N1 or similar) could come back at any time and kill one in five of us.

I particularly like saying it to strangers.

I once said it to a passing sneezing stranger in the street in Rome, he loudly said thank you back and was very english. Britsabroad radar did us both proud that day. #csb

I particularly like saying it to strangers.

What - that they have a 20% chance of dropping dead when Judgement comes?

My problem with someone saying "bless you" is the lack of guidance about what to say in response - Debrett's has nothing on the matter.

Saying "thank you" seems to work, but if you're still sneezing, you can't say it in time, and then you're paralysed by embarrassment, and all you can say to alleviate the discomfort is to tell them to fuck off and leave you alone.

It's a minefield of manners.

Please don't invoke your god to bless me, it angers my own sky wizard.

H5N1
Mate.
Plague is caused by a bacterium.

H5N1 is a virus.

You'll be asking for antibiotics for your cold next.

And yes, I'm aware it's the secondary infections/bacterial flux breaking down the dead cells etc around a syncytial virus infection that people probably want the antibiotics for.

Adults that refer to their parents as 'Mummy and Daddy'.

I just meant a megadeath disease. Not that H5N1 == plague.

But thanks anyway!

Is this the new memes thread? The whiff of beef is never very far away...

plague

Also that plague can refer to any epedemic disease. In fact, can't you have a plague of locusts too?

A plague on both your houses.

What about both of @ramsaye ‘s tents?

a sneeze is the devil being forced out of the body....or something....hence the "bless you" afterwards

I just wanted to make sure you weren't going to run off and use the wrong crystals to protect yourself with. I think it's opal for bacteria. And topaz for virus.

Happy to be homeopathised.

when someone says Gesundheit.....I always reply "I hope they are"