The chap at work, where I was vaguely functional for six hours, kept telling me that he'd had a really bad cold recently. "Yes," I said, "but I have flu, which is not the same."
"That's just a bad cold, isn't it? Are you on antibiotics?"
"Influenza is a different virus family to the set of viruses that cause colds, but both are viruses so neither respond to antibiotics," I told him, a little testily.
no subject
"That's just a bad cold, isn't it? Are you on antibiotics?"
"Influenza is a different virus family to the set of viruses that cause colds, but both are viruses so neither respond to antibiotics," I told him, a little testily.
"Gosh, how do you know all this stuff?"
I resisted the urge to cough on him.
You're channelling Shiv!!!!
*passes you a hot toddy*