the hayfever/harry potter thread

[|ngenius]

1. no. <--- Really? Are you sure?

2. not really, even if i liked the movies. i'll probably become a fan of harry potter as soon as i read the books. <--- No, you won't. Have you seen the horrible face of that boy?

3. no. <--- Well, that's acceptable

Miolo

 

[Miolo]

1. no. <--- Really? Are you sure? - err... yeah.

2. not really, even if i liked the movies. i'll probably become a fan of harry potter as soon as i read the books. <--- No, you won't. Have you seen the horrible face of that boy? ! - well, i suppose i won't see his face in the books. yes, the face is indeed horrible.

3. no. <--- Well, that's acceptable -

Miolo

 

[zodi]

of course this is nothing but the unadulterated truth. wot would eat and digest miss rowling, then spit out the bones for trollocs to make a soup with.

teh last three or four books? pffft. read a song of ice and fire.

 

[Dark_Jester]

AKA - murder, incest, rape, revenge. Who doesn't like George R R Martin?

 

[Caelestia]

sounds like all of vc andrews novels

 

[mousewings]

1. Don't think I have hayfever even if my eyes do get itchy and runny sometimes...

2. I love Harry Potter, as could be seen by one of my old signature. I really want the 5th book to be out soon.

3. Nope.

 

[hyena]

talking harry potter, maybe this should go into the "doubting thomas" thread, but go take a look:

http://www.witchfics.org/riley/ptq/sundown.html

i wonder how some people could be so taken with themselves. okay, PtQ is very good in my opinion, although there is a slight bit of repetition that reveals some lack of writing talent; but how can one think to feed people so much bullshit? 40 hours per week answering email, yeah fucking right... and severe health problems coming out of *that*...

 

[Hiljainen]

1. yes, to pollen, my eyes become red and hurt, lately i'm really hating all this

2. well, i've never seen harry potter, even if i wanted to

 

[Naku ist krig]

1) ya
2)sure..seen both movies.
3)no

 

[Onyx]

1) No, I don't. What is hayfever? Some type of allergy? I am not allergic, anyway.

2) I dislike Harry Potter because of the high amount of comercials made on these books. Being more precise, these are childish books, that's all. I don't see any particular use to me from any of them.

 

[rahvin]

@onyx: yes, it's when you're allergic to some plants blossoming in the spring.

rahvin.

 

[Onyx]

rahvin, in some of the threads I saw that you suffer from allergy. Poor soul.

 

[rahvin]

ah, well, thanks. it's a novelty of last year. this time it's much worse though. i thought at 25-26 you could be safe from this kind of unpleasant surprise, but you're not. guess i'll deal with it like anybody else though. *sigh*

rahvin.

 

[Miolo]

ah, well, thanks. it's a novelty of last year. this time it's much worse though. i thought at 25-26 you could be safe from this kind of unpleasant surprise, but you're not. guess i'll deal with it like anybody else though. *sigh*

really? i thought at 18 i could be safe.

*panicks*

Miolo

 

[Onyx]

rahvin, I thought there has to be some good medicine to help the allergic ones... Are there?

Goash, such a load of allergic people... What does the number of them depend on? And how parents can save their yet unborn child from being allergic in the future? I'm worried...

 

[Onyx]

3) I don't want to own a car, and I can't drive.

 

[hyena]

right, hayfever (and general allergy) 101 from a longtime expert:

allergies are improper reactions of the immune system. this means that besides attacking evil bacteria that might want to infiltrate your body, one's antibodies attack substances that are harmless to humans, i.e. pollen. why are allergies so widespread today in the Western world? because the immune system operates on a "nearest neighbor" method, ie it identifies potential threats based on how foreign to the body a certain substance is. the extremely aseptic environment now created in much of the developed countries is misleading, as in: you never breathe a gram of dust in your house, your body is going to kick and scream when you come across a freckle of dust. we live under air conditioning and in sterile environments - the two months per year with pollen in the air become deadly etc.
there is no proper cure for allergies, although there are vacceens based on the gradual assumption of allergenic substances - like drinking a bit of poison every day to stay safe from massive intakes. i'm going to take one such measure next year, i've been far too lazy so far. besides this, you can take antistamines and decongestants, but those cure the symptom, not the disease. as for keeping your kids safe, there's not much that can be done: some will inherit our own badly adjusted immune behavior, some others will eventually develop it - taking small kids for long walks in parks every spring can help, but if the parents don't survive, it's kinda pointless.

 

[Onyx]

hyena, thank you for the valuable information.

 

[Qsilver]

ah, well, thanks. it's a novelty of last year. this time it's much worse though. i thought at 25-26 you could be safe from this kind of unpleasant surprise, but you're not. guess i'll deal with it like anybody else though. *sigh*

rahvin.

Well my father is 40-something and still suffering from hayfever every year..

 

[rahvin]

Well my father is 40-something and still suffering from hayfever every year..

i meant the age when it first begins to surface. i already know i'm not going to get rid of it anyway.

rahvin.