I'd get pretty sick from the smell of cut grass. So my Dad made me take an antihistamine before mowing the lawn. My suggestion that it would be better to just not mow the lawn was dismissed out of hand...
@duodec the wife asked me when we own our own home what will happen with the grass. I said there is usually some neighborhood kid wanting to earn some extra money...
@sohmageek I live in a neighborhood full of teens and preteens, but still can't get any to mow my lawn. The one time I did, it was some dad teaching his kid a lesson by making him mow the entire block. Lesson we learned was an angry teen does a crap job of mowing the lawn.
@simplersimon My lawnmower won't start and I haven't had the time to sit down and clean it out yet. With all the rain we've had here lately, I had to go over my whole yard with the weed eater today to keep the jungle at bay. That kid would probably have done a better job than I did.
@simplersimon wow. I guess it's like the bottle redemption. I remember as a school fundraising we went out and asked for bottles. Now I'd love to get someone to just ask once to take bottles. They could make a bit off of us... The one time I was asked was 8 years ago and I only had liquor bottles at the time. But they carry a $.15 deposit over a $.05 deposit. Still. It's funny giving a teenager asking for bottles for a school fund raiser an empty bottle of tequila.
And yes it's more of a lazy thing, but I'd give the bottles up to a teenager just asking for them not even for a school thing. The other reason is we don't have a lot of extra space so when we do it it's usually $1 or $2 in bottles. It doesn't even really make sense to drive down to redemption with that little.
@duodec My Dad would do the same thing & then suggest that it would be less of an issue if I worked faster. The ultimate insult came when he brought home a face mask and insisted that I wear it to mow. I kept my whining to a minimum after that day.
@glindagw Could wear a Jason style hockey mask over the respirator mask... My Dad actually made me try dust masks and such, but they made no difference. We found an Israeli gas mask (the one with two round lenses for the eyes) and wore that once and it actually did help... make me the laughingstock of the neighborhood (but also made for an awesome Halloween costume that fall). I never got out of mowing no matter how sick it made me...
@duodec Wow, where were you when I was a teenager? I needed your help in trumping my Dad's move to embarrass me. I think that my Dr. Who obsessed daughter would volunteer to mow the lawn just to own a gas mask in that style.
@glindagw None of it worked. Resistance was futile. He got a good laugh out of my efforts and made sure we kept a bottle of antihistamines around, plus kept us supplied with kleenex. But that gas mask was fun after the fact. Your daughter can probably pick up an actual British mask of similar style on ebay; the Israeli ones don't have the metal rings around the eye windows.
Allergies. One of my least favorite parts of my life. It's taken 25 years but the past few years I can say I love winter. Why? It is entirely due to the fact that I can breathe out my nose.
My seasonal allergies make me into a mouth breather. I used to have anaphylactic reactions to eggs. I still have the scratchy throat when I eat-tree nuts especially almonds, walnuts (I love tree nuts also,) fuzzy fruit, strawberries. It's an enzyme in the fruit now that bothers me. As if you have froze it or heated it to a certain temp it's fine for me to eat. But pretty nasty "raw" then.
Seasonal allergies suck but won't kill you. So I can deal with them.
Oh also it's great when your body becomes immune to allergy meds. I have to rotate between multiple kinds to keep them working.
@Kleineleh and it's made from a fungus! well most of it is anyway... you can still get it from fruits, but that is way too expensive for sodas and candy ;)
@kenziemaria I really don't care what the blow-back is for my saying this, but if your life is "Meh" over these four piddly ass (as in fucking trivial) issues, there's obviously a MUCH larger problem. I know plenty of people with serious shit wrong with them that wouldn't dare say their life is "Meh". Lemme guess, you're a whining member of the worst generation ever.
@Pamtha Yes I understand her definition ergo my retort. Oh her poor life is so fucking uninspired because she can't eat a peanut butter sandwich or wear cheap nickel bangles. Give me a fucking break. Lose a leg. Cut off a tit for cancer. Suffer 3rd degree burns. THEN MAYBE your life is "Meh". Otherwise shut the fuck up - stop whining - be thankful for what ya got. Fucking children these days. BTW - are you her keeper? Or just a knight in a shining shit suit? she can type her life is "Meh" - I'm sure she can type her own reply.
@mehthafucka, yep, really hideous stuff is in a completely different category than the "Do you have allergies" forum thread. The general tone of responses on here is of the "this sucks, but I deal with it" variety, with more than one "meh" sprinkled in for seasoning. No one is here to ask for gofundme.com donations to help them live with their allergies, so please tone down the venom. There are thousands of other message boards that are in urgent need of your style of STFU, and I wonder why you chose this one to practice your craft on.
@shawn Yeah, seriously, where did all the trolls come from? Meth Head is beating up the sick kid. I got called a racist because of pollen (not sure I see the connection there). The forums are where we come to bitch about the world, not attack each other!
I got tested a couple months ago for allergy shots. I was literally off the scale for literally everything they tested. The nurse gasped when she walked in.
@azfang Nah. Rachel Weisz's character told this story about a similarly bad result but they learned, years later, that they were allergic to the needles used for the testing. I always wonder if there are some people that actually have that problem in the world.
While I consider myself allergic to outdoors in general, I don't have allergies per se. However, in the spring when tree pollen is at its worst, my nose does run more than usual. When my car has turned greenish yellow from a coat of pollen, I know my rate of sneezing and sniffling will dramatically increase.
I grew up with cats and have a couple of our own, but visiting my parents who have them leaves me terribly stuffed up. One of theirs is the really long hair fluffy kind so maybe that's it. I'm also allergic to penicillin and sulfa drugs though it sounds like penicillin isn't as popularly prescribed as it used to be.
I want to say yes but some dermatologist explained to me that I don't have allergies per se because I haven't experienced anaphylactic shock when exposed to a allergen(s). But what I do know is I can use a slew of ingredients on my skin or else I will break out in an itchy rash.
I'd get pretty sick from the smell of cut grass. So my Dad made me take an antihistamine before mowing the lawn. My suggestion that it would be better to just not mow the lawn was dismissed out of hand...
@duodec the wife asked me when we own our own home what will happen with the grass. I said there is usually some neighborhood kid wanting to earn some extra money...
I'm pretty allergic to grass also.
@sohmageek I live in a neighborhood full of teens and preteens, but still can't get any to mow my lawn. The one time I did, it was some dad teaching his kid a lesson by making him mow the entire block. Lesson we learned was an angry teen does a crap job of mowing the lawn.
@simplersimon My lawnmower won't start and I haven't had the time to sit down and clean it out yet. With all the rain we've had here lately, I had to go over my whole yard with the weed eater today to keep the jungle at bay. That kid would probably have done a better job than I did.
@simplersimon wow. I guess it's like the bottle redemption. I remember as a school fundraising we went out and asked for bottles. Now I'd love to get someone to just ask once to take bottles. They could make a bit off of us... The one time I was asked was 8 years ago and I only had liquor bottles at the time. But they carry a $.15 deposit over a $.05 deposit. Still. It's funny giving a teenager asking for bottles for a school fund raiser an empty bottle of tequila.
And yes it's more of a lazy thing, but I'd give the bottles up to a teenager just asking for them not even for a school thing. The other reason is we don't have a lot of extra space so when we do it it's usually $1 or $2 in bottles. It doesn't even really make sense to drive down to redemption with that little.
@duodec My Dad would do the same thing & then suggest that it would be less of an issue if I worked faster. The ultimate insult came when he brought home a face mask and insisted that I wear it to mow. I kept my whining to a minimum after that day.
@glindagw Could wear a Jason style hockey mask over the respirator mask... My Dad actually made me try dust masks and such, but they made no difference. We found an Israeli gas mask (the one with two round lenses for the eyes) and wore that once and it actually did help... make me the laughingstock of the neighborhood (but also made for an awesome Halloween costume that fall). I never got out of mowing no matter how sick it made me...
@duodec Wow, where were you when I was a teenager? I needed your help in trumping my Dad's move to embarrass me. I think that my Dr. Who obsessed daughter would volunteer to mow the lawn just to own a gas mask in that style.
@glindagw None of it worked. Resistance was futile. He got a good laugh out of my efforts and made sure we kept a bottle of antihistamines around, plus kept us supplied with kleenex. But that gas mask was fun after the fact. Your daughter can probably pick up an actual British mask of similar style on ebay; the Israeli ones don't have the metal rings around the eye windows.
I used to be able to say no. But the last 2 years I've had to take allergy medicine in the spring or I'm sneezing and sniffling all damn day.
No allergies here. My immune system knows when to quit.
I'm allergic to speaker docks
@somf69 blasphemy.
Allergies. One of my least favorite parts of my life. It's taken 25 years but the past few years I can say I love winter. Why? It is entirely due to the fact that I can breathe out my nose.
My seasonal allergies make me into a mouth breather.
I used to have anaphylactic reactions to eggs.
I still have the scratchy throat when I eat-tree nuts especially almonds, walnuts (I love tree nuts also,) fuzzy fruit, strawberries. It's an enzyme in the fruit now that bothers me. As if you have froze it or heated it to a certain temp it's fine for me to eat. But pretty nasty "raw" then.
Seasonal allergies suck but won't kill you. So I can deal with them.
Oh also it's great when your body becomes immune to allergy meds. I have to rotate between multiple kinds to keep them working.
I used to say no to all, but I developed severe pollen and food allergies in the last few years. Now, life is meh.
@neerak I've never had allergies in my life and now I'm scared of this happening to me.
@neerak Just happened to me. Moved to the north, was not allergic to anything. This year? All bets are off. ODing on allergy pills.
None for me, but many of my relatives have developed food allergies late in life, so I'm sure I'll join the party sometime too.
Freeking mold.
ACHOO!
I used to have a client who was allergic to citric acid. I didn't realize until I started working with her that that stuff is in everything
@Kleineleh and it's made from a fungus!
well most of it is anyway... you can still get it from fruits, but that is way too expensive for sodas and candy ;)
@thismyusername really? eeww
@Kleineleh it's all good, they have done it that way since the 1930's :D
Yes, I'm allergic to work and my mother.
Food: Peanut allergy.
Skin: Nickel allergy. Fragrance allergy. And eczema.
Life is Meh.
@kenziemaria I really don't care what the blow-back is for my saying this, but if your life is "Meh" over these four piddly ass (as in fucking trivial) issues, there's obviously a MUCH larger problem. I know plenty of people with serious shit wrong with them that wouldn't dare say their life is "Meh". Lemme guess, you're a whining member of the worst generation ever.
@mehthafucka She said life was meh, not that it was hell on earth. Meh in this case means (adj) uninspiring; unexceptional.
@Pamtha Yes I understand her definition ergo my retort. Oh her poor life is so fucking uninspired because she can't eat a peanut butter sandwich or wear cheap nickel bangles. Give me a fucking break. Lose a leg. Cut off a tit for cancer. Suffer 3rd degree burns. THEN MAYBE your life is "Meh". Otherwise shut the fuck up - stop whining - be thankful for what ya got. Fucking children these days. BTW - are you her keeper? Or just a knight in a shining shit suit? she can type her life is "Meh" - I'm sure she can type her own reply.
@mehthafucka, yep, really hideous stuff is in a completely different category than the "Do you have allergies" forum thread. The general tone of responses on here is of the "this sucks, but I deal with it" variety, with more than one "meh" sprinkled in for seasoning. No one is here to ask for gofundme.com donations to help them live with their allergies, so please tone down the venom. There are thousands of other message boards that are in urgent need of your style of STFU, and I wonder why you chose this one to practice your craft on.
@mehthafucka cheer up sucker
@mehthafucka @shawn
@shawn Yeah, seriously, where did all the trolls come from? Meth Head is beating up the sick kid. I got called a racist because of pollen (not sure I see the connection there). The forums are where we come to bitch about the world, not attack each other!
Lactose intolerant (does that count?) and a family history of allergies to penicillin (haven't tested that one yet).
Georgia.
@PocketBrain I think that's called racisim...
@PocketBrain One of the things I don't miss about Georgia, fucking pollen.
I got tested a couple months ago for allergy shots. I was literally off the scale for literally everything they tested. The nurse gasped when she walked in.
...and yet I still have a cat and two dogs.
@azfang Ever seen The Brothers Bloom?
@sinless Nope. Similarly poorly thought out decisions?
@azfang Nah. Rachel Weisz's character told this story about a similarly bad result but they learned, years later, that they were allergic to the needles used for the testing. I always wonder if there are some people that actually have that problem in the world.
I'm pretty much allergic to outside. Bubble-boy had an interesting idea, imho.
While I consider myself allergic to outdoors in general, I don't have allergies per se. However, in the spring when tree pollen is at its worst, my nose does run more than usual. When my car has turned greenish yellow from a coat of pollen, I know my rate of sneezing and sniffling will dramatically increase.
My allergist makes a mint off of me.
Food:
Lamb
Fruits, vegetables, and nuts that aren't cooked and/or processed. Kiwis, apples, and pistachios can literally kill me.
Trees:
Ash, Birch, Elm, Hickory, Maple, Oak, Sycamore
Grass:
Bermuda and June
Weeds:
Cocklebur and Ragweed
Molds
Dust / Dust Mites
Animals:
Dogs, Cats, Birds
Some prescriptions that I can't remember names of.
AND I'm lactose intolerant.
My vote went to sheer misery.
@hems79 I think this is the firs time I've heard of someone with a lamb allergy. I have 2 friends allergic to chicken. Sorry you live in sheer misery.
I grew up with cats and have a couple of our own, but visiting my parents who have them leaves me terribly stuffed up. One of theirs is the really long hair fluffy kind so maybe that's it.
I'm also allergic to penicillin and sulfa drugs though it sounds like penicillin isn't as popularly prescribed as it used to be.
I want to say yes but some dermatologist explained to me that I don't have allergies per se because I haven't experienced anaphylactic shock when exposed to a allergen(s). But what I do know is I can use a slew of ingredients on my skin or else I will break out in an itchy rash.
I forgot to mention when I try to exercise, I break out in hives.