In which she celebrates yet another cold with a poll

[zeborah]

(LJ users will need to click through.)

Poll #3798 We're talking non-serious instances of the common cold here. Serious illness gets serious sympathy.

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 6

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What's your favouritest symptom of the common cold ever?

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Sinus congestion -> headache. Diddums points for hunting down knitting needles to drain the cavities.
2 (33.3%)

Nose congestion, subcategory runny -> using up a box of tissues on abrading your poor snozzle. Diddums points for plugging them with tissue and wandering around like a walrus.
0 (0.0%)

Nose congestion, subcategory blocked -> having to sleep with your mouth open to breathe. Diddums points for dreams in which your mouth is so dry it's set like concrete.
4 (66.7%)

Nose congestion, subcategory sneezing.
0 (0.0%)

Inflamed throat, subcategory ow. Diddums points for developing a loathing for the taste of throat lozenges.
1 (16.7%)

Inflamed throat, subcategory "OMG, since when did my throat have mucus glands?"
1 (16.7%)

Inflamed throat, subcategory can't talk now, vocal cords glued together. Diddums points for teaching a bunch of ESOL classes anyway.
1 (16.7%)

Chest congestion, subcategory productive cough. Diddums points for checking to make sure you're not coughing up blood.
1 (16.7%)

Chest congestion, subcategory nonproductive cough. Diddums points for getting a bowl in case you accidentally cough up your stomach contents instead.
1 (16.7%)

Chest congestion, subcategory asthma. Diddums points for being surprised when the nurse tells you your blood oxygen levels are perfectly normal actually.
0 (0.0%)

Chest congestion, subcategory did we mention coughing? Diddums points for hugging your chest together in case your next cough explodes it.
2 (33.3%)

Fever. Diddums points for plotless nightmares about Bill Clinton trying to murder someone, or the colour yellow.
0 (0.0%)

Malaise. Diddums points for... well, malaise, really. Calling in sick with malaise is just hopeless. "Hi, I can't come in to work today because I feel kinda, um, well... Okay I'll be there soon."
2 (33.3%)

Lethargy. Negative diddums points for the gleeful realisation that, whereas like any other day you're going to read/internet/TV rather than do housework, today you at least have a good excuse.
1 (16.7%)

Photophobia. Diddums points for opening that long-anticipated book/laptop/TV only to shriek "The light! It burns!"
1 (16.7%)

Other (see comments). Diddums points for the most woeful tale!
1 (16.7%)

Comments

[irinarempt.pip.verisignlabs.com]

Strangely, this poll looks closed with 0 participants and everything at 0%. (But I think mine is "nonproductive cough", especially in church)

[zeborah]

<pokes>

It works for me when logged in as me; doesn't work when logged out; and works again when logged in with OpenID.

It'd be handy if it worked when logged out but prompted for OpenID upon submitting. But then it might have trouble remembering your answers through the twists and turns of authentication. I might put it on my list of suggestions-to-make-when-I-get-a-round-tuit.

<coughs nonproductively, accidentally ejecting Boots from her lap>

[irinarempt.pip.verisignlabs.com]

Ah yes, being logged in did the trick, thanks!

[green_knight]

Swollen glands that make you feel you've got two golf balls inside your throat. Can I get my points for increased consumption of Brinjal pickle and any food with an extremely high chili quotient?

(Icecream also works, but not as well as Chili. Might try chocolate-with-chili icecream next time I have a cold.)

[zeborah]

Diddums points for chili: awarded!

I was afraid I was getting a sore throat this morning but it was just the effects of mouth-breathing all night. So instead I'm awarding myself diddums points for every muscle in my body aching due to endless coughing.

I identify with your icon so much right now. (Wah wah, woe is me, etc.)