How Frequently Are You Ill? or, What The Fuck Is Wrong With People?

[kingyummy]

This is really starting to fucking piss me off. There are certain members of  my group of female friends who are always getting ill. I mean a minimum - a minimum - of 8 times a year. WTF is up with that? Who has immune systems so weak that they succumb to some infection or another that frequently? Granted, they all smoke (cigarettes) a lot, but it'

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[inconceivable1]

I smoke all the time and my whole family catches colds more than I do. I think there's a bit of a hypochondriac culture happening nowadays, plus people are eating more fast food and no amount of "LOW TRANSFAT" advertisements can change the fact that fast food is typically deep-fried in the same oil over and over again before it's changed.

Too many carbs, too much fatty meat, too few veggies...all of these things are suspect. If I eat too much fast food I notice a drop in my energy and ability to fight off viruses and infections; though sinus infections typically get me before anything else.

I don't know your friends but from the sound of it, they're victims of either poor diet choices or lazy hermit syndrome that they can push off on imaginary illnesses.

I have a friend that had bifocals by the time she was a senior in highschool and she could still see better than I could. All of these "new" disorders and illnesses that are popping up have half the population convinced they're fucking terminal, too.

That's my opinion anyway.

A few questions

[anonymous]

Hi! Regards from Spain; I found out this journal by reading an Oxford university forum (actually it was another journal, about Harris Manchester College) and I have a few questions for you, if you have a little time for me :) :

-Is it possible to apply with a computer engineer degree(3 years) got from the spanish equivalent of Open University? I mean, I would have to do some A-level exams, access course for a year or something similar? If not, do they require an excellent academic expedient?

-Is it possible living outside the college (rent an apartment or similar)from the first year?

-Is it 34 too late to apply? I mean I know there's no age restrinctions at HMC but...

-Are there mature students in other colleges? About 35 years old...

Thanks!

PS. you have a bloody great sense of humour :)

[standard_human]

I need more LJ friends, added you because you met the minimum cuss entry requirements. Totally feel you on the sick chicks BTW - I feel like I have an immune system of steel.

Cheers!
SH.