The City Has a Fever

[d_aulnoy]

This might be funnier if you're Russian.

In Russia, the default setting for the human body lies at 36.7 degress Celsius: when you go up to 37.1, you are officially sick, and fully justified in taking a sick day.

In terms of Farenheit, this translates, respectively, to 98 degrees as healthy, and 99 as sick.

I am currently massively amused by the fact that, by Russian standards?  The city, the entire city, is sick, and thus justified in spending the day in bed, rereading old novels, and being fed Chinese takeout on the condition that it also has some of the soup that comes with it.

Get to it!

 

Comments

[no-detective.livejournal.com]

This works in Serbian, too. It's also generally known that 37.1 is the absolute worst kind of fever, since your entire body *really* feels it.

[d-aulnoy.livejournal.com]

Yep: I've felt worse at 99 than I have at 102, which I think is a weird kind of a defense mechanism: at 102, you're just kind of zone-y.

I am now wondering if the same will hold true if the *weather* goes in that direction ....

[lindsaybits]

In Soviet Russia, the fever has you! (Yeah, i know that joke is old and tired, but i love it so. Love!)

And actually, 99 is considered to be a low-grade fever. I've found that Europeans tend to be more in line with the thinking of "if you're sick, stay at home and get well". I belive the origin of this is that they actually survived the plague. IOW: if you're sick, stay the HELL away from me. lol.

[d-aulnoy.livejournal.com]

Logic is a beautiful, beautiful thing ....

[damascene.livejournal.com]

Er, 99 isn't a low-grade fever for all of us--my resting temperature ranges from 97.4 - 97.8, and everything else scales accordingly.

I loathe this weather. I feel as if I'm wearing flannel pyjamas under a wooly sweatsuit.

It's too hot for Chinese takeout. Sushi, and a fizzy Thai limeade.

[d-aulnoy.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm going on my own childhood experiences of being sick, so YMMV.

But totally with you on the hate - this is *repulsive*. I'm rationing cigarettes so as to be able to avoid leaving the house ....

[vschanoes.livejournal.com]

And fevers hits some of us harder than others. My normal temp is 98.6 but the minute it rises above 99 I can feel it and it takes me down. My mom wouldn't let me stay home from school unless it was above 100, though. The cruelty! The abuse!

[d-aulnoy.livejournal.com]

See, now, you should have picked up the lightbulb trick and all would have been well ....