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Comment on Discussion Thread 🦊 Saturday 20 June 2026

Just bailed on going to a close friends kids party. Little one has a sore throat and temp but better with Panadol and there’s a cold going round their family. I was looking forward to it because I haven’t seen them for a while but I have so much stuff on don’t want to risk getting sick. We have some stuff at work with hard deadlines and the buck stops with me. And thanks to my autoimmune/ general mid life stuffs when I get sick I’m brainfoggy and sick for weeks until things stabilise. I just don’t want to risk it.

Still feel bad though. They said it was all fine but I feel like everyone will think I’m being an arsehole and a princess. I blame those stupid codral ads all my life.

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CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Parents will underplay any sickness the child has so they don’t disappoint. Staying away is the best thing you can do. Save yourself.

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StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Nah, if they’re your friends they won’t think you’re an arsehole or princess. You’re just looking after yourself and avoiding risks.

Those codral ads were heinous. No one should go to work sick like that, I thought we learned that from the pandemic lol

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- Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I’ve seen ads for panadol to relieve pain from sore throats
  
  employers learnt NOTHING and they still give zero fucks, because they have suffer no consequences
  
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  - StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Pfft dumb af. Same with panadol for period pain. The ingredients are the same as generic.
    
    I only buy generic ibuprofen, as I can’t take panadol anymore. Same ingredients as brand name ibuprofen. Stupid af.
    
    Painkillers are painkillers, regardless or what type of pain they advertise it for lol
    
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    Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    not all tablets are the same
    
    while the active ingredient is the same some have buffers as part of the tablet and this means it can be absorbed better in the stomach
    
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Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
nope, no to getting germs and illness

and no one should ever knowingly expose you 😠

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tombruzzo@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
It’s the right move and it happens. We always get a fraction of the expected turnout for the kids’ birthday parties for the same reason.

We were going to go to a birthday party a while ago until one of the kids decided to throw up on three separate occasions when we were getting changed at swimming lessons. He seemed fine after but we decided to not go

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