Immune system: I'm not here to keep you alive. I'm here to kill infections.
this post was submitted on 15 Apr 2024
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and other things I deem dangerous even though they're not (allergies)
Oh no, a peanut, better close your airways!!
Oh shit, pollen? How about I fuck up your whole face.
THAT CAT HAS A GUN
Or things that keep you alive (organ transplants)
The greater good.
Shut it!
10/10 matching gif response
Me: takes tylenol
Immune System:
The memers are in rare form in this thread.
The virus after you take Tylenol
My immune system this weekend: also, we have to eject everything from your body any way possible.
Me: …
My immune system: hope you didn’t eat spicy.
"You might die but that's a risk I'm will to take."
But you're ME!
"Sorry, I'm not the brain. I don't do the thinking"
99% of the time, a fever kills the bacteria then lowers. You'll be fine, go take a nap.
I look at this more like "you'll die before I do, you bastards!"
Ok, but I can't survive above 38.C for very long as well
I had a fever over 38 °C for a couple weeks once. It was fine, just hot.
The way the text and image in this specific meme are utilized in the same context as the original source of the meme is refreshing. I feel like I see this meme template used in weird ways that kinda-work-but-not-really more than other templates.
Anyway, good quality well made meme, got me laugh
Agreed - I think part of the humour in a meme is fitting new situations into the format and when this is ignored (or done poorly) it misses the mark, kinda like as if you'd attempted a limerick but got the meter all wrong.
I generally agree with metric superiority, but 38° is such a random temperature. Whereas if you're over 100 you're too hot. Fahrenheit is the superior temperature unit. Fight me.
I agree when it comes to weather as well. 100 is too hot to be outside and 0 is way too cold to be outside. You don't have to have decimal places on thermostats
0C for freezing is better than 32F though. Then you can count by 5s and 10s in celcius for weather till you hit 30. Above that is hot. Having a range of 30 points on the thermometer for weather is easier to gauge than something that goes across almost double the number of points.
20 is the end of cool. Any more than that is in hot range for me.
When I'm talking about weather, I don't necessarily care about the freezing point of water though, I care about the temperatures at which I feel uncomfortable or are in potential danger.
At the end of the day though, I think it really just comes down to what you grew up with using. I'm comfortable with Fahrenheit because that's what I grew up with, people who grew up using Celsius are comfortable with that, and there's nothing wrong with that. It just means there might be a translation step when talking to people of different backgrounds, which is okay.
You mean potential danger like ice forming on the streets? Well, too bad we don't have an easy to remember number for that... /s
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For sure, I agree it all comes down to what you're used to. To answer your point about the freezing point of water, it is pretty important especially if you're monitoring for ice on the road or preparing your house (pipes, etc.) for it. That's basically my reference to decide I'm not leaving today and prepping my house instead.
Fahrenheit measures how people feel, Celsius measures how water feels.
Kelvin measures how atoms feel.
No, it's not. I'm people and I don't feel like Fahrenheit. Lower than 10°C is cold, lower than 0°C is freezing (quite literally) and warmer than 30°C is too hot. See? Easy to remember numbers. Almost as if people feel numbers they're used to.
Why do people "feel" 80, though
Because they are accustomed to Fahrenheit. I have no idea how hot/cold 80F is, apart from knowing it's colder than human body temperature, and hotter than inside temperature, but that's just from knowing those numbers in Fahrenheit, via the internet. I have no relation to them, it's like a foreign currency, know what I mean?
Oh, I know what you mean. I'm sick to death of this debate, haha.
I do think the things people say are funny, though.
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TIL the reason for high temperature
Most infections can survive the minor temperature rise. The more tangible reason is that the rise in temperature signals phagocytes that it's dinner time. Also it helps mobilizing white blood cells and increases the production of T-cells.