+590 There should be a common saying for when someone coughs, like when people say "bless you" after someone sneezes, amirite?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I say bless you anyways to people who cough. :D

by Anonymous 13 years ago

...Robitussin

by Anonymous 13 years ago

OMG YES! i THINK THIS EVERY TIME SOMEONE COUGHS!!! HOMEPAGE!

by Anonymous 13 years ago

How about, "fuck you!" Lol.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

haha. (: I actually thought about saying that once to someone who coughed. xD

by Anonymous 13 years ago

People cough waaaaay too much to say something everytime they cough.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

People have kind of forgotten the meaning behind bless you. You say bless you after someone sneezes because you don't want them to get sick. Since people usually sneeze when they're sick. So if someone coughs, that is a sign of being sick too, so bless you would still apply :)

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Yeah, that actually got started back in the time of the Black Plague because one of the earliest symptoms of the plague was sneezing. So when ever someone sneezed everyone else assumed they were getting the plague and would actually say "God bless you" because they thought that if you said that to someone, that person would get blessed and would no longer be sick. Otherwise, the person was basically doomed to die. But that's only one theory of how it started.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Buuuuutt that is not the reason people say it anymore because we don't believe that. If you asked someone who says "God bless you" (since they usually mean it when they say it) why they said that, the answer would very very likely not be "To keep demons from entering your soul." It would be "So you don't get sick." @180953 (WarriorOfThePen): That's interesting, I didn't know that!

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I was gonna post this a couple days ago but i forgot !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

by Anonymous 13 years ago

there is something to say to someone after they cough, its 'want a ricola'? lol

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I still say bless you

by Anonymous 13 years ago

i say dinosaur :D

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I speak German when people sneeze XD

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I sometimes say "Bless you" to people who caugh on accident anyway lol

by Anonymous 13 years ago

There is in Yiddish. It's oy skenteist. (That's spelled wrong, but it's pronounced oy-skin-teest.) Also, @#180570 (Cereal): People say "Bless You" because in the Middle Ages,it was thought that everytime you sneezed, a door was opened to your soul. They said "bless you" to keep demons from entering that door. So no, it would not apply to coughing.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

i meant @ #180570

by Anonymous 13 years ago

shit why doesn't it do the linky thing???????????

by Anonymous 13 years ago

how about 'you are so good-looking'

by Anonymous 13 years ago

i say bless you anyway wats the difference sick ppl do both?

by Anonymous 13 years ago