Sneeze Words

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OptionVotes
Gesundheit 20
Bless you 13
Other (please explain) 4


The Jams Manager (1992, Brickster) (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 18 April 2017 22:25 (eight years ago)

Bless you reflex followed by a morbid "be dead soon"

virginity simple (darraghmac), Tuesday, 18 April 2017 22:38 (eight years ago)

I've always been a gesundheit guy. wife says bless you

The Jams Manager (1992, Brickster) (El Tomboto), Tuesday, 18 April 2017 22:46 (eight years ago)

bless you

bought 2 raris, went to chili's (crüt), Tuesday, 18 April 2017 22:47 (eight years ago)

in my rebellious phase gesundheit

now mostly bless you (but still sometimes gesundheit -- it's a feeling?)

i n f i n i t y (∞), Tuesday, 18 April 2017 22:58 (eight years ago)

potrzebie

Lauren Schumer Donor (Phil D.), Tuesday, 18 April 2017 22:59 (eight years ago)

Furshlugginer!

'Gesundheit' because 'bless you' squicks me out and because 'stop it'/'shut up'/a prolonged stony glare are rude (but hilarious) options.

Break the meat into the pineapples and pat them (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 18 April 2017 23:29 (eight years ago)

salud

marcos, Tuesday, 18 April 2017 23:30 (eight years ago)

My dad grew up with "gesundheit" and it prevailed in our family as I grew up. I married a "bless you" person and it has overtaken "gesundheit" in my married life, although a gesundheit still sneaks in from time to time. So I am sternumentambilingual.

a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 02:37 (eight years ago)

That should have been poststernumentambilingual.

a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 02:38 (eight years ago)

"May the Lord be with you"

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 09:44 (eight years ago)

Chinese speakers do not typically comment on another person's sneeze.

Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 09:52 (eight years ago)

Prosit

Rimsky-Koskenkorva (Øystein), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 10:17 (eight years ago)

Think we've discussed this before, a long time ago, but in my parents' house it was forbidden to say 'bless you' or acknowledge bodily emissions of any kind. We weren't even supposed to say 'excuse me' if we burped. This got me told off a few times when I went to other people's houses. I once went out with a girl who would loudly shout 'BLESS YOU' at people sitting on separate tables from us at the restaurant, which always made me cringe horribly.

Do English-speakers in the US really say 'Gesundheit' in a non-ironic context?

Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 10:22 (eight years ago)

In France I believe it's 'A tes souhaits'. Funny how all these phrases sound like an echo of a sneeze

Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 10:24 (eight years ago)

salud

― marcos, Tuesday, April 18, 2017 6:30 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

If I'm being cute I'll say bleshoo but salúd and bless you still my go tos

nice cage (m bison), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 10:55 (eight years ago)

I never understood why sneezes need any acknowledgement

Lee626, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 12:13 (eight years ago)

Are you Chinese by any chance?

Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 12:38 (eight years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psZeKOcgsCY

Was raised in a primarily gesundheit household, although when we went the other way it was usually a full-on Godbless you. Bless you sounds better to me so I tend to favor it.

how's life, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 12:52 (eight years ago)

guhblessu

marcos, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 14:33 (eight years ago)

I prefer to run screaming out of the room.

Lipbra Geraldoman (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 14:37 (eight years ago)

I wish I could stop responding to sneezes because "bless you" is a stupid superstition but people take it as rude if you do nothing and I can't afford to give that impression at work so here we are...gesundheit.

the world's little sunbeam (in orbit), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 14:59 (eight years ago)

This is a fine resource

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responses_to_sneezing

Of course Esperanto has its own sneeze response. Does anybody sneeze in Incubus? I recall almost nothing from that movie

The Jams Manager (1992, Brickster) (El Tomboto), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 15:04 (eight years ago)

i grew up with strong allergies so i just wished people would stop calling further attention to my sneezing

j., Wednesday, 19 April 2017 15:07 (eight years ago)

^ yeah it's a ridiculous practice

Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 15:36 (eight years ago)

i thought this was for "words your sneezes sound like"

Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 15:50 (eight years ago)

"get thee behind me"

20-lol pileup (WilliamC), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 15:51 (eight years ago)

i need to start saying something. during my younger days of rebellion i wouldn't say bless you because i thought it implied that a god is doing the blessing and that's just silly. god won't bless all the people that are fucked over in the world but it will bless someone who shoots mucus out of their nose at a million miles per hour? actually that scenario seems more believable to me now. and also it's weird to command a god to do something. i also saw it as an annoying daily infusion of deities into my life and i wanted no part of that. i know all of this is incredibly stupid, but church fucked me up so badly when i was younger and the repercussions continue to this day, often in trivial and incredibly stupid ways.

so now i realize that no one actually thinks about those things when they say bless you, and that we all just say something because the silence is uncomfortable. i know that because i have created the uncomfortable silence so many times. so now i generally express amazement at the sneeze if it's mine ("ooph!" is a common one for me) but i struggle in the aftermath of the sneezes of others. i still don't want to say bless you, so that's out. saying gesundheit out of nowhere just seems impossible so late in life, like if you suddenly started wearing a furry vest all the time. it's just not me. so basically just don't sneeze around me, and if you do and i don't say anything, i am sorry but i can't fix it.

Karl Malone, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 16:08 (eight years ago)

Errrr, I don't think most people think that much about it, it just comes out of their mouth when they hear the noise come out of your nose.

Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 16:13 (eight years ago)

I will usually say gesundheit but often I just go "oooh, achoo!" because I am a blithering idiot.

emil.y, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 16:18 (eight years ago)

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System, Wednesday, 24 May 2017 00:01 (eight years ago)

"u just sneezed"

brimstead, Wednesday, 24 May 2017 00:03 (eight years ago)

I like that

Karl Malone, Wednesday, 24 May 2017 00:06 (eight years ago)

carry a harmonica around and play fanfares when ppl sneeze

brimstead, Wednesday, 24 May 2017 00:07 (eight years ago)

I either say "scat cat" or "down goes the circus".

Jeff, Wednesday, 24 May 2017 00:50 (eight years ago)

nothing, then nothing, then "fucking stop"

sleepingbag, Wednesday, 24 May 2017 00:53 (eight years ago)

bless u

Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 24 May 2017 01:08 (eight years ago)

i dread sneezing because someone is always on hand to blurt one of these sneeze words. just leave me sneeze in peace, jesus.

early morning reverse rumplestiltskin rage (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 24 May 2017 01:17 (eight years ago)

sorry no can do

Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 24 May 2017 01:22 (eight years ago)

it could be worse tbh, imagine how shit it would be if someone barked "HAPPY TRAILS" every time you hiccuped

early morning reverse rumplestiltskin rage (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 24 May 2017 01:27 (eight years ago)

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System, Thursday, 25 May 2017 00:01 (eight years ago)

ah WUSHOO

spud called maris (darraghmac), Thursday, 25 May 2017 00:16 (eight years ago)

deutschland uber alles

Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 25 May 2017 02:33 (eight years ago)

Sprechen sie deutsch

i n f i n i t y (∞), Thursday, 25 May 2017 02:40 (eight years ago)


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