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Aotearoa Weekly Kōrero 16/5/2025

Welcome to this week’s casual kōrero thread!

This post will be pinned in this community so you can always find it, and will stay for about a week until replaced by the next one.

It’s for talking about anything that might not justify a full post. For example:

Something interesting that happened to you
Something humourous that happened to you
Something frustrating that happened to you
A quick question
A request for recommendations
Pictures of your pet
A picture of a cloud that kind of looks like an elephant
Anything else, there are no rules (except the rule)

So how’s it going?

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This morning I was making a coffee, I ground some beans into the portafilter and was pushing it with the tamper (in my hands...) and it slipped, tamper pushed down on one side, ground beans shot out the other, and in the chaos everything went flying. I had ground beans spread across most of the kitchen, and I found the portafilter in the fruit bowl next to the bananas. It all took quite some time to clean up.
- Sounds like you should've had a coffee before you made your coffee 😁
  
  😅 At least I managed to make another coffee successfully afterwards!
- I see some of us don't have to worry about the cost of living crisis
  Glad to hear that you did finally manage to get a coffee
  
  Yep, very lucky I can continue to afford coffee. Though maybe not the coffee I want to have. $65 for 200g is a little too steep for me.
I don't know why all the online literature states that adult cases of hand foot and mouth disease are usually mild.. it's been hell for the last week. Googling other peoples experiences, most say they also had a terrible time.
Spent most of the week unable to eat or drink due to the blisters in my mouth and throat. Even drinking water would send stabbing pains through my mouth. So dehydration and hunger on top of feeling horrible. Finally starting to recover yesterday being able to eat with only mild discomfort. I honestly preferred having covid to this, the spots and blisters on the hands and feet I can live with, but the mouth ones are insanely uncomfortable.
- I don’t know why all the online literature states that adult cases of hand foot and mouth disease are usually mild… it’s been hell for the last week. Googling other peoples experiences, most say they also had a terrible time.
  From what I can find, it's because adults are likely to be asymptomatic. People with mild or no symptoms aren't going to go complaining about it on the internet, so you've got a sampling bias.
  I also found this page, that says that there are several viruses, and lists three common ones. For one it says:
  Coxsackievirus A6: People who contract this virus may experience more severe symptoms.
  Also I found this case study about an adult with pretty bad symptoms.
  I've also previously heard that you generally don't get sick with the same virus twice. So if you've had that specific strain of hand, foot, and mouth before, you may be asymptomatic or have mild symptoms. Many (most?) kids have had it as a pre-schooler so if you have a strain that's common in your area then you might not get too sick from it. If you catch one less common or that you haven't been exposed to before, then I guess you'd get worse symptoms.
  Sorry it probably doesn't help, because it doesn't change that you're having a shit time. Hopefully you are feeling better soon.
  
  I did read about Coxsackie A6 but it doesn't seem like my symptoms match.
  If adults getting it are asymptomatic, how do they know they have it? I always wonder how they get the data as asymptomatic people aren't going to the doctor or getting diagnosed. They wouldn't even be thinking they're sick would they?
  I've had hand foot and mouth as a child and chicken pox twice too ☹️. The Mrs thinks my immune system might be weak as I had glandular fever last year as well. Not to mention covid a couple years ago.
Finished up the season at work - an end to getting up at 4.30 every morning
- I'm glad I don't have to do that anymore. I had a job starting at 5am for a while and it was rough.
  
  in the off season I'll be home by 2.30 or 3 and can WFH often enough

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