OMG yes! The flu is a plague! I swear. One of my sims got the flu. Then the whole family caught it. Then in another household, one of my sick sims visited the lot and infected a whole family before I realized it. Then ANOTHER sim ended up at a party my sim was hosting and infected the family and the other guests!

My quotes as the majority of my neighborhood was infected?

"What are you doing? No! NO! Don't hug him goodbye!"
"Oh my God. You're preggers with the freakin flu!"
"Who'd you bring home? Huh? CRAP! Send home, dad! Send the brat home! Awesome." *Watches parent send sick!child home.* *Message pops up* "WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU CAUGHT THE FLU?!"
"Right if you're sick, I need to isolate you." *Sick sim stands up from table to leave as another sim sits down* *Message pops up* "OMG! I HATE YOU! How do you make him sick by sitting AT THE SAME TABLE!"
"You have the flu? WHAT ARE YOU DOING ON HIS COMMUNITY LOT? NO, DON'T KISS HIM!"

It wasn't a restful time for me.

"where are you going???? the cab is on its way.....ok, ok, you need to use the restroom"
"where are you----I thought you were in the restroom...cab is here-----who are you talking to now??? and why didn't you use the restroom like you said you were?"
"you will just have to hold it till you get home now"

yes all this in just a matter of less then a minute---and yes he made it home with plenty of time to go to the bathroom

Usually, I'm quiet when on the computer, so I don't shout at the computer.

(The quiet part comes from years of living in the bottom floor of a custom built 3-story house with an atrium that housed a "monstera deliciosa" plant until we sent it to University of Washington to have the botany nerds study it. I lived on the bottom floor and you had to enter through the top floor via a deck and go down two flights of stairs, four if you counted the landings in between. Because the atrium was connect to all three floors, you had to be quiet if you were to let my parents sleep during late night gaming sessions.)

My phrases:
"Mr. Lothario, had it ever occurred to you that by the priest's line '...and forsaking all others...' that you have to give up your bachelor lifestyle?!"
"I never knew that giant gyroscope could make you puke."
"What? The social worker can take away my kids if they get overheated?" (This happened during a gameplay session with the Seasons Expansion Pack. I got the kids to cool down after I got that social worker warning.)

Monstera Deliciosa? Sounds like a cow plant. XD

Actually, monstera deliciosa was a palm-tree shaped plant that produced some kind of fruit, but granted, we never harvested from it.

No, I'm pretty sure the botany nerd population is still the same as it was 10 years ago when we donated it.

"Don't do it Jack. He's not right for you. You'll only get hurt."

To my gay romance Sim Jack Gill, when he told me he wanted to flirt with Tybalt Capp.

Well, now that mention it, I start thinking of the things I yell at my sims...

1) "Gordon you idiotical being!!! SHE"S A MAN EATER!!!"

2)"Haha, you really are a dumb sim aren't you? * the sim starts crying* Oh NO I didn't mean it! It just slipped!" (now the trick was to get him to stop crying)

(I'd say this is the most common one) 3)"But you just had a kid, now you want more? *five seconds later* Here you happy?
*Then the kid grows up into a toddler* Oh no, another one? But you already have 15 kids!!! What wrong with you?? Oh Fine...
(some time later) But you already have 22 kids, are you ever gonna stop with the want??!!!" (then later they go on holiday)
and she fears having kids.... lol

4)"Pathetic dancing sim, I know, it runs through their family... "

5) (The repo man pays a visit...) "But I don't own anything, can't you see the sim's lot is empty?"

6) (The sim got struck by lightning) "I DON'T believe you just survived that, ok, call in your father and see if he gets struck by lightning too! (it's my favorite memory)

7) "Why on earth did you just stand up in the pool just to notice you didn't have any clothes on?"

8) "Why are your eyeballs pure white?? Are you looking at your brain? Did you just see your thoughts flash before your eyes?

9) "WHAT ON EARTH??? Your invisible! Is this what happens when you come back from work? Now I can only tell where you are if I search for a very small wedding ring
hovering in mid-air!"

10) "Quit looking at me!" (when I hover the mouse over him)

11) "I'm not suprised you get promoted everyday...."

And yeah, I can't really remember other times I said something to the sim, and it ended up being funny! ;D

Hah! Oh man, that sounds exactly like what happened when I first said the flu was the plague the first time.

"Were those baby chimes? Those best not have been baby chimes. *pregnancy checker* Hey, simmie? Screw you too. You're messin' with my plans!"

Only a week? But of course my rotations are so long that even a single rotation of flu feels much longer. Which is why you sometimes hear me shouting: "No! No! Get away from those bugs!"

Three or four weeks per family. So I'd go: Broke, Pleasant, Lothario, Caliente, Dreamer, Jackson, play each through a week, go back and start over. Every time someone was cured, there was *inevitably* something that had them catch the flu again, whether it was from within the family or family guests. ><

That's not hard to prevent. Cure all household members, so they don't keep passing it back and forth, and don't allow any visitors, for any reason, until everyone is well.

Also, don't change the lot until all Sims on the lot are cured. Otherwise it'll get passed on in the background of community lot visits or when a flu-ridden Sim is inevitably invited home from work or school.

Thanks guys, next time I have an outbreak I'll use these methods for myself. It was my first time ever playing on a rotation so I was overwhelmed relatively quickly. (I used to play one household into oblivion until it bored me and then move on.)

Since I've only recently returned to Sims 2 (I like Sims 3 as well, except for some frustrations) I find myself saying, "Oh, right! I forgot about that." Then I will either laugh or feel all "mushee-eyed" (ya, love my Sims.)

"Oh, for crying out - She's not hungry, she's stinky, can't you - oh! Sharla! You're my hero!"

Teen Sharla was visiting a house with infant twins when they went into their synchronized diaper-filling routine, and only one household member was available to change diapers. So while Dad carried Twin 1 to the changing table, Sharla got Twin 2 out of her bouncy chair and headed for the kitchen. I of course assumed she was getting the kid a bottle, but nope - she popped her into the sink and washed her!

And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why you should invite people over when you're swamped with child care!

"Fine then, pee on the floor since you won't leave the (censored) baby alone." In Tarlia's cleaned Strangetown she made Jenny Smith younger so she isn't in the pregnancy cut off and of course she tries for baby and gets pregnant. The above quote is from the fact that her hunger/bladder/energy was low and instead of taking care of those needs she had to go play with the baby. I normally don't mind when Sims autonomously play with the baby, but I don't want them to starve to death because they just had to play with the baby instead of eating. (I was dealing with the frigging cat that Jill and Pollination Tech #9 just had to have, so I wasn't paying attention to Jenny until she was already holding the baby.)

"The Toilet is just a few steps away! Put the baby down and do your business! Ok, fine, pee on the floor, stupid."

To kids/teens who choose to do their homework on the floor:
- I GAVE YOU A BLOODY DESK AND YOU DO HOMEWORK ON THE FLOOR?! DO YOU KNOW HOW TIRESOME IT IS FOR ME TO HAVE TO GRAB YOUR HOMEWORK ONTO THE DESK?!

Sims who own a home business:
- CUSTOMERS ARE COMING! GET MY A** OUT OF BED AND SELL SELL SELL!!!!!

Dining out:
- WAITER! I'M F***ING WAITING TO ORDER! STOP WIPING THE F**** OUT OF THAT DAMN GLASS AND GET THE HELL OVER HERE!! NOW!!!

Kids sleeping in parent's bed when tired:
- STOP SLEEPING IN YOUR PARENT'S BED!!!!

Parents' sleeping in their kid's beds:
- STOP SLEEPING IN YOUR SON'S/DAUGHTER'S BED!!!!

Wanting sims(not car owner) to carpool to work by private car:
- YOU WANT TO TAKE THE SMOOGO?! I JUST GAVE YOU A F****NG LAND ROVER!!!!

Fortune sims' wanting a more expensive TV:
- WHY WOULD YOU WANT A NEW FLAT SCREEN TV?! THEY'RE EXPENSIVE, FUN BOOST IS SLOW & BIG BROTHER MIGHT BE WATCHING YOU SIM!!!

Customers' barging into kitchen/dining room:
- DON'T EAT MY FOOD, CUSTOMERS!!

Sims' stuffing face when hungry:
- STOP STUFFING YOU FACE!!!

Sim not training their toddler:
- HEY, I TOLD YOU TO POTTY TRAIN/TEACH TO TALK & WALK, NOT FEED HIM!!!!

When ACR is on, and two married sims suddenly stop what they're doing and start heading in the direction of their bedroom: "Uh huh. Don't think I don't know where you're headed."

Oh I know. Happens with Goopy and my born-in-game Pleasure sim. Happened a LOT during their honeymoon. I tend to make them wait for woohoo until they roll the wants, so when that happens I'm like "NO! BAD GOOPY! BAD!"

"Where are you off to? You need to change the diapers on the triplets! No, don't go to the bed! No! Cancel, cancel cancel! Oh. Great. Such a family sim, don't care for the children you already have, fiiiiine." *sigh*

"Do dormies have brains of their own, or do they have one of those Emergency Inflatable Brains I saw in an online shop this morning?" - the 4th dormie in Lochside Luxaire Dorm dies during Allegra Gorey's university career (and she's still a junior). Granted, LLD is strictly self-catering, but there was some perfectly good chilli con carne on the dining room table...

(On second thoughts, maybe she was a vegetarian...)

"You are so cute." (To Ripp Grunt, who is actually discovering his sexuality in a reasonably realistic way, and his townie high-school sweetheart Daniel Grey, who is just a sweetie.)

Extensive quotes from Romeo and Juliet whenever the Montys and/or Capps do something appalling, whether directed to by me or not. What can I say, I'm a Shakespeare nerd.

Just the other day:

"I still have no idea why you use the back door instead of the fro--wait, is that tree on fire? Oh crap. NO. DON'T GO NEAR THE TREE. NO, STOP, YOU NEED TO GO TO WORK. OR AT LEAST CALL THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. CANCEL. CANCEL. ABORT! Oh, great, now you're on fire. Way to go. This is what you get for not using the front door even though I placed it last. Mhm. Yeah. Now you're dead. You better hope your brother can resurrect you..."

One successful resurrection later...

"Demoted because of a chance card. Man, that sucks. Death by fire, and now this? Tough luck, dude. Okay, yeah, go make yourself some food to cheer yourself up...

...DID YOU REALLY SET THE KITCHEN ON FIRE?? YOU HAVE SEVEN COOKING SKILL POINTS, MAN. Criminy, CALL. THE. FIRE. DEPARTMENT. No, STOP FLAILING. STOP, YOU'RE GONNA... Dammit. I hope your epitaph reads 'dumbest sim to ever live'."

Meanwhile, his brother is head of the SCIA and in a love octagon with half the neighborhood. There was some kind of bad distribution of luck in that family...

You're the one didn't give him a fire alarm, dude.

Check the description for the door. Some of them are actually described as interior doors, and if you use them for the front door, they won't be recognized.