fucking sick

Nate "If Duke had a fanclub I would join it even if that meant I had to quit Chuck's fanclub"
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Submitted by Nate on 22 December, 2007 - 02:24.

So I caught a bad cold just in time to take a bus 8 hours then a train another two to visit family for the stupid holidays. Anyone got any cold remedies or coping ideas? The only ones I have is eating the spiciest possible food I can stand so I can breathe again, and drinking hot whiskey. Stupid immune system.

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grrregg "advertise here"
Posts: 747 Joined: 22-09-06 Location: the sticks, queensland
22 December, 2007 - 02:50

It's all about the garlic, juice up a few cloves of garlic in with some oranges and away you go. Can't have too many fluids either, preferably clear types. Sleep as much as possible too. wink
all the best.
gregg.

catch "unpractical[sic] and blinkered"
Posts: 10031 Joined: 07-02-06 Location: London
22 December, 2007 - 02:56

Ginger.
Honey and lemon.
Mentholyptus chemically sweets that clean your ears out as well.

grrregg "advertise here"
Posts: 747 Joined: 22-09-06 Location: the sticks, queensland
22 December, 2007 - 03:02

get some eucolyptus or tea tree oil and put some on a handkerchef and when you feel blocked up, have a whiff and away you go. you could always use this (having a cold) as a brilliant excuse not to go and visit the family... that's what I'd be doing black bloc
all the best.
gregg.

Smash Rich Bastards "self-hating anarchist"
Posts: 1112 Joined: 24-03-06 Location: Boston, MA
22 December, 2007 - 03:03

Vodka.

Generations of sniffly Slavs can't be wrong.

Feighnt "the definition of "nobody important""
Posts: 958 Joined: 20-07-06 Location: canada, nanaimo
22 December, 2007 - 03:11

i dunno... whenever i feel like i'm coming down with something, i just start drinking a lot of orange juice, and it usually goes away.

mikus "I think that even a cursory study of the 20th c shows the decay of capitalism."
Posts: 982 Joined: 18-07-06
22 December, 2007 - 03:17

Vitamin C and zinc. Anything else is hippy bullshit.

Drinking mint tea is nice too because it numbs your throat if that bothers you.

fnbrill ""Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies." - Tacitus"
Posts: 779 Joined: 13-01-07
22 December, 2007 - 03:23
Nate wrote:
So I caught a bad cold just in time to take a bus 8 hours then a train another two to visit family for the stupid holidays. Anyone got any cold remedies or coping ideas? The only ones I have is eating the spiciest possible food I can stand so I can breathe again, and drinking hot whiskey. Stupid immune system.

Even more whiskey.

mikus "I think that even a cursory study of the 20th c shows the decay of capitalism."
Posts: 982 Joined: 18-07-06
22 December, 2007 - 03:36

Whiskey always makes me feel awesome when I'm sick and I drink but I get even sicker the next day. But if you are fine with a 4 day or so long binge then I highly recommend it.

fnbrill ""Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies." - Tacitus"
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22 December, 2007 - 03:40
mikus wrote:
Whiskey always makes me feel awesome when I'm sick and I drink but I get even sicker the next day. But if you are fine with a 4 day or so long binge then I highly recommend it.

I'm sorry you are not as in contact with the magic Whiskey Eleves as I am.

pghwob "Not an apologist for SEIU"
Posts: 685 Joined: 09-12-06 Location: CITIZEN OF INDUSTRY
22 December, 2007 - 04:05

the only borderline hippy shit which I have found works for me is emergen-c

mikus "I think that even a cursory study of the 20th c shows the decay of capitalism."
Posts: 982 Joined: 18-07-06
22 December, 2007 - 04:15

Yeah but that's because it has Vitamin C. It has real shit, plus some hippy shit. So you get real benefits, plus an empty wallet.

x357997 "go ahead, make my day...punk"
Posts: 1853 Joined: 04-12-06 Location: Yay Area
22 December, 2007 - 05:04

heat up any clear booze

Asher "Anarcho-Kyke Federation Of Aotearoa"
Posts: 887 Joined: 18-03-06 Location: Aotearoa / New Zealand
22 December, 2007 - 05:16

I've got a wisdom tooth coming through and its fucking painful. I've recently discovered I have a bad allergic reaction to over the counter painkillers. Any tips for me?

grrregg "advertise here"
Posts: 747 Joined: 22-09-06 Location: the sticks, queensland
22 December, 2007 - 05:22

yep... chew a clove - not a clove of garlic but a clove - one of those little blacky twig type things.
all the best.
gregg.
eta - or get some clove oil and rub that on if you can't chew. wink

mikus "I think that even a cursory study of the 20th c shows the decay of capitalism."
Posts: 982 Joined: 18-07-06
22 December, 2007 - 05:59
Asher wrote:
I've got a wisdom tooth coming through and its fucking painful. I've recently discovered I have a bad allergic reaction to over the counter painkillers. Any tips for me?

Prescription painkillers.

fnbrill ""Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies." - Tacitus"
Posts: 779 Joined: 13-01-07
22 December, 2007 - 06:02
Asher wrote:
I've got a wisdom tooth coming through and its fucking painful. I've recently discovered I have a bad allergic reaction to over the counter painkillers. Any tips for me?

Whiskey

petey "They gonna eat your shoulders."
Posts: 2966 Joined: 13-10-05
22 December, 2007 - 06:38
Nate wrote:
Anyone got any cold remedies or coping ideas?

the hot whiskey is good, but also take a garlic clove, cut it in half, and swallow it like a pill. i know it works, i got it from this guy:

Asher "Anarcho-Kyke Federation Of Aotearoa"
Posts: 887 Joined: 18-03-06 Location: Aotearoa / New Zealand
22 December, 2007 - 06:38

mikus - Indeed, but finding a doctor this time of year isn't likely, it'll have to wait til post new years.

fnbrill - I'm broke, but I wish I could afford some. Whiskey solves everything!

grrregg - Odd suggestion, but I'll see if I can find some tomorrow and try it, can't hurt I guess!

yuda "Elitist Twat"
Posts: 300 Joined: 04-12-04 Location: Otautahi
22 December, 2007 - 06:42
catch wrote:
Ginger.
Honey and lemon.
Mentholyptus chemically sweets that clean your ears out as well.

I mix all of these together ie:

Juice of one large lemon
Enough honey to sweeten
a knob of ginger finely sliced
A couple of menthol cough lollies

put all in a tea pot and infuse with boiling water.

yuda "Elitist Twat"
Posts: 300 Joined: 04-12-04 Location: Otautahi
22 December, 2007 - 06:45
Asher wrote:
I've got a wisdom tooth coming through and its fucking painful. I've recently discovered I have a bad allergic reaction to over the counter painkillers. Any tips for me?

Backing up greeeg whole cloves does works well, place the whole clove close to the source of the pain

fnbrill ""Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies." - Tacitus"
Posts: 779 Joined: 13-01-07
22 December, 2007 - 08:18
Asher wrote:
fnbrill - I'm broke, but I wish I could afford some. Whiskey solves everything!

Nyquill or local variant will do in a pinch. I've also used cleaning solvents, rubbing alcohol, bleach and ammonia martinis when broke. cry

This last bit is serious, take a cheep beer, which I know the antipode has in abundance. Place beer in a plastic container and freeze. Drink what doesn't freeze. If it's good enough for the celts, it's good enough for us. It's kind of whiskey.

jambo1 "anarchy in the far north?"
Posts: 234 Joined: 02-06-07 Location: invergordon, ross-shire
22 December, 2007 - 08:44

whiskey is irish shit, drink whisky good old scottish shit!!! wink

Steven. ""Best hair at Unison conference""
Posts: 1899 Joined: 27-06-06 Location: London
22 December, 2007 - 14:13

lemsip you hippy fucks.

then take off sick from work every day you were sick in your holidays black bloc

Smash Rich Bastards "self-hating anarchist"
Posts: 1112 Joined: 24-03-06 Location: Boston, MA
22 December, 2007 - 16:16
Asher wrote:
I've got a wisdom tooth coming through and its fucking painful. I've recently discovered I have a bad allergic reaction to over the counter painkillers. Any tips for me?

Get 'em out. Not sure how it is where you are, but here its considered a medical emergency (apparently if they come through wrong they can grow into a major artery) and they have to treat you even if you're broke. I got mine out at the city hospital for free and they even sent me home with a generous perscription of oxycodone. Sweet, sweet oxycodone...

Anyways, you don't want to to fuck around with that. It'll just keep getting worse if you don't deal with it.

pghwob "Not an apologist for SEIU"
Posts: 685 Joined: 09-12-06 Location: CITIZEN OF INDUSTRY
22 December, 2007 - 17:48

"I've also used cleaning solvents, rubbing alcohol, bleach and ammonia martinis when broke"

I also advise you *not* take the above advice.

David in Atlanta ""crude reductionist version of marxism""
Posts: 1920 Joined: 21-04-06
22 December, 2007 - 18:27
grrregg wrote:
yep... chew a clove - not a clove of garlic but a clove - one of those little blacky twig type things.
all the best.
gregg.
eta - or get some clove oil and rub that on if you can't chew. wink

I tried the oil of cloves remedy and had a tooth ache and a nasty tasting mouth.

Jack "Yes we can"
Posts: 10281 Joined: 22-09-03 Location: Brighton
22 December, 2007 - 18:34

i thought this thread was gonna be about puffs.

Clove oil works, but the taste is so bad as to invalidate it.

jef costello "Beautiful, just like Nuremburg"
Posts: 9964 Joined: 09-02-06 Location: razorblade of apathy, shave me with your irony
22 December, 2007 - 18:48

I thought this was going to be Jack's latest video.

sphinx "People who dress up like animals and bang each other outnumber your movement on Ground Zero at the anniversary of 9/11."
Posts: 231 Joined: 25-12-05
23 December, 2007 - 04:32

spent most of this weekend sideways. ::groans::

Asher "Anarcho-Kyke Federation Of Aotearoa"
Posts: 887 Joined: 18-03-06 Location: Aotearoa / New Zealand
23 December, 2007 - 09:38

Tried the clove thing tonight, ended up with a mouthful of clove bits and a nasty taste. Beer helped though.

SRB - Yeah, will prob get onto that once things come back to life after New Years.

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