Fookin' ell, he does look in a two and eight!!
Over Christmas with all the booze n' food flowing, one time I had the hiccups for ages, somebody told me to drink a tablespoon of Vinegar!
Works a treat, I've never known anything like it, Gone in 30 seconds!
It's something to do with the acid in the vinegar shocking your stomach.
Not sure it would help this fella though...
(, Tue 6 Jan 2009, 12:59, Reply)
It's the way it compresses your chest. Some people just drink out the far side really quickly and go "well, that didn't help". But it works for my everytime when I do it slowly.
(, Tue 6 Jan 2009, 13:10, Reply)
The water goes down in the same way and doesn't really touch the diaphragm. Surely, if you're going to try it at all, it makes better sense to take water into your mouth, THEN stand in whatever strange position you want to and swallow it?
(, Tue 6 Jan 2009, 13:16, Reply)
I think it's as much about the concentration as it is the technique, I don't understand people's venom towards differing ones, as long as it works for you then where's the issue?
(, Tue 6 Jan 2009, 13:21, Reply)
I just think it's mostly psychological. I don't stand on my head and drink warm milk with white pepper when I get a nervous twitch in one of my fingers, toes, or a thigh muscle, etc. I just move which ever muscle is causing the problem and it stops.
You can't easily do that with your diaphragm though, and people mistakenly believe that risking choking yourself solves the problem when you force peristalsis to work against gravity. It's mental.
(, Tue 6 Jan 2009, 13:25, Reply)
but I genuinely felt bad for that guy. He looked like he would burst in to tears any second.
(, Tue 6 Jan 2009, 13:04, Reply)
Surely if it's not a physical defect it'll be something psychological - Tourette's, even?
Nasty stuff.
(, Tue 6 Jan 2009, 13:09, Reply)
like dripping water torture, only with endless teeny-tiny punches to the chest, I would imagine. Poor bloke.
(, Tue 6 Jan 2009, 13:09, Reply)
There was a bloke on a TV programme who kept going "Hic. Kill me. Hic. Kill me."
I hate the hiccups. I swear by a spoonful of sugar or drinking water backwards. Maybe I should suggest them to this guy? He might not have tried!
Poor guy :(
(, Tue 6 Jan 2009, 13:11, Reply)
as I'm at work and I haven't got Flash. I just saw the still.
sorry!
(, Tue 6 Jan 2009, 13:16, Reply)
found the cure, "digital rectal massage"
www.poopreport.com/BMnewswire/stop_your_hiccups.html
(, Tue 6 Jan 2009, 13:18, Reply)
now if that don't scare the bastard back to health I don't know what will!
(, Tue 6 Jan 2009, 13:31, Reply)
Especially after two years of suffering from them.
He'd be horrified if it didn't work.
(, Tue 6 Jan 2009, 13:32, Reply)
just to see if he tries it
(, Tue 6 Jan 2009, 13:48, Reply)