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...
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Darklord, Tue 6 Jan 2009, 12:59,
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Every time I have hiccups, I drink out the far side of the glass, but I do it slowly
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.
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I don't get why people think it works.
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?
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The Gentleman Bastard waxing lyrical. ©, Tue 6 Jan 2009, 13:16,
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I don't know why it works
but it does.
SCIENCE!
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t0ria has forgotten how this all works, Tue 6 Jan 2009, 13:20,
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Works for me every time
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?
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Jessie © needs pirate name suggestions, Tue 6 Jan 2009, 13:21,
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I'm not having a pop at what works for people.
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.
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The Gentleman Bastard waxing lyrical. ©, Tue 6 Jan 2009, 13:25,
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