Either I'm going completely mad
or there is some japery with names. I'm an old lady; I can't keep up with this shit.

In answer to your first question, I used that stuff last time I felt a cold coming on, but I can't remember if it did much in the way of lessening the symptoms/duration. I can heartily recommend Zovirax though, which is another one of those 'at the first signs' treatments. Not that anyone with your clean-living lifestyle would ever suffer from herpes simplex.

Your best bet really is a couple of massive hot toddys, lots of paracetamol, a scalding hot bath, then lots and lots of sleep. That's the one thing that always seems to work. And if it does take hold, Day and Night Nurse.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 27 Sep 2011, 10:38, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

or take two teaspoons of cement and harden the fuck up.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 10:39, Reply)

Drinking orange juice daily has been shown to reduce the length of a cold by up to 3 days apparently,
also drinkning orange juice gives you cock cancer, swings and roundabouts really.
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 10:41, Reply)

orange juice is bad for arthritis
as are tomatoes, and some nuts. It's a fucking disgrace, is what it is.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 27 Sep 2011, 10:42, Reply)

Really?
Why?
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 10:46, Reply)

SCIENCE!

( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 27 Sep 2011, 10:48, Reply)

Damn Science
*shakes fist containing tomato, orange and nuts*
*awaits wanking joke*
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 10:49, Reply)

Well,
pseudo-science, which is almost the same thing.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 27 Sep 2011, 10:50, Reply)

Fuck
What can you eat?

Everything nice causes arthritis!
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 10:51, Reply)

well, no
everything nice is listed on that site.

that's not really the same thing as causing arthritis. More than some site has written some words.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 10:54, Reply)

It doesn't *cause* it
just exacerbates symptoms. But fuck it, that's what painkillers are for. i just eat what I want and neck ibuprofen if it gets too bad.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 27 Sep 2011, 10:54, Reply)

Good plan
I know it doesn't cause it, otherwise I'd not be able to move a single muscle now
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 10:57, Reply)

Do you know what causes ham-fisted spacktardness?

( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 27 Sep 2011, 10:58, Reply)

Bananas, going by Apey

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 10:59, Reply)

Well, let's keep our fingers crossed for you that one day they'll find a cure.
Until then, be strong, and take each day as it comes.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 27 Sep 2011, 11:01, Reply)

zing

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 11:02, Reply)

Seems to be lacking some of this:
science
Pronunciation:/ˈsʌɪəns/
noun
[mass noun]
the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 10:50, Reply)

Good question.
I found these to be odd claims too.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 10:48, Reply)

Can't possibly have been shown in any kind of valid study though.
Because you can't blind "drinking orange juice"
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 10:42, Reply)

You can if you get it in your eye
It fucking stings
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 10:43, Reply)

I was hoping that the secomd part of the post might show that i wasn't terribly serious...

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 10:44, Reply)

I'm well up for drinking orange juice if it gives me swings and roundabouts.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 10:45, Reply)

But cancer is serious!
There's a song that says so, and everything.

Saying that, cock cancer sounds funny.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 27 Sep 2011, 10:45, Reply)

He is hoping for a massive bellend tumour

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 10:47, Reply)

I thought he *was* a massive bellend tumour?

( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 27 Sep 2011, 10:48, Reply)

I set 'em up...

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 27 Sep 2011, 10:48, Reply)