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( , Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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What odd remedies and cures do you lot have for ailments? I've been pissing rusty water out of my arse at high pressure most of the night. Meh. I am still going to go out tonight for curry and beer though
Alt:
What the fuck are you up at this time for?
( , Fri 9 Mar 2012, 6:14, 167 replies, latest was 9 years ago)

I've still got just over twenty minutes of my shift left.
( , Fri 9 Mar 2012, 6:40, Reply)

I would also like to take this opportunity to stand up and announce that I, tangledupinblue, am an alcoholic.
Can I have some acid now, please?
I'll give you some quack advice to help justify your plans for tonight: curry contains turmeric, which contains a substance call curcumin which is a natural anti-inflammatory used for hundreds of years in Ayurvedic medicine for stomach ailments. Beer will probably help too.
Alt: I have kids.
( , Fri 9 Mar 2012, 6:49, Reply)

A gold star in a '1930s Germany' way. Now put it on your coat and get on the train.
( , Fri 9 Mar 2012, 9:23, Reply)

Should I wash before I go or do they have shower facilities there?
( , Fri 9 Mar 2012, 9:28, Reply)

Which, really, is pretty obvious
/only sensible answer of the day
( , Fri 9 Mar 2012, 9:13, Reply)

Alt, I was told by an old Irish lady, that to cure constipation one should run a hot bath and hang your arse over the edge. (She didn't say to shit in the bath). Apparently there is no traditional Irish cure for being a prize cunt.
( , Fri 9 Mar 2012, 8:20, Reply)

This girl Alexandria Berk girl has a new single called "there is an elephant in the room", it's shit, really shit, but aside from that, she goes "Nobody has really heard that expression over on this side of the pond, so when we* were writting the song, I thought I would be the first person to bring it over.".
* by 'we' she means 'they'
( , Fri 9 Mar 2012, 8:27, Reply)

and just slightly to the right of a snickers flapjack along the X axis.
( , Fri 9 Mar 2012, 8:33, Reply)

It sounds like something a suicide bomber would get from one of the 92 virgins.
( , Fri 9 Mar 2012, 8:37, Reply)

Yay!
( , Fri 9 Mar 2012, 8:39, Reply)

Or 72 raisins, depending on which translation of the Q'r'r'r'r'ran you have.
( , Fri 9 Mar 2012, 8:44, Reply)

But only to avoid lookig stupid, not because I could care less about it offending anyone that I get it wrong.
( , Fri 9 Mar 2012, 8:59, Reply)

That'd be better than the virgins.
( , Fri 9 Mar 2012, 9:01, Reply)

You only need one, the very last one, to cure your african aids and STIs. The rest of them would be best to have complete and utter dirty sleezy STI infected fuck-buddies... imagine all the weird and wonderful textures and flavours different STIs can produce !
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I want ones who know what they're doing.
( , Fri 9 Mar 2012, 9:10, Reply)

a few ladies that had got about a bit would be far better.
( , Fri 9 Mar 2012, 9:11, Reply)

they actually tried to treat my injuries, for fuck's sake. that's not what it's about
( , Fri 9 Mar 2012, 9:11, Reply)

"There's a giant issue that none of us seem willing to talk about even though it's staring us in the face and ignoring it is not going to make it go away and in fact is just making us look really stupid and it's probably going to cause problems sometime down the line, you know" in my daily speech.
( , Fri 9 Mar 2012, 8:37, Reply)

Still, I'll bow to your expertise. Not literally, mind. I don't trust you.
( , Fri 9 Mar 2012, 8:44, Reply)

because I do find you utterly irresistable, you know.
( , Fri 9 Mar 2012, 9:00, Reply)

Many valuable medical applications for hallucinogens were abandoned in the political furore aver recreational LSD use in the 1960s. Proper baby/bathwater stuff. You can still go for ayahuasca therapy sessions in South America which are demonstrably good for addiction and other psychological issues. The results of LSD therapy on terminal alkies were more successful than pretty much any other techniques they tried, especially with regard to people staying dry afterwards. So nerr.
Alt: I wasn't.
It's Lusty's birthday today and we're having a party tonight. Woo-hoo! PARRR-TAYYYY!!!! *ties ices hockey shirt round head, 'chugs' a 'brew'*
( , Fri 9 Mar 2012, 8:41, Reply)

I can't remember, it's been ages since I read Jimmy Hill's Big Book of Facts.
( , Fri 9 Mar 2012, 8:50, Reply)

along with revealing details of how the moon landings were filmed in the Arizona desert. This was a typical CIA pachyderm "hit".
( , Fri 9 Mar 2012, 8:52, Reply)

Once they'd killed Kennedy they didn't have much on.
( , Fri 9 Mar 2012, 8:53, Reply)

Followed by maple and mustard pork chops with sweet potato mash and kale, and a redcurrant 'jus'.
It weren't 'alf bad.
( , Fri 9 Mar 2012, 9:11, Reply)

I must have me some mussels soon. I normally do them with a tin of tomato, can of lager and some chilli
( , Fri 9 Mar 2012, 9:31, Reply)

It's bad enough that I have to get on the hateful pleb-mobile let alone that it would fail it's timekeeping so spectacularly
( , Fri 9 Mar 2012, 8:47, Reply)

I've just called the Variety Club for you. They said, the bent spastic mobile will be along shortly.
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( , Fri 9 Mar 2012, 8:50, Reply)

As well as 'normal' drinking, Lusty has hollowed out lime wedges and filled them with red vodka jelly, thus creating what looks like miniature watermelon slices. We have fucking shitloads of them.
( , Fri 9 Mar 2012, 9:06, Reply)

I'll be on the turntables drinking cognac out of a shoe.
( , Fri 9 Mar 2012, 9:12, Reply)

I am dying, you see
( , Fri 9 Mar 2012, 9:10, Reply)

but you have 'not turning up' form, like old Nakie-poos, so we didn't bother asking.
( , Fri 9 Mar 2012, 9:15, Reply)

But you filled it out wrong, because you are illiterate.
( , Fri 9 Mar 2012, 9:24, Reply)

to be the best general cure for ailments. Due to it being the only thing that is tested and works.
( , Fri 9 Mar 2012, 8:59, Reply)

'Got Snake Oil, yeah, it's been around for a long, long time'.
Oh well, there are far worse songs to be stuck with, so I won't complain.
( , Fri 9 Mar 2012, 9:06, Reply)

but I do actually think Monty has a point (for once), there was such hysteria about LSD that it's potential good hasn't been fully explored.
God, I can't believe I just said Monty has a point.
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( , Fri 9 Mar 2012, 9:07, Reply)

drug trials, so use of LSD like this would be mainstream medicine.
( , Fri 9 Mar 2012, 9:07, Reply)

Especially as I was giving shit to someone earlier in the week for doing exactly what I just did.
( , Fri 9 Mar 2012, 9:10, Reply)

I'm the same as TMB, I take Lemsip if I have a cold at work, and paracetamol/ibuprofen if I have a headache.
Alt: Because I'm at work.
( , Fri 9 Mar 2012, 9:21, Reply)

I clicked that link, and the first 'Danger of LSD' made me laugh
( , Fri 9 Mar 2012, 9:26, Reply)

Acid is only dangerous, if you attempt to drive on it. Having a mental conversation with oneself about the relative merits of red and green traffic lights, is not healthy for you, or other road users.
( , Fri 9 Mar 2012, 9:36, Reply)

i've never taken those things cos i was brought up properly, but i thought the whole 'i believe i can fly (jump out of window)' thing was made up by grange hill and Duffy from casualty
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( , Fri 9 Mar 2012, 9:40, Reply)

dressed like Richard Gere.
( , Fri 9 Mar 2012, 9:43, Reply)

but i hardly think she's responsible for years of televised drug lies
( , Fri 9 Mar 2012, 9:52, Reply)

Just say no. Or, if you're from Winchester College, no thank you.
( , Fri 9 Mar 2012, 10:08, Reply)

How's you, you hippy trippy lol lover you?
( , Fri 9 Mar 2012, 10:13, Reply)

so I'm filling back up again with coffee and a bacon/egg/mushroom sandwich
My stomach does not fucking rule me
( , Fri 9 Mar 2012, 9:34, Reply)

Lucky you don't also smoke or you'd be posting from the khazi all day today.
( , Fri 9 Mar 2012, 9:35, Reply)

To answer the main question and, as so many here seem to be suffering with a hangover, I offer you this:
1. try to drink a pint of water before going to bed. If you can manage to eat something too, I think this helps. If nothing else that extra time it gives you to sober up before falling asleep will take the edge off a little. Ensure you take another pint of water to have by the bed for the morning.
2. The more sleep you can achieve the less your hangover will be. The human body repairs itself while sleeping. (Since having kids I now see how important this one is)
3. Avoid caffeinated drinks. I know that a strong coffee makes you feel good temporarily, but tea and coffee are diuretics and you will dehydrate further.
4. Eat a massive breakfast. I don't care if you think you can't stomach it. Stop being a baby. This breakfast should be high in protein and fat (a fry up, of course).
5. Smoke a joint. Best. Hangover. Cure. Ever. (although don't make the mistake of thinking it is a good idea to have one before bed, Ape. You know this only makes matters worse)
6. Keep drinking water and MTFU.
EDIT (as pointed out by Nakers): 6a. Have a wank (or better still persuade someone else to take on the role of nurse and do it for you). This will release endorphins in the brain. It also feels nice.
7. You are now ready to start drinking again. Play nicely.
( , Fri 9 Mar 2012, 9:47, Reply)

regardless of how much of a diuretic something is the net gain outstrips any dehydration
( , Fri 9 Mar 2012, 9:51, Reply)

and that when it wears off you will feel much worse.
( , Fri 9 Mar 2012, 9:54, Reply)

I would suggest that drinking any fluid you will only experiance a temporary gain (otherwise you would never dehydrate at all)
But that would be me being somewhat of a prick
( , Fri 9 Mar 2012, 10:06, Reply)

( , Fri 9 Mar 2012, 9:55, Reply)

Lucozade is for children and Daley Thompson though.
Edit: Original post edited to include this important step.
( , Fri 9 Mar 2012, 9:59, Reply)

Apart from Brian Jacks, obv.
( , Fri 9 Mar 2012, 10:00, Reply)

Absolutely God's honest truth. I grabbed his lapels, swiped his leg, threw him to the floor and held him down for a count of three.
Proudest moment of my entire life. And I have been waiting for a chance to boast about it for so long!
( , Fri 9 Mar 2012, 10:02, Reply)

I was 7 and he was a friend of my judo instructer. He let me win, obviously
( , Fri 9 Mar 2012, 10:04, Reply)

but he was a little short.
( , Fri 9 Mar 2012, 10:10, Reply)

I'm going for fraud
or noncing
( , Fri 9 Mar 2012, 10:12, Reply)

cor this could be Sunhill station
( , Fri 9 Mar 2012, 10:15, Reply)

rotting in bed is the worst idea
( , Fri 9 Mar 2012, 9:57, Reply)

It would be a close call between enough sleep and smoking a joint. The joint would probably win.
( , Fri 9 Mar 2012, 10:06, Reply)

thats a pretty good hangover cure
( , Fri 9 Mar 2012, 10:02, Reply)

wouldn't you agree that responsible drinking was a good cure?
( , Fri 9 Mar 2012, 10:11, Reply)

Well, and a few other things, based on this most recent post, but originally just 'cure'.
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( , Fri 9 Mar 2012, 10:11, Reply)

Avoiding prison really was 'Tricky'.
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