This won't help and you'll probably hate me for this, but I never ever get hiccups,
and haven't since I was a very small child.

I have no idea why, but obviously to me this makes them a complete mystery to me and I'm always a bit lost when people get them. I really don't know what is the correct way to react, as I just haven't the experience to empathise.

It is rather difficult at times I'm afraid, particularly as a mate of mine is prone to them, and is also a huge hairy tattooed biker for whom his image and the respect it normally instills is rather important to him, and unfortunately he hiccups like a stepped-on hamster, so it is bloody hard not to laugh.

That I'm still alive should tip you onto the fact that thus far I have not, though...
( ..wil, Tue 6 May 2008, 18:44, Reply)