Lempsip isn't shifting it.
vodka and nightnurse
Thanks Mr White JC sir.
My mutha in law has suggested hot water, with honey and fresh lemon.
Sounds far too sensible, with a distinct lack of alcohol.
Quote from: Burt on September 27, 2011, 11:44:54 AM
Thanks Mr White JC sir.
My mutha in law has suggested hot water, with honey and fresh lemon.
Sounds far too sensible, with a distinct lack of alcohol.
Go to bed with lots of blankets warm drink and sweat it out, also a steam inhaler helps with the blocked doze
Vapour rub under your nose, on your chest, go and sit in a sauna with a box of Kleenex and sweat it out as Mr. Epsom Raver said
To help with the excellent "sweat it out" advice offered, I always go for a face-meltingly hot curry and a few drams of whiskey. The little git won't know what's hit it and will hoist the white flag before the day's out
Take a couple of Red Hot Escort's ( and I don't mean the ones made by Ford) to bed for about 6 hours it should either do the trick or kill you, either way you won't have your cold still :dft012:
Thanks for the advice guys. I rarely get sick but have a real doozie. (I know that is not a word but it sounds right).Bloody colds 096.gig
Port. Amazingly it works, especially when taken at the first onset of the cold.
I got some rather good advice in a thread I ran in Jan after being struck down with the cold from hell:
http://www.friendsoffulham.com/forum/index.php?topic=7344.0 (http://www.friendsoffulham.com/forum/index.php?topic=7344.0)
Wow thanks for all the advice guys, and in particular for Mr Finn who must have the memory of something with a fantastic memory to have dug out that link...
I'm off to sweat it out a bit and try some of the suggested remedies. Curry later :dft011:
From an Aurelio Zen book I read once, I was convinced to try downing a bottle of red wine and eating a few cloves of garlic. Sadly this didn't work, partly because halfway through the bottle of wine I had to have a cigarette, then a few more. I stank when her indoors got home, and I still had a cold the next day (and the next, and the next, as Slade the Leveller once put it).
In truth there is no cure for the common cold, it's just time. There are things you can do to not make it so severe, like not smoking for a start, but time's the only real cure. Calling it manflu and acting - correctly I have no doubt - like you are at death's door will likewise do nothing for it, but you might get waited upon all evening unless you push it.
A shot and a half of the magical remedy shown below every four hours. A freshly made bed,comfy pillows and a TV remote in hand and a book or magazine.
(http://www.wired.com/images/article/magazine/1511/st_nyquil_f.jpg)
Chicken soup (Jewish penecillin) works. ;)
Quote from: Blingo on September 27, 2011, 02:00:35 PM
Chicken soup (Jewish penecillin) works. ;)
I always recommend the same things:
1. Chicken soup
2. Tea [English penicillan]
3. Get horizontal
4. Watch black and white movies on television
By the way, Burt and Jarv, I've been fighting a cold since the flight home last Wednesday. You gots some SUPER bugs in England!
10 days in St Lucia... :59:
Quote from: The Equalizer on September 27, 2011, 02:24:28 PM
10 days in St Lucia... :59:
Now that's just mean....!
Enjoy :003:
drink 3 gallons of orange juice. Make sure you get some Vitamin C and rest! I always get addicted to Afrin when i have a cold.
Quote from: HatterDon on September 27, 2011, 02:08:56 PM
Quote from: Blingo on September 27, 2011, 02:00:35 PM
Chicken soup (Jewish penecillin) works. ;)
I always recommend the same things:
1. Chicken soup
2. Tea [English penicillan]
3. Get horizontal
4. Watch black and white movies on television
By the way, Burt and Jarv, I've been fighting a cold since the flight home last Wednesday. You gots some SUPER bugs in England!
Why thank you Mr HD sir. We take our export business very seriously, and the quality of our bugs is the envy of the world.
This particular strain was developed by frying myself for two weeks of 35deg+ temperatures in Gozo before coming back to the arctic conditions that were the remnants of the UK's "summer", and then getting absolutely drenched twice in quick succession - once at the Autolegends motorshow, the other after the home game v. Blackburn.
Worked a treat :dft011:
Quote from: horse1031 on September 27, 2011, 04:32:35 PM
drink 3 gallons of orange juice. Make sure you get some Vitamin C and rest! I always get addicted to Afrin when i have a cold.
Have been packing in the liquids and vitamin C. Just need the rest! And Mr White JC's vodka remedy :wine:
Quote from: Burt on September 27, 2011, 04:35:15 PM
Quote from: horse1031 on September 27, 2011, 04:32:35 PM
drink 3 gallons of orange juice. Make sure you get some Vitamin C and rest! I always get addicted to Afrin when i have a cold.
Have been packing in the liquids and vitamin C. Just need the rest! And Mr White JC's vodka remedy :wine:
Marmalade on toast and tea.
Vitamin C and English Penecillin in one meal.
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and a fulham win!
Quote from: zzamora on September 27, 2011, 05:34:19 PM
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and a fulham win!
This answer moves ahead of my NyQuil.
Well played sir, well played! :54:
Quote from: zzamora on September 27, 2011, 05:34:19 PM
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and a fulham win!
Great remedy Mr Zzamora sir. I'll take that!
Slightly off subject but if you have a cold, or are near anyone who coughs etc, I do not recommend seeing the new film Contagion, you would not leave the house without gloves and a face mask.
Quote from: Burt on September 27, 2011, 08:20:09 PM
Quote from: zzamora on September 27, 2011, 05:34:19 PM
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and a fulham win!
Great remedy Mr Zzamora sir. I'll take that!
I may be 15, but I certainly have
my priorities right! :beer:
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Quote from: Burt on September 27, 2011, 08:20:09 PM
Quote from: zzamora on September 27, 2011, 05:34:19 PM
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and a fulham win!
Great remedy Mr Zzamora sir. I'll take that!
I may be 15, but I certainly have my priorities right! :beer:
So much wisdom for one so young!
I will give an update tomorrow.
It may well morph in to full-blown man-flu yet :dft011:
Loads and loads of hot drinks Mr Burt and pee that bugger away.
Quote from: Fernhurst on September 27, 2011, 08:41:38 PM
Loads and loads of hot drinks Mr Burt and pee that bugger away.
Mr Fernhurst, I didn't read anywhere that he had a urine tract infection... :012:
Green tea ........
When i was young and my mum made me go to school whatever, i used to be a firm believer in Victory V's. I used to get them in the newsagent next to the place where the school bus stopped, not sure why i liked them but you can be odd when you are little. Now i like honey and lemon but i think that is more use for a sore throught. Another remedy that i like is tea with a dash of whisky in it, one of my grandad's favourites. Failing that i find Beecham's Powders good, although not as nice as the whisky option
Quote from: Jimbobob on September 27, 2011, 12:38:22 PM
A shot and a half of the magical remedy shown below every four hours. A freshly made bed,comfy pillows and a TV remote in hand and a book or magazine.
(http://www.wired.com/images/article/magazine/1511/st_nyquil_f.jpg)
pheck all those others jimbobob, whiskey ain't got nuttin on nyquil... nice buzz and that warm mush brain feeling will put you to sleep faster than a quentin tarantino movie... also jewish pennicillin and vitamin C are good if you have to make it through the day but once you are back home, half a bottle of that nyquil crack will do the trick... trust me I'm cozying up to my bottle as we speak/type... 082.gif
Buy a sinus flushing bottle from the chemist for about $10 (australian), tradename "Flo" or "Sinusflo" or similar. Put a quarter of a teaspoon of salt, and same of bicarb in it, fill up with lukewarm filtered water or boiled rainwater, dissolver thoroughly, squirt up each nostril. Not as unpleasant as it sounds. Flushes out all the gunk (you'll be amazed what comes out), hastens recovery, and if you do it regularly it prevents you getting a cold in the first place.
Quote from: Snibbo on September 28, 2011, 03:49:47 AM
Buy a sinus flushing bottle from the chemist for about $10 (australian), tradename "Flo" or "Sinusflo" or similar. Put a quarter of a teaspoon of salt, and same of bicarb in it, fill up with lukewarm filtered water or boiled rainwater, dissolver thoroughly, squirt up each nostril. Not as unpleasant as it sounds. Flushes out all the gunk (you'll be amazed what comes out), hastens recovery, and if you do it regularly it prevents you getting a cold in the first place.
That's probably one of the best suggestions... but what good is being sick if you can just squirt salt water up your schnoz? Where is the alcohol? where is the mind altering "Flu" medication? you sir may have the best remedy, but in case you missed it, this thread is really about how we can spend an evening on the couch with the clicker watching TV, drinking and have our wives not just leave us alone but actually wait on us for a change... now keep your sensible posts to yourself. 063.gif Thank you anyway though.
Still feeling crud today, although I do detect a slight improvement...
Thanks for all the suggestions. I live to see another day :dft011:
Glad you are on the road to recovery.
Interesting new articles are appearing in the complementary press. New thinking is that the cold is not the illness but the cure - our bodies get so toxic from the high gluten, high dairy, high additive diets that every so often they detox by getting rid of a lot of mucus and crud.
We are constantly surrounded by new common cold viruses but usually go down with one when we are stressed, over tired or have had a bit of a binge of some kind.
It will last a minimum of three days no matter what you do but you can speed the process (and keep it to the three days) by taking in extra zinc, vitamin C and warm water to help the lymph system.
Stick to basic protein and vegetables to help the recovery and avoid pizza.
Jeez WW, I was expecting to read some sort of spell, with toad guts and lizard eyes or something.
Quote from: McBridefan1 on September 28, 2011, 04:04:28 AM
Quote from: Snibbo on September 28, 2011, 03:49:47 AM
Buy a sinus flushing bottle from the chemist for about $10 (australian), tradename "Flo" or "Sinusflo" or similar. Put a quarter of a teaspoon of salt, and same of bicarb in it, fill up with lukewarm filtered water or boiled rainwater, dissolver thoroughly, squirt up each nostril. Not as unpleasant as it sounds. Flushes out all the gunk (you'll be amazed what comes out), hastens recovery, and if you do it regularly it prevents you getting a cold in the first place.
That's probably one of the best suggestions... but what good is being sick if you can just squirt salt water up your schnoz? Where is the alcohol? where is the mind altering "Flu" medication? you sir may have the best remedy, but in case you missed it, this thread is really about how we can spend an evening on the couch with the clicker watching TV, drinking and have our wives not just leave us alone but actually wait on us for a change... now keep your sensible posts to yourself. 063.gif Thank you anyway though.
So you expect me to read 3 pages of posts before responding to the question at the top of the page? 079.gif
If you were a girl I would say rub some Vick on your chest - which happens to be my middle name and I would be happy to oblige. The other suggestion is to drink aloe vera gel and you will never have another cold.
I am sure you will all be delighted to hear that I feel a LOT better now.
Thank you all for your suggestions. Hot food, sweating it out and a wee dram with some medicine seemed to do the trick.
Glad to hear you're better. I seem to have most of my voice back and a lot less congestion also. Must mean we're going to win on Thursday AND Sunday.
Quote from: Snibbo on September 28, 2011, 11:45:19 AM
Quote from: McBridefan1 on September 28, 2011, 04:04:28 AM
Quote from: Snibbo on September 28, 2011, 03:49:47 AM
Buy a sinus flushing bottle from the chemist for about $10 (australian), tradename "Flo" or "Sinusflo" or similar. Put a quarter of a teaspoon of salt, and same of bicarb in it, fill up with lukewarm filtered water or boiled rainwater, dissolver thoroughly, squirt up each nostril. Not as unpleasant as it sounds. Flushes out all the gunk (you'll be amazed what comes out), hastens recovery, and if you do it regularly it prevents you getting a cold in the first place.
That's probably one of the best suggestions... but what good is being sick if you can just squirt salt water up your schnoz? Where is the alcohol? where is the mind altering "Flu" medication? you sir may have the best remedy, but in case you missed it, this thread is really about how we can spend an evening on the couch with the clicker watching TV, drinking and have our wives not just leave us alone but actually wait on us for a change... now keep your sensible posts to yourself. 063.gif Thank you anyway though.
So you expect me to read 3 pages of posts before responding to the question at the top of the page? 079.gif
Was just a poor joke, I didn't know people actually take me seriously... It is still a very good suggestion.
Quote from: McBridefan1 on September 28, 2011, 03:29:59 AM
Quote from: Jimbobob on September 27, 2011, 12:38:22 PM
A shot and a half of the magical remedy shown below every four hours. A freshly made bed,comfy pillows and a TV remote in hand and a book or magazine.
pheck all those others jimbobob, whiskey ain't got nuttin on nyquil... nice buzz and that warm mush brain feeling will put you to sleep faster than a quentin tarantino movie... also jewish pennicillin and vitamin C are good if you have to make it through the day but once you are back home, half a bottle of that nyquil crack will do the trick... trust me I'm cozying up to my bottle as we speak/type... 082.gif
It is a magical elixir sir - indeed it is!
It's
whiskey tango Crème de menthe!!!
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