Removing the feeding tube from our aging hipster plaid pants

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by ironweed
You were supposed to refrigerate that snake oil? We had it in the pantry at room temp and it was often doled out in all of its sweet oily viscuosness for upset stomachs. Maybe folk memory recalled the days when it actually had the active ingredient in it -- I'm sure the early version of it relieved all sorts of nervous conditions. But placebo or not I still find coca-cola useful as a hangover remedy and/or when I can't keep anything else down.

I think when you keep it for as long as my mother did - essentially from preschool to college -- you should refrigerate it.

I find coke, ginger ale, and italian ices very helpful for nausea, whatever the cause, and italian ices especially helpful for hangovers because they quench the unbearable thirst.

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Actually, no one is sick RIGHT NOW. I was deathly hung over yesterday, and, as I've mentioned before, I can't throw up. Ever. I'm working on a Seinfeld-like run of not throwing up. So, instead, I feel nauseated for 6 straight hours. I need to either: (1) stop drinking like a frat kid, or (2) find a semi-cure. I can handle the headaches/general aches and pains from hangovers, but I'd rather (honestly) be kicked in the groin then go through that again...I'm apparently too stupid to think about the effects of drinking beer, wine, champagne and vodka all in the same night.

Sprite. Try the Sprite. It's all bubbly and lemony and makes you feel better.

During college, a job I worked at required that I be at 8:00am Saturday meetings. Bastards. Which meant lots and lots of hangovers during a boring boring meeting. Sprite was the only thing that got me through those meetings without the dry heaves.
And once, a vanilla milkshake. Mmm. That was awesome. Unless you have the dry heaves - then, not so much.

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Actually, no one is sick RIGHT NOW. I was deathly hung over yesterday, and, as I've mentioned before, I can't throw up. Ever. I'm working on a Seinfeld-like run of not throwing up. So, instead, I feel nauseated for 6 straight hours. I need to either: (1) stop drinking like a frat kid, or (2) find a semi-cure. I can handle the headaches/general aches and pains from hangovers, but I'd rather (honestly) be kicked in the groin then go through that again...I'm apparently too stupid to think about the effects of drinking beer, wine, champagne and vodka all in the same night.

It is always much better to rid yourself of whatever devil's brew you've managed to mix in your stomach the night before than wait for your body to assimilate it. And do it early -- I have often gotten all the way to work thinking, "hell, I can make it" and suffered needlessly for several hours before finally taking the plunge. Learn to puke -- it's for your own good.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
I think when you keep it for as long as my mother did - essentially from preschool to college -- you should refrigerate it.

I find coke, ginger ale, and italian ices very helpful for nausea, whatever the cause, and italian ices especially helpful for hangovers because they quench the unbearable thirst.

I can't stomach regular Coke when I feel fine.

I'll have to try italian ice.

No, this is stupid. I'll just have to not drink so much...

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
No, this is stupid. I'll just have to not drink so much...

Stop taking the easy way out.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
I was told that it's the carbonation. I got a lot of Sprite when I was sick. But my illnesses usually involved a very high fever.

And when I have a hangover. Sprite is excellent for hangovers.

I used toswear by the ginger ale for the hangover. But now I use the following:

1 12 oz Naked blueberry B12/B6/Vitamin E fruit drink;
1 Odwalla Future Shake;
1 Taco Bell bean burrito;
1 six piece order of salmon sushi Or 1/2 lb rare sesame crusted tuna steak with teriyaki and fresh wasabi.

I sometime substitute a cheese and onion egg white omellette with a side of sausage and bacon for the burrito and fish.

Seems to work miracles.

[Flinty_McFlint]

Originally posted by ironweed
It is always much better to rid yourself of whatever devil's brew you've managed to mix in your stomach the night before than wait for your body to assimilate it. And do it early -- I have often gotten all the way to work thinking, "hell, I can make it" and suffered needlessly for several hours before finally taking the plunge. Learn to puke -- it's for your own good.

That's a wise man right there. A wise man with stained shoes.

[Gattigap]

Originally posted by ironweed
It is always much better to rid yourself of whatever devil's brew you've managed to mix in your stomach the night before than wait for your body to assimilate it. And do it early -- I have often gotten all the way to work thinking, "hell, I can make it" and suffered needlessly for several hours before finally taking the plunge. Learn to puke -- it's for your own good.

Fucker. Had you told me this a month ago, my day would've worked out much better.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
I can't stomach regular Coke when I feel fine.

I'll have to try italian ice.

No, this is stupid. I'll just have to not drink so much...

Try not mixing your liquor. I've been drinking vodka on the rocks more often lately because I realize it gives me no hangover. The sugar is what fucks you up the next day. Avoiding the sugar is half the battle. Curing the dehydration is easy.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I used toswear by the ginger ale for the hangover. But now I use the following:

1 12 oz Naked blueberry B12/B6/Vitamin E fruit drink;
1 Odwalla Future Shake;
1 Taco Bell bean burrito;
1 six piece order of salmon sushi Or 1/2 lb rare sesame crusted tuna steak with teriyaki and fresh wasabi.

I sometime substitute a cheese and onion egg white omellette with a side of sausage and bacon for the burrito and fish.

Seems to work miracles.

That recipe makes some sense to me, although I can't imagine eating Taco Bell and sushi within one 48-hour span, let alone on the same hungover day. Hell, I'm a little worried I might get sick just from mentioning both in the same sentence.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by ironweed
Learn to puke -- it's for your own good.

Step 1: Learn to Puke
Step 2: ????
Step 3: Profit

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Step 1: Learn to Puke
Step 2: ????
Step 3: Profit

I haven't puked in years (not counting food poisoning, which, if you've had it, you understand, causes you to explode from every evacuating orifice). I've heard its the very worst thing in the world for your teeth. Supposedly rots them to nubs.

Haven't done it since the old college "boot and rally" days. I thought it was dumb then, but people were chugging in my face, so I had to answer back. Total idiocy. Beer chugging might be the most useless and ineffective path to drunkeness. Liquor is so much kinder to the body, and oh so much more effective.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Try not mixing your liquor. I've been drinking vodka on the rocks more often lately because I realize it gives me no hangover. The sugar is what fucks you up the next day. Avoiding the sugar is half the battle. Curing the dehydration is easy.

This is difficult to do at weddings.

Originally posted by Gattigap
Fucker. Had you told me this a month ago, my day would've worked out much better.

You're older than Coltrane, so I assumed a certain baseline knowledge of how to protect yourself when the barman won't take "no" for an answer.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
No one is sick. I just can't believe I've been fooled for so long. I feel like B.F. Skinner's daughter. How can that placebo effect be...effective when you're 3? B/c mommy says it will make you feel better?

The placebo effect is actually really good on kids, so long as they comprehend the words "this will make you feel better."