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I just had a 30 minute attack of the hic ups. I don’t often get hic ups but every time it happens, I worry that they might never go away like you hear those people who have been stuck with hic ups for 30 years.
I found there are many ‘remedies’ for getting rid of hic ups and here are some of the more obscure ones I found:
Breathing” Spread your arms out like a "T" and take a very deep breath.
Okay I’m not about to do 'Jesus on the cross' impersonations with the “T arms” thing...
Collar bones Put strong pressure on the collar bones
How much pressure? Till you hear a crack?
Lemon/bitters: Eat a slice of lemon which has been soaked in angostura bitters
Sounds yummy, but I reckon that would just make you drunk and thus worsen the hic ups...
Peanut butter Eat 1 teaspoon of peanut butter.
I do this all the time. Is this a hic up preventer? Kinda like a vaccine?
Water : Plug both your ears and drink a glass of ice cold water
And just how do you propose I drink from the cup when my hands are already occupied with plugging my ears?
My favourite one though was from the “Hic-cup” store. These folks sell a device that is
"Easy to use, and completely discreet, The Hic-Cup saves you and your loved ones from unnecessary social embarrassment and physical distress. Enjoy more peace and quiet in church, libraries, and theaters, at big family dinners, and at children’s bedtime.” ROTFLMAO!!!!
Apart from sounding funny (“enjoy more peace and quiet in church” – if only that annoying man in the collar out the front would be quiet!!) this invention looks funny too.
It can best be described as a metal cup with a piece of wire sticking out of it that when you drink from the cup, the wire touches your temple. The cup itself is also labelled with a big sticker that says “Hic-cup”....I'm trying to picture what part of drinking from a giant labelled cup that constantly taps you in the head is COMPLETELY DISCREET????
Just in case you can’t get enough of the “Hic-cup” here the link to it’s site
http://www.hic-cups.com/
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Posted by kaos264 on 2007-11-18 04:47:44 | Rating: | Views: 223
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take a big drink, bend your head right down, hold your breath and swallow hard as many times as you can until you cant hold your breath any more! when you get this huge urge to hic, you know there gone!
why do you always get hiccups twice?...i mean if you get them once, your sure to get them again later on!
if all else fails.....................
BOO!
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Posted by missmarie
on 2007-11-18 07:51:46
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The best cure for hiccups is to take a glass of water, put a paper towel over the top, while holding the paper towel to the glass drink the water through the paper towel. Works everytime for me. :-)
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Posted by Jaded_Rose
on 2007-11-18 15:54:15
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If I get the hiccups, I'll get them in little bursts throughout the day. And always when the phone rings or something.
My mum always told me to drink a glass of water upside down. Never got this until I realised it was drink from the opposite side of the glass, so your chin is in the cup and getting all wet. Or hold your breath till they go away, but you're playing with fire here - sometimes they like to stay for a while, meanwhile I'm turing blue and feeling faint...
And boo hardly ever works, coz you know someone is going to do that to you when you get the hiccups.
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Posted by HornyLittlePoker
on 2007-11-19 18:00:59
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