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July 7, 2008 5:50pm by David Farrar

I HATE BEING SICK!!!

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Monty

I am sick of Labour as well – but at least the end is neigh (only three months to go). After nine years of ill feeling about Clark, three months is endurable.

At least the flu only lasts for two weeks (hate that as well)
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July 7, 2008 5:58pm
dad4justice

Don’t worry David, as the lovely Prime Minister has just cursed the winter as “vexatious.” Don’t she ski? Cookoo drops.
I just power chundered over my TV set and the cat.
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July 7, 2008 6:18pm
Alex Burns

Being sick is great.

Lying in bed, listening to the rain on the roof, snuggling under the blankets with a loved one, and getting paid for it because I is a alcomoholic.
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July 7, 2008 6:35pm
Twocan

I second that DPF.
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July 7, 2008 7:05pm
side show bob

If you are still sick in a couple of days I’ll send you a bottle of my cousins home made blackberry & lemon wine, a couple of classes of this and you won’t know you are sick.
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July 7, 2008 8:01pm
GPT1

Is a shame that catching up on reading/dvds and a warm bed requires feeling like (and often delivering) shit.
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July 7, 2008 8:34pm
getstaffed

ok DPF – family secret from my 103 year old grandmother. Kyolic Garlic. She started taking this stuff, one a day 30 years ago (actually was ‘normal’ garlic back then) and she’s had 2 colds in 30 years. I did this for 5 years a while back and had nil colds, then got lazy and bingo – a cold/flu the next winter.
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July 7, 2008 8:43pm
Ryan Sproull

That is all.

Simpson, Homer.
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July 7, 2008 9:40pm
Ryan Sproull

getstaffed,

That any good when you are (like me) already sick? Or is it purely preventative?
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July 7, 2008 9:41pm
Linda Reid

I’m sorry for you David. But as my dear departed mum used to say ‘this too will pass’. Pity you don’t have a better half to look after you.
Get well soon.
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July 7, 2008 9:47pm
getstaffed

Preventative – sorry.

Apparently it takes a month or two of popping these things before your immune system jump up a notch. I have no idea of the science of this suggested remedy… but at 103 (actually 102.5) granny is as sharp as a tack and has only just moved into an old folks home. So I’m gonna re-start taking ’em.
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July 7, 2008 9:48pm
jhsh

Seems like you are not the only one DPF, Small Paul (as opposed to Tall Paul) is also suffering. But love his ailment, courtesy of Ricky Jervais http://mcgovernonline.blogspot.com/2008/06/its-man-cold.html Could this be what is afflicting you?
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July 7, 2008 9:48pm
Ryan Sproull

Getstaffed,

Ah well, I’ll live. Thanks anyway. Do you take omega-3 supplements? If you don’t mind bleeding like a bleeder, those things are hell of good for you.
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July 7, 2008 9:49pm
homepaddock

Lots of fluids, lots of rest – and take what comfort you can in the knowledge that having a y chromosome makes you feel worse with any given ailment than you would if you had two x chromosomes:)
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July 7, 2008 11:32pm
labrator

Ryan, if you’re willing, try the following: take 3 cloves of garlic, skin the dry stuff, crush the remainder with a garlic crusher, (or crush them with a knife and then chop them). Add this to an empty glass and top with boiling water. Stir in honey to flavour (ie lots) and drink. It ain’t the nicest tasting but it can knock a cold out over night. Worked for me 2 weeks ago when I had to go away over the weekend. Wiki garlic and allicin to see some more details about how powerful it is as an anti-bacterial and anti-fungal. The guy that started Kyolic didn’t get rich on fake-science, garlic really is awesome. So if you’re game, give it a go. No idea if it works for stomach ailments but for the flu it is magic.
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July 8, 2008 12:05am
philu

and always remember the mantra..”’tis better to be stoned and sick..than just sick..”

(it gives you some ‘distance’ from your ailments..puts you ‘in another room’..

..that’s my (anecdotal) evidence/experience..anyway..)

so..’spark-up..!’..

phil(whoar.co.nz)
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July 8, 2008 7:24am
Chicken Little

Ryan – Add to Labrator’s mix a good squeeze of Lemon juice and a teaspoon full of Cayenne pepper. Not particularly nice to drink but kicks arse.
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July 8, 2008 7:40am
bearhunter

“No idea if it works for stomach ailments but for the flu it is magic.”

Fuck me, it sounds as though it would CAUSE stomach ailments, never mind cure them. I think I’d rather be sick…
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July 8, 2008 9:15am
aardvark

There’s only one thing worse than being sick — and that’s being sick and freezing cold.

I’m living in an uninsulated house, high in the central north island. I snowed here on Saturday (see my YT channel for video) and last night at 10 o’clock it was -4 degrees outside, 6 degrees inside.

I’d light a fire but there’s no firewood to be had for love nor money.

I’d use an electric heater but with the price of power these days and the need to “conserve” (according to the TV ads) it’s just not viable (and I don’t have an electric heater anyway).

Even as I type this now (at 9:30am) the temperature in this room is a brisk 3 degrees and I’m sitting with my feet on a hot-water bottle while wearing about five layers of clothes.

And I’ve got a cold.

But it could be worse – I could be an MP 🙂
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July 8, 2008 9:28am
bearhunter

Aardvark – surely you mean a Labour MP…:-)
As for those power ads, after the apocalyptic rainfalls I have walked home in over the past three weeks, the next person who informs me that we need to conserve power because the lakes levels are low will get a kick in the heart.
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July 8, 2008 11:14am
kiwigirl

No offence inteded my dear – but boys are so patehtic when they are sick!

Hope you feel better soon!

xx K
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July 8, 2008 12:50pm
riki

Had to tick up Kiwi girl

Us guys seem to rev up our laughing gear to grizzle when the waves of life toss up
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