Comments on: It’s amazing the crap that sticks in your head

By: Squander Two

Squander Two — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:35:15 +0000

There is a theory that the reason we have such virulent bacteria in our mouths is to fight off any other bacteria that try to get in that way. Which is why where Megan sticks her face would be largely irrelevant.

By: mupwangle

mupwangle — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 09:29:37 +0000

Google is your friend. There is a compound called Histatin in saliva that they reckon can accelerate healing. This is dogs and humans.

By: Gary

Gary — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:38:20 +0000

Is it true that dogs licking a wound can help heal it faster? My brain says no, having seen where Megan sticks her face.

By: Gary

Gary — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:37:21 +0000

I’m in the “fingers in ears” hiccups camp. It’s magic!

By: Squander Two

Squander Two — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 11:11:28 +0000

I find drinking water from the other side of the glass is the most effective cure. Always good for a laugh, too, when you tell someone about it and they try turning the glass around, as if that might actually work.

I have no idea whether it’s any more effective if you drink piss instead of water.

By: mupwangle

mupwangle — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 11:09:36 +0000

>>Plug your ears while drinking a glass of water to cure the hiccups-

I’d forgotten that one. It is bloody effective. Best thing is to hold your own nose and get someone to stick their fingers in your ears.

By: Professor Batty

Professor Batty — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 03:25:03 +0000

Plug your ears while drinking a glass of water to cure the hiccups- You’ll need a third hand, & drink the whole glass.

It always works!

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 16:50:39 +0000

“…rubbing a small labrador will get red wine out of a tablecloth.”

Now, I know it won’t actually, so any ideas how to cheer up a pissed off labrador?

By: McGazz

McGazz — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 14:39:10 +0000

It wasn’t Stuart Maconie, was it? He was talking about that very thing on the radio the other day. He was asking for listeners to phone in with similar tips, as long as it didn’t descend into Viz-style antics (“an upturned hairbrush makes an ideal bed of nails for a hamster”).

By: Gary

Gary — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 13:27:06 +0000

Haha :)

By: Heather

Heather — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 17:38:02 +0000

Did you see the one where Bear Grylls was wandering through the desert blind because he’d been stung by a hive of wasps, and then to hydrate himself he killed a snake, peed into its skin, and drank out of the snakeskin?

And you’re thinking, what poor b*****d got the job as his cameraman? How was work today, honey? Aw, it was great. That fud stuck his head into a wasp nest and drank his ain pish.

By: Squander Two

Squander Two — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:07:52 +0000

> You know a worrying amount about wee.

I was thinking the same thing. I know I know loads of stuff about non-urine-related topics, but, for some reason, right now, I just can’t think of any of it.