Hangovers

[Viscount]

Why does drinking alcohol result in Hangovers? [Discuss in no more than 1000 words]

Yes I have got a hang over this morning.. and it Hurts.. so no-body shout! http://www.p45.net/rant/frown.gif

[bear]

you know what cures a headache?...wink wink ..nudge nudge http://www.p45.net/rant/wink.gif

[dr_ bob]

er...dehydration I think...drink lots of water before you go to bed....'course the fun part is remembering to do that when you're pissed http://www.p45.net/rant/wink.gif

[Viscount]

Help me out here Magic - I'm dying here, what cures a hangover? What is Nidge Nudge .. wink wink..? and will you give me some?

[Joefuz]

Behave yourself Vis!

[Viscount]

What! - I'm sweet and innocent, I know nothing! http://www.p45.net/rant/wink.gif

[Joefuz]

Of course ye are Vis http://www.p45.net/rant/wink.gif

[julia]

Oh sure, there's nothing like a little fooling around with someone with a hangover.
Lots of kissing and then they stop, look at you (and this is not a look you want to get), then they say, "Oh god, I think I'm gonna be sick."
Sure, does wonders for the confidence.

Not that I know this from experience.

[Viscount]

I am feeling much better now thank you.

[bear]

god i'm good!

[Daithi]

Drink Orange juiuce before you go to bed (or have a shot with orange juice in it as your last drink) it reduces dehydration and gets Vitamin c back into your Body (drinking alcohol drains vitamin C out of your body and gives ya a rotten hangover).

[Tele]

the old Drink-a-pint-of-water-before-you-go-to-bed thing DOES NOT WORK!!!
I actually remembered to drink it after falling in from the pub last night (maybe it was something to do with the scalding curry I ate) but it only succeed in making me get up 3 times to go to the bog and when the alarm rang off this morning not only did I have a hangover but I am shattered into the bargain!!! *sulks*

[murph2]

When you drink to excess, you are likely to suffer the headache, nausea and other disagreeable symptoms of a
hangover. The most intense hangover occurs about 14 to 15 hours after drinking starts — in part, researchers believe, because of the accumulation in your system of
products metabolized from alcohol, such as lactic acid.

Symptoms
Headache, nausea, dizziness, irritability, thirst and fatigue — usually on awakening — after drinking excessive amounts of alcohol.
In some cases, tension, paleness, tremor, vomiting, heartburn, unsteady gait and loss of appetite.
http://www.hangoverstopper.com/

[snevhead]

I can't believe there are more than ten postings on the topic of hangovers and nobody's mentioned solpadeine yet!!
solpadeine is the drug of choice. the paracetemol and codeine (go, narcotics!) get rid of all the bad pains, and the caffeine picks you up so you can look your boss straight in the eye.
I get the sent to me from ireland (emigrant) and deal them to everyone here. she deals good solpo, they say, as I go by....

[Jack O'Shea]

Had a terrible hangover yesterday but am over it now !

[4ofUs]

Oh, I'm hurting today! You know what I really hate about hangovers? It's not the headache, upset stomach, itchy eyes, chronic need to slam your head on your desk, abhorrance of any light what so ever (note: smiley face is wearing sunglasses), or pastey white skin etc. Nope. What I don't like is that consuming large amounts of a depressant leaves me feel down the next day. Anyone got some Uppers? But, hey, the boss is out of town on business today & tomorrow so I can sit & stare at my screen saver (it mesmerizes me) as long as I want to for the next 2 days http://www.p45.net/rant/smile.gif

[Joefuz]

What's your screen saver of Mary?

[4ofUs]

It's nothing interesting, believe me! It's just that generic little ball type thingy that changes shapes & everything. I don't really like it--at all--but it hypnotizes me, to the point that I stare at it for so long my eyes water. My boss has caught me staring at several times. But the wallpaper on my screen is a bunch of sheep drinking Guinness. Yeah, I'm gonna get fired soon.

Come to think of it, that gives me a good project for today! Have to find myself a new screensaver http://www.p45.net/rant/smile.gif

[Stottle]

Loads of coffee, and the knowledge that yow home girls be in da house later should suffice!

[Joefuz]

Try screen saver heaven. They've got loads, but some of them are ones people made themselves.

[Sparky]

Ah, Alcohol. The cause of and solution to all of lifes problems.
Alcohol is a diuretic, which means you drink 1 pint, you pee 1.5 pints, resulting in dehydration. The body uses salt in order to accomplish this magical feat, so a hangover is a combination of a lack of salt and water.
This is why many people feel better after a fry.
My God, sometimes I scare myself...

[4ofUs]

Cheers, Joey!

LOL Stottle! Too bad I'm the whitest white girl you'd ever meet! I also have an appointment for intraveinius injections of caffeine.

Yup Sparky, I had a fry this morning & it definitely helped. I always drink loads of water before I go to bed, but sometimes that doesn't help much. A hangover is also a result of your body suffering from withdrawal of alcohol.

[This message has been edited by 4ofUs (edited 27 January 2000).]

[Stottle]

HAHA

Might be keeping a low profile after yesterday's malarky!!!

[4ofUs]

I'm going to keep myself on the DL, that's for sure. Word.

[Joefuz]

DL? What appears on Donegal registered cars number plates. Someone out there has
00DL35
as a friend of me Mum's pointed out. Oodles. Sad really.

[4ofUs]

DL = down low

[Stottle]

Yo, fuzman, ya not swingin wid da street man!!

[4ofUs]

I must still be a bit drunk because you're cracking me up Stottle!

[Joefuz]

I'm from feckin' Donegal, ya ball bag! i'll do the Derry lingo, hi, mucker, but that's as far as I go.

['Eli' G]

respec' to d'man!

[Elimare]

hehe... couldn't resist...

My Scottish name is of course 'Eli McG'

And my legal name is 'Eli McBeal'

heheh... I could go on...

(jaysus am I bored or what?

[Joefuz]

You is 'avin' it large, eh, Eli?

[Stottle]

I'd be laughing with you Mary, if I could frikkin understand what the hell I was saying??!!!!

[4ofUs]

That's what makes it funny, Stottie-Pooh. I don't think even *they* know what they're saying!

[Stottle]

LOL Well big up mesel then!!!!!

[4ofUs]

Ah, yes. Feeling much better now folks. Might even venture out of my chair for a bit..........

[FRANCIS BUNWORTH]

A GOOD LONG WALK WOULD BE OKAY

[Elimare]

i'd say you'd feel even better when Francis STOPS SHOUTING!

Caps lock OFF please Missus Bunworth as there are a few tender heads here today...

[Joefuz]

My head's not tender. A bit cracked, but not tender.

[Stottle]

hehehe, someone else who hates shouting(capslock)!

[murph2]

Stottie-poo????

[4ofUs]

Stoddily Waddily.......whatever. I can go on for ever.

btw, caps locks is annoying. my poor little hungover head. still hurts.

[BigSwinginMickey]

its true - what the hell is wrong with us
what is it about thursday night that posesses us to go on the sauce, i started on a few beers last night and by 2 o clock was slugging back a bottle of wine saying 'ill manage tshomorrow itsh only fri-day my lasht day no pro*burp*lems' no solpadine here either but thanks for the tip

[charlies angel]

My supervisor is sitting beside me with a bit of a tender head!!! We were both out on the razz last night but I left earlier than he did....it shows....Quite amusing really..I know how bad a bad hangover can get though....let's hope this wont put people coming out on Saturday night!

[Jack O'Shea]

check out, www.hangoverstopper.com (http://www.hangoverstopper.com) !

[Elimare]

ha yeah JAck, ahve you checked out how it works? take two before drinking and then two every hour *while* drinking, I can see how that would go:

6pm. take tablets, open door to pub.
7pm remember to take two more.
8.30pm. remember to take tablets, have more pints.
9pm. take two tablets
10pm. look at box, wonder what the hell they are.
10.20 remember to take tablets, scoff 'em with 7th vodka and coke.
11pm realise you haven't taken any tablets for 5 hours and take 6 to make up for it.
11.01 get carted off to hospital.

[This message has been edited by Elimare (edited 28 January 2000).]

[snevhead]

I'm telling you Big, this is one tip you're going to want to act on.
you will love me forever after you try solpadeine for the first time.
I'm personally responsible for getting friends on 3 continents addicted to the stuff.

[4ofUs]

Can rationalize anything these days! (and thank God for that!)


The following is an actual excerpt from this month's Forbes Magazine:

A herd of buffalo can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo, and when the
herd is hunted, it is the slowest and weakest ones at the back that are
killed first. This natural selection is good for the herd as a whole, because
the general speed and health of the whole is maintained by the regular
culling of the weakest members.
In much the same way, the human brain can operate only as fast as the slowest
brain cells through which the electrical signals pass. Recent epidemiological
studies have shown that while alcohol kills off brain cells, it attacks the
slowest and weakest brain cells first. Thus, regular consumption of beer
helps eliminate the weaker cells, constantly making the brain a faster more
efficient machine.
The result of this in depth study verifies and validates the causal link
between all weekend parties and job related performance. It also explains
why, after a few short years of leaving a university and getting married,
most professionals cannot keep up with the performance of the new
graduates.  Only those few that stick to the strict regimen of voracious
alcoholic consumption can maintain the intellectual levels that they achieve
during their college years.
This is a call to arms. As our country is losing its technological edge, we
must not shudder in our homes. Get back into the bars. Quaff that pint. 
Your company and country need you to be at your peak, and you shouldn't deny
yourself the career that you could have. Take life by the bottle and be all
that you can be.

[red]

D'yeh think Steve Forbes is using that theory on a daily basis?

[4ofUs]

I dunno but I think his wife must. Have you ever seen pictures of that man?

[red]

not to mention that crap that comes spewing out every time he opens his mouth...

[Palomino]

You'll be sorry when they elect him President, and his first act in the Oval Office is to sign an order for your deportation.

[red]

Nah, that'll be George "Dubya" Bush's first act...

[4ofUs]

Georgie Pordgie won't kick you out if you promise to share your cocaine with him.

[red]

And if you didn't it'd be the 'lectrick chair for you pardner!