#153370 - simonjhall - Sat Mar 29, 2008 12:29 pm
I realise this is kinda timezone-dependent, but did anyone go out on the lash last night and are feeling it today?
I'm not too bothered by mine (I rate it 4/10) but I just went to the doctors about my dodgy knees and I've been prescribed these tablets which may give me a dodgy stomach as a side effect! To counter this, he's given me some other tablets (lansoprazole) to balance it out but I'm kinda worried about defooding...
For the interested, lansoprazole belongs to a group of medecines called proton pump inhibitors which reduce the amount of acid your stomach makes.
Anyway, here goes! I'll report back if I refund.
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#153372 - silent_code - Sat Mar 29, 2008 12:55 pm
get well soon!
i didn't drink ("the good stuff") for years and i'm really happy with it. had some really painful days after overdoing it just "slightly"... after that i got the urge to throw up whenever i just *thought* about alco-hole (it *is* a hole you can fall into and never come out again!)
about the second med: i find that suspicious whenever one needs to take a med and the other meds that will cancel out the side effects but have their own side effects, that again are canceled out by other meds that...
i know some people that need only one (if any at all...) pill, but then take a cozen others! that's crazy!
i especially hate anything that distords or alters my perception (like meds for calming down etc.) i can't stand it!
as i said above, get well soon! :^)
#153373 - Rajveer - Sat Mar 29, 2008 1:04 pm
Unfortunately didn't go out and get lashed last night. My worst hangover has to be when I went to India around a month ago, came back and I've been off wine ever since!!
Good luck with the alcohol-in-the-blood-stream and tablet mixing! :D
#153376 - simonjhall - Sat Mar 29, 2008 1:25 pm
Yeah I reckon I could get hooked on booze if I put my mind to it - that's not a good thing! I used to work at an off-license when I was at uni and we did lots and lots of wine tasting, because being able to recommend wines was quite critical to the job. We spent *so* many evenings in the boss's house (he lived upstairs) it was untrue! I even had a wine rack at home because I was given so much free stuff to taste! Hell, I even ran a wine-tasting event at a hotel once...now that was a funny evening :-)
I did get quite good at identifying grapes and the region a bottle's from, though. Shame I can't do it any more though! But yeah ever since then I'm trying to unhook myself from the stuff...is there an easy way to do it?
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#153377 - tepples - Sat Mar 29, 2008 1:28 pm
| simonjhall wrote: |
| For the interested, lansoprazole belongs to a group of medecines called proton pump inhibitors which reduce the amount of acid your stomach makes. |
Like everything else ending in -prazole, such as omeprazole (Losec/Prilosec), which recently went over the counter and generic in some countries.
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#153379 - silent_code - Sat Mar 29, 2008 1:34 pm
<jokingly>
over do it, then vomit, then see what happens when you stick you nose into a whine bottle. if you vomit again, you're set, if not: got to the top of this post.
</jokingly>
don't waste yourself. a bit of wine does no harm to you, even if it's a bottle from time to time. ;^) but if you're not feeling comfortable and develop strange drinking habbits (i am speaking in general here, not to you simon) and you're dringing very often, go and see a doctor. well, as usual, the first step is the hardest: admitting to yourself you have a problem.
btw: i am not an "anti", i just don't "do" ;^)
and about mixing multiple meds with the vitamins "a" "l" and "c" - not good. hope you have someone caring around you today. :^)
greetings to landyn!
#153380 - simonjhall - Sat Mar 29, 2008 1:35 pm
@tepples
Forgot to mention: lansoprazole can include (very rare) side effects in patients such as "colitis, (acute or chronic inflammation of the membrane lining the large bowel), inflammation of the mouth, black tongue, breast enlargement in men, production of milk, generally feeling unwell..."
Will keep you posted on the milk front.
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#153381 - tepples - Sat Mar 29, 2008 1:37 pm
| simonjhall wrote: |
| Forgot to mention: lansoprazole can include (very rare) side effects in patients such as "colitis, (acute or chronic inflammation of the membrane lining the large bowel)" |
Does it also cause kaleidoscope eyes?
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#153384 - silent_code - Sat Mar 29, 2008 2:36 pm
you should include a lot of ads when you start selling your milk products. ;^)
like ads for "simon's cheese", "simon's butter" etc. (don't forget about "all these are actualy *made* by simon's body!" and "it's natural man [like in male] milk - it's healthy - it's yummy!" and something starting with "simon says..." and some catchy stuff for the females, like "feel exhausted from brest feeding your child? come to simon's milk bar! he's got the yummy stuff flowing!")
hope my humor isn't too disgusting today. ;^p
#153388 - Rajveer - Sat Mar 29, 2008 2:50 pm
| silent_code wrote: |
over do it, then vomit, then see what happens when you stick you nose into a whine bottle. if you vomit again, you're set, if not: got to the top of this post. |
Haha, it's like you were there when I was in India! We went to a really expensive club where the likes of Bollywood actors go and cos we were 6 guys and a girl, we had to strike a deal with the owner that we'd spend ~?250 on drinks (usually they only accept couples). Cheapest thing was wine so after a couple bottles each along with the spirits I was vomiting, can't smell it anymore!
Funny thing is that I got a really good job offer from someone opening a branch of his really successful IT consultancy company in London, but I was so drunk the next morning I forgot where I put his card :S
#153396 - simonjhall - Sat Mar 29, 2008 3:54 pm
(I can't actually see what I'm typing here - the box is too dark!)
Anyway, funny story: when it came to graduating from uni you've often got a black-tie party to accompany the occasion, right? Well I bought my ticket and forgot about it for a couple of months. I was also learning to drive at the time and took the written test and booked my practical test.
When bumping into some friends a week before the ball we're all like "so are you going, who's going, ok - see you Thursday night!" etc etc and as I was walking away...I'm thinking "this Thursday night? That can't be right! My test is on Friday morning!" And it so was :-(
So yeah - we had the graduation ball on the Thursday night and I had my driving test at 9am the following morning! I figured that I could take the test as many times as my pride would allow but I could only graduate once so decided to prioritise the ball but get blotto pre-ball in the hope that no drink at the actual ball (which is gonna last like five hours, right?) would sober me up enough to be in a fit state for getting up at 7am next day! Surprisingly this plan actually worked, but all the posed pictures which are taken before the thing kicks off weren't very flattering!
I'm tempted to show some comical pictures ;-)
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#153398 - silent_code - Sat Mar 29, 2008 4:14 pm
WUT R U WAIDIN 4?! ;^D
#153802 - simonjhall - Sun Apr 06, 2008 6:01 pm
So anyone else with a hangover? I'm slowly making my way back from the seventh circle of hell! Never, ever, go to Devizes.
Oh and for the interested, those tablets that I got from my doctor last weekend didn't do a damn thing! And the guy was right - taking tablet #1 would definately hurt my stomach. Thank god for tablet #2. Didn't have any breast growth or milk production, though.
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#153820 - kusma - Sun Apr 06, 2008 10:41 pm
I don't have a real hangover any more, but the paranoia from what I did on Friday night still haunts me like hell. Why do I drink hard liquor on after-parties, and why do I loose all common sense when I'm shitfaced?
#153821 - simonjhall - Sun Apr 06, 2008 10:48 pm
So what did you get up to then? This sounds juicy!
I know that haunted feeling - I've got it right now! I do not *dare* look at the sent messages on my phone :-S
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#153824 - kusma - Sun Apr 06, 2008 11:05 pm
| simonjhall wrote: |
| So what did you get up to then? This sounds juicy! |
The thing is, I don't really know - but I do have an idea. Let's just say it includes a girl and a potentially pissed off friend.
#153826 - sonny_jim - Sun Apr 06, 2008 11:53 pm
I fell off my push bike this morning and had to spend 4 hours in the local casualty getting my face sewn back together.
Drinking is Bad, M'Kay?
#153842 - silent_code - Mon Apr 07, 2008 1:59 am
OUTCH!!!!
get well soon!
#153853 - simonjhall - Mon Apr 07, 2008 7:59 am
Yikes! Good job you weren't driving a car eh?!
kusma: you don't work with this girl, right? Is this gonna be a fun Monday morning for you?
I just got a text from the girl I f'ed it up with on Friday but I have *no* idea what she's talking about! Uh-oh...
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#153854 - kusma - Mon Apr 07, 2008 9:37 am
| sonny_jim wrote: |
| I fell off my push bike this morning and had to spend 4 hours in the local casualty getting my face sewn back together. |
Aw man, that sucks big-time. Get well soon!
| simonjhall wrote: |
kusma: you don't work with this girl, right? Is this gonna be a fun Monday morning for you? |
No, no. Nothing like that, luckily. But she is a big part of my social network, so I don't think I can really avoid her either. Oh well, stuff will work out, somehow - I'm just not looking forward to getting a punch in the face from her recent ex-boyfriend, even though I totally deserve it.
| simonjhall wrote: |
I just got a text from the girl I f'ed it up with on Friday but I have *no* idea what she's talking about! Uh-oh... |
Sounds to me like you've got some investigation to do! Or perhaps the good old (persistent) "it wasn't me"-defense could work.
#153858 - simonjhall - Mon Apr 07, 2008 11:01 am
| kusma wrote: |
| No, no. Nothing like that, luckily. But she is a big part of my social network, so I don't think I can really avoid her either. Oh well, stuff will work out, somehow - I'm just not looking forward to getting a punch in the face from her recent ex-boyfriend, even though I totally deserve it. |
Uh-oh, that sounds ominous! Maybe we could both do well to give up the sauce for a few months to see if everything gets magically better!
Anyway I pleaded ignorance with my problem, but luckily it was just that she was suggesting that we go out in a couple of weeks after her holiday so that's a relief! I'm gonna be embarassed-as when I see her though ;-)
She did also say that she was stuck in the channel tunnel during a power cut - how scary is that?!
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#153862 - kusma - Mon Apr 07, 2008 2:28 pm
| simonjhall wrote: |
| Uh-oh, that sounds ominous! Maybe we could both do well to give up the sauce for a few months to see if everything gets magically better! |
I think I'll lay low on more than one fields for a while, yeah.
| Quote: |
Anyway I pleaded ignorance with my problem, but luckily it was just that she was suggesting that we go out in a couple of weeks after her holiday so that's a relief! I'm gonna be embarassed-as when I see her though ;-)
She did also say that she was stuck in the channel tunnel during a power cut - how scary is that?! |
Seems you didn't really screw stuff up that badly, then. Good for you!
#153863 - sonny_jim - Mon Apr 07, 2008 3:01 pm
Just to elaborate a bit more on what I did, now that I can as the dull throbbing pain in my face is slowly subsiding.
A friend of mine happens to be a Wine dealer and drives around to clients, opening the odd bottle of wine for them to sample. From time to time he has a few sample bottles left over and invites me round to drink them. I went round his on Saturday evening and from then on in it gets hazy. I remember mixing cough mixture with red wine 'to make it taste better', I then remember paying to get into the wrong night club (all my friends had gone next door) and having to blag my way in to the right one.
The next thing I remember is picking myself off the floor whilst everybody around me is advising me quite strongly to go to the hospital. Luckily the local A&E was only about 5-10 minutes stumble away and along the way a group of girls took interest in this shambolic bleeding figure and decided to tag along with me.
I had a nice long wait from 3:00am until 7:30am which is when I finally got a doctor who promptly stuck a load of stitches in my face.
I feel like an idiot for smashing up my face although I wasn't too bothered about the long waiting time. I felt quite sheepish as I was the atypical 'Pissed up person damaging themselves on a weekend' and I had some interesting people for company.
Still hurts like a bastard (I was pissed, so they generally don't bother giving you painkillers) but the upshot was at least I got a girls number ;-)
#153865 - kusma - Mon Apr 07, 2008 3:15 pm
| sonny_jim wrote: |
| Still hurts like a bastard (I was pissed, so they generally don't bother giving you painkillers) but the upshot was at least I got a girls number ;-) |
Ah, the good old "I want to fix this poor guy"-thingie! Brilliant, even though the circumstances suck. :)
#153873 - simonjhall - Mon Apr 07, 2008 6:55 pm
So how are you gonna meet up with this girl? Are you gonna phone her? Text her?
"Hi, I'm the guy who had all the blood running down my face. Pub?"
What if she only seemed nice to you cos you were pissed?!
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#153886 - Lord Graga - Mon Apr 07, 2008 9:59 pm
I got quite face-shitted on beer last friday at my uni. Went to see a band playing there, then off to another uni bar where I met a couple of old highschool friends. Then we proceeded acting like we were spanish, and talked shit to a girl from lithauania.
Then one of them gave a taxi home, but because they were paying, I was put off at a gas station right next to where one of my best ground/high school friends lives. Of course I went to wake him up by knocking on his window, scaring the shit out of him, and then I went home and woke up wondering how the hell I got there.
My best drinking memory is when I woke up in a bunker.
#154230 - Rajveer - Sun Apr 13, 2008 4:27 am
hahhahhaahhahaha im so f*cked right now, soz for swearing but im so drunk, jus put my older brother 2 sleep an gouin sleep myself! maybe imm play some cod 4...
#154244 - Lord Graga - Sun Apr 13, 2008 12:23 pm
Fucking great, I woke up in a cottage in some fucking forest saturday morning with some electronic engineers :S
#154246 - tepples - Sun Apr 13, 2008 12:47 pm
| Lord Graga wrote: |
| Fucking great, I woke up in a cottage in some fucking forest saturday morning with some electronic engineers :S |
Any raccoons trying to sell you something?
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#154249 - Lord Graga - Sun Apr 13, 2008 4:30 pm
Nah, but I can only warn against playing Croquet with beer.
#154252 - wintermute - Sun Apr 13, 2008 5:27 pm
| Lord Graga wrote: |
| Fucking great, I woke up in a cottage in some fucking forest saturday morning with some electronic engineers :S |
You sure you want to admit you've been cottaging? :P
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#154277 - Lord Graga - Mon Apr 14, 2008 12:02 am
Ha. Ha. Take your slang elsewhere ;P
#155246 - simonjhall - Sun Apr 27, 2008 10:19 am
No hangover this morning but they are digging up my road with a jackhammer and you just know that someone around here has a pounding head!
Went to a wedding reception last night. First round: three drinks @ ?15. Yikes! By the time we were on the second round the groom saw us and was like "what are you paying for? there's a tab, you know?!"
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#155252 - silent_code - Sun Apr 27, 2008 12:47 pm
<lol>
but seriously, jackhammer in the morning != sweed day afterwards, no matter the condition you are in.
#155255 - simonjhall - Sun Apr 27, 2008 2:49 pm
Had a flashback from last night - a mate of mine had a baby over Christmas (well, him and his wife) and this was the first time I got to meet the little kid who's causing them so little sleep. I shake his little hand and say hello, and he says hello back by being sick! Score...
Better not get a job as a baby-sitter eh?!
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#155256 - Rajveer - Sun Apr 27, 2008 3:03 pm
Haha, what a good excuse to tell a wife for not wanting a kid yet!
Talking about expensive drinks though, I went to Sound last night in Leicester Square for a mates bday, ?58 for 5 Godfathers! (1 shot Whiskey 1 shot Amoretto, so 5 doubles)...~?5 for a single! Good thing my bro was buying drinks last night and I forgot my wallet at home...
Silent, I thought you meant the drink jackhammer for a moment lol, thinking alcohol in the morning is a bit raw! Although the best cure for a hangover is to have one of what you were drinking last night...
#155261 - simonjhall - Sun Apr 27, 2008 3:31 pm
Jesus Christ, that's expensive! Pays to drink on the bus when going there eh? Have you ever been to Inferno's in Clapham? I just simply don't drink there *at all* due to the mega prices. Plus it's like a complete meat-market so doesn't make for the best night out ;-)
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#155291 - Rajveer - Sun Apr 27, 2008 9:37 pm
| simonjhall wrote: |
| Jesus Christ, that's expensive! Pays to drink on the bus when going there eh? |
Lol yep, except I'm a tube man myself (with said drink!) Although you meet some funny/weird characters on the night bus home from central!
| simonjhall wrote: |
| Have you ever been to Inferno's in Clapham? I just simply don't drink there *at all* due to the mega prices. Plus it's like a complete meat-market so doesn't make for the best night out ;-) |
Nope, but I won't be going there now! Actually I probably will end up going there, my almost-new job is in Clapham Common. Joys of spending an hour on the Northern Line! :D
#155296 - simonjhall - Sun Apr 27, 2008 10:24 pm
Ah that wedding was in a pub on Clapham Common! The Windmill Hotel?
What do you think of the night bus system in London? I really hate doing it as you've got to often take a two or three of them, you've got to get off in weird areas to hunt for the next one which may or may not show up. Plus you're probably half-cut at the time so that definately doesn't help! I used to live very near to Crystal Palace and luckily there's a depot there and it's end of the line so if you fall asleep you're not completely stuck! Good TV reception there.
At Christmas after a work do I just couldn't be arsed to bus it and the tube had shut. Took a taxi home for ?48! Luckily the company subsidised most of that ;-)
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#155316 - Rajveer - Mon Apr 28, 2008 3:26 am
Haha, that's a taxi number to keep! Can't say I've heard of that hotel, tbh the interviews were the first ever time I've been to Clapham!
For me the night busses are great, one straight bus from central (Leicester Square/Oxford Street) to a stop 1 road away from my house (lucky for some eh!) Only problem is trying to stay awake and look sober so those damn weird people don't jack my wallet!
Can't be as bad as my friend's journey home one time though, he caught the last tube from mine to central, but missed the train from King's Cross towards Isleworth. He caught a bus to Shepherd's Bush only to find the bus from there stopped running, so he bussed it back to King's Cross. His phone battery was dead which meant he couldn't call me, so in the end he walked to uni labs, facebooked for 30 mins before knocking out!
Makes me miss uni though, my halls were in Waterloo for 2 years so the journey home just meant stumbling across the bridge, don't know how a bridge can be so interesting cos sometimes it took around 30 minutes :S
#155466 - silent_code - Tue Apr 29, 2008 9:58 pm
GTA hangover? anyone?
#164594 - simonjhall - Sun Nov 09, 2008 1:24 am
Grave digging in the thread dept here, but it's hangover time again!
This whole saga has now come full circle as the two hangovers in this thread so far (#1 going to Devizes, #2 going to a wedding) have culminated in #3, the birthday party of the girl I took to #2, to wind up the girl from #1!
I spent today feeling ill, then soaked by immense rain whilst crossing Clapham Common, sleeping and finally watching You Got Served. A complete waste of a day!
(oh and flashbacks of pulling birthday girl...she was like "what are we doing - ten years of friendship down the drain!")
Anyone else had any fun war stories since April?
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