As far as I can tell the sugar-ish coating on Tylenol Severe Sinus Congestion & Pain pills tastes pretty good. Better than Advil and miles better than cough syrup’s cloying aftertaste.
How is your week going?
***Update***
Because I want you all to feel the way I do.
Alan
Oh good, another neti pot thread.
Screamin' Demon
I prefer Flintstones Chewable Morphine.
Ms. Missive
Oh no he din’nt!
soonergrunt
that video is so many kinds of wrong…
ninerdave
What in THE FUCK is that video.
I need bleach for my eyes and ears.
demimondian
Tim, that…um..video?
Yeah, listen, for that I’m going to invoke, not Hitler, nor Godwin…but Warren. Since he runs Windows on a LinuxMac, and browses the web with LYNX!
Cassidy the Racist White Man
So not sexy.
If you’re having flu like symptoms, with an emphasis on sinus complaint, I’d recommend Dayquil, or good old fashioned Nyquil to sleep it off. If you go see your Doc, deconamine is a good one, much better than Sudafed. OTOH, you might want to go and get a sinus infection ruled out. Good news is that a few days and a z-pak will kill it.
The Other Steve
Yeah, but fat lot of good they’ll do ya. They took out the psuedophedrine because of the meth addicts. The phenylephrine they replaced it with doesn’t work. Same with most of the cough syrups. The expectorant doesn’t do much more than just sucking on some lemon drops to stop coughing.
Go get yourself some Claritin-D, that’ll have the good stuff in it. Take those with some tylenol fast acting tablets and you’re good to go. (or generic brands, whatever)
Cassidy the Racist White Man
Mucinex DM, best expectorant evah!
The Other Steve
I’m not going to search for new bad videos. Instead I’m going green and recycling. I bring back the Gem Sweater Queen!
Shaolin
Disturbing.
demimondian
Seriously, Tim…I didn’t want to do this, but…
Do you feel like we do?
J. Michael Neal
Your sinus infections are lame. Mine don’t bring that weak ass shit. I was once on cipro for three weeks to beat one.
Wonk
@ninerdave:
Nobody would ever accuse me of being a fan of Celine, but her partner in that video is Anastacia, she’s an American who’s quite the thing in Europe and is known as The Voice. She found out she had breast cancer while going thru pre-op testing for breast reduction surgery a couple of years ago.
This is a much better example of her talents.
It’s a chick anthem, what can I say?
(Okay, I TRIED to fix the blockquote… fuckit)
Cassidy the Racist White Man
@J. Michael Neal: I don’t get’em. It’s the wife.
oh really
That’s because you have the wrong cough medicine. You need the kind that makes you not care about the aftertaste. Unfortunately, even in states where it is legal to buy it over the counter, pharmacists still may not sell it to you without a prescription. We’re all better off with the DEA intimately involved in our health care system.
PS I’ll agree to feel the way you do, if you agree to feel the way I do. You’ll be sorry.
ninerdave
@demimondian:
At least Frampton could write a decent song. Dion just shits all over the radio with her over produced crap.
I’m still trying to figure out what I’d do if I was Angus and heard that abortion of my music. I think I’d probably politely invite her into my office to talk about the song, then promptly kick her ass. Or at least chuck my shoes at her.
ninerdave
Which terms sent me to moderation jail:
a*ortion of a song
s*its all over the radio
I’m sure it’s one of those two.
Cassidy the Racist White Man
@oh really: Try this one.
RPh
Damnit. I’ve pledged some $ to this site (not a whole lot, but still …) I want "teh happy". I cannot accept this Rick Warren-ish defecation on my computer-picture-viewer-thingy.
Bad Tim.
VERY BAD TIM.
I don’t care how Tim.F’d you are.
No Celine. Not EVAH!
The intertubes should be for information, profit, and fun.
And porn.
Not for abominations!!
How am I supposed to sleep???
John, along with Tim I Blame Ginny for this.
oh really
Cassidy — I’ve never tried NyQuil, but Leary’s right about some over the counter drugs. Many OTC cough medicines contain dextromethorphan. Fortunately, they now warn against giving any of this crap to young children, but it is interesting to know what drugs DM is most similar to — PCP and ketamine — since it acts as a dissociative hallucinogen. (I’m assuming there are no fifteen year-olds reading this blog — I’d hate to think this would send them all scurrying for an all-night pharmacy to buy a case of DM cough syrup.)
From Wikipedia:
I can’t buy codeine cough medicine over the counter, but I can get all the DM I want. I realize everyone responds differently to different drugs, but the idea that codeine is too dangerous to allow me buy it in the small quantities contained in cough syrup without the approval of
my doctorthe DEA, but DM is OK seems ludicrous to me. Of course, in this country the response would be to ban both, rather than make codeine more available.Tim Fuller
Things couldn’t be better on my end. I just finished a post over at my Talking Points Memo blog. Think you guys might just appreciate my official brand of snark. Not really qualified to give my opinion on the best tasting analgesics, but I’ve got pretty strong viewpoints on just about everything else.
You’re gonna love this one. I promise.
Those Crazy Fockers !!
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/timtimes/2008/12/those-crazy-fockers.php
Enjoy.
Crusty Dem
Thanks Tim, Celine Dion in tight pants, that’ll fix any annoying erections I might be having for the next week or two.
Martin
No shit. I plowed through 4 different antibiotics on one a few years back. The last one, at the middle of week 3, the doctor told me if it didn’t work I would be admitted for the IV stuff. Lost hearing completely in one ear, and 50% in the other, and didn’t get it back for weeks. Couldn’t speak, and had a fever basically nonstop for a month.
Thankfully, none of them have been that horrific since, but I get one reliably at the end of each winter.
bago
You know, I have also come to the conclusion that Fuckers is the appropriate colloquial term for these, erm, fuckers.
harlana pepper
The horror . . . the horror
robertdsc
Speaking of "small" mercies, can we get a Tunch sighting any time soon?
harlana pepper
Oh, and I wasn’t even sick like you until I watched that – thx
bago
Anyways this cake is great. It’s so delicious and moist.
The Grand Panjandrum
What? Celine’s not wearing her Angus style short pants? This is an outrage!
jon
I wanna hear less cowbell.
kommrade reproductive vigor
See, this is why I check the comments before I click on the video. I take it that 1. Celine Dion is shitting all over a song I like, 2. Tim F. is a ruthless bastard. (Yeah, yeah, blame it on the cold meds.)
Here’s something to clear everyone’s ears and eyes.
TheFountainHead
The cake is a lie!
Michael D.
@robertdsc:
I think someone mentioned in an earlier thread that John doesn’t have a wide angle lens for his camera.
jon
No holiday season is complete without this.
bago
Look at me still posting when there’s snarking to do. When I look out there it makes me glad I’m not you!
TheFountainHead
You’ve been wrong about every single thing you’ve ever done, including this thing. You’re not smart. You’re not a scientist. You’re not a doctor. You’re not even a full-time employee. Where did your life go so wrong?
jenniebee
If the congestion even looks like it’s getting near your lungs, an Atrovent inhaler (prescription only) is teh awesome.
Feel better!
Buck
Fuckin’ brutal.
fliegr
If that video makes us feel like you do you must be dead.
Bob In Pacifica
Tim:
You can go to pharmacies and get your sudafed. You have to show your driver’s license and sign a register, but I get allergies all the time and that other crap doesn’t work. I used to feel like a heroin addict signing for the stuff but now it’s no big deal.
That is, you can go a pharmacy and get your sudafeds as long as the pharmacist and cashier and the rest of the people in the chain of that package of sudafeds don’t find selling you sudafeds a violation to their religion. Bush’s freedom of religion in the workplace scam is being expanded. If the cashier at your pharmacy finds selling you trojans, birth control pills, antibiotics (hey, Christian Scientists), nicotine patches or sudafeds against their religion then you’re shit out of luck.
As far as artificial sweeteners, there’s a new one being approved by the FDA (I think that they’re the ones) today so maybe all pills will be sweeter in the future.
Ace Armstrong
Back in the Sixties a popular high was Robo-cola – Coke and Robotussin. But you had to be sure and get the right Robotussin -but since I never did it I never bothered to find out which one.
If you’re looking for an alternative to mainstream pharmacopoeia, I recommend "Hyland’s Homeopathic’ (P&S Laboratories, L.A.). They produce a whole line for various ailments. I use the ‘Sinus’ one whenever I get that certain feeling in the back on my throat. The trick is early medication before the bad guy germs overproduce.
For pain relief aspirin is suitable if not abused.
Faux News
I have to disagree. This remarkable video made me realize I need more cowbell in my life.
As for sinus infections I can relate. There are too many male trees in the metro DC area which makes our allergies a nightmare (although I am told Atlanta is worse). I almost spent an entire Labor Day weekend in the hospital hooked up to an IV. Besides feeling like my sinuses were filled with cement, I had a high fever, and my lymph nodes in my neck were the size of hen’s eggs. I had to do the Cipro thing, and the doc told me if I waited one more day I would have been hospitalized. So my fellow BJers, I feel your pain.
Montysano (All Hail Marx & Lennon)
Somehow, I’ve always found Celine Dion’s nerdy cluelessness to be kind of charming.
Besides…… awesome cowbell.
The Moar You Know
Tim F: You bastard. That video is worse than Hitler. I hate you.
The Moar You Know
@ninerdave: I’m sure he’s laughing all the way to the bank; he gets performance royalties every time she performs it.
But yeah. Yeah. Goddamn, what a way to start my day, I’m sure I’ll be dead by lunchtime.
ET
Ok that video was just cruel. I am going to agree with The Moar You Know – I hate you.
Montysano (All Hail Marx & Lennon)
@The Moar You Know:
Moar, BO would want you to reach across the aisle to that video, to achieve conciliation, to begin a dialogue.
Maybe you’re not Change We Can Believe In?
/snark
Bad Horse's Filly
Tim, I don’t even know you and now I hate you. Wrong, just wrong.
Update: Though the link to Anastacia almost made up for it. I said almost.
Update 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Fe11OlMiz8 to clear the Secret Satan from your eyes and ears.
lutton
oh, wow, that’s worse than being rickrolled…
Objective Scrutator
That video is utterly vile.
DrDave
Tim:
You are a cruel, heartless bastard.
joeyess
I watched all 4 minutes and 24 seconds of that video and I have to say that I’ll never get that time in my life back. It was stolen from me.
Have a nice cold, Tim.