OT: Hangover cures?

DonDaddyD
DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
edited December 2009 in Commuting chat
Yep, I'm in the midst of full blown hangover.

Water,

Footlong steak and cheese subway, crisps and twix.

But the best ,the best hangover cure aside from 'me time' - proven as the final act releases endorphins into the brain - not practical at work...

IS:

Cherry coke!

what is your hangover cure.
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  • redddraggon
    redddraggon Posts: 10,862
    not drinking the night before
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  • yoohoo999
    yoohoo999 Posts: 940
    diazepam works miracles.
  • UndercoverElephant
    UndercoverElephant Posts: 5,796
    Irn-Bru, 1 can.
    Bacon and Black Pudding roll with brown sauce.

    What hangover? :D
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  • Kieran_Burns
    Kieran_Burns Posts: 9,757
    Stay Drunk
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  • Clever Pun
    Clever Pun Posts: 6,778
    MTFU works for me

    in all seriousness only a heavy whisky session gives me a hangover and that just makes me really lethargic

    some water before going to bed is your friend
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  • greg66_tri_v2.0
    greg66_tri_v2.0 Posts: 7,172
    BK or McDs milkshake.

    Or a bowl of ice cream, but that's harder to come by in London.

    If all else fails, take a deep breath and a big swig from a pint. In that order.
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  • Clever Pun
    Clever Pun Posts: 6,778
    Greg66 wrote:
    BK or McDs milkshake.

    Or a bowl of ice cream, but that's harder to come by in London.

    If all else fails, take a deep breath and a big swig from a pint. In that order.

    the first one is a chewer that's for sure but after that the pints fly down
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  • il_principe
    il_principe Posts: 9,155
    Sugar and fat. So today it was a bacon roll and coffee, pizza & coke and lots of water. I suffer from pretty bad hangovers - throwing up at some stage the day after drinking isn't unknown. If I'd just stuck to one type of beer last night I'd be ok.
  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    If it's a really awful one, and you're at work or have to actually do stuff, then isostar tablets, the soluble fizzy kind that you pop in a glass of water. They're a brilliant hangover cure.

    Alternatives include: Purdeys silver, the non-fizzy lucozade. Fizzy = burps = bad.

    Oh and loads of carbs and salty things.

    If you're not too worried about the ol' skin cancer, then a sunbed can really help too.


    It would be rather amusing for you to pop down to your local LA beach, DDD. I know that might be seen as slightly racist, for which I apologise, I don't mean it nastily and am aware from living with a nigerian girl called Ranti for 4 years that a tan is a universal thing... it would just be really amusing to see the look of confusion on the attendant's face.
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  • oscarbudgie
    oscarbudgie Posts: 850
    Sleep
    Dioralyte (not sure if I splet that right - stuff for the squits)
    Lucozade Orange Energy and / or Coca Cola
    and +1 sugar & fat
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  • secretsam
    secretsam Posts: 5,120
    My drinking days are behind me, but on the odd occasion:

    -Loads of water
    -(if in a hotel) cooked breakfast, tea, toast, no fried slice evil evil yuck
    -(if not in a hotel) bacon sarnies, hula hoops and (on one occasion) a fruit scone with blackcurrant jam
    -more water (and tea and OJ)

    I find white wine is least damaging for the old throbbing brain...cider evil
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  • amnezia
    amnezia Posts: 590
    exercise is always a good hangover cure.
  • cee
    cee Posts: 4,553
    plain water...lots of.

    sugar always makes my hangovers worse...

    actually just getting on with the day is better for me than lying around feeling sorry for myself too (is that the MTFU bit...??)

    bacon, sausage and egg....

    thats it.

    when i stopped smoking, i realised that hangovers are not as bad when you don't smoke.
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  • TheStone
    TheStone Posts: 2,291
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    Footlong steak and cheese subway, crisps and twix.

    If you can eat that and not throw up, you do not have a proper hangover.

    Seriously, the best cure is more booze. If you have 20 pints on night 1, then 6 on day 2,
    you'll only get the hangover from the 6.

    It only works for a couple of days, then you start shaking and it's not so easy to sleep.
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  • secretsam
    secretsam Posts: 5,120
    amnezia wrote:
    exercise is always a good hangover cure.

    Cripes, there's always one riteous reply! Why not add that he could go to Church and pray for forgiveness as well? :lol:
    It's just a hill. Get over it.
  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    TheStone wrote:
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    Footlong steak and cheese subway, crisps and twix.

    If you can eat that and not throw up, you do not have a proper hangover.

    Seriously, the best cure is more booze. If you have 20 pints on night 1, then 6 on day 2,
    you'll only get the hangover from the 6.

    It only works for a couple of days, then you start shaking and it's not so easy to sleep.

    This reminds me of my university days, playing rugby and doing all the associated boozing. I lived with 4 other rugby-playing girls, and we did our fair share of drinking, then drinking again the next day, and the day after that. Beer o'clock rapidly slipped from 6pm to 4pm to 2pm to midday to (at its worst) 10am. All-nighters obviously didn't count under the beer o'clock rules. It was 'necessary' in order to work... honest...

    It's amazing I have a liver at all really. Thank god for 8-week terms.
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  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    lost_in_thought wrote:
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    It would be rather amusing for you to pop down to your local LA beach, DDD. I know that might be seen as slightly racist, for which I apologise, I don't mean it nastily and am aware from living with a nigerian girl called Ranti for 4 years that a tan is a universal thing... it would just be really amusing to see the look of confusion on the attendant's face.

    :lol::lol::lol: So sweet.

    You lived with a Nigerian girl called Ranti... Oh the fun I could have with that....

    As for tan, I don't tan... well I do but it would have to be bloddy hot... I don't burn or have ever got sunburn... the brotha's we be strong.

    Heat of anykind is like a hangover multiplier. I'm still hungry after my footlong subway and could do with nother can of coke...
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  • PBo
    PBo Posts: 2,493
    isotonic type sport drinks
  • CdrJake
    CdrJake Posts: 296
    I find whiskey is the solution, never get a hangover on it.

    Anything else however I get an appaling hangover which nothing will cure :(
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  • Clever Pun
    Clever Pun Posts: 6,778
    SecretSam wrote:
    amnezia wrote:
    exercise is always a good hangover cure.

    Cripes, there's always one riteous reply! Why not add that he could go to Church and pray for forgiveness as well? :lol:

    they're right, getting out and doing something will sort you right out

    Swimming is excellent for this
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  • pllb
    pllb Posts: 158
    this is going to sound a tiny bit odd maybe but what works for me is a Prawn & Mayo sandwich (M&S is best but Tesco/Sainsburys will do at a push) with plain hula hoops or ready salted crisps. :D
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  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    A plate sized MTFU pill then get yourself back to the scene of the crime, failing that 30 min balls out blast on the bike.

    Simples
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  • roger_merriman
    roger_merriman Posts: 6,165
    a good session on the MTB back in the day when I was about your age.

    used to take bike to mates house get rather drunk crash at mates house next day groan a bit, drink tea, (lots of) roll down to another mates once assembled head off on to the hills once we'd struggled up a few near vertical climbs and possibly held on to the ground after said hills it seemed to burn off the hangover.

    that was 10 years ago now I just suffer!
  • PedalPedant
    PedalPedant Posts: 185
    itboffin wrote:
    failing that 30 min balls out blast on the bike.

    Simples

    Hang on, are we back on the "going commando" thread?

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  • linsen
    linsen Posts: 1,959
    don't drink so much?

    In all seriousness, I have never known hula hoops not to deal with nausea
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  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    linsen wrote:
    don't drink so much?

    In all seriousness, I have never known hula hoops not to deal with nausea

    Please miss I was good and went home :D
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    Rule #9 // If you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period.
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  • linsen
    linsen Posts: 1,959
    well done

    have a gold star.

    In fact, have two
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  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    linsen wrote:
    don't drink so much?

    Bah, You'll be visiting the dentists chair on the 18th...
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  • linsen
    linsen Posts: 1,959
    what's that?

    I don't get drunk as a rule. I become rather gobby and then fall asleep in a corner. Not good for anyone. As it is I can speak my mind and laugh heartily whilst completely sober so alcohol doesn't benefit me greatly. And sadly I am getting too old to cope with a hangover.
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  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    linsen wrote:
    what's that?.

    Who teaches the teacher?
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