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Old wives tales
  • Smigone
    Posts: 2,879
    Just told me ol' mam i have tonsillitis, she told me to go and gargle hot salted water, i said i will get some anti - b's she cursed (called me daft, that's a curse for me mam) at me and told me not to bother the Doctor when salt water will strip my throat and see me right in a few days, woman is barkin!

    Or is she, any truth in any of these old wives tale cures?

    I do believe in hot toddies for a cold, but that could just be as it gets you drunk!
  • OldGoldenVision
    Posts: 20,144
    It will help... Shame on you...
  • Smigone
    Posts: 2,879
    mummy's boy!
  • OldGoldenVision
    Posts: 20,144
    I dont care... She thinks i'm cool... :-P
  • blue32years
    Posts: 16,909
    All it helps with is pain , like gargling with aspirin

    It won't get rid of it


    I find tonsillectomy helps
  • OldGoldenVision
    Posts: 20,144
    Four replies and its been kept clean... Well done lads! ;-)
  • Smigone
    Posts: 2,879
    blue32years said:

    All it helps with is pain , like gargling with aspirin

    It won't get rid of it


    I find tonsillectomy helps


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    Big wuss me mate, i couldn't bare the thought of being put out, freaks me out. I don't get it often so i'll stick with that as an excuse not to get it done!
  • Smigone
    Posts: 2,879
    OldGoldenVision said:

    Four replies and its been kept clean... Well done lads! ;-)


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    Sambo is gonna boil over when he see's you've been able to change your avvy again!

    But still she is the only one, well maybe your princess too but she will grow out of that!
  • blue32years
    Posts: 16,909
    Ha ha , fair enough


    There's some places do it under a local anaesthetic
  • Smigone
    Posts: 2,879
    Ha ha , fair enough


    There's some places do it under a local anaesthetic

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    oof, thanks bluey put i'll pass, i have had one procedure under local anaesthetic and the mental torture of knowing what was happening was bad enough. although if i'm honest i don't think it worked either well at least on one side i felt everything!
  • blue32years
    Posts: 16,909
    Gotta admit mate , I don't fancy the idea of tonsils removed under a local either.


    Had an arthroscopy on my knee under one and that was bad enough.
  • sambo applecart
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    sea men best thing for it smigs....





















































    thats what doc always gave me when i went when i was a kid anyway
  • AussieSheila
    Posts: 1,803
    I think there's a lot of sense in these old wives' tales.....

    I see guys in my office rush to the chemist to buy something the minute they feel a sniffle coming on, when half a lemon in water would be just as (or as least) effective.

    As for the tonsils - hang on to them for as long as you can. Don't even consider having them removed unless absolutely necessary.
  • tonyd
    Posts: 3,124
    My arl racist nan used to come out with some pearlers

    Don't eat crusts on bread or you'll have hair like jimi hendrix

    Don't swallow chewy or it will wrap around your heart and kill yer

    Worra mean arl cow she is
  • Smigone
    Posts: 2,879
    Explains a lot that Sambo, take it he always had to take your temperature the old fashioned way!
  • Smigone
    Posts: 2,879
    tonyd said:

    My arl racist nan used to come out with some pearlers

    Don't eat crusts on bread or you'll have hair like jimi hendrix

    Don't swallow chewy or it will wrap around your heart and kill yer

    Worra mean arl cow she is

    tonyd said:


    tonyd said:

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    I laughed, sorry not pc of me that.
  • blue32years
    Posts: 16,909
    My nan used to say to me

    ' stop touching it , or it will fall off '


    And it did






    We called her one t 1t after that
  • Daive521
    Posts: 2,492
    A Watched Kettle Never Boils??????

    IT Does?
  • sambo applecart
    Posts: 24,745
    Smigone said:

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    i dont need to answer really do i........!
  • sambo applecart
    Posts: 24,745
    tonyd said:

    My arl racist nan used to come out with some pearlers

    Don't eat crusts on bread or you'll have hair like jimi hendrix

    Don't swallow chewy or it will wrap around your heart and kill yer

    Worra mean arl cow she is


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    i got that one too mate, but obviously not off your nan like....
  • tonyd
    Posts: 3,124
    sambo applecart said:

    i got that one too mate, but obviously not off your nan like....


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    Did yer swallow the chewy just to see if it did?
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