Hickups?
Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 10:46 am
Do you have hickups ATM?
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Poor guy!Longest Attack of Hiccups
Charles Osborne (1894–1991) of Anthon, Iowa, USA, started hiccupping in 1922 while attempting to weigh a hog before slaughtering it. He was unable to find a cure, and continued hiccupping until February 1990, a total of 68 year!
Osborne led a normal life in which he had two wives and fathered eight children. The only discomfort from his hiccuping, he claimed, was the constant risk of losing his false teeth!
During the first few decades, he hiccupped up to 40 times a minute, slowing to 20 a minute in later years. He finally stopped in 1990 – after an estimated 430 million spasms – and died the following year.
I suspect that post is alcohol related.peteamer wrote:
Pray tell how you came to that summarization... ...Ralf Hutter wrote:I suspect that post is alcohol related.
The closest equivalent term we have in the US is Hicks, though there are plenty of other terms for them. Most of them are derogatoryPositiveSpin wrote:I think people have the wrong impression - this isn't about hiccups (US spelling) or hiccoughs (UK spelling) - it's about hickups.
My guess as to the meaning of this word is that it describes the increase in naivete or gullibility of a person coming from a rural setting into a metropolis. By a city-dweller, I would presume that I don't suffering from this syndrome.
Hmm?
Do not try to find some kind of logic to english spelling or you will be sorry. Yew wyl bie verree sawrri.nici wrote:Whats up with it being spelled with two cs? I´ve never heard of another english word being spelled with two cs.. Is there others?
Really? At what age did you learn it? I doubt you can even pronounce all umpteen vowels in english.nici wrote:And no my primary language isnt english, its my third one actually.. That being some kind of mix of british and US english.
mathias wrote:
Really? At what age did you learn it? I doubt you can even pronounce all umpteen vowels in english.
Funny, that person must have been from Finlandmathias wrote:
I once ran into someone who spoke better english when drunk.
I, along with many I know, fall under this category. Or at least we think we speak better english when drunk. But then again, most people I know think they do EVERYTHING better while drunk.mathias wrote:Do not try to find some kind of logic to english spelling or you will be sorry. Yew wyl bie verree sawrri.nici wrote:Whats up with it being spelled with two cs? I´ve never heard of another english word being spelled with two cs.. Is there others?
Really? At what age did you learn it? I doubt you can even pronounce all umpteen vowels in english.nici wrote:And no my primary language isnt english, its my third one actually.. That being some kind of mix of british and US english.
I once ran into someone who spoke better english when drunk.
It could have been ME! (but I'm a dane, and we drink more than finnish people do)nici wrote:Funny, that person must have been from Finland
Where I come from Hickup is when a redneck gets a job promotion.PositiveSpin wrote:I think people have the wrong impression - this isn't about hiccups (US spelling) or hiccoughs (UK spelling) - it's about hickups.
My guess as to the meaning of this word is that it describes the increase in naivete or gullibility of a person coming from a rural setting into a metropolis. By a city-dweller, I would presume that I don't suffering from this syndrome.
Hmm?
Nope, Polish.nici wrote:Funny, that person must have been from Finlandmathias wrote:
I once ran into someone who spoke better english when drunk.
AH! I left out a possibility in my previos post. Our teachers were drunk while teaching us english. Or maybe english people are always drunk, and this has influenced the general perceptance of the language. I do, however, find this highly unlikely, given american legislation concerning alcohol.mathias wrote: Nope, Polish.
You know, it would hillarious if there was a dialect that sounded drunk, and there's no reason it shouldn't be possible. If the people who raised kids were often drunk eventually the language would become drunkenish.
Hmmm, that does seem likely for newfies. But I don't know if noofs can afford to drink a lot, there's lots of unemployment there and the canadian gov't gouges horribly with alcohol taxes.sensei wrote: By the way, doesn't every country have a region where people sound like they're drunk? In my experience, it's usually the rural districts. Jutland in Denmark, Skåne in sweden, the south in the US. And don't even get me started on the UK...
Around here, the rural district sounds like a drunk person speaking kind of slow to aid pronunciation, but failing miserably.mathias wrote: Hmmm, that does seem likely for newfies. But I don't know if noofs can afford to drink a lot, there's lots of unemployment there and the canadian gov't gouges horribly with alcohol taxes.
Some english accents...
hey, there's a word with a double c!
...some of them sound like they're drunk and on a cocktail of experimental antidepressants.
No, not really. I know that Ireland, Denmark and Luxembourg have higher GDP's than England, Greece, Spain or Saudi Arabia, and the equivalent is also true about unemployment rates, except denmark's is a little higher than england's.sensei wrote: By the way... it hasn't occurred to you that drunkedness and unemployment might be a two way street?
I haven't really heard much about canadians homebrewing, except some opinions that it's by hobyists exrtemely delusional about how good their beer is. I've also heard about it being illegal in three american states. I'm guessing it's illegal here; maybe the big beer companies here will try to pull an RIAA.sensei wrote:Swedes get their alcohol through a government controlled store, called "systembolaget", but that doesn't keep them from making it themselves. I once read, that if all the yeast sold in Sweden was used for making bread, they would have too eat about one and a half loaf a day. Each.
Hmm - should I explain that it was a joke? Or should I not? Perhaps it's best to leave the mystery...sthayashi wrote:The closest equivalent term we have in the US is Hicks, though there are plenty of other terms for them. Most of them are derogatoryPositiveSpin wrote:I think people have the wrong impression - this isn't about hiccups (US spelling) or hiccoughs (UK spelling) - it's about hickups.
My guess as to the meaning of this word is that it describes the increase in naivete or gullibility of a person coming from a rural setting into a metropolis. By a city-dweller, I would presume that I don't suffering from this syndrome.
Hmm?
I had thought you had simply misspelled hiccups, since SPCR sees a lot of people who don't speak or write english as their primary language
(cringe) One more reason to say no to the Euro!sensei wrote:And while we're posting maps of scandinavian countries:
(1 Euro coin)
They seem to have left out Norway, with slightly peculiar results.
But that would be like banning people from performing their own music, just because they use similar instruments!mathias wrote:...maybe the big beer companies here will try to pull an RIAA.
A mystery to solve.. AHA! No time to be be wasted here!PositiveSpin wrote: Hmm - should I explain that it was a joke? Or should I not? Perhaps it's best to leave the mystery...
No, it would be like banning people from growing opium. Except with more hipocracy.StarfishChris wrote:But that would be like banning people from performing their own music, just because they use similar instruments!mathias wrote:...maybe the big beer companies here will try to pull an RIAA.
What!?! 150 euros for a case?!? You really have lost all sense of money. For that price, it better be an improved full tower version of the P180. Or an acryllic version of the P180.nici wrote:btw. the € sucks donkeyballs, i have lost all sense of money and im only nineteen.. 100finnish marks was a lot of money, 20€uro(~120finnish marks) feels like nothing. Who on earth would pay 800makrs for a computer case.. But hey, its only 150€
That's a con. As in, not a pro. Although it could also be a con as in "con artist"nici wrote:"Always look on the bright side of life..." Alcohol seems cheaper when its in euros
A regular silver P180. Wouldnt mind an acrylic version thjough... Oh, the shop i bought it from just bumped the price up to 179€mathias wrote: What!?! 150 euros for a case?!? You really have lost all sense of money. For that price, it better be an improved full tower version of the P180. Or an acryllic version of the P180.
Even 150 canadian would be too much for me to spend on an ordinairy case. (That's €106)
Im not quite shure im following you here..mathias wrote:That's a con. As in, not a pro. Although it could also be a con as in "con artist"nici wrote:"Always look on the bright side of life..." Alcohol seems cheaper when its in euros
Useless i tell you! Useless! I cant cponcentrate for a minute or two i have hiccups with five ssecond interwalls for fooks sake!sthayashi wrote:I don't have hiccups now, but on the rare occasion that I DO have them I do the following:
1) take a normal breath and hold it for a mental count to 10.
2) breathe out normally
3) Repeat the above 2 steps until they go away.
Since I am not you, YMMV, but the above has always worked for me within a minute or two.
That sucks. Here a P180 is ~115€.nici wrote:A regular silver P180. Wouldnt mind an acrylic version thjough... Oh, the shop i bought it from just bumped the price up to 179€
I mean: That's not a good thing and it could also be seen as the gov't swindling you.nici wrote:Im not quite shure im following you here..mathias wrote:That's a con. As in, not a pro. Although it could also be a con as in "con artist"nici wrote:"Always look on the bright side of life..." Alcohol seems cheaper when its in euros