Be Excellent To Each Other

You're up early?

What's planned for today?

Work! Since I've been catching the train in, and working in Cardiff instead of less than a mile from my house, I have to be up now about 6:45.

Hah! That is great. Is it me or did the woman look a bit like Alyson Hannigan?

Yeah just a bit

I should point out for the record that MaliA does much more Proper Science than I do. I'm just a jumped up code monkey.

Gah!

I was previously getting up at 7 or so anyway, for dull domestic routine reasons, so it's not a big thing.

Dudes, 6.45 is a fucking lie in. I don't have to leave the house until 7.45, but due to Nipper #1 I'm up at any time between 5.30 and 6.15.

5.30am.

as far as I'm aware, there's only one 8 o'clock in the day, and it's not in the morning.

I was up for an hour between four and five this morning because my fucking hay fever was so bad.

Got back to sleep and then overslept so didn't wake up until half nine, 45 minutes after I normally get into the office.

Oops.

Urgh, yeah, hay fever season's kicking in for me too now. I DETEST those adverts for hayfever tablets which depict people giving tiny little "atchoo!" sneezes. If only it was like that.

I enjoy rolling out of bed at about 7.45 or so, but last week for a one-off reason I had to be up at 6.45. It was hell.

I had thought I wasn't going to suffer with hayfever this year as it seems to be getting better each year recently, but the last few evenings have proved me wrong in a fairly spectacular fashion.

DAMN YOU, PLANTS. KEEP YOUR FILTHY STAMENS TO YOURSELVES IN FUTURE.

Have you thought about moving?

Yeah. My eyes burn like crazy and my sneezes shake the house and produce eruptions of snot that fill a whole hanky with a single sneeze. It's not very nice.

I've never found any medication that seems to stop them, either. I think the one-a-day tablets I had last year (Lloyds pharmacy own brand) calmed it down a bit, but I'm not sure.

Does IMACF stand for "I'm A Cunting Fuck"?

Not for long, matey, though.

I'm racing 1 robot against another right now, to see which one is quicker to get soluble protein out of 52 E. Coli pellets. THIS IS LIVING THE DREAM.

I was upa t 6am, and left the house at 8am, got soaked and managed to buy petrol, but they had no fags, so I had to stop again for fags, but there was a nice Porsche GT2 there with an RUF plate on the back, so it might have been. Luckily, I wrapped a change of clothes in a plastic bag in my rucksack which was then wrapped in a bin bag so I am now dry again.

I've suffered enormously from hayfever forever. It sucks balls, you're all entirely correct. Every year I hope the symptoms won't get me, but no, it was a few weeks ago when I first started sneezing and running like some kind of mucus-machine. Since then I carry Loratadine tablets and nasal spray. In combination I'm symptom free, and it's super-ace.

http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/health ... r-remedies

Dirt cheap hayfever tablets online - like £6 for 6 months' supply cheap.

No. Internet men are complete fags.

Get to the doctor, man. The stuff I'm prescribed is quite good, as it is strong(!) anti-histamine. I used to have hayfever so bad that I'd break capillaries in my nostrils. I'd leave blood stains on the walls everytime I sneezed

Are you mrs A? She's always on about that website and those tablets...

There's a five in the morning now? HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN KEEPING THIS FROM ME?!?!

I was on a top dose of ultra-strength flixonase for yeaaars as a kid before any doctors thought to tell me that it was a steroid and prolonged use would fuck away my sinuses and possibly wreck my sense of smell. Thanks, guys.

Mind you, I never found it helped much anyway. Nothing ever seems to help, except for saline rinses (messy, but soothing - basically, snort salt water. No, really) and tablets that knock me out - I hate non-drowsy tablets. Make me as drowsy as possible, please. I'd like to sleep.

fix-o-nose.

You have my sympathies, suffering doods. Would wearing a filter mask help?

I use Flixonase... it's the only thing I've found that actually works*





*apart from old Walkers Barbeque flavoured crisps, the ones in the black packet. Strangely, the kill it stone dead. Or at least they used to, before they changed the flavour about five years ago... CURSE YOU, WALKERS!

As an child, I would have quite happily been sealed in a bubble during the grass fucking season. But I would soon drown in my own effluence.

Yeah, quite. It's given me a negative association with summer. Apart from the stupidity I deem in lying in the sun constantly, I can't sit on grass. Grass is bad.

I get up at 8:30 on work days.

I was on my way in this morning, after filling up with petrol, and all I could think about was crashing the bike, and I couldn't shake the feeling that it was going to happen. I didn't though, but it was disconcerting. Time to put more pennies in the luck jar, I think.

Bastard.

The firm I worked at in London was five minutes from one the flats we lived in at one point. Those were happy days. Office hours started at 9.30 so I didn't have to get out of bed until after 9am.

Lummee! Rumbled!

I'm leaving you, by the way, KTHXBYE.

I get up at 8.20am, and it's a struggle doing that. I hate hate HATE getting out of bed in the morning.

I have the unenviable problem of loving music festivals but having terrible hayfever. So I get to spend days on end sat in grassy fields sneezing and moaning. Huzzah.

One of my best friends loves to mock me by grabbing handfuls of grass and stuffing them up his nose, loudly inhaling.

One day, I shall kill him.

That video amused. She was clearly wet for him, but he was quite rightly put off by her large, sharp canines which would pose a significant risk of a puncture wound to his bell end.

I had a week of getting up at 5am... and keeling over DEAD later in the day. Since then, getting up at 6am has made allll the differennnnnce in the worrrrld.

She's using the mode man. The fucking mode. She knows nothing about science.

I used to have bizarre contact-allergies as a kid, wherever grass touched me would spring up in itchy red blotches. Exposed skin would generally blotch up randomly, really, but grass was especially annoying. Piriton fixed it up brilliantly, thankfully, because wandering round covered in calamine was tedious and embarrassing (the application was awesome, of course).

Over the years it's got much better to the point where it's pretty much only sitting on grass for over 20 minutes that triggers it, and even then it's trivial. Although, er, typing this has started my neck and forearms off itching for the first time in ages. Fuck.

Still, better than hayfever and asthma.

I used to suffer from hayfever so much I couldn't go outside without returning with snotty lower face and eye-goo'd upper face. It was pretty disgusting. Also when in the sun in the fields at primary school during the real heat my ears would get massive bumps all alone the tops, which were intensely painful if touched.

Over the years it's got weaker and weaker to the point where I'm not sure I have it any more, but I do keep a box of Piriton on me juuust in case if I go out somewhere that's sunny and involving fields of grass/flowers.

Don't do that, seriously. Just shut your brain up. The last day I had constant thoughts like that, I did crash. I got 6 weeks off work though, so it isn't all bad if you avoid death.

Hayfever? I've been pretty okay for the last few years, fortunately, aside from a few sneezes an itchy eyes. I've had it seriously bad several times in my life so far though; most notably the one time I went camping and had to stay in the tent the whole time because I couldn't open my tennis-ball-sized eyes any more without them dripping buckets of tears. NOT A GOOD DAY.

Sounds like motorbikes in general

I seem to have had the luck when it comes to allergies and the like as I don't have any but my brother got lumbered with Asthma, Hayfever and an allergy to horses which causes his eyes to swell up horrendously. Well not his actual eyeballs, that'd be silly.

My eyeballs sometimes swell up when I get bad attacks of hayfever.

There's nothing better in life than looking in the mirror and seeing yourself with huge bright red eyeballs that visibly deform against the sides of your eye sockets when you move them left or right.

5) Strongly agree.

3.40am

I have a habit of shaking up drinks before I open them - doesn't matter if it's bottled water or a can of coke, I'll shake it (I have to wait before I open the coke). Members of the BBBC may have noticed me shaking up my cans of Red Stripe.

Wasn't there a chappie on WoS who had really bad (something like OCD) every now and then and once couldn't get off a roundabout because the number of the turning was never right and kept going around and around until he had run out of petrol?

I think that was Titler, and it was because he couldn't get off a roundabout until he'd finished writing his post.

(I have no idea, but that's awesome)

There was, I don't remember who.

I have CDO. It's like OCD, but in alphabetical order.

As it should be.

I think they had a thing about even numbers, and would often post twice in a row to keep their post count even.

Who was it?

That sounds familiar. I think it was in a thread about odd habits/quirks that we have.