What advice or tips do you have which sound like nonsense but really work?
When I can't sleep, I turn around and sleep "upside down" - moving my pillows to where my feet were beforehand, and my feet to where my head was beforehand - and I stick with that for a week or so. It gives me a week or so without insomnia and then wears off, so I have to turn myself back around for the next 7-12 day period.
Admittedly this could just be a me thing, but let's put our faith in this method and let the power of placebo effect take hold. Boom, minor bouts of sleeplessness are cured.
What are your own examples of this?
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Man, I still eat like shit, but when I switched to drinking only water (instead of mainly soda/juice), I was easily able to lose the excess weight that had been building up.
No other changes. Just drink water. Only water. Water is good.
I keep a pitcher of cold, filtered water in the mini-fridge by my desk. That shit is delicious. And I don't even miss anything. If you're struggling with the switch to water, get yourself some good water.
To those consuming this, 100% try it. The first 3 or 4 days suck because your body expects calories with it's drink and the buzz of sugar and caffeine. You can escape this by having a small chocolate with your water when you feel the craving.
Second point, mineral content, processing, temperature, and plumbing play a big role in your enjoyment. Personally I can't drink cold water, it has to be room temperature and tap water here is too mineral heavy. Instead I refill 5 gallon water jugs and use a water crock.
I mean, you can also get some taste in your water by drinking tea.
If I wanted it to taste bad and bitter, sure.
/c/ShitUSiansSay
Tea (black and green) is only bitter if you don't know how to make it. Get good quality tea leaves (not the ones in the bags, they are usually the worst quality) and look up what temperature the water needs to be for your kind of tea. Usually around 70-80°C for green tea and 80-90°C for black. Especially green tea is only bitter if you prepare it with boiling water.
Btw, if tea is too bitter for you, rooibos might fit better. Plus there are all kinds of herbal 'teas', or rather mixtures, that don't contain tea proper — at least where I live. Although tea itself has barely any bitterness if you use a smaller dose of green tea, or something like white tea.
Of herbal or aromatic teas, you might want to choose those with berries or flowers, since they impart some sweet flavor, but still far from the sweetness of fizzy drinks. A bonus benefit is that there are a lot of different flavors. One should take from life all that it has, after all.
bro doesn't know how to put sugar in their tea
If I put sugar in it, I might as well be drinking soda and juice again.
HOW MUCH SUGAR ARE YOU PUTTING IN YOUR TEA!?!?!?
ENOUGH THAT I CAN USE IT AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR PANCAKE SYRUP IN A PINCH IF NECESSARY!!!!
Don't put sugar in your tea - don't drink calories.
If sweetening with artificial sweeteners tastes "bitter", try a trick: Use packets of multiple types - one "equal", one sucralose, one stevia, for example. You get the sweetness from each and not enough of the background bitterness (which is different).
That's the main reason Coke Zero is pretty good as compared to Diet Coke - different formula, but they use two artificial sweeteners and get that affect - sweetness from two sources with half the bitterness (since each is different).
Oh no! Not the 48 calories! In my 0.7 giant fucking mug of tea! My diet is ruined!
Like, seriously?
You understand that most of the beverages are far less calorie-dense than your average snack, meal, or whatever, right? And that our stomach capacity is limited? Once you drink enough of even the sweetest tea, you won't have the room for anything more dense for some time.
Do what works for you.
Yes, eliminating an excess of calories is a good way to lose weight. Don't think this is sarcasm, this is AWESOME and I'm glad that's all it took for you - or at least that was a good contributing factor.
The only thing I would say: Don't drink calories. i.e. I assume you meant regular soda and juice you were drinking. Milk is in that category as well.
Coffee, tea, diet soda, crystal light or any packet you put in a bottle of water - look for the things with basically zero calories, and that should be what you drink most of the time.
For those that are worried about things like caffeine being diuretics and dehydrating you: Coffee and tea and diet soda are NEARLY as hydrating as plain water. It's not a large difference.
If you can drink plain water, great! If you need a bit of flavour to help? That's also fine - the important bit is not drinking calories.
While most probably would be okay with hydrating more, do be careful:
But if you're trying to figure out what's wrong because you feel a little bad, or have a headache, or are sleepy, or feel like you might be hungry but think you shouldn't be, or any number of other situations - drinking a glass of water usually doesn't hurt, and does sometimes turn out to have been the issue. So it's rarely terrible advice.
(Unless you're on dialysis like me and have fluid restrictions) :)
yes. you need water more than calories and while the rule of threes is basically about calories with the three weeks if you don't have fiber with those calories you will have a medical emergency on your hands. Granted though you can have to much water and fiber so its kinda a balance. I mean granted with water its more about to much water and not enough electrolytes.
Hyponatremia . We called it hyponatriosis or 'water-drunk' in the army. We had a girl in our platoon over-hydrate and go floppy on a march, and my swear-to-god buck-oh-five bunkmate had to play crutch for the rest of it while we all redistroed all their collective gear. (calm your breathing: they marched in back with the medicos under obs the entire time, and we didn't fail the little exercise we were on, and it was her choice to continue at every stage, and she was lauded for it afterward. This is a heroism story.)
Water with occasional electrolytes ok?
Also did you all reprimand the
deadweight"hero" in private or not?water and fiber and the need for both in a diet but also that they can be overdosed.
Rule of threes (survival) - Wikipedia https://share.google/Gc0HVUDXToxTKHD0A
Why is this a Google link?
Guess I wasn't paying attention. I googled it and then tried to share the Wikipedia page. Guessing I must have clicked on some ai result instead of the actual page. Annoying, unintentional.
If you can't find a comfortable temperature when you're sleeping under blankets, just stick one foot, and maybe part of your lower leg, out from under of the blankets. It acts like a radiator, and will release much of your excess heat.
A kid showed this to me at a childhood slumber party, and it's been a useful tip ever since.
I'm not taking advice from an obvious night monster.
The real trick is to put the foot out, then pull it over the blanket so the foot's surrounded by blanket.
From the view of creatures under the bed, all they see is the blanket.
Seriously, did night monsters write this post?!
But then the monsters might eat my foot!
Really though: I have a visceral aversion to having my feet exposed like that. If I’m lying down or even sitting on the couch, my feet must be covered. I could have no other blankets, except on my feet.
Yeah, you have a different issue.
Nah, it’s that I would love to be able to use it as a radiator like you suggested, but I have a sensory problem with exposing my feet like that. It’s really annoying actually, because I have some chronic conditions that make me more heat sensitive now, and even though I know it would help a ton, I still can’t stand the feeling of my feet being exposed.
So, same problem, but sadly can’t use your solution.
Idk how much it would help you, but if you can source some fairly common stuff and do some mild DIY, you can make a cold pack/pad that “freezes” at room temp and lasts a super long time. It isn’t cold, more like cool water that stays cool. You could even make socks out of it, if you want. They would be weird and squishy and probably trigger some sort of sensory thing, but you COULD :p
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Nqxjfp4Gi0k
I have that problem with my butt. Can be 10 billion degrees and sweaty af and I have to have a blanket over my butt, even if I have shorts on.
I don’t have that problem any time except sleeping, though.
The Snorkel is god-tier advice.
One good thing about using a CPAP is that I can be fully covered by a blanket and still able to breathe. This occurred to me the other day when I left a bedroom window open during a snowstorm but was too lazy to get up and close it.
That's noob tier. I'm a blanket junkie for some reason, so I have to compromise in any weather. The blanket could be covering any part of my body, from neck-to-toe to just the legs, to one vertical half, to part of the torso, to just a corner being on me.
My cat would see that as an invitation to attack my foot.
Mine would snuggle up to it, because it's warm.
It's not just that it acts like a radiator. Feet are also not very sensitive, so if they're a little cold it won't bother you. You could obviously get rid of a lot more heat by exposing your torso, but it will feel cold much sooner.
Switch to linux
One weird trick! Terminal still scares me as well as installing from GitHub, but I have win11 required at work and mint at home and the speed and ease of use are like night and day
Switched to codeberg as well. Microsoft owns github
git.gay for the win!!
I'm using gitlab-on-prem for now, until their slow code decay and creeping featurism destroys it completely. It's only barely usable now because of the really dumb CI/runner changes, for example, but forgejo uses a yaml CI setup so that's never happening.
Not a Yaml fan?
I don't hate Yaml. I'll admit, I also don't use it for much. Yaml's job in my CICD is to tell me where I left the bash scripts for each step.
Heck no. I get paid to do ansible in the daytime, and yaml and ansible are proof of society's collapse; not just because they're both so terrible, but because they are ever chosen despite the existence of so many alternatives.
Have a look at onedev.io. it's local Git hosting but it includes cicd and even an issue tracker.
Its build/install fails best practice and ISO in so many places that I simply cannot.
But thank you for sending that over. I've never heard of that app, and I'm grateful for the consideration.
Went to try three distros (Mint, Zorin, Ubuntu) all three either failed on boot (even just in the “try” state) or really really did not like my graphics card (Battlemage).
Could I go through and start troubleshooting, tweaking settings, making sure everything is configured correctly? Yes…. But after wasting a few hours just trying to get something to boot, “it just works” with Windows looks better all the time. I’m too old to want to jailbreak and tinker with shit.
All of these distros use an old ass kernel that might not support your hardware. Distros like Fedora and Arch (don't use arch btw) use newer kernels and are more likely to support newer hardware.
How is Battlemage. I've been thinking about getting a replacement for my Alchemist card. It's mostly transcoding but it's always nice to have backup hardware in these days.
i feel like in general there's not usually much of a reason to upgrade after a single generation, regardless of the vendor, unless you have some very specific circumstances
yes, the b580 is good, but it's not that good
I have a B580 and frankly it’s perfect for what I want. I run my games at 1440p and generally can get 60-90fps (depends if it supports XeSS 2). E33 was a decent benchmark and it passed just fine. I normally play slightly older games so it suits my needs.
As for transcoding, it can seriously knock it out. H.264 QSV with an RF of 22 on a 1080p stream averages 315fps. H.265 is a bit slower but still faster than realtime. It really is a transcoding powerhouse there.
Unfortunately Mint and Ubuntu (and maybe Zorin too, I don't know about this one) stay on older kernels on purpose to maintain stability, and new hardware requires new kernels. Not only that, but mesa should also be ad updated as possible. I would normally not recommend this to someone who's starting, but maybe give Manjaro a try. Maybe Bazzite is a better idea though, although I have never personally used it.
The reason why I don't usually recommend Manjaro to people is that it's bleeding edge, and that can cause problems. But in your case currently your hardware requires bleeding edge. Otherwise in a few months Ubuntu 26.04 should be released and I expect it will support your GPU better.
Windows really hasn't been the "it just works" option for a while. It's just the option that you've gotten used to the bullshit to make it work. For example, the install process for every Linux distro I've tried is far simpler than the insane install process for Windows.
Like others have said though, you're using the wrong distros for your hardware, without some manual work. I'd recommend CachyOS or Garuda Dragonized, as they're made for gaming. They're both Arch based, but they include everything you need out-of-the-box, so you really don't need to put any effort into setting things up, only customizing it after.
One key thing with switching though is recognizing that you aren't on Windows anymore. If you switch expecting it to be Windows then you'll hate it. You need to go in with the same attitude you hade when you learned Windows (which you probably don't remember). It's something new. You have to accept that you have to learn how to use it.
I really want to and was mostly Windows free for most of 2025 but I can't get my new graphics card to perform well in either kubuntu or mint. Games that will run on ultra at over 100fps in Windows will get 60-80fps on medium-high settings on kubuntu. A tear runs down my cheek every time I see people say they got performance increases from switching. Even my old hardware performed slightly worse.
Linux performance improvements are most noticeable on lower end hardware, at the higher end performance VS windows is usually pretty random from what I've seen.
That kind of makes intuitive sense, to me.
Early in the life of a piece of hardware, there's lot of attention from individuals and companies.
Late in the life of a piece of hardware, only individuals still care about it.
Corporate OSes add changes over time to make old hardware worse off, while open OSes add fixes to support it.
Yeah, Linux generally supports older hardware for much longer, but it's not only that. Linux devs are fairly attentive about performance, clean code, consistent frameworks, etc, meanwhile Microsoft is out there making random OS components in React just because it's a little easier. From what I've heard the culture there is to not care about how something is done as long as it works.
Ubuntu and its derivatives are very slow with updates because they're more focussed on stability. Because of this, your graphics drivers are likely wildly out of date. And if you're using an Nvidia GPU, you're better off going with a distro that has the graphics drivers built in.
I recommended going for a distro based on Fedora like Bazzite or Nobara. Fedora only lags a couple weeks behind updates for testing and QA, unlike the months/years you get on Ubuntu. Plus the 2 distros I mentioned have built-in Nvidia graphics drivers
I'm running an AMD GPU (9070XT) specifically because I knew it was meant to work nicer with Linux than my 1080 did.
I might give some other distros a try when I've got the time. It's a shame, I really liked kubuntu. (I know I can configure most distros to do the things I liked about kubuntu but I'm not the most knowledgeable when it comes to that kind of thing.)
Yeah, the newer card likely doesn't have drivers added to the kernel version that Kubuntu uses yet
If it helps, Bazzite and Nobara have options to install with KDE Plasma included
Running a 9070xt on cachyOS, works great
If memory serves you basically need the kernel release and stuff from like, December 2025? Somebody can correct me if that’s inaccurate.
I just installed CachyOS based off this recommendation, and performance is absolutely terrible right after installing. Do I need to install any drivers or change settings? Everything I see says that the drivers are baked into the kernel. But I am getting <50FPS with extreme stutters running the same settings I had on all the other OS'es I listed.
Drivers should be baked into the kernel, yeah, assuming the latest version was installed and regular updates ran after install to make sure all is up to date
Only extra thing I installed was the command that gave me steam and all the related gaming stuff, was a single line with gaming meta in it iirc.
What were you trying to test and on what resolution?
The game I've been playing lately is the Oblivion remaster. I know the game is known to have subpar performance, but in Windows with ultra settings and RT set to low I get 130+ FPS outdoors and 180+ indoors, in kubuntu I was getting ~60-80 outdoors and ~100 indoors, CachyOS got me 80 indoors and 50 outdoors with extreme stuttering.
All running on my 3440x1440 144hz monitor.
I just installed Bazzite, we'll see how that plays.
The only software holding me back is Adobe Premeire Pro; I’ve looked at the Linux alternatives and one of them has a windows 3.11 interface (KDEVine I think).
I’m still open to suggestions.
If it's only one software you can test if it works on wine.
You could try Davinci Resolve. It's great, professional-grade software, runs natively on Linux, and has a very generous free version and an inexpensive, one-time purchase studio version.
Will it work with wine?
I personally just went with blender sequencer because it is free softare though quite basic. Nuke might be a paid option. It is node based tho.
I don’t see what drinking has to do with anything but I’ll try.
Red or white? /s
If you can't sleep. Get up. Get out of your bed for a while.
Staying awake while laying in bed often changes the association of sleep with the bed. Removing sleep conditioning effects.
Also as someone who has had insomnia since I was a child. I can tell you if I lay in bed. Unable to sleep. And Stay there. Rolling around. I won't ever fall asleep.
But if I force myself to get up. Maybe have something to drink. Walk around a bit. Stare out the window for a bit. Then go back , I'm more likely to fall asleep.
And if I'm having really bad insomnia. I go for a walk. At this point I'm my life I can tell if it's going to require a walk or just getting up and moving around the apartment/house for a bit.
Even a 15-20 min walk can do wonders. But I typically do 30 to 1 hour walk. It depends on how I'm feeling.
You would think exercising in the middle of the night would wake you up more. But nope.
9/10 times I go for a short walk. I get back and fall to sleep almost immediately.
It's hard to force yourself to get up when you are exhausted and just want to sleep. But it's do the walk or not sleep at all.
Also. Going out at 2 or 3 am on a week day is kinda of an interesting experience. Depending where you live, you might be the only person around.
It's eirie and surreal. Subliminal spaces.
I quite like it. That also helps motivate me to do the insomnia walk. (Sometimes I ride my bike instead which is really nice as there are minimum cars. -make sure you are in light clothes and have lights and reflectors on your bike).
Yep. Doctors and randos alike will keep telling you to just try harder. Fuck that.
Read a book. Work some more on your project. Go for a run. Don't try to sleep.
Years of reading in bed late at night while exhausted have conditioned me to associate reading with falling asleep. I don't have insomnia much anymore, often the opposite. Any time I want to lay down and read my book before bed, I'm out like a light before I finish a single chapter. It could be a super power, but it also means it takes me months to finish a novel. Also not ideal when I occasionally need to read reports or training materials at work and get to the end and my head is on the desk and I can't keep my eyes open.
Hah, you swapped insomnia for reading-induced narcolepsy. Neat!
The suggestion would be to not read in bed
I have a very stubborn brain that will usually do the opposite of what I want.
My method is to try and turn on a movie or something I really have to pay attention to. I'll start struggling to stay awake to keep track, and that will knock me out.
In a financial negotiation, avoid saying a number first, even if it seems like you're being rude, just say stuff like "what's your budget" instead. This trick sounds really stupid but somehow it is extremely effective.
Absolutely. And in a more general sense, whenever negotiating with businessmen, tell yourself they're nasty rotten pirates beforehand and throughout the process. Visualise them having peglegs, hooks, eyepatches and battered old sea hats. Do NOT give in, do NOT name that number before they do.
I prefer to think of it like a competitive game; you're trying to win and you aren't going to go easy on anyone, but you still treat your adversaries with as much empathy and respect as that allows.
The most annoying response when trying to get a price from someone
This is why I have doubts about Macklemore's business acumen:
(Macklemore - Downtown)
I suppose at least he doesn't immediately answer about the budget, but it still seems like a less than stellar negotiating technique.
I took a community college class on business negotiations. I learned about BATNA (best alternative to a negotiated agreement) and it's been extremely helpful as a tool for negotiations. It's setting a baseline and reduces any emotional toll.
Tl;Dr: define your BATNA before any negotiation. For example: say you know your salary industry standard is at $80k. You receive an offer for $70k, politely see if they have wiggle room for more, based on industry standard. If they come back with $75k, your plan is clear. In this negotiation, your BATNA is to walk away - no hard feelings.
When I sold my car, I set my BATNA to $9k, and put it for sale at $11k. The guy immediately tried to haggle and offered $10k. I shook his hand immediately and sold it.
It doesn't have to be a hard number either. Like comparing benefits or perks.
I guess that could make sense if there is such a narrow range of possible outcomes and everyone has some clear objective idea of a baseline, but I've gotten freelance gigs where I would have been willing to do it for say $X, but was offered like $3X and was very happy to have kept my mouth shut and not talked numbers at all before that point. If I hadn't I think I might not have gotten the job at all because the price being lower than the expectation would have made the client worried about the quality of the work, and even if I did get it that would have made them less satisfied with the deal.
As for your other comment, it's not always true that combativeness will make people less satisfied with a transaction. I remember a particular situation where I was negotiating with another freelancer who was obviously also purposely avoiding saying a number, and I ended up caving when it got truly absurd and cited some past payments to use as a reference point. I was personally more satisfied with the deal because he did that, because it increased my respect for him; we were going to be working together and it was nice to feel that I could trust him to not be a pushover in general.
That's great until the other person is also doing it haha
A good negotiation is about making sure both parties feel satisfied by the end of the transaction!
If the other side was already combative, then that's a negotiation you should walk away from.
For a stronger version, don't buy it this time, just take a picture. If you really want it, then you should be motivated to come again to get it.
Ya, and if you shop online put purchases in your shopping cart and let them sit for a few days.
I have heard this can cause the retailer to email you a discount code/coupon, but that's never happened to me so I can't corroborate.
This totally works on eBay. Often when I see something used that I'd like, I'll put it in my cart and let it sit. If the vendor offers a discount then I'll consider, if not then I guess I don't actually need it.
They used to do it more often. Now not so much. I think they realized people have caught onto this and stopped offering discounts
As big as my Steam backlog is, it would be 100x bigger if not for the Wishlist. I try to limit myself to 100 games in the Wishlist and trim it every once in a while when a game has been sitting in it for more than a couple years. It's the same psychology here. Put it in a cart and let it sit there for a while. If you don't really want it put it back.
I've had some games go 90% off and I still have to think about if I really want the game. I then use that no as reason to take it off the wishlist.
Yup, me too.
Why would you ever have a backlog in the first place? Why would you buy a game and then not play it?
Put the games you want to play in the future on your wishlist. When you're ready to play a new game, pick one from your wishlist, buy it, play it.
The games aren't going away, they're not going to run out of digital copies. Why would you ever buy it before you're ready to play it? It doesn't matter whether it's sitting in your wishlist or your hard drive, so let them sit in your wishlist, where it's a lot cheaper for them to sit.
(Okay, sure, games go on sale on steam occasionally, and you might want to pick one up while it's on sale. Even then, though ... games tend to get cheaper over time as they get older. Just waiting and buying it later might ultimately be cheaper than the 'on sale' price.)
Several reasons:
This is a black and white view on backlogs. Yes you can just not buy a game when you're not ready to play it. That's not usually how it always plays out. Yes I do buy games while they're on sale and have been out for 5+ years. I buy games with the intention to play them. That doesn't mean right away as soon as I buy it.
Most games I buy I fire up at least once. For the rare handful of games that I bought and never tried it's not a big deal because I only paid a few bucks for these games. If it doesn't click right away but I want to keep trying it goes on the back burner. If it doesn't click at all, I refund it. If it's a game I started and liked but fell off of for something else it goes in the backlog. Sometimes I just want a game in my collection. I know I won't play it right now but if I have the means to buy it, I'm gonna get it so it's in my collection and I don't have to worry about it later. That's a more rare situation and most games like that will sit in my Wishlist for years, but it does happen.
Sometimes games do go away. Command & Conquer wasn't on Steam for years and then all of a sudden the whole collection showed up. Same as Dino Crisis in the last couple days. I used to have physical copies of the games but they got lost to time, be it giving them away to friends who wanted to play them, or losing them in moves, or selling them. Some of my backlog is older generation games that have been freed from their console shackles. They just announced MGS4 for PS5 and PC. I last played that game almost 15 years ago on PS3. I would love to play it again in the future. Even if I wait for a sale, I know I want it in my collection.
Games don't always get cheaper as they get older either. Most Japanese games stay above $35 these days when not on sale. Even classics that are multiple generations old at this point. If I think a game is worth it at full price, I will pay full price.
Lastly my Wishlist isn't just a catch all for games I want to play in the future. If that was the case there would be thousands of games on it. It's a little bit more curated than that. It's mainly for smaller games I do wait for because they're in early access. Most big AAA games on my Wishlist are waiting for sales. The majority isn't released or I'm waiting for reviews to see the quality on. Yes there are games I'm interested in but are not 100% sure I would play. That's why I cull the list every few months or so.
I don't know why, but i think we all do it, lol. I feel like people only need about 2 or 3 good games that they can keep on coming back to, and this takes away all our time to explore the free steam handouts or games we grabbed from sales.
Some games i paid for that I haven't played through:
::: spoiler spoiler
All of those are highly lauded games but somehow i have felt no compulsion to try them... i guess too much choice is a bad thing. 90% of my steam library reads like negative space to me, and I'm compelled to continue projects on the three games currently in my circulation
I kinda do this, except I don't pick it up. I'm just sick and tired of having useless junk lying around, so when I see something I want I consider if I'm actually going to use it or if it will just be relegated to a drawer somewhere. If I haven't been missing it (ie. it's an impulse purchase) I will almost always just leave it be and move on. I don't need all this junk.
If it is something I decide I need, then I consider if it should be this thing, or if I should try to find a good quality version instead, since what I usually find is in the supermarket where it's almost universally cheap junk. That also grants me more time to decide that no, I don't need this thing after all.
I do the same thing, sort of. I think about where I will put the item and if I don’t have a good place for it, then I won’t buy it.
Or take the opportunity to check the second-hand market for it! Craigslist/FB marketplace, thrift shops, ebay (used, private seller), garage sales, etc. Tends to be a lot cheaper, great for the environment (because less resources needed for new production and less stuff in landfills), and keeps your money away from evil corporations.
And while online shopping never buy something immediately, always wait until the next day.
Who are you, so wise in the ways of science?
I am Arthur, King of the Britain.
King of the what? I didn't vote for you.
Don't be a cunt.
Simple advice that works. More people should try it.
But that doesn't sound counter-intuitive my dear fellow
don't be a cunt.
I'm addicted, I can't stop
When you sprain your ankle, DON'T MOVE. I used to try and walk it off because that's what everyone does and even coaches recommend it, but that's when the actual damage is done.
Spraining is usually just your tendons/ligaments going into emergency mode (getting very short/tight). So if you try to walk while they are still tight, they will actually tear, doing damage that takes weeks to heal. If you instead just keep that ankle perfectly still for like 30 seconds to 2 min, the ankle will be completely fine.
Trick is, you have to overcome the social pressure to hurry it along (i.e. on a hike at work, or on a sport field).
I rolled my ankle, damaged the arch of my foot and rode my bike home because I couldn't walk. I didn't really have a good support system to say the least and had to rely on myself. I have a slight limp now. Definitely listen to this advice. Dr was facepalming so hard when I told him what I'd done.
I broke my ankle, didn't realize it was broken, and tried to twist it back into place and stand on it. Twice.
My doctors all had things to say about that, too. As well, like you, I have a pronounced limp after walking more than a few steps.
My ankle hurts just reading this 😖
Mine, too!
Yeah, if I had to do it again, I wouldn't do ... Most of what I did to lead up to that point.
I sprained my ankle once trying to dodge out of the way of a classmate I was trying to avoid when i saw them at a park 😂 What you say is correct. Kind pf wish I'd gotten it checked at the time but it could've been worse and I rested soon after hobbling out of view
Here’s how I quit smoking about 15 years ago.
Step one: for about a month, every time I smoked I told myself I’m ready to quit. Every cigarette, every time.
Step two: the next month, every cigarette, every time, I told myself they stink and taste like shit.
Took about 3 weeks into the second month and I never picked up another. Oh and I can be around other smokers and don’t crave them. They still fucking stink.
YMMV
smoker in my early 20s and this advice might change my life.
Honestly, quit as soon as you can. After the two week mark, you’ll start smelling things again. At the one month mark, you’ll notice that you’re not constantly out of breath. Cravings still occasionally happen, but it shifts from “god damn it I need a donut right now” to “hmm a donut sounds good right now… But I don’t wanna bother with going to the donut shop.” The cravings never fully vanish, but they definitely change and become easier to dismiss as a passing whim.
Something like 20 years ago now, my pack-a-day wife decided to try a vaper. Not clouds-of-vape, just a pedestrian vaper.
She never went back to cigarettes. She decreased the nicotine and nowadays vapes maybe 2-3 times per day, I think her current level is 6.... whatever units of nicotine, it's not a lot.
I don't care that she still vapes at that level. If there is anything bad, it's not much at that rate, so screw it.
I realized it was causing a lot of anxiety for me. Easy quit after that because the reward was less anxiety after a few days.
If you have a song stuck in your head, and it's driving you a bit mad: listen to it. Something about your mind trying to fill things in (it's been many years since I've read this bit of advice, and unsure entirely on why).
Basically songs stick in our head when we can't finish them, so songs with really subtle endings or heavily repeated phrases will stick the most.
Or try to rememberr how the song ends.
And if you always seem to have music stuck in your head, go research ADHD symptoms, as that is one of many. And if you DO have ADHD, things like ritalin can silence the music. (One of several things I still remember from my first ritalin)
What if I'm just like, constantly singing? Even with the stimulants? And I'm not a good singer? Like at all?
Speaking in generalities unfortunately does not guarantee individual results. <3
cook bacon in water.
don't drown it, but add just enough to render out the fat without the bacon being in direct contact with the pan, preventing sticking and burning. then once the water steams out the bacon is left to fry in its own juice, giving perfectly crispy bacon every time.
I just cook mine in the oven. Perfect crispy bacon every time.
Can confirm. This works amazingly well.
Alright! I'll try that soon.
If you get that feeling where you need to sneeze but it's not quite enough for a full sneeze, say the word grapefruit. 60% of the time it works every time
For me it's just looking at something bright.
The uses of "ACHOO syndrome"!
Aka the photic sneeze reflex.
Apparently not everyone has this reflex.
Wait, are you saying you can look at a bright light to suppress a sneeze? I used to work with a guy who said bright light sometimes made him sneeze.
Ahh, no no!
Not suppress it, but force it out. Kinda when you feel it coming but it's "stuck"
For suppressing it, I'll press my tongue hard against the roof of my mouth. Works most of the time
Looking at significantly bright lights cause the muscles of your face and sinuses to contract which can force a sneeze. It won't cancel the sneeze, it just makes it happen on your own terms.
Ha, for me it's the opposite. I have to cover my eyes, not just close them because I can still feel the brightness through my eyelids, so I have to physically cover them with my hands.
Also, if people talk I can't sneeze either. So if I'm around people I'm comfortable around, they know I'm about to sneeze and stop talking. That's very sweet of them.
I imagine this looking really adorable. Talking to someone who then suddenly covers their eyes and sneezes.
I often sneeze two times but when someone's bless you comes between them, my second sneeze is cancelled most of the times. So most people who know me will wait in anticipation wether I sneeze a second time.
Haha, it gets annoying real fast!
Yeah, it's good to sneeze around people who know you well enough to not disrupt your sneezing, because there's nothing more frustrating than not being able to sneeze.
And if you don't want to sneeze, put a finger under your nose like a fake mustache
If you say pamplemousse instead, the sneeze will sound fancier.
I don't care how fancy it is, I don't like pample flavoured mousse.
A... A.. ACHEAUX!
That's not how you grapefruit your man
The noises will be forever burnt into my brain.
There's a spot on the bridge of your nose you can rub and it stimulates the sneeze out of you
Also right under your nose, push your finger against your mustache space
Edit: Oh wait, that prevents the sneeze. I read the comment wrong
You can also rub your tongue on your soft palate to stop a sneeze but it tickles
I inhale very very slowly through the nose, it almost always works for me
This is cooking advice.
If you struggle with cooking or find that you mess up often, try preparing all of the individual ingredients before you start cooking. Eg. measure, wash, cut every ingredient. Apparently this practice is called mise en place.
If you ever watch a cooking video and it looks so effortless this is probably why. It was a game changer back when I was learning to cook. Suddenly it felt like I could make every recipe with ease.
This practice has drawbacks as it could dirty more dishes and increase cook times but it allows you to tackle most dishes at your own pace. I definitely recommend it whenever you make something new for the first time.
Mise en place is essential in my mind and one of the most important skills I learned early on in culinary school. At home if you don't want to dirty a ton of dishes, you can organize ingredients (veggie ones anyway, still need bowls for spices/liquids) into small piles on your cutting board. Then just grab a bench scraper or the side of your knife and toss the ingredients in as needed.
Also, get a kitchen scale. You won't need it all the time but it's so much easier to just stick a pot on top of a scale and add 500 ml of chicken stock than it is to have to measure 2 cups in a separate container. This is especially good if you're looking to blanche/simmer something in a flavorful liquid like stock or broth
Also read the whole recipe including the method and notes; some love to just slip things in that aren't in the ingredients list (something to grease a pan, etc.) and knowing times and temps is very useful.
I don't particularly struggle with cooking and like to think I'm quite good at it, but I've started doing this, because I realised that every time I messed up, it was because I left something on for too long while prepping the next bit to go in the pan.
Having everything chopped, measured, and ready means you can pay full attention to what's currently going, so you're not rushed and panicking.
So if you ever get a random headache that is just a pinching pain in a random spot then try breathing there. I don't mean breathe deep or breathe into that spot but actually concentrate super hard into that spot and imagine this is where your lungs are. Concentrate when you breathe and think about how the air goes exactly into that spot directly from your mouth cause this is where your lungs are now, and how you breathe out from there. Keep concentrating and breathing there.
I don't know why it doesn't work if I just take deep breaths but this is legit the only way I can stop the pulsating stabs until they are gone. Concentrate hard tho because once you stop the pain returns unless the attack is over.
I've harvested so much knowledge from this thread, lol. Saved for later. Thanks
Staying warm actually does ward off illness. Specifically, you need to keep your nose warm or else its local immune response becomes surprisingly ineffective.
I wanna make a nose-hat now to keep warm
Nose warmers is a thing, a silly thing, but a thing.
I used to pull my ear-warmers down over my nose.
These placebos are one hell of a drug.
That's been proved. It's bizarre.
How much should I smoke before it kicks in?
Rapid eye movement and looking at things, mentally noting them, acknowledge sounds and smells can help regulate moments of anxiety.
Yeah this one was weird to hear about, but if i think about it it's something I do myself, so i guess it really does work.
Standard practice for interrupting an anxiety attack is to name 5 things you can see, 4things you can hear, 3 things you can smell, 2 things you can touch and 1 thing you can taste. I've never used it myself but I've used it to de-escalate people who are having a flipout
I've never understood that last one. Assuming I am otherwise physically healthy and don't have any foreign objects in my mouth, I can't really taste anything but neutrality. Technically I can probably taste saliva, but I think my brain filters that out and noting it doesn't seem like it would help anyway.
Unless I'm misinterpreting and I'm supposed to go lick something during a panic attack. I know I've read that biting into a lemon can help.
Psychologists use EMDR therapy based on activating each hemisphere of the brain in alternating fashion
Seeing a horizon can fix short-term balance issues, or temporarily relieve long-term issues like labyrinthitis/vertigo, because it feeds the secondary ocular-vestibulo brain bit and gets you back settled and leveled. Unless you're drunk or damaged, it's a neat trick.
I've heard this before - I thought it was just looking into the distance. You've reminded me to try it though. I went from perfect vision to rather short sighted throughout my life so far 🫣
You don't have to see it clearly, just see it. And you can be fooled, too, by level lines that look like horizons: the corner between wall and ceiling in a room with slight contrast in paint colours can light the reflex and calm the spin. This is stone-age lizard-brain stuff so it doesn't have to be perfect.
I think it's the same thing that lets a chicken or an eagle track a spot while turning.
I caught a virus at college that was going around. They didn't try to trace it but like a dozen of us who met during treatment all suffered damage to our vestibular network in one or both ears and were staggering about until this secondary thing took over full-time. The damage is permanent but this reflex thing keeps us vertical. It's really astounding.
If you’re walking with an open container of liquid that’s filled so full it’ll spill, purposefully avert your gaze from the liquid sloshing as you’re walking.
Getting nervous that you’ll spill, will cause you to spill.
For insomnia. Get up and start doing your morning routine sans coffee or food. It can work like a kick to the head, happily sending you right to sleep.
The "8 hours of continuous sleep" cycle is a modern invention. Even sleeping alone is a modern invention.
Prehistoric people used to sleep in groups. There would be different cycles of sleeo. The young would be up late and sleep until late, while the old would tuck in early and get up early. You can probably imagine that that would be nothing like a silent, dark, soletary bedroom that people have today.
Even before the industrial age and arteficial lighting, sleep cycles would be very different. People used to have "first sleep" and "second sleep". First sleep was often only a couple hours after sunset. In between sleeps was time for chores or prayer or even sex. This has even been documenten in old works like The Canterbury Tales were they mention things like "after my first sleep...." like it's the most normal thing to say.
This stopped being common as watches and clocks became more affordable, and therefore our employers demanded we show up to the minute at scheduled time.
Our employers, who weren't getting any middle-of-sleep-sex, demanded we all take one single 8 hour sleep instead
I hear about these things. But I have doubt based on personal experience. When I've done long hikes (did both the Appalachian and Pacific Crest Trails), I would nearly universally knock out pretty much as soon as the sun set. This, after a lifetime of being a night owl who very easily would stay up until 2am every night.
And this was true of basically everyone else I met in every age group as well. 17 year olds to 70 year olds all abserved hikers midnight, hitting their sleeping bags hard not long after sunset. Even with a campfire going and socializing to be had, staying up 2 hours past sunset was a hefty proposition.
Also, with the 2 sleeps thing - on the trail, I typically slept straight through the night. I might wake up once or twice to pee, but then I would lay back down and be right back to sleep.
My guess is that
Sounds like a nightmare. What if someone has sleep apnea or sleepfarts or youre just too hot and sticky and full of night sweats?
Psst. That's okay. Smelly sex is still great sex.
sleepfarts??? this word isn't in the bible 😂
Honestly sounds like the most rock & roll thing ever. Pre-scheduled medieval sexing time - gotta say our midnight prayers first, though.
Okay this is a good tip! I do find that getting out of bed earlier than i need to always has me going back to a satisfying sleep later on
So like, just brush your teeth again? What else do people normally do in the morning besides eating?
If you're stuck on a creative project or out of ideas on how to approach a problem, and you feel a little fatigued mentally, have a cup of coffee or something with caffeine and lie down for a short nap.
It'll take some time for the caffeine to kick in, so you might even drift off, and this way it seems to stimulate the mind in a way that produces insights and ideas more than just keeping you from feeling tired.
It puts you in a hypnagogic state (between asleep and awake), where your brain's filter is switched off.
Taking LSD has a similar effect, but is frowned upon in most work environments.
Nappucino! Works every time
In your head, change the name of a food you wish to avoid. I've done this with McD's.
In my head, it's been called McDicks since high school. I, personally, don't enjoy eating dicks. So, when I see the sign, and I feel like a Big Mac would go down easy, I say to myself, "I don't eat dicks."
It works.
For those who enjoy eating dicks, well, you'll have to choose another association. Also, I didn't think the phrase "feel like a Big Mac would go down easy" would be so overtly sexual.
I honestly hate mcdonalds anyway, but the range of stuff I've tried there is very limited - maybe if i had a big mac I'd succumb to the MiccyD.
For me it just feels like food designed to make you sick, either because you're compelled to eat too much or because it's sooooo unnatural.
There was this movie on Netflix called Spiderhead where they're testing drugs including one that makes people overeat until they hurl, and watching it reminded me exactly how i felt whenever I went there as a kid. I steer clear now. Trauma!
McDonald’s has been specifically engineered for over half a century to be as pleasing and addictive as possible, by a huge corporation who hires legions of scientists in various disciplines to achieve that singular goal.
In my mind, it’s akin to smoking: the first few times you try it, it’s gross; after that, it’s a dopamine hit that’s easy to become reliant upon.
It works in the opposite way, as well, i.e.: This salad tastes like pussy!
If your clothes have an odor, you can spray a cheap vodka over them to neutralize the smell.
On a similar vein, quit using fabric softeners and dryer sheets.
Fabric softeners use a mild acid to burn off loosening fibers which speeds up the wear of your clothes.
Dryer sheets work by transferring wax from the sheet to your clothing. This smooths those fibers down and waxes them in place. Wax is incredibly good at holding odors, that's why we use it for candles and why dryer sheets leave a lasting smell. Unfortunately, it's not picky so any smell can get trapped in that wax and linger for ages.
As it turns out, most modern textiles are made out of finely processed material, you're going to be hard pressed to find any clothes that actually need that kind of treatment. It's wholly pointless on synthetic fabrics.
The worst offenders will begin to pill after a while, you simply shave the pills off with a razor or a depiller tool, which is fully affordable with the money you save on not buying dryer sheets.
To DJ Khalid this, here's another one.
You can purchase wool dryer balls and use a lower setting in your dryer to keep you clothing fibers to reduce the amount of wear.
Wool dryer balls are great. If you go way down the rabbit hole you start making your own soap. I put together a 5 gallon bucket of powders back in April, it cost less than a month worth of Tide, it takes care of anything short of ink stains all on it's own, you can use it as all purpose cleaner, and I'm not even halfway through the bucket.
Don't they smell of vodka then?
Apparently it'll kill off the bacteria that causes odors. Martha Stewart uses it.
Martha Stewart, The felon?
You know it!
I just have to jump in here.
The lingering B.O. in clothes is dead bacteria which still stink - you need enzymes to actually accomplish anything.
Vodka and vinegar are useless except for certain applications and for "fresh" sweat.
That's really interesting! Looks like I'll need to look into this more.
I'm saying this based on personal experience, having gone through a really bad hygiene phase when I was extremely depressed.
It took me a long time to figure out why the stink was not coming out of my clothes despite repeated washings, vinegar/borax/alcohol/etc treatments, everything I could think of.
I ended up using cheap pet odor enzyme spray. Have since learned there are other more expensive enzymes, but I'm happy with the pet spray cuz it works.
If someone is about to sneeze, wait until they begin to inhale and say something unexpected to them and it will stop them from sneezing.
I told this to my wife and she scoffed and didn't believe me. One day her allergies were kicking up and she started to sneeze. I waited for the right moment and said "GRAPEFRUIT" to her and... She didn't sneeze.
The secret is timing it correctly.
You can't make yourself calm down because our emotions control us, not the other way around - but you can control your breath and your breath can affect your emotions. Box breathing, 4-7-8, or even just deep "flower breaths". All work great at centering yourself when emotions are getting out of hand
You can control your emotions. It takes effort. For example if I'm in a bad mood I can step back and realize I'm actually hungry and that's why I'm temporarily negative.
The emotional thing:
It is important to remember feelings are things and they arent given to us. But they belong with us. And while you cant suppress or choose to not have an emotion : You can control your actions, reactions and responses around emotions. Cognitive therapy can help.
The breathing thing:
be careful with it. Some people with mechanical breathing disorders (apnea) might be worse off if messing with breath counting and to just make sure they are taking a full breath or acknowledge breath and swifty move on to something automated like heartbeat or checking in on body parts so as to not mess with the mechanics of the brain for taking a natural breath.
After decades of meditation using breath work it started to make my anxiety worse as i found it made my waking and sleeping apnea way WAY worse. Im pretty sure it is what caused the mechanical issue in the brain to hold a breath or not pull it in for too long until suddenly dizzy.
Takes a lot of time with habit building on letting it go to break this cycle in the brain.
Box breathing makes me feel out of breath, which is not an improvement.
I did it for years and im pretty sure it is the cause of the mechanical apnea i have. Ive cut box breath out of my habits and traded it for body checkins. I think its improving the apnea. Slowly. Once the brain builds a habit of holding breath it is super hard to make it let go.
Yeah, I'm told that it takes practice. I usually just do intentional deep breaths. Works great for kids (IME at least)
But you can learn to control your emotions better. It starts with listening to them.
If you're clumsy, do a grappling martial art like wrestling or Jiu-Jitsu. After 6 months even if you still suck at that martial art (e.g., me) your nerves and muscles will know how to move shockingly efficiently.
Ballet or other dance classes can also help agility.
Musculoskeletal health is important. They're finding it is tied to your risk of dying prematurely, and martial arts are a great way to keep that in check. Too bad every gym around me has to be smoking something with their pricing.
Reminds me of an old bash.org quote. As closely as I can recall:
If you have black coffee either because you're out of creamer or doing a non-diary thing, sprinkling a tiny bit of salt into the coffee will take the bitterness out of it without tasting salty.
Or try coconut oil. The thick stuff in a jar, nothing added. I had my doubts but it's surprisingly good, really helps to have a jar when your stuck with really bad coffee.
On August 27 2031 make sure you turn left instead of right. You'll know when I mean.
If you have the hiccups, putting a facial tissue over a glass of water and drinking through it will fix them.
I thought it was the stupidest thing I'd ever heard, but I tried it and it works pretty much every time. Paper towels can work, but aren't as effective
I take 10 sips of water while holding my breath. Works.
The tissue basically forces you to take those sips very slowly, which I think is what helps. The holding my breath trick almost never works the first time for me.
For me it’s not holding my breath, but pushing as much air into my diaphragm as possible, kind of like swallowing air and pushing it down until it hurts.
Yeah, this works for me 100%. Just holding breath isn't enough, though.
Yeah, apparently something along those lines has been shown to work:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiccup#Folk_remedies the "non-commercial resource" referenced: https://hicfix.com/
Another approach that worked for me once:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiccup#Folk_remedies
Sounds hot!
It'll cure your hiccups... BUT AT WHAT COST?!?!
"HONEY IT'S NOT WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE!"
it'd be funny if the hiccups were just transferred from fist-ee to fist-er.
Breathing in as much as possible and holding it for as long as possible usually works. S
It's sorta like allowing the diaphragm to fully relax, with the expanded lungs helping to lightening the tension from the ribs.
Lightly waterboard self? I think I'll take the hiccups.
May have to try this next time! Normally I gulp lots of air until I can't anymore, then hold my breath until I can't, and breath out really slowly. It works but can be uncomfortable to do at times.
Honestly with hiccups I concentrate on what it feels like to be about to have a hiccup and then I don’t do that. I haven’t had more than - few hiccups in a row In years, and now I’ve taught my wife to do the same and she can kill them off mentally too.
I bought a straw off of Amazon that helps, I imagine that it takes advantage of the same mechanism.
Free version: https://hicfix.com/
My husband and son get the worst, most painful full-body hiccups so when I heard about the straw I thought, why not? It does work. However, it’s stupid expensive for a plastic straw so it stays at home all the time and sometimes they get hiccups when we’re out. We’ve found that jamming a regular straw flat against the bottom of a cup and then sucking really hard will pretty much work. The trick is making it hard to suck the liquid up the straw, so that your diaphragm is really working for it, and it’ll help reset things.
So the cure for hiccups is milkshakes..
Who knew?
An easy trick to immediately get a better posture when walking is to pretend that you have laser cannons attached to your nipples and you are trying to zap people you meet in their faces.
You are the first person I have ever met (other than my mom, who I learned it from) who does the "sleep upside down" thing. It totally works!
Thanks, i was worried it would be too widespread and nobody would find it remarkable 😂
Erin in The Office does it too.
If you feel like you are about to sneeze, but you don't want to (maybe you are on a video call, or trying to be quiet, whatever), tickle the roof of your mouth with your tongue. It works surprisingly well.
If you feel like you are about to sneeze but can't quite manage it (and do want to), tilt your head upwards and look into a bright light.
Just FYI, the photic reflex is not universal.
Sure glad I have it though!
Wow, thought it was... Thanks for the info 😊
Happy to help!
Works if you’re photosensitive to any degree, which most people are.
Pete & Pete vibes
You can also (maybe not on a video call, I suppose) press the space between your top lip and nose and this will also usually quell the sneeze.
you can avoid sneezing and convert it into a cough by opening your mouth and forfully coughing, better than having snot fly all over.
Cold rinse after a hot shower makes you healthier.
Oh really? It does line up with my experience.
Found a little article or two on it
Mhm. I have to tone it down in summer, else i get too hot and sweat while drying off.
And it's also good for blood vessel flexibility / blood pressure => less chance to get a stroke.
Hot showers it is then! I have enough trouble trying to use my sick days as is.
I already do the sleep upside-down thing, I've told people it helps but they never believe! I am gonna try the hiccups cure from this thread though, nothing else works.
For me, the permanent cure for hiccups was being in the hospital with broken ribs. Getting a case of the hiccups when you have broken ribs is not fun.
With pain as my teacher, I quickly learned how to stop hiccups with willpower alone. And I've been able to do it ever since. I get one hiccup, tell myself "that's the last one", and it is.
Damn, sorry you went through it, but I admit I'm jealous..
The sleep upside down thing? What, like a bat?
Per the OP, same as them, I alter my sleeping position whenever there's an issue.
Oh, duh, sorry. Somehow I started reading the comments without having read OP's post. It was funnier though imagining the bat way.
I flip around when I can’t sleep as well. It only works sometimes for me.
This probably isn’t very useful to most but you’d be surprised how much info you can get from paying attention to the smells around you. I use odor for navigating places like malls.
I have insomnia and I'm just here posting this shit.
I think that's good advice! We should all try and be a bit more attuned to our senses.
Helps with personal hygiene, too 🤫😅. But - at least for me - a disconnect with our sense of smell largrly comes from living in a city, spending too much time indoors, and spending too much time in our own space which smells like us. So having bad hygiene makes it harder to smell which makes it harder to identify that we have bad hygiene!!
But yeah, I follow my nose a lot more than other people and it makes the world a much more interesting place. People who've been to a lot of food markets, perhaps at christmas, understand this.
If you ever hurt yourself, you can hit yourself in the nads so that the other part of your body that hurt don't hurt anymore.
You can also be a solid bro to any guy you see in pain by smacking their junk as hard as you can. As an added benefit this form of first aid works on women as well.
Hiccups: repeat in your head "I don't have hiccups, hiccups don't exist". Repeat these phrases a few times and the hiccups should be gone.
It has worked everytime since I learned this a couple of years ago.
When you feel a sneeze coming and you don't want to sneeze, press the tip of your tongue firmly against the roof of mouth. Works nearly every time!
Alternatively, push your finger against the space between your upper lip and your nose, like using your finger as a mustache. Push hard. A hunter taught me that so I wouldn't sneeze and give away our position.
similar but for hiccups, hold breath for 10s then without breathing in between drink a cup of water. hiccups gone
I've heard that thinking about the color purple does it too.
I find that having a tissue in my nose, eating, sipping water, or playing an instrument that goes in my mouth all very effectively mitigate the urge to sneeze. When I get bad allergies or a cold I often have a constant strong urge to sneeze for up to half an hour at a time, so I sip water slowly for a while.
I just hold my breath until the feeling goes away.
To cure hiccups:
Hyperventilate for about 30 seconds; breathe out until your lungs feel like they're going to implode; Without intaking breath, smoothly chug a 12oz glass of water.
It will "reset" your spasming diaphragm and stop the hiccups.
Hiccups? Try taking a moment to close your eyes, focus your attention to the sides of your neck, and remind yourself that you don't have gills anymore. I read this a few years ago and it mostly works for me - about 80% of the time (not that I get hiccups often). I've spread it to others with about ⅔ success, ⅓ failiure.
I've read the theory that it's our brain in a panic because our gills (that we haven't had for millions of years) aren't working, so reminding yourself they're not there helps. At least sometimes, at least some poeple.
I won't question the efficacy of this but I can assure you the theory is complete bull
If you’re experiencing brainfreeze, press your tongue to the roof of your mouth. Works for me every time.
This has never worked for me
I've been told that brain freeze happens because the roof of your mouth detects cold, causing constriction of the blood vessels about your skull. (I looked this up and Wikipedia says it's only a theory.)
Therefore, to combat that quickly, one needs to warm the roof of your mouth. I've gotten mixed results with using the tongue for warmth; I assume that, when it doesn't work, it's because whatever cooled the roof of my mouth also cooled my tongue.
Therefore, if your tongue doesn't do the job,
communicate with your partnerconsuming anything at least a little warmer than the food item that originally caused the problem should help. As the other commenter said, usually a warm drink will suffice, though in my experience it doesn't even need to be particularly warm. I've drunk ice water to help before when the problem was something very cold like ice cream.You could also try drinking some warm water, that could help. I’m sorry it didn’t work for you. 😕
When I cook a broth, I add egg shells to it to keep the broth clear.
Okay so this aounds very counter-intuitive 😂.
How does it work?
Apparently:
https://www.lincolnrowing.co.uk/food-cooking/clarify-soups-with-eggshell-how-particles-vanish-and-broth-clears-instantly-7121/
Based on how that page loaded on my phone, I recommend reader mode if using Firefox.
Firefox on desktop worked no worries here, but see how this looks - I love archive.ph / archive.today: https://archive.ph/0A6tq
The skin on the inside of the shell binds floating proteins.
Toast your bagels whole! Sprinkle a little water on the exterior of the bagel and then pop it in the oven. The crust will be crispy, but the interior will be a steamy almost gooey consistency. It's such a better experience than it being all dried out and crunchy atop. Trust.
This is more relationship advice. Ask your partner to have a day of sex where you just communicate what you want with words.
The first year of the relationship, I was using tricks I saw in porn. I was doing things to my wife that she didn't care for, but didn't say anything because she thought I enjoyed doing it. We later talked and the next session, we just followed what the other person wanted. And now it's part of our tricks.
Next time your jabbing your sausage into her armpit, ask her if she's liking what you're serving.
A lot of good sneeze tips in this post, thanks y'all
I have another one: use coconut oil (thick one) as a mouthwash to improve gum health and whiten your teeth more. It also is great for neutralising any acidity or any bad taste in your mouth, if you're not yet ready to brush your teeth.
When microwaving a thick food, like pasta, there’sa risk of the “deepest” part being cold from lack of microwave penetration. Shift the contents of the plate into a donut shape, so most of it is on the sides and a gap in the center, before microwaving. That helps the heat penetrate evenly.
If you have a hiccup fill your mouth with water, hold your nose shut and then slowly swallow the water in your mouth. Works about 90% of the time. If it doesn't work, repeat it.
People on public transit (trance it) are in automatic mode and basically in a trance. They're blocking your way? Just shove them out of the way. Pro tip: give kids and the elderly a pass.