Last night I had a bit of a sore throat. Today the sneezing and runny nose would appear to be arriving. Nothing major, a simple cold - will be gone in a day or two. But it's times like this one gets nostalgic for times gone, because once this would have been the time to swallow an Actifed. This was such a wonderful remedy that getting a cold bug was almost a treat. It induced a lovely wooziness of sleep, yet one was awake enough to be able to appreciate the dreamy state. Then magically you would awake the next morning ready to face another day. Regrettably, one of the current government's first acts upon being elected four years ago was to ban this product in its original formulation. Some enterprising members of the community were apparently enjoying the pleasing effects of its pseudoephedrine without actually having a cold. So, to make life difficult for the few who manufacture drugs from the pseudoephedrine for another few who buy it, the whole population were deprived of an effective means of managing their sickness. So, some time tonight I will awake with a scratchy throat, dry mouth and blocked nose, toss and turn and curse John Key, a pastime I normally only enjoy in the light of day.
A good dose of crushed garlic in your favourite dish?
ReplyDeleteGet better soon. Forget the PC remedies and have big glasses of hot lemon, honey and whisky.
ReplyDeleteBTW, don't blame the poor old government (even though the current ones are tossers), anything that makes it harder for the scrotes to manufacture and peddle 'P' getsmy approval.
Why, there's lots of ways to make it harder to manfacture P - we could ban test-tubes, or cut off everboboy's dominant hand, insist on the population living in glass houses, intall cameras in all homes - the point is that taking away something useful from the majority to stop a tiny minority is mad. And has it stopped the manufacture of P since I was made to toss and turn? No, it hasn't - the crooks find this a small inconvenience, but they have
Deleteshored up supply from illegal importing and continue baking unabated while the rest of us suffer. The road toll was horrific this weekend - all alcohol related - shall we ban alcohol, starting with wine? Anything that makes it harder for the scrotes to crash cars would be fine by you?
I think that Govt should:
ReplyDelete1. Increase alcohol taxes
2. Raise the drinking age
3. Reduce opening hours of licenced premises
4. Massively increase the fines and sentences for drink driving.
5. Really crack down on public intoxication and violence associated with alcohol
6. Take away licenses pernanently for repaeat offenders
7. Excessively tax RTD's and alcopops.
That just for a start.
8. And then let people do what they like in the privacy of their own homes.
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