Where does all the snot come from?!

Myranda · October 2013

I've not been able to sleeep for two days as staying still long enough to sleep causes me to choke till the muscles of my throat ache and it just keeps coming.

Weird thing is I don't feel very run-down, just snot related maladies... strange.

mike_l · October 2013

lie with your head hanging over the edge of the bed, over a bowl, simples.

axisus · October 2013

Who nose?

Myranda · October 2013

mike_l said:

lie with your head hanging over the edge of the bed, over a bowl, simples.

Have a wisdom! I'll give it a go.

mike_l · October 2013

thanks myranda. Before that, have a curry, as hot as you can, and a bath as hot as you can. Should sweat out the lurgy.

johnnyurq · October 2013

At a guess I reckon the snot gremlin* puts it there when you are sleeping, napping or otherwise engaged/distracted.

*distant bastard relation of the tooth fairy and easter bunny who got bullied at school and now a sociopath.

Bellycaster · October 2013

Here's the Science Bit!

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1246/how-does-my-nose-produce-so-much-snot-so-fast-when-i-have-a-cold

It snot that much reading don't worry.

Phil_aka_Pip · October 2013

Put a few spots of Olbas Oil on your pillow just below your nose. You'll breathe easy enough to get to sleep, even if you wake up choking later 'cos you turned over or otherwise moved to where the Olbas Oil isn't.

Phil_aka_Pip · October 2013

johnnyurq said:

At a guess I reckon the snot gremlin* puts it there when you are sleeping, napping or otherwise engaged/distracted.

*distant bastard relation of the tooth fairy and easter bunny who got bullied at school and now a sociopath.

and brother of the one who tangles the signal leads in your gig box if you fail to secure them in their coils

Myranda · October 2013

Thinking of Olbas oil the greatest invention ever was pre-soaked olbas tissues... sadly it was so of-the-future the enterprise failed and you can't buy them any more

johnnyurq · October 2013

Phil_aka_Pip said:

johnnyurq said:

At a guess I reckon the snot gremlin* puts it there when you are sleeping, napping or otherwise engaged/distracted.

*distant bastard relation of the tooth fairy and easter bunny who got bullied at school and now a sociopath.

and brother of the one who tangles the signal leads in your gig box if you fail to secure them in their coils

Ooh I hate that little shit, he fucks with my spare leads bag too.

He may be responsible for the man drawer of doom (done in hollywood voice over man stylee), we all have at least one of those.

Phil_aka_Pip · October 2013

I think that was his dad. He's the one who will put your chord charts & lead sheets in random order if you store them in a wallet file instead of a ring binder.

johnnyurq · October 2013

Bloody Jeremy Kyle's.

We need to dust some cable and snot faeries, goblins and trolls tout suite.

Myranda · October 2013

So who's the swine that tangles up all the cables for all the peripherals on my PC all the time - no matter how often I detangle them!

johnnyurq · October 2013

He is the sperm of satan himself, every time I sort my rats nest out within hours it is FUBAR.

We need a name for that butthole, like the evil puter cable grinch. Or maybe something snappier and in keeping with puters and IT it needs to be a particularly arsey TLA couched in business speak.

Myranda · October 2013

Well that escalated fast. 3 days of runny nose, two nights irritated to the point of not sleeping... the whole time was more inconvenient than anything else, keepin up with the nose blowing which resulted in 2 carrier bags of soggy tissue.

Then today I finall fell asleep - for hours.

Have woken up feeling like every inch of me was hit with hammers, my head is groggy and thinking is slooooow. standing instantly gives me vertigo and feet hurt like I've walked on nails for days.

On the plus(?) side the snot is now too thick to plow through the tissues so fast. giving me a lovely break from the feelingof droplets of fluid rolling off the end of my nose

ROOG · October 2013

johnnyurq said:

He is the sperm of satan himself, every time I sort my rats nest out within hours it is FUBAR.

We need a name for that butthole, like the evil puter cable grinch. Or maybe something snappier and in keeping with puters and IT it needs to be a particularly arsey TLA couched in business speak.

Never mind the sod who mucks the cables about, I want to know who it is who keeps moving my stuff about. Drives me mad. Funny but they seem to pay me visits more these days, can't be anything to do with age can it? BTW, hope the snot situation improves soon.

PolarityMan · October 2013

There isn't gremlins tangling your wires and stuff you bunch of hicks. Can't believe you;re so superstitious.

Clearly science does it.

ROOG · October 2013

Tangle monkey, I've seen him!

johnnyurq · October 2013

@ROOG

The one that pisses me off is when in your man drawer of doom you put summat at the front so as to find it easily next time, why oh why is it then always at the back of the drawer under several other objects.

But yes I suspect age and failing eyesight have a role to play. Well that and madness/early onset Alzheimer's.

mike_l · October 2013

PolarityMan said:

There isn't gremlins tangling your wires and stuff you bunch of hicks. Can't believe you;re so superstitious.

Clearly science does it.

Well either science or some gremlin keeps rearranging the tools in my toolbox. If not, explain how spanners keep appearing in the screwdriver and pliers draws.

science says, put them where they're supposed to go, so it must be gremlins

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