Hiccups

Filipe writes: “Hiccups – They’re annoying, feels funny, ruins a conversation. How to get rid of them?”

I can’t believe we got this far without this subject coming up. Nothing could be more important than learning the secret knowledge and wisdom required to unlock the mysteries of the man’s arch enemy the hiccup.

It all starts in the diaphragm. That’s the muscle the helps you to breath by producing a partial pressure difference in your lungs and the air outside when it contracts.

Yeah, It’s all very technical.

Anyway, the problem starts when your diaphragm has a spasm. Your muscle glitches, and you hiccup.

But why? Why is your diaphragm doing this to you? I donno. It’s your body. Not mine.

But there must be some kind of cure, right? The cure to the common hiccup. [Hiccups]

Well, real medical doctors can’t really tell you why muscle spasms happen so a solid across the board cure isn’t possible… isn’t available? They don’t know and neither do we. But there a lots of sketchy home grown cures out there for those of you that are willing to try anything to get rid of those hiccups. And I mean anything.

Filipe sent us an awesome link a wide variety of sensible and questionable cures.
His own favorite method is the drink water while leaning your upper body forward at a 45 degree angle. [Dinks leaning forward and falls over]

There are even mystical cures like the cow idea. You just think about cows. Cows doing anything. Hiccups cured. [Moos and hiccups.]

While I think most hiccup cures were designed to entertain the people who are watching you, it seems like they all kind of fall into the placebo category. They more you believe they work, the better chance they’ll have of doing exactly that.

Most of the sensible cures seem to be designed to try and relax the diaphragm. But all the other ones seem like a lot more fun.

[Reading] “Kiss your significant other for a long time. This will work.” Yeah that will work great, if you have one. Does it have to be significant? And I mean, how significant are we talking?

The real solution is there is no solution. But on the up side that means everything is a potential solution. So you can invent new and crazy ways to help other people cure their hiccups and then sit back and watch the show.

Drink pickle juice. It’s a cure for hiccups… and for having friends. But until then, we’ll all just be totally our of control of our bodies autonomic functions. Which is kind of why they are called autonomic functions.

And the next time you’ve got it bad, just be glad your not Charles Osborne. He hiccupped continuously for 68 years. They stopped the year before he died. Well he had one good year.

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