Interesting Links for 01-11-2015

[andrewducker]

• How Donald Trump comes up with his ideas
  • (tags: funny politics DailyMail )
• Watching actors being awesome with knives never gets old
  • (tags: marvel CaptainAmerica movies knife )
• The Popular Over-The-Counter Cold Medicine That Science Says Doesn't Work
  • (tags: colds fail drugs usa )
• Jeremy Corbyn comes to Scotland and discovers he has nothing to say
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Comments

[fanf]

We have some of the stupidity about pseudoephedrine over here as well. I have for years made a point of not buying phenylephrine because it doesn't work; the useless stuff is only "popular" because so many cold remedies contain it.

[andrewducker]

Yup! You can still get the good stuff over the counter, I believe.

[pennski]

My money is still on a daily steam and my steroid nasal spray.

[nineveh_uk]

There's always this approach: http://www.theguardian.com/education/2008/sep/02/research.highereducation

[pennski]

Um...I think I am lacking the necessary attributes?

[anef]

Yes, though they won't sell you more than 12 capsules at a time, for Reasons. As the maximum dosage is (I think) 3 per day, this doesn't last very long.

[andrewducker]

I like to hope my colds won't last much longer than that. If they do I shall command my wife to venture forth and bring home the good drugs. :-)

(Oh, and for the life of me I can't see what you changed in your comment?)

[pashazade]

You can. It should be borne in mind that needing it for it on-label purpose sometimes means shuffling into the pharmacy disorientated, red-eyed and sniffling constantly.

And then they'll sell it to you but won't look you in the eye.

I once looked at a colleague's cold remedy, saw the phenylephrine and said "Useless. Take this." and that was how I converted the entire test team to pseudoephedrine. (I have chronic rhinitis interspersed with bouts of sinusitis. Pseudoephedrine is sometimes the only thing that allows me to function.)

[naath]

Yes, but they give you weird looks when you ask for it.