Monday 23 July 2012

the pharmaceutical industry might be suffering some Unusual Excitement


Although not entirely back to normal my hand is getting better….. PHEW ……. So I no longer look like The Curse of the Claw, however I have been taking some tablets to help. In the old days when someone gave you tablets to take they would be in a small brown glass screw top jar with something like ‘Take three times a day’ written on the label and that would be that. No these days, they tend to come in boxes and so called blister packaging and acres of it too. But also inside these boxes will be a piece of paper in tiny print warning of the potential dangers of the pill you are about to take.  In general it appears that even the simple placebo has paperwork in small print that says the pill will kill you, either from a stroke or heart attack or some other option. However the pills (which are bright orange) also have listed on this piece of paper ‘Unusual Excitement’ …….WHAT? Are they mad, so I thought I must photograph this as prove it is not me that is MAD but the pharmaceutical industry.



So today I have been waiting for some Unusual Excitement to happen. I went to Montgomery thinking there might be something Unusually Exciting there but there was not, although I did talk to a man with a huge oak beam that he was using to repair a steam powered pterodactyl that had crash landed in his garden. And I saw several people who said “O MY GOD LOOK AT YOUR HAND, is it PLAGUE………….. .  … . . . … . . .  . . . . . . . . . . .AUUUuuuuuuuuuuuGgggggHHHHHHHHHHH. Then I left Montgomery and returned home and watched tractors going backwards and forwards and doing synchronized harvesting of Hay….. I suspect they must have read the ‘Fifty Grades of Hay’ book and were showing off a bit…. But it was not unusually exciting, not even a bit. Then Mr Jones said he might get some of the same tablets because it might help with his Alien Spotting in the woods. He said being abducted and examined by aliens can be unusually exciting and anything that will help is worth trying….. I did tell him that being wrapped in cling film and wearing a big red wig was more likely to scare aliens that attract them, but he explained that was just a mistake and he had forgotten to change before he left home….?

The dog says my hand is looking better and no longer looks like a rat that has swallowed a party balloon, but just a fat rat that has been over indulging at a party….. He also added that he had been having a rather unusually exciting day before falling about in hysterics….. Mum said IDIOT but I think she means the dog. 


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14 comments:

  1. I know how you feel, I have a bite on the back of my knee that's swelled up really badly, it's huge! Unusual excitement, that sounds like a pretty good side effect to have, when you look at some of the others. I'd rather be excited for no reason than get a stomach ulcer, for instance.

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    1. I am aware of a few people that have had problems with bites in the last few days..... Maybe there is some sort of strange biting creature biting us all. It may be aliens, it is the sneaky sort of thing aliens might do......

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  2. Glad to know your hand is getting better, I don't think I could have kept on looking at it for much longer (goes back to your last post for one last peek)
    I'm going to go through Mrs H tablets that she's got for her ankle and see what wacky side effects I persuade her to have.

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    1. I hope you find something interesting Mr H I can see you doing a cracking post on this subject, although not sure what Mr H would say. She may object to her side effects being discussed in cyberspace

      Maybe you could use an alias Mrs X..

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    2. Sorry I turned Mrs H into a Mr H which is you .... I blame the heat

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    3. Just read Mrs X (mrs H to you and me) list of potential side effects for her codine tablets, these include "feeling happy for no reason" and "orimpotence" which I misread as omnipotence at first. Imagine that - a painkiller that turns you into a deity! HAHAHA.

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    4. I think feeling happy for no reason would worry me a bit. I would need pills to stop me worrying while I was happy.

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    5. Oooo yes I forgot to say.... Take three times a Deity ............HAH HAHH HAH HAh hahah ahh hahah ha

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    6. ...best taken with holy water. ba'dum tsssh (thats the sound of comedy drums by the way) only took 24 hours to come up with that one!

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    7. Yo Mr H ..... I like drums

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  3. Glad you're hand is much better Rob Z.
    One of the many tablets I take for my illnesses, is an anti-depressant. The side effect? Depression!?

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    1. Yes pills are like that, once you start with one you then find you take another to counteract the side effects, then another and another ans so on. I think the average person gains a pill for every ten years after the age of say forty. Although you will at some point pick up the four you missed getting to forty.

      The hand is almost back to its old self. But it does mean I can't do Jekyll and Hyde finger puppets any longer

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  4. Hah, just the act of reading you is usuaLLy "unusual eXcitement"

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    1. Thank you Mr ESB you are very kind to say so

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