St Mary’s Butts, Reading, England Superthread

[KhanadaRhodes]

Originally Posted by Axver

Also, fuck you Scandinavia, what the hell is this nonsense about no Sudafed or other cold medications containing pseudoephedrine? Hell, they couldn't even offer me anything containing that phenylephedrine shit that doesn't really work.

i'm sorry you're sick. unfortunately, if you go back to germany (i'm not sure what your travelling schedule is), it won't be much better there. i know they're really into homeopathic shit and it can be hard to find a lot of over-the-counter medicines there, even mild painkillers. i'm not talking serious shit, i'm just talking stuff you'd take for a headache.

i guess nothing should surprise me since when i lived in nz, i was amazed to discover neosporin wasn't sold there (it's an antibacterial ointment or cream, depending on your preference). i don't take antibiotics for everything and don't put neosporin on every cut, but around this time last year i fell and got a huge scrape on my knee. i was about to go camping and we'd already left our apartment so i couldn't really clean up properly, but luckily my bf always keeps a first aid kit in his car, so i could bandage it and put some neosporin on it. i still have a huge scar, just from tripping on some uneven pavement. ugh.

[DreamOutLoud13]

Today I officially finished my Freshman year. Also today my older sister had her hooding ceremony.

[Axver]

Originally Posted by DreamOutLoud13

Over here you can still get the pseudoephedrine stuff, but they keep it behind the counter and you have to have the pharmacist get it for you, and then they have to look you up in a database and scan your license, and you can only buy one box a month or something.

That's roughly analogous to how it works in Australia. The Scandinavian countries simply don't have it. At all. Fucking hell.

[Axver]

Originally Posted by KhanadaRhodes

i'm sorry you're sick. unfortunately, if you go back to germany (i'm not sure what your travelling schedule is), it won't be much better there. i know they're really into homeopathic shit and it can be hard to find a lot of over-the-counter medicines there, even mild painkillers. i'm not talking serious shit, i'm just talking stuff you'd take for a headache.

i guess nothing should surprise me since when i lived in nz, i was amazed to discover neosporin wasn't sold there (it's an antibacterial ointment or cream, depending on your preference). i don't take antibiotics for everything and don't put neosporin on every cut, but around this time last year i fell and got a huge scrape on my knee. i was about to go camping and we'd already left our apartment so i couldn't really clean up properly, but luckily my bf always keeps a first aid kit in his car, so i could bandage it and put some neosporin on it. i still have a huge scar, just from tripping on some uneven pavement. ugh.

I just have a return visit to Denmark left, and I understand they're just like Norway and Sweden. Ugh. I do, at least, have a good stock of paracetamol to get me back to Australia, but my pseudoephedrine stocks won't last. I have some nasal spray I may have to resort to using, and some antihistamines. At this point my only concern is that I don't cough/have too bad a runny rose to get through some gigs I'm going to over the next three nights. And then get home. How the hell am I meant to sleep on the plane? I'll snore to high heaven. I can't abide that sort of embarrassment.

[coolian2]

Ax, find yourself a meth manufacturer and then you're set.

[DreamOutLoud13]

Originally Posted by coolian2

Ax, find yourself a meth manufacturer and then you're set.

I heard there's some bald guy doing it in New Mexico.

[Axver]

Well I recovered enough to have a nice, leisurely, and restful flight home. I can't believe how empty my flights were. Economy class suddenly felt more luxurious.

[coolian2]

Originally Posted by DreamOutLoud13

I heard there's some bald guy doing it in New Mexico.

Thought he was dead?

[DreamOutLoud13]

Originally Posted by coolian2

Thought he was dead?

That's just what he wants the DEA to think.

[Mack_Again]

(Malcolm's dad is never dead, Ian)

[DreamOutLoud13]

(that alternate ending though)

[coolian2]

Well fuck have I got some Superthread stories

[coolian2]

I think I need to copyright the Axver bridge I've come up with fo BTBS

[DreamOutLoud13]

Oh?

[coolian2]

I haven't refined it fully, but

I can see those Trump Towers/I know about those golden showers/All you can see is a Russian whore/As Putin looks in the door/Man peels off those dollar bills etc etc

LALALALALALAA AMERICA I WANT TO LIVE IN AMERICA

I am struggling on extending it properly but it's way more solid than I expected. I'm a hopeless writer.

[DreamOutLoud13]

[coolian2]

I'm trying to get an EU/England/UK part in and I just can't make the fucker rhyme properly

[DreamOutLoud13]

All I came up with a few weeks ago was "this man comes up to me, his face ORANGE like a....", and then I couldn't think of how to go further with it.

[coolian2]

This guy comes up to me, his face orange like a spoiled pumpkin, and he's writing these cheques we know we can't cash

[Axver]

You need to send it to Bono.

I think I'm already testing my bandmates' patience with my proposal to cover Exit/Bullet. And with my general inability to articulate coherently how the songs I've written are meant to go.