Don't you hate it when something amusing and simple manages to slip your mind?

For instance, I saw Live Free or Die Hard a couple weeks ago, and one of the reviews I read criticized its catch-phrases. I very much disagree; the "Yippiecayay" (?) in this one is clearly the best to date, and one of the other catch-phrases is actually as cool as can be, but I can't actually remember how it goes.

Hate it when that happens.

Don't you hate it when something amusing and simple manages to slip your mind?

For instance, I saw Live Free or Die Hard a couple weeks ago, and one of the reviews I read criticized its catch-phrases. I very much disagree; the "Yippiecayay" (?) in this one is clearly the best to date, and one of the other catch-phrases is actually as cool as can be, but I can't actually remember how it goes.

Hate it when that happens.

yeah, your thinking about the catch phrase all the time and when it comes to use it, you forget it!!! happens to me all the time

I think this one is just, "Oh, no!" But it's the way he says it, of course. It's sort of a writer's way of saying, "You don't need a catch-phrase here. You know the score." And Willis, perfectly at home in what is probably his best role, delivers the sentiment beautifully.

I was sorta thinking they couldn't make it as good as the other Die Hards, but yeah, worked out quite awesomely. Although I was kinda hoping for another german-accented villan, for some reason it just kinda worked in the older ones, lol.

Don't you hate it when something amusing and simple manages to slip your mind?

For instance, I saw Live Free or Die Hard a couple weeks ago, and one of the reviews I read criticized its catch-phrases. I very much disagree; the "Yippiecayay" (?) in this one is clearly the best to date, and one of the other catch-phrases is actually as cool as can be, but I can't actually remember how it goes.

Hate it when that happens.


Brain farts happen .:p

So why the hell can't any significant issue occur in some context reasonably reflecting laboratory isolation? I mean, it's not that we ought to live our lives according to sterile, procedural drudgery, but ....

So the last couple days I've encountered something I'm unfamiliar with: a rash. I don't break out with anything very often, so when I do, it's a curiosity to me. There are obvious potential causes I can cross off the list, but three main culprits overlap, and this is what I find so frustrating.

It could be a side-effect from a chemical burn picked up last weekend; God knows I've been laying on the antiseptic against infection. It could be the new fabric softener I just started using. It could be a side effect of the anti-smoking drug I'm taking.

Okay, let's cross something off the list. Chantix (anti-smoking) does not list a rash as a side effect in the patient information, but that's only the company's information, and it doesn't read like the package inserts I'm accustomed to. The antiseptic says nothing about a rash, but it does contain lidocaine (2.5% w/w), and I'm probably using more of the stuff than is recommended. I can't cross off the fabric softener, but I can't hang the rash on the stuff, either; I'm pretty sure that the shirt I was wearing last night was not part of the first load of laundry with the new stuff.

Add to that, the rash seems to appear at night. It came on about 1:00 AM yesterday, and was gone when I got up later in the morning. I actually thought about it shortly after midnight, and had shrugged it off as a mystery, since there was no rash apparent. But shortly after 1:00, the damn thing returned.

I've even considered that it's a relationship between the Chantix and smoking, except that you're supposed to continue smoking when you start the drug; that's part of its appeal.

I can rule out things like STDs, of course; I haven't had contact in way too long. The fabric softener, Chantix, and antiseptic are the only major changes in my regular environmental contact ... damn it, why can't I ever get a straight reading on what's going on?

And it's not just this. I'll spare you the chase after internal bleeding; several years ago I quit drinking coffee because it correlated to the problem, and that was for naught. As I've engaged depression, I've grown tired of hearing about how this or that seems to make me feel better--therapy, psych drugs, sobriety, separating from my former partner--when nothing is actually working.

For some reason, I'm subject to the illusion that other people don't encounter this kind of confusion. Is it that their lives are really that much simpler, or that they just aren't giving the complexity the same attention I do? When someone else has a rash, there's a specific, identifiable cause. When someone else is depressed, simple solutions seem to solve the problem. All I want is a straight reading on anything.

Now, excuse me while I go sit in the corner and claw the flesh off the inside of my right arm. What the f@ck are these f@cking welts, anyway?

Don't you just hate it when something simple hasn't an obvious, simple explanation?

(And don't you just hate having to acknowledge what that says about your own outlook?)

Yippee kayay, motherfucker.

And thar ye have it.

So why the hell can't any significant issue occur in some context reasonably reflecting laboratory isolation? I mean, it's not that we ought to live our lives according to sterile, procedural drudgery, but ....

So the last couple days I've encountered something I'm unfamiliar with: a rash. I don't break out with anything very often, so when I do, it's a curiosity to me. There are obvious potential causes I can cross off the list, but three main culprits overlap, and this is what I find so frustrating.

It could be a side-effect from a chemical burn picked up last weekend; God knows I've been laying on the antiseptic against infection. It could be the new fabric softener I just started using. It could be a side effect of the anti-smoking drug I'm taking.

Okay, let's cross something off the list. Chantix (anti-smoking) does not list a rash as a side effect in the patient information, but that's only the company's information, and it doesn't read like the package inserts I'm accustomed to. The antiseptic says nothing about a rash, but it does contain lidocaine (2.5% w/w), and I'm probably using more of the stuff than is recommended. I can't cross off the fabric softener, but I can't hang the rash on the stuff, either; I'm pretty sure that the shirt I was wearing last night was not part of the first load of laundry with the new stuff.

Add to that, the rash seems to appear at night. It came on about 1:00 AM yesterday, and was gone when I got up later in the morning. I actually thought about it shortly after midnight, and had shrugged it off as a mystery, since there was no rash apparent. But shortly after 1:00, the damn thing returned.

I've even considered that it's a relationship between the Chantix and smoking, except that you're supposed to continue smoking when you start the drug; that's part of its appeal.

I can rule out things like STDs, of course; I haven't had contact in way too long. The fabric softener, Chantix, and antiseptic are the only major changes in my regular environmental contact ... damn it, why can't I ever get a straight reading on what's going on?

And it's not just this. I'll spare you the chase after internal bleeding; several years ago I quit drinking coffee because it correlated to the problem, and that was for naught. As I've engaged depression, I've grown tired of hearing about how this or that seems to make me feel better--therapy, psych drugs, sobriety, separating from my former partner--when nothing is actually working.

For some reason, I'm subject to the illusion that other people don't encounter this kind of confusion. Is it that their lives are really that much simpler, or that they just aren't giving the complexity the same attention I do? When someone else has a rash, there's a specific, identifiable cause. When someone else is depressed, simple solutions seem to solve the problem. All I want is a straight reading on anything.

Now, excuse me while I go sit in the corner and claw the flesh off the inside of my right arm. What the f@ck are these f@cking welts, anyway?

Don't you just hate it when something simple hasn't an obvious, simple explanation?

(And don't you just hate having to acknowledge what that says about your own outlook?)



Rash happens! :eek:

Actually it could be something that you have eaten. I found that one day I couldn't drink milk any longer for I was getting that rash like you. Also peanutbutter can make it appear. Try stopping certain foods for awhile to see if that helps and take some Benadryl to see if that helps also.

Is the rash spelling out words?
If so it's demonic possession. See a priest.:)

I was sorta thinking they couldn't make it as good as the other Die Hards, but yeah, worked out quite awesomely. Although I was kinda hoping for another german-accented villan, for some reason it just kinda worked in the older ones, lol.

No, see, they only have German accented villains in the odd numbered sequels. Notice the villain in the second movie was an American. Now, if they make number 5, then I'm sure another one of Hans' relatives will come out of the woodwork for revenge. LOL

Actually it could be something that you have eaten. I found that one day I couldn't drink milk any longer for I was getting that rash like you. Also peanutbutter can make it appear. Try stopping certain foods for awhile to see if that helps and take some Benadryl to see if that helps also.

It turns out that hives are a potential side effect of the anti-smoking drug, except Pfizer doesn't list it in the insert. Drugs.com (http://www.drugs.com/chantix.html), however, considers hives a "stop taking the drug now and call a doctor" side effect. (Consumer note: A few years back, there was discussion of "simplifying" the patient information so that patients could understand the package inserts. Apparently, this meant deliberately omitting important information.)

And I had to add another potential culprit to the list, as well. I had a run-in with a household chemical a little over a week ago, ended up with a first-degree chemical burn. I realized the other day that my laundry room still smelled of the chemical after washing the towels used in the cleanup. I tracked the smell to the washing machine. In other words, the irritant is on all my subsequent laundry.

I'm leaning more toward the Chantix, though. My daughter's laundry has gone through the tainted machine, and she is suffering no irritation.

As to my diet ... it's so horrible that I'm hard-pressed to pick out a culprit. Maybe a random food additive, but it's more appropriate to blame the Chantix. At the moment I am rash/hive free. We'll see what comes later today. (It's still setting in at night, although it persisted through the day on Sunday.)