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Got a cold? Here's a rather unique cure.

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So.....when you get a cold, you have a virus. The virus is basically in your blood and your body is fighting the virus....which creates mucus as a means to expell the dead white blood cells. So....maybe this approach is good at clearing the symptom of the cold...which is the congestion and mucus. That doesn't necessarily cure the cold though. It might definitely make it easier to breathe until your body creates more mucus....but I'm not sure teargas exposure could be considered "healthy".
 
highland145 said:
Red Squirrel said:
That's good to know for next time I have a cold... now where would a civilian get ahold of CS gas? 😀

I find ever since I started keeping my beard nearly year round I don't get colds. Supposedly the bacteria that lives in a beard will actually kill a cold before it gets into your body. I thought it was a myth but I'm kind of believing it now. I always get sick at this time of year and I've been good for several years in a row now.
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Bear mace should work.
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And if he records it, he has a new video for his YouTube channel! Everyone wins!
 
Scarpozzi said:
So.....when you get a cold, you have a virus. The virus is basically in your blood and your body is fighting the virus....which creates mucus as a means to expell the dead white blood cells. So....maybe this approach is good at clearing the symptom of the cold...which is the congestion and mucus. That doesn't necessarily cure the cold though. It might definitely make it easier to breathe until your body creates more mucus....but I'm not sure teargas exposure could be considered "healthy".
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When it comes to colds, the symptoms are worse than the actual cold. So whatever works!

Some people swear on Ecanasia (no idea how to spell that it's probably super wrong) as well. Never tried it myself but have tried oregano oil. If you catch the cold early enough you can stop it. But if you are in a full blown cold then it won't.
 
Growing up in a military town, I've heard this story many times by someone who knew someone who cured his cold with tear gas. uhm...sure. 😉
 
Ojopwned said:
I can vouch for this method. I've done it personally... Twice. In Marine Corps boot camp at Parris Island, I was sick as a dog on the day we went for gas mask training. Definitely had a fever. Also coughing, nose running, sneezing, sinuses, and basically on the verge of death trying to do boot camp with a cold, avoiding the clinic for fear of being rolled back in training. After 5 minutes or less in the gas chamber and a bucket of snot later, I was completely healthy with ZERO cold symptoms for the rest of boot camp.

The next cold I had, I decided to test my theory. I got a friend to hook me up with a visit to the base gas chamber. Sick as a dog, breathed CS gas for a few minutes (if you can call that breathing), and came out as healthy as an ox ready to run a marathon.

I don't know how it works, but I imagine the trillions of microscopic shards of glass scraping your sinuses as clean as the day of your birth has something to do with it.

But trust me when I say this: CS gas does in fact cure the common cold like a Harry Potter spell.
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But ... but .... do I get an Ipod with that ??? 😛
 
NuclearNed said:
I have a couple of buddies who are members of a local SWAT team. One of these guys works out virtually every night at the gym where I go. These are both really intelligent men, but they are both pretty intense and hard-core, so I have every reason to believe that the following is true.

Apparently "Bob" had a really bad cold, and was suffering from it greatly. Since he's such a trooper, he was still coming in to work, even though he was more or less dead on his feet. That particular day, the members of the SWAT team were at their training facility doing exercises, and "Bob" decided that he had had enough. He looked at the rest of the team and stated that he "was going to fix this cold once and for all."

"Bob", being the man's man that he is, acquired a tear gas cannister from the supply area and proceeded to the tear gas training building, where he shut himself inside. Several long, painful minutes later, he emerged from the building cold free, with all his mucus membranes a-flowing freely. Apparently (and I quote) "he had snot hanging all the way from his nose to the ground - literally." After a quick blow of each nostril, "Bob" went on about his day feeling much better.

The guy who told me this story said that the next day, "Bob" was completely cured of his cold.
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I can vouch for this. At Marine Corps Recruit Training I had a bad cold. Horrific congestion, fever,... the works, on the day of our gas chamber exercise. After the gas chamber, my cold was gone and never returned. 100% improvement, and I mean 100%. It was shockingly instantaneous, too. Honestly, it played out as if it was magical and I'm not exaggerating at all.
 
Ojopwned said:
I can vouch for this. At Marine Corps Recruit Training I had a bad cold. Horrific congestion, fever,... the works, on the day of our gas chamber exercise. After the gas chamber, my cold was gone and never returned. 100% improvement, and I mean 100%. It was shockingly instantaneous, too. Honestly, it played out as if it was magical and I'm not exaggerating at all.
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Parris Island...The Grinder. <shudder>
 
Ojopwned said:
I can vouch for this. At Marine Corps Recruit Training I had a bad cold. Horrific congestion, fever,... the works, on the day of our gas chamber exercise. After the gas chamber, my cold was gone and never returned. 100% improvement, and I mean 100%. It was shockingly instantaneous, too. Honestly, it played out as if it was magical and I'm not exaggerating at all.
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I guess you're the sock puppet that necro'ed this thread last year. You don't really think anyone is buying this shit do you?

Have some respect dude.
 
Charmonium said:
I guess you're the sock puppet that necro'ed this thread last year. You don't really think anyone is buying this shit do you?

Have some respect dude.
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respect? For what? For whom? Dude...this is AT. Respect has to be earned, not given freely.
 
Ojopwned said:
I can vouch for this. At Marine Corps Recruit Training I had a bad cold. Horrific congestion, fever,... the works, on the day of our gas chamber exercise. After the gas chamber, my cold was gone and never returned. 100% improvement, and I mean 100%. It was shockingly instantaneous, too. Honestly, it played out as if it was magical and I'm not exaggerating at all.
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poor guy. he copy-pasta necro-spammed the same thread on the internet, twice! 🙁
 
zinfamous said:
poor guy. he copy-pasta necro-spammed the same thread on the internet, twice! 🙁
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LOL, good catch. The guy has no posts here other than this thread and he's necro-ed it twice.

This is bullshit, all it does is demonstrate a complete lack of understanding about what a cold is and what causes one. I've been close enough to pepper spray to believe that in the short term sand-blasting your mucous membranes enough so that they're running out of your head and collecting in your shoes will TEMPORARILY mask a colds symptoms. It won't do shit about the cold itself.
 
I didn't remember posting here previously because this is an obscure corner of the internet that nobody cares about. It's not worth a second thought. I just shared my story so perhaps other military folk could time their gas chamber requalification to coincide with when they're sick.

But I honestly don't care. Delete my post if it bothers you. I won't lose any sleep over it. And I'll probably forget all about it by this time next week.
 
Ojopwned said:
I didn't remember posting here previously because this is an obscure corner of the internet that nobody cares about. It's not worth a second thought. I just shared my story so perhaps other military folk could time their gas chamber requalification to coincide with when they're sick.

But I honestly don't care. Delete my post if it bothers you. I won't lose any sleep over it. And I'll probably forget all about it by this time next week.
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But you cared enough to post again....

Tell your Mom, Hi.
 
Ojopwned said:
I didn't remember posting here previously because this is an obscure corner of the internet that nobody cares about. It's not worth a second thought. I just shared my story so perhaps other military folk could time their gas chamber requalification to coincide with when they're sick.

But I honestly don't care. Delete my post if it bothers you. I won't lose any sleep over it. And I'll probably forget all about it by this time next week.
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Apparently he thinks that because they shoved the teargas cansister up his backside (and it made him feel soooooo good) that he'd try to blow his smoke up ours.
 
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Ojopwned said:
I didn't remember posting here previously because this is an obscure corner of the internet that nobody cares about. It's not worth a second thought. I just shared my story so perhaps other military folk could time their gas chamber requalification to coincide with when they're sick.

But I honestly don't care. Delete my post if it bothers you. I won't lose any sleep over it. And I'll probably forget all about it by this time next week.
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Obviously you'll forget about it, by next year, anyway.

Then bump it again!
 
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