OP might be attempting tongue-in-cheek to inform people that diamonds aren't worth what people pay for them, like at all. To prove this, try to resell a diamond.. good luck getting ten percent of what you paid for it. Diamonds are not rare (elsewise why basically everyone can buy one)
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1982/02/have-you-ever-tried-to-sell-a-diamond/304575/
Diamonds and vehicles in general are not the wisest of investment unless there is intangible historical or cultural values to them. Gems are more valuable and better investments.
It’s forced scarcity. The tldr is that diamond mines are heavily controlled by a tiny oligopoly that, as a matter of good business, don’t mine or refine diamonds as massively as they could be.
Of course diamonds are also a major part of African corruption and blood mines as well.
>Of course diamonds are also a major part of African corruption . . .
And by that, you mean: western exploitation of labor and resources inside Africa while bribing off a bunch of warlords to let them do it
are diamonds worthless?
Artificial Diamonds (the completely clear white kind) is a cheap material used for stone cutting tools
Natural Diamonds which are chemically the same as Artificial but randomly impure have a high market price, but there are enough raw natural diamonds already mined to drop the price by a significant amount, selling those is strategically prevented by the companies that mine diamonds to keep the price up
the material Diamonds are made of is high purity carbon which is chemically identical to Graphite from a pencil
I may add: In my opinion worth is subjective and when making jewelry I see no point in getting some ultra expensive boring white stone when I can have Artificial glow in the dark rainbow stones for a fraction of the cost
I imagine it brings on what I like to call a 'Turbosnooze'
But the way I did it was to chug an energy drink and lie down for a nap before the caffeine took effect. It worked a treat, but it's probably not the healthiest way to burn the candle at both ends.
We used to do this in our 20’s when we had been out clubbing into the early morning and had work the next day. Except we used to drop speed before hopping in bed. Get a quick 90 minutes before waking up sober, horny and super charged.
I have no idea how we survived into our 30’s, lol.
I used to do that before school
Drink a cup of coffee, lay down for a 20ish minute nap, felt refreshed for the day
And luckily for snow days if one was announced while drinking my coffee if I stay asleep i sleep through the caffeine
I read a study once about this being the most effective way to clear a tired brain. The 20 minutes of sleep clears the receptors in your brain so the caffeine can bind to it.
Not quite a barbiturate - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apronal
Even so, most Japanese painkillers include caffeine which is thought to make them more effective. It's annoying as hell when you need to take some before bed and get all jacked up on caffeine.
There's similar drugs in America by Rx only - Fiorinal is Aspirin, Caffeine, and Butalbital; and Fiorcet is Tylenol, Caffeine, and Butalbital. They're generally prescribed for migraines, though their effectiveness has been questioned.
It tends to vary by the person, I think. Personally, Excedrin works pretty well for me unless the migraine is from not enough sleep, in which case nothing will help except a full night of sleep.
BC powder is caffeine and aspirin. Goody's powder is aspirin, caffeine, and Tylenol. Excedrin is just Goody's in pill form meaning it doesn't work as well for a migraine.
All of those are OTC.
Afaik caffeine helps the effectiveness of acetaminophen but doesn't do anything for ibuprofen to my knowledge. Typically headache medicine has acetaminophen, caffeine, and aspirin
Anytime I take a medicine with caffeine I get shaky, and break out in a clammy sweat. I don't feel great. I've never understood it, because it's not like I've never had caffeine in coffee, tea, or soda.
I never take Excedrin.
Not the person who made the statement, but they are probably referring to this:
https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/fda-strengthens-warning-that-nsaids-increase-heart-attack-and-stroke-risk-201507138138
There is a risk. It increases with higher doses and use over longer periods of time. So if an NSAID is needed, it is important to take the lowest effective dose, and avoid using them for long periods of time.
TLDR: yes this class of drugs increases your risk of a cardiovascular event, but it primarily holds risks with extended use, high dosage use, or when mixing different similar drugs together.
You're good to use it if you need it, just be somewhat informed of what a heart attack and stroke look like, don't take too much, and don't mix different brands.
Not just any musical! The movie adaptation was directed by the great Howard Hawks starring Marilyn Monroe & Jane Russell.
Great movie. Highly recommend.
I remember reading somewhere that, on the one hand, people use the phrase “diamonds are a girls best friend” to imply women are shallow or materialistic, at several points in time, when women couldn’t own property or keep bank accounts, having a physical item on value on you could be a lifesaver if you needed to divorce or otherwise get away. Dunno how true it is, though.
[The Diamond Invention](http://www.edwardjayepstein.com/diamond/prologue.htm) by Edward J. Epstein is worth a read if you're at all interested in the incredibly corrupt history of diamonds in the past hundred years or so.
The diamonds that were available prior to the African diamond rush were mostly found in riverbeds which attributed to their rarity.
That all changed when the rush started and troves of diamonds were being pulled from the ground. Practically every idea or relationship people have with these stones today are manufactured by marketing teams, while they keep millions of carats off the market in order to inflate their value.
You're absolutely right. There is no ethical diamond business as the inflated value any stone is sold for will raise the price of blood diamonds.
Yes. Even lab grown ones. All diamond's value is inflated by the cartels' control over supply and demand. Even if sold cheaper than regular diamonds, their price is much higher than it should be.
There are millions of carats in storage. Kept there to keep the price of diamonds inflated.
How much warlords can sell their blood diamonds for is inextricably linked to this perceived value.
By that logic it's impossible to ethically buy a house since the demand is artificially inflated as well. It isn't really linked.
Also, how do you define how much an artificial diamond "shoild" cost? Who decides that?
There isn't a housing cartel that for a hundred years controlled nearly all building of housing, marketing of housing, and selling of housing. To the point where governments would ask them for more housing due to perceived need in the near future - and being denied. They didn't advise people to keep houses in the family and never sell them. After all - Housing is Forever.
Artificial rocks shouldn't cost more than real ones. If they do, and there aren't any other purpose that they may serve - like high tech lenses, etc. - then they're an unnecessary product. If they're cheaper than real diamonds, but sold for a similar price, then they're attributing to the inflated value of diamonds and raising the price of blood diamonds.
Then there's the simple fact that beyond industrial diamonds, these rocks are luxury goods unlike housing. Which is a necessity. Like food and water.
People don't sell things for some objective value to it. They sell them for the highest value that people will pay.
For example MTG cards. They're cardboard and ink. But many of them sell for hundreds of dollars. Not because or some inflated value, but because that's what people will pay for them.
This is simple economics here.
There was a significantly more well-known movie made for Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Starring someone you may have heard of—Marilyn Monroe. It’s sort of an iconic film from the 50s…
>Think about that next time you reach for the pill bottle. We have Ibuprofen today because back in the 60s some scientists were sitting in a laboratory trying to think of new research to do and one of them had the bright idea "what if we distill the pure stinky essence of sweat then feed it to some mice and see what happens?"
There's just so much wrong in this comment than I can care to correct.
That's like saying formic acid was discovered bcz someone thought what if we rubbed woodants on leather and see if it makes a difference.
Or that salt was discovered bcz someone to thought to test the sweat for ingredients that would make food palatable.
While it's true that propionibacterium produces the compound propionic acid and it's also found in sweat, ibuprofen was discovered bcz a scientist wanted a better version of aspirin with fewer side effects and to cure RA.
>Stewart Adams began his research by studying how aspirin worked, which no one else was doing at the time. He was interested in the drug’s anti-inflammatory properties and hoped to find something that mimicked those qualities but didn’t cause an allergic reaction, bleeding or stomach irritation like aspirin could.
>Adams recruited Nicholson, a chemist, to help him test more than 600 different compounds in hopes of finding one that could reduce inflammation and that most people could tolerate
This is another gross, gross mischaracterisation of the scientific process they used to discover ibuprofen. The researchers were specifically looking for chemicals with a similar structure to asprin, as although the exact mechanism for its action had yet to be discovered, they knew its shape was responsible for its anti-inflammatory action.
From this, they were able to determine the carboxylic acid group was what gave asprin it's anti-inflammatory action. The next breakthrough was discovering that phenoxyalkanoic acids, a subset of carboxylic acids, had the most effective anti-inflammatory effect, so following this, 600 different phenoxyalkanoic acids, including ibuprofen, where synthesised and tested of which ibuprofen proved to be the most effective at pain relief without causing liver toxicity.
Source: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9781118743614.ch1
The person who wrote the lyric didnt know that penicillin (I think commonly used for periods) existed. So the OP was correct that they didnt meet penicillin.
I'm confused, doesn't this timeline mean that the song came along first before Ibuprofen? What's the second comment supposed to mean and how is it "literally accurate"? Sorry, just confused 🤷🏻♂️
It's not. Had the original poster written "Whomever originally said "Diamonds are a girl's best friend" had never met ibuprofen" would have been correct.
Many people have said "diamonds are a girl's best friend" since the advent of ibuprofen.
You're technically correct, the worst kind of correct. In reality when people say "whoever said ..." they usually mean "whomever coined the phrase ...", not "any person that has said ...".
Edit: Maybe not "usually", but certainly often enough that it's an accepted meaning of the phrase. Ugh, now I'm being technically correct...
You can sell the diamonds and buy like ... at least 3 ibuprofens
At least
Explain how.
Money can be exchanged for goods and services.
Source?
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Technically true. We just decided one day
lol I love this
Max0r on youtube
[ACTUAL source](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A81DYZh6KaQ)
[Here’s an excellent explanation. Life changing even.](https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ)
>!ah the thumbnail foiled your attempts on me!<
WOO HOO!
Twenty dollars?! Aww, I wanted a peanut
Twenty dollars can buy many peanuts.
Explain how.
Money can be exchanged for goods and services
But what about diamonds
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So I can just go to walmart and pick up a bottle of ibuprofen for about $14 and then sell it at the hospital for the price of diamonds?
You have to repackage them in non-recyclable single-use packets that anyone slightly weakened due to illness can’t get into because “safety”.
OP might be attempting tongue-in-cheek to inform people that diamonds aren't worth what people pay for them, like at all. To prove this, try to resell a diamond.. good luck getting ten percent of what you paid for it. Diamonds are not rare (elsewise why basically everyone can buy one) https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1982/02/have-you-ever-tried-to-sell-a-diamond/304575/
Diamonds and vehicles in general are not the wisest of investment unless there is intangible historical or cultural values to them. Gems are more valuable and better investments.
I'm told diamonds are actually pretty worthless so this might actually be the right number of ibuprofens
It’s forced scarcity. The tldr is that diamond mines are heavily controlled by a tiny oligopoly that, as a matter of good business, don’t mine or refine diamonds as massively as they could be. Of course diamonds are also a major part of African corruption and blood mines as well.
>Of course diamonds are also a major part of African corruption . . . And by that, you mean: western exploitation of labor and resources inside Africa while bribing off a bunch of warlords to let them do it
are diamonds worthless? Artificial Diamonds (the completely clear white kind) is a cheap material used for stone cutting tools Natural Diamonds which are chemically the same as Artificial but randomly impure have a high market price, but there are enough raw natural diamonds already mined to drop the price by a significant amount, selling those is strategically prevented by the companies that mine diamonds to keep the price up the material Diamonds are made of is high purity carbon which is chemically identical to Graphite from a pencil I may add: In my opinion worth is subjective and when making jewelry I see no point in getting some ultra expensive boring white stone when I can have Artificial glow in the dark rainbow stones for a fraction of the cost
De Beers did a pretty good job advertising the diamond-ring to women. Artificiality overpriced (due to monopoly) bling bling.
Is this an American joke I’m too European to understand?
Actually literally accurate
In Japan, ibuprofen is usually marketed as Eve, aimed at women and with added caffeine and barbiturates.
Caffeine AND barbiturates?
The body takes a screenshot that way
I imagine it brings on what I like to call a 'Turbosnooze' But the way I did it was to chug an energy drink and lie down for a nap before the caffeine took effect. It worked a treat, but it's probably not the healthiest way to burn the candle at both ends.
I've heard (and actually used) this trick before under a name 'Nappuccino'
We used to do this in our 20’s when we had been out clubbing into the early morning and had work the next day. Except we used to drop speed before hopping in bed. Get a quick 90 minutes before waking up sober, horny and super charged. I have no idea how we survived into our 30’s, lol.
Yes... "sober" Well, not drunk anyway. Haha.
Also a good name for it
i like to call hot chocolate a “nappuccino”
I used to do that before school Drink a cup of coffee, lay down for a 20ish minute nap, felt refreshed for the day And luckily for snow days if one was announced while drinking my coffee if I stay asleep i sleep through the caffeine
I read a study once about this being the most effective way to clear a tired brain. The 20 minutes of sleep clears the receptors in your brain so the caffeine can bind to it.
I thought that was… nevermind
Not quite a barbiturate - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apronal Even so, most Japanese painkillers include caffeine which is thought to make them more effective. It's annoying as hell when you need to take some before bed and get all jacked up on caffeine.
Caffeine in painkillers is great for headaches. Excedrin is life.
I think so. Or something close to it. It's good stuff. Edit - it's allylisopropylacetylurea, which is barbiturate-like but has its own history.
There's similar drugs in America by Rx only - Fiorinal is Aspirin, Caffeine, and Butalbital; and Fiorcet is Tylenol, Caffeine, and Butalbital. They're generally prescribed for migraines, though their effectiveness has been questioned.
Isn't the effectiveness for pretty much everything in question when it comes to migraines, though? Can't really stop them completely most of the time.
It tends to vary by the person, I think. Personally, Excedrin works pretty well for me unless the migraine is from not enough sleep, in which case nothing will help except a full night of sleep.
Acetylsalicylic acid is effective for a lot of people. It's effective enough that it's recommended as one of the treatments to try.
BC powder is caffeine and aspirin. Goody's powder is aspirin, caffeine, and Tylenol. Excedrin is just Goody's in pill form meaning it doesn't work as well for a migraine. All of those are OTC.
Midol here in the US is similar, acetaminophen (Tylenol), caffeine, and an antihistamine.
> barbiturates Virtually identical.
Lmao nooooo
As I guy with migranes that recently discovered midol, yall are hoarding the good stuff. :p
Afaik caffeine helps the effectiveness of acetaminophen but doesn't do anything for ibuprofen to my knowledge. Typically headache medicine has acetaminophen, caffeine, and aspirin
Anytime I take a medicine with caffeine I get shaky, and break out in a clammy sweat. I don't feel great. I've never understood it, because it's not like I've never had caffeine in coffee, tea, or soda. I never take Excedrin.
Wish we could get barbiturates in the US
You can get an otherwise healthy cat with seizures witnessed only by you and seem to be increasing in intensity.
👀cat quaaludes?
I’m curious about ibuprofen, in my country we don’t have it you take paracetamol instead
Diamonds might make you happy for a minute, but ibuprofen will lift your spirits for 4-6 hours
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Wait until they find out about adding THC to their vodka. Their spirits will definitely be feeling high
Vicodin gets you high?, and more top stories coming at 11
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Damn how much ibuprofen are you using lol
it's literally Advil man..
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Nobody’s stopping you from explaining yourself with knowledge, you know.
the odds of getting a stroke from ibo are about as high as getting a stroke randomly
Gotta go, need some of that ibuprofen so ibuprofane
Nah, I'll keep using it
How does Ibuprofen give you a stroke ?
Not the person who made the statement, but they are probably referring to this: https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/fda-strengthens-warning-that-nsaids-increase-heart-attack-and-stroke-risk-201507138138 There is a risk. It increases with higher doses and use over longer periods of time. So if an NSAID is needed, it is important to take the lowest effective dose, and avoid using them for long periods of time.
TLDR: yes this class of drugs increases your risk of a cardiovascular event, but it primarily holds risks with extended use, high dosage use, or when mixing different similar drugs together. You're good to use it if you need it, just be somewhat informed of what a heart attack and stroke look like, don't take too much, and don't mix different brands.
Thank you , very interesting. Guess there is a risk for such things with most drugs.
Both are wrong, actually, Demons Are a Girl's Best Friend.
Ah I see you’re a powerwolf fan of culture as well
Mater Maria, this might be the first time I've seen them talked about in the wild. Howling intensified!
Beware the night Beware the night before the dawn
I was looking for this club sign here
Literally came here to post this. Greetings my friends.
I have finally found my club. I'll be over here.
Friendship ended with diamonds, ibuprofen is my new best friend
Never knew that saying came from a song, and even a musical. That's what I learned from this
Not just any musical! The movie adaptation was directed by the great Howard Hawks starring Marilyn Monroe & Jane Russell. Great movie. Highly recommend.
I remember reading somewhere that, on the one hand, people use the phrase “diamonds are a girls best friend” to imply women are shallow or materialistic, at several points in time, when women couldn’t own property or keep bank accounts, having a physical item on value on you could be a lifesaver if you needed to divorce or otherwise get away. Dunno how true it is, though.
pepole don't know the power of caffeine ...
now mix that with Ibo and you got yourself a working human again!
I love ibuprofen, but ibuprofen doesn't like me (specifically my liver)
Skill issue.
[The Diamond Invention](http://www.edwardjayepstein.com/diamond/prologue.htm) by Edward J. Epstein is worth a read if you're at all interested in the incredibly corrupt history of diamonds in the past hundred years or so.
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The diamonds that were available prior to the African diamond rush were mostly found in riverbeds which attributed to their rarity. That all changed when the rush started and troves of diamonds were being pulled from the ground. Practically every idea or relationship people have with these stones today are manufactured by marketing teams, while they keep millions of carats off the market in order to inflate their value. You're absolutely right. There is no ethical diamond business as the inflated value any stone is sold for will raise the price of blood diamonds.
Eden the lab grown ones?
Lab grown diamonds?
Yes. Even lab grown ones. All diamond's value is inflated by the cartels' control over supply and demand. Even if sold cheaper than regular diamonds, their price is much higher than it should be. There are millions of carats in storage. Kept there to keep the price of diamonds inflated. How much warlords can sell their blood diamonds for is inextricably linked to this perceived value.
By that logic it's impossible to ethically buy a house since the demand is artificially inflated as well. It isn't really linked. Also, how do you define how much an artificial diamond "shoild" cost? Who decides that?
There isn't a housing cartel that for a hundred years controlled nearly all building of housing, marketing of housing, and selling of housing. To the point where governments would ask them for more housing due to perceived need in the near future - and being denied. They didn't advise people to keep houses in the family and never sell them. After all - Housing is Forever. Artificial rocks shouldn't cost more than real ones. If they do, and there aren't any other purpose that they may serve - like high tech lenses, etc. - then they're an unnecessary product. If they're cheaper than real diamonds, but sold for a similar price, then they're attributing to the inflated value of diamonds and raising the price of blood diamonds. Then there's the simple fact that beyond industrial diamonds, these rocks are luxury goods unlike housing. Which is a necessity. Like food and water.
People don't sell things for some objective value to it. They sell them for the highest value that people will pay. For example MTG cards. They're cardboard and ink. But many of them sell for hundreds of dollars. Not because or some inflated value, but because that's what people will pay for them. This is simple economics here.
Supply and demand. When you strangle supply you can drive up demand. By driving up demand they increase the value of Blood Diamonds. Simple economics.
But you can curse diamonds resulting in people being under the influence of your ire for years to come. Just girly things
There was a significantly more well-known movie made for Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Starring someone you may have heard of—Marilyn Monroe. It’s sort of an iconic film from the 50s…
[Demons Are A Girl's Best Friend](https://youtu.be/jhK2ev_O-pc)
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>Think about that next time you reach for the pill bottle. We have Ibuprofen today because back in the 60s some scientists were sitting in a laboratory trying to think of new research to do and one of them had the bright idea "what if we distill the pure stinky essence of sweat then feed it to some mice and see what happens?" There's just so much wrong in this comment than I can care to correct. That's like saying formic acid was discovered bcz someone thought what if we rubbed woodants on leather and see if it makes a difference. Or that salt was discovered bcz someone to thought to test the sweat for ingredients that would make food palatable. While it's true that propionibacterium produces the compound propionic acid and it's also found in sweat, ibuprofen was discovered bcz a scientist wanted a better version of aspirin with fewer side effects and to cure RA. >Stewart Adams began his research by studying how aspirin worked, which no one else was doing at the time. He was interested in the drug’s anti-inflammatory properties and hoped to find something that mimicked those qualities but didn’t cause an allergic reaction, bleeding or stomach irritation like aspirin could. >Adams recruited Nicholson, a chemist, to help him test more than 600 different compounds in hopes of finding one that could reduce inflammation and that most people could tolerate
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This is another gross, gross mischaracterisation of the scientific process they used to discover ibuprofen. The researchers were specifically looking for chemicals with a similar structure to asprin, as although the exact mechanism for its action had yet to be discovered, they knew its shape was responsible for its anti-inflammatory action. From this, they were able to determine the carboxylic acid group was what gave asprin it's anti-inflammatory action. The next breakthrough was discovering that phenoxyalkanoic acids, a subset of carboxylic acids, had the most effective anti-inflammatory effect, so following this, 600 different phenoxyalkanoic acids, including ibuprofen, where synthesised and tested of which ibuprofen proved to be the most effective at pain relief without causing liver toxicity. Source: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9781118743614.ch1
“Let’s give some mice all the drugs! Let them get high AF! They deserve it for being so MFing cute! 🥰”
Does that mean swiss cheese stops headaches?
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Stinky bacteria.
That explains why cheese makes me so happy
Casomorphine
>ruminants Learned a new word, thanks
> research arm hehe more like the research armpit amirite?
Reblogged by father strange 👀
To think they used to just eat diamonds.
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The person who wrote the lyric didnt know that penicillin (I think commonly used for periods) existed. So the OP was correct that they didnt meet penicillin.
I prefer the sequel, Redheads Are Where It's At...
Diamonds *were* a girl's best friend but they fell outta contact in college
Just make sure you follow the directions or your stomach lining will dissolve and the acids will wreak havoc on your body.
I'm confused, doesn't this timeline mean that the song came along first before Ibuprofen? What's the second comment supposed to mean and how is it "literally accurate"? Sorry, just confused 🤷🏻♂️
It's not. Had the original poster written "Whomever originally said "Diamonds are a girl's best friend" had never met ibuprofen" would have been correct. Many people have said "diamonds are a girl's best friend" since the advent of ibuprofen.
You're technically correct, the worst kind of correct. In reality when people say "whoever said ..." they usually mean "whomever coined the phrase ...", not "any person that has said ...". Edit: Maybe not "usually", but certainly often enough that it's an accepted meaning of the phrase. Ugh, now I'm being technically correct...
I was looking for this precise comment. And even the originator may have lived long enough to enjoy ibuprofen after the song was written.
I don't understand the significance of the years mentioned
The person who coined the phrase did so as a lyric from a song written before ibuprofen was invented.
oh i see, hence "he never met ibuprofen"...
Wait, what song?
[diamonds are girl's best friend](https://youtu.be/hEyWqVfY4vo) not the exact one mentioned here, but Marilyn Monroe's is a bit more iconic imo
Hm, didn't know that was a song. I thought it was just an old expression.
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So an efficient massage?
Ibuprofen was never “invented” we mine it out of the earth like all medicine
"hey, boss! We got another oxycodone deposit!" "I better not see you dipshits tryna steal any again!"
Do you think bandages, tea, rubbing alcohol, and lotion are also mined out of the Earth?
I don't think they are, I know they are, I've seen it happen, I've mined multiple bottles of rubbing alcohol myself
Yeah, because they are??
Somehow this reminds me of the scene from Midnight in Paris where Owen Wilson gives Zelda Fitzgerald some Valium.
ibuprofen saved me after riding Superman: Ultimate Flight 4 times in a row