As we are currently enjoying the summer sun, well some of us are. I have come across many people that regardless of the weather, they are never happy, it is too cold, it is too hot….
That sounds like Mrs Frankie Boy. But on saying that, she has been taking advantage of the good weather, doing in her eyes, much needed maintenance of the back garden, where apart from getting the hose out to deal with the dry soil there was also an assault on Garden Bugs
Her plan was to empty bottles of Supermarket Lager into the soil. She assured me that it works.
My thought was what a waste of decent beer.
So, if she could not drown them with all the water coming out of the hose, then Plan B was to get them intoxicated?
For me this sounded like an episode of the hit TV series “Creature Comforts,” the animated TV show where the microphone is pointed toward all those “animals” giving their outlook on life.
With her pouring that lager into the soil, I wonder if I pointed my Mic towards the soil, I would start to hear from below “IS IT A SONG YOUS ARE WANNTING? ON A HOOOO FARR AWAAYYY….”
Now that would be an episode worth watching.
But it did make me think about all the home remedies and theories doing the rounds and are they legit.
I therefore decided to have a brief scout around to see if there are any out there that catch my attention.
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
That would never work with my teeth. I cannot progress any further than a banana.
Carrots help you see in the dark
I prefer a torch myself.
Ginger can stop sickness.
I can say that one works for me. Only of you use the right kind. I use Ginger Shots every day and they certainly do the trick. They are a tad powerful and when you take them first thing in the morning, one’s eyes meet in the middle, but that is a technicality.
There is an endless list of home-based remedies, aka: old wife’s tales, which do push credibility ratings to the max, but there are those that work.
Same things go for those theories doing the rounds. Like the remedies that work, there are plenty have legs, mainly because they evolve from logical ideas.
Lots of entrepreneurs build on that concept, finding a way to solve a problem.
But with all those common senses approaches, I find myself interested in those interested in the opposite end of the spectrum.
Mainly for the comedy content, this is one of my favourite examples:
If you are bald, it means that you are more virile.
As that great Scottish “philosopher,” Craig Ferguson, once commented: “people with big noses and big feet have been putting out that kind of stuff out or years. (That was the clean version)
What if you have all three, then you must drive the ladies wild.
I am sure that there are better examples out there. Drop us a line on the Lunchtime Experience Facebook Group.
Trust me, I am in there somewhere.