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Did you try holding your breath to stop the hiccups? Works for me. But yeah its not like they're voluntary. That sucks.
8- you hold your breath briefly to try and stop them.
Or just excuse yourself and slip out quietly, and return when they have calmed down?
8, I agree. The only reason 1 would suggest that is for the OP to suffocate him/herself. Then OP would get all the attention again because she'd die at a funeral at a young age.
Its impossible to suffocate yourself by holding your breath. You would pass out first and start breathing again.
Thanks 35, I knew that but forgot to mention I was being sarcastic.
it's not dyslexia. Dyslexia is a problem where the letters seem upside down or backwards. stop being an insensitive bastard and making fun of crippled people. Dyslexia isn't something to joke about.
63, wrong comment & first, she didn't make fun of anyone. Second, dyslexic people aren't crippled. Lastly, it could very be she had the q flipped into a p... so what are you on about?
You're right, I lied :O I believe a person can really suffocate themselves! People don't "drown", they suffocate. When we find bodies that are dead from "natural causes", is actually suffocation. The man is making you all blind to the truth! (Sarcasm, again)
#68 - Ahh good point. Stupid of me to reply to the wrong comment. (Braces for a hellish hurricane of thumbs down).
#59 - they're*
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#95 - ... is an ellipses. "...." doesn't exist.
^you have to be the biggest grammar nazi ever to take issue with an improper use of ellipses
Yet there it is
132- I don't hate her because everyone else does, I hate her because she's a moron.
Agreed
#26 It's impossible to die from holding your breath- after a time your body will force you to breathe
Why did you have to speak loudly? All you had to do was sink quietly into your chair each time you had a hiccup.
SQUEAK, not speak. Read the FML.
******* dyslexia......
I have chronic hiccoughs; I've gone to several specialists about them (to no avail). I have ZERO control over how loud I "squeak" and have never met anyone who claims that they can control the volume of their hiccoughs. I'm never even aware that there's about to be another one, so how can I be expected control it? OP, I feel your pain. The height of my hiccough issues was during a period in my life when my job required I frequently take business calls. Thankfully, most of the people I spoke to (mostly reps) were understanding and found it amusing.
I highly doubt that you're actually dyslexic
@69, why do you keep calling them "hiccoughs"???
Troller I'm not sure why, but I find your profile pic hilarious. Needless to say, only one of us can have it. Now go on with your day, I won't be in your closet waiting for you to fall asleep. ;)
Hiccups and Hiccoughs are actually the same thing, just spelled differently. They were originally known as hiccoughs because in olden times doctors believed them to be related to coughing. Hiccup is the more modern spelling.
she could always close her mouth. I have super violent hiccups and it always helps me keep it quieter.
Wow… hasn't he ever had the hiccups before? He should know you can't really control them. Oh and F your friends life for his mom dying
Then the friend would have accused them of being rude for leaving and still accused the poor woman of trying to ruin the funeral. Besides that, babies often cry for a reason and will stop after they get what they want but some people can't stop their hiccups no matter what they try and can only wait for them to disappear. Plus, depending on where they were sitting, it might have been difficult to leave their seat without disturbing quite a few other people.
What 103 said is pretty much spot on. There's no way OP could've looked good.
No he's not spot on. It was rude to stay while hiccuping. Has nothing to do with looking bad or not it is that fact that it is respectful to the deceased family and the people trying to listen. The friend might have just gotten angry at whatever happened but everyone else probably would have appreciated it.
Probably under a lot of stress and took their feelings out on her
I understand your friends upset, but it's not your fault that you have the hiccups. What a nice friend you've got there...
She just lost her mom. Cut her some slack.
I hate the hiccups. Sometimes they're really painful. Don't worry OP, just apologize to your friend when she's calmer. It's rough what she's going through, anything will upset her at that point.
You should've quietly excused yourself so as not to interrupt. Insensitive bitch.
You'd have to be a pretty stupid person to actually pass out while holding your breath to stop hiccups. Most people know when to start breathing again, even if the hiccups aren't gone yet. Just take a deep breath and start holding your breath again.
It sucks that you had the hiccups but you should have quietly excused yourself and left
you shouldve excused yourself or minimized the sound. but try n be patient with your friend. i doubt they meant to lash out at you like that. their mom just died... expect odd behavior for a little while
Okay you leave and then you get called a bitch for not staying at the funeral
Well, OP, as a fellow frequent hiccupper myself, it's just polite to excuse yourself from the room to go some place private to place your head in between your legs while holding your breath till they are all gone . . . or until you pass out - which ever happens first. Either way, your friend would have thanked you for finally bringing some peace.
Does that method actually work? I tried holding my breath, sugar under my tongue, and drinking a lot of water and NOTHING works.
Seems legit.
Yea. Or bend over when u swallow. If u can swallow while 'upside down' they'll go away.
Hey, I am in nursing school, so please bare with what I'm about to say, but hiccups are caused by a spasm of the diaphragm because of respiratory alkalosis (breathing too slowly). This pretty much means you're retaining oxygen: the spasms are your bodies attempt to retain more CO2. So when I get hiccups, I breathe into a paper bag; that way I'm breathing in a higher concentration of CO2. . . So, there's my tip of how I get my hiccups to go away! :)
Ops friend just lost their mother its a hard time for him/her, she was just trying to take out some of her anger/sadness, it was wrong to take that out on op but it didn't mean that ops friend was a bad friend/person.
Try keeping packets of sugar in your purse, and swallow a packet whenever you get the hiccups. Works everytime for me.
15's comment was to OP who is a girl so it was decent advice. And who wouldn't want to carry sugar around? It makes you sweeter.
In this case, OP isn't a dude, so they can easily carry a purse if they wanted to...
Never mind!! Everyone else got to it before me! :)
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Did you try holding your breath to stop the hiccups? Works for me. But yeah its not like they're voluntary. That sucks.
It sucks that you had the hiccups but you should have quietly excused yourself and left