I would rather staple my nipples to a board than eat another cherry flavored Halls

I've had a cold for a week and a half now. Nothing horrible, just a general veneer of misery and rotting raw-hamburger sinuses to make life more annoying.

But those things pale in comparison to how fucking sick of cough drops I am. They work...sort of...a little I guess. If they didn't work I wouldn't have continued to eat the foul little things.

For starters, anything with artificial cherry flavoring is vile. :vomit:

Second, the sugar in these things is of such a consistency that it coats your teeth in a layer of bitter acidic fuzz that I can only figure strips the enamel off of your teeth faster than 30 grit sandpaper.

Even worse, this film on your teeth retains the nasty cherry death flavor so you can taste the shit all day, long after the minor benefits have worn off. And they make sure everything you eat or drink tastes like artificial cherry and the liquid from a stink bomb.

They even make brushing your teeth tough. To get the coating off of your teeth requires far more work than normal, and flossing is an exercise in supressing your gag reflex as you pull out gobs of bacteria and halls induced tooth slime, all of which smell like halls and death.

And speaking of the smell...it's quite potent. My wife actually said to me "I really can't wait for you to stop eating those things, all I smell is nasty syrupy cherry when you're around."

The misery from these lozenges of tongue-death is actually worse than the cold itself. :ill:

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Photoshop and the Awesomeness of Buttons on a Tablet:

Well, in other news, I tweaked the settings on my tablet so that something that used to take six or seven steps can now be done with just the touch of a button. This is extremely handy, I must say. the line work I do tends to be a bit 'fuzzy'; I'm not opposed to inking, it just doesn't work for me and my style, so I scan the pencil lines and work directly on them. Even the digital stuff I do retains a lot of pencil-type style to it.

This makes masking sort of tricky in photoshop, because using the 'magic wand' to select stuff leaves big white sections around the edge which looks absolutely awful. The two buttons I set up will now increase or decrease the selected area by one pixel. No more click the menu, select the setting, key in the pixel value, hit enter, and then see if I went too far or too little. Awesomeness :thumbs:

Anyway, if anyone wants to know, this is the tablet I use: Wacom Intuos 3 6x8, and it was worth every penny. And no, I'm not getting paid to write this, it's just a damn fine product.

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Which would be Worse?

As a random thought, I'm trying to think of things I actually dislike doing so much that I'd staple my nipples to a board to avoid doing them. It's a surprisingly short list. :huh:

I'll start taking a poll at one of the forums I fuck around at and see what kind of answers I get.