Help me, I'm having a whitey

[Brendan]

Special Brew was originally brewed by the Danish in honour of Winston Churchill?s state visit after WW2.

Not a lot of people know that.

[beef]

A whitey is, in fact, an overdose of cannabis, leading to a pale complexion, mild sweating, inability to construct stable mental thoughts, slight paranoia and full body lethargy, usually brought about after I've told mrs beef 'half a cookie dear, half a cookie' and she scoffs four of the fuggers cos they're sooooo delicious. And overdose of caffeine, can result in similar symptoms, sweating and palpitations, mental confusion, mania, but I'm not sure if it has a common slang term yet. Too much coffee man? Write a comic book about it.

[Annasfield]

LegalEagle-ish Wrote:

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> I always thought having a whitey was throwing up.

Same here. Oh well.....

[Mick Mac]

BBW - Carlsberg Special Brew, breakfast of champions - I think the only time I could get away with that was in the late 1980s at university - the only time in your life when you can do pretty much what you want for 3 years, and get away with it, drink and party in the day and get away with it and as long as you passed the exams, noone cared. Great days.

But the "breakfast of champions" line made me laugh.

[Mikecg]

The OP was yesterday I recon she must have come down by now?

[annaj]

Rosie, sorry I missed your hour of need. For future reference the antidote to too much coffee is non-caffinated fluids, carbs and waiting for it to wear off.

Caffeine is a diuretic and stimulates insulin production, so part of the tremulous sick feeling is dehydration and low blood sugar. The rest is just the direct action of the caffeine and has to wear off.

[RosieH]

ANNA ANNA ANNA, quick, look, check it out - 6th tweet down (is there a way of showing just the tweet in question?) - he and I are as one - I think marriage may be on the cards...

Ben Goldacre was made to marry me

[annaj]

Oh My God!

I'm buying a hat.

[Moos]

The "jittery" tweet, Rosie?

Not sure whether you're the name-changing kind but if you were, Rosie Goldacre has quite a ring to it!

(forgive the pun)

[????]

I'm in the whitey is a cannabis induced vomit school of 'street' definition pedants

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

I confess I'd never heard of the expression until this thread. You youngsters!

[RosieH]

Moos, the tweet that said:

"2 large coffees without assaying strength. pale, dizzy, nauseous, intermittent sweats, tremor, the works. arse fine thus far."

Two peas in a pod. You're right, Rosie Goldacre - I like it!

Quids, to me a whitey was always a cannabis thing too (although there was never actual vomit) - it's just that my symptoms were comparable to bona fide old skool whiteys and that given that I'd only had coffee and cola, it took me rather by surprise.