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Originally Posted by Sheikh Yerbouti  There's this lad used to work at our place who's got it.
I use the term advisedly... he's younger than me (and most of you lot)...
Kiwi kid in his 20s used to work in our accounts department.
I couldn't fucking believe it when he told me. Saw him walking with a really bad limp one time & threw out some pisstake comment & he's like "oh I've got gout" 
He did like his beer but I'm sure it wasn't that caused it. Prolly something genetic (like morals  )or summat.
Makes you think though... Like you i thought it only affected awld fuckers, and died out with Henry VIII, but apparently not! |
Too true.
The reason Amelie has started this thread in fact is because I got it a few weeks back - in my big toe
The big toe is the usual place for a first gout hit as well. The funny is I usually drink beer, and it didn't go away for ages, but I knocked beer on the head and shifted to red wine and it just went
