Swearing can be a powerful painkiller according to scientists from Keele University - though some people may turn the air blue when they read about their research.
The boffins at the Staffordshire institution discovered that letting loose with a volley of post-watershed language can have a 'pain-lessening effect'.
They came to this conclusion after getting a group of 71 students to shove their hands into icy buckets of water and hold them there for as long as they could bear, while swearing non-stop.
Then the under-graduates repeated the exercise, but kept their language clean. More...
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The boffins at the Staffordshire institution discovered that letting loose with a volley of post-watershed language can have a 'pain-lessening effect'.
They came to this conclusion after getting a group of 71 students to shove their hands into icy buckets of water and hold them there for as long as they could bear, while swearing non-stop.
Then the under-graduates repeated the exercise, but kept their language clean. More...
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