Random Rants XLVIII: Worst. Thread Title. Ever!

[hobbsyoyo]

I'm almost glad they escaped, we still have time left in Afghanistan to hunt them down and kill them.
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I have to call animal control today. The cat that hangs around here (the one that doesn't actually get to eat the food this lady leaves it because of the coons and possums that eat the food first) has a massive bloody wound on its face. I saw it a few weeks back but thought it was blood from something it killed and ate. Today I got a better look and it's just a big, open, bleeding wound. I feel bad for it and I'm calling animal control in hopes that they'll pick it up and care for it and adopt it out. It's a pretty cat (if it had a bath) and it's pretty friendly so hopefully adoption won't take long. It's not like the lady who 'feeds' it is interested in caring for it.

 

[JohannaK]

All this speaking of wisdom teeth... One has begun surfacing. It's outer edge is protruding from the gum already. I can feel another one under the gum, both the upper ones. Still no trace of the lower ones. It doesn't hurt.

 

[Borachio]

I've been conscious for every dental session I've ever attended but I've never had a 'proper' conversation with the dentist, for the obvious reason that there's stuff stuck in my mouth and I can't exactly talk around it!

Yeah. I'm really struck how different American dentists seem to be. Fancy pulling wisdom teeth before they've erupted. I've never heard the like. I imagine there may be good reasons to do so in some cases, but I get the impression it's almost routine.

As for having a general anaesthetic to have a tooth pulled, or indeed any dental work...I'm amazed.

I did have a sister (who died last year incidentally)...

- who I'd never met because she'd been carted off to a home after an allergic reaction to a whooping vaccine left her with a mental age of 2 for the rest of her life, and at that time children under 18 weren't allowed to visit (hell! this is a long story and I wish I hadn't started) -

....who had to have , I have heard, a general anaesthetic just for a dentist to be able to look in her mouth otherwise she'd have kicked, bitten, and screamed the place down.

Are Americans like that too? (He asked, naively, and sweetly.)

As for pain after extraction...what pain? Still, no doubt I'm just insensitive. Where there's no sense there's no feeling, after all.

 

[JohannaK]

Yeah. I'm really struck how different American dentists seem to be. Fancy pulling wisdom teeth before they've erupted. I've never heard the like. I imagine there may be good reasons to do so in some cases, but I get the impression it's almost routine.

Same here. All this fuzz about wisdom teeth removing and here I have never heard of anyone who did that. My grandmother was talking the other day about stuff getting stuck between the wisdom teeth and other teeth, and commented that it was a bit annoying but she wasn't going to get it removed for that.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

@Borachio - They have pills they can give you to semi-knock you out if you have anxiety issues here in the States. I think they cost a lot because even if you have health insurance here, eye and dental insurance are usually separate and have flimsy coverage.

There is also about 15 British bad teeth jokes hiding in the first sentence of your last post. So tempting.

 

[Borachio]

Yeah. I know about the British mouth, thank you.

There's another side to it, though.

Imagine you meet some tasty young thing. Perfect teeth, perfectly symmetrical face, fabulous body. You fall in love, get married, one thing leads to another.

She gives birth to something resembling a breeze block.

And you discover she's had major dental, and cosmetic surgery, investments made for her by a rich, but excessively ugly, parent.

 

[JohannaK]

RANT, BIG RANT: I almost had a nervous breakdown because with all the stuff going on recently I forgot it was yesterday that I had to pay the first payment for uni this year, and I feared it implied I would be removed from the classes and all.

But turns out I just have to pay 5% more, which for this payment amounts to €636.80 (actually 636.804, but that's less than half a cent more) instead of €606.48

 

[Borachio]

"Recipe"?

Do you mean installment?

 

[JohannaK]

No, I just went through some serious stress there.

 

[Borachio]

Oh, I'm sorry to hear it.

All sorted now?

 

[JohannaK]

No, but I'm much less stressed now that I know the real deal. Got to get all of it out though.

 

[azzaman333]

I'm really not sure what the hell is going on with any aspect of my life right now. It's all one giant mind****

 

[JohannaK]

Great, join the club. Although I'm trying to sort a part of it right now.

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

I bleeping hate dentists. They destroyed my mouth for eternity, and I have no hope of ever getting it anywhere close to normal without expensive crap that I can't afford.

Even worse, my female dog of a mother insisted on going all the way down to the goddamn University for these appointments, to their dentistry section. What normally took 15 minutes at a normal dental office took four hours.

Then these idiots demanded to operate on my lower jaw, because it was too small, and I lost numerous front teeth *and* any and all feeling in my lower lip and upper chin.

So if I ever manage to get off my fat, lazy ass, straighten my attitude and get a gf, I will never be able to kiss correctly. Because of god damn dentists.

EDIT: I do have partial dentures, but they trigger my gag reflex so much it's impossible to wear them. Especially at work.

 

[shadowplay]

You're an anti-dentite.

 

[Arakhor]

I have fairly bad teeth, but then I also have a good dentist and excellent NHS coverage (unless the Tories slash that too). When I was in hospital for the second pneumothorax, they gave some morphine to calm me down, as I was understandably somewhat anxious. Bizarrely, after I had the actual operation though, I now become violently ill from imbibing morphine when I didn't before.

 

[Takhisis]

The pilgrims which have come here to see the Pope are completely screwing with the internet traffic and my internet speed.

This is a clue as to how often you get out, if you did, you'd've noticed the jams in real traffic.

I've been conscious for every dental session I've ever attended but I've never had a 'proper' conversation with the dentist, for the obvious reason that there's stuff stuck in my mouth and I can't exactly talk around it!

English is a language that depends so much on its consonants, in Spanish you can wrangle a convo with the dentist.

RANT, BIG RANT: I almost had a nervous breakdown because with all the stuff going on recently I forgot it was yesterday that I had to pay the first payment for uni this year, and I feared it implied I would be removed from the classes and all.

But turns out I just have to pay 5% more, which for this payment amounts to €636.80 (actually 636.804, but that's less than half a cent more) instead of €606.48

Keep calm and think of Takhisis. Wait, no, even I can see that's not gonna help.
Calm down. Retire. Talk to Takhisis. That tends to help.

€30.32 is quite a bit of money to me.

"Recipe"?

Do you mean installment?

I think he meant 'receipt'. But it's just a guess.

I have fairly bad teeth, but then I also have a good dentist and excellent NHS coverage (unless the Tories slash that too). When I was in hospital for the second pneumothorax, they gave some morphine to calm me down, as I was understandably somewhat anxious. Bizarrely, after I had the actual operation though, I now become violently ill from imbibing morphine when I didn't before. am English

FTFY.

 

[Arakhor]

"... but then I also am English?"

What sort of sentence construction is that?

 

[SamSniped]

"...but then again I am also English." I think that's more accurate. althoug I perfectly understood Takh's sentence structure

 

[Arakhor]

So did I, but he's the one doing linguistics!