Random Rants XLVIII: Worst. Thread Title. Ever!

[hobbsyoyo]

See - we get to benefit from the Royal Family. You simply have to endure the media blitz of a country that secretly wishes it was still a monarchy.

Yeah I really don't get why people here get so worked up about it.

 

[Traitorfish]

Over the weekend, the birth of the Hanoverian sprog has produced a significant increase in public expressions of monarchist sentiment in the UK.

Today, the sky gods saw fit to roll back the summer sun and drop thunderstorms on our heads.

COINCIDENCE!?!

 

[Takhisis]

thunder woke me up at 5.00am

all tv, radio, and even the bbc website has been completely taken over by 24/7 royal baby "news"

You can always read the Guardian and click on the little tab reading 'republican?' -works wonders for me.

Edit:

Spoiler :

Link to video.

Over the weekend, the birth of the Hanoverian sprog has produced a significant increase in public expressions of monarchist sentiment in the UK.

Today, the sky gods saw fit to roll back the summer sun and drop thunderstorms on our heads.

COINCIDENCE!?!

THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE

 

[Ajidica]

Over the weekend, the birth of the Hanoverian sprog has produced a significant increase in public expressions of monarchist sentiment in the UK.

Today, the sky gods saw fit to roll back the summer sun and drop thunderstorms on our heads.

COINCIDENCE!?!

I can see the headlines on the Daily Heil now.
"ARE FOREIGN GERMAN BABIES GIVING CANCER TO BRITISH WEATHER?"

 

[SouthernKing]

No, England UK. Weird coincidence though

The news keep showing the crowds of people waiting outside the palace and outside the hospital. Apparently a lot of people, from all over the world, find the royals very interesting. I have no idea why.

I don't get it either. I was in DC for an academic competition a couple years back the weekend Osama bin Laden was killed, and I remember that far more adults there were interested in William and Kate getting married than Osama's death.

 

[Takhisis]

In Spanish it's called 'cholulismo', I'm not sure how it's translated to English. But it's akin to the famous for being famous thing.

 

[shadowplay]

Yeah he hooked me up with some Vicodin. Also I meant guy I'm not bugs.

Why the hell didn't I get any vicodin after my wisdom tooth removal? What a rip.

 

[ReindeerThistle]

Hi, thanks to all for saying what I would've said about the new baby -- the first baby born in 18 years, I hear -- the plague is over, our earth can now repopulate a la PD James' Children of Men.

RANT: WTH!?!?! I am sure there is some real news out there!

Has anyone been paying attention to the fact that in the US people died by the hundreds from the heat? Getting any of that news across the pond -- because if I weren't already in a heat-waved city, I would never know it!

We also have forest fires out west... Revelations anyone?

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Why the hell didn't I get any vicodin after my wisdom tooth removal? What a rip.

Well I got Percocet so neener neener.

Seriously though your oral surgeon sucks.

 

[SouthernKing]

Hi, thanks to all for saying what I would've said about the new baby -- the first baby born in 18 years, I hear -- the plague is over, our earth can now repopulate a la PD James' Children of Men.

RANT: WTH!?!?! I am sure there is some real news out there!

Has anyone been paying attention to the fact that in the US people died by the hundreds from the heat? Getting any of that news across the pond -- because if I weren't already in a heat-waved city, I would never know it!

We also have forest fires out west... Revelations anyone?

Shows how badly messed up the media's priorities are.

 

[shadowplay]

Well I got Percocet so neener neener.

Seriously though your oral surgeon sucks.

Strangely enough, after I had my wisdom teeth out I discovered that simple ibuprofen did more for the discomfort than the tylenol with codeine in it. Reason being, the codeine doesn't do anything to address the swelling, which is a major factor in the pain after extraction.

 

[PlutonianEmpire]

Shows how badly messed up the media's priorities are.

Another example, CNN showed absolutely nothing else except that zimmerman trial crap 24/7 for weeks on end.

 

[W|M]

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

 

[_random_]

Strangely enough, after I had my wisdom teeth out I discovered that simple ibuprofen did more for the discomfort than the tylenol with codeine in it. Reason being, the codeine doesn't do anything to address the swelling, which is a major factor in the pain after extraction.

I took too much ibuprofen and I threw up a lot. Also, during the 2.5 hour procedure I watched the news, and it was all about that damn baby.The dude's hat was really funny with laughing gas though.

 

[Ajidica]

You were actually awake during the procedure? I was put completely under and barely remembering stumbling into the car when my mom drove me home.

 

[Kennigit]

it probably depends if you get it removed preventively (i.e. as they grow in crooked) as opposed to if they are already causing problems, and I'm sure how they grow in (eg the 90 degree people--which wikipedia says is only 3%--must have a much harder time/probably just get knocked under)

I got lucky I guess, just had local anesthetic (novacaine/procaine I believe) and no pain, neither after the procedure nor during. Had all 4 removed--my dentist said something about at least 1 of my teeth that he wanted to "show off" to another dentist. It was about the roots on the tooth, but I dunno if it was an unusual number (eg 3 or 5 compared to the typical 2 or 4) or something else about the roots. I know it wasn't particularly long--wikipedia has a picture of a long 2 root wisdom tooth--but meh, can't remember.

So some people get to have normal conversations with their dentist even as they pull away at a tooth for .5 hour

 

[Gamemaster77]

Why the hell didn't I get any vicodin after my wisdom tooth removal? What a rip.

No. Vicodin sucks. I felt completely fine until I took that stuff.

 

[Arakhor]

So some people get to have normal conversations with their dentist even as they pull away at a tooth for .5 hour

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!

 

[hobbsyoyo]

You were actually awake during the procedure? I was put completely under and barely remembering stumbling into the car when my mom drove me home.

I had a 'conscious anesthetic'; I was technically awake but I only remember bits and pieces like when they pulled out a tooth (don't remember all four going out though, just one that he had to tug at for a while) and when I said something really terrible to my mom right after the drugs kicked in. I remember I was about to tell her I was 'effed up' but at the last instant my brain decided that if I told her I was 'effed up' she might draw from that that I know what being 'effed up' is like, i.e. I had done drugs. So I told her to 'eff off' and her and the dentist laughed and he told her I didn't know what I was saying, that he had heard worse and that I wouldn't remember it. But I do remember it. Sad panda.

Next thing I know I'm in the parking lot waiting for the pharmacy to open and balling my eyes out because the anesthetic had worn off.

it probably depends if you get it removed preventively (i.e. as they grow in crooked) as opposed to if they are already causing problems, and I'm sure how they grow in (eg the 90 degree people--which wikipedia says is only 3%--must have a much harder time/probably just get knocked under)

I got lucky I guess, just had local anesthetic (novacaine/procaine I believe) and no pain, neither after the procedure nor during. Had all 4 removed--my dentist said something about at least 1 of my teeth that he wanted to "show off" to another dentist. It was about the roots on the tooth, but I dunno if it was an unusual number (eg 3 or 5 compared to the typical 2 or 4) or something else about the roots. I know it wasn't particularly long--wikipedia has a picture of a long 2 root wisdom tooth--but meh, can't remember.

So some people get to have normal conversations with their dentist even as they pull away at a tooth for .5 hour

The dentist kept one of my wife's extracted wisdom teeth; it had 5 roots so he wanted to show it to his students.


I think the level of drugs you get also depend on how invasive the procedure is. If they have to cut into your jaw to get some of them out, you're more likely to get heavier drugs compared to just pulling one out I think . Two of mine were simple-pulled, the other two hadn't erupted yet so they had to go digging for them.

 

[ReindeerThistle]

Shows how badly messed up the media's priorities are.

Yeah. Total news blackout on the Abu Ghraib breakout form the other day, too? Anyone else hear about that? Al Qaida freed all the Abu Ghraib prisoners. Not a word on the nightly news in the States.