My MIL is getting some long overdue new dentures, and it has fallen to me, the dental phobic, to escort her to her appointments.
I’ve never had a dentist not hurt me. This guy promises as pain-free a procedure as possible for Mom. We shall see.
Today’s questions:
How do you feel about going to the dentist?
How often do you go?
Do you have dental insurance? Is it worth a dental dam? (I crack myself up!)
Discuss!
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322 responses to “Poll: Dentists”
My dentist is a guy who I knew when we were growing up – we worked together at a golf course for a few summers – so I don’t mind going. I go twice a year for routine cleanings. I may not have been blessed with many genetic gifts, but indestructible teeth is one. Insurance covers routine care just fine. Fortunately, we haven’t needed more than that.
I have had better experiences with dentists in independant practices. The dentists working in bigger group practices seem more interested in upselling, and I didn’t even see the same dentist or hygenist during the years before I changes service providers.
I’ve never had a dentist not hurt me. Yep, same.
Hate the dentist so I don’t go very often. Luckily I was blessed with good teeth (1 cavity in 54 years) I just signed up for Dental Insurance through work so I might go for a cleaning this winter. Fully expect the usual speech on how I need to take better care of my teeth.
Do you floss bro?
I do after the possible link between dental plaques and dementia.
I floss to avoid the shame of bleeding during a cleaning.
That too.
I hate having food in my teeth. I get shit all the time about having floss in my desk drawer.
As you should.
Plaque-free weirdo.
Are you one of those people who floss while having a conversation?
What I don’t understand is the people who use the disposable floss/picks, and then just toss them on the ground in the parking lot.
You have a problem with that? You don’t want to see me flossing, get the fuck out of my office!
Right!?!?! They care so much about cleanliness that they just discard their floss stick wherever they feel like it.
Suppose it’s boomers who are used to doing it with a toothpick and they can’t break the habit of throwing it on the ground?
I get the use of the flosser (it’s easier to get in between the back teeth than regular floss) but the improper disposal makes no sense to me either.
Fuckin’ boomers like Yusef.
I imagine there is a possible link between _____________ and dementia.
I get your point, but flossing is a low risk, possible high reward gamble.
At the very least it gets a lot of that crap out from between the teeth.
I would guess that the link is sugar.
/goes back to eating leftover Halloween candy
Since I’ve recently moved and we’ve had, uh, other things to worry ’bout, no dentist yet. However, dentists are easy to find ’cause they’re still private and therefore respond to market demand. My bigger worry is locating a GP — they’re difficult to find in the land of socialized medicine. Fortunately, a partial fallback exists in Alberta — years ago, the provincial government allowed pharmacists to prescribe a lot of different meds based on relatively simple diagnostics, so many people just show up at a pharmacy, say (for example) “I think I have a fungal infection in my big toe,” and get a prescription on the spot. No opioids, of course, but there’s a wide range of things that pharmacists can prescribe.
Last dentist I went to twice a year for routine cleaning. Had to repair a problem with an interdental area two years ago, but no biggie. My spousal unit’s health insurance covers most procedures.
I have an excellent dentist. He’s a very nice guy too, with a very pleasant staff.
I go twice a year for check ups and cleanings. I had an extra two trips this past year due to a tooth with a crown breaking. It needed a little restoration and a new crown.
No dental insurance.
If your dentist is hurting you, he may be Steve Martin (or STEVE SMITH).
Or Laurence Olivier.
Is it safe?
That’s why they call it acting.
I had a dentist years ago who was ethnically German (surname), sported jewelers loops on his glasses and just generally looked a little too much the part. Fortunately, his personality and character (and work) were nothing like Dr. Zell.
Hey man, whatever you’re into. Glad you like him.
Damn it.
*golf clap*
Back in undergrad I went to get my wisdom teeth removed by a dentist arranged thru the VA. His assistant was one of the most drop-dead gorgeous Hispanic women I’d ever seen – and I grew up surrounded by them.
Unfortunately for me he never touched a nerve with the anesthesia (a fact I learned much later) so the procedure was literally torture and I never went back.
I just went to the dentist a couple months ago after 9 years since my last visit. I braced myself for some heavy damage but teeth were perfect. Dentist even turned down my offer to pay cash for the non-covered flouride treatment saying it would be a waste.
I’ve always had dental insurance that covered routine cleanings but never really found time to go. I’ll probably try to go once a year now.
My dentist is the son of the only dentist (other than being away in the military) Ive ever known. Im not sure about “pain free” since I accused the hygienist of working at Auschwitz.
But pain reduced. And since teefs seem to be a genetic thing, I drew the good cards. Other than when I was 6 or so (baby teeth), Ive never had a cavity.
Current dentist, or maybe just the hygienist, convinced my wife we needed electric brushes. God I hate that thing, I never had any issues using a manual.
What’s wrong with the electric? I have one and find it to be perfectly fine.
Don’t tell me what to do!
I go every 6 months. I have full dental and it’s pretty cheap, but pays for my cleanings and check ups.
You know what’s unpleasant? Getting a dental implant. I have two. I wouldn’t say it hurts, due to drugs.
Damn, if they’re not fantastic after the fact, but getting them? I found it profoundly unpleasant. The one needed a sinus lift. ?
I want to know where the Elon Musk of dentistry is. Why is the flying f— are we still scraping teeth with medieval tools to clean them?
I’m cool with my dentist and I don’t mind going, but with all of the medical breakthroughs we’ve seen the past 50+ years, why not some dental evolution?
No advancements?
Let’s ignore uv cured fillings, dental implants, invisialign, etc.
I should’ve specified dental CLEANING advancements.
Some places do lasers, apparently. I’ve never been, but per my post downthread I think it’s the only way I’d ever get a cleaning done again.
Ultrasonic teeth scalers? They still have to use the picks a bit, but 90% of the work that happened at my last two visits was done using a cavitron.
I’m your Huckleberry.
My dentist has something called a “Cavitron”?? It uses some type of high pressure water blasting thingy to remove tarter. I hate it, the old chiselling method is less painful for me.
The frequency of the water-driven pick is the only thing that causes me teeth to ache. It must be set to the resonance frequency of my nerves.
Yearly or biannual dentist appointments are a scam right up there with changing your oil every 3000 miles or adding bay leaves to stews. When my teeth hurt I’ll go see a dentists, I’m pushing 50 and have been to a dentist three times in my adult life and all of those had their roots (hah) in a skiing accident that fucked up my front teeth as a yute. Had that not occurred I would have never needed a dentist as an adult and I have no issues choppers-wise. It’s a con game, people, don’t let big dental scare you.
Washing with soap is another scam. Don’t get me started on hair care products.
I love you.
My wife has dental insurance and schedules family visits twice a year. I go and get cleaned. Once in a while he has to fix a cavity. Not a big deal. I was lucky in that I just don’t have wisdom teeth. But after teen braces had to have bridges for a gap because the molars never got pushed forward.
I go in twice a year for cleaning, it never bothers me and I don’t get cavities (knock on wood). I’m pretty meticulous about oral hygiene; brush twice a day and floss everyday. Never had to have expensive dental work or anything painful. I’ve never understood people who are dental-phobic.
Oh I understand the fear and pain. When a drill hits a nerve, the pain is exquisite – even with novacaine. Not sure I could resist giving the secret plans to a Nazi with a dental drill.
The worst part is when they try to make small talk. Am I the only patient who cannot talk while you’re digging into my mouth? I find that hard to believe, and yet your still asking questions.
It’s an inside joke. They’re fucking with you.
I pretend to sleep.
I should take a sleep mask next time so they take the hint.
Glib Master-Debaters:
I’m waiting on one late entry to bring the number of contestants to six. If he doesn’t respond by tomorrow morning, he’ll be cut and we’ll stick with five. Then the topics and matchups will go out.
Good luck!
Is you waiting for me? Did I miss a submission or some such?
Q wants all entries to come by email. you can get his email from the site by emailing them at submit at glibertarians dot com
Danke!
I’m a master non-de bator. Does that count?
I go to the dentist only when I have issue. Which has worked out to once every decade, or so. I have paid for dental insurance at every job I’ve had. Even though I rarely use it, I think I’m still money ahead…or at least around even. I’ve had 2 wisdom teeth extracted, a filling, and a crown.
In spite of my few issues, I’ve been blessed with healthy teeth. Every time that I have actually gone in, they remark how good my teeth look…previously mentioned issues notwithstanding.
Oh, and I’m not afraid of the dentist, I just don’t think it’s necessary unless there is obviously something wrong.
My dentist when I was a child graduated from Josef Mengele School of Dentistry. I swear he was stepping on the novocaine and using it for personal consumption.
Then I had a decent dentist but he was in my parent’s town in Indiana, so I saw him infrequently. Never had a problem with cavities, just went long times between cleanings.
Found a great dentist in Long Beach, and went every six months for the last five years or so. My front tooth is reconstructed due to a swimming pool accident as a kid. It snapped off a couple years ago, and he just patched it up. Didn’t try to sell me on pulling it or capping it.
Now we’re in Seattle and we have to find a new dentist. I’m a little weary.
We got plenty of dental insurance.
I’m on my 10th posting of the Washington Examiner story about Facederp scrubbing Caramel Boy’s name
I may be becoming obsessive here.
and I am so dentist (and doctor) phobic I once pulled my own tooth. (don’t do this)
Lol.
I cut the shit out my foot and stitched it up myself.
My right wrist is twisted enough that the Styloid process of my Ulna sticks up about 3/8″ when I hold my hands out flat. This is because I never went to a doctor when I ‘sprained’ my wrist right before I left for college. About 30 years later I was talking with an Orthopedist (client of mine) and mentioning that and the odd effects it has when I work out (I get numbness and tingling on the outside of my right elbow after repetitive motions, like rowing) and he looks at me s and asks when I broke it and who set it crooked. I reply Never, I sprained it once decades ago. He says “No, you broke it, and let it heal out of place. We could rebreak it and maybe straighten it.”
No.
Not happening
No way No How
Jarflax. That’s what happened to my buddy. He lived with it until he couldn’t anymore. So….smash! And rebuild.
You’re like fucken Rambo.
Lol. No.
It was a Sunday. I was hosting a family event. I had a suture kit. A couple of shots for the pain, a few stitches and boom!
Barely any scar.
This is the definition of toxic masculinity.
Pffft a real man would have stitched it with the floss in his desk.
The algorithm is becoming self-aware?
It isn’t getting faster at taking it down, between an hour and two hours each time before it disappears.
I like your style. What’s the endgame?
They will ban me or I will get bored. I have no plan besides cut paste repeat.
Excellent. Keep us in the loop.
Didn’t you agree to their TOS when you joined? not sure that breaking one’s word is something worth bragging about.
How is reposting public knowledge breaking the terms of service?
“Any mention of the potential whistleblower’s name violates our coordinating harm policy, which prohibits content ‘outing of witness, informant, or activists,’” a representative said in a statement Friday.
Might be stupid but, their site their rules.
And if they want to ban me they can.
His name has already been made public multiple times through various new outlets. The Twitter policy is moot.
will revisit this decision should their name be widely published in the media or used by public figures in debate
The beauty of open ended subjective language.
?
(That’s supposed to be a tub of popcorn)
No shit.
Haha. Lighten up, Francis.
Sounds about right.
I am posting a link to a news article. I am not calling for anyone to be harmed or posting anything illegal. Nor am I ‘bragging’. I’m cutting and pasting a web address, that is not brave, skillful, or difficult. I’m amusing myself in a harmless way poking fun at something that I find annoying. Sometimes you point out cases where I or others are being inconsistent with our espoused principles; this is not one of those times.
Facebook has made it clear that they do not want you doing that on their site, they have explained how it violates their TOS, you continue to do so even though you are aware that they don’t want you to. Coming here and saying ‘hey look at me fucking with facebook’ sure seems like bragging to me (boasting maybe a better word i dunno), semantics aside my point remains the same.,
I am not sure when I gave the impression that I consider pushing envelopes a bad thing in and of itself. I must have done so inadvertently because I don’t accept that idea at all. They have the right and the power to boot me from the site. I won’t sue them; I’ll accept it, but I’m damned if I will self censor according to any rules I do not find reasonable.
Did WebDip start yesterday? I thought it was today at 4:30???
Yes. It seems to start the 1 day turn clock when the game is filled.
I haven’t been for too many years. My last dentist instilled a massive amount of distrust.
I floss a couple times a day.
I wouldn’t mind getting my teeth whitened. Any of y’all done it?
Don’t use Tremclad.
That’s all I’m gonna say.
Racist.
I got the strips from Costco. Just started but already a noticeable difference.
Yep, hmm, about 8 or 10 years ago now. Big coffee (and red wine) drinker and I had some impressive staining. Somehow the wife worked a deal and decided my teeth needed whitening more than hers. Couple of hours for the procedure, and I gotta say the results were great. It was the UV thing.
I don’t go to the dentist very often. I also had 1 cavity In my entire life. I don’t go because I don’t have many issues. I have insurance and my dentist is a friend of mine.
Braces as a kid made me a bit leery of the tooth profession, but my dentist is a good dude.
I spent a shit-ton on my Spawns’ teeth. My lowers are a hot mess, but not once did my dentist ever suggest braces. Now it seems like every goddamn kid gets them.
Does he have a very pleasant staff?
His staff is full of lookers. So that’s not a bad thing.
You know that’s an euphemism for cute women, right?
The one who does my cleanings is adorable.
?
Lookers…..lookers.
The 3D mapping cameras and CNC machine he uses to make fillings is amazing. He made a ceramic plug that matches the previous tooth and drilled cavity perfectly.
OT: Rick and Morty.
Saw the first episode of Season 4 and it was ok. Admittedly, it would have been very difficult for it to live up to the anticipation, but I think it was creditable. I’ve become a little annoyed with just how godlike Rick has become. I enjoyed it more when he was just a mega-smart mad scientist, not this indestructible superhuman.
I’m sure I’ll enjoy the rest of the season though.
Pickle Rick bugs me for that reason.
Yeah, I watched it twice. Now even Morty can be a god. Hopefully they’ll find their stride. Still not a “bad” episode in my opinion.
The Mandalorian starts in a few hours, so I’m gonna give that a spin. R&M can wait, AFAIAC.
You make me sick!
Get your barf bag ready, then.
Fuck–when Werner is a fairly important cast member (in at least one epi), along with Carl and Giancarlo and Gina (hot damn!), you damn skippy I’ma watch.
Disney has done nothing with the property but create things I can’t even save in edit. That is pretty bad as I think I did a decent job of saving those POS prequels in edit. I’m just done with Star Wars now. *Looks lovingly at my full size R2-D2 and sheds a tear.*
I bought the ticket, so I’m gonna ride the train a while.
I *should* go more often. And every time it’s the same broken record. ‘Wow, your teeth are very healthy and clean considering how little you come but you should come more often.’
Me: Yeh, yeh. Just give me by fun bag.
my
Felt is easy to work with.
“I told my dentist my teeth are going yellow. he told me to wear a brown tie.” Rodney Dangerfield.
I was scared of dentists for years for several reasons. The dentist I had as a youth gave me preventive fillings. Then because the question about my teeth was not whether or not I needed braces braces, but whether braces would work or not — surgery was an option. I four teeth pulled to make room for the rest, and then four more pulled so the orthodontist could do his work. The combination of the two kept me away from the dentist for years.
I went back to the dentist after about 15 years and since then it hasn’t been so bad. I still don’t like going because I have a small mouth but I’m not as afraid anymore.
What kind of sick shit is this?
Billable activities.
When I questioned the dentist I had now, he said it was common in the 70’s.
Cleanings twice a year. The molar that holds my first filling(45 years old), just had a chunk fall off. I haven’t scheduled an appointment for a crown yet. Dental insurance is a good thing.
Colkegan America Single Malt is an interesting dram. Not sure what I think about it yet.
Mesquite smoked malt? I hate to say “no” without tasting it first, but color me skeptical…
It’s not bad. The smoke isn’t overpowering. It’s a cross between scotch, and American whiskey.
So it’s bland? I mean that in a good way.
Have you had Amrut, the single malt from India? I put it in that same category. It’s unique and interesting, but not something I would want to drink on a regular basis. And it has some heat on the finish.
I really like Amrut in small doses. It’s good, but not a daily drinker. I can’t really put my finger on why.
Based on your question, if you like bourbon, I would recommend the Early Times Bottled in Bond. It’s a decent drink for $24 a litre.
I go very, very rarely. For years that was because I didn’t have dental insurance and I’ve never had problems with my teeth.
When I got my current job and the insurance with it, I decided to go to my wife’s dentist, who she and her whole family swear by. I go in for a cleaning, and the hygienist is getting nervous because when she pokes me with the cleaning thing below the gum line I’m wincing. Because it hurts. I’m not wild about it, but I’m ok to continue. SHE decides she’d prefer to have the dentist come in and give me Novocaine to make *me* more comfortable.
Prior to this I had never known that dentists used needles for anything. Every time I’ve ever been, even as a child getting a cavity filled, I never even saw the needle. This dude comes in and sticks a friggin’ caulk gun in my jaw. I immediately feel what I can only describe is the closest I can imagine to being struck by lightning. Pain doesn’t even begin to describe it. It literally took my breath away. This chucklehead gives me a sheepish look and tells me that he “must’ve hit a nerve bundle” and that’s actually a good thing because the Novocaine will take effect more quickly. He then goes on to finish half the cleaning, then says he doesn’t want to do the whole thing in one day because “I’m sure you don’t want to sit here any longer than you have to”, prescribes me some whacky mouthwash, and hustles me out to the receptionist to schedule a next appointment.
I’m in line at the pharmacy a half hour later. I’m drooling–I’m not the only one, mind you–and when I talk it sounds like I’ve just had a stroke in the parking lot on the way in. After trying to explain that I’m not normally like this, I pick up some disgusting mouthwash and leave.
I have never returned. Everything seems fine. I hear there are dentists who use lasers for cleaning, so maybe some day I’ll check that out if I’m really, really bored. In the mean time, I brush once or twice a day, floss on occasion, and use a Waterpik at night. I don’t have funky breath and now that I only smoke about once every two weeks I don’t generally have bleeding gums, other than, oddly, when the air pressure changes significantly.
I’m not phobic, but I sure don’t look forward to going to the dentist. For me, the issue isn’t pain so much as my very sensitive gag reflex. (Teeing up the jokes for you guys. You’re welcome.) I also have trouble relaxing my tongue, and I never know where to put it. (Ditto re: jokes.)
I’ve been going twice a year for cleanings but have had a couple more appointments this year to get a crown on a previously-filled tooth that had cracked. They’ve talked me into coming in again after just four months for cleaning because I get fairly quick tartar buildup and hate flossing with a passion. (See previously mentioned gag reflex.)
I do have dental insurance through my employer of almost twenty years. The dental coverage is, of course, a damn sight cheaper than the medical insurance. It’ll cover twice-yearly cleanings and annual x-rays. It doesn’t cover fluoride treatments for adults, and it won’t cover the third cleaning in a year, but I have an HSA to which my employer contributes. I’ve been lucky enough to build up a decent balance (knock wood,) so I’ll use that for whatever the insurance won’t cover.
“Teeing up the jokes for you guys.”
You take all the fun out of it. *kicks pebble*
After reading that I’ve got some wood for you to knock.
Euphemisms…
sensitive gag reflex
I won’t make a joke, seriously it sounds like you need to meet Seans dentist.
I’m always happy to meet a nice guy with a pleasant staff.
For those of you who want to know more about Smudge the Cat. Hint.
I can’t get enough of that image.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mbmb3b/meet-smudge-the-cat-confused-hero-in-the-table-cat-meme
So the running theme here it seems Glibs are scared of the dentist.
Here’s my face:
https://twitter.com/MISSINGEGIRL/status/1123647491025428480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1123647491025428480&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.complex.com%2Flife%2F2019%2F11%2Fwoman-yells-at-smudge-the-cat-meme-second-life-twitter
Dentists are monster, and the amount of you who are friends with a dentist who you allow to touch the inside of your mouth is horrifying.
Additionally, people with white teeth are hiding something.
Crusty’s “pearly” “whites”
Shane MacGowan?
I got a tooth cleaning in Dar es Salaam in 2008 or so. It sucked. They put a rotating hook in my mouth. I was spitting blood the next day.
In retrospect, I should have complained sooner. Perhaps it was an honest mistake.
I am a proud anti- dentite.
I go regularly after not going for many years. Had a broken tooth and went to the dentist my cousin worked at. Every time I have an appointment I dread it but I’m always fine afterwards. I haven’t had many issues over the years and they always have been great. I had a root canal that wasn’t that bad (compared to others experiences) thanks to the place they referred me too.
I’ve been to see a dentist once in the past fifteen years, and he scraped my teeth, filled a couple cavities, and talked about conspiracy theories the entire time. FEMA death camps featured prominently. But not fluoride.
Not white, either. Strange old Chinese dude.
Did he offer you a frogurt?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtmTYTWWhOA
Your dentist is David Lo Pan?
“Magic. The darkest magic. My soul swims in it. Scattered across time, trapped in the world of formlessness…”
Derpy on the road: a dramatic re-enactment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeR27OP4V7U
One of these days I should watch that.
Oh my God.
Iknowright??? Should put up the entire movie, not just the first minute and a half…
I hate the dentist. I also have a family history of people with awful teeth so I go 3x/year to get ahead of any problems.
I went a month ago for the first time in almost 3 years. It was unpleasant, and the dentist tried to upsell me on a $600 grinding guard. However, the cavity I had filled was the least unpleasant I have ever had. I’ll be keeping up the 6 month visits now.
I have bad teeth. I’ve lost count of all the cavities I’ve had filled over the years. I keep dental insurance because you never know what the next procedure is going to cost.
Twice a year. Free insurance from work and its barely woth it.
OT: I did a brake job on my car yesterday. The new aftermarket disks and pads are so much better than stock. They are smooth, progressive, and much stronger than the OE. They also look great and don’t rust. I can recommend Powerstop products.
That reminds me, I was wondering what the main friction surface of brake pads was made of? Anyone know off the top of their (gear)head?
Here you go.
Short answer: it depends.
I like ceramic.
Thank you.
Asbestos was the go-to for a long time.
Fun fact: asbestos means indestructible in Greek
oopsy – the series of tubes says unquenchable
“These pretzels are making me thirsty!”
Yep. And a good blast of compressed air kepet the dust from building up in the drums.
“Breathe it in, fellas! Only pussies wear masks!”
My dad worked on the Santa Fe railroad for a while. He met a bunch of old guys who were stone deaf because the culture was that hearing protection was for pussies.
***
While Greeks and Romans exploited the unique properties of asbestos, they also documented its harmful effects on those who mined the silken material from ancient stone quarries. Greek geographer Strabo noted a “sickness of the lungs” in slaves who wove asbestos into cloth. Roman historian, naturalist and philosopher, Pliny the Elder, wrote of the “disease of slaves,” and actually described the use of a thin membrane from the bladder of a goat or lamb used by the slave miners as an early respirator in an attempt to protect them from inhaling the harmful asbestos fibers as they labored.
***
How do you feel about going to the dentist?
Extreme fear of dentists.
How often do you go?
Only when absolutely necessary. Lost a crown last year, used every over-the-counter option available for three months to avoid a visit. Finally gave-in when the adhesive would only hold for a couple hours and my craving for Milk Duds got the best of me.
Do you have dental insurance? Is it worth a dental dam? (I crack myself up!)
You are killing me with this nonsense.
Marvel’s Kevin Feige Breaks Silence on Scorsese Attack: “It’s Unfortunate”
That’s certainly a quote.
I should watch that one of these days.
They deviated from the source material.
I never read the source. How far and how badly? I don’t follow the comics much other than to be vaguely aware of them, but I liked the direction they took Captain America and Iron Man in Civil War. I was impressed that they approached some fairly heady topics for a big market superhero movie. I actually thought the RoboCop reboot did something similar. For a brief, shining moment it was like the libertarian moment really was about to happen.
I donno, I didn’t read marvel when I read comic books.
Only to revive them all in the next movie like everyone expected.
Never trust a man who’ll put his fingers in another man’s mouth
Racist.
Transgender candidate just wants to get rid of traffic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSuDYyJS5o4
[anguished Zoidberg groan]
Not Kif?
It was a toss up.
[Bender laugh] was also a possibility.
To borrow and update a Farnsworth quote:
“Your tranny can go to hell!”
Anti cop tweet leads non-binary school board member to tender their resignation.
Kudos to her. She’s talking about an issue that matters to most people instead of prattling about social justice bullshit.
Yeah, but the position she was elected to has no ability to affect traffic.
I’m sure xe will find something else to meddle in.
Shit hole is gonna shit hole.
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2019/11/11/richard-grenell-california-needs-a-reality-check-after-reading-san-francisco-das-stance-on-quality-of-life-crimes/
California Crisis
*Insert Winston’s usual gripes*
How ironic…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jne9t8sHpUc
Winston from the top ropes!
W’re done. It’s Closing Time.
Is this about the Disney thing? Is that where all this hate’s coming from??
Well, they changed things about beloved franchises that pissed off the fans, then they pissed on the fans for grumbling and for immutable characteristics while throwing in somes namecalling, and it sorta snowballed from there.
Sir Digs, I actually like both of those songs, and I was glad Winston dropped the shtick for once. And also what the gentle gloved giant said.
Oh, I’m well aware of how they’ve fucked up. And, I do consider it fucking up. And, trying to blame ‘n’ shame the offended.
Still gonna watch. I’ll turn it off if/when I don’t like what I see.
But you paid for Disney Owns Your Soul+, so they already won whether you watch or not.
C–I see what you mean about Winston’s comment, and agree. Don’t much care for either song, myself, so I figured it was a good way to
pull the dagger out of may back just a bitgive some friendly push-back.7 day free trial.
Not even my song!? *RUNS AWAY CRYING*
Ok, move along citizen.
For the record, UCS forewent his meeting people gloves when we met up, cuz I’m cool like that.
Ah! So, he brought his corpse-handling gloves.
/I’m here all night, folks. Be sure to tip the waitress…
Digitally this a bit of a mess, but the Intro and then the song Alicia Amnesia. (The intro was a separate track, so two links.)
I prefer: It’s Finally Ironic
“It’s like a black fly in your chardonnay…that was specifically purchased… to repel black flies…”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32LCwZFoKio
And she doesn’t get to fuck Ryan Reynolds, now that is ironic…
Old Town Grope ~ PARODY of Old Town Road
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJNs2i7dT-w
featuring Joe Biden
Taps just played where I am. Here’s taps at Arlington:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bfe4TxvUOiw
The longest bugle call is called tattoo. It comes from the old west days. It was a signal to get inside the fort because the gate was going to be closed soon. It also meant go to bed/be quiet. Taps meant guards are posted, so stay in your room, or be prepared for challenge if you are trying to enter the fort.
Tattoo was also when the taps on the beer were closed for the night. Hence why some old NCO’s called it “tap too”. When I was at Ft Lewis in the early 1980’s they still closed the NCO Club bar on weeknights at Tattoo.
I always appreciated hearing the regular bugle calls on military installations. It gives a pace to daily life.
I’m surprised there aren’t more and higher quality on iTunes/Amazon. All those band units sucking money and oxygen and no one seems to be able to release a quality album or two of bugle calls. Or the Army song.
The final gun salute followed by “Echo Taps” at a military funeral still rips at my heart.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy6qCeE_6rE
I almost never go to the dentist.
I think the last time was about ten years ago. I just went in for a cleaning. They said I need to have planing (?) done because I had gum pockets or something. I never got it done, and my teeth are still fine.
I’ve never had a cavity.
That’s why I wash my mouth out with ethanol a couple few times a week.
40% to 45% solution? Me too.
Jim Beam is my favorite dentist.
I’m rarely sick, too… once in the past five years that seemed remarkable, and only because I remember being sick. I don’t even know what it was. And the sickest I’ve been since I was still getting fevers as a child was bronchitis, and that was in my early twenties. I think the booze keeps me well. Call it hormesis.
Surprised this hasn’t been posted yet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOtMizMQ6oM
Little Shop of Horrors – Dentist Song
Less singing. More math, please.
https://mobile.twitter.com/fox5dc/status/1192441575533694977
Meh, it’s probably less damaging than when they actually ‘teach’.
I look at my niece’s math homework (junior hs) and am pretty sure most American university students couldn’t do it. The gap is unbelievably wide.
Math is taught remarkably poorly. I remember taking trigonometry in college and it was the easiest class because the professor knew how to teach math. Most just tell you to memorize the formula and plug & chug.
If children were forced to learn language like math, there would be a lot of grunting and pointing.
Math should be taught in the form of word problems from day 1.
Tor a while they’ve been trying to teach reading like they teach math, and there’s a lot of poor literacy. I wonder if there’s a connection?
Also the foundations need to be explained. How the formulas were discovered. What the parts of the formula mean. Etc.
I was a poor math student for a long time because math requires you to be careful and follow a process, not just regurgitate.
I really think that if the first math problem kids saw was something like “Today is Monday, September 1st. How many days until Friday?”, there would be a lot less confusion.
Most people are never going to need to find the area of a circle or the slope of a line or the solution of a partial differential equation. Just teach math in a straightforward, practical way.
side note: teenage me realized I sucked at math and worked hard to get better. I did and got a scholarship to study chemical engineering.
¡Es una pregunta capciosa! ‘Friday’ no existe. Pero el viernes faltan cuatro días.
One of the best classes I had was a “practical” math class that used real life applications to teach math concepts.
I never understood what math was about – always thought it was some shit humans made up which was totally disconnected from the natural world. I suppose that’s because I never saw any trees which are entirely symmetrical.
It was only when I was taking calculus and the instructor showed how we can use math to describe the curve of a cable handing between two posts when the lightbulb finally went on.
I took trig in 10th grade. That’s probably why taking it in college was easy for you.
Here ya go:
College Students Really Think This
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeqkVTZOXWE
VIDEO: Students can’t name a single just war the U.S fought
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=13977
***
One student argued that World War II was a just war because the U.S. won freedom from Great Britain.
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[Kif sigh]
I know some people say WW2 was justified, but I’m curious if we had stayed truly neutral if the Japanese would still have attacked Pearl Harbor.
The Japanese would have attacked. They were itching for a fight.
My understanding is the Japanese (correctly) perceived the US as a threat to their plans in the Pacific, which would be regardless of US actions. They didn’t declare war on the UK until Pearl Harbor either, despite being in alliance with Germany for over a year prior.
Fun fact: Japan awarded Curtis LeMay, architect of the bombing campaign of Japan including firebombing and aerial mining, the highest grade Grand Cordon Order of the Rising Sun on Dec 7 (of 1964).
Saburo Sakai, a Japanese ace during WW2 said:
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Likewise, although Japan had been defeated in the Second World War with great loss of life, Sakai serenely accepted this outcome: “Had I been ordered to bomb Seattle or Los Angeles in order to end the war, I wouldn’t have hesitated. So I perfectly understand why the Americans bombed Nagasaki and Hiroshima.”
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The US Navy did a flyby for the funeral of some Japanese ace, and I’m pretty sure it was him.
I read a biography of Japanese Admiral Yamamoto about 20 years ago. Yamamoto had drawn plans for an attack on Pearl Harbor as a college exercise in the early 1930’s. The Japanese Army was spoiling for a fight and got the Emperor to endorse the plan. They basically coerced Yamamoto and the Japanese Navy into actually executing a “college project” plan.
Simpsons did it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64PKoAiWhjE
Fuck you! I’m not showing my work! It’s a proprietary trade secret!
I didn’t know you were climate modeler.
That’s “climate crisis modeler” to you, shitlord!
Pick! Nice return. Good Monday night game.
I go about every 5 years. The dentist generally says something like “your teeth are delightfully boring.”
The hygienists want to know what type of electric toothbrush I use (it’s just plain ones , no electric. Pure elbow grease!)
The longest drought I had was 11 years in my 20s.
No problem though.
Wilson with a bug run and then a TD bloop pass to Hollister.
At the lobby bar at The Little America Hotel in SLC. Watching the Seahawks. Drinking a Red Rock “Elephino Double IPA”.
That was a heck of a catch by Hollister – at least to my uneducated (about football) eye. Seahawks seem to have come to life this quarter.
Yeah. Both teams are hitting hard. Seattle is pumped right now.
That was fucked. But typical for this game so far.
That was fucked. But typical for this game so far.
That was fucked. But typical for this game so far.
Nice. A double post is one thing, but a triple post? There has to be a trophy for that.
https://tinyurl.com/rp2p8dz
NSFW.
https://tinyurl.com/rjjgo2b
NSFW.
https://tinyurl.com/sovlsqo
NSFW.
https://tinyurl.com/wvhmclf
NSFW.
https://tinyurl.com/sro5qsc
NSFW.
1. I feel like it’s an acceptable annoyance. I had one dentist who tried to upsell me on everything under the sun, so I left that practice, but the rest have been unobjectionable.
2. I go twice a year now. My last job had a Cadillac dental plan that covered four cleanings a year.
3. I have dental insurance through work. It’s cheap and it covers the cleanings.
Having never had a cavity it seems like the dentist just gets pissed off at me, and shoves that hook thing straight into my gums.
I’ve had cavities, but just on baby teeth. I’m not a fan of the hook-to-the-gums, but at least that’s over with that day. The dermatologist, on the other hand… I am apparently not allowed to leave the office without having at least one mole sliced off, and the latest one is still healing after almost a month.
Keeping mementos? Probably a serial killer.
Nah, probably just from a sister cult to Dave Barry’s nurses.
If God wanted us to brush, he’d have put a toothbrush on one of our fingers!
Dental hygiene around the world:
In Indonesia and some other places, having white teeth is bad, because only animals like dogs have white teeth.
In East Africa, the traditional tooth brush is called mswaki- it’s a stick you chew on to clean your teeth. It was adopted from an Arab custom.
And of course, the Nacirema, a primitive North American tribe, have the most extraordinary dental superstitions:
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In the hierarchy of magical practitioners, and below the medicine men in prestige, are specialists whose designation is best translated as “holy-mouth-men.” The Nacirema have an almost pathological horror of and fascination with the mouth, the condition of which is believed to have a supernatural influence on all social relationships. Were it not for the rituals of the mouth, they believe that their teeth would fall out, their gums bleed, their jaws shrink, their friends desert them, and their lovers reject them. They also believe that a strong relationship exists between oral and moral characteristics. For example, there is a ritual ablution of the mouth for children which is supposed to improve their moral fiber. ¶ 9
The daily body ritual performed by everyone includes a mouth-rite. Despite the fact that these people are so punctilious [6] about care of the mouth, this rite involves a practice which strikes the uninitiated stranger as revolting. It was reported to me that the ritual consists of inserting a small bundle of hog hairs into the mouth, along with certain magical powders, and then moving the bundle in a highly formalized series of gestures.[7]
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Hey! We’ve replaced the hog hairs with petroleum-based polymers.
And, that is problematic.
Nothing more satisfying than plucking a straw of foxtail grass, and working all the nooks and crannies in your mouth. Real Huck Finn style.
Motel of the Mysteries?
Similar idea, yes.
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The high esteem of the cult is demonstrated by the fact that near every population center, when not disturbed by the accumulation of debris, archaeologists have found large and orderly collections of the Elibomotua cult symbol. The vast number of these collections has given us the opportunity to reconstruct with considerable confidence the principal ideas of the cult. The newest symbols seem to have nearly approached the ultimate of the Nacirema’s cultural ideal. Their colors, material, and size suggest an enclosed mobile device that corresponds to no color or shape found in nature, although some authorities suggest that, at some early time in the development, the egg may have been the model. The device was provided with its own climate control system as well as a system that screened out many of the shorter rays of the light spectrum.[5]
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Can you solve the mystery?
Is there supposed to be a mystery?
Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! I know this one! Itz carz!
[puts gold star on GT’s Book-It button]
4 more and you get a personal pan pizza from Pizza Hut.
::claps hands and giggles:: Yay me! : D
…and I’m gonna quit while I’m ahead. Nighty night!
Well, shit…I didn’t even notice that was you, GT. What I get for paying too much attention to avatar pics.
G’night
If you see a movie at a theater on a US military base, there will be a something like this right before the main feature:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwGodJTgCwE
Fuck Communism, militant Islam, and all those other poisonous systems in the ass, mouth, eye.
Don’t make me come over there.
Are you supposed to stand? That’s confusing! Like when the play the anthem and I’m driving! What the hell am I supposed to do?!
If you’re in the theater, yeah, you stand. A mighty shout at the end is highly encouraged.
same song, different footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zq1xMXOhxqE
Hey asshole, I’m trying to watch that! *Throws popcorn at Derpy*
Stop your vehicle along the side of the road, exit the vehicle and turn towards either the flag or sound of the music.
Hah, if that were a thing, I’d play the anthem like 10 times an hour to fuck with everyone. *Radio DJs get bored*
https://youtu.be/FsWPB1pfZBI
Sgt Derpy is getting salty. He’s earned his wolf burger tonight.
Well, that’s just the beer talking….
I have a PhD in PBR….
Wolf burger was what this one Desert Storm vet called the free/cheap burgers served in the morale tent. Based on this
https://apnews.com/0d7627da0672881dd1706c7935ff7da4
Aging yourself there Gustave. I had forgotten about Wolf Burgers until I saw that Camp Roberts has an original WolfBurger vehicle.
But after weeks of Kuwaiti food they were AWESOME at that time.
I watched snippets of Desert Storm on TV when I was kid. My mom took us and had us pray for the soldiers. Then I played with my Army toys.
I was 6.
I remember playing during that time.
I was 19, so the playing was quite different. Still….
I was a mid range Captain commanding an ODA.
By the time of Iraq I had troops that didn’t recognize the ribbons. (SWASM and KLMs)
Wow. Those always stood out to me on a rack because the two KLMs were almost always paired and at the end.
Dbl, ya hit me with some heavy shit! (I was just being cheeky)
I have nothing of value to add, other than awe, and a virtual hand-shake.
I was an E-4 in an Air Defense unit of the 7th Infantry Division (Light) and we were all on the edge of our seats wondering if were going to be deployed to the sandbox.
I’m not quite sure what my grade-school age sons think when they’ve seen that in the half-dozen times we’ve watched a movie on base. There’s no time to ask them right after it plays and by the end of the movie they wouldn’t remember.
Late to the party but
1. I am an adult so while i don’t like I don’t have particular feelings about it. Something that needs to happen. When i was a kid it was bad. These days the technique and anesthetics are much better.
2. Once a year for checkups and cleanups or whenever I have a problem
3. Not really but that is not a thing jn Romania. Dentists here are relatively cheap for Europe, we also get dental tourism from england or germany or such
Dentists here are relatively cheap for Europe
Unsurprising. The only teeth that matter are the canines.
That’s my approach. Manufactured demand raises prices. ‘See me again in six months.’ ‘No, fuck you.’
The Eastern Bloc wasn’t known for its good Dentistry. Lot of Cold War books mention this.
OK, I’m just spluttering. Is that OK? I hope so. Lucky for me, I don’t have to get up early tomorrow. Get bent, reveille.
Parenting Under Capitalism │ Means TV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBsTed0yJZ8
[Hank Hill BWAAA]
So apparently under socialism, parents get to stay home all day and play with their kids at a great salary?
I think this lady might be in for a rude awakening should her dream of socialism come to fruition.
Vindman’s public testimony, if it happens, could be interesting.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/analysis-democrats-have-a-col-vindman-problem
In ot 3 I moved back home to help care for my dad. At the time I had a two year old niece that was born while I was gone. I raised her as much as as my own, as she lived with my parents. She watched every episode of Transformers, Thundercats, Dino-Riders etc. She knew the simplified version of gravitational theory before first grade. 5 years ago my dad died and I stepped back from directly raising her. Today she’s 18 and caught up in the current gender hoopla. I’m now double her age. Where the fuck does time go?
“Where the fuck does time go?”
It slips irrevocably into the past.
Well, one thing I’ve heard any scientific reasoning for; according to Einsteinian physics, gravity and speed affect time, which would make it a physical thing; but if it’s a physical thing that only exists at the moment, every moment should produce energy as it is destroyed, if it is destroyed, if it isn’t destroyed, it must exist somewhere.
My theory: in the shitter. That’s only based on personal experience, and other anecdotal evidence.
Who can say where the time goes?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wfYIMyS_dI
Yes, who?
https://youtu.be/XTIPCc1nKYQ
talkin’ ’bout your generation?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN5zw04WxCc
Yeah, what Derpy posted.
Keith Moon?
I mean, all things considered…
https://youtu.be/0b1RdTx2ZPs
Geoffrey Palmer is my spirit animal.
Is it safe?
Not to worry, straff–you’re safe with me.
This thread is a marathon, man.
I see they’ve hit a nerve, here.
Well….you gotta drill down on the specifics in these comments, or else, you’re just gumming it. And some of the stories can have you on pins and needles. I mean, that’s their hook, usually.
Of course, you can just scrape by, if that suits you. But, that’s less filling, in my opinion.
You’re not safe from Viking Muppets:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTwq1_9VH68
or the even real sailor Muppets:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6j7YeEM2Bg
You’re such swine! Just…rotten.
you brute! you brute! you vicious, vicious brute!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMK6lzmSk2o
If I worked for Mel Brooks, I, too, would be telling everyone. “Piss on you!”
Anyone about? I’m back to my old self this morning – at least in terms of my avatar. Not looking forward to having to clean snow off my car and negotiate the roads to what’s likely to be a hectic workday.
Good morning, mam. We are expecting our 1st snowfall of the season tonight – high of 58° (right now), low of 24° (by tonight). I like driving in the snow. I do NOT like driving in the snow with lots of other cars on the road (NYC drivers are questionable, at best, even in nice weather).
I woke to freezing rain (my least favorite, non-disaster weather) which thankfully turned to sleet by the time I parked at work.
Good morning, UCS. FYI, I’ve just started reading Shadowboy – so far just the first chapter. Love the premise, including the bureaucratic agency for superheroes a la the BMV.
I hope you enjoy the rest of the book too.
Good morning, l0! Do you have to commute into Manhattan? My commute is about 30 minutes, from north of Dayton to south of Dayton and about half surface streets, half interstate. Getting onto the interstate is the worst part – I have to get three lanes over to the left pretty quickly lest I’m forced to exit again against my will.
I almost feel bad talking of my commute. I live and work on the Rockaway Peninsula so it’s about 1.5 miles to my job and 3 miles to the kid’s school. Today, however, I have to schlep into Brooklyn (14 miles); usually takes about an hour but with snow/sleet, probably 1.5 or 2 hours.
That usual routine sounds great! The schlep into Brooklyn sounds bad enough – my 15 mile commute only takes half that amount of time going in. (It’s a big longer coming home because traffic is heavier, but I don’t have to clock in at home.)
I try to avoid going into Manhattan as much as possible. In-laws are Broadway-hounds so they often drag us to shows but they retired to Florida a month ago so I haven’t had to go to the Accursed Island since I last took the kids to the Museum of Natural History for the new Tyrannosaurus exhibit back in April.
Sigh… my teeth came straight from The Big Book Of British Smiles. The Army dentist screwed up my teeth, the VA only covers dental if you are a veteran of the Mexican Border War period, so my last dental visit was in 1997 to try to fix what the Army broke. Now I’m just waiting for them to get bad enough to yank and replace with fancy false teeth.
Dentistry? I’m British so I will sit this one out.
So what is the deal with Brits & their teeth? Is it genetic?
I have no idea. I haven’t seen a dentist in about 8 years, so the genetic link may be more complicated than simple enamel durability, i.e., this man is genetically predisposed to avoiding the dentist, or neglecting proper oral hygeine. Of course, we have free dentistry here in the UK, but I have never seen an NHS dentist in my entire life. I’ve been considering a visit recently because one of my fillings fell out, but I moved and need to work up the confidence to approach a new dentist.
Mr. GT tells me there’s ice under the snow on the cars, so I’d best go clean up so I can start the archeological dig. I wish you all as pleasant a day as conditions permit.
What snow? It is early October weather outside
Oh, so it’s snowing there too?
Good luck.
I’d much rather have ice over the snow. That is at least easier to remove and somewhat fun to deal with. (Compared to snow over ice)