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forkboy84 posted:loving what? What a weird town Literally never ever heard it used in that context.
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Oscar Romeo Romeo posted:Teeth? Other mourners: teeth, TEETH Coroner: [pounding her clipboard] TEETH, TEETH, TEETH
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Soylent Yellow posted:Not to mention that toothache was historically (and probably still is) one of the leading causes of opioid addiction. ThomasPaine posted:To this day I have absolutely zero clue why dentistry is considered its own thing rather than a speciality within medicine. I'm sure there are interesting things written explaining this and technically it's adjacent to my work but
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[Mediaeval Tavern] Me: [chanting] teeth, teeth- Other peasants: teeth, TEETH Apothecary: [pounding his medicines cabinet] TEETH, TEETH, TEETH! E;fb of course 
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May 24, 2021 23:07
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Gambrinus posted:I wish for the love of all that is holy I'd done something when I first noticed it. All I had to do was email my line manager and it would have all gone away. Don't worry about that. It was covid year. You had other things on your mind as did many people. They don't know what goes in and out of your bank account every month, you may not have noticed (obviously I have no idea how big a sum you are talking about). After all, people go on paying out for things they don't use for years from their bank accounts without noticing and then get their knickers in a twist if sky or virgin whoever don't instantly repay it.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Me: [chanting] teeth, teeth- This is exactly what ran through my head upon reading TEETH and why I went into a bizarre giggle fit.
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May 24, 2021 23:15
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Ugh, separate dentistry. It's the same here in NL - the government-mandated coverage of the compulsory health insurance is fine, even though the system is unnecessarily convoluted (~~competition!~~choice!~~), but of course teeth are their own thing, not covered by basic insurance. You can get optional dental insurance, but they're all like €300 in premiums a year, with a maximum payout of €500, so almost totally pointless. My wife saw the dentist the other week, who in fairness charged about €30 for a checkup and X-rays, but didn't do anything else because she needs to see a jaw specialist. Who is a kind of dentist, not a kind of doctor, so it looks like we'll be paying the hundreds for that. Crazy.
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May 24, 2021 23:20
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I'm below the income threshold so I don't pay for most basic dentistry, and even then I'm constantly worried when I go for a checkup that they're going to sneakily upsell me on something and I end up owing thousands. Especially since I know people that exact thing has happened to.
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Re dialect words: my mother in law is a sweet Malaysian Chinese lady and has introduced me to: “Marketing” - shopping “Outstation” - out of town and a personal favourite, “freelance” chicken, although that’s just her having a sense of what free range means but being too suspicious of the concept to want to use it correctly.
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May 24, 2021 23:44
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Guavanaut posted:Poor dental health can result in a ton of wider health implications, which underlies the stupidity of having dentistry be a special sector of the NHS that you sometimes have to pay for, because to the surprise of nobody who understands that, you're just kicking the problem down to the cardiac ward or the neuropathic pain specialist or the emergency resus team when people can't/don't pay. Oh yeah, is not fun. Last year during the first lockdown I developed a toothache. None of the dentist's were working so I called 111 for advice. There's a dental school in Bristol that was still doing work on emergency cases. At this point I was in extreme pain, but because there was no swelling or bleeding, I was not considered an emergency so I would just have to wait until regular dentist's were up and running again. Fast forward a month and I'm scoffing down cocodamol and neurofen plus to just try and dull the pain even a little. I'm barely sleeping, I'm not feeling good. One day, my wife found me in a delirious state lying on the bed babbling meaningless words. She gets worried and calls an ambulance for me who them take me to hospital. Their first thought was codeine overdose, understandable really, but what I actually had was Sepsis. The tooth had gotten so bad that I was being poisoned by my own body. I was in hospital for a week with strong antibiotics being continuously pumped into me. Also large amounts of morphing to deal with the pain. It's weird to think that I had something that can be pretty regularly fatal. They still didn't extract the tooth. Because it wasn't swollen or bleeding. I still had to wait for regular dentist's to open. It's been a year, I'm only now just getting off my codeine addiction. So yeah, look after your teeth And see a dentist regularly.
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I had a problem a while back with some sort of infection under a tooth, tried to get the dentist to sort it but they said there wasn't anything wrong (well why does it loving hurt then) and eventually developed an abcess that the dentist treated, but still didn't do anything about the tooth. Further down the line I end up with probably the worst pain I've ever dealt with (but no visible issues) and the dentist again just says there's nothing wrong and I end up going 3 days with zero sleep and I am basically standing in the kitchen debating where stabbing myself to death would be preferable before I finally, in desperation, go to the surgery and beg them to please find something to stop it hurting. Turns out the GP had some sort of topical spray that worked, none of the painkillers I got did anything but I eventually managed to get to a better dentist (given the last one decided to comment that it would be better if medicine was privatized I think he was probably a piece of poo poo as well as a terrible dentist) that did a root canal and gave me a shiny new metal tooth because the cap of the old one was completely hollow from the rot. Dentistry is hosed up and I hate it. Also everyone who wants privatized healthcare should be loving shot.
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Venomous posted:That reminds me! A couple of weeks ago I watched this wee video about how Shakespeare's English actually sounded: Isn't all the classically trained ac-tor stuff mainly about projecting your voice in the theatre? Surely they'd have had to do that in the Globe or wherever as well
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People in areas with high amounts of the Indian variant have been advised to avoid any non essential travel into or out of the area and to try and stay outside if meeting others. This was changed on the gov website on Friday and literally noone has been told about it. Even the Tory MPs found out via Twitter tonight. My parents have already driven up to stay in a campsite nearby and are meant to be coming to see our new house for the first time tomorrow, we've all had both vaccines and I think for the first time I'm not going to follow advised restrictions because seriously what the gently caress. Blackburn hospital does have slightly increased numbers of covid patients again but none are seriously unwell in ICU and the patients on the ward aren't as high acuity as previous covid patients which is hopeful. minema fucked around with this message at 00:17 on May 25, 2021 |
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Sounds very much like arse covering "actually we did issue responsible guidance, it is located in the cupboard at the bottom of the council office with a live tiger inside, it's your fault if you didn't follow it, no we aren't trying to avoid negative press for locking down again"
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Even the Lego dude knows how Covid-19 should have been handled But Boris Johnson just wouldn't listen
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crispix posted:wormes Brayn Wormes
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minema posted:People in areas with high amounts of the Indian variant have been advised to avoid any non essential travel into or out of the area and to try and stay outside if meeting others. I feel like it's insane that I am apparently one of very few people saying this, but mindlessly following 'the rules' is just a dumb as belligerently refusing to follow any of them. If you're made a risk assessment and you're happy with it and plan to follow the other basic precautionary measures go hog wild. A lot of the official advice is either half-arsed, short-sighted, overly draconian, or offers very little if any public health benefit, often all of the above. No small amount of it is pure security theatre, and it's barely ever actually enforced in any case. It's absolutely wild to me that people flooded the bars and restaurants pre-vaccine last summer assuming it was 'safe' because the government had told them it was, and it's even wilder that many of those same people bent over backwards - sometimes on a few hour's notice - to follow every tiny rule in all cases, often at significant personal cost, as if they aren't being drawn up on the back of a fag packet in real-time by people who know vast swathes of the population will ignore them anyway. I'm not a covid denier. It is very real and very bad, and you should wear a mask and sanitise your hands often, and get vaccinated (as you have), but don't make the mistake of thinking that government advice is by definition always The Correct Thing, it has consistently fluctuated wildly between ridiculous overkill and embarrassing inadequacy, and has only very rarely matched up with what was actually needed.
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I was continuously overpaid by my firm (by double) and didn't notice. They contacted me after about four months and made me repay it immediately. But apart from being roasted by everyone who knew, nothing adverse happened professionally. This was long enough ago though that to check my balance I would have had to go to an ATM so it was reasonably plausible I wouldn't notice.
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Apropos of nothing, I just found out that Milton Keynes (where I used to live) are doing a sort of hybrid bus/rideshare/uber-like thing called "MK Connect":quote:MK Connect works like a minibus that comes when you want, where you want: What a good idea - I actually came up with something basically like this a while back and I'm pleasantly surprised to find out it now exists. It costs £3.50 during peak times so it's a bit more expensive than I think it should be, but it's free to the disabled which is good. Just thought I'd bring it to the thread's attention 'cause I know people like cool and actually relatively social public transport stuff like this.
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It's an idea that seems to be getting a bit more mileage in recent years. Geoff Marshall did a video on a similar scheme somewhere in South London, last year. The general idea I get is that it can work really well in relatively small geographical areas where demand is steady but not particularly high. And where 'demand responsive' routes sit alongside more traditional routes (which can absorb the majority of the passengers).
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Failed Imagineer posted:South of Ireland too. From a few pades back, but its apparantley where the name sheela na gig comes from! 
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WhatEvil posted:Apropos of nothing, I just found out that Milton Keynes (where I used to live) are doing a sort of hybrid bus/rideshare/uber-like thing called "MK Connect": It helps enormously, of course, that MK is one giant grid system
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smellmycheese posted:It helps enormously, of course, that MK is one giant grid system Admittedly, yes.
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Having studied at a dental hospital for a while, dentists are people who might have gone to medical school, but aren't really that interested in helping people and would prefer a fat pay cheque tyvm
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It's a great irony that Bevan didn't manage to stuff their mouths with gold.
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https://twitter.com/nadiawhittomemp/status/1397083762589151233?s=21 Actually shocked that the replies aren’t (yet) filled with the worst people holding the worst opinions, but I’m sure those of them who have opinion columns will fill that void within a day.
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I think ive found the perfect distillation of the British mindset. https://twitter.com/john_jb6368093/status/1396732386793111552?s=19 "What Britain would you rather? One where Muslims are allowed to walk about, demanding things like a free Palestine? Or one where you're cowering in a subway from death from above with your all white neighbours? Simple as, innit?"
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minema posted:People in areas with high amounts of the Indian variant have been advised to avoid any non essential travel into or out of the area and to try and stay outside if meeting others. Can you link the page? I can't find it and I've got family in that area that might need to see it asap.
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So like the Goon with the overpayment at work, I now have a similar situation but with the DWP. I get Universal credit each month, only amounts to about £100 for the month. Last month I got nothing as due to being paid my salary earlier because of the weekend, they took two months salary into consideration. This month, there was no salary reported within the period. So instead of if being £100, its now £1,600. I called up the DWP and told them as such. I said that both this months and last months payments are due to the reporting dates of my salary and the guy on the phone just said thats the way it is and there was no way for them to alter it. That it will happen every time I get paid early. So many conflicts in my head about this one. On the one hand, me and my family can have a decent month this month, actually getting some of the things that we have been putting off. Then there is the part of me that is thinking that I am not entitled to this money. But then again, I have reported it and I've been told that it is what it is.
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Gonzo McFee posted:I think ive found the perfect distillation of the British mindset. There's nothing stopping you from going and lying down on the tube tracks right now if you really want to!
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Miftan posted:Can you link the page? I can't find it and I've got family in that area that might need to see it asap. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/covid-1...nt-is-spreading Also top story on BBC news at the moment
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Gonzo McFee posted:I think ive found the perfect distillation of the British mindset.  this mindset gives me a strange inarticulate feeling, like a kind of unfocused frustration that I don't know where to begin addressing
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See the thing about me is I really care about the Jews and Israel, innit? Also, I want to go back to World war 2. I see no contradictions with this.
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minema posted:https://www.gov.uk/guidance/covid-1...nt-is-spreading Cheers
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Gonzo McFee posted:See the thing about me is I really care about the Jews and Israel, innit? Also, I want to go back to World war 2. I see no contradictions with this. Severe Stern Gang brain.
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wot u gotta be trowmatoised abaout ain't been in a waoah 'av ya 
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ThomasPaine posted:I love a good scam and would never usually grass someone up but grifting the nhs seems very poor form so idk One was discovered at my work recently. 3 HR managers that everyone thought were job sharing had infact given each other identical jobs so were all getting full time pay for 1/3rd of a job each. This had been going on for over 15 years by the sound of it.
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