Glupton, you’re probably quite correct. Unfortunately, I’m not an expert in dental hygiene and trusted the bloke knew what he was doing.

I expect that when he saw the x-ray he probably thought the same – but by this time my gum was in tatters, face numb and molar very wobbly (but not going anywhere).

Actually Martin – good point, the dental nurse was very hot!

Metal syringes can be sterilised and reused, I expect…… Or just plain reused….

RC completed on an upper molar a good few years ago (watch out for raspberry seeds…. the b@stards!!).

Molar was already filled; ate a raspberry and a seed got in between the amalgam & enamel, no amount of brushing would get rid of it. I eventually forgot all about it until a few days later when chewing on some gum which forced the seed further in and cracked the tooth. Like any ‘man’, I ignored it for a couple of years until it became so painful I had to resort to going to the dentist (I hadn’t been for 15 years prior on account of all dentists being Nazi’s).

The dentist said he could either remove it or perform an RC. I didn’t fancy a hole, so opted for the RC. Once I was anaesthetised, the procedure wasn’t too bad – a bit of pushing/pulling – just uncomfortable. The worst bit was having my mouth fixed open for, what seemed like, days.

Move forward 5 years and I started to suffer with absecces. Like Cougar, I managed to keep them in check by popping them. A bit gross really – especially the first time, when I did it with my tongue.

A return visit to the dentist and he confirmed that the RC had failed. Options open to me were implants/crowns costing £900+ or remove it for £60. A nano-second later, I was sent away with a course of anti-biotics and an appointment for two weeks later.

He started by numbing the whole of my head (reality was the roof of my mouth and my cheekbone) and began pulling with a series of larger and larger instruments of torture. He’d got it moving, but it wouldn’t come out. After about 25 minutes of this (no exaggeration) he x-rayed me and discovered the problem was caused by the roots being twisted and the amalgam from the RC having pushed beyond the root and keyed into my upper jaw (I found this out afterwards).

The only way to extract the tooth was to slice it into 4 quarters and pull it a root at a time. The last one (with the amalgam key) was a right b@stard and seemed to cave my head in from the inside. When he’d done, I sat up and glanced at his tray, there was a pile of bloodies steel and gore that wouldn’t look out of place in a movie. I emerged looking battered and covered in blood.

Don’t have it extracted. The RC will be fine.

Poor rant.
(Contrived) Random capitals in thread title only.
Intentional spelling mistake.
Jeremy Vine as subject matter (easy target)

1/10

;-)

+1 for the Alpkit…. when back in stock. Fantastic piece of kit for the money.

Dad had one (from new) and hated it. Very poor dealer attitude to resolving the many issues – including the shock absorber one. He has replaced it with a Mitsubishi ASX which he loves.

Rural Leicestershire here.

We have two schools in the village, right next to each other. One is a primary, the other a secondary.

The catchment area for the primary is the village, the majority of pupils (including my own two) walk in; this one is open. The catchment area for the second one is much wider and the majority of the kids have to be bussed in from very rural areas; this one is closed as the bus company is refusing to run.

MrsG’s Smoked haddock risotto with a poached egg (or two)

My Gnocci with tomatoes, red pepper, chilli and chorizo

Others include scrambled eggs & salmon and (just had it for lunch) cheese on toast with chilli (flakes of fresh, doesn’t matter)

<wanders off to butchers to see if he has any ham hocks for Jamie’s recipe>

nomnomnomnom

Just started getting a pop asking me if I want “it” to remember my password. Every time I click on a link. A ‘back’ allows me to continue. Irritating.

Using dolphin browser on HTC Desire – Android 2.2.2

EDIT: oh. It seems to have stopped now. Thanks Patrick (if it was you :-) )

Just started getting a pop asking me if I want “it” to remember my password. Every time I click on a link. A ‘back’ allows me to continue. V irritating.

Using dolphin browser on HTC Desire – Android 2.2.2

montylikesbeer – Member
Takes me back to my days in Saudi, making and selling “sid”

Monty, I may have been one of your customers (back in 1994). I had many an interesting experience whilst in a “sid-altered” state!

First Album was a compilation called Axe Attack

First single – bought 3 at the same time: Turning Japaneese – The Vapours, Ashes to Ashes – Dave Bowie, Diary of Horace Wimp – ELO.

The suggestion of fostering one is a good idea.

A very good friend of mine recently took on two retired greyhounds from Northumberland Greyhound Rescue and has had mixed fortunes. One of them is an absolute charm, the other (younger, retired through injury) has been a real problem. It leaves “deposits” around the house and recently killed a neighbours cat – my mate (and his two sons) were particularly traumatised about this. He also nearly lost a finger trying to save the cat from his dog.

Late to the discussion….

A colleague of mine if absolutely 100% convinced his upgraded mains cables are the best thing since sliced white.

I also call “snake oil”, but would like to verify for myself. This guy is not at all gullible (usually) and was initially sceptical about the idea himself.

He is currently upgrading the cables on all his a/v appliances. So far, he’s done his amp, CD, sky box and telly.

He uses these: Russ Andrews Reference at £225 each for 1.5m length.

Russ Andrews is also responsible for these at an eye watering £3k for only 1m 8O

Having looked at a couple of the recommendations, Funamo seems to be the best so far.

Thanks for the updates folks, I’ll go and have a look at the “kids place”, “funamno” and “famigo sandbox” apps. They seem to be along the right lines – and I don’t mind paying.

With regard to taking them back and swapping for a Meep. No thanks, the Galaxy tab is a great bit of kit for the money.

mogrim – Member
I opted for the “educate my kids” approach, seems more productive in the long run.

(Slight advantage: they’re girls – no searching for “boobies”).

Hahaha, you’re joking right?? I didn’t tell the second half of the story…. At the time of the discovery of young MasterG’s penchant for ladies squashy bits, we had a couple of the neighbours daughters around playing with my youngest. When MrsG walked in on the lad, she exclaimed rather loudly – attracting the attention of my 5year old girl and her two slightly older friends (6 and 9). What followed was a good talk with all four of them about the dangers of the internet etc, etc. We thought it was all sorted. Two days later we were all round at our neighbours for a festive drink and a bite to eat. The hostess shouted for her kids to wash their hands and come to the table for dinner; they didn’t respond so MrsG went to get them. They were on their PC. The eldest girl has recently been learning how to put together slideshows and presentations. What greeted MrsG when she entered the room was a procession of willies cut & paste from a number of different internet sources.

I have since nailed their PC down too.

Ah. Bit late for that.

Pardon my ignorance, what’s meep, an app?

At least you can blame the boy for any other searches :(

8-) niiice…

Their PC accounts use a white list – only listed URLs allowed. I’ve even blocked Google.

Yes, I turn the WiFi off too. However, my son is football mad and loves searching for facts and stats… ordinarily I wouldn’t worry, but over Christmas my wife left her account logged in on the PC; 5 mins later she returned to the computer room to find my son (with eyes on stalks) looking at an impressive pair of norks on it**! My first reaction was “that’s my boy!”. 5 seconds later it changed to “sh*t!”…. that’s when I nailed their accounts down.

** he’d googled “bare ladies boobies”!

Passed me by as well. Good job I was planning on starting my Christmas shopping on Saturday 8)

Nick & Nicko. Its a shame that we don’t share the same opinion. But it’s just that. An opinion. I like Liz, you don’t. Mleh.

I don’t understand why it is necessary to say things/people are rubbish, just because they aren’t to your taste.

On the whole, I think 6 music is great. During the week, I work away from home and house-share with 3 other blokes. One of the chaps just doesn’t get it… Just because there may be a couple of tracks in succession that are not to his taste, the whole station is branded shite. It’s all about broadening horizons, innit?

There aren’t many shows I dislike, but I have to turn off Adam wotsisface – I just don’t find him funny and am not sure he’s in the right place – 6music is a music station, not a personality/variety station. I don’t listen to Keaveny as I don’t have DAB in the car, so can’t comment on him. The rest (including Liz Kershaw) are pretty bloody good.

You can disable updates for individual apps via Goggle Play. Go to “your apps”, and uncheck automatic updates as required.

If you have an ipad/phone thing, you may want to consider getting an airprint compatible printer.

Battlezone for me

It took the vector based Asteroids-like graphics and created a 3D world – in 1980. I wasn’t this excited about another game until the first incarnation of Wolfenstein a few years later (which used to give me motion sickess!). I then quickly moved through Duke Nukem, Doom, Half-Life, Unreal, Quake and all versions thereof.

I dread to think how much time I wasted or how much money I spent on the latest graphics cards!

1997 CBR1100XX (Blackbird) here. Unfortunately looking rather sad and neglected at the mo. After years of 20k miles/year commuting on my bikes, in late 2010 I was sent to work at a client 250 miles from home. This has meant I’ve done only 1k miles this year. Bobbins.

I’m currently in Barrow-I-F, but all my (size 12) clobber is at home near Grantham.

Alex. Where are you and what size do you take? I have a couple of pairs you could try. If you’re local to me and they fit, you could borrow them for the session.

nukeproofriding – Member

juan
Worjs for me so the fecker won’t start again.
Well… one day you’ll probably punch a full sized german shepherd or something and it’ll eat you. People like you just won’t learn so I’m not going to try and lecture you. [/quote]

NPR – You could try kicking him repeatedly?

The Samling in Windermere

The Drunken Duck in Ambleside

You do realise that JD has thousands of minions engineers designing new stuff for him.

Not sure of your point. I don’t think Mr Branson dons a cap and gets into the cab of his Virgin trains, do you?

I can confirm that his dad speaks in exactly the same way!

There’s the answer.

I was brought up in Lancashire and have lived here most of my life. My parents were both from the North East. As a result, I speak with a rather odd mix of Lanky/Geordie that turns more and more Geordie with the addition of beer.

This one is an estate though:

I was there (with about 40 others) when the plonker got stuck. Shame as the car was only 2 weeks old.

Your missus should be able to get a legitimate educational licence via her employer for nowt.

Nowadays, most of the on-line suppliers I use seem to have got their act together – unless they use Shitty-Link as their couriers

Thanks. I’m in the middle of my lunch – Chilli con carne :-(

oooh, is cressers back then?

Cheers OMITN. As I said, it’s usually the complainers voices who are the loudest; good service goes unannounced.

I’m tempted to give Talktalk a go – I’ve got one of the sales-types calling me back this coming Friday. I had a great chat with him last week. I had a number of questions and he provided some answers, but not all. We’ll see how he gets on :)