New Testingstan

y u no vote third party

normally I vote Green, because they're an almost complete match to my beliefs
of course it actually doesn't matter because I live in a safe tory constituency

Where in that wretched hive of villainy that is the Perfidious Albion do you live ?

I don't know if I should be giving that information to an untrustworthy republican frenchman
but Plymouth

I know that place!

It's where I base all my transports for the invasion of France in HoI 2.

(Note: Waiting for Germans to first occupy is entirely optional)

RogueIce wrote:I know that place!

It's where I base all my transports for the invasion of France in HoI 2.

(Note: Waiting for Germans to first occupy is entirely optional)

That's the spirit!

evilsoup wrote:fucking tory scum
getting their private sector buddies to do half the work badly for twice the price
I don't think I'll go into how much I hate them for what they're doing to this country, it should be sufficient to say that I'm considering voting for the war-criminal Labour party as the less-bad alternative

for serious yo

though it hardly matters as there's like zero chance of my constituency ever being anything other than labour

I kinda wish we had a similiar system to america where we could vote for who represents our area seperately from who's in central government. I seriously want the tories out as soon as possible but though it galls me to say the Tory MP candidate in our area last year honestly seemed like the best option compared to the Lib-Dem candidate (utter non-entity) and the incumbent Labour MP who seems to only barely exist. But I'll never vote for the guy whose policies seem the most sensible because though I agree with his individual policies on a local level I detest his parties policies on a national level!

Democracy!

I wish the AV referendum had come up 'yes', then I could vote for the greens (and the socialist workers etc) without worrying about handing a vote to the tories. If that had succeeded, I could almost forgive those lilly-livered liberal tosspots for going into the coalition.

Well, they were able to recover my hard drive so that wasn't a problem

People not telling me shit I need know because they assume I know it and then getting annoyed that I don't know it, however, is.

evilsoup wrote: wish the AV referendum had come up 'yes', then I could vote for the greens (and the socialist workers etc) without worrying about handing a vote to the tories. If that had succeeded, I could almost forgive those lilly-livered liberal tosspots for going into the coalition.

I can vaguely remember the pro-Conservative think-tanks/PR firms peddling a lot of disinformation and lies in that campaign to preserve the current decrepit set up. And the Conservatives never decisively won the last election despite the undeniable fail of New Labour.

All three main parties are a triumvirate representing narrow corporate/banking interests, the Coalition have now recently opened up the door to more fracking (small quakes and flammable drinking water), our remaining solid manufacturing jobs are too much at the mercy at fickle international firms, the UK state is going on a stupid crusade against the mass media and internets, and the toxic mass immigration/overpriced property/lowering wages/shrinking down public services brew may eventually explode Egyptian style (making the August '11 commotion look like a practice run). The rest of North America and Western Europe seem similarly proper fucked as well, especially for the very young.

At least Summer 2013 felt like an actual Summer.

RogueIce wrote:

evilsoup wrote:Gah, gotta go see a dentist and get my wisdom teeth removed. The one on the left side keeps crunching down on my gum, an it's making it hard to eat

Go find a dentist who does general anesthesia, not that local bullshit. Unless local works for you.

General's way better. That's what I had.

Make damn sure you fill the painkiller prescription before it wears off. I had originally planned to not take any (I hate painkillers under almost any circumstances), so I didn't get it filled. When the general (and whatever painkillers they gave me while I was under) finished wearing off, the pain was so bad I couldn't move, much less get the scrip filled.

('course, they warned me the pain would be bad, and required general. Two of my teeth was touching the nerves, I think? Anyway, my dentist looked at my x-ray and said I had to have an oral surgeon do it under general, and it would hurt like hell.)

Well yours may have been different than mine, but I felt almost no pain after. I did take one pain pill, but it made me nauseous so I took no others and I honestly had no pain, unlike everybody I've know who had their wisdom teeth removed. The only real annoyance was the stitches and restrictions on chewing stuff until my mouth healed.

I had general and the only pain I had was from the intense muscle stiffness in my jaw.

All the same, I took the pain killers for the first couple days, just to be safe. I didn't want to risk waking up in the middle of the night wanting to tear my jaw off.

lol guys you're making me nervous

Just get it done with general (make sure there's a qualified anesthetist monitoring) and take the after surgery pain meds.

You'll be fine.

I'm slightly wary of general anaesthetic, but I'll talk it over with the dentist before deciding anyway

Unless you have medical counter-indications (which you'll discuss with your medic anyway), a general anesthetic is painless (well, duh).

When I got my wisdom teeth removed, the Anesthetist put a mask on my mouth and told me to count to ten. I don't even remember counting up to six, or even falling asleep. I simply woke up in the waking up room, with almost no pain in my jaw and three stitched holes filled with some sort of cotton noodles in my gums. Not even 5 minutes after waking up I was already chatting with the nurses.

It wasn't entirely painless. There's the jab of the needle for the IV.

I was already a little loopy from the gas and the doc came in and injected something into my IV as they were putting spacers in my mouth and the next thing I remember was the nurse shaking me gently telling me it was time to get up.

And then immediately telling me to lie back down as I tried to stand up.

I spent the next couple of days dozing in my parents hide-a-bed and watching TV. Though the same night I had the surgery I was eating mashed potatoes with a tea spoon. I just couldn't eat ice cream as a meal. Even then.

My favourite story about dental anesthesia is from Randall Monroe (xkcd guy). He woke up part way through the procedure and, remembering that the anaesthetic can sometimes cause amnesia decided to take notes on the back of his hand so he'd remember later.

He got as far as "AWAKE BUT EVERYTHING OKAY" before they put him back under.

i spent a day repeating myself constantly as i immediately forgot what i had said, then spent the rest of the week in a vicodin haze

Follow up from yesterday :

my wounds have started tickling

Maggots?

Nah, it's just the flesh growing back.

oh for fuck's sake
so the dentist I used to go to is all out of NHS places, which means I can go to them privately (uch), but not on the NHS
it just means I'll have to find another local dentist, but it's still frustrating
the dentists in this country are in a fucked up system, jesus

Our NHS doesn't cover dentistry at all.

So I have a cavity I've been sitting on until I can be sure I can both afford to get it drilled and pay my tuition.

It would cost everybody involved a hell of a lot less if I didn't have to worry about that.