Re: Anyone left?

On 04/06/2024 13:50, He Who Sees All wrote:
> On Tue, 04 Jun 2024 10:29:55 +0100, slider <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, 02 Jun 2024 07:21:17 +0100, He Who Sees All
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, 01 Jun 2024 01:08:35 +0100, slider <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, 30 May 2024 06:57:57 +0100, He Who Sees All
>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, 28 May 2024 20:38:46 +0300, Idol Eyes <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 18/05/2024 12:43, He Who Sees All wrote:
>>>>>>> Slider, you still kickin'?
>>>>>>> Anyone dead yet?
>>>>>>> Heart still pulsing here...
>>>>>>> What about Dave & Chris, still vertical?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Now when those old farts gone we can finally talk
>>>>>
>>>>> They've left because after Google pulled out, they think they would
>>>>> need to spend a few bucks on a usenet account (they're basically too
>>>>> ossified to understand that there are a few text only free accounts
>>>>> extant such as eternal september which allow posting).
>>>>>
>>>>> It's a wonder they survive.  Slider at least post with september, I
>>>>> use them too along with a few paid accounts.
>>>>>
>>>>> So, whaddya wanna talk about?
>>>>
>>>> ### - how's about we talk about your new... teeth?
>>>
>>> Singular.  It's "tooth".  Had an implant left mandible, molar.  The
>>> implant was in two stages - titanium screw with post, then after 3
>>> months of healing (there was a bone graft due to age etc), the crown
>>> was made and screwed on.
>>>
>>> Total cost was almost $6K of which my private health insurer refunded
>>> me $3k - the "hardware" is non refundable for some reason.
>>>
>>> Soon, I'll have a treatment plan for another implant, again in the
>>> mandible but on the right side.  It will replace a gold molar crown
>>> which has gone rotten in the roots.  As I have a gold crown in the jaw
>>> opposing the mandible crown, I want this implant to be gold.
>>>
>>> That's it then for teeth.  I'll have enough to chew well with and they
>>> don't look too bad given 50 years of smoking, drinking and so on...
>>
>> ### - ah am only pullin' yer pisser mate haha...
>>
>> teeth? fucking things, why couldn't we have had teeth like sharks do? not
>> sharp or pointy so much as on a conveyor belt so when one falls out it's
>> replaced by another from the back, for a whole lifetime!
>>
>> human teeth, however, are clearly not designed to last much beyond age 50
>> or 60, and only last 'that' long because we patch them up/have implants
>> etc, duh...
>>
>> did see some recent research though re the possibility of using stem cells
>> to grow replacement teeth, effectively a third set that would grow-in
>> naturally wherever needed, just remove the old/broken one, implant the
>> stem cells, and 3 months later tada ya gots a brand new tooth identical to
>> the old one!
>>
>> of course, they'll prolly charge ya 10-times as much for one of those
>> implants lol, at least until such treatments became standard practice,
>> meanwhile big filling, crowns and root canal work would all become a thing
>> of the past, and i'd certainly applaud that...
> 
> I couldn't agree more with everything you said.  I was born and lived
> for a good while where & when fluoride was a non-starter.  Then, when
> it did start, the conspiracy theorists talked all sorts of nonsense
> about it and there was significant political risk involved.  So,
> youngsters' teeth rotted and by the time I was in my 30's, practically
> every tooth I had was filled.  Now, there are a lot absent but I still
> have enough to chew with and as I look down the barrel of my 70th
> year, I have healthy gums which means the teeth are easier to save.
> 
> One more implant, and that's it.  I heard that the trials are starting
> right now to grow new teeth and if successful, by mid-2030's it will
> be available as a treatment.  By then, I'll be either so old I won't
> give a fuck or I'll (likely) be dead.
>>
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>>>> you wore the last fuckers out biting & chomping on everyone around you
>>>> huh
>>>> :D
>>>>
>>>> he might not have any teeth left folks but be careful, he can still
>>>> give a
>>>> very nasty suck!
>>>
>>> Got plenty of teeth mate.  Probably a lot more than you, seeing as you
>>> live in relative poverty.  I don't think your NHS over there in
>>> blighty covers teeth...and you won't have private health, that's for
>>> sure :)
>>
>> ### - they were fairly good until about 10 years ago, then lost 3 big ones
>> in succession, had various root canals and replacement fillings over the
>> next few years, but one by one they're slowly failing/having problems, the
>> next 10 years not looking particularly rosy for those remaining, the whole
>> thing being a damned nuisance really, fucking things hehe...
> 
> Yep had the works here too.  One of my biggest regrets is not having
> looked after my teeth more.  But the coffee, alcohol, nicotine stains
> would still make them look as old as they are even if I had looked
> after them.  Ah, well...
>>
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>>>> (in olden times when you wore out your teeth they just put you out on
>>>> the
>>>> ice haha ;)
>>>
>>> Nope.  They introduced you to those grannies who could suck eggs with
>>> their hardened gums.
>>>
>>> A bit like you in some ways, lol.
>>
>> ### - (laughing) nah, i'll volunteer for the ice-treatment beyond a
>> certain point, there's only so much shit am prepared to put up with and
>> hanging around waiting to die in some dreary nursing home dependent upon
>> others to help me keep my arse clean, is definitely NOT gonna be it lol...
>>
>> fuck that...
>>
>> i'd rather die on the hoof so to speak ;)
> 
> Well, if I develop any form of dementia, it's goodbye charlie, even if
> it is illegal here (assisted suicide, that is).  I'll take the pills
> or whatever before I become so wasted I won't remember where I put
> them :)
> 

You have to go fuck yourselves as well, old farts. New sprouts need a 
place to grow!