Re: Anyone left?

On Tue, 11 Jun 2024 03:36:02 +0100, slider <[email protected]>
wrote:

>On Mon, 10 Jun 2024 20:40:47 +0100, Idol Eyes <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>> 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...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>> (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!
>
>### - the way things are currently going on the world stage we're all  
>gonna get fucked in a minute, so there'll be plenty of room after that  
>huh...
>
>that is, assuming anything can still 'grow' after humanity's finished  
>smashing up the place?

You never change, do you?

No flexibility.  Intelligence is still there but the utter inability
to live with adroitness eludes you.

Change the tune pal...

>
>
>"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War  
>IV will be fought with sticks and stones. --Albert Einstein

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