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I was sitting down and had this feeling that something was between my teeth and went to pick it and a big, huge chunck came up.....turns out it was a big part of the tooth behind it. Didn't hurt really until I went to take a drink and now it fucking HURTS LIKE HELL. I have never had anything odd happen to my teeth before. Got 1 cavity in my life, had braces etc as a kid, blah blah. Everything normal and healthy. I don't know what is going on with this tooth. I know it sounds weird and naive, but nothing like this has ever happened to me and I don't quite understand what is going on. And I don't have an "insurance card" for the dental insurance to boot. I know it is partially because I didn't get braces a second time when I had problems. I knew something would happen, but I thought I had more time and didn't think I would casually pull out a big old chunk of tooth. Any ideas or advice? |
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which reminds me that I need to find a dentist here. It's been a few years since my last checkup. |
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Go to the dentist. |
. That was great. Being a little kid with a shiny metal front tooth was fun. . I miss that tooth. The story as my family understands it is that my little brother knocked it out with a hammer - a blue plastic toy hammer. |
I remember none of this. But I had a big ole' gap that everyone thought was adorable for years. |
I am going to try to find out what I need to get into a dentists office out here. Hopefully I will be able to go in soon. |
. It just won't feel very good. |
tooth broke and you're in pain they should get you in right away |
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I think I am going to go over there as soon as Spunky brings my keys back to me, and see if they will still take me and how much it will end up costing me to get this fixed. I just want to get this fixed. It's making me feel really weird. |
Anyway, I had the bright idea of swing the bowling ball around at high speed, around and around. As I was doing this I got distracted by something shiny on the ground. I picked it up, stood up, and my head was right in the path of the swinging bowling ball. BAM! Hit me right in the forehead. Knocked me clean off my feet. That was no problem. I have a hard skull. I bit my two front teeth off, though. I have caps, to this day... |
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I have a babysitter already lined up, so long as Spunky doesn't work late. I just have to get thru the next 3 days. |
I dun dont know whut yer talkin' 'bout, girlie. :P |
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i went to the dentist last week. i love going to the dentist, it's a total ego trip. after they clean my teeth, the dentist comes in, leans over me, and says MY GOD THOSE ARE SOME OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL TEETH I'VE EVER SEEN. and then continues to gush over the enamel, the perfect color, etc etc. i've never had a cavity either. i should visit the dentist every time i start to feel bad about anything. |
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(Shoot, you all need to see the first season of Mr. Show. "Thousands? Clock?" <---Comedy gold.) I haven't been to the dentist in about 4 years. My last dentist had done such things as fill in a cavity and file down a pointy tooth without novicaine. Monster. |
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. I need to see a dentist. The last one told me I would be due to have my wisdom teeth out in about two years... and that was 5 years ago. . I can feel them sitting there, plotting against me. Fuckers. |
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I am eating soft luke warm foods right now. Nothing really cold or hot, food or drink. Hopefully I will be allright come monday afternoon and they will fix my damned tooth quickly. It's bugging me to no end now, not because it hurts but because it feels weird. |
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woooh ooo!! aayee ayy e ehahh. |
And people still say we aren't evolving anymore. |
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I just can't eat because it hurts too much right now. So I force myself to eat soft foods that taste horrible. I will look forward to enjoying real food again. Tonight, though, I am making homemade clam chowder, my grandmothers recipe. Best there is. So it is soft, but I will still be able to eat dinner. I will just skip the cornbread. I really should give up looking at the scale and wigging out, but unfortunately it hasn't been that easy. I still think if I gain too much more weight I will get fat (like most of my family has)and for some reason I am paranoid as hell about that. So I try to tell myself that I will eat right and excersize regularly and just deal with whatever is planned for me. Tell myself I will be beautiful no matter what size I am, but I know I am lying to myself just trying to convince myself of that. |
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Of all folks, you'd think it would be the Catholics who might have some religious insight, but probably not the lay Catholics. The dudes who ran the Inquisition could probably tell you more. |
. Be the first on your block to get a Sorabji.com(tm) execution hood! (patent pending) |
. Owning an exectuion hood stamped with so-and-so Prison would be one hell of a conversation piece. . Think of the stories you could make up! . "Yeah, so they're only allowed to kill you once, and I guess I have a pretty high electricity tolerance..." . "Careful! That belonged to my grandmother!" . "Sorry I'm late. I got pulled over on the way here and things got rough..." |
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so was your tooth chipped at all? sounds gross either way, so i must hear it! |
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Let me double check, but I'm pretty sure in one of the books on execution that I am reading it says that "witches" weren't burned but hanged in Salem. It was in England where people were actually burned at the stake. |
Also if you admitted you were a witch you were allowed to live. |
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If your talking about hereditary witchcraft, there's different names for it, but it's not wicca. |
Lapis is correct about Gardner. I think it was during the late 50s. |
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Wicca, the religion itself was created by a man in the 1940's. It is based on many different old religions, kinda like combining the old with the new to make it practical in this day and age. So they took pieces of lots of different older, god/ess religions from the past and combined them into one. Wicca is only one part of paganism. Actually a better person to discuss this with is probably Kebron, though he hasn't had his butt on the computer lately. Now, for my tooth......about 3 years ago I went to the expensive fancy assed dentist. They did some kind of electronic cleaning on my teeth. Well, they did it wrong around the gum line and skipped a tooth altogether. None of the dentists since have caught this. So what broke off of my tooth was plaque and tartar in a huge chunk and the stuff that felt like a hole was more plaque and tartar on the back of this tooth. They did some special cleaning yesterday, and said I had an infection in my gums and almost all of the teeth because of this past dentist and I am on antibiotic mouthwashes and special toothpastes and shit like that for the next month. Then once my mouth is healed from all of this shit I go back for a regular cleaning and he (the new dentist) said he thinks that I should be fine after that. |
Ps. Ick. |
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I did a lot of research on this for a project at one point, Kazoo/Lapis, so if you are *really* interested I can get a lot more information on it than that. Certainly the claim that admitting one was a witch revoked the death sentance is untrue. There was a lot of wierd stuff going on in Salem and most of it was related to property rights and land grabs. But, really, I can go on about this endlessly. Email me if you really want to know more. |
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I did a color coded map of all the "witches" and where their land was. Then I looked at accusers and where their land was. And who stood to gain...interestingly, most of the "accusers" were directly adjacent to land owned by "witches" and got it when they were hung. More interesting yet, there were several documented land disputes between "witches" and their accusers. The church also did gain a fair amount of land from the hangings as well. Have you read "The Scarlet Letter," or any Hawthorne, v2? His grandfather was one of the judges and he wrote several interesting pieces about the witch trials and the supernatural. (My personal favourite is Young Goodman Brown and you should check it out.) |
here if you scroll down to the section titled "Evidence for Ergotism in Salem" you get some good juicy details. Its actually quite fascinating to think that an entire community could become so enthralled religiously and socially by a then, barely known naturally occuring poison in the local grain supply. |
caint trust no one |
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Ghosts of North Portland I tried emailing the guy who runs that site a couple times but when the activity was going on the computer would freeze every time. The power flipped off a couple times, there's a ghost cat and some other things here. Voices. I haven't heard or felt anything in a long time though. |
My point is that it's too easy to leap to a paranormal explanation without examining what ELSE can cause the phenomenon. I neither state that it is legitimately "supernatural" or not, just that all paranormal events require more study. It's like UFOs - you get a lot of UFO sightings, but most can later be identified as something identifiable. Some remain unidentified, but that doesn't automatically mean they are aliens, you know. Seriously, V.v. go down to the local newstand and pick up a copy of Fortean Times, you will dig it. I was even published in it once! |
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but, alas, do not despair long. though your spud soldiers have fought in vain, and the radish rosettes have been stolen and spread to each corner of the globe, you still live. you flee to the broccoli forests, you hide among the melons and squash, you rebuild. you REBUILD. don’t let any motherfucker tell you otherwise. shine on you crazy diamond. threatened by shadows at night and exposed in the light. shine on you crazy diamond. |
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V.V.: I pick the terror of the gods out my nose. |
that, good sir, is how you should spend your weekend. don't say you didn't, because i'll imagine you did, just the same. |
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LARP |
Or Are they up for me. You get a big group of people together without some type of barrier between them and me and I get nervous. I go ballistic (if we exaggerate a little) it's like selective claustrophobia with crowds instead of space. |
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There's no way you can understand me at all. |
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Mostly this is at my job during Christmas season when the crowds seem neverending and the music leans toward "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer." Then I proceed to go into hiding for a couple of months, whimpering in my bed. |
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you suck :) ....hot donuts.....too far away |