The totally off-topic thread

[SeatBackForward]

I think Hobart actually asked Sydney for theirs, when it was announced to be taken down.

But why have a monorail when you've got the world's best round-about?

In an ironic sort of way, they both go around in circles.

 

[SeatBackForward]

LOL! Is Sydneys monorail gone?

I've been away from civilisation way too long.

It's been replaced with an escalator to nowhere.

 

[JohnK]

Anyone have any experience with laughing gas? Broken tooth needs to come out and I cannot handle adrenalin. Apparently you are conscious but afterwards everything feels like a dream?

 

[mrs.dr.ron]

Anyone have any experience with laughing gas? Broken tooth needs to come out and I cannot handle adrenalin. Apparently you are conscious but afterwards everything feels like a dream?

In February I had a tooth out - it was meant to be a cap but end up as an extraction as the tooth was too damaged to cap. I had twilight sedation - apparently you are responsive to what they tell you to do - but I cant remember a thing. You need someone to drive you home as you are totally out to it - or I was !

Do dentists still use laughing gas ???

 

[Flashback]

What does Canberra have to do with it?

He said roundabout not a hole....

 

[JohnK]

Do dentists still use laughing gas ???

I don't know. That's what I called it.

GP and dentist in same building. Visit GP first and he puts in canula. Then go downstairs to dentist and the GP gives me the sedation and hangs around. Most of the tooth is gone and I was told the roots need separating so could take 30 minutes.

Apparently there's an option to have sedation in tablet form. Don't have anyone in Brisbane so they'll have to put me in a cab.

My biggest worry is panic attack. Don't want to go through that again.

Not cheap either. Why is it with dentists they always charge the worse case scenario price?

 

[RAM]

As mentioned it all depends on how you see it.

Optimists aren't always better off and pessimists are not as far wrong as optimists make them out to be.

but what if...

You prepare for the worst, then all that can happen is you MAY get a pleasant surprise!

 

[amaroo]

Not cheap either. Why is it with dentists they always charge the worse case scenario price?

Vets ... make the dentist look like good value.

 

[JessicaTam]

In February I had a tooth out - it was meant to be a cap but end up as an extraction as the tooth was too damaged to cap. I had twilight sedation - apparently you are responsive to what they tell you to do - but I cant remember a thing. You need someone to drive you home as you are totally out to it - or I was !

Do dentists still use laughing gas ???

I know of one who uses a rifle, but he is being sought by the authorities.

 

[Foreigner]

I know of one who uses a rifle, but he is being sought by the authorities.

...

RIP Cecil

 

[Buzzard]

Dentists don't have a schedule fee. They charge what they like.

 

[JohnK]

but what if...

You prepare for the worst, then all that can happen is you MAY get a pleasant surprise!

Not prepare for the worst. Just don't have high expectations all the time.

I have no faith in public transport. No amount of optimism is going to change their performance.

 

[anat0l]

I have no faith in public transport. No amount of optimism is going to change their performance.

You need to come to Switzerland :mrgreen:

 

[TheRealTMA]

Dentists don't have a schedule fee. They charge what they like.

By the arrow?

 

[drron]

And at 0810 today it will be exactly 70 years since the Hiroshima A bomb.

 

[Foreigner]

And at 0810 today it will be exactly 70 years since the Hiroshima A bomb.

Is that the time in Japan?

 

[drron]

Is that the time in Japan?

At the moment it is the same time in Hiroshima as here.
But Probably they didn't have daylight saving then which would make it 0910.
In Hiroshima the silence starts at 0810 today.

 

[Foreigner]

At the moment it is the same time in Hiroshima as here.
But Probably they didn't have daylight saving then which would make it 0910.
In Hiroshima the silence starts at 0810 today.

Thanks drron. It must have been a sombre experience for the residents:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/05/hiroshima-prepares-to-remember-the-day-the-bomb-dropped

 

[SeatBackForward]

I was in tears at the memorial in Hiroshima. It really does show the awful capabilities of man upon ourselves.

 

[coriander]

Vets ... make the dentist look like good value.

Pity there isn't a dislike button.......