The totally off-topic thread

[whatmeworry]

China's high speed overlaid on Australia.

 

[coolumbla]

Mine is delinquent-less. Nice lightbar.

so many lines!

 

[medhead]

3 days after I get a letter from Amex about the poor points earning for electricity and telephone bills I get this gem of an email from Qantas about earning points on my phone and electricity bill. Well done Qantas.

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[cove]

I am trying to get a Qantas Credit Union point a dollar card for some of these.

 

[Pushka]

I received that email too. Clicking on it didn't get me to apply for the card but showed me how to spend points. Curious.

 

[JohnK]

wouldn't it be better to back a horse?

And I have been gambling long enough to know that horses do not win races.

 

[whatmeworry]

And I have been gambling long enough to know that horses do not win races.

Tbh, I stay away from animals to bet on. Better off betting on human sporting events.

 

[drross]

Tbh, I stay away from animals to bet on. Better off betting on human sporting events.

yeah sure. you can't fix human sporting events

 

[medhead]

yeah sure. you can't fix human sporting events

Humans are animals as well.

 

[JohnK]

As you travel to Thailand regularly John I'm surprised you even bother to ask how much here!

I have never as much as looked at a dental surgery in Thailand.

With private health insurance I believe fillings are cheaper in Australia.

I have also confused a dental crown with implant. I was quoted $5,000 for an implant which I don't want and will try to avoid.

I am hoping it is possible to get a crown done cheaply. Next trip to Thailand in 6 weeks I will ask around for some prices.

 

[Bundy Bear]

What a cough way to start the week, not sure where this week is going, well figuratively I will be in the east at the end of the week.

Weekend was good, some things go well other things just fall apart.

I realize I spend time on AFF during work hours, part of that I guess is the desk job part of it.

Then there is the positives of the week, I get to see The Eagles on Wednesday night.

 

[medhead]

I had 5 or 6 fillings replaced recently. Approximately $800 bill of which I paid about $70

 

[QF WP]

Stories like these make me grateful for my mother giving me flouride tabs during the 70's & 80's. No fillings yet...

I have never as much as looked at a dental surgery in Thailand.

With private health insurance I believe fillings are cheaper in Australia.

I have also confused a dental crown with implant. I was quoted $5,000 for an implant which I don't want and will try to avoid.

I am hoping it is possible to get a crown done cheaply. Next trip to Thailand in 6 weeks I will ask around for some prices.

I had 5 or 6 fillings replaced recently. Approximately $800 bill I which I paid about $70

 

[JessicaTam]

Stories like these make me grateful for my mother giving me flouride tabs during the 70's & 80's. No fillings yet...

Same here. I think you are the first person I have met of my 'vintage' who also has no fillings.

 

[QF WP]

My brother is the same (no fillings), but you haven't met him (and as he is the antithesis or me, I'd suggest you don't)...

 

[medhead]

Stories like these make me grateful for my mother giving me flouride tabs during the 70's & 80's. No fillings yet...

Same here. I think you are the first person I have met of my 'vintage' who also has no fillings.

There are a few factors involved. I gather techniques have changed a lot. Had a dentist tell me these days they probably wouldn't have bother with some of my fillings. But I got them when in cairns from a well established local dentist, who seemed to like to scratch away at my teeth before deciding a filling was needed. Obviously, I'm suspicious about that but I'm also not a dentist.

My current biggest teeth issue results from having had 7 teeth removed as a child to make room in my mouth. This avoided braces and such at the time. However, I have a tooth that is twisting around because it's not connecting to the opposite tooth when I bite. The current orthodontist said they did a pretty good job for teeth removal correction (or something like that). It sounds awfully similar to 'the Trabant was a pretty good car for the technology of the time'.

Needless to say I'm looking at braces to fix this darn tooth.

For reference my mum proudly has no fillings - baby boomer.

 

[Katie]

Same here. I think you are the first person I have met of my 'vintage' who also has no fillings.

You can add Mr Katie (and perhaps his sisters) to your anecdotal data collection of fluoride tablets from Mum = no fillings still.

 

[drron]

The story of my teeth is a little different growing up in NSW.Had several fillings and 2 extractions as a young fellow.In 1968 Sydney's water supply had flouride added.One filling about 6 months later but no new ones since.Old ones have been repaced however.

 

[OATEK]

The story of my teeth is a little different growing up in NSW.Had several fillings and 2 extractions as a young fellow.In 1968 Sydney's water supply had flouride added.One filling about 6 months later but no new ones since.Old ones have been replaced however.

I have probably mentioned before that all my first teeth were extracted on the dining room table circa 1954 (at Miranda NSW). This wasn't Mum and Dad having a bit of fun, it involved people in white coats, a rubber mat and large gas bottles (probably my earliest life memory).

In 1959 the orthodontist decided too many teeth was the next problem (apparently having them all out in '54 led to the next lot coming a bit sooner than was ideal), so out with the 4 molars and on with the braces. When the braces came off the orthodontist said sorry looks like one tooth is cracked and several have cavities. Two of these soon required gold fillings (I still have one but can't get it to glint no matter how I hold my mouth).

Wisdom teeth came when I was 12 (a few years early judging by the amount of trouble I seemed to be able to get into in those days), 2 out by age 14, and the others a mere husk of the original.

The end result was lots of holidays and fine cars for the dentists, poverty for the parents and dentist-phobia for me. I have managed to keep most of the rest since, but not without a few root canal treatments, and one crown.

 

[blackcat20]

No job for this cat; good feedback but beaten by someone with "extensive experience". And they couldn't even stump up for a phone call to let me know.