I got 6 numbers on the Lottery.

DavidXBrunt · 02 March, 2003, 08:26:22 PM

Shame they were over two lines. For a moment there I got very excited. Still ?20 is better than a kick in the teeth.

Bart Oliver · 02 March, 2003, 09:55:48 PM

You might want to save that twenty quid for the next time you go to the dentists..

I went on friday and the sadist put me through hell, okay so it wasn't like that scene in Marathon Man by any stretch, but all the same it was expensive enough.

DavidXBrunt · 02 March, 2003, 10:44:01 PM

Oh did you have to go and mention dentists? I'm sorry to be disgusting but I missed my last appointment and have been meaning to make another one for the work to be done ever since then. And that was September 11 2000...

Queen Firey-Bou · 02 March, 2003, 10:51:34 PM

Ahhh David, the moral of the story is only buy one ticket. & here was me getting ready to chat you up & see if we could try that marriage thing again...oh well.

Bart Oliver · 02 March, 2003, 11:03:48 PM

My last check up was four years ago.

My excuse is I spent half of that time living and working in Portugal and that my medical insurance only covered emergencies.
I shudder at the thought of how many cigs and cheap bottles of vino I got through in that time
but then so did the dentist when I opened my mouth..

really no pun intended but my advice is just book that appointment then grin and bear it.

Quirkafleeg · 02 March, 2003, 11:22:08 PM

Well I was once phobic about dentists and did not got for several years... Then I managed to have impacted wisdom teeth. A month of blinding agony was followed by having 6 teeth out under a general anesthetic.

Extreme trauma, that's how to cure a phobia! Nothing (inc crown and root canal work) ever seemed too bad after that.

Queen Firey-Bou · 02 March, 2003, 11:41:56 PM

yeah i was phobic too, as a kid when the aliens put advanced wyrd technology in my fillings. Also the rubber mask being gassed anasthetic experience wasn't too nice, i was really young but the fear & loathingesque losing consiousness memory is as clear as day. However having to visit dentist every week as a teen for brace fiddling & having many good teeth wrenched out for brace fiddling purposes, has fixed my phobias.

I'd forgotten all about the rubber mask horrors, until the eve of that Breathing Apperatus Week Course, i recently did. shudder.

s'funny innit, tho, i used to be terrified of the dark, lifts, claustrophobic, etc etc. & there I was, in the pitch black, with a rubber mask on crawling through tunnels & cages.

lifes a challenge, fears to overcome, stretch that comfort zone. Laugh at that coffee/garlic stinking dentist fool ! he holds no fear for Us !

(I'm off on a helicopter training course later in month, so much for vertigo)

Quirkafleeg · 02 March, 2003, 11:56:35 PM

I unfortunatly went to rubbish dentist in my childhood (stinking bad breath, pain during and after) and an even worse one in my teens (over a few weeks several fillings just fell out and several teeth spit in half.

Finally it was the University Dental service in particular a prof of Dentistry who sorted me out.

And luckily I've now found a good dentist.

But you think this is bad I knew someone at university who had not been to a dentist in ten years. In the end his girlfriend, fed up with the stinking breath his rotten mouth produced forced him to go. A final year dental student's whole final year project was treating him.

James · 03 March, 2003, 12:28:19 AM

My parents won ?82,000 on the lottery about 8 years ago, with 5 balls plus the bonus number. Their last number that they didn't get was 2, the number drawn was 5, 3 digits away.

Did I ever see a penny of it?

Nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bart Oliver · 03 March, 2003, 02:34:29 AM

sounds like I've got off lightly in comparison..

I only had a missing amalgum filling, four years of tartar build up and a cracked front tooth from a bike accident.

Bart Oliver · 03 March, 2003, 02:47:02 AM

perhaps I should add that I didn't just crack a tooth when I came off the bike-

I had servere concusion, a shattered collar bone, multiple cuts and abrasions and chipped both knee caps

but then thats got nothing to do with going to the dentist or winning a wad o' cash..

Queen Firey-Bou · 03 March, 2003, 04:21:27 AM

"Did I ever see a penny of it? "

really james ?! thats so tight ! not even a present, a 100 ? that sucks !
suddenly i'm appriciating my folks, not only would they share any lotto wins around but they went to the effort with my pre-bought 'princess' birthday cake, of food colouring the princesses hair red. Awwwww. nice parents.
james's suck like a baddly drilled filling.

ukdane · 03 March, 2003, 02:37:50 PM

Well done David, ?20 is better than a kick in the teeth...
... and whilst we're on the subject of Dentists, I didn't go for over 6 years, until I moved here. Now I go every 3 months. I too went on Friday- once again, I got a clean bill of teeth--- 30 years, and not one filling!

Slippery PD · 03 March, 2003, 04:42:24 PM

I always have bad luck at the dentists.

I never went for 5 years or so (uni) and then I went for a check up and had two fillings. Then I went to to the dentist in December had a check up no problem next day excruciating pain. More fillings and to top it all off, root treament.

Bugger!!!

YEr Slippo

Proudhuff · 03 March, 2003, 05:14:52 PM

I'm orf to the dentist on Friday!! I think it will be the big old ones at the back coming out!, sob, may have to take a couple of days off work to recover, sob. Up to now I've had great dentists, crap teeth, but great dentists...

Middenteeth