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Permalink Reply by alan mikkelsen on February 17, 2010 at 1:59pm

While anything to do with teeth and dentists is hardly TIC, I really posted this as a bit of a wry dig at myself in an area that's somewhat mundane, against a background of ETS, beef import, biogenetics and such issues occupying Agmates' heartland, the farming community. But you know what they say about a change being as good as a holiday, so I live in hope that i might attract one curious / sympathetic / outraged responder, before I exit stage left to p2, p3, p...........
Cheers alan m

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Permalink Reply by Janet H. Thompson on February 17, 2010 at 3:01pm

Mikko, I assure you EVERYTHING to do with teeth and dentists is TIC. Just to keep your poor, lonely, unwell self from having to delve into various and multiple pages, I've come to your rescue. For how long is anybody's guess. Alas, the wheels of fate continue to turn, and neither teeth nor any other important topic can stop those crushing cogs.

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Permalink Reply by Ebony Jackson on February 17, 2010 at 3:30pm

Thanks for those inspirational words alan.
I am going to the dentist tomorrow for an hour in the chair.
My dentist sort of quoted costs will not be under 1,000 Aussie bucks.
The work I need is not covered by my private health fund...which I pay an arm and a leg for each month.
Plus - this morning I walked into a tree and broke my glasses.
My myopia comes with heavy duty consequences.
Anyway...back to the dentist...I always take the easy way out and have the needle at 30 bucks a jab...and a fat lip for hours after.
Not the best time to go for a coffee in public- to recover!
The week from hell...on steroids!

ps., great to learn you don't have aids or anything catching, alan - must be a major plus!

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Permalink Reply by alan mikkelsen on February 17, 2010 at 6:19pm

Thanks Janet and Ebony, liked your responses - ah, mutual loyalty / call it what you will is a great thing. And I am pretty happy about the No Aids clearance too, Ebony. (Hey, that is a joke!).

Did you notice that I changed (and enlarged) my forum header? I'll be in the running for 'Site Eccentric' :-)

Seriously though, anybody who strolls by here and has a peek, should try to get to see 'Invictus' as soon as you can. ie if you want a well acted (Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon), excellently produced (Clint Eastwood - need one say more) quite exciting and thoroughly uplifting movie experience. We both enjoyed it immensely and fair dinkum, if they still ran continuous sessions in the major theatres, I'd have sat through it again, on the spot. At least once!

Wow, catastrophic climate change is at work amongst he multiple forum posters. I wonder, is there a prize for this secret competition?

Cheers alan m

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Permalink Reply by Ian Macrae Yeates on February 17, 2010 at 6:22pm

That hasn't been a good week, Alan. I'm fairly new here and a city slicker. I went to boarding school and soon realised I had better get on with country kids. I have appreciated your posts and hope you are continuing with more of the same.

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Permalink Reply by Ebony Jackson on February 17, 2010 at 6:37pm

Love Morgan Freeman - very bedroom eyes and muscles!
Clint Eastwood - too sexy for his age...oh yesss
An alan - the header, what can I say but...so cool!

Ps., I am so over cc too.
I won't type the whole words, but it is definitely not related to being a catholic or anything as tragic...me being an atheist & everything.

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Permalink Reply by alan mikkelsen on February 17, 2010 at 6:41pm

So Ian, "I'm fairly new here and a city slicker"
Me too, Downtown Melbourne with all its brand new but non-running trains (when the Unions aren't 'demarking', they are rejecting the positions of the armrests or something), non-working zillion dollar ticketing systems, racial violence (denied by our Premier) against young Indians, and for the lovers of debates on multiculturism, the biggest population of overseas born people, especially now from Asia (not a problem for me, I might add), in Oz.

But, it's all good - well, not the crazy union stuff (good in an election year though :-), denied racial violence or overcharging tonsorial artists who think they should be on Pavarotti pay scales.

Ah, very fond of Toowoomba, although your 'no poo - water for me' referendum was disappointing. Wonder if any of the locals travel to / through Singapore from time to time?

Cheers and have fun alan m

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Permalink Reply by Colin J Ely on February 17, 2010 at 6:53pm

Alan
Hope you are well
As for us drinking 'poo water' here in Melbourne, well those cretins in Spring st should realise that I can see their place of work from the roof of mine, it will be the Eureka Stockade all over again! I would welcome the chance to use some cheaper recycled water to water my garden and flush my toilet, BUT NOT TO DRINK! BTW I had an interesting email exchange recently with the Honourable Member for being Geographically Embarrassed and Tactically Misplaced, I was remarking on the poor state of the Treasury Gardens, seeing as there was a supply of grey water not 100 metres away. His reply was that they hadn't installed grey water harvesting systems in the Treasury Reserve because some of the buildings are old and they couldn't upgrade them. These are the same people who encourage us to install rainwater tanks and solar PV systems.
And what would have been the outcome if they had put into the health budget what they have wasted on Myki?

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Permalink Reply by Janet H. Thompson on February 17, 2010 at 6:57pm

Wow, Ebony, so you have no arm, no leg, broken glasses, bad eyes, and troublesome teeth. I hope YOUR blood test comes back clear...! :-)

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Permalink Reply by alan mikkelsen on February 17, 2010 at 7:25pm

Colin, a mind-boggling question which alas will never be answered, as the money has gone, as you say. ("And what would have been the outcome if they had put into the health budget what they have wasted on Myki?").

i love your reported chat with Tim, indeed a frequently lost soul. (In joke for weraers of The Big V).

But Col, re recycled to better than commercial distilled water quality wee and poo reclaim, put through state of the art, reverse-osmosis molecular sieves (invented in Oz by the way, but then lost overseas during the early Hawke years, as I recall), i was very seroious abot Singapore. Practically all their potable water these days comes from state of the art recycling of sewage, and they actually have to put trace elements back in the 'too pure' product to give it a consumer-acceptable 'taste.

So mate, if you have drunk water in Singapore, you are a bonfide member of the club.

To me, no problem at all, as long as the controls are multiple safety protected, which they are, and out of the hands of human operators opening or closing valves.

cheers alan m

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Permalink Reply by alan mikkelsen on February 17, 2010 at 7:26pm

Hmm, good lead. Ebony, can i fix you up with some good references for all that medical attention? At a very modest fee, of course. :-)
Cheers alan m

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Permalink Reply by Brendan Michael on February 17, 2010 at 9:01pm

Gidday Alan M & all,
DENTISTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Because beautiful downtown Tathra is cut off from Bega at the moment due flood waters, I had to make the 15 min trip via Merimbula to visit the dentist yesterday. Turned into 2.5hr round trip. Minor erosion at gum level of the three lower left front teeth. Total 15 mins in the chair to fill with something hardened by ultra violet light. $500 thank you very much = $125 for 5mins (MAX) work on each tooth. that equates to $25 per minute. Sending your kids to Kings is VERY expensive. Problem is, two more appointment to go.

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