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I don't mind the idea but they probably go a bit fast given how many idiots there are in the general populace, and I've heard the breaks are pretty sensitive in that they stop the scooter dead while your body keeps moving forward. So not surprising there's been a bunch of accidents. I doubt they'll last very long - at the very least they need to get them off the footpath so people riding them can take the risk if they want without knocking others over.
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@jegga said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@virgil said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@jegga said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
I’d love to meet the people that thought these were a good idea.
Walk you lazy fluffybunnies.https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12150573
We were in town on Saturday, only visited the wharf area ( mrs was picking up her Auckland marathon pack)
Their were a fuck ton of them lying around and being used.
Give the number of ACC claims in such a short time how long to they disappear?500 more hit the pavement this week @Canefan is lookingat villas in the south of France .
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@canefan said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@jegga said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@virgil said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@jegga said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
I’d love to meet the people that thought these were a good idea.
Walk you lazy fluffybunnies.https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12150573
We were in town on Saturday, only visited the wharf area ( mrs was picking up her Auckland marathon pack)
Their were a fuck ton of them lying around and being used.
Give the number of ACC claims in such a short time how long to they disappear?500 more hit the pavement this week @Canefan is lookingat villas in the south of France .
Is that your donation to the anti fluoride movement?
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I'm just waiting for Auckland Transport to make an announcement that being sensitive to safety and trying to get people out of cars, they are putting e-scooter lanes all through the CBD
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@jegga said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@canefan said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@jegga said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@virgil said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@jegga said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
I’d love to meet the people that thought these were a good idea.
Walk you lazy fluffybunnies.https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12150573
We were in town on Saturday, only visited the wharf area ( mrs was picking up her Auckland marathon pack)
Their were a fuck ton of them lying around and being used.
Give the number of ACC claims in such a short time how long to they disappear?500 more hit the pavement this week @Canefan is lookingat villas in the south of France .
Is that your donation to the anti fluoride movement?
I don't know why but MSM have a raging boner for the cost of dentistry right now and it is pissing me off. I had a guy come in late today, who is not a regular dental attender. As a result of not taking adequate precautions such as a regular exam and x-rays he needs a root canal treatment that will cost him the equivalent of 7 years worth of routine exams at my practice (we are not the cheapest nor the most expensive, so he might get up to 12 years of exams somewhere else).
There was a lady on Sunday last night, she bemoaned the fact that dentistry was so expensive, a dentist ended up doing the treatment for free as a publicity stunt. She needed 13 extractions and some partial dentures. Perhaps if she looked at her basic oral hygiene and her diet she might not have been in that mess???
Fucking pisses me off, in this age of not wanting to take accountability that we need to find something or someone other than ourselves to blame, like expensive dentistry or that pervasive advertising that forced her to shove all those sodas and sweets in her gob instead of spending a few bucks on a good toothbrush some floss and fluoride toothpaste, and learning how to use them properly.
I know I'm probably preaching to the choir a bit on an informed platform like TSF, but the path to good dental health is pretty easy for the majority of the population.
Brush teeth properly 2x day
Floss daily
Eat a reasonably low carb/refined sugar diet (high frequency intake is bad)
Get a regular check up from the dentist. It will cost less than an annual service for your car, approximately the equivalent of 30 to 40 $5 coffees, or a couple of big nights (or one big night) on the bash.It's that simple. Rant over
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@canefan said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@jegga said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@canefan said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@jegga said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@virgil said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@jegga said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
I’d love to meet the people that thought these were a good idea.
Walk you lazy fluffybunnies.https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12150573
We were in town on Saturday, only visited the wharf area ( mrs was picking up her Auckland marathon pack)
Their were a fuck ton of them lying around and being used.
Give the number of ACC claims in such a short time how long to they disappear?500 more hit the pavement this week @Canefan is lookingat villas in the south of France .
Is that your donation to the anti fluoride movement?
I don't know why but MSM have a raging boner for the cost of dentistry right now and it is pissing me off. I had a guy come in late today, who is not a regular dental attender. As a result of not taking adequate precautions such as a regular exam and x-rays he needs a root canal treatment that will cost him the equivalent of 7 years worth of routine exams at my practice (we are not the cheapest nor the most expensive, so he might get up to 12 years of exams somewhere else).
There was a lady on Sunday last night, she bemoaned the fact that dentistry was so expensive, a dentist ended up doing the treatment for free as a publicity stunt. She needed 13 extractions and some partial dentures. Perhaps if she looked at her basic oral hygiene and her diet she might not have been in that mess???
Fucking pisses me off, in this age of not wanting to take accountability that we need to find something or someone other than ourselves to blame, like expensive dentistry or that pervasive advertising that forced her to shove all those sodas and sweets in her gob instead of spending a few bucks on a good toothbrush some floss and fluoride toothpaste, and learning how to use them properly.
I know I'm probably preaching to the choir a bit on an informed platform like TSF, but the path to good dental health is pretty easy for the majority of the population.
Brush teeth properly 2x day
Floss daily
Eat a reasonably low carb/refined sugar diet (high frequency intake is bad)
Get a regular check up from the dentist. It will cost less than an annual service for your car, approximately the equivalent of 30 to 40 $5 coffees, or a couple of big nights (or one big night) on the bash.It's that simple. Rant over
13 extractions? Jesus.
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@jegga said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@canefan said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@jegga said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@canefan said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@jegga said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@virgil said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@jegga said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
I’d love to meet the people that thought these were a good idea.
Walk you lazy fluffybunnies.https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12150573
We were in town on Saturday, only visited the wharf area ( mrs was picking up her Auckland marathon pack)
Their were a fuck ton of them lying around and being used.
Give the number of ACC claims in such a short time how long to they disappear?500 more hit the pavement this week @Canefan is lookingat villas in the south of France .
Is that your donation to the anti fluoride movement?
I don't know why but MSM have a raging boner for the cost of dentistry right now and it is pissing me off. I had a guy come in late today, who is not a regular dental attender. As a result of not taking adequate precautions such as a regular exam and x-rays he needs a root canal treatment that will cost him the equivalent of 7 years worth of routine exams at my practice (we are not the cheapest nor the most expensive, so he might get up to 12 years of exams somewhere else).
There was a lady on Sunday last night, she bemoaned the fact that dentistry was so expensive, a dentist ended up doing the treatment for free as a publicity stunt. She needed 13 extractions and some partial dentures. Perhaps if she looked at her basic oral hygiene and her diet she might not have been in that mess???
Fucking pisses me off, in this age of not wanting to take accountability that we need to find something or someone other than ourselves to blame, like expensive dentistry or that pervasive advertising that forced her to shove all those sodas and sweets in her gob instead of spending a few bucks on a good toothbrush some floss and fluoride toothpaste, and learning how to use them properly.
I know I'm probably preaching to the choir a bit on an informed platform like TSF, but the path to good dental health is pretty easy for the majority of the population.
Brush teeth properly 2x day
Floss daily
Eat a reasonably low carb/refined sugar diet (high frequency intake is bad)
Get a regular check up from the dentist. It will cost less than an annual service for your car, approximately the equivalent of 30 to 40 $5 coffees, or a couple of big nights (or one big night) on the bash.It's that simple. Rant over
13 extractions? Jesus.
Sunday TV show I mean. She had to be under 35 years old
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@canefan said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@jegga said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@canefan said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@jegga said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@canefan said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@jegga said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@virgil said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@jegga said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
I’d love to meet the people that thought these were a good idea.
Walk you lazy fluffybunnies.https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12150573
We were in town on Saturday, only visited the wharf area ( mrs was picking up her Auckland marathon pack)
Their were a fuck ton of them lying around and being used.
Give the number of ACC claims in such a short time how long to they disappear?500 more hit the pavement this week @Canefan is lookingat villas in the south of France .
Is that your donation to the anti fluoride movement?
I don't know why but MSM have a raging boner for the cost of dentistry right now and it is pissing me off. I had a guy come in late today, who is not a regular dental attender. As a result of not taking adequate precautions such as a regular exam and x-rays he needs a root canal treatment that will cost him the equivalent of 7 years worth of routine exams at my practice (we are not the cheapest nor the most expensive, so he might get up to 12 years of exams somewhere else).
There was a lady on Sunday last night, she bemoaned the fact that dentistry was so expensive, a dentist ended up doing the treatment for free as a publicity stunt. She needed 13 extractions and some partial dentures. Perhaps if she looked at her basic oral hygiene and her diet she might not have been in that mess???
Fucking pisses me off, in this age of not wanting to take accountability that we need to find something or someone other than ourselves to blame, like expensive dentistry or that pervasive advertising that forced her to shove all those sodas and sweets in her gob instead of spending a few bucks on a good toothbrush some floss and fluoride toothpaste, and learning how to use them properly.
I know I'm probably preaching to the choir a bit on an informed platform like TSF, but the path to good dental health is pretty easy for the majority of the population.
Brush teeth properly 2x day
Floss daily
Eat a reasonably low carb/refined sugar diet (high frequency intake is bad)
Get a regular check up from the dentist. It will cost less than an annual service for your car, approximately the equivalent of 30 to 40 $5 coffees, or a couple of big nights (or one big night) on the bash.It's that simple. Rant over
13 extractions? Jesus.
Sunday TV show I mean. She had to be under 35 years old
13 extractions and a female under 35 is starting to sound like quite a different TV show. Just how late was it on?
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@nzzp said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@canefan how important is the flossing. Asking for a friend, but brushing regularly seems straightforward, but never really got into the daily flossing habit. Maaybe once a week or two ...
Floss every tooth you want to keep mate. Use thin floss, Colgate is fine. Just don't Johnson and Johnson reach floss because it's shit. It should never hurt, check this out. Should take no more than 60 seconds
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@bones said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@canefan said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@jegga said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@canefan said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@jegga said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@canefan said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@jegga said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@virgil said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@jegga said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
I’d love to meet the people that thought these were a good idea.
Walk you lazy fluffybunnies.https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12150573
We were in town on Saturday, only visited the wharf area ( mrs was picking up her Auckland marathon pack)
Their were a fuck ton of them lying around and being used.
Give the number of ACC claims in such a short time how long to they disappear?500 more hit the pavement this week @Canefan is lookingat villas in the south of France .
Is that your donation to the anti fluoride movement?
I don't know why but MSM have a raging boner for the cost of dentistry right now and it is pissing me off. I had a guy come in late today, who is not a regular dental attender. As a result of not taking adequate precautions such as a regular exam and x-rays he needs a root canal treatment that will cost him the equivalent of 7 years worth of routine exams at my practice (we are not the cheapest nor the most expensive, so he might get up to 12 years of exams somewhere else).
There was a lady on Sunday last night, she bemoaned the fact that dentistry was so expensive, a dentist ended up doing the treatment for free as a publicity stunt. She needed 13 extractions and some partial dentures. Perhaps if she looked at her basic oral hygiene and her diet she might not have been in that mess???
Fucking pisses me off, in this age of not wanting to take accountability that we need to find something or someone other than ourselves to blame, like expensive dentistry or that pervasive advertising that forced her to shove all those sodas and sweets in her gob instead of spending a few bucks on a good toothbrush some floss and fluoride toothpaste, and learning how to use them properly.
I know I'm probably preaching to the choir a bit on an informed platform like TSF, but the path to good dental health is pretty easy for the majority of the population.
Brush teeth properly 2x day
Floss daily
Eat a reasonably low carb/refined sugar diet (high frequency intake is bad)
Get a regular check up from the dentist. It will cost less than an annual service for your car, approximately the equivalent of 30 to 40 $5 coffees, or a couple of big nights (or one big night) on the bash.It's that simple. Rant over
13 extractions? Jesus.
Sunday TV show I mean. She had to be under 35 years old
13 extractions and a female under 35 is starting to sound like quite a different TV show. Just how late was it on?
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@canefan TBH, I brush twice a day, floss, use mouth wash, eat pretty well, but I have had 2 extractions, think I have 1 tooth that is still 'perfect' I have one of my molars that will have to be extracted soon as I cant afford the $1200-$1400 to sort it, thats without all the other work I know I need done.
The only thing my teeth have going for them is they are straight.
When I lived in the UK, I had a regular check ups, and if I had a filing at the same time, £25, in NZ a check up is >$100, plus a filling if required is >$200.
Granted in the UK I was with an NHS dentist, but simple fact is, our household income is probably average for NZ< but dental cost is extortionate.
I had a bridge done when in the UK, £600, came back to NZ, $4,500 to replace...my wife had to have an implant, $10,000 plus monthly trips to Auckland for a year.
I had to get a root canal doen in Auckland, partially covered by ACC (childhood injury) still cost me $1800, 3 visits to AUckland 2 years ago.
So I respectfully disagree with you as it isnt as simple and straight forward as you make it.
While the main part of the story focussed on that lady, the point they should have been focusing on is why is your body's health covered by the Govt subsidised health system, but your mouth, which plays a big part in overall health, not?
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@bovidae said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
I bought a water flosser on the recommendation of my dentist, much easier to use.
It's better than nothing, but you can't beat mechanical cleaning. A bit like brush car wash vs no touch
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@taniwharugby said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@canefan TBH, I brush twice a day, floss, use mouth wash, eat pretty well, but I have had 2 extractions, think I have 1 tooth that is still 'perfect' I have one of my molars that will have to be extracted soon as I cant afford the $1200-$1400 to sort it, thats without all the other work I know I need done.
The only thing my teeth have going for them is they are straight.
When I lived in the UK, I had a regular check ups, and if I had a filing at the same time, £25, in NZ a check up is >$100, plus a filling if required is >$200.
Granted in the UK I was with an NHS dentist, but simple fact is, our household income is probably average for NZ< but dental cost is extortionate.
I had a bridge done when in the UK, £600, came back to NZ, $4,500 to replace...my wife had to have an implant, $10,000 plus monthly trips to Auckland for a year.
So I respectfully disagree with you.
While the main part of the story focussed on that lady, the point they should have been focusing on is why is your body's health covered by the Govt subsidised health system, but your mouth, which plays a big part in overall health, not?
As I said mate, for the majority. I have a few patients, no matter what they do they have dental problems and their teeth are in a faster rate of decline than the general population. There are a bunch of factors that can contribute to this (medications that cause dry mouth, naturally low saliva flow, composition and quality of saliva, natural pH in the mouth, various medical conditions that cause the mouth to be more acidic to name a few) which need to addressed to reduce risk but for those people it is frustrating (and for their dentists too!!)
As far as costs are concerned, I have colleagues working in the UK, many of the NHS dentists are now private, one of my ex-associates charges about the same for crowns as I do, but in GBP. Besides I have seen some pretty shoddy NHS dentistry too and my mates that did their OEs working as dentists in England in the late 90s have a similarly low opinion of the general standard of care there. But there are charlatans in all professions and a range of prices too. We are no different
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@canefan I reckon a few of them work up here...one my wife goes to is always trying to get her to get cosmetic shit done, telling her she needed this and that, she ended up changing fortunately she has good teeth, hope the kids have hers rather than mine.
Some of the dentists they have for kids are too eagar to extract as well, which causes crowding issues as thier adult teeth come through (learnt with TR Jnr so Miss TR had a spacer)
I dont want to change dentists as I am embarassed by the state of my teeth!
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@taniwharugby said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@canefan I reckon a few of them work up here...one my wife goes to is always trying to get her to get cosmetic shit done, telling her she needed this and that, she ended up changing fortunately she has good teeth, hope the kids have hers rather than mine.
Some of the dentists they have for kids are too eagar to extract as well, which causes crowding issues as thier adult teeth come through (learnt with TR Jnr so Miss TR had a spacer)
I dont want to change dentists as I am embarassed by the state of my teeth!
Never settle mate, find someone who doesn't make you feel like you are being sold. For the sake of your remaining teeth you owe it to yourself to find someone responsible. I see lots of people from other dentists (many thru grabone etc too) that want a second opinion for proposed treatment plans. Every time I do an assessment and find they need little or no work done it fucking disgusts me. These days any dentist worth their salt is relatively non-interventionist, especially with kids
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@canefan said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@taniwharugby said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@canefan I reckon a few of them work up here...one my wife goes to is always trying to get her to get cosmetic shit done, telling her she needed this and that, she ended up changing fortunately she has good teeth, hope the kids have hers rather than mine.
Some of the dentists they have for kids are too eagar to extract as well, which causes crowding issues as thier adult teeth come through (learnt with TR Jnr so Miss TR had a spacer)
I dont want to change dentists as I am embarassed by the state of my teeth!
Never settle mate, find someone who doesn't make you feel like you are being sold. For the sake of your remaining teeth you owe it to yourself to find someone responsible. I see lots of people from other dentists (many thru grabone etc too) that want a second opinion for proposed treatment plans. Every time I do an assessment and find they need little or no work done it fucking disgusts me. These days any dentist worth their salt is relatively non-interventionist, especially with kids
Be honest , a dentist invented k-bars and Macintosh’s right?
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@jegga said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@canefan said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@taniwharugby said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@canefan I reckon a few of them work up here...one my wife goes to is always trying to get her to get cosmetic shit done, telling her she needed this and that, she ended up changing fortunately she has good teeth, hope the kids have hers rather than mine.
Some of the dentists they have for kids are too eagar to extract as well, which causes crowding issues as thier adult teeth come through (learnt with TR Jnr so Miss TR had a spacer)
I dont want to change dentists as I am embarassed by the state of my teeth!
Never settle mate, find someone who doesn't make you feel like you are being sold. For the sake of your remaining teeth you owe it to yourself to find someone responsible. I see lots of people from other dentists (many thru grabone etc too) that want a second opinion for proposed treatment plans. Every time I do an assessment and find they need little or no work done it fucking disgusts me. These days any dentist worth their salt is relatively non-interventionist, especially with kids
Be honest , a dentist invented k-bars and Macintosh’s right?
I used to love K Bars. Don't forget gingernuts and minties!!!
