Useless Conversation

[Soln]

we need a tea thread

[Paelos]

we need a tea thread

You sure you don't need a subforum? I mean if Blood Bowl can get one, why not Tea? 

[IainC]

we need a tea thread

We absolutely do.

[Bzalthek]

I can't stand the taste of coffee.  I wake up in the morning an hour early to pop 3 200mg caffeine pills washed down with diet Mt. Dew or Pepsi max (46 mg per 8 fl oz woo!) and then go back to sleep for an hour until they kick in and I have a 2 litre with me at all times at home and in the car (or, sometimes, school.)

It's been a decade since I've felt the effects of sleep deprivation.

Enjoy your heart attack in your mid-30s.

Any day now then!

[Fraeg]

Physicals - your doctor, does s/he ever tell you that you might need some "lifestyle changes" ?  That is a crazy amount of caffeine.

[Merusk]

Screw that, I want to know how his teeth aren't rotten.  40oz of soda a day max and mine were going to shit until I stopped.  Dentist said it was my choice of Mt. Dew and Coke, the two worst beverages for etching the enamel and promoting decay.

[Ingmar]

He said diet!

[Sjofn]

Screw that, I want to know how his teeth aren't rotten.  40oz of soda a day max and mine were going to shit until I stopped.  Dentist said it was my choice of Mt. Dew and Coke, the two worst beverages for etching the enamel and promoting decay.

Sometimes people luck out with regards to teeth. I drank an absurd amount of soda up until last year (I still drink too much, it's just now I drink diet), but my teeth are great, because I won the genetic lottery. 

[Bzalthek]

I haven't touched sugared soda in a long ass time, like 2001-2002. (Well, once in a blue moon if the diet coke is tapped out in a restaurant I'll go classic, but that's it.)

[Merusk]

It's not the sugar doing it, it's the acidity of the beverage itself.  The dentist told me you see the same problem with folks who drink LOTS of really strong tea or a lot of citrus juices but it's primarily sodas because their ph is so much lower.

[Salamok]

Screw that, I want to know how his teeth aren't rotten.  40oz of soda a day max and mine were going to shit until I stopped.  Dentist said it was my choice of Mt. Dew and Coke, the two worst beverages for etching the enamel and promoting decay.

Sometimes people luck out with regards to teeth. I drank an absurd amount of soda up until last year (I still drink too much, it's just now I drink diet), but my teeth are great, because I won the genetic lottery.  

I actually think there was something to that nasty flouride gel or whatever it was the dentist made me bite down on for 5 minutes.  After I hit my 20's and pretty much stopped going to the dentist I found out he had a serious coke problem and was getting jailed for fraud (double billing insurance co's and such) anyway I guess I have snortin mortin to thank for the 4 cleanings 2 xrays and 2 disgusting gel treatments a year I was getting for 4 or so years.  Unfortunately I also have him to thank for quite a few fake fillings as well.  Anyway I was drinking 10-12 cans of soda a day for about a 20 year period and am a habitual ice chewer, finally went to the dentist for a cleaning after a 15 year hiatus and she said my teeth look great.

[Bzalthek]

It's not the sugar doing it, it's the acidity of the beverage itself.  The dentist told me you see the same problem with folks who drink LOTS of really strong tea or a lot of citrus juices but it's primarily sodas because their ph is so much lower.

Yeah, if you say so chief.  I'm not saying the acid isn't present but I'm really not seeing how there's enough exposure, especially considering solubility, that I need to worry overmuch. 

[Nerf]

Fuck wallmounting TVs, fuck studfinders that don't work, and fuck the fact that I have to remove and replace a hefty chunk of paneling to add braces between the studs so I can wallmount the TV.

On the plus side, my new drill is AWESOME! (and now I have a justifiable reason for more tools, so it could be worse)

[Sjofn]

Screw that, I want to know how his teeth aren't rotten.  40oz of soda a day max and mine were going to shit until I stopped.  Dentist said it was my choice of Mt. Dew and Coke, the two worst beverages for etching the enamel and promoting decay.

Sometimes people luck out with regards to teeth. I drank an absurd amount of soda up until last year (I still drink too much, it's just now I drink diet), but my teeth are great, because I won the genetic lottery.  

I actually think there was something to that nasty flouride gel or whatever it was the dentist made me bite down on for 5 minutes.  After I hit my 20's and pretty much stopped going to the dentist I found out he had a serious coke problem and was getting jailed for fraud (double billing insurance co's and such) anyway I guess I have snortin mortin to thank for the 4 cleanings 2 xrays and 2 disgusting gel treatments a year I was getting for 4 or so years.  Unfortunately I also have him to thank for quite a few fake fillings as well.  Anyway I was drinking 10-12 cans of soda a day for about a 20 year period and am a habitual ice chewer, finally went to the dentist for a cleaning after a 15 year hiatus and she said my teeth look great.

My childhood dentist (who did not have a coke problem) made me do the flouride swoosh for an entire minute in my youth, I was always ready to gag by the end of it. He also did a lot of other pre-emptive bullshit that I cannot remember the name(s?) of now, so who knows, maybe that helped a lot too. Still, my poor baby sister, who had the same dentist and takes much better care of her teeth, has many, many fillings, and I do not. So I guess it's mostly a genetic crapshoot, with all the dental whatnot existing to make people with shitty teeth able to have a fighting chance in them not going completely to hell.

When Ingmar and I went to the dentist after ... I dunno, probably 10 years, I just needed a deep cleaning to deal with tartar and one minor filling on a molar (if I remember right, I only REALLY remember needing the cleaning, because my gums were sore afterwards), Ingmar needed a fuckton of work (root canal, crowns, that sort of shit). He always calls me a bitch when I cheerfully announce after a visit that once again I had nothing wrong with my teeth. :(

[Murgos]

I'm going to have a strong back if this winter continues like this.

[Oban]

Are the Moderators now deleting posts rather than moving them to the Den?

Woosh, never mind.

[Chimpy]

Fuck wallmounting TVs, fuck studfinders that don't work, and fuck the fact that I have to remove and replace a hefty chunk of paneling to add braces between the studs so I can wallmount the TV.

On the plus side, my new drill is AWESOME! (and now I have a justifiable reason for more tools, so it could be worse)

Use zip toggles, no need to find studs or add braces.

[Merusk]

It's not the sugar doing it, it's the acidity of the beverage itself.  The dentist told me you see the same problem with folks who drink LOTS of really strong tea or a lot of citrus juices but it's primarily sodas because their ph is so much lower.

Yeah, if you say so chief.  I'm not saying the acid isn't present but I'm really not seeing how there's enough exposure, especially considering solubility, that I need to worry overmuch. 

 Stop taking it as a personal attack "Chief."  It's probably like Sjofn said, some folks have good teeth. It's probably also the way you drink it.  I do savor liquids a bit before swallowing, a bad thing to do with soda. And apparently, yes, diet does make a difference because there's no sugar to promote decay after the acid has eroded the enamel.   I also have a habit of brushing my teeth right afterwards... which I just read is one of the worst things you can do, since your mouth is now acidic and you're just scrubbing away the enamel. Whoops.  Looks like I go back to a baking soda swish before brushing like I did with braces.

[RhyssaFireheart]

Like Sjofn, the husband and I are polar opposites when it comes to the dentist.  He's had to have lots of work done over the years, I've had 1-2 fillings replaced and that's about it.  In fact, years ago when I started going to the dentist we see now, he was surprised I only had ~10 fillings total.  The husband's tooth health is complicated by having gone through chemo in his mid-20s and ne of the drugs was known to affect enamel, so he's had far more work done.  We joke whenever he needs something fixed that the dentist must have a college payment due for one of the kids and he needs to make up for never getting to work on me.

Today's update - fuck sinus colds and all that pressure.  My ears ache, my jaw and lower cheeks are sore as hell, the base of my skull feels like it's going to break and my damn chest hurts from all the coughing I'm doing.

[Bzalthek]

  Stop taking it as a personal attack "Chief." 

Oh, I wasn't.  That's just how I talk.

[Polysorbate80]

I'm going to have a strong back if this winter continues like this.

I'm assuming you mean shovelling snow?

I use this for a shovel:



Real easy on the back 

[Nerf]

Fuck wallmounting TVs, fuck studfinders that don't work, and fuck the fact that I have to remove and replace a hefty chunk of paneling to add braces between the studs so I can wallmount the TV.

On the plus side, my new drill is AWESOME! (and now I have a justifiable reason for more tools, so it could be worse)

Use zip toggles, no need to find studs or add braces.

I just don't trust a $1k+ piece of electronics to toggles or anchors.  It's 1/4" ply paneling over drywall, and I need to add an electrical outlet and coax run behind it anyways.  I was going to have to get into it anyways, I was just hoping I could get the tv up first.

[Merusk]

Considering zip anchors carry around 50# of load max per anchor and a 16d nail is 100# just to pull it out horizontally when in a stud, I'm with Nerf on that one.

[Chimpy]

Considering zip anchors carry around 50# of load max per anchor and a 16d nail is 100# just to pull it out horizontally when in a stud, I'm with Nerf on that one.

I have used them for years to mount things much heavier than a TV (and TVs) to hollow walls with zero issues. A single 1/4" zip toggle is rated for 265# on 1/2" drywall. I am not talking about plastic anchors, I am talking about the threaded and re-usable toggle bolt anchors.

[Soln]

Considering zip anchors carry around 50# of load max per anchor and a 16d nail is 100# just to pull it out horizontally when in a stud, I'm with Nerf on that one.

I have used them for years to mount things much heavier than a TV (and TVs) to hollow walls with zero issues. A single 1/4" zip toggle is rated for 265# on 1/2" drywall. I am not talking about plastic anchors, I am talking about the threaded and re-usable toggle bolt anchors.

I'm a fan of butterfly or toggle anchor bolts.  The physics is better (behind the drywall):  sample

[Nerf]

I thought about those, but I need to get into the wall to run a new outlet to hide the wires behind the tv, and a new coax drop for the fios box.  It's an exterior wall above the fireplace, so I'm going to have to get through sports anyways.  I'll have to start a remodeling thread soon, I want some opinions on layout and counter colors.

Still can't say enough good things about the hitachi dv18dl, 18v li-ion, 2 3.0Ah batteries, 0-1800rpms and either 560 or 580in/lbs of torque.  Lifetime warranty on the tool, 2 years on the batteries.  Not bad for $199+tax.

[Ingmar]

Layoff bullet dodged!

[Sjofn]

Today's update - fuck sinus colds and all that pressure.  My ears ache, my jaw and lower cheeks are sore as hell, the base of my skull feels like it's going to break and my damn chest hurts from all the coughing I'm doing.

Oh God, I hate that, especially when the jaw hurts. I hope you feel better!

Layoff bullet dodged!

wat

[ghost]

Screw that, I want to know how his teeth aren't rotten.  40oz of soda a day max and mine were going to shit until I stopped.  Dentist said it was my choice of Mt. Dew and Coke, the two worst beverages for etching the enamel and promoting decay.

Sometimes people luck out with regards to teeth. I drank an absurd amount of soda up until last year (I still drink too much, it's just now I drink diet), but my teeth are great, because I won the genetic lottery. 

Technically, teeth get cavities because of acid.  The bacteria that cause the cavities do so by "pooping" acid onto your teeth.  They eat sugar to make it.  So while diet drinks are better for your teeth, they still aren't good.

As a side note, if you really want to jack up your teeth take up doing meth and then drink a lot of sodas.  Fun will ensue.

[Bunk]

Lol, note to married folk here - tell the SO stuff in person before telling everyone else here first.
 

Just finished writing up a bunch of performance reviews for my manager, went and asked him if he wanted to go ove rthem before he sat down with people, and he informed me that I was going to be doing them. Which means they will all know who wrote that stuff about them...

[Ironwood]

Lol, note to married folk here - tell the SO stuff in person before telling everyone else here first.
 

eh ?

[Ingmar]

Lol, note to married folk here - tell the SO stuff in person before telling everyone else here first.
 

eh ?

I assume he means the layoff thing I posted about before telling Sjofn. 

[Merusk]

Considering zip anchors carry around 50# of load max per anchor and a 16d nail is 100# just to pull it out horizontally when in a stud, I'm with Nerf on that one.

I have used them for years to mount things much heavier than a TV (and TVs) to hollow walls with zero issues. A single 1/4" zip toggle is rated for 265# on 1/2" drywall. I am not talking about plastic anchors, I am talking about the threaded and re-usable toggle bolt anchors.

Yeah I know what you meant. You might be thinking of the anchor to pull out of the plastic, not the plastic ripping apart the drywall.  Even the manufacturer won't go anywhere over 100# on their ratings for most common household drywall.  Here's a cut sheet.

1/2" drywall has a structural capactiy of about 70psi according to testing, which is why the anchors are rated as such.  The anchors are stronger than the boards.  If shit hasn't fallen yet, it's a matter of luck or a lot of anchors.  

[ghost]

Wheels within wheels......



Also, I love when I tell a waiter at a nice restaurant that I'm gluten free and they look at me like I just told them I was a Nazi.

[Oban]

Also, I love when I tell a waiter at a nice restaurant that I'm gluten free and they look at me like I just told them I was a Nazi.

That look is the waiter realizing that he/she has a crazy customer who will most likely not tip.