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health question for hivemind
So I don't have dental insurance, and I'm pretty sure my gums are receding in a couple places. I'm getting a softer toothbrush, brushing more often, and swishing thoroughly with salt water, but I don't have access to proper treatment (gum grafts, deep cleaning, anything that requires seeing an actual dentist - I don't have money for that and there ( Read more... ) -
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Happy New Year, jerks! I celebrated with my travel group on the south bank of the Thames. It was five minutes of fireworks, twenty minutes of vague flashes in the sky as the fog rolled in and covered everything, and two hours of weaving through hellish crowds to get back to the flat. Still, I had fun, and the London Eye looks awesome when it's ( Read more... ) -
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Hi. I'm in London (it's part of a class for school). So far I haven't done much besides grocery shop and poke around the neighborhood a little but I'm hoping to get up to fun times later. Tomorrow, the hunt for cheap samosas begins ( Read more... ) -
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So I was at a pal's house last night, and I was flipping through a book she had - it's a photography book from the late '80s sometime, and it's pictures of teenagers in their rooms, accompanied by a few paragraphs they've written about themselves. I noticed one of the kids had big X's on his hands, talked a lot about animal liberation, and looked ( Read more... ) -
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Dear anonymous author of Beowulf,
Look, I know it was the 9th century and you were probably doing this under pain of death from your church fathers, but dude, your ancient Scandinavian characters definitely would not be invoking the Christian God. You and I both know they worshiped the Aesir, and after a while all the "Thank the Almighty for ( Read more... ) -
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Argument #5787466 against the existence of a just and merciful God: BLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGHGHGH.
Why does there need to be a big-budget parody of 300? There's so much to chuckle at in the original - Xerxes' ridiculous drag-queen makeup, Leonidas' overacting (seriously, is there a single line that he doesn't scream so hard the tendons on his neck ( Read more... ) -
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So who wants to see goofy pictures of me rocking out? Yeah, I knew you did. Go here and look at the Nile and Chthonic photos - I'm the gal in the gray tank top and black hair, usually making some sort of METAL!!! grimace. The two dudes to the left are Greg (curly hair, glasses, flame tattoos) and Conrad (dirty blonde hair, kind of subdued look ( Read more... ) -
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I saw Nile and you didn't ( Read more... )