Post Game May 22, 2018

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Cenk Uygur and John Iadarola share their dentist stories.

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  1. I haven’t been to the dentist since i was like 11 im now 29. I keep telling myself I’m going to go soon but I only have 2 cavities that i have kept in check for 11 years so what’s the point. My top wisdom teeth are just starting to come in and my bottom came around 6 years ago.

  3. OMG
    IM
    LOLING SOOOO FUCKING HARD RN!!!’ Toooo good! God I love Cenk and John!!!! Lol. Fuck I’m going to get all 4 wisdom teeth extracted this summer…. I definitely hope I don’t hear and OH NO!

    And thanks for the nitros story I’ll be taking that now thank you

  4. When I was a kid my dentist’s name was Dr. Grosshandler and I’m not kidding. Every time we went for a visit, I was like, “do we have to do see this one, though?”

    1. Wtf happened to the uncle after the lights went out? Why didn’t he come back? That’s crazy!

    1. I want to do nitrous oxide with John!

      Actually, John only understands half of addiction, the mental part of it, that’s the easiest part to break away from and control. If you keep using something long enough to get physically addicted, it feels like all of your organs are failing at the same time and you seriously think you are going to fucking die unless you get some more. And sometimes, you can die. That’s why they put people with longterm opioid addiction into a medical coma, so they don’t die during the withdrawals. Same thing with alcohol, although there are other treatments too that go along with it, medically.

  6. I was lucky enough to be completely put under when they removed all four of my wisdom teeth. The recovery does suck though. You look like a squirrel for a week and your sockets feel like they are on fire and you cannot eat anything solid.

  7. Omg that was the craziest dentist story, ain’t nobody beating that. I thoroughly enjoyed this Post Game.

  8. I had my tonsils removed in the 50s in England when I was about five or so, had a comfortable stay in hospital with ice cream , I remember that. It was a routine procedure with no barbarity whatsoever, all courtesy of the newly created National Health Service. Can’t believe you still have the crap health service you have in America, good luck changing things soon

  9. when i was 13, my dentist gave me a needle of Novocaine to prep me to have a tooth pulled — an abscess had burst in my mouth. gross enough, right? the needle broke in my gum, the Novocaine leaked down my throat, none of it numbed anything. Novocaine tastes awful, btw. the dentist pulled the tooth anyway, after he yanked the broken needle out of my gum. everything hurt worse than anything — until i got my period (then i knew what REAL pain was). i’ve hated dentists, ever since. until then, everything was cool — my daddy used to take me to Carvel for soft ice cream after the visit.

    BEST AD … EVER:

    https://www.volksfolks.org/forums/general-discussion/ted-kennedy-vw-ad/?action=dlattach;attach=2520;image

    TEXT:

    IF TED KENNEDY DROVE A VOLKSWAGEN, HE’D BE PRESIDENT TODAY.

    It floats.

    The way our body is built, we’d be surprised if it didn’t.

    The sheet of flat steel that goes underneath every Volkswagen keeps out water, as well as dirt and salt and other nasty things that eat away at the underside of a car. So it’s watertight at the bottom.

    And everybody knows it’s easier to shut the door on a Volkswagen after you’ve rolled down the window a little. That proves it’s practically airtight on top.

    If it was a boat, we could call it the Water Bug. But it’s not a boat, it’s a car.

    And, like Mary Jo Kopechne, it’s only 99 and 44/100 percent pure.

    So it won’t stay afloat forever. Just long enough.

    Poor Teddy.

    If he’d been smart enough to buy a Volkswagen, he’d never would have gotten into hot water.

    DISCLAIMER: i don’t know how to add a graphic to my comment, or even if it’s allowed. i hope the link works, because it’s SO worth seeing. it was originally published in 1972, and the National Lampoon Magazine was sued by Volkswagen, of course! i’m trying to track down an intact issue to buy, because the magazine was forced, by the Court, to cut the ad out of every copy, about half the total printed, they still had on hand. https://www.nytimes.com/1973/10/30/archives/volkswagen-settles-suit-against-national-lampoon.html

    SECOND BEST AD … EVER:

    https://boingboing.net/images/falwell-hustler-first-time.jpg

    JERRY FALWELL TALKS ABOUT HIS FIRST TIME

    here is the JUSTIA text of the Appellate Court decision. it’s pretty interesting, especially the part that quotes part of Larry Flynt’s deposition testimony. do read it; it’s hysterical … and it’s accurate. if you haven’t seen the film starring Woody Harrelson, The People vs. Larry Flynt, i highly recommend it (link to Amazon follows):

    https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F2/797/1270/104900/

    here’s a link to rent or buy the film: https://www.amazon.com/People-Vs-Larry-Flynt/dp/0800141865

  10. No, not the US. Europe, Romania.
    Lol
    Now, when I look back, I find it kinda funny and a good story to tell. Back then, I was horrified, as you can imagine.

    Also, about dentists, I don’t have any horror stories. Except for a fun one.
    I had a tooth that was about to come out. My parents were at work, I was at home with my older brother.
    We tried tieing a string around it and the other end we tied on a door’s handle. The idea was that my brother would slam the door and the string would pull the tooth out. It didn’t work. :)
    Eventually, I bit the rubber handle of a screwdriver and my brother twisted it suddenly. That took care of it.
    Of course, I put it on the window sill, for the tooth fairy.

  11. Talking about barbaric, imagine being about 10 and having your tonsils taken out.
    Now imagine this: they don’t put you under. Instead, you get tied to a chair, with straps over your forehead, chest and wrists. They give you some local anesthetic and, with your head unable to move, you look down your nose to see them put things into your mouth, medical things, like forceps, sponges, mirrors, etc.
    That’s barbaric.
    That was 30 years ago, I don’t know how the procedure is carried out nowadays, but still, even though I was only 10, I was thinking wow, is this how they used to do things in the dark ages?

    1. Ohhh nooooo… I am SO sorry to hear you had to go through that! Did this happen in the US? I had mine removed 25 years ago when I was 6 in Ohio. I was put under- one of the most vivid and horrifying memories of my childhood was waking up from the anesthesia and vomiting blood everywhere in my hospital bed. The recovery period was awful. Jesus Christ I can’t even imagine being awake for that surgery.

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