Preparedness for when

jk0

Very poignant article from last week's Mail on Sunday:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2772161/PETER-HITCHENS-Dragged-war-clowns-run-railway.html

katep23

I had a filling break mid week which was agony - a quick google and a trip to two different pharmacists and I managed to get hold of an emergency filling kit which is good for up to 28 days.


It actually did a really good job and meant I was pain free until I got to the dentist. Definitely something to keep in the emergency box in future I think.

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You aren't going to believe this (I can barely believe it myself), but the Aldi LED lamp is still lit. :eek:

GreyQueen

katep23 wrote: »

I had a filling break mid week which was agony - a quick google and a trip to two different pharmacists and I managed to get hold of an emergency filling kit which is good for up to 28 days.


It actually did a really good job and meant I was pain free until I got to the dentist. Definitely something to keep in the emergency box in future I think.

I've heard these recommended as something to take with you if you go off travelling, particularly if you're going off the beaten track. Toothache is miserable and debilitating. Good to hear a report from someone who has used it. Would you mind mentioning the brand, pls?

Bob, how long has that lamp been lit and is the level of illumination sufficient to be any use by now?

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GreyQueen wrote: »

Bob, how long has that lamp been lit

15 days, 5 hours, 40 minutes.

and is the level of illumination sufficient to be any use by now?

Not really.

katep23

Hi GQ, the packaging says "Safe and Sound Health" and the tube has "Tooth-Fil TM" on it.


It was more than £5 and less than £10 but can't remember exactly how much; there is lots left over and it can be resealed.

thriftwizard

* Some people have had chalk thrown at them by schoolteachers. Chalk was too wussy for our maths teacher. He preferred those heavy wooden backed blackboard erasers. You really don't want one of those upside the head.

Eeek - you mean there was more than one blackboard-rubber-throwing teacher out there?! My parents flatly refused to believe me when I told them about our class teacher's habit of hurling the rubber, extremely accurately, at anyone he thought wasn't listening; some of the other incidents I recall from my schooldays would undoubtedly be classified as abuse now, but that was the one most likely to have ended in tragedy. Yet at least one of my ex-classmates has become a very high-achiever, by the standards of the world; I suppose it can't have done us that much harm. I think I want to add a question mark to that - it hurt - I was a day-dreamer.

Unable to shake off a feeling that we're at the end of something, today... probably just the end of a long hot summer!

fuddle

Oh, oh now I may just be 35 but when I was 7 I had a blackboard rubber fly past my head and saw a lad hit across the hand with a PE plimsole. It must have died out after that year (1987) as I never saw the like again. Anyone know when officially it was outlawed?

GreyQueen

They'd never get away with it nowadays. The French * teacher was several sandwiches short of le pic-nic and once threw a chair completely across a class room (right over our heads) and into a glass-fronted bookcase. Three panes went for a burton.

Aaaahhhh, happy days - not. This was a state grammar in an English market town, btw, not some inner city.

The thing about the board rubber was it was big enough to see coming and duck. The chalk (this was occasionally thrown, too, small caliber ammo, as it were) could come whizzing out of nowhere and really stings. Harder to see coming and harder to avoid, plus there was only usually one or two board rubbers in the classroom and we used to hide one of them before the start of the lesson, if we remembered.

Tell your folks it's true, it happened to me, too.

* Taught French, was English. Total nutjob.

ETA Dunno, Fuddle, I'd long since left school by then. It mostly stopped when you were big enough to fight back, at my brother's rough comprehensive. My ending up at the grammar was largely driven by terror at the prospect of ending up at the comp. Kid Bruv attended and had to sort out the worst of his bullies with a bike chain (didn't make contact but scared them enough to desist).

Nargleblast

I certainly believe that some teachers in the 60s and 70s were taught in teacher training college how to use a blackboard rubber as a guided missile. And how a piece of chalk, when not being launched at some unfortunate pupil, could be used as an instrument of torture simply by scraping it down a blackboard. Sadists, the lot of them!