I’ve been reading through the notes and I just have to say that I absolutely promise, promise, promise you that nobody in the dental surgery is there to judge you, and we’re certainly not mad at you. Cavities happen. Even to dentists. You think your dentist has a mouth full of virgin teeth? Unlikely! They’ve all visited eachother’s surgeries to get a quickie filling (ooh, saucy) between patients. They understand that life can get in the way of oral hygiene sometimes. They understand that life’s too short not to eat chocolate. They understand that you’ve got to live. I swear to you that everyone in that room is just there to help you. Please, please, please don’t stop going to the dentist because you’re worried they’ll be mad at you. It’s really not the case. They understand. It’s fine. It’s really, really fine. Please go to the dentist. I promise you it’s ok.

@ellieisnotoldyet

This post might be the reason I finally visit the dentist after 3 years of fearful neglect

“that fuckin green m&m bambi ps2 femdom thing that was everywhere for like three days and was never mentioned again” Not only am I decently sure that’s older than 2018 but I saw a version just the other day.

I’m losing it

@captainkirkk

“#i thought it took a few days for spider venom to kill you but i just googled it AND#it can take like 15mins #cool cool cool. no doubt no doubt no doubt.”

oh no don’t worry, that’s not true unless “ranker.com” is talking about how fast it takes the funnelweb to kill a mouse. There’s no spider venom in the world strong enough to kill a human faster than they can get to a hospital, as evidenced by the fact that hundreds of Australians are still bitten by the Sydney Funnelweb every single year, but not a single death has been recorded since the antivenin was developed decades ago.

And then even BEFORE a treatment was perfected, the funnelweb still only ever killed 13 Australians in over half a century, a rate of one in thousands of bite victims. That’s actually still the highest kill rate of any known spider….there simply aren’t any more dangerous than that. The Black Widow for instance also bites thousands of people a year over in the United States, but doesn’t have one proven kill in this country.

What you really have to fear in Australia are the large mammals, cassowaries, jellyfish and certain plants.

…certain plants?

If you touch the “gympie gympie tree” Dendrocnide moroides with bare skin, its nearly microscopic needles break off and release a neurotoxin so excruciatingly painful that most people vomit and/or soil themselves within a few seconds. The agony continues for several days straight and has been described as “like being burned by hot acid and electrocuted at the same time.” An unverified claim says that a military serviceman mistakenly used a gympie leaf as toilet paper and wound up shooting himself in the head to escape the torture, though the plant was nicknamed “the suicide tree” long before that story circulated.

A burning sensation and little echoes of the full-blown pain can subsequently persist for several years or the rest of your life