Flouride raring its head again
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@NTA said in Flouride raring its head again:
As a kid who grew up with rainwater, my teeth are significantly less healthy than my kids who grew up on town water.
Part of that is my shit brushing. But part of it is a lack of flouride.
Same here, I spend an extortionate amount every year on my teeth every year. Tank water and being lazy too.
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gah fuck! the flouride debate!! A few years ago the Qld government, in their infinite wisdom, delegated this responsibility to individual councils. Cairns' council promptly got rid of it. Because they were fucking idiots.
Putting the flouride back in has now been flagged. I believe the state government will pay for it. But of course, because it's a council matter, this has become a fucking public debate. Letters to the editor every fucking day is full of outright lies about poisoning the water; neurotoxin; just be better parents; stop drinking softdrink; in my day... my fucking blood boils. Every single reply from actual medical professionals is shouted down with winger-esque conspiracy talk, and links to bogus studies.
A group of 150 local doctors, dentists, and professors from the local uni put together a submission detailing the benefits of flouride in the water, and debunking all the myths. The fucking council over-rode their own fucking procedures and basically dismissed the submission as not important enough to be entered in to the "debate"
The loud vocal hippy minority fuckwits are going to win, because the Council are too fucking scared to make a stand. Fuck these fluffybunnies. What happened to critical thought, and why is no one capable of it any more.
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As a Hamiltonian who did vote in the local body elections, I'm not taking any responsibility for this.
I live on the other side of the river so I am in a different ward, and wouldn't have voted for her anyway. She only got elected once the mayoral vote was finalised as she was the next highest polling candidate in the west ward.
This article is on the front page of the local newspaper so will get some traction. There is a lady (I won't mention her name) who is a very vocal leader of the anti-flouride cause and is regularly trying to get attention. Henry is obviously another nutjob like her.
And as someone with a scientific background - fuck you!!
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Siggi?! What a stupid fucking name, I bet she rides to work on a fucking bycycle, doesn't own a car or a tv and believes in chemtrails and that cellphones cause brain cancer.
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@canefan said in Flouride raring its head again:
The good dentists of Hamilton will be measuring up spaces to park up their new boats if this ever goes through
Fuck it, why should only Tron dentists cash in on their inhabitants' stupidity? I think I will open up a branch practice in the middle of town!
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@canefan said in Flouride raring its head again:
@canefan said in Flouride raring its head again:
The good dentists of Hamilton will be measuring up spaces to park up their new boats if this ever goes through
Fuck it, why should only Tron dentists cash in on their inhabitants' stupidity? I think I will open up a branch practice in the middle of town!
Stanc for your own Council on a ticket of non-flouridation.
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@booboo said in Flouride raring its head again:
@canefan said in Flouride raring its head again:
@canefan said in Flouride raring its head again:
The good dentists of Hamilton will be measuring up spaces to park up their new boats if this ever goes through
Fuck it, why should only Tron dentists cash in on their inhabitants' stupidity? I think I will open up a branch practice in the middle of town!
Stanc for your own Council on a ticket of non-flouridation.
There's a conflict of interest, and besides I don't want to be a money grabbing scumbag, there are a few of those in our profession sadly. Besides who wants to sit in meetings with those beatniks?
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Dogmeat, you have an obligation to stand with a platform like that. You'd get my vote!
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@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in Flouride raring its head again:
People.. including myself.. generally have no idea what local politicians stand for.
True. In Siggi's case, she's been bombarding the Letters to the Editor for years with this sort of stuff. It's seven years since I lived in the Tron but I remember her far too well...
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Smarty pants scientists.
That alone makes me want to throat punch the woman.And FUCK STUFF for giving braindead fuckfaces a platform when they should instead be used for paint gun testing.
Also, it kills me when actual smart people don't vote. That is how happy clappy weirdos with shitty agendas get elected. With my voting papers I got a full page bio for each candidate outlining their background, quals, focus etc, so assumed each district did the same.
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we got fuck all local body info. a pamphlet with a paragraph on each candidate which read like a dating website excerpt.
so i went to their websites to find out their policies. nothing. seriously nothing. they all talked themselves up and had cheap digs at other candidates, and the incumbents had bullshit slogans about stability and proven records, while the others had shitty catchphrases about change.
so i didn't vote, even though i wanted to and was prepared to spend time on making an informed decision. what a pack of fluffybunnies. fuck it made me angry. still does. -
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Listen to all of you, letting the liberal elite mainstream scientists tell you how to live your life. Well if you had made any effort to understand the average Hamiltonian maybe your preferred candidate would be in office. Instead you were to busy telling us how smart your "science" is and how dental care works.
The people have spoken so now you can all fuck off. And cry yourselves to sleep cuddling your tubes of tooth paste.
I think that is what we say now when shit like this happens.
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My ma has a fucking horrible mouth of munchers, kids, all sweet as and I was the only one who had to have braces as my baby teeth wouldn't fuck off. She swears that's because of fluoride. That's science.
Of course being the paupers of Eastbourne I should've threatened Canefan to sort out orthodontist rates for me, if only TSF was there back then.
