The Throne of Thufir's Thoroughly Theoretical and Therapeutic Random Banter #116

[Recaiden]

Nonsense. My first avatar was the silver angel that this catmuffin avatar is based offof. I think I've only even had that steak avatar for a year now, and I've been using it on and off since then. And as I said before, big meat is a good thing.
And can I sig the following quote? It is pure gold.

Go ahead. And no it wasn't And we need someone to sing Supagoof's WW and birthday songs, and some new ones for the musical. And I'm sure there's a good songfic we can use.

[Dragonrider]

Go ahead. And no it wasn't And we need someone to sing Supagoof's WW and birthday songs, and some new ones for the musical. And I'm sure there's a good songfic we can use.

The thought that you used to be a shy RBer fills me with amusement. O awesome one.

[Alleine]

All of it. My teeth are fine. Never had a cavity or anything. I brush as well as I can and floss when I feel the need. There's pretty much no reason for me to go to the dentist.
All they do is tell me "good job" and now it's even more pointless because they don't need to give me flouride anymore. Blech.

[DraPrime]

If a musical version of one of FF Fanboy's fanfics involving me is made, I think I'll have to shoot to kill.

[Recaiden]

Cieka's birthday song=Happy Birthday threads,

this song= OOTS discussion
One of Rob Balder's songs is Erfworld subforums
THe Transylvania Polygnostic Fight Song is Webcomics.
A songfic is shipping-itp

The Fun House song is Stuctured games,
Flying in a Blue Dream by Joe Satriani is Free Form Roleplaying.

What other ideas do people have?

The real worst part of going to the dentist is the wait.

[Jack Squat]

All of it. My teeth are fine. Never had a cavity or anything. I brush as well as I can and floss when I feel the need. There's pretty much no reason for me to go to the dentist.
All they do is tell me "good job" and now it's even more pointless because they don't need to give me flouride anymore. Blech.

Last time I went to the dentist, I was told to keep doing what I was doing, that I was the "model for healthy teeth" (sans plaque stains that I can't get rid of).

Up to that day, I had forgotten to brush my teeth for somewhere between 2 weeks and a month. Go figure.

[Sneak]

My dentist always used to seem disappointed and tell me to brush more, but last year she told me I was doing a great job.

Odd, especially since that was the one year that I usually only brushed my teeth once a day, and didn't do it at all some days.

Dental cleanliness is inversely proportional to how much you brush?

[Coidzor]

I seem to be the best about brushing in my family... so take that as you will. So the dentists have always complimented me on that.

Except my aunt is also a dentist. I still have nightmares of her ripping out my teeth with some kind of implement that I can't even look at because I'm 6 years old again with a horribly infected, decaying tooth that's rooted in deep and diseased and will kill me but it hurts so bad to have it ripped out of my head and argh.... *shudder* Nightmares are bad.

She really did pull one of my teeth as a kid. I had an extra incisor in my top row of teeth and it got chipped and got a bacterial infection so it had to go.

As a result, I now have nightmares about my aunt as well as nightmares where all of my teeth shatter in a very cartoonish manner.

All so I have to brush my teeth before I can sleep at night in order to ward off the nightmares and the imagined feeling of being able to feel my teeth rot away in my mouth.

So I'd say the worst part was the guilt, or when the dental hygenist decides to slip and scrape/puncture your gums.

[Alleine]

Agh! Dentists are frustrating. I'm glad other people think the same way I do.
To me the dentist is about as useful as the doctors, only I have to go to the dentist for some reason. The only times I go to the doctor's office is if something is drastically and obviously wrong.

EDIT: Super worst part is when they STAB YOU IN THE GUMS WITH A SHARPENED METAL IMPLEMENT. Then they say you should floss more so that your gums won't bleed. I'm wondering how flossing will make my gums resist being stabbed. In a trial of flesh vs steel, steel wins. Flossing or no.
*grumbles*

[Rutskarn]

No, see, the worst part is the damn whizzing toothbrush.

1.) Get a whizzing instrument.

2.) Attach on the end of it a caked, vile substance like plaster from Satan's crappy first apartment. Make it as chalky, unpleasant, and foul-tasting as science allows.

3.) Proceed to apply it to the teeth of the subject until the gunk is an inch deep. Since they're leaning backwards, it'll pool up with their saliva. Oh, and tell them not to swallow. It's hilarious watching their look of torment.

4.) Instead of letting them get it out of their teeth the quick, natural, and sensible way (spitting), use a few expensive, complicated, and slow tools to rinse, then dry, the teeth.

[UncleWolf]

It is time for me to go to bed.

Good night, and hunt well.

[Nychta]

'Night Wolfbane.

My uncle's a dentist. I'm okay with dentists, but not dental hygenists. I don't know what metal was in her tools but I must have been allergic to it because wherever she slipped and cut my gums, I had painful swelling the next day.

She slipped a lot, too.

Also: Essay. Lord of the Flies. Do not want!

[Dallas-Dakota]

Ah dentists.....Weird thing in my life.
Until up this month, I had not gone for around, three years I think.

Apparently I have good teeth, considering that I didn´t go to the dentist for three years, but still bad.

Also I chipped one of my front teeth of around three times. There´s now a a scary black spot in it in the part that was restored.

Or was that where I hid my superweapons...It might be, would explain why I haven´t been able to find them

[banjo1985]

Ah dentists...don't like at all. Had to have four teeth out at once when I was 14, you might not believe this but apparently my mouth was too small for all my teeth.

Doesn't help that I have to have some weird foul tasting muck before I have any type of anaesthetic, so when I have work done on my teeth I'm hanging around for hours.

[Dallas-Dakota]

Another weird match between us, my mouth is apparently also too small.

[banjo1985]

Another weird match between us, my mouth is apparently also too small.

Now that I do not believe

I could do with going to the dentist I think, or at least a mouth specialist. I've got a mouth full of ulcers from work related stress.

[Lucky]

Ah dentists...don't liek at all. Had to have four teeth out at once when I was 14, you might not believe this but apparently my mouth was too small for all my teeth.

I had the exact opposite problem with my mouth, I actually had one too few teeth, so my orthodontist had to shuffle all my teeth around to fill the gap.

That sucked.

[Dihan]

I had a mouth too small for my teeth... So my uncle, not wanting to take out any teeth, stretched my mouth with a brace.

[Dallas-Dakota]

Now that I do not believe :

You wouldn´t believe that the truth is, in RL I´m zombie-like and pretty silent usually.

[banjo1985]

I had the exact opposite problem with my mouth, I actually had one too few teeth, so my orthodontist had to shuffle all my teeth around to fill the gap.

That sucked.

Not good at all. I ended up with four gaps and 18 months in some rather stylish braces...as if high school wasn't hard enough.

Also, Dallas, I don't care what you say here or on MSN, I still don't believe you.

[Player_Zero]

I don't mind going to the dentist. Usually the guy is quite nice and rather strangely enough every dentist I've ever visited has had two young, attractive female assistants.

Also my teeth are fine.

Going to the barber's though? Hate that more than something I really hate! Horrible place..

[Phase]

I think my personal dislike of dentists stems from my first dentist, a cruel, sadistic man who took pleasure from my pain. My current dentist is nice, actually.

[DraPrime]

'Night Wolfbane.

My uncle's a dentist. I'm okay with dentists, but not dental hygenists. I don't know what metal was in her tools but I must have been allergic to it because wherever she slipped and cut my gums, I had painful swelling the next day.

She slipped a lot, too.

Also: Essay. Lord of the Flies. Do not want!

If you have a facebook look up the group called "the greatest lord of the flies essay." There might be some slight variation on that name, as I don't remember it too well. Anyways, read the essay and let it inspire you.

[randman22222]

I don't much like the dentist, just because it's boring and I can't think straight with someone probing my mouth, but I really don't like needles when I have to go to the doctor. When I get jabbed, I typically go into minor shock.

[Player_Zero]

Still can't work out to what the hell the series ∑n²xⁿ converges (from n=0 to infinity). Assuming |x|<1...

The ratio between terms is (n+1)²x/n² = x + 2x/n + 1/n² but it isn't a simple geometric series so how am I supposed to calculate it?

I mean if it were just normal then you'd have x / (1 - (n+1)²x/n²) but you can't really take the limit of that since each n depends on the term of the series.

Do I have to work in ∑a² = a(a+1)(2a+1)/6 somewhere?

[Assassin89]

Still can't work out to what the hell the series ∑n²xⁿ converges (from n=0 to infinity). Assuming |x|<1...

The ratio between terms is (n+1)²x/n² = x + 2x/n + 1/n² but it isn't a simple geometric series so how am I supposed to calculate it?

I mean if it were just normal then you'd have x / (1 - (n+1)²x/n²) but you can't really take the limit of that since each n depends on the term of the series.

I think it converges to x, as you take the limit of the ratio as n approaches infinity. By factoring out an x and taking the derivative of each term in the ratio twice, you get 2/2 which equals one and since the limit as n approaches infinity of 1 is 1, the answer is x.

[Player_Zero]

No it ain't.

Counter example: anything.

0.5 + 4*(0.5^2) + more positive terms =/= 0.5

The ratio between terms converges to x, but that isn't what I'm trying to find.

Oh well. I've gota' hand it in now anyhow, finished or not.

[Coidzor]

You wouldn´t believe that the truth is, in RL I´m zombie-like and pretty silent usually.

Except when you're sobbing softly, right? *turns off his flashlight and readies an RPG*

Sorry about your math woes there, P_Z. All I can think about when I see squares is parabolas which isn't very useful and I don't think applicable.

[Quincunx]

I know it's n, but I can't (and frankly never have been able to) offer the proof.

For any given value of n, n squared would be. . .well, n squared.
For any given value of n, with the absolute value of x being less than one, would be a very tiny number influenced by n.

The very tiny number influenced by n would be what you get when you divide one by n.

N squared times this very tiny number would be enough to cancel out one n, leaving n.

What I would not give for a caret key at this moment. . .

Plugging in a few numbers to make sure I'm on the right track:

n = 1
1 squared = 1. X to the power of 1 = x. ...X. This may be a problem. Set it aside for now.
. . .of course I could READ that it's a lesser than symbol, not a lesser-or-equal symbol. Scratch.

n = 0
Multiply by 0, get 0.

n = 3, plug in some values of X:
X = 0.99
3 squared = 9. X to the power of 3 = .970more. ... 8.732more.
X = 0.5
3 squared = 9. X to the power of 3 = 0.125. ... 1.125
X = 0.1
3 squared = 9. X to the power of 3 = 0.001. ... 0.009

X = -.99
3 squared = 9. X to the power of 3 = -.970more ... -8.732more

. . .

Er. . .

I think it's converging to zero.

[EDIT: And this is why I plug in numbers before writing down my final answer.]

[Dallas-Dakota]

Except when you're sobbing softly, right? *turns off his flashlight and readies an RPG*.

*sets up RPG with*
I haven't....I haven't cried in years....I just can't....