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Unbelievable

Bert — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 21:44:00 +0000

I’m shocked.

Lately, I receive a lot of spam on my blog. Not automated, but just some under-payed drug addicts from Poland and the Ukraine who desperately need some cash and thus manually spam around. As I found in my analytics, the search term “BL00DY TEETH” is one of the ways they arrive here. Indeed, I did some pretty gross posts a couple of years ago when my wisdom teeth had to be removed.

One of the images I posted together with the story, was a very bloody one (which I wanted to post as top image for this post, but I changed my mind since I want to keep this blog safe for all ages.)

I removed the category on which they land when using that as a keyword, then I did a search on the keyword myself (warning: save search is off!).

And that is the point in time I startled.

I realised I didn’t just shock the world around me at that time by posting an image like that, I also started to attract dirty minds and fetishists to this website. And three other weblogs (the kinds you really don’t want to land upon, trust me) just copied the image, didn’t even take the time to rename it, and posted it without credits on their blogs.

Oh well.
At least the originals are still around here. Somewhere.

It’s just another poof. Whatever you post online, will stay online forever. And ever.

Unbelievable originally read on bermione.be

Officially dismissed

Bert — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 21:32:09 +0000

The white spots, infections on my throat, are only healed after two weeks and two boxes of antibiotics. Now that everything feels fine again, I went back for medical check-up. The wild flesh is still there and although the stomatologist told me last time they should be removed, his colleague told me not to do anything about it since it could remain there for eight weeks. And while trying to remove the scar tissue, you would create a scar on a scar, which would create an unpredictable result, for which I pass then and let the scar tissue disintegrate now.

I was dismissed. This operation is officially finished…

Officially dismissed originally read on bermione.be

Analytics

Bert — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 22:53:26 +0000

Thanks to the installation of Google Analytics, I now realize that it is worth the effort to copy more content from the old site to the new one. Especially the posts of my K510i seem to be attractive. And I thought nobody but some colleagues and myself would visit this site.

Oh and about my wisdom teeth: a couple of days ago, some white spots appeared in my throat: infections due to a reduced activity of my defense system, caused by the anesthesia. Hurt like hell, so I’m now taking even more antibiotics, just to make sure I’m poisoned enough. No picture of the infected throat this time though. Oh yes, I’ve got some, but the main visitors of my site have had nightmares caused by the images included in some of the previous posts, so I’m omitting them for this one, just to make sure they can sleep again.

‘night.

Analytics originally read on bermione.be

Als ik kon toveren…

Bert — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 21:58:10 +0000

Leuk. Na anderhalve week “verlof“, begint morgen mijn eerste werkdag opnieuw. Mijn voornemen om vroeg te gaan slapen is goed gelukt, zei het dan dat externe factoren daar even anders over beslissen. Sinds vandaag zitten er witte pukkels op mijn keel en stembanden die zijn omgeven door van dat brandend rood waar je niet goed van wordt. Als iemand anders dit in deze situatie zou vertellen, zou ik vermoeden dat ie nog wat ziekteverlof aan zijn gewoon verlof zou willen breien. Tot overmaat van ramp heeft den ene of den andere zot zichzelf dertig jaar geleden met een overdosis naar de eeuwige jachtvelden geholpen en blijkbaar vinden ze het hier in de buurt nodig om daarvoor loeihard covers te spelen waardoor van slapen just niks in huis komt. Joy.

Blijft de hoop dat ze om middernacht gaan stoppen met dat gejengel of het zal leuk worden morgen, zeker als dat koppel muggen zich niet snel wil laten platmeppen… Ik kan misschien een liedje maken van hoe mijn zus zichzelf heeft kunnen beschermen tegen zichzelf die zich van kant heeft willen maken…

Protecting Her Against Herself, by Auric Goldfinger.

Als ik kon toveren… originally read on bermione.be

Wireless

Bert — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 15:33:57 +0000

Eight days later. If you think a lion is the king of the animals, don’t forget to take the buffalo in count. The threads are out. At last, I will wake up in the morning without such a terrible taste in my mouth. And I can pull my mouth open again without a strapped feeling of wired flesh. The mystery of the yellow thing is unraveled at last. After two days, it wasn’t yellow anymore, but just plain pink again and still soft and numb. The stomatologist identified it to be wild flesh, whatever that means. It surely is a part of the extra piece of flesh that was growing over the wisdom teeth and wasn’t cut away. If it isn’t gone within four weeks, it’ll have to be removed, by pointing it with some sort of acid, don’t know the term anymore. It wouldn’t hurt, he says, but I’m not entirely sure about that: acid on flesh that sensitive, it can’t feel nice…

Wireless originally read on bermione.be

Soft and yellow

Bert — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:31:55 +0000

Four days later: if you want to know how long anesthesia influences whatever you do, jump in your car now, accelerate a bit on a typical Belgian road and drive over a couple of speed humps without loosing control over yourself and on the road. You’ll be fine if you can set yourself over the nausea and the desire to faint … which you actually don’t desire if you drive 70km/h and a truck in your window. Driving calmly is the only way to keep you safe.

Something’s not right and if you couldn’t endure a description of a bloody experience, I suggest you stop reading at this point. (Although you’ll have to live with the emptiness of not knowing what the title is about)…

What’s growing there,
by Auric Goldfinger.

There’s something soft and yellow growing over the threads that are currently having a hard time being digested by my freshly produced saliva and I don’t like it to be there. Those threads attract food, catch it and keep it there. To avoid infections, they’ll be removed after being there for 8 days, attracting food and trying to close the holes that are now nothing more than a fading memory of what were once a quadruple of solid wisdom teeth. But I don’t like the yellow thingy there. As long as it isn’t an infection, I wouldn’t care. But how do you know whether it is a growing infection or just nothing to care about?

Soft and yellow originally read on bermione.be

Living in 2007

Bert — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 13:09:43 +0000

Three days later, I’ve taken a pain-killer in the morning. If I would have done that last evening, I might have slept better. After each meal, I have to brush my teeth and use mouthwash to prevent infections, but that liquid is so strong that after using it for three days, it is eroding my papillae. At least, I don’t taste a lot more than the threads in the back of my mouth.

Good to spoil a romantic date in a nice restaurant with the girl of your dreams, or just with your wife, and that while some people are more terrified of how the girl can spoil the date. Applegeeks as well as Ctrl+Alt+Del have created a comic at about the same time on that subject. Same experience at about the same time?

They are lucky though their girls are not vegan and hence there’s still a small piece of healthy mind available. I have to say, there is some truth in their comics. OK, they both have robots running around and their characters freak out on girls, which might be a reflection of their own reactions, but at least they know the truth about real men…

Today, I received one of those forwards I already received once, but it still made me laugh. A bit.

You know you’re living in 2007 when…

1. You accidentally enter your password on the microwave.

2. You haven’t played Solitaire with real cards in years.

3. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of three.

4. You e-mail the person who works at the desk next to you.

5. Your reason for not staying in touch with friends and family is that they don’t have e-mail addresses.

6. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if anyone is home to help you carry in the groceries.

7. Every commercial on television has a web site at the bottom of the screen.

8. Leaving the house without your cell phone, which you didn’t have the first 20 or 30 (or 60) years of your life, is now a cause for panic and you turn around to go and get it.

10. You get up in the morning and go on-line before getting your coffee.

11. You start tilting your head sideways to smile. : )

12 You’re reading this and nodding and laughing.

13. Even worse, you know exactly to whom you are going to forward this message.

14. You are too busy to notice there was no number 9 on this list.

15. You actually scrolled back up to check that there wasn’t a number 9 on this list

AND NOW YOU ARE LAUGHING at yourself.

Go on, forward this to your friends. ~~You know you want to~~. (no I don’t)

I’d like to add one: You copy it and paste it on your blog. Or link it when you didn’t read it in an e-mail but on another blog. I’m not going to forward it anyway, I know other people will read this, or at least a part of it, just because I wrote it here and that’s enough spam for them for today…

Living in 2007 originally read on bermione.be

Removed over the years

Bert — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 10:46:52 +0000

Removed over the years, by Auric Goldfinger.

Two days later. Harry finally knows what the Deathly Hallows are and while his quest now really has been started, I’m thinking about how many teeth I collected during the years. At first, the deciduous teeth, some of them are still intact, which were removed by Mother Nature herself and that is inevitable. The two upper premolar teeth are taken when a retainer had to force my teeth back into position, so they were forced out by a dentist. And now four wisdom teeth, which are considerably larger than the two normal teeth.

Pain is rising. Not a raging, unbearable pain, but more like a constant pressure on both sides of my jaw. Ice helps, but I can’t bare it too long and when the ice is removed, the pressure rises again. A constant conflict in my head between frozen cheeks and pressured cheeks. I choose brufen.

Verinueerd, by Auric Goldfinger.

A previous post of mine appeared not completely finished, so I bloodied it up a little. Don’t blame me, I had still been under influence of narcosis. My colleagues noticed my devastated jaw and to make sure they don’t have nightmares about me, being completely irrecoverably destroyed, they can now see for themselves the stomatologist has done his best to sew me together again. They do think about me, so it seems, since I got a Postogram today on which all of them signed (whether it was voluntary or under a light pressure is currently not entirely clear to me) to wish me a good recovery and loads of ice creams. Since I can not magically restore myself⁽¹⁾, I will have to soothe myself with those loads of ice creams…

(1) I should stop referring to Harry Potter-related content on Wikipedia. I accidentally saw three clues of what is about to happen while making these references…

Removed over the years originally read on bermione.be

Teeth everywhere

Bert — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:37:37 +0000

Just can’t tell the difference… quite.

Teeth everywhere originally read on bermione.be

Blood all over the place

Bert — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 08:34:22 +0000

Half a day and four teeth later, I’m thinking about the pain. The lack of it. I thought pulling wisdom teeth would be more painful. Yesterday evening, I have taken a tab of brufen – just to be sure – but it wouldn’t have been necessary. Today I haven’t taken one yet, which on the other hand is a waste of medication, resources and money.

I asked to save the teeth, as trofee or, like the nurse told me, for the Tooth Fairy although she’s never come to me yet (“keep trying”, the nurse said). I think it would be better to clean them first, otherwise my bed will be covered with blood and the Tooth Fairy surely wouldn’t come and fetch them. Bad luck twice.

On the way home, I felt my mouth filling with drops of blood. It was dripping, not streaming so that we didn’t have to stop to release the saved mouthful of red fluid, but I didn’t want to swallow it either: a stomach doesn’t like blood in it’s pure form and vomiting is the last thing I wanted. At home, there were enough drops of blood to drain them as a little fountain of red potion.

Not only I had some bloody teeth in a jar next to me or a mouth full of blood, when I came home, I noticed the brown crust in my right nostril, evidence of what medics like to call an epistaxis, hemorrhage from the nose… How lovely. I think I don’t want to know what exactly they have done while I was knocked out. Or how they knocked me out…

Blood all over the place originally read on bermione.be