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Maybe, someday, I'll explain what "pseudo-left" means and why slave dipshits like FORD and his fudge-packing buddy SESH are truly about and why they propagate the horrendous shirt on here like they do. Then again,, this is one dead than deader of a dead fuck on a Friday night website.Comment
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Eternally Under the Authority of Satan
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Go brush what's left of your last tooth, limeyComment
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I don't know what's worse: living in Buffalo or being a limey. I suppose if you're a limey living in Buffalo you really should kill yourself.Comment
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How are your (welfare) parents, Nick? Have they told you to move out of their house yet?Comment
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Oh Kristy I like being a Limey I live in a beautiful part of the world in a comfortable life style smiling my one tooth grin.
I would wish you the same happiness but I fear it would be misplaced
fuck your fucking framingComment
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Nick, you should know when to quit when you're an idiot*
*or until somebody refreshes a Wiki page for you.Comment
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You guys would be miserable if anything ever happened to either one of you
American by birth. Southern by the grace of God.
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BOOM!
Joke’s on us. American teeth are as bad as British teeth, study says.
As a dental professional living in London, Richard Watt spent years watching as his colleagues became increasingly irritated with the constant jokes about "English teeth." The most offensive mockery, the gleeful pop culture references that seemed to signal it's okay to be mean as long as it's about teeth and people from Great Britain, originated from their brothers and sisters across the Atlantic.
There was American author Donna Tartt's description of a British character's "rabbit teeth" in her Pulitzer-prize winning novel "Goldfinch." "The Simpsons" episode where a dentist terrifies Springfield's resident oddball kid Ralph Wiggum into better brushing habits by showing him a book called "The Big Book of British Smiles" featuring revered national figures like Prince Charles with misaligned or misformed teeth. And who can forget super spy Austin Powers' grotesquely discolored grin in his three feature films?
In an effort to discover whether there's any truth to the widely-held belief, Watt teamed up with researchers from both countries to gather and analyze national data on the subject.
Their conclusion, published Wednesday in the journal BMJ, may be a shocker to those on our side of the ocean: Americans do not have better teeth than the English. In fact, by some measures Americans' teeth are actually worse. They have significantly more missing teeth (yuck) and the inequalities in oral health are much wider between rich and poor in the United States than in Britain.
"We were very surprised with our findings," said Watt, a professor of dental public health at University College London, told The Washington Post. Watt, it should be pointed out, is Scottish.
The analysis was based on information from two nationally representative health surveys -- the British Adult Dental Health Survey (ADHS) and the U.S. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). Both are nationally representative surveys with comparable information about oral health and socioeconomic position. The data the researchers used included people ages 25 who underwent a clinical examination to check their teeth. About 8,700 in Britain and 9,800 in the United States were included in the analysis by education about 7,200 in Britain and 9,100 in the United States in the analysis for income.
As might be expected, the researchers found strong links between levels of education and household income and oral health in both countries. That is, the more educated and wealthier had better oral health. But the disparities were much greater in the United States.
The researchers said there could be several reasons that may explain the differences between the two countries. One theory they had was that perhaps it might be due to the more diverse ethnic composition of the population in the United States, but their analysis showed this was not the case. Other possibilities may include the fact that dental services in the United States are provided privately and can be pricey and that they are part of the nationalized health-care system in Britain; or that Americans may have riskier behaviors that impact oral health such as smoking or consuming higher amounts of sugars.
In addition to looking at clinical data, the group assessed how people perceived their oral health in both countries. That included looking at how dental diseases impacted quality of life in areas such as pain, eating, speaking and their confidence in socializing.
Despite their better teeth, the British reported more significant impacts on their quality of life. "This could be partly a cultural difference - the English complain more!" Wa
tt theorized.
There is of course the possibility that if you look at other measures of oral health that Americans could come out better. This study, as people who enjoy making fun of English teeth will inevitably point out, was limited to analysis of missing teeth and did not include aesthetic or orthodontic outcomes.
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