People are going nuts about fluoride

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

I've read that it stays in your body, though. That's how it works, isn't it? It stays in your bones and teeth, at least.

No, that's calcium.

How does it do anything for your teeth, then?

*confuuuuused...*

[tyrannosaurus vex]

I've read that it stays in your body, though. That's how it works, isn't it? It stays in your bones and teeth, at least.

No, that's calcium.

How does it do anything for your teeth, then?

*confuuuuused...*

It goes near your teeth as you're drinking, shouts "KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK, TEETH!" as it passes by, and encourages your teeth to be strong.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

I've read that it stays in your body, though. That's how it works, isn't it? It stays in your bones and teeth, at least.

No, that's calcium.

How does it do anything for your teeth, then?

*confuuuuused...*

It goes near your teeth as you're drinking, shouts "KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK, TEETH!" as it passes by, and encourages your teeth to be strong.

That must be why they put it in toothpaste.

SPIT OR SWALLOW, THE ETERNAL CONTROVERSY

[hooplala]

I've read that it stays in your body, though. That's how it works, isn't it? It stays in your bones and teeth, at least.

No, that's calcium.

How does it do anything for your teeth, then?

*confuuuuused...*

It goes near your teeth as you're drinking, shouts "KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK, TEETH!" as it passes by, and encourages your teeth to be strong.

That must be why they put it in toothpaste.

SPIT OR SWALLOW, THE ETERNAL CONTROVERSY

Swallowing toothpaste over an extended period of time will cause little white spots to form on your teeth.  If that's the look you're going for, though...

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I've read that it stays in your body, though. That's how it works, isn't it? It stays in your bones and teeth, at least.

No, that's calcium.

How does it do anything for your teeth, then?

*confuuuuused...*

It goes near your teeth as you're drinking, shouts "KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK, TEETH!" as it passes by, and encourages your teeth to be strong.

That must be why they put it in toothpaste.

SPIT OR SWALLOW, THE ETERNAL CONTROVERSY

Swallowing toothpaste over an extended period of time will cause little white spots to form on your teeth.  If that's the look you're going for, though...

Toothpaste is also full of alumina.  No shit.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

I've read that it stays in your body, though. That's how it works, isn't it? It stays in your bones and teeth, at least.

No, that's calcium.

How does it do anything for your teeth, then?

*confuuuuused...*

It goes near your teeth as you're drinking, shouts "KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK, TEETH!" as it passes by, and encourages your teeth to be strong.

That must be why they put it in toothpaste.

SPIT OR SWALLOW, THE ETERNAL CONTROVERSY

Swallowing toothpaste over an extended period of time will cause little white spots to form on your teeth.  If that's the look you're going for, though...

Toothpaste is also full of alumina.  No shit.

I was going for a blowjob joke. More coffee...

The story is that fluoride is toxic waste from aluminum manufacturing, and it would have been really expensive to dispose of, so somebody said "LET'S PUT IT IN WATER AND TOOTHPASTE - FOR THE CHILLERIN"

In 1974.

Possible, but wouldn't we have progressed to plutonium by now?

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Something else occurs to me...(nano-rant follows):

Really Portland?  REALLY?  The "city of the weird", and the BEST you can do is some rehashed Bircher shit?  FUCK YOU, PORTLAND, YOU'VE LET ME DOWN FOR THE LAST TIME.  We're cutting off all trade.  No more un-rusted 80s bikes for YOU, fuckers!

[ñͤͣ̄ͦ̌̑͗͊͛͂͗ ̸̨̨̣̺̼̣̜͙͈͕̮̊̈́̈͂͛̽͊ͭ̓͆ͅé ̰̓̓́ͯ́́͞]

Something else occurs to me...(nano-rant follows):

Really Portland?  REALLY?  The "city of the weird", and the BEST you can do is some rehashed Bircher shit?  FUCK YOU, PORTLAND, YOU'VE LET ME DOWN FOR THE LAST TIME.  We're cutting off all trade.  No more un-rusted 80s bikes for YOU, fuckers!

It's occurred to me that what we might be seeing now with all these fluoride protests, is the logical consequence of decades of malnourished vegan brains.

People thought it was cute when everybody went vegan, got fluorescent hair, tattoos, and started the annual naked bike rides in the nineties. Harmless self-expression they said. Then, in the 00's they started welding bike frames together until they were two stories tall and riding them in traffic, putting bacon on their doughnuts, and lodging giant rings in their earlobes—ah, what amusing charms of Portland we all thought.

Now it's a Dr. Strangelove routine that they don't even know they're doing.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Something else occurs to me...(nano-rant follows):

Really Portland?  REALLY?  The "city of the weird", and the BEST you can do is some rehashed Bircher shit?  FUCK YOU, PORTLAND, YOU'VE LET ME DOWN FOR THE LAST TIME.  We're cutting off all trade.  No more un-rusted 80s bikes for YOU, fuckers!

It's occurred to me that what we might be seeing now with all these fluoride protests, is the logical consequence of decades of malnourished vegan brains.

People thought it was cute when everybody went vegan, got fluorescent hair, tattoos, and started the annual naked bike rides in the nineties. Harmless self-expression they said. Then, in the 00's they started welding bike frames together until they were two stories tall and riding them in traffic, putting bacon on their doughnuts, and lodging giant rings in their earlobes—ah, what amusing charms of Portland we all thought.

Now it's a Dr. Strangelove routine that they don't even know they're doing.

I just screen capped this post and printed it off on the color printer.  It is going on my office wall, next to the 3' X 5' psycho Squiddy pic.

[hooplala]

Something else occurs to me...(nano-rant follows):

Really Portland?  REALLY?  The "city of the weird", and the BEST you can do is some rehashed Bircher shit?  FUCK YOU, PORTLAND, YOU'VE LET ME DOWN FOR THE LAST TIME.  We're cutting off all trade.  No more un-rusted 80s bikes for YOU, fuckers!

It's occurred to me that what we might be seeing now with all these fluoride protests, is the logical consequence of decades of malnourished vegan brains.

People thought it was cute when everybody went vegan, got fluorescent hair, tattoos, and started the annual naked bike rides in the nineties. Harmless self-expression they said. Then, in the 00's they started welding bike frames together until they were two stories tall and riding them in traffic, putting bacon on their doughnuts, and lodging giant rings in their earlobes—ah, what amusing charms of Portland we all thought.

Now it's a Dr. Strangelove routine that they don't even know they're doing.

There's a movie in there somewhere.

[ñͤͣ̄ͦ̌̑͗͊͛͂͗ ̸̨̨̣̺̼̣̜͙͈͕̮̊̈́̈͂͛̽͊ͭ̓͆ͅé ̰̓̓́ͯ́́͞]

Something else occurs to me...(nano-rant follows):

Really Portland?  REALLY?  The "city of the weird", and the BEST you can do is some rehashed Bircher shit?  FUCK YOU, PORTLAND, YOU'VE LET ME DOWN FOR THE LAST TIME.  We're cutting off all trade.  No more un-rusted 80s bikes for YOU, fuckers!

It's occurred to me that what we might be seeing now with all these fluoride protests, is the logical consequence of decades of malnourished vegan brains.

People thought it was cute when everybody went vegan, got fluorescent hair, tattoos, and started the annual naked bike rides in the nineties. Harmless self-expression they said. Then, in the 00's they started welding bike frames together until they were two stories tall and riding them in traffic, putting bacon on their doughnuts, and lodging giant rings in their earlobes—ah, what amusing charms of Portland we all thought.

Now it's a Dr. Strangelove routine that they don't even know they're doing.

I just screen capped this post and printed it off on the color printer.  It is going on my office wall, next to the 3' X 5' psycho Squiddy pic.

Whoa, I'm honored.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Something else occurs to me...(nano-rant follows):

Really Portland?  REALLY?  The "city of the weird", and the BEST you can do is some rehashed Bircher shit?  FUCK YOU, PORTLAND, YOU'VE LET ME DOWN FOR THE LAST TIME.  We're cutting off all trade.  No more un-rusted 80s bikes for YOU, fuckers!

It's occurred to me that what we might be seeing now with all these fluoride protests, is the logical consequence of decades of malnourished vegan brains.

People thought it was cute when everybody went vegan, got fluorescent hair, tattoos, and started the annual naked bike rides in the nineties. Harmless self-expression they said. Then, in the 00's they started welding bike frames together until they were two stories tall and riding them in traffic, putting bacon on their doughnuts, and lodging giant rings in their earlobes—ah, what amusing charms of Portland we all thought.

Now it's a Dr. Strangelove routine that they don't even know they're doing.

I just screen capped this post and printed it off on the color printer.  It is going on my office wall, next to the 3' X 5' psycho Squiddy pic.

Whoa, I'm honored.

Any time you get put up next to Squiddy is an honor, yes.

She's one of my heroes.  Because she eats people that annoy her.

[East Coast Hustle]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't fluoridated drinking water essentially been subjected to the largest clinical trial in history? And if it's so bad for you at the dosage level in tap water, and if we've been adding it in the US since the 40s...

WHERE ARE THE FUCKING FLUORIDE ZOMBIES?

[Cuddlefish]

To me, the fluoride issue is about informed consent, and treating people without individual consideration (there's a better term for this, but I'm not a doctor...). Sure, fluoride may be harmless, but different people, different physiology... Just seems a little heavy handed to me, one way or another.

[East Coast Hustle]

Show me any evidence that anyone's physiology involves fluoride being bad for them at the amount they receive from drinking tap water. Otherwise, that's a pretty meaningless argument that can be applied to literally anything.