Owowowowow!

[Thomas]

I had my wisdom teeth extracted yesterday. And I start fencing lessons in 5 days! AHHH! The only cool thing was they got me high before the procedure. But it wore off and now in in excrutiating pain! Do yall think I will be ok for fencing?

[Delmont]

Depends, my girlfriend was good in about 4 or 5 days. One of my best friends went paintballing the day after he got his removed (got shot in the mouth too...) and another of my friends was out for 2 weeks... It all depends.

[Event Horizon]

You should be fine. Try some over-the-counter meds that will help with the pain until it subsides.

Besides, when you're fencing you'll probably forget about the pain and just concentrate on the fencing.

[Soldier]

Have somebody shoot you in your back arm (you don't really need it for fencing), and it'll take your mind off your mouth.

[MikeHarm]

Would the painkillers they used for extracting the wisdom teeth make him flunk a drug test?

[Thomas]

Haha thanks for the help.

[pkt]

Thomas,

Our resident Brit sabreure had all 3 of hers pulled the day before she had a major interview re her job...

Me, we - our family - got no wisdom teeth at all in our genetic make-up... so I can't be accused of having a big mouth...

PK

[Iwant2bafencer]

You don't have wisdom teeth Pk? Freaky.

[MyraTrue]

PKT, I'm jealous, though I only had 3 of my 4.

My advice is that yes, you can fence. It also depends on how badly you puff up after they pulled them. I got the worst of everything when they chiseled mine out, and turned green, and puffed up, and so on and so on. I don't know if I could have fenced on Vikadin, which is what they put me on. That stuff was vile.

I don't think you'll run into any major repercussions, just find it hurts. A lot. And it may make your jaw swell more.

[Musketeer]

I went in to work the day after I had mine pulled, so it probably depends on your pain threshold and how you react to the pain medication.

[FlamingDeth]

If you're starting fencing lessons, by the end of the first one, your legs are going to be more of a focus than your mouth...at least they will be if the coach is working them hard enough!

[Thomas]

I had a blast at my fencing lessons last night. Event Horizon was right. I was to busy thinking about fencing to notice the pain.

[pkt]

Originally posted by Iwant2bafencer
You don't have wisdom teeth Pk? Freaky.

I also have diff't front teeth. diff't hair, etc. from those of you who are "caucasoids" or "negroids".

PK

[Event Horizon]

Originally posted by pkt
I also have diff't front teeth. diff't hair, etc. from those of you who are "caucasoids" or "negroids".

PK

Are you kidding me?? What century are you living in? Who uses "caucasoids" and "negroids" anymore? Please don't say you're "mongoloid" either. Or I'll have to come up there and smack you around the piste.

[Inquartata]

Originally posted by Event Horizon
Who uses "caucasoids" and "negroids" anymore?

Anthropologists?

[Event Horizon]

Inq.-Do they still use them? I should hope not. If so, then they need to seriously move into the 21st century.

[Soldier]

Yeah, don't you just hate those anthropologists who are so stuck in the past?

[Tireur]

Do they still use them? I should hope not. If so, then they need to seriously move into the 21st century.

What are the new 21st century terms???????

[Inquartata]

Apparently, there aren't any.

From the American Heritage Dictionary entry here:

http://www.bartleby.com/61/39/R0003900.html

"The traditional terms for these populations—Caucasoid (or Caucasian), Mongoloid, Negroid, and in some systems Australoid—are now controversial in both technical and nontechnical usage, and in some cases they may well be considered offensive. (Caucasian does retain a certain currency in American English, but it is used almost exclusively to mean “white” or “European” rather than “belonging to the Caucasian race,” a group that includes a variety of peoples generally categorized as nonwhite.) The biological aspect of race is described today not in observable physical features but rather in such genetic characteristics as blood groups and metabolic processes, and the groupings indicated by these factors seldom coincide very neatly with those put forward by earlier physical anthropologists. Citing this and other points—such as the fact that a person who is considered black in one society might be nonblack in another—many cultural anthropologists now consider race to be more a social or mental construct than an objective biological fact. "

In other words, political correctness has apparently made strong inroads even into the sciences, and some anthropologists now insist that race is a purely social concept, despite the indisputable fact that there are certain broad observable differences in physical characteristics of the types, as skull sutures, hair section, etc...

Not all do, however. At least not yet. A brief search turned up:

http://medlib.med.utah.edu/kw/osteo/forensics/race.html

http://reference.allrefer.com/encycl...ification.html

http://www.racearchives.com/

[Tireur]

Apparently, there aren't any.

That's what I thought.....