• ManniSturgis@lemmy.zip
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        7 months ago

        I usually just make fun of their horrible cuisine. Who in their right mind would eat bland mashed peas?

    • OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works
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      7 months ago

      They probably have a shit dental system.

      Kinda like how places with poor social safety nets have a bunch of homeless people, or places with bad sex ed have a bunch of pregnant teenagers.

      • Z3k3@lemmy.world
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        7 months ago

        Can confirm the UK is in the middle of a dental crisis.

        My own experience was waiting on a list at the practice the rest of my family goes to for 5 yrs before they admitted they are short on dentists and haven’t been able to fill spots.

        I then had to spend an afternoon phoning around 40 of the local dentists looking for someone that could put me on there books.

        On the up side I am getting the tidy up work I have needed since just before lockdown on the teeth I smashed as a drunk teen at last

    • Destide@feddit.uk
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      7 months ago

      Because putting bits of plastic over them and pretending they’re good never took off here

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      7 months ago

      Because over the last 14 years, the Tories have annihilated NHS dentistry.

      Growing up, I’d see a dentist every 6 months or so for a checkup. About ten years ago they swapped most people to appointments every year. Then about 3 years ago they sent me a text telling me that my dentist had left, and they’d tell me when they had another. Given they haven’t contacted me since, I’m assuming that was a typo, and what they actually meant to type was “fuck you”.