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I had a whole teabag.

@Spick
Will do it tomorrow (after Easter sugar shack brunch <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />). It does it probably because it was a gif on a white background with a shadow, and they set it to make the white pixels transparent; as they're not exactly white there, they appear. I find it silly that people create stuff like that and put it on the web half [screwed]...

@Cleglaw
Cool! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/delight.gif" alt="" />

@Lews
So, did it continue to bleed? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/delight.gif" alt="" />

Not after the teabag :P

Mine did. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/disagree.gif" alt="" />

And, still speaking teeth, braces suck too!
"Don't worry, we'll pull some out and you won't have to get braces."
Well, I still did buddies! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

They say that my bite is off and that I won't chew my food properly and that it may cause stomach problems in the future. BS... I chew fine with my cruddy bite and I was happy with it. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/suspicion.gif" alt="" />

Meh, but thems the breaks. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/freak.gif" alt="" />

Killerzzz

Actually I just got scheduled for an appt on the 16th of May to get my wisdom teeth pulled...all four of em... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/disagree.gif" alt="" />

I still have one, and would still have the rest if they hadn't been so bad. During sleep, I tend to grit my teeth during sleep, that was what made them so bad.

I seriously see - for myself - no reason at all to get them pulled out of my mouth. Instead, as long as the jaw remains healthy (some people - including me - have relatively small jaws with not so much room for additional teeth), I believe they are a nice addition. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

I had to get mine pulled out to for the same reason; not enough room, and it was ripping against my inner cheek. That's where I discovered the tea trick. And that their local anaesthesia stuff makes me shake like I had Parkingson. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

Since a few generation, it was noticed that we tend to grow less wisdom teeth. I had only three; some have two, one, or even none at all. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />

This could indeed be a genetic thing. The people living in the far most north ice lands (we call them "Eskimos" here in Germany) only have a reduced number of these teeth in the back of the cheeks (i don't know the correct term - "molar" ? )

yup that's correct Al <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

It could also be a form of adaptation: we keep pulling them out (so many people seem to need to get that done nowadays), so our decendents's genes sorta catch onto that and say "screw that, I don't want those if I gotta have'em yanked out!"

Seriously though, its like with all living things. Creatures that tried to move out of water, slowly over time (millions of years <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" /> ) adapted themselves to life on the land. Bacterias and insects are always finding ways to up their immunities against vaccines and sprays. Heck, even we are building immunities against some of the older desieses (long time ago, flu=death; now, flu=maybe-death/mostly-nasty-cold).

So, back to the teeth. If we keep removing the wisdom teeth, we evolutionarily adapt to not having them, thus geneticaly our offspring are also adapted to this and the amount of these teeth is slowly deminishing.

I should have grown up to be a scientist. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

I just love making my crazy theories. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/delight.gif" alt="" />

Killerzzz

So going on your theory Killerzzzz we should soon start growing a pair of pliers instead of a hand, left or right depending on the dexterity of the person concerned??

Spick, slowlly means that it takes like 10 000 years for really small changes to take place. Large changes is just a lot of small changes...

Übereil

It doesn't have to go slowly at all, just look at the average height now and 100 years ago, genetics are such a big part of it. It's like deseases some are genetic, 1 person has a genetic "flaw" that causes a desease and it can be passed on generations. In case of wisdom teeth, this is my theory: teeth health has improved a lot over the last few centuries, where before wisdom teeth grew on a later age because other teeth were in bad shape (a theory). Now genes pass on less deseases of the teeth, so the need for these wisdom teeth is no more, and slowly they are dissapearing.

In history you'll see Homo Erectus or whatever first started to wear clothing (rags) before it started loosing hair, back then they had different, less, sharper teeth (lot's of raw meat).

Back then these adaptions went slowly, not because one home erectus wore clothing they all did it, it took many centuries for all of them to learn that behavior and so did the hairloss. It took a less long time to improve teeth health care, so it will in this theory take a lot less time for wisdom teeth to dissapear.

All part of evolution <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

They did another experiment.... They tracked down a number of people who all had their appendixes removed, along with both their parents had to had the operation in their youth (before they had kids).

40 % of the kids born to these people, had no appendix. and in the cases where even the grand parents had their appendixes removed, 70% were born without appendixes...

There is a "rule of thumb" so to speak when it comes to evolution... and this includes immunity to diseases.. Biologists found that if a species can survive a specific disease for 3 generations ( lets put it bluntly, produce fast enough, so that 3 generations will have had kids before they die), then the human body is 30 % evolved / immune to that disease.

That is also one of the big HOPES that doctors have, that the human race will become immune to aids. If they can get the people to live long enough to produce 3 generations babies born with aids, and get them to live long enough to have offspring with aids, we will see examples of aids immunities. And there already are cases of children that are immune to the virus. Or more correctly said, that are infected, but dont get symptoms of it, and dont become ill from it. And even 2 or 3 cases that i know of, where if tissue of a hiv - baby, born from an hiv positive mother, gets introduced to the virus, the virus cannot live in that tissue...

they dont understand all of it yet, but so far it is assumed that fetuses evolve according to the mother's conditions and diseases.

JOE youre such a goof talking on this stupid forum all the time. You have like 10,000 posts. Isigned up for this just to tell dumb this game is.

You could make it a lifetime goal: registering on every game's forum to tell how much you dislike it.

Sounds like a plan!

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<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> What an [nocando]

Oh, thank you. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Who's JOE?