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And I had so been hoping to reach 30 with all my teeth.

Yes, that really is how low my aims are when it comes to my teeth.

After an unfortunate encounter with a toffee muffin some years ago, I had sworn off toffee. Despite loving it. So when my grandmother bought me toffee as a random gift, I thought, oh go on, why not.

I am an idiot.

Over ~ a month, I'd slowly got through the packet, and on Saturday I reached the last three or four when suddenly crunch. I took the toffee out of my mouth, couldn't see any part of my tooth on the toffee. But still sore. And it didn't get any better on Sunday or this morning. So my colleagues sent me to the dentist.

The dentist eventually found the problem, basically the filling in my C6 molar had split, breaking the tooth wall around it on one side. In the process of fixing this, the filling came apart, and basically my whole tooth crumbled in on itself. Not the dentist's fault, because it was one of the teeth I have that was holding on on a wing and a prayer.

It does leave me with a bit of a problem, since I suspect the two teeth around the absence aren't strong enough to hold a bridge, and I loathe having partial dentures (or rather the retainers that go with them), I think I'm going to wind up having an implant. To which I say, thank goodness for local anaesthetics.

F1:

Schumacher still has it, is still wonderful and now I have to hope for an amazing start thanks to the ridiculous verdict of the stewards.*

Also, David Coulthard continues to be a snot.

Not directly related but given they have promised an interview with Niki Lauda, and because they were doing a bit on 'Rush', have my opinions on said film.

I'm actually pleased that they've cast Chris Hemsworth as James Hunt because it means you all know that my issues with this are nothing to do with the cast. Or the director, because I know Ron Howard plans to be as respectful as he can be to the historical truth. That being said, I have all kinds of issues. Mostly that I don't get why. We have video footage. We have interviews. Niki, thankfully, is still around to give his part of the story.

I'm also a bit 'hmm' because an American film where there's the British king of the playboy racers, idol to all ** (without wishing to in anyway do down Hunt the driver who was a master) vs cold, calculating German-speaker who was already a grumpy old man when he was younger (Niki's original retirement was because he was sick of driving round in circles), I know who is going to get the most of the shades of grey. And it's the guy I like more.

I mean I could be wrong but ...

I'm especially worried about how they're going to handle the Suzuka incident. For those who don't follow F1, Niki Lauda was in a terrible crash at a very, very rainy Nurburgring, which almost killed him. Within a month, he was back racing. By the last race of the season, the title race was down to him vs Hunt. At Suzuka, there was again a torrential downpour, so Lauda stopped, to paraphrase, he decided his life was worth more than the world title. Generally held opinion, including that of James Hunt, was that it was the bravest possible decision. For people who don't know about that era of F1 - slightly better than the deadly years, but not much - I'm not sure how well that will come over.

Also, I saw the actor who'll be playing Lauda in the Edukators and I don't think he can convey Niki's Nikiness.
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Later With Jools Holland:

Jools was as good as expected (Iplayer link here - http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01j9hq9/Later..._with_Jools_Holland_Series_40_Episode_6/). The Hives were good, Esperenza Spalding (an Oregonian for the information tame Oregon bod I know) was good, Jimmy Cliff was amazing.

Paloma Faith is now a poor-man's Adele instead of a poor-man's Amy Winehouse, and even the peculiarly American sounding kiddie blues player from Nottingham (yes, really) was solid.

Funniest moment was Jools interviewing TV Smith (of The Adverts (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adverts) fame) about the BBC's new season on the punk movement, and they were both going, "how is this history? We're not old enough to be historical." My Mother is having similar issues, she has major issues with Dylan and McCartney being 70. She also objects severly to 'The Idiot's Lantern' being considered a historical because she can remember the coronation.

Actually pondering Jools and sound systems, Lana del Rey sounded fine on Jools. One of her videos was playing on a music channel and it struck me that she has a very unusual voice (for a pop singer) and I'm wondering if that's part of the problem, that it's hard for sound engineers to do something with the kit to suit her voice and to have it work for other people as well.

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Cricket:
Geoffrey Boycott has just come out with 'he h'opens his bat wonderfully' which I believe stretches even the Yorkshire habit of adding miscellaneous habit of adding H's to words to it's breaking point.

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Football:

I don't like the new England away strip. Or rather, I'm sure it'd be perfectly serviceable for ... well I can't think of anyone who black and blue (that particular shade of blue which is too dark to be Dutch blue but too light to be Azzuri blue) would suit, but watching tonight, I'm getting the two teams confused.

Also, Hodgson coaches like a German. And that's a compliment.

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Dentistry:

I've just flossed for the first time. It went about as well as expected. Which is to say, not very. It just feels weird and I live in constant terror of getting the floss trapped in a tooth. Not-actually-evil dental hygenist may be pacified however. See also my purchase of an electric toothbrush. I've gone for a Spiderman one. <- my inner 5 year old strikes again.

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Links
Really interesting documentary about the evolution of the British sitcom, using the example of sex - http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00zwnt0/Sex_and_the_Sitcom/

To paraphrase, UK sitcoms are all about the frustrations of not getting any.

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Tennis:

ITV4 have the French Open coverage, which means unfeasable numbers of add breaks, but they have given me Fabrice Santoro on commentary so I don't care and all is forgiven.
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( that First Lines writing meme )

* My mother wishes it to be known that I am somewhat biased on the matter of M. Schumacher.

** Kimi Raikonnen's helmet this weekend is a tribute to Hunt and when he entered a speedboat race it was Hunt's name he took as his pseudonym.

I survived the dentist. We're just going to keep an eye on the front tooth (backstory here - http://redfiona99.livejournal.com/480181.html) and on one of my other teeth which may need a crown. There's nothing quite like having teeth bad enough for a dentist to say a polite version of 'bloody hell, how many fillings have you got?!'.

( TNA )

That there's only 4 lines of comment and all of them relate to the last half hour might tell you that it was not one of the more inspired Impacts.

I have bitten the bullet and am going to the dentist's tomorrow. My toothless remains will see you all tomorrow.

As I have managed to survive a visit to the dentists with nothing worse than an appointment for next week for 1 filling (and yes, my teeth are bad enough that I call that a win) I shall now regale you with something I consider interesting.

You've all heard of litigation tourism (two particularly egregious examples can be found here: http://www.fastcompany.com/1723689/benihana-kuwait-lawsuit-mark-makhou-mike-servo

and here: http://www.ejiltalk.org/in-the-dock-in-paris/). [links courtesy of

nwhyte.

It's something English law is quite interested in because England is one of the places you go to if you want to accuse someone of libel because you have to prove less to win.

Something similar has recently come up in regards to the shenanigans involved in the Liverpool Football Club takeover.

For those who didn't follow the whole nonsense, a brief overview goes like this:

Two American businessmen take over a football club. They raise the money to do this by taking out a gigantic loan with RBS. If the football club do well, the money will be paid back.

The football club do not do well. It needs new players and new facilities. The new owners do not have the ability to fund this.

Then the global financial crisis occurs. The bank calls in its loan. The two businessmen try to find a buyer for the club and ask for a price that covers their outlay. Because the club is still in need of new facilities and new players (plus their main playing asset is now severely disaffected), no one is willing to buy the club at that price.

The bank is about to put the club into administration and are able to force the sale of the club at a much lower price to an entirely different American businessman.

To try and prevent this, the other American businessmen try to take out a writ in a Texas court to prevent the sale, saying the bank has no right to do this, so you're left with the somewhat ridiculous situation of a dispute about the ownership of a British club being settled in an American court. A counter-suit enables a UK court to go 'NO!', and they've just upheld that ruling. I have no idea how precedent works in other countries but I could see this being useful in the prevention of some litigation tourism.

Links (in something that resembles chronological order) here:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/liverpool/8312288/Tom-Hicks-and-the-Royal-Bank-of-Scotland-to-resume-legal-dispute-over-sale-of-Liverpool-in-High-Court.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12493587
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/16102010/58/premier-league-hicks-claims-conspiracy.html
http://www.espn.co.uk/football/sport/story/74597.html

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