h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

My new toothbrush I bought yesterday. Or rather, my mom bought it, but that's not the point. The toothbrush handle is clear plastic, with clear bristles of Medium stiffness. It cost 38 cents. At first I picked out a $1.00 toothbrush, but I changed my mind when I saw the cheaper ones. All this is perfectly fine, it is seemingly the ideal toothbrush, and just my type. The problem is the handle. I didn't notice this in the shop, because of the packaging, but the handle is curved.

This design is probably another one of the bogus selling points. For some reason, maybe this is just an American thing, people are obsessed with designing new toothbrush shapes and features that are supposed to make them work better, but personally, I think it's a load of crap. A toothbrush is a freakin' toothbrush, and anyone who buys $20 toothbrushes is an idiot. And don't me started on electric toothbrushes, or toothbrush commercials. I suppose that people who read this buy these toothbrushes and will get offended, and then I will lose friends, but anyway.

But perhaps a toothbrush isn't a freakin' toothbrush. The one I have is a freakin' stupid toothbrush, because of this curved handle. I admit, it is reasonably comfortable when I hold it... IF I only brush my bottom left teeth. It's horribly awkward and uncomfortable if I brush anywhere else, like the top right teeth, or my front teeth. So their ingenius, innovative toothbrush designs might work really well in one position, but awful in about any other.

A long time ago, I actually did have a more fancy toothbrush that my dad gave me - it was this interesting shape and size, with a much larger head with a couple thousand bristles. One of the features this brand offered was right or left handed toothbrushes. The handle was thick and shaped just right, and it even had a place where your thumb fits nicely. All this was comfortable until you had to turn it over to get to your top teeth.

Anyway, I just ate a piece of delicious, sugary cake, so I should go and brush my teeth.

A toothbrush is not just a toothbrush. You can get ones with no flexibility in the neck. Wonderful things for cleaning the grease off a bike chain, or for polishing my mother's two-tone shoes, but plain nasty in the mouth.

Mr Reach, on the other hand, will do nothing for a gear wheel.

TRiG.

...They clean me with a brillo pad.

We all have our pet Peevies!

Traveller in Time shape shifting
"Place it on a piece of cloh and poor boiling water over it, most plastics can be reshaped a little when heated moderately "

Hmmm....That might just work....

You know what makes ME really mad?


BSE.




Moooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

The problems you can have with such a simple device as a tooth brush

TiT, I tried your idea, but when I was bending it, it broke. Oh, well, I don't care, I was going to throw it away anyhow, because I hated it so much, so I will buy another tomorrow. Now I haven't anything to brush with, so I have to get by on mouthwash till tomorrow. It was worth the try, anyway, it was a good idea, I guess the plastic just wasn't right.

It's no problem, like I say, I was going to throw it out anyway.

B'Elana, I also got angry at a frozen pizza a while back.