Brush before you shower, then afterwards, when the mirror is foggy, wipe it with the hem of your bathrobe.
You just have to deal with it if there are a few splatters overnight.
Do you have to floss in front of the mirror?
2: I think I skip some of the gaps if I don't floss in front of the mirror.
3: I was equally surprised, but the dental hygienist claims using the same brush for both teeth and tongue spreads noxious tongue tartar onto one's teeth.
I always floss after. Nobody told me differently. Or the tongue/tooth thing. Are you sure your hygienist isn't trolling?
Of course, I have six or eight fillings in my adult teeth plus a crown.
Is there another fucking debate tonight?
There is! CNN, starting any minute.
I'm not sure I'm going to be able to stand watching Wolf Blitzer. That man makes me irrationally homicidal.
8: If the debate's in Miami, WB has to go by the name Lobo Bombardeador.
Well, at least we have a university chamber choir doing the national anthem. We need to get rid of this tradition.
Holy Christ, the arrangement is awful, though.
I'm not sure I'm going to be able to stand watching Wolf Blitzer. That man makes me irrationally homicidal.
And yet you love watching Republican primary debates.
Definitely floss before. Because you have to get stuff out of the corners before you do the broad sweeping, right?
8.2: I'm not sure I'm going to be able to stand watching Wolf Blitzer. That man makes me irrationally homicidal.
Revel in this, then. The anchor as a young dick.
You didn't think we were actually going to talk about flossing now, did you Stanley.
Santorum has really big teeth, I bet he spends a lot of time flossing.
Maybe you can tweet CNN with a question about Rick's flossing.
Besides I use Dental wedgies, or some goddamn thing like that. Stim-sticks? I know I should floss too but fuck it, that's 500 hours of my life I'll never get back. Ah it's Stim-u-dents. They don't what flossing does but that's what I use. They're more fun.
I refuse to watch them, but I'm trying to convince someone in the other room to watch it so they can gove me highlights. But they're refusing.
God, I hate Wolf Blitzer.
Wow, Mitt Romney looks better when indignant.
He miffed the dismount by looking smug.
Uh oh! Dismounts charge when miffed.
Did Mitt just say that English is already the official language of the government?
30: I thought you got caught in the middle of "missed" and "muffed". But you may have triangulated with "whiffed".
What is brushing your tongue supposed to do? Are you getting plaque buildup?
It was only recently that I learned from my hygienist that the primary goal of brushing should be to wedge the bristles under the gums to agitate the plaques that lead to gingivitis, bone loss, and vascular inflammation.
I see the floss thread has been discarded.
I am downloading a CNN mobile app to watch the debate. Why indeed?
Jeus Christ, I want whatever Santorum's on.
Mitt Romney, in the most nerdly voice imaginable:
"in frannie mae and freddie mac, we needed a whistle-blower, not a horn-tooter..."
That was a rehearsed line. And it sounded like Ned Flanders.
Oh. No I'm not. It wants to know my cable provider or something. Obviously I don't have cable or I wouldn't be lying on the couch watching tv on my phone.
Well then, back to Barbara Stanwyck movies.
Oh god they're arguing about who has which mutual funds? And the crowd is going wild with applause at Romney's weird wide-eyed unblinking accusation that Newt invests in a mutual fund? I... don't get it.
Newt: you, mitt, invested in Frannie Mae!
Mitt: no, my blind trust invested in Frannie Mae!
Mitt: and by the way, your mutual fund invested in Frannie Mae!
Not making finance look good there, guys.
Ron Paul promised he won't go around the world forcing himself on people, that sounds like a good policy.
Ron Paul let's his inner racist flag fly on the roots of the financial crisis. "Affirmative action"!
Wolf Blitzer just totally unironically said they're going to talk about "space: the final frontier" after the break.
My teeth look best if I floss first, brush with closys toothpaste, rinse with the hydrofloss oral irrigator with closys then brush w/ either fluoride toothpaste or special stuff with novamin. Whitening toothpaste like Supersmile can be good, because the peroxide bleach kills the bacteria.
For the tongue scrapers are better than brushes.
For the tongue scrapers are better than brushes.
Also true for ice on your windshield.
I read some headline about Newt Gingrich and a moon base and decided I had finally lost my reason.
Something is seriously wrong with Mitt's eyes--and I don't think its just a bad visine day.
The welfare system helps the wealthy? What, because they sort of sound alike?
Ron Paul: "the welfare system helps the wealthy."
Mitt Romney's facial expression: "wtf!?"
For once I have utterly no interest in politics.
Flossing before you brush? That makes no sense to me at all, but if that's Stanley's protocol, it explains why he "splatters" the bathroom mirror. I merely bespeckle it over time, a little bit, being a lady.
Of course you should brush your tongue; I believe I've heard this thing about having two brushes for separate purposes, but I doubt I'm going to ... well, alright, I'll consider that.
the dental hygienist claims using the same brush for both teeth and tongue spreads noxious tongue tartar onto one's teeth.
Tongues have tartar?
I'm only watching because I want to hear Newt say crazy things about our new MOONBASE. How will he deal with the fact that Dracula also has a moonbase?
I can't see how Newt mooning the base could possibly help anything.
Sadly Wolf Blitzer can make you almost feel sympathy for these assholes. But then the audience brings you back to reality.
We have "top military experts on space needs"? Huh.
"the welfare system helps the wealthy."
I could make up a story whereby this makes sense.
Who are all these private sector companies that are champing at the bit to send people to the moon?
The Republican vision for space: Total Recall.
Six or seven private-sector space launches a day! Why? Because the Chinese are scary!
16, 18: But what if you brush the stuff into the cracks after you've flossed?
I'm surprised he's still mentioning NH, they're now useless until 2016.
I like doubling the NIH, but I don't want to do research on the moon.
59: That guy, um, the Tesla and Paypal involved guy. I'm blanking on his name. There's an M in it.
Rick Santorum: We're America, we should think small and conventional!
Ron Paul: We should have the same quality of medical care we had in 1964!
This is actually pretty boring. Survivor's always better when there's still a lot of people on the island.
Fine. I'll try your new-fangled brushing after flossing thing, if I remember, but I'm not going to the moon or buying a second toothbrush to keep my tongue germs from spreading to the teeth they touch for 99% of the day.
Ron Paul is sounding just like my grandmother. "It used to be that you only bought major medical! Back in the old days, if you got sick, your family took care of you! Children cared for their parents! Who needs all this insurance?"
Cool, my feed just jumped a bit and Mitt did a perfect Max Headroom impersonation.
Cool, my feed just jumped a bit and Mitt did a perfect Max Headroom impersonation.
3 out of 4 people in Massachusetts are wrong!
God, this is painful. Is procrastinating by watching this stuff really better than doing the writing I'm putting off?
I'm going to hold my breath so I don't have to pay for health insurance.
"It's not worth getting angry about."
Good lord, Romney is Ned Flanders.
My daughter decided she liked flossing her teeth the other day. She might have gone a little overboard and caused some bleeding.
I'm pretty sure there were homeless old people with no health care before Medicare.
68, 71: That's a surprisingly popular sentiment around the country. It takes about 5 minutes to argue it into the dust.
I'll have to give you my grandmother's phone number, then. She's very anti-government-in-health-care despite how the government paid for decades of her husband's medical care when he was bedridden and unable to work.
Okay, it must be said that Gingrich looks just faded in this debate. It's Romney's.
82: Sounds like she's a more complicated case. I was thinking more about the sentiment paraphrased in 68: We should have the same quality of medical care we had in 1964!
I didn't realize that Ron Paul was arguing against government in health care there. I'm not watching the debate - just going from the live-blogging here.
I just talked to an old farmer who doesn't believe in antibiotics even though he knows someone who's in a wheelchair because of a disease that got out of control because he refused antibiotics. He has no objections to Obamacare, it's medicine itself that he rejects.
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Oh God, I hate Wolf Blitzer so so much.
Before Medicare/Medicaid destroyed family responsibility for elders.
85: What's his stance on giving antibiotics to farm animals?
It's OK with him because you're going to kill them seen enoughanyway.
Mitt Romney is now telling a Palestinian guy that the entire reason there is not peace between Israel and Palestinians is that the Palestinian leadership doesn't want it, whereas the Israelis do.
And Gingrich is saying the Palestinian people don't exist, and I'm finally turning off the goddamned television.
The title totally grosses me out, alas. But I definitely floss first.
A question about Puerto Rico goes to Santorum--and then, fuck it, let's move on, who cares about PR.
Newt channels the Spanish Inquisition skit?
Do I just have much yuckier teeth than you pre-brushing flossers? I brush first, because otherwise the flossing is much more groty.
I do think that flossing is good for you, but I don't think the dentist can actually tell if you do it. I used to be a very religious flosser, and still, every dentist I went to would say at the end of my checkup, 'Keep up the brushing, and try to floss more!'
Do I just have much yuckier teeth than you pre-brushing flossers?
Doubt it. See again Stanley's reference in the OP to "splattering". Which I apparently find delightfully funny.
We keep a squeegee in the bathroom to wipe down the fog on the mirror after showers. As a bonus, it tends to keep it clean, too.
I used to be a very religious flosser, and still, every dentist I went to would say at the end of my checkup, 'Keep up the brushing, and try to floss more!'
This happened to me for years and years, and then on my most recent visit, when they said it again after finding my first cavity ever, I finally just insisted that no, really, I'm not lying, I really do floss every single day and have for years. The hygienist then decided that maybe my technique was off, and she showed me how to do it properly, which was indeed different from how I had been doing it all those years. It would be nice if someone had shown me that before the cavity, but oh well.
I avoided the dentist from 1999 through 2011. It cost me a root canal/crown. I haven't run the numbers to see which was cheaper, but I think the regular check-ups would have been more.
Ugh, I haven't been in... 18 months? Longer? I really need to schedule a trip to the dentist.
I have never had a cavity, despite almost never going to the dentist and always having had an at-best pro forma attitude to brushing and flossing. It pleases me to consider this a minor super power.
I mean, I'll brush till my teeth feel clean - it's not like I'm some hobo - but I'm not standing there scouring away like some people.
If you drink enough alcohol shouldn't it keep the bacterial population down? I'm just trying to lower Emerson's sin number to, maybe 0.5.
On topic: Stanley's way does get the mirror dirtier.
I'm guessing Big Windex has infiltrated all the dental schools. That's what's really going on here.
Are you people flossing with rubber bands? If you have to get out a squeegee maybe it's time to reëxamine your technique. Or floss in the shower.
Although, really, Sparkle works light years better than Windex.
I have the mirror problem. I think it's common enough that there was a joke in the Big Bang Theory about it - IIRC, it's revealed that Sheldon put a piece of tape in the bathroom behind which all flossers must stand to avoid dirtying the mirror.
111: God, I hate that show.
Ron Paul: "the welfare system helps the wealthy."
Of course it does. It helps everyone. If you're poor, it helps you directly, by giving you money, goods and services. If you're wealthy, it helps you indirectly, by ensuring that your employees and their neighbours and relatives are healthy, reasonably well-fed, moderately content, not spreading contagious infection, and generally uninclined to storm your house, scale your walls, hale you forth and cut off your head.
I have to go to the dentist 4 times a year now because I got periodontal pockets and needed to have deep cleanings. My insurance covers it. I didn't go to the dentist for about 8 years and then I had to go about 9 times in one year. (I also needed sealant for my baby tooth.)
113- Sure, in reality that's true, but Ron Paul is not one to make a stimulus multiplier argument. His meaning was that it only helps the wealthy by keeping the poor dependent, if we just would stop feeding those impoverished kids they'd all grow up to be the next Steve Jobs.
I'm pleased to report that this thread prompted me to actually call the fucking dentist and make an appointment. The partner has been trying to do this for over a year. Good job!
116: Excellent! I'll be listing you among the references on my next job application. I hope that's okay.
Sure, and perhaps we can also arrange a kick back from the Dentists office. I was supposed to go in for some (minor) periodontal care, but then procrastinated from every following up with the appointment. So, I guess I should be pleased with finally following through.
"Hello, this is Stanley. I'm sorry? Stanley. With an S, as in 'seagull'. Correct. What's that? From the internet. I'm sorry? The internet. Dot com? Exactly. No, you don't know me. Anyway, your dental office recently saw someone named Rance. Actually, maybe not named Rance in real life. Who knows? It doesn't matter. What I'm calling about is, you should definitely send me five dollars."
86: Sometimes the old stick-a-paperclip-in-the-headphone-jack trick works to fix that, or at least it works on my non-iPhone.
Though the same thing did happen to my iPod once, and I couldn't fix it myself. When I took it into the Apple store they said it was evident that moisture had gotten into the jack (not sure how), but they gave me a new one. Just make sure you back everything up before you take it in.
All three cavities I've had filled were found by the same dentist. Never a cavity before that dentist. Never since. Coincidentally the same for my brother. After his third, my parents got a second opinion from a new dentist, who said there really was no cavity there. The dentist was paid more than $5.
