About eighteen months ago my dentist suggested I use this stuff called Clinpro 5000. It's a high fluoride anti-cavity mixture. It's also four times as expensive as yer regular brands. Normally I'd say fuck that for lark, but I, with the help of this particular dentist, have rescued most of my teeth from oblivion so I groaned inwardly and agreed to give it a try. Well, not only is it OK, but I'm still working on the original tube today!! It's incredible, and made me wonder how much conventional toothpaste gets washed down the plughole without doing anything at all. A lot apparently. Adults need a blob about the size of a pea, rather than the brush-length art nouveau swash pictured in the ads, and kids only need a mini-blob the size of a grain of rice. Fine but even if you know that, it's bloody hard to do. The viscosity of the paste and the size of the hole in the tube makes it almost impossible to squeeze out that little. Clinpro, OTOH, is the thickness of window putty and the hole in the tube is about half the diameter of Crest, Colgate and the rest. That's why I'm still working on the original tube. It's a conspiracy I tell ya! Intended to do nothing more than gouge more money out of the dentally concerned consumer!
Can you think of anymore examples of unintentional waste?
Can you think of anymore examples of unintentional waste?
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