Okay so before I begin this post I think it's kind of necessary that I explain this image... Well it all started with my pinstriped suit aka striped long john bottoms and tops. It's a wonderful study outfit, predominately because there's no way that I'd EVER step outside wearing it. Anyway because of it's stripey dark nature I thought that a black and white image of it would be rather neat. But I've lost my camera battery charger... Problematic... I was then forced to use my laptop camera. I've always had a slight aversion to using laptop cameras. That's because whenever I happen to stumble upon a tweenies 'facey' profile they'll inevitably have an entire album dedicated to photos that they took during lunchtime on one of the macs. The group photos are funny but the individual photos? Well they're just plain whorey and it totally cracks me up after looking at twenty or so photos of the 'whore' with their eyes downcast that it took them that many poses to realise that the laptop camera is above the screen! Anyway I decided to fiddle around with some of the filters and then I realised it looked kind of cool. So I took a few more, did a little bit of copying and pasting and 'penciling' on Paint and voila my masterpiece... I finally used paint for something other than 'touching' up my photos. Really you'd be amazed by what a little bit of erasing can do! Size 16 to size 8 in no time!
Anyway now that's over and done with I guess it's onto the nitty gritty part of this blog post. Instructions for Brushing Teeth. I was just brushing my teeth this morning when I found myself getting rather annoyed. You see I'm one of those weird people who read product instructions. It started when I first started to read and I still continue to read the labels because I actually recognize some of the chemicals that are the main ingredients... a la salicylic acid. Ever since that first moment I read that I'm meant to 'gently massage Dove Heat Repair Conditioner into your hair from root to tip' then I've done so and I feel like my hairs been better conditioned ever since. Most of the time the instructions are very practical and useful. I mean I'm glad I know that I shouldn't ingest my shampoo or that Veet In shower hair removal gel is not meant for sensitive areas (although considering how corrosive that stuff is I'm pretty sure the skin on your legs counts as being 'sensitive') It's the fact that I follow the packet instructions that toothbrush packets infuriate me. On the back they have pictures of two toothbrushes. One for children and one for adults. The one for children has significantly less than the adults. That's not particularly surprising but the part that I'm annoyed by is the amount of tooth paste that's on the adults toothbrush. The entire tooth brush is meant to be filled with toothpaste. I mean honestly there's a one to one ratio of toothpaste to toothbrush! In my particularly eager instruction following stage I bravely dared to follow toothpaste instructions. My mouth ended up burning because really that much peppermint isn't particularly good for you. I tried to brush it around my mouth but there was just too much. My toothbrush was covered but there was still even more toothpaste. I almost felt sorry for any plaque inside of my mouth since it would have been like a reenactment of 'the Charge of the Light Brigade' in my mouth. 'Into the sugary mouth of plaque flowed the 600 mL of toothpaste'. I also felt sorry for my taste buds since I think some of them died in amongst the brutal onslaught.
Ever since that awful experience I've decided that the instructions were made by marketing executives rather than the scientists in white coats who you always see on the Colgate ads. They just want us to have to use lots of tooth paste so we have to buy more. It's rather mean isn't it? Blatantly taking advantage of us. The thing that I find the worst however is that electric toothbrush users are excluded. There's no picture of how much toothpaste they should have on their toothbrush. Do the Colgate execs quite simply not appreciate 'electric toothbrush' customers. Gosh it's almost a little bit like discrimination just because we 'braun oral B' users care about oral health...
3 Good Things
*Watching a really hot French Guy sing in English... His accent... ha ha ha... Terrible English... He's far better when he sings in french...
*Eating delicious food... I'm going for the glass half full side of this occurrence. I ate lots of food today... so either I say fatty Camilla or I can say 'wow Camilla you're so lucky to have such delicious food!'... I even invented a new kind of cream cheese cookie.... Mmm
*Hmm... In case you hadn't realised I'm in study mode hence the lame blog topic...
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