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Brushing Your Teeth in the Shower: Taboo?

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I usually brush my teeth in the shower before I go to bed. It saves me a trip to the bathroom.

Everybody I know thinks that it is kind of weird.

Thoughts?
 
I brush my teeth after drying myself off from the shower. I don't leave the bathroom pre-sleep until I'm sure I won't have to get myself out of bed again.

What would be sort of weird is that I brush my teeth and spit, but I don't rinse my mouth out afterwards. I like to think that if plaque wants to build up in my mouth during sleep, it's going to have to go through World War III every night. Unless there is something medically wrong with doing this, then I'll stop and rinse, but my teeth are nice and healthy so far.
 
Unless you shower in cold water, I think it's somewhat peculiar. It feels weird brushing my teeth with warm water.
 
TheDuce22 said:
Floride is a poison. Its best to rinse your mouth out.
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There's fluoride in most water. Unless you eat half a tube of toothpaste you won't even get a mildly upset stomach. However, you should rinse. When you brush, you loosen the plaque so when you rinse it all comes out. Otherwise it's just sitting in that sticky paste on your teeth all night.

On topic: Both of my room mates brush their teeth in the shower. The only problem I see with it is that warm water has a lot more minerals and junk in it because it goes through a heater. I don't like the taste of all that, so I brush my teeth with some nice cold water before I get in the shower. But hey, whatever floats your boat. Seems pretty efficient to me.
 
trilobyte said:
Unless you're like 10feet tall, I don't know how that's possible without aiming.
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Unless your shlong curves upwards, I'm not sure how it's impossible without aiming..
 
Leon said:
Unless your shlong curves upwards, I'm not sure how it's impossible without aiming..
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You'll be amused by this, but some poeple's penises are so small that they don't even bend downwards. If they try pissing into a toilet without aiming it down they'll piss ll over the reservoir tank.
 
I do it all the time, I can't use cold water to brush my teeth anyway, it hurts them too much. To many cavitites, fillings and too much sensitivity.
 
Lil' Dice said:
You'll be amused by this, but some poeple's penises are so small that they don't even bend downwards. If they try pissing into a toilet without aiming it down they'll piss ll over the reservoir tank.
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Er Leon is talking about pissing in a sink. And I don't know about where you guys live, but here most sinks are at above the belly button...so not sure how you can take a piss in there without aiming for an arc into it....unless your shlong is 2 feet long and you can just curl it up there like a snake.

Leon said:
Unless your shlong curves upwards, I'm not sure how it's impossible without aiming..
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Huh? that doesn't make any sense. If the sink is located 8-12 inches above the shlong, then having a curved shlong would make it perfectly possible to pee in there


You guys are probably assuming the sink is at penis level.


and WTF at this conversation :P
 
Ya, I guess it only works with testicle-level sinks, so if you can find one, I recommend trying it, by the way.
 
If I'm feeling lazy I'll brush my teeth in the shower, as I hate coming out of the shower and then still have brushing my teeth to do before I can go sleep.

But even if I brush my teeth outside of the shower I always use warm water. I never realised that was abnormal. I hate using cold water to brush my teeth, feels weird.
 
TheDuce22 said:
Floride is a poison. Its best to rinse your mouth out.
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AFAIK Fluor as an element (F2) is deadly, fluoride (F-) isn't. Just like Chloride gas (Cl2) will disolve your lungs and Cl- (present in i.e. salty water) won't do anything to you.
 
Powdered Toastman said:
AFAIK Fluor as an element (F2) is deadly, fluoride (F-) isn't. Just like Chloride gas (Cl2) will disolve your lungs and Cl- (present in i.e. salty water) won't do anything to you.
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Thanks, my faith in GAF isn't totally lost.
 
Well im the paranoid type, with all the things I have read on the problems flouride can cause the last thing I will be doing is going to bed with a mouth full of toothpaste. Is this stuff true? I dont care, but I know im not swallowing toothpaste.

Fluorine is an element and a gas, never occurring in its free state. In microscopic amounts complexed with other minerals, it is often listed as a trace mineral, a nutrient for human nutrition. This is not the flouride used for fluoride or fluoridation. Fluoride added to 90% of drinking water is hydrofluoric acid which is a compound of fluorine that is a chemical byproduct of aluminum, steel, cement, phosphate, and nuclear weapons manufacturing. Such fluoride is manmade. In this form, fluoride has no nutrient value whatsoever. It is one of the most caustic of industrial chemicals. Fluoride is the active toxin in rat poisons and cockroach powder.
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Fluoride disrupts the synthesis of collagen and leads to breakdown in the bone, tendon, skin, cartilage, lungs, trachea, and kidney. Fluoride inhibits the formation of antibodies in the blood, which cause a disruptive effect on various tissues in the body, which then confuses the immune system and causes it to attack its own tissues. Fluoride increases the tumor growth and the general cancer rate. Fluoride has been linked to cancer, low IQ� genetic disorders and muscle degeneration.
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The FDA required all toothpaste manufacturers to print a warning on the label that if more than a pea-sized amount of toothpaste is swallowed, the local Poison Control Center should be notified.
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trilobyte said:
Er Leon is talking about pissing in a sink. And I don't know about where you guys live, but here most sinks are at above the belly button...so not sure how you can take a piss in there without aiming for an arc into it....unless your shlong is 2 feet long and you can just curl it up there like a snake.
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:lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol

Indeed. How the fuck are you guys pissing in the sink?
 
Loki said:
WTF @ all the people pissing in their sinks. :O
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For reals, that's one of the most bizarre things I've ever heard. I know Leon is in France or something, so maybe it's different there, but sinks are definitely not at piss level in America. Even if they were that would be so damn gross I couldn't even fathom doing it.

Brushing your teeth in the shower isnt weird per se, but I've never done it. I like to be able to look into the mirror and I dont have one of the mini ones in the shower or anything. Plus, although there is a certain level of water resistance to my electric one, I wouldnt want to make a habit of dousing it while in use.
 
I don't understand how people on a message board claim to brush their teeth and have a shower at the same time because it's a "time saver." Message board + Saving Time = Picture of Conan O'Brien doing an impersonation of the President saying, "huh?"
 
MIMIC said:
I thought people were kidding about pissing in the sink... O_o
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So did I...I mean, sure, I did it a few times when I was 5 or 6 years old. Hell, I actually peed in supersoakers before systematically spraying every room in my neighbour's house. But I've never, ever peed in the sink since then.

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It deeply disturbs me that so many people piss in their sink. At least use the tub instead, and try aiming for the drain. George: "It's alllll pipes!"
 
OpinionatedCyborg said:
So did I...I mean, sure, I did it a few times when I was 5 or 6 years old. Hell, I actually peed in supersoakers before systematically spraying every room in my neighbour's house. But I've never, ever peed in the sink since then.

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:lol :lol
I have never peed in the sink, nor brushed my teeth in the shower. But I pee in the shower just about every time. I mean, the drain's right there, water going all around to flush it down, it's not like it won't go away. And since I take my showers in the morning when I normally have to pee, it's hard to keep it in.
 
TheDuce22 said:
Well im the paranoid type, with all the things I have read on the problems flouride can cause the last thing I will be doing is going to bed with a mouth full of toothpaste.
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No one's saying you should. In fact, a lot of things - even water - are lethal in certain amounts. It's all about common sense. Don't eat a tube of toothpaste as if it were Gogurt, and you should be fine with the flouride levels that are found in them.
 
You should brush after you eat, as soon as possible. So if you shower right after you eat you should brush at the same time. Otherwise, take care of your teeth when you should.

Don't be so scared of a little fluoride, there's a safe amount in toothpaste even if you don't rinse your mouth. Some people who have tooth decay problems actually get prescription toothpaste with much higher fluoride content, and the directions say not to rinse afterwards.

Too much of ANYTHING is poison. Drinking too much WATER in a short period of time will kill you. I think sometime in the last month a fraternity pledge died like that in a hazing ritual.
 
No one's saying you should. In fact, a lot of things - even water - are lethal in certain amounts. It's all about common sense. Don't eat a tube of toothpaste as if it were Gogurt, and you should be fine with the flouride levels that are found in them.
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There is a difference between a eating a tube and swallowing a pea sized ammount. Thats all it takes to become lethal according to my toothpaste box. And it doesnt say anywhere that the warning applies only to kids. The stuff is harmfull in small ammounts.
 
OpinionatedCyborg said:
So did I...I mean, sure, I did it a few times when I was 5 or 6 years old.
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i remember, back in elementary school, trying to piss in the sink from the urinals.. also, trying to piss into the urinals from the sinks. i failed horrible both times.
 
This pissing in the sink business is almost as weird as that thread where about 70% of the people said they pissed sitting down :lol
 
I brush in the shower. Mostly because my electric toothbrush tends to generate drool that runs all over my hand and chin.

I also piss in the sink. But not at home any more. Only at public restrooms that you just don't want to sit in.

And I also pee sitting down. :) This mostly because I have zero aim, and I have to retract my foreskin to aim properly, but that's too cold, so I sit. :P
 
Litigation Manuel said:
:lol :lol
I have never peed in the sink, nor brushed my teeth in the shower. But I pee in the shower just about every time. I mean, the drain's right there, water going all around to flush it down, it's not like it won't go away. And since I take my showers in the morning when I normally have to pee, it's hard to keep it in.
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Geez, No wonder these people can't get women.
 
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