"People who smoke cigarettes, they say:

“You don’t know how hard it is to quit smoking.”

Yes, I do. It’s as hard as it is to start flossing." - Mitch Hedberg

  • QuizzaciousOtter@lemm.ee
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    1 month ago

    I don’t get how is it that brushing is normal for everyone but somehow flossing seems to be an impossible task. It literally takes even less time. It’s so quick and simple that it just seems dumb not do it. Well, to me at least. Clearly that’s not a very popular opinion.

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      1 month ago

      Requires actual effort to floss right. Requires 0.1 effort to hold the vibratey brush to my teeth for two minutes

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      1 month ago

      Let me introduce you to my friend depression. It makes self care way more difficult :)

      Unfortunately neglecting self care makes the depression worse, which makes it harder to do self care.

    • Fosheze@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      I can’t fit one of my giant mitts in my tiny mouth let alone the two required to properly hold floss. I hate using the disposable floss picks because of the plastic waste. So for a long time I could just never floss properly unless I wanted to make a pile of plastic waste.

      I did get a water pick now though and that works nice. Also to all the people who say water picks don’t clean as well as floss I say, you may be right but also that thing can blast limescale off of my sink so I’m pretty sure it does a good enough job on my teeth.