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i am flossing right now

what do i do with chunky things on floss

dont want them back in mouth

― LE CHUCK!™ (ex machina), Monday, 1 November 2004 23:34 (twenty years ago)

make soup

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 1 November 2004 23:37 (twenty years ago)

why not wipe them off, you know?

that shit doesn't have to go back in there

just wipe it on your pants, dude

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Monday, 1 November 2004 23:37 (twenty years ago)

this looks really gross... my gums are bleedings and i just ate hot wings.... ughhh

― LE CHUCK!™ (ex machina), Monday, 1 November 2004 23:38 (twenty years ago)

these are my "good jeans"

― LE CHUCK!™ (ex machina), Monday, 1 November 2004 23:38 (twenty years ago)

jon, call me.

― Ian John50n (orion), Monday, 1 November 2004 23:39 (twenty years ago)

please floss more often, your gums will no longer bleed. thank you.

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 1 November 2004 23:40 (twenty years ago)

http://risd.dailyjolt.com/albums/album534/pic16024.jpg

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Monday, 1 November 2004 23:41 (twenty years ago)

yes, i am getting back on the flossing wagon

― LE CHUCK!™ (ex machina), Monday, 1 November 2004 23:43 (twenty years ago)

I just bought floss today! Tape, even. I dunno how to use it yet.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 00:09 (twenty years ago)

you put it between your teeth.

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 00:13 (twenty years ago)

7 strands at a time is the most efficient way. Then hang it on a doorknob & drop.

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 00:14 (twenty years ago)

I floss every day.

― From a Land of Grass Without Mirrors (AaronHz), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 00:32 (twenty years ago)

I don't floss, and I haven't been to the dentist in like six years (but I think I've been saying "six years" for at least two or three.)

― Ian John50n (orion), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 00:34 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://overlap.org/flossin/flossin1.jpg

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 00:36 (twenty years ago)

Ian, try flossing your back molars, and then smelling your floss. You may get a bit of an alarming wake-up call...

― christmas lights (christmaslights), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 00:38 (twenty years ago)

what do i do with chunky things on floss

dont want them back in mouth
But they were meant to be swallowed in the first place. So just re-eat them.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 00:43 (twenty years ago)

hahaha

― From a Land of Grass Without Mirrors (AaronHz), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 00:45 (twenty years ago)

I don't floss, and I haven't been to the dentist in like six years

your entire fucking lower jaw is going to rot and fall off in about three weeks

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 00:50 (twenty years ago)

i floss OCCASIONALLY.

― Ian John50n (orion), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 00:51 (twenty years ago)

Longer than that for me before I got dental insurance last year.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 00:55 (twenty years ago)

"are you from another country?" haha

― From a Land of Grass Without Mirrors (AaronHz), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 00:59 (twenty years ago)

Before school mucked up my hygiene schedule, I was a floss-twice-a-day lunatic.

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 01:51 (twenty years ago)

That's totally unnecessary.

― From a Land of Grass Without Mirrors (AaronHz), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 01:53 (twenty years ago)

Not if you have braces, though I did say lunatic.

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 01:55 (twenty years ago)

ah.
As for the chunky things, sometimes they end up on my bathroom mirror for some reason.

― From a Land of Grass Without Mirrors (AaronHz), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 01:57 (twenty years ago)

Everyone who doesn't floss every day start right now please!

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 02:46 (twenty years ago)

Ian, seriously take advantage of your Mom's health coverage while you can!!!!

― LE CHUCK!™ (ex machina), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 02:58 (twenty years ago)

I need my wisdom teeth out soon, I've been putting it off.

― From a Land of Grass Without Mirrors (AaronHz), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 03:01 (twenty years ago)

Me too, I'm scared.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 03:09 (twenty years ago)

Actually I'm not, I just don't want to stop smoking for 2 weeks.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 03:09 (twenty years ago)

Ack! You have to stop smoking? What about pot?

― From a Land of Grass Without Mirrors (AaronHz), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 03:10 (twenty years ago)

Well, while that shit is healing you can't suck, basically. No smokes, straws, knob jobs, etc. The pressure can pull out the blood clots and you'll never heal.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 03:11 (twenty years ago)

disgusting

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 03:12 (twenty years ago)

i know, right?

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 03:13 (twenty years ago)

okay

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 03:13 (twenty years ago)

pot brownies then

― From a Land of Grass Without Mirrors (AaronHz), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 03:14 (twenty years ago)

hash butter, you need something

― From a Land of Grass Without Mirrors (AaronHz), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 03:15 (twenty years ago)

to be independent?

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 03:22 (twenty years ago)

If I'm getting stitches in my mouth I want liquid morphine, goddamnit.

― From a Land of Grass Without Mirrors (AaronHz), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 03:24 (twenty years ago)

ugh christmaslights otm about the smelling the floss thing, I was telling this to jor3l lasat time i saw him, "Listen dude, if you want to be grossed out, just floss your back teeth and then smell the floss, you'll totally floss every day for the rest of your life after that shit". He declined. :(

― Allyzay Science Explosion (allyzay), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 20:08 (twenty years ago)

http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/where/images/diamonds.jpg

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 20:11 (twenty years ago)

from time to time I can smell this deathly stench from people's mouths on the train, I know what their molars look like. it is vile and gut wrenching.

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 20:11 (twenty years ago)

I wish I had some floss right now. I ate some jujyfruits this morning, and now it feels like something has crawled inside my mouth and vomited/shat/died.
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39590000/jpg/_39590625_teeth203.jpg

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 20:13 (twenty years ago)

My roommate's breath occasionally smells like that flossing-back-molars-never-before-flossed smell, just when he's talking. It's possible that he has no sense of smell whatsoever. I gave him some floss and said "dude, sorry, but even if you can't smell that, everyone else can". I don't understand how his girlfriend can kiss him sometimes.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 20:27 (twenty years ago)

kick his teeth out, that should solve it

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 20:30 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

floss is boss

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 21 November 2005 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

I was a non-flosser for years. About a year and a half ago I finally converted to flossing, and have been a consistent daily flosser ever since. I can't imagine ever going back. My mouth just wouldn't feel clean without flossing.

I think the best kind of floss is just the regular mint waxed kind. I currently am trying this new "woven" kind, which is like two different colors and has some kind of anti-tartar coating on it. However, the coating makes it sticky and it tends to get stuck between my teeth a lot more and to break. I'm going back to the regular kind after this runs out.

― o. nate (onate), Monday, 21 November 2005 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

Flossing is where it's at - I could never not floss. Too bad it's not all that glamourous - I mean, there are all kinds of "innovations" in toothbrush technology, but not much can be done with floss. Personally, I like the simple stuff, but I also like whole foods and walking. I still want to figure out how to "sell" floss to a public that apparently wants more brightly coloured vibrating toothbrushes - electric floss? glow-in-the-dark? musical floss? (seriously, nanotech makes everything possible!) a floss machine that you have molded to the shape of your mouth/position of teeth and just put in there and it flosses for you? (that would be awesome.)

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Monday, 21 November 2005 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

FLOSSING IS FUN!!!

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 21 November 2005 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

As for the chunky things, sometimes they end up on my bathroom mirror for some reason.

This happens to me too. It gets pretty gross if I don't clean the mirror regularly.

― o. nate (onate), Monday, 21 November 2005 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

Freak. ;-)

I floss but it's not because I like it. God no. I only do it because I realize it's better than letting bits of crisp rot between my teeth.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Monday, 21 November 2005 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

Freak. ;-)

Well, I don't know how other people avoid this. When you pull up on the floss, there's a bit of resistance as it passes through the narrowest part of the gap, then it snaps straight again. Meanwhile, if there were any little particles of celery or gristle or whatnot in that gap, they have been flung upwards and outwards. If you happen to be standing in front of the bathroom mirror when this happens, the particles will most likely end up stuck to the glass.

― o. nate (onate), Monday, 21 November 2005 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

geez i need to floss

― Surmounter, Thursday, 2 August 2007 19:59 (seventeen years ago)

ive been flossing every day for 1 month and my mouth feels CLEAN

― max, Thursday, 2 August 2007 20:01 (seventeen years ago)

ur so good

― Surmounter, Thursday, 2 August 2007 20:02 (seventeen years ago)

i can't believe no one ran with my floss ideas and we are still in teh floss dark ages

― rrrobyn, Thursday, 2 August 2007 20:08 (seventeen years ago)

Showerflosser is the way to go. A watercannon to blast that plaque right outta there.

― Jaq, Thursday, 2 August 2007 20:11 (seventeen years ago)

Flossing is so satisfying & great; I do it pretty much after every meal. I live those little floss pick things; easy to get at my back teeth & a lot of flosses just break in my teeth bcz I never got my wisom teeth removed & they all grew very close together.

― Abbott, Thursday, 2 August 2007 20:14 (seventeen years ago)

what the hell is that real?

― Surmounter, Thursday, 2 August 2007 20:15 (seventeen years ago)

This thread is making me want to floss RIGHT NOW.

― Abbott, Thursday, 2 August 2007 20:22 (seventeen years ago)

DO IT.

It was Liz Lemon that talked me into flossing everyday. I'm just glad they make a floss (Crest Glide) that I can get between my teeth without having it shred. The tape was torture (like papercuts) or too wide to get between my teeth.

― Bryan, Thursday, 2 August 2007 20:22 (seventeen years ago)

oral b essential floss is also good for tightly-spaced teeth

showerfloss is HILARIOUS to me right now

― rrrobyn, Thursday, 2 August 2007 20:31 (seventeen years ago)

I've been using the shower floss thing for about 2 years now, after the dental hygienista scared me with talk of gum pockets and tooth loss and the dreaded deep cleaning. Hate using the string floss but have to when I travel.

― Jaq, Thursday, 2 August 2007 20:34 (seventeen years ago)

we used to use waterpik when i was in highschool but showerfloss thing looks ultra powerful and, hence, comedic, to me

― rrrobyn, Thursday, 2 August 2007 20:36 (seventeen years ago)

http://rexcurry.net/fetishism-flag-butt-floss-pledge-of-allegiance.jpg

― libcrypt, Thursday, 2 August 2007 20:36 (seventeen years ago)

You can hurt yourself really badly with it! Can put your eye out!

okay, I can't look at that at work, but definitely x-post I'm sure.

― Jaq, Thursday, 2 August 2007 20:37 (seventeen years ago)

i feel i really need to get showerfloss

― Surmounter, Thursday, 2 August 2007 20:37 (seventeen years ago)

wait WHAT can poke ur eye out???

― Surmounter, Thursday, 2 August 2007 20:38 (seventeen years ago)

You can put yr eye out with that too.

― libcrypt, Thursday, 2 August 2007 20:38 (seventeen years ago)

It's really high powered - you have to gradually work your way up to full strength blasting. Don't floss yr eyes.

― Jaq, Thursday, 2 August 2007 20:39 (seventeen years ago)

the showerfloss? oh my god. i'm kind of scared.

― Surmounter, Thursday, 2 August 2007 20:39 (seventeen years ago)

and
FLOSS without FLOSS!
hahahaha

anyway, yes, it is a good if kind of crazy (best kind) invention that i wld use if i had the cash and knew i could get stupid showerhead off without ripping the whole thing out of the wall

xpost
hahaha jaq awesome xpost

― rrrobyn, Thursday, 2 August 2007 20:40 (seventeen years ago)

lol the website really is a treat

― Surmounter, Thursday, 2 August 2007 20:41 (seventeen years ago)

Now me and my girls are deep
In a '94 Wrangler jeep
Flossin' all thru Long Beach

― Spencer Chow, Thursday, 2 August 2007 23:55 (seventeen years ago)

Fuck you dude. Don't be flossin' in this hood. This hear is toothpick side.

― humansuit, Thursday, 2 August 2007 23:57 (seventeen years ago)

see that's what i wanna try, toothpicking

― Surmounter, Thursday, 2 August 2007 23:57 (seventeen years ago)

if showerfloss works i'll blow everyone in the company twice. HATE flossing and it will never ever become a habit. Seriously, fuck teeth.

― tremendoid, Friday, 3 August 2007 00:25 (seventeen years ago)

five years pass...

started flossing. holy shit at molar stink.

― Randy Carol (darraghmac), Thursday, 4 October 2012 09:43 (twelve years ago)

never got the hang of it

― This Is... The Police (dog latin), Thursday, 4 October 2012 13:28 (twelve years ago)

three years pass...

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/f7e66079d9ba4b4985d7af350619a9e3/medical-benefits-dental-floss-unproven

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 2 August 2016 17:07 (eight years ago)

i have gum disease (which most people don't even know they have) and it's led to a drastic loss of bone in my mouth so you're goddamn right i floss. if there's even a 1% chance that it will help i'll do it.

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 2 August 2016 17:13 (eight years ago)

Anecdotally, flossing helps chill my gums out if I have food stuck in one of my larger gum pockets and inflaming them, which in turn is helping me avoid presumably unpleasant periodontal work.

― Sean, let me be clear (silby), Tuesday, 2 August 2016 17:13 (eight years ago)

http://i3.cpcache.com/product_zoom/583039377/peace_love_dental_floss_22x14_oval_wall_peel.jpg?height=460&width=460&padToSquare=true

― If authoritarianism is Romania's ironing board, then (in orbit), Tuesday, 2 August 2016 17:40 (eight years ago)

I hate it when you get a piece of dental floss stuck between your teeth, and you need to unspool more dental floss to floss it out.

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 2 August 2016 17:42 (eight years ago)

Is that a joke?

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 2 August 2016 17:44 (eight years ago)

No! Sometimes my floss frays and snaps off between two of my tighter teeth and a piece just gets wedged in there, and I have to floss it out!

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 2 August 2016 17:46 (eight years ago)

are you sure you're using...dental floss?

― have you ever even read The Drudge Report? Have you gone on Stormfron (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 2 August 2016 21:33 (eight years ago)

the resultant floss smeared between two intact loops of floss

― remy bean, Tuesday, 2 August 2016 21:49 (eight years ago)

It's totally dental floss, of that I am sure. It's Glide brand (we bought it in bulk at Costco so are stuck with it), and every once in a while when dispensing it a stretch gets kind of scraped the wrong way by the little metal tooth, weakening it in that spot. So sometimes when I'm working my way down the floss at a certain point that weakened spot gets stuck between two of my molars and snaps, leaving a chunk of floss in there. But it's not long enough to grab with my fingers and pull out, it's like a tiny little hunk of floss that then has to be flossed out.

Obviously this doesn't happen that often, but it's happened enough!

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 2 August 2016 22:21 (eight years ago)

flossing rules, it's true

― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 2 August 2016 23:23 (eight years ago)

I floss five days a week but give myself weekends off.

― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Tuesday, 2 August 2016 23:25 (eight years ago)

It's a lazy weekend thrill, however small.

― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Tuesday, 2 August 2016 23:26 (eight years ago)

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