#all hygiene shit

[dogbunni]

do u guys think nendo is a 5-in-1 body wash shampoo kinda guy or a separate shampoo conditioner body wash face wash exfoliation king

[apollos-boyfriend]

i hate going to the dentist so much but for some reason i’m so good at it 😭 she complimented me like “i see you’re brushing well but you should work a bit on your flossing :)” girl i remember to brush twice a week at BEST where are you getting this from

[mayathescientist]

I don't trust people who are obsessed with cleanliness and personal hygiene and rely on their feelings of disgust to make a moral judgement or form an opinion about a person.

I don't trust people who make conclusions about people very easily and like to claim people with one or two words they use to define this person's place in their eyes.

I don't trust people who are popular, sociable and talk about others a lot. I don't trust people who measure everyone by how that person compares to them.

for no particular reason at all :)

[moinsbienquekaworu]

Housemate is letting one of her rabbits walk around at night again :/

[hooved]

i think everyone should stop being huge cunts to ppl who don't have perfect hygiene

[dyketubbo]

its such a pain trying to navigate being critical of the psychiatric field as it is today because ill nod along to a post talking about how psych wards are horrible and so many therapists and mental health professionals are actually just downright awful and make their patients mental health works and then ill look in the notes and see people go like yesssss and medication is terrible and we should just get help Instead like. um. in an ideal world youd get both buddy. im sorry but even in a better world where society doesnt make you want to kill yourself all the time and your therapist actually listens to you you will also likely still have to take that medication

[p2ii]

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[toastsnaffler]

my flatmate asking me the day before "do u want to hang out w me and [old friend] everyone else cancelled so I can invite u now" is not the heartfelt offer she thinks it is :^/

[severalowls]

So in Ireland (possibly the entire EU) there is a regulation stipulating that in order to sell potato crisps as "hand cooked", which often carries a luxury price point, a very specific part of the process has to be done manually (iirc, dipping the potato slices into boiling oil), while the rest can be largely handled by machines and mostly automated.

According to somebody involved in production line design many years ago, one of the major crispmongers of Ireland was interested in how they could save having a guy whose sole job it was to hand-operate the conveyor that conveys the sliced potatos into boiling oil and then back out of the boiling oil and back onto the automated bit that does the seasoning and packaging and so on, which would be an all-day mind-numbing job, but more importantly they'd have to pay the guy and companies hate that.

So these regulations are enforced by regular factory audits, where somebody from the regulatory body shows up with a clipboard (or these days, an ipad) and checks that everything is operating at acceptable standards and required processes are being adhered to. Which works, but factories can often... Plan for audit days.

So the compromise the designer came up with was that the oil conveyor would have a hand-crank. But that it didn't do anything. The entire machine was automated. Except for audit days, where they could have one of the engineers stand there and look really busy turning the crank.

[shanedoesdoodles]

I might have to go to the dentist because my gums are being weird and now I'm nearly having a panic attack over it

[rainbow-needs-help]

recently i’ve seen people posting about their struggles with dental hygiene and honestly? it’s helped me a lot with mine so here’s hoping i can help spur someone who struggles with it into brushing their teeth today. so without further ado:

the routine i started doing that has helped me actually do the thing!!!

so firstly, i found out pretty early on that i absolutely despise the taste of mint toothpaste. doesn’t matter what kind, it makes me gag. i hate it. so instead, i went out and got myself a thing of kids watermelon toothpaste like i used to have in elementary school, and that helped quite a bit on its own, but it wasn’t enough to actually get into a habit. so i added some other things to the mix!!

the first night i started on my “let’s actually do it this time” mission i kept telling myself the whole time how my favorite fictional characters would be proud of me for doing this, even if i bled and cried a little, they were all proud, and that helped a lot more than expected so if you’re a blorbo bitch like me, your blorbos are proud of you!!! tell yourself that!!!

the other thing that helps quite a bit is the fact that i paired brushing my teeth with taking my meds before bed during my routine. i have an app that reminds me to take said meds, and i’m not allowed to hit the “i took my meds” button until i have also brushed my teeth. they go hand in hand in my brain

i also have one of those tiny hourglass thingies that runs for like two minutes and you get em from the dentist as a treat. helps to know how short of a time it actually takes to do the thing

the thing that has helped me the most however, is music. i am an extremely musical person i almost always have music playing no matter what i’m doing, and i just got these amazing noise canceling headphones for my birthday, so i started using those while brushing and y’all. it is a game changer. i’ve only added music to the routine the past couple nights, but tonight was the first time i actually genuinely enjoyed brushing my teeth. i was jamming and dancing and i didn’t even notice when my little hourglass ran out bc Music!!

so yeah!! that’s all the shit i do to help make brushing my teeth a little more manageable. i know different people struggle for different reasons, but for me, it was mostly just the fact that it wasn’t a habit that was built when i was young, so now i have to deal with it now, when forming habits feels impossible. i still only brush once a day, instead of morning and night, but after about a week of brushing once a day, my gums and teeth don’t bleed and it doesn’t hurt or sting. i have a couple spots that are way sensitive, and those are just. always going to be like that i think. and i’m getting rambly now without meaning to but. yeah!! hopefully someone finds this useful, and hopefully by sharing i’ve made other people who struggle feel a little safer and less alone

[binch-i-might-be]

not to sound like a broken record but I really do wish I had time to work on all my projects or just. write at all

[specters]

people are so annoying about eyebrows in particular and it's exhausting like i'm tired of seeing shit abt eyebrow grooming and how plucked they should and/or shouldn't be like i will die before i start plucking my eyebrows again idc idc idc i am free #unibrowlvr #bushybrowbabes

[forlornmelody]

Today's List of Nice Things:

Wrote about 300 words for Outlaws. Finished one scene and continued with a couple others.

After watching The World To Come, I needed queer comedy as a palate cleanser, so I started watching Hacks. And I love it so far.

Had a really healing meditation sesh in the park. I feel like I left the park a different person.

Omg omg omg. Batman has to get Ivy's help in Arkham Asylum. Spending weeks on the Scarecrow nightmares will be worth it for this.

[flippedorbit]

my mom’s about to be the reason i off myself exactly a week before graduation if she keeps bitching about every little thing

[cherrysnax]

as a kid I always wondered why I never went to the dentist ever I had a lot of mouth and teeth problems that got worsened by my depression