Blue elephants

Well to be honest, the title is all in today's entry concerning blue elephants... Not much to say about them anyway.
I've been giving it a lot of thought, and decided, that women and sex are very popular blogging material, and it's easy to write things about the opposite sex, and be right, even to be popular, but the point is, that you can't decipher them anyway, so why all the fuss?

I'll try to talk about not so extraordinary topics, that I see are not given enough thought.
Like toothpaste. No one seems to talk about toothpaste. Except the good looking doctor in the commercial... And how frustrating they can be...

So anyway, i say, people should share their experiences concerning toothpaste. Of course it's just as hard to talk about as sex. You can't just tell someone, who comes over, to "go to the bathroom and try out my new toothpaste, it's simply amazing", first of all, because (s)he'd simply think you're nuts. Why would you want someone to try out your toothpaste. But let's say for the sake of argument, that (s)he doesn't. How is (s)he going to try it?

Obviously (s)he didn't bring his toothbrush from home, if he came on a half-an-hour visit, and (s)he won't take your toothbrush in his mouth unless it's really a matter of life or death. I will get back to this later. So what he can do, is just put some on his finger, and then put it in his mouth. But if it's a toothpaste, he never tried in his life, how is he going to know how much to try? It often happened to me, that I put too much, and just didn't know what to do, because it was burning even my left eye.

So OK, let's go even further and suppose, that our guy hit the concentration head on, and tried just enough... What does he do with it? Wobble it around in his mouth for a couple of seconds, and then spits it out. End he can tell you an opinion on it... Actually he can't. He can only have an opinion on the taste of the toothpaste. He has absolutely no idea, on how well it cleans, which should be the main characteristic of a toothpaste. OK, taste is important too, you can't walk around if you just washed your teeth with a garlic flavored toothpaste, although if everyone used that, no one would be offended by the smell.

So let's get back to someone else's toothbrush. What do we do with a toothbrush? We wash it, then put a highly concentrated cleaning solution on it, then put it in our mouths and move it around for several minutes, after which we wash it again. So why are we disgusted by the idea of using some one's toothbrush? Most people don't seem to mind sharing a bottle, sometimes a cigarette... And these are things you don't clean after usage.
I say, if you are willing to french kiss someone, you can goddamn jolly well use a toothbrush too.

But sadly this isn't enough said. Let's say we don't mind sharing a toothbrush. How do you convince someone to try out your toothpaste without offending him, or causing him trauma, making him think that his mouth smells? If you tell him not to be offended, you weren't saying his mouth smelled, the more traumatized he'll be. I just can't think of any way to get someone try out your toothpaste for what it's really worth.

But we could just talk about toothpaste. Why don't we?