{"id":33232,"date":"2024-11-07T11:26:23","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T17:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=33232"},"modified":"2024-11-07T11:26:23","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T17:26:23","slug":"not-me-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/07\/not-me-brother\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Me, Brother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/11\/07\/lifestyle\/im-a-cleaning-expert-you-use-too-much-laundry-detergent\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">I\u2019m a cleaning expert \u2014 you\u2019ve been using too much laundry detergent<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ignoring, again, from the self-proclaimed expert voices on the Tik-Tok clamoring from attention, I know, gentle reader, that I&#8217;m not using too much.  To be honest, I&#8217;ve never felt the need to use a whole capful.  Maybe when I first started doing my laundry in college, but not in a long time.  I&#8217;ve recognized that the overage was just rinsed down the drain.<\/p>\n<p>Same with toothpaste.  Wait, no:  <b>I&#8217;m a toothbrushing expert: You&#8217;re using too much toothpaste<\/b>.  I just put a button, a small dop on the toothbrush, just enough to see I&#8217;ve put something on the toothbrush.  It helps I have an electric toothbrush with a small head that only holds a drop that&#8217;s about the size of the toothpaste tube aperature.  Even then, as I start brushing, most of it falls intact into the sink but I have enough froth to get my teeth clean.  People shouldn&#8217;t rely on advertising, which feature great big gouts of toothpaste on toothbrushes, as instructions or suggestions for use.<\/p>\n<p>And unlike other dental experts who are on the Tik-Tok who say flossing is worthless, all I have to say is if you&#8217;ve knocked something out of the recesses between your teeth while flossing after brushing, you&#8217;re more of an expert than they are.  Maybe <em>you<\/em> need a Tik-Tok.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m a cleaning expert \u2014 you\u2019ve been using too much laundry detergent Ignoring, again, from the self-proclaimed expert voices on the Tik-Tok clamoring from attention, I know, gentle reader, that I&#8217;m not using too much. To be honest, I&#8217;ve never felt the need to use a whole capful. Maybe when I first started doing my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33232"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33234,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33232\/revisions\/33234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}