• Angry_Autist@lemmy.worldBanned from community
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      2 months ago

      … you didn’t ‘dip your brush’ into tooth powder, you dusted it onto the bristles…

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        2 months ago

        According to the instructions on the tin of the only tooth powder I’ve seen in real life, you dipped your toothbrush into the tin. It was round and shaped like a coffee can. The lid didn’t have holes in it that would be needed to sprinkle the stuff out. Also that powder wouldn’t sprinkle at all, it had hardened into a rock of the stuff. You would have needed a chisel, and mortar and pestle to use it by the time I found it

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      2 months ago

      I’ve never heard of toothpowder. What prevents people from scooping out a little bit and scrubbing their brush into that?

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        Nothing, but the house I grew up in during the '80s and '90s was built in 1844, and had all sorts of things that had just been there for ages. One of these things was an ancient tin of tooth powder, next to the washbasin by the back door of the kitchen. This house gets its water from a cistern out the back door. I don’t know what the powder was supposed to be like when it was made, back in the '30s according to the tin, but by the time I saw the stuff, it had hardened into a rock. Like you’d need a chisel and mortar and pestle to actually use the stuff again. I suspect that happened due to years of sitting around.