How do you clean your comb?

[Urban Ranger]

If you have enough money, most things are "disposable," including cars, houses, and girlfriends.

You throw away condoms because of hygene, which isn't applicable to combs. Unless, of course, you got head lice.

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

Originally posted by MOBIUS
Being that I am not a promiscuous person seeking many partners who would also, by definition, be promiscuous means that I don't have much call for them, except at the beginning of a relationship...

Yes, but the point is... do you wash them out and reuse them? Because if you don't, you're guilty of the same 'throwaway lifestyle' as me, except you draw the line at a different point.

My point is that North American culture is highly wasteful, creating a throwaway culture where it's inhabitants don't realise just what kind of effect they're having on their environment - why use the energy, resources, packaging, landfill sites etc on a product that you should only need to buy once, not over and over and over again wasting energy, resources, packaging, landfill sites etc...

That's the whole point, you don't see the bigger picture - just your own very minor inconvenience...

I guess the soap you use to wash the comb out magically disappears when it goes down your drain... or did you never consider what effect that has on the environment?

For that matter, if you're so concerned about the environment, why wash your hair at all? Do you eat meat? Use batteries? Drive a car? All of those things impact the environment a lot more than disposing of about 1/4 oz. of plastic comb monthly does.

Bottom line is... the time it takes to clean a $1.00 comb would be better spent on other things for a lot of us. And the resources used to clean it (hot water, soap, electricity) have an impact on the environment, too.

This has gotten quite silly Lovin' it.

[Alexander's Horse]

Re: How do you clean your comb?

Originally posted by MrFun

So how do you guys clean your comb?

Combs need cleaning?

[The Mad Monk]

Visitor: Why do you keep a scouring pad on your bathroom sink?

Alexander's Horse: That's not a scouring pad, that's my comb!

[MrFun]

Re: Re: How do you clean your comb?

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse


Combs need cleaning?

You dirty, backwards Australians would not understand hygenic maintenance of hygeine items. I mean, you live with kangaroos and dingos, for crying out loud.


Anyway, I have laughed out loud reading this thread so far -- a thread about cleaning combs has been thread-jacked to condoms, STDs and environmentalism.
Got a trivia question -- especially for veteran Polys.

What light-hearted, trivial thread did NOT end having serious issues thread-jacking it.

Oh yeah, one more note -- I do not clean condoms that I have used.
(considering that using used condoms is counter-productive for its purpose -- SAFE sex)

[Alexander's Horse]

I suppose it never occured to you to throw the comb away if dirty

What do they cost? 30 cents?

[monolith94]

That would have to be the infamous MBT thread.
The ONLY thread to stay on focus, I think.
Unless you mean mornington crescent?

[Grrr]

To start with ... I use a Pentium 75 processor as my comb .

To clean it, I rinse it under the tap.

[monolith94]

That is so INCREDIBLY nerdish it's cool.
At least in my book.

[blackice]

My cat does a great job cleaning my combs.

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
I suppose it never occured to you to throw the comb away if dirty

What do they cost? 30 cents?

I don't see combs as disposable items.

And having a pet cat clean a comb that you use -- icky.

[Wittlich]

I'm trying to figure out how one gets one's cat to clean ones comb....

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Wittlich
I'm trying to figure out how one gets one's cat to clean ones comb....

Ick -- why would you WANT to figure that out?

Out of morbid curiosity?

[monolith94]

Rinse it in liquid catnip.

[Provost Harrison]

I never use a comb myself