How do you clean your comb?

[Urban Ranger]

This thread is getting weird

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
This thread is getting weird

Weird as in the fact that 540 people have actually opened this thread to read the posts?

Weird as in the fact that 90 posts have been created in this thread?

Weird as in how many different possible thread-jack topics have appeared on a thread about combs?


Or all three combined?

[faded glory]

"I just brush my hair, it's perfect to clean my comb..."

you just put the crap back in your hair??

[MOBIUS]

Birth control isn't the problem really. I'd be more worried about STDs. And you're not even married to the girl, I'd hope this is at least a very long term relationship?

That’s the point, if I was just sh@gging around I too would use a rainjacket.

Suit yourself, myself I'll live with it and have a longer life.

Hmmm, a certain Jack London quote springs to mind there… I don’t believe in living my life in fear, but rather enjoying it to the fullest. I do take precautions when I deem it necessary, but then there are always risks in life no matter how careful you are.

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.

That’s not the point. You drew the comparison of mentioning something which can only be used once – unless you’re really ‘hard up’. That fact that it happens to fit in with my lifestyle choices means that I can happily say that I try to use condoms as rarely as I deem safely possible. Used condoms are an unavoidable waste product – a used comb (even a disposable one!) is not, until it gets too old to be of any use.

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?

Well I don’t use soap to wash my comb because I don’t use a comb!

Actually I don’t generally use soap at all really – no need to unless I’m really dirty from say working on my car or what have you. Maybe that’s why I don’t have spots!

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.

Now you’re just be facetious! : ) You’re talking about things that you do have to do such as washing your hair (mine is usually very short, my current smallish shampoo bottle is still half full after 4 months and I don’t need to use conditioner ), I don’t each much meat – mostly chicken and fish (usually raw fish!), yes I do use batteries but they’re rechargeables! I currently don’t own a car and walk to work – almost everywhere actually.

So all your examples are basically lost on me!

All I’m saying is that unecessary waste should not be created and the necessary waste that is created should be lessened as much as is comfortably possible. That is why I condemn your use of a disposable comb – not that it is waste, but that it unecessary waste!

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.

Why not do what Gatekeeper does and toss it in the washing machine with your dirty clothes – now there’s a good idea for what is, after all, a very important question!

This has gotten quite silly Lovin' it.

I agree. Just as long as you stop to think of the environmental impact of all those millions of people worldwide tossing their $1 disposable combs into the trash every month!

Or the fact that that’s a $12 dollar a year comb habit you’ve got there!

”A penny saved is a penny earned…”

[MrFun]

Nice, serious post for a light-hearted, fun thread, MOBIUS.

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

Originally posted by MOBIUS

All I’m saying is that unecessary waste should not be created and the necessary waste that is created should be lessened as much as is comfortably possible. That is why I condemn your use of a disposable comb – not that it is waste, but that it unecessary waste!

I suppose it's only fair to tell you that when I read your post, I immediately bought a pack of 3 combs and dropped it, unopened, in the garbage bin outside the drugstore.

As for my $12/year comb habit... it pales next to my other, more interesting and less hygienic, habits

[ZoboZeWarrior]

Originally posted by faded glory
"I just brush my hair, it's perfect to clean my comb..."

you just put the crap back in your hair??

Yes ... so i don't need hair spray !



More seriously, I always wash my hair before combing them (each day that God makes). And I've no problems of dandruffes (?? meaning : small parts of skins into hairs ??). So my comb is getting dirty very slowly. I just use water after use.

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

Originally posted by ZoboZeWarrior
small parts of skins into hairs

**Throws away comb in disgust**

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Six Thousand Year Old Man


I suppose it's only fair to tell you that when I read your post, I immediately bought a pack of 3 combs and dropped it, unopened, in the garbage bin outside the drugstore.

As for my $12/year comb habit... it pales next to my other, more interesting and less hygienic, habits

I'm summoning the comb nazis to your house now -- NO MORE COMBS FOR YOU!

[Wittlich]

Originally posted by Six Thousand Year Old Man
As for my $12/year comb habit... it pales next to my other, more interesting and less hygienic, habits

Do we really want to know what this less hygenic habit is?!? .....

Actually, Yes, we do....

So STYOM, what exactly is this mysterious habit of yours?

[Wittlich]

Good news MrFun! Your thread just reached 100 posts!




All of this discussion over "how to clean a comb" - who would have known that it would be such the HOT topic!

[Seneca]

Oh for the love of Jesus, this whole thread is like a particularly neurotic episode of Seinfeld.

[Gangerolf]

haven't used a comb since I was about twelve. don't think I cleaned it back then at all, actually I shared it with my brother.

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

Originally posted by Wittlich

So STYOM, what exactly is this mysterious habit of yours?

Going out on a limb that you aren't being rhetorical ... nothing truly mysterious, but certainly more interesting than going through many combs quickly:

My bad habits: alcohol, girls, cigars, procrastination, cynicism, plays on words, short selling, troll feeding, endlessly searching for shortcuts. In no particular order

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

Originally posted by Seneca
Oh for the love of Jesus

That sentence sums up the vice I forgot