Originally published at: People are using Magic Erasers to whiten their teeth | Boing Boing
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lemme guess: the idea came from TikTok. there’s a lot of funny stuff there, but OMG there is also a LOT of really, really bad and dumb advice there.
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Using melamine orally…what could go wrong?
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But, it works on dentures, I do it. Beats taking them to the dentist for cleaning when you can DIY it at home, helps to have a Dremel tool as well.
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Isn’t it immediately obvious that it can only clean by abrading? Something you do NOT want to do to teeth!
a vicious cycle.
Is that how they say ‘vicious circle’ in the Bronx, perchance? 
(I mean, I know it actually works and still makes sense, but I’ve never heard or read it as a vicious cycle before, only as a vicious circle.)
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We kind of use both versions interchangeably in my circles. Which are fortunately not vicious.
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Ohhh, this must be why Chinese folks were buying up formula in other countries (especially Australia), to the point where stores had to put limits on how many containers you could buy per day. Mom’s on the Formula Feeders facebook group were having a lot of trouble finding their formula on the shelves. I knew they were buying it up to send back to China but I didn’t know why.
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You know those dentures don’t grow back, right?
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'Melamine’ sounds like some sort of dietary supplement sold at GNC.
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So, we’ve gone from drinking detergent and putting a light inside your body to stop COVID is a stupid idea to this medical decision being an okay one?
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Viscious Cycles…
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A typo - but nearly a good typo: viscous - those guys are oily!
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Google ngrams says “cycle” is not much rarer than “circle” in British English. (My OED doesn’t have it, but both Cambridge and Collins dictionaries seem to think it is OK.)
I prefer vicious Circe.
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The first one. The other is just a fictional character.
In Plutarch’s telling, the Greeks who had their manhood magically erased and became swine tell Odysseus that they prefer their new form, so maybe she was not so vicious after all.
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Ha, fun stuff!! But holy carp, that must’ve taken forever to make! That’s a lot of patient people. 
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