Colgate. With Ants.
There’s something about the rubber on Colgate Toothbrushes that ants seem to love…
erm… this isn’t the first toothbrush of Rish’s this has happened to, either.
Yums.
(In other news, I’ve submitted my last assignment for the year. Uni break! yay! – yes I still have to go to work. But UNI BREAK! YAY!)
1Lorraine @ Not Quite Nigella
wrote on 13 November 2009 at 18:09
What on earth? lol
2jen
wrote on 13 November 2009 at 20:45
eewww that’s icky.
however, the part that reeeaallly concerns me is that rishni has a pink toothbrush
3Psych Babbler
wrote on 13 November 2009 at 20:56
That’s really strange! The whole toothbrush thing! And yay for the uni break! Enjoy!
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4mademoiselle délicieuse
wrote on 14 November 2009 at 0:14
Gaaahhh…that’s something I’ve not seen before!
5Kelkel
wrote on 15 November 2009 at 16:09
The house I grew up in boardered on the bush, we always had plenty of ants. I actually had to hang my undies in the wardrobe, because ants would eat the elastic out of them if I left them in my dresser.
Yes, they were Antz Pantz.
6betty
wrote on 16 November 2009 at 9:34
haha thats is SO wierd!
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7Jen Leheny
wrote on 19 November 2009 at 12:22
That photo is SO gross. SO SO GROSS!
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8Shelley
wrote on 19 November 2009 at 18:49
You know, I have one of those tooth brushes. And we regularly have ants traipsing through our bathroom on their way somewhere important (they come in my bedroom window, across my pillow, round the wall through the hall to the bathroom, over the shower, around the sink then up out the bathroom window). And I’ve never had ants on my toothbrush.
So I think it’s Rish. He must have something weird on his fingers that rubs on the plastic and makes an amazing ant attracting substance. I’m sure you could make money on it somehow for, um, people who want more ants in their house.
9Fiona
wrote on 19 November 2009 at 19:07
Do we have the same ants here as you do in NZ?
Rish asks – how come they only go on the blue bits then?
10Fiona
wrote on 19 November 2009 at 19:12
Just emailed Colgate to see what they think!
11Shelley
wrote on 20 November 2009 at 6:59
Based on the ants I saw in the Melbourne museum at least some of them are different. We don’t get ants anything like that large. My ants are clearly travelling rather than scavenging so maybe they just aren’t hungry?
I was thinking of the oils on his fingers reacting with the rubbery bit, since I seem to remember the blue bit being more grippy than the rest. I know ants work by chemical cent trails so an ant attractant is possible. I’m mostly talking crap though, heh. Will be interested to see what Colgate thinks!
12Fiona
wrote on 20 November 2009 at 7:39
WE, of course, have scarier wildlife than you.
Spiders? :)
13Kelkel
wrote on 20 November 2009 at 10:29
Ants have now massively invaded our house, despite the complete lack of anything for them to eat. :/
14Rish
wrote on 20 November 2009 at 12:10
lol. What’s the big deal? They’re just ants. I’d eat them, but I’m worried about them crawling inside my sinuses and into my eyeballs…
15Fiona
wrote on 20 November 2009 at 16:30
Colgate called me today and gave some story about maybe it being that Rish doesn’t rinse his brush well enough :p I don’t them I doubt it, but they reckon they’ll take my comments on board
oh and send us a few toothbrushes. Free toothbrushes – now we can really mess with the ants
16Anviyl
wrote on 20 November 2009 at 16:43
Hah! I am not alone, I get that every summer too. Now, I stay in a weird, old place with a basin that the toothpaste tends to cling on. So now it gets swamped if i forget to wipe out the basin!
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17Shelley
wrote on 20 November 2009 at 19:31
You can leave them round the house and see what happens. Plus some other toothbrushes as controls. Or put them right next to an ant trap if you’re feeling mean.
18Fiona
wrote on 20 November 2009 at 19:35
A ring of surface spray to see if I get a ring of ants
19Fern
wrote on 20 December 2009 at 20:18
Just seeing this now after you update, and OMG that’s gross. I would be using the brand new toothbrushes just to place them around the house and see if it really is Rish not washing them enough (which is BS!) or if Colgate are using some weird ant attracting plastic.
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