Comments on: Colgate. With Ants.

By: Fern

Fern — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 09:18:12 +0000

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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By: Fiona

Fiona — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:35:20 +0000

A ring of surface spray to see if I get a ring of ants

By: Shelley

Shelley — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:31:06 +0000

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.

By: Anviyl

Anviyl — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:43:31 +0000

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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By: Fiona

Fiona — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:30:39 +0000

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

By: Rish

Rish — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:10:12 +0000

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…

By: Kelkel

Kelkel — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:29:03 +0000

Ants have now massively invaded our house, despite the complete lack of anything for them to eat. :/

By: Fiona

Fiona — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:39:18 +0000

WE, of course, have scarier wildlife than you.

Spiders? :)

By: Shelley

Shelley — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:59:44 +0000

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!

By: Fiona

Fiona — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:12:31 +0000

Just emailed Colgate to see what they think!

By: Fiona

Fiona — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:07:08 +0000

Do we have the same ants here as you do in NZ?

Rish asks – how come they only go on the blue bits then?

By: Shelley

Shelley — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:49:09 +0000

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.

By: Jen Leheny

Jen Leheny — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:22:37 +0000

That photo is SO gross. SO SO GROSS!
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By: betty

betty — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:34:43 +0000

haha thats is SO wierd!
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By: Kelkel

Kelkel — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 05:09:48 +0000

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.

By: mademoiselle délicieuse

mademoiselle délicieuse — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:14:52 +0000

Gaaahhh…that’s something I’ve not seen before!

By: Psych Babbler

Psych Babbler — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:56:56 +0000

That’s really strange! The whole toothbrush thing! And yay for the uni break! Enjoy!
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By: jen

jen — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:45:44 +0000

eewww that’s icky.

however, the part that reeeaallly concerns me is that rishni has a pink toothbrush

By: Lorraine @ Not Quite Nigella

Lorraine @ Not Quite Nigella — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 07:09:07 +0000

What on earth? lol