just one of them likely mundane (as in dull, look you see) sort of posts for anyone all that really desperate for something to gander at. well, at the least, so far as i am aware (unless the powers that be sneak them in and i get no coins), this blog is ad free, so there should be no annoying pop ups or what have you to distract from the general boredom here.
indeed i have been shopping for toiletries, haven't i just. you will have no doubt worked this out, or in some way ascertained it, from the title. my requirements, dans le shop, were for some new shampoo and toothpaste. not quite accurate that, for i now need shampoo and conditioner.
my ambition, of course, was to find items of each which leaned towards being more modestly priced rather than being what i wanted. well, this was at first, at the least. i have come to accept that going cheap with certain things is, to be blunt, f*****g stupid. sure, the lesser ("fewer") priced items for hygiene do the job, yet often it is higher priced ones do things more better, so to speak.
so i set off to purchase, or procure (buy, even), the types of each item i actually wanted. which, in the case of toothpaste, would be spearmint "flavoured", or what the right word is. and, of course, or shampoo (and conditioner), lemon "infused", like what Jason Donovan decreed as being class. risking giving some spoilers here, but alas, no, found neither.
over the last few years, when the need has compelled me to seek so, i have said to myself (for who else would i tell) "you know what, i actually fancy some spearmint toothpaste", only never to find it. in this most recent shopping excursion (to call it an adventure is going too far) i once again came up blank. instead, then, i opted for something called "refreshing green". no, i don't for one moment believe this to be some sort of "rebranded" spearmint toothpaste, but all the same a change. quite odd for me to get a single colour toothpaste as, like most (i would imagine), i do have a fascination with them kinds what are all different coloured stripes.
exactly why has spearmint flavoured toothpaste disappeared from our world? it seems, mostly, a mix of a lack of demand and "branding decisions". initially i suspected it might have been some sort of "EU" thing, with a village in Hungary (or whatever) objecting to the term "spearmint" and the French agreeing to outlaw it for the sake of a quiet life and hey, it's an easy score. no, it really does seem as simple as in order to appear "progressive" the toothpaste industry as a whole opted to rebrand flavours.
regular readers shall, of course, be aware that toothpaste has been a peculiarly frequent topic here. alas nothing of late has matched the "great" (or classical) era of bringing news about toothpaste. by that i mean of course when i was a pivotal player in the murky (but not sleazy) world of the international smuggling of toothpaste what have love beads shoved in it. should for some reason you wish to read more of that, clicking here is a good starting point, and then follow the links in that post.
whereas spearmint toothpaste has vanished from our world (at least more or less) it is not quite so that the same is true of shampoo what has lemon shoved in it. it is, however, rather tricky to get hold of. kind of, at the least. i did find a 5l (five litre) bucket of the stuff for sale online for just south of £20, but that felt somewhat excessive. down the shops i found some shampoo (and conditioner) what had lime shove in it. so, with a (vague) sense of adventure i presumed "citrus is as citrus does" and decided to give it a go. yeah, that's the way i roll, baby.
in respect of any "why lemon in shampoo" questions, no, for a change i am not going to go off on one about how, quite some time ago, Jason Donovan casually mentioned this. let me rather suggest you go and use google and search for "Jason Donovan lemon shampoo", or the other way around. when i did i took no small level of satisfaction in seeing roughly one half of the first page of results were for when i have written on the subject here. for some reason, then, "the internet" considers me quite the authority on this subject. nice one.
using conditioner is something that i didn't think would be something one would ever speak of, but here we are. after my medical exploits (this link will take you to other links about it all) i made a quasi conscious decision to "grow my hair long", purely from my dreams of rock and roll. and to my surprise this lime infused shampoo (and conditioner) is really good. no, not lemon good, but still, i do like how it makes my hair feel. should i see lemon shampoo available i will (of course) get it, but for now this lime one seems to be doing what i ask of it.
that's that for now, then.
be excellent to each other!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
