You should check out the Dara o Briain comedy bit about buying size 13 shoes.

With oscillating (rotates back and forth) or sonic (vibrates fast), you use them the same way. You angle it towards the gum at 45degrees upwards for top teeth, downwards for bottom teeth. So, it is on the tooth but angles towards the gum as it’s where the tooth and gum meet that needs the most attention.

Do it in a particular order. Best way is start on outside top right, work slowly around the outside to the top left and then return on the inside. Do the same on the bottom. Some brushes will have paused or beeps every 30 seconds to help you time this.

The brush should not be pressed firmly, but just gently applied to the teeth and the motion of the sweeping does the cleaning.

Ar the end, clean all the biting surfaces of the teeth too for an additional 30 seconds.

This is called the bass technique. Using a manual brush you do the same thing, but you have to make the little circles yourself, which is trickier to do effectively.

You can verify you are doing it well with disclosing tablets. They are tablets that stain plaque, usually red or pink or blue. After you brush, you chew or suck on one. Then you can see if you’ve missed anywhere. They are not designed to be used every time but every day for a few days or weeks until you are confident you get everything. They just show you what you missed.

Try with a manual one day and an electric the next.

I think artists with variety in their sound would be good. So I’d go: Lady Gaga David Bowie Blur Queen.

However, I’d consider the Beatles, Madonna, radiohead and muse. It’s funny. These aren’t all necessarily artists I would put on to listen to day to day.

No, it’s totally free. No ads. It just uses your data to serve ads elsewhere.

Oh, we told you 2 years ago, it would stay that way and you’ve had irreversible brain surgery now. Well, the servers cost a lot to keep running and so, it was inevitable really. We can’t continue to provide the service without charging something. Oh, and there’s ads now.

Oh, you’ve been happily paying. Well, now we have analysed your data and determined you can afford to pay more. Totally a choice. You can cancel anytime. But once the chop is switched off, some people experience a deterioration in executive functioning. And now that it’s common, you can’t travel or drive without an activated chip. And of course Tesla still hasn’t got self driving cars, despite calling their latest package ‘its totally self driving now pinky promise’.

Speak up Sonny.

Politicians can do it. Companies can’t. It’s ridiculous. We have the laws in place. Just remove the exemption. Same with political advertising. Lots of exemptions that don’t pass the smell test.

Here in Australia, we have laws against spam texts and so we seem to get much less than America does. Guess who exempted themselves? Politicians. So stupid. They just annoy everyone and it’s not like it helps them to keep it legal. If it’s illegal for them, it’s illegal for their competitors, so it would come out in the wash.