# What DON'T you use that everyone else does, the lack of which making you superior to them? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 18, 2013, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-dont-you-use-that-everyone-else-does-the-lack-of-which-making-you-superior-to-them/658697 "2013-05-18T21:00:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2013, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-dont-you-use-that-everyone-else-does-the-lack-of-which-making-you-superior-to-them/658697/21 "2013-05-19T01:32:38Z")
I don’t use toothpaste. I don’t need to because my teeth have developed a protective coating of tartar. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2013, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-dont-you-use-that-everyone-else-does-the-lack-of-which-making-you-superior-to-them/658697/22 "2013-05-19T01:36:34Z")
> [@brainstall](#): > > I’m trying to figure this out. You just sleep on your bare matress with no sheets or blankets and no jammies either? Or no mattress also, because that is made from toxc dye soaked fabric, as well? Living in the Great White North (Canada), I’m shivering just thinking about that and skeeved out by the idea of not having fresh, clean sheets every so often. Ahhhh… sweet, crisp, sun-dried linens, or warm, cozy flannels. Whoosh? ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2013, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-dont-you-use-that-everyone-else-does-the-lack-of-which-making-you-superior-to-them/658697/23 "2013-05-19T01:40:58Z")
I don’t use my trash can to throw away anything that I can just shove down the garbage disposal in my sink, except that the disposal is broken for some reason. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2013, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-dont-you-use-that-everyone-else-does-the-lack-of-which-making-you-superior-to-them/658697/24 "2013-05-19T01:41:04Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > I don’t use toothpaste. I don’t need to because my teeth have developed a protective coating of tartar. It’s like the patina that keeps the Statue of Liberty from rusting. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2013, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-dont-you-use-that-everyone-else-does-the-lack-of-which-making-you-superior-to-them/658697/25 "2013-05-19T01:45:09Z")
I don’t have a body. I’m just an entity of pure light and energy. I scoff at your silly need for a robot made of meat! ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2013, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-dont-you-use-that-everyone-else-does-the-lack-of-which-making-you-superior-to-them/658697/26 "2013-05-19T01:47:22Z")
I don’t use toilet paper. After taking a shit, I go outside and squat in my koi pond and let the fish gently nibble the detritus from my anus until it is fresh and clean. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2013, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-dont-you-use-that-everyone-else-does-the-lack-of-which-making-you-superior-to-them/658697/27 "2013-05-19T02:23:57Z")
I don’t use vowels. And I’m cutting back on consonants. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Feldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lord_feldon/32/341_2.png) [@Lord\_Feldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Feldon)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2013, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-dont-you-use-that-everyone-else-does-the-lack-of-which-making-you-superior-to-them/658697/28 "2013-05-19T02:24:09Z")
I have a TV, but it’s just one TV and it stays in a separate room where nobody watches it. My nonexistent children are only allowed 4 minutes of screen time a week and they can only watch a test pattern with the contrast turned way down. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2013, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-dont-you-use-that-everyone-else-does-the-lack-of-which-making-you-superior-to-them/658697/29 "2013-05-19T02:38:30Z")
I don’t have a sense of self. Narcissists like you guys bore “me”. ---
**Author:** ![Section\_Maker\_Jupe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/section_maker_jupe/32/1424_2.png) [@Section\_Maker\_Jupe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Section_Maker_Jupe)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2013, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-dont-you-use-that-everyone-else-does-the-lack-of-which-making-you-superior-to-them/658697/30 "2013-05-19T02:42:48Z")
I tried going without my 3D Printer for a week, but after 1 day, I was HUNGRY!! ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2013, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-dont-you-use-that-everyone-else-does-the-lack-of-which-making-you-superior-to-them/658697/31 "2013-05-19T02:44:16Z")
Underpants. I refuse to set foot in such petite bourgeoisie circles. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2013, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-dont-you-use-that-everyone-else-does-the-lack-of-which-making-you-superior-to-them/658697/32 "2013-05-19T03:01:14Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > I scoff at your silly need for a robot made of meat! I’m a vegetarian, and I don’t eat meat. I am so offended by the idea of meat, I’m investigating transplanting my brain into a tomato plant, so I can be a true vegetarian in all aspects of my life, including existence. Meat is murder, and being meat is being a murderer! Also, I don’t own a television. ---
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2013, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-dont-you-use-that-everyone-else-does-the-lack-of-which-making-you-superior-to-them/658697/33 "2013-05-19T03:06:53Z")
Cheater reading glasses. I just have the waiters recite the menu to me because I have a superior short-term memory. Keurig coffee maker - we self-actualized people drink tea. ---
**Author:** ![Mathematics](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@Mathematics](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mathematics)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2013, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-dont-you-use-that-everyone-else-does-the-lack-of-which-making-you-superior-to-them/658697/34 "2013-05-19T03:20:13Z")
I don’t have a microwave. I mean, come on. You plebs are going to zap your food with radiation just to save a few minutes of cooking. Once you are all mutant and cancer ridden, I am going to take over the world. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2013, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-dont-you-use-that-everyone-else-does-the-lack-of-which-making-you-superior-to-them/658697/35 "2013-05-19T03:39:17Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > I don’t use toothpaste. I don’t need to because my teeth have developed a protective coating of tartar. Ugh - I went on a blind date with a guy like this once. It was like his teeth had little mittens on them. Do I need to say there was no second date? I don’t participate in the capitalist system at all - I just work in my tent in the woods, making organic, artisanal, free trade trinkets that I barter for organic, artisanal, free trade food. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2013, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-dont-you-use-that-everyone-else-does-the-lack-of-which-making-you-superior-to-them/658697/36 "2013-05-19T04:00:29Z")
My legs. Us enlightened folk don’t use 'em, instead choosing carts with wheels. Sometimes even with a motor. We save calories, money spent from not buying shoes, and the pain of getting foot callouses. Win/win/win. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2013, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-dont-you-use-that-everyone-else-does-the-lack-of-which-making-you-superior-to-them/658697/37 "2013-05-19T04:26:32Z")
I own no worldly possessions at all. I learned that a couple of divorces ago. My current wife owns a lot of neat stuff that she lets me use, for now. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2013, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-dont-you-use-that-everyone-else-does-the-lack-of-which-making-you-superior-to-them/658697/38 "2013-05-19T04:48:49Z")
I don’t watch television or go to movies or listen to the radio or read magazines or go anywhere on the internet except here. I spend 18 hours a day in an isolation tank. But when I post here I am surprisingly knowledgeable and opinionated about all manner of entertainment and political news. Except I’ve only heard of Beyonce once, in 1960, for 20 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2013, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-dont-you-use-that-everyone-else-does-the-lack-of-which-making-you-superior-to-them/658697/39 "2013-05-19T05:07:11Z")
> [@Fiendish\_Astronaut](#): > > Jewellery. And I bet you don’t have spelling bee awards either. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2013, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-dont-you-use-that-everyone-else-does-the-lack-of-which-making-you-superior-to-them/658697/40 "2013-05-19T05:13:29Z")
My body does not use atoms. Mass just weighs me down. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-dont-you-use-that-everyone-else-does-the-lack-of-which-making-you-superior-to-them/658697.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-dont-you-use-that-everyone-else-does-the-lack-of-which-making-you-superior-to-them/658697.md?page=3)