Because brushing your teeth is just too hard.

[lemon_says]

I hate those commercials where they use ineptitude as justification for the existence of their product. Like when they try to sell the pasta pot with the holes in the lid, they show all these people dumping their spaghetti into the sink, or on the floor, or anywhere but into the colander.

It's not that hard to drain spaghetti.

There's one where the person is trying to cut a straight line to separate some photos, and the scissors veer off across one photo to show how she needs the straight-line-chopper. The can tops all drop into cans, contaminating tuna or splashing soup, because these people didn't have the magnetized can opener. People chopping vegetables cut their fingers and fling zucchini hither and yon. Eggs are burned, pancakes folded. I just now saw a commercial for a spinning toothbrush because brushing your teeth manually is "a lot of work." I don't personally consider brushing my teeth to be particularly taxing, but maybe it's just me.

The banana slicer is, I'm sure, one of the most necessary inventions known to man.

What is the least-necessary gadget that you own?

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[heathrow.livejournal.com]

Yeah - however, the core always gets stuck at the bottom, so I have to pry it out at the end by slamming it against the counter. At that point, I regret not getting out the cutting board and a knife. I can do it with a knife in about 30 seconds.