Things you were shockingly old when you learned

Yeah the assumption seems to be that what everyone does is take the swab and try to fuck the shit out of their ear canal with it.

And apparently many people do exactly that!

I don't think it's a technique issue, it's just not a great thing to do to your ears

their being made illegal is presumably due to the hugely wasteful aspect rather than the danger to ears

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Landfills nationwide struggling to find the room to store tiny pieces of cardboard and cotton

Cotton swabs are illegal in the UK for a reason.

The reason being that they're not. Plastic-stemmed ones were phased out from April this year but any other stem type is fine.

I p much thought what Tombot does until years of ever so slightly compacting the wax caught up to me

the resultant paste in yr ear

If you're trying to remove wax - and not push it deeper in - the right tool is more like a tiny spoon. This is what our children's doctors use. You slide it around the obstruction, loosening it from the walls of the ear canal. Then scoop it outward toward freedom.

Like a grapefruit spoon?

Has anyone ever used an ear candle?

Thread precis: don't

Moodles, more like a cocaine spoon for tiny Stevie Nickses

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/jcsAAOSwdvxdwt5t/s-l400.jpg

Yeah that looks TOTALLY safe.

"But you don't understand officer, this spoon is for my ear wax!"

Dr. Yu-Tung Wong knows what's up:

https://www.cedars-sinai.org/blog/is-it-really-dangerous-to-clean-my-ears-with-cotton-swabs.html

resorting to arguments from authority are we

Well…

next you'll resort to scientifically-proven facts and peer-reviewed studies

Exactly, it’s obvious where this is going.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbQAXEpfcYA

q-tip’s too severe, kickin’ mad flava in ya ear

stick my dick in your ear and fuck what you heard

lol breastcrawl

pour a Belgian quad in yr ear. might not help but it's a cool way to drink it

i had a wax buildup problem after shoving sony earbuds in my ears for years. i went to the ear doctor to get it removed because it got so bad. i have only recently realized that you can do exactly what they did at home with debrox and an ear douche. you squirt the debrox in and let it bubble while laying on your side for 15 minutes then shoot warm water into your ear canal with the douche. the debrox feels like pop rocks tickling your brain and then you get to shoot the little asteroid of wax out of your ear with the douche. the whole process is immensely satisfying.

that the ingredients of Greek Fire is still a military state secret that went to the grave with the Byzantine Empire. Not that it couldn't be recreated, just that still nobody knows really what ingredients they used back then.

that Meshuggah re-recorded the guitars and drums from 2002's Nothing album. using 8 strings that weren't available when originally recorded.

I have long lost my old 2002 copy of Nothing but I'm sure I could a/b test it on youtube as someone's bound to have it.

Greece only legalized cremation last year, and there's currently only one place in Greece you can get it done. Greeks who wanted to be cremated have had to arrange to have their remains sent abroad.

wow, that's...nuts.

found out last year that there are only a handful of places around Ireland that cremate. A frioend's brother died then had to be shipped down country to be cremated.
Always just assume its just an alternative in ways to be treated after death not that its so rare i places. Think there was something like 7 places across Ireland cremating.

xxp when I was a young adult I got tired of having to resort extreme measures to get wax build-up out of my ears. I learned that if I ran water into my ears during my shower at least once or twice a week and then afterwards used q-tips to gently run along the insides of my external auditory canals (being VERY careful not to go too far in), I could avoid that.

not sure I recommend this to everyone, but my whole family uses this technique and have had no problem with it. I think the key is running water into your ears first. I had to get a feel for it. It seems like the wax tends to express itself over time to the outer margins of the EACs and if you clean them regularly there isn’t a problem

debrox and an ear douche. you squirt the debrox in and let it bubble while laying on your side for 15 minutes then shoot warm water into your ear canal with the douche

This concept seems so horrifying to me I am getting PTSD from the thought.

you can also listen to Metal Machine Music two times in succession, usually gets rid of most wax

Powdered (confectioners) sugar is just regular granulated sugar, ground up. If you are ever out of powdered sugar, you can just pulse granulated sugar until you get the same powdered sugar consistency.

doesn't it usually have cornstarch in it?

Tracer - yes, for moisture control in storage.

ahhh

had an astonishing conversation with a food photographer who's worked on a load of big recipe books - don't want to say which but you'd have heard of them - who told me something fascinating about prawns

— LRB Bookshop (@LRBbookshop) September 3, 2020

thread finally confirms what I have long suspected

full color food photos for cookbooks departed from this reality long before I was born and ever since have been evolving within their own separate universe having no point of connection with this one

wut

Meanwhile crustacean SJWs are like, "oh, so you're saying we ALL LOOK ALIKE?"

ok that one had me going for a few minutes

lol
could've tried a bit harder with that tbh
"patently the same" had me chuckling tho

lrb bookshop might be a better follow than I’d assumed. You’d never know from the emails

Dave & Ansel Collins weren't brothers.
Dave is a solo singer with teh surname Crooks who worked with instrumentalist Ansel Collins.
So it's like
'Dave'
& Ansel Collins

gosh how revelatory. ONly known the song Double Barrel since my preteens and only just found that out

A loofah is a plant. The plant is dried and then used as a sponge.

that the main actress in When a Stranger Calls and the landlord from Kimmy Schmidt are both Carol Kane

she's in The Muppet Movie too which is awesome

my husband recognised her in Annie Hall (as being Lillian from Kimmy Schmidt), which is probably his best "spotting" yet, although doesn't beat me spotting Silverthorn from The Girl From Tomorrow in Mad Max Fury Road; he'll have a long way to go to beat that, not that I like to go on about it.

She's Latka Gravitz's other half in Taxi too and the 100 year old woman in Princess bride, wife of the Billy Crystal character.
THink she's been in quite a few things and I think I recognise her when she appears.