how does it feel to have your earwax cleaned with a paperclip?

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i'm scared to try it. i know everyone else is doing it these days but...

i'm a person just like you
but i have better things to do

seriously, THIS is the thread where you praise the glory that is "paperclip = makeshift q-tip".

― gygax!, Tuesday, 28 January 2003 18:54 (twenty-two years ago)

but you're not supposed to put q-tips in yr ear!!

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 18:56 (twenty-two years ago)

"q-tip = makeshift finger"

― Graham (graham), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 18:57 (twenty-two years ago)

oooh i know that!

i learned the hard way*.

*large brownish red plug of skin/wax removed from my ear as a 13 year old. it may have had a pulse.

― gygax!, Tuesday, 28 January 2003 18:57 (twenty-two years ago)

I meant you should use the curved part and kind of scrape it out, not unfold it and jam it in... that would be just plain ridiculous!

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 18:59 (twenty-two years ago)

*is considering suing after massive eardrum blood loss*

― Mark C (Mark C), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 19:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't know if this helps any, but I have used the pointy end of a pen cap and that usually works for me, when I find out I ran out of those q-tips.Just do NOT put it in too far, and make sure You are in a very quiet and peaceful and steady environment,like sitting on the floor whilst doing it.

― becky lucas (becky_lucas), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 07:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Try this for scareyness, My comadre Josie, uses a pin to seperate her eyelashes,when she uses mascara,My knowledge on this: Beauty has it's every risk.God bless her.

― becky lucas (becky_lucas), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 07:57 (twenty-two years ago)

good rule of thumb: do not put anything, ever, in your ear. (including thumbs.)

btw, you should tell yr friend josie that there are eyelash separators you can buy that do the same thing and aren't dangerous.

― geeta (geeta), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 07:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I did suggest that to her at one time, She said the pin was the best thing she ever used, Her beauty and appearance is *very* important to her.I will take her word for it, I don't trust myself with a steady hand, I can imagine poking my eye, and all this green goo starts oozing out.

― becky lucas (becky_lucas), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 08:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Best not to put Paul Young in your ear (sorry).

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 08:13 (twenty-two years ago)

One of the most horrible things I ever witnessed - sitting directly behind and old man on the bus and watching him wind up his bus ticket and clean his huge, dirty, hairy ears with it, then examine the ticket at length!! It still makes me feel ill...

― smee (smee), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 11:55 (twenty-two years ago)

My mom used to clean my ears with a bobby pin. The rounded part that is. I actually still do this on occassion. It's curvy enough so as not to hurt and the loop catches gunk. My dad uses his keys. Someone mad the joke once that it looks like you're trying to start up your head.

― Carey (Carey), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 19:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I still clean out my ears with Q-tips. I know it's risky. But one time I babysat for this little girl and one of her ears was totally nasty - orange stuff practically crawling out of it. Ever since I've been living on the edge with my Q-tips.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 19:25 (twenty-two years ago)

You mustn't use Q-tips in your ear, Sarah! They are for, um, other purposes entirely, like um

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 21:21 (twenty-two years ago)

What ARE They for? Really?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 21:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't ask me. I just poke them in my ears like everyone else. But there are warnings that you mustn't do that. I can't imagine what the fuck else you'd do with them.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 21:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Sadly, I can.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 23:17 (twenty-two years ago)

You use them to make models of historicl battle ships?

― Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 23:36 (twenty-two years ago)

historicAl

― Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 23:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I think they say don't use them in your ears to avoid any sort of liability in case you jam them in too far.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 23:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Has anyone ever been stupid enough to put half a length of a q-tip into their damn ear canal? Only in fucking dreams! (or little kids)But let's be honest here, I can't imagine anyone being that big of a retard to do it like THAT! Oh wait....There is ....Suzy! Oh! poor inept thing, No wonder she thinks she is playing the cunt game, She must of poked both her eardrums, and ruined her equilibrium,and somehow drunkenly thought she could play the 'bullshit' game with me! lol....
You can't bullshit a bullshitter!
Poor Suzy Floozy....

― becky lucas (becky_lucas), Thursday, 30 January 2003 08:16 (twenty-two years ago)

ten months pass...

i have a friend who got an "earwax spoon" in korea. yum!

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 29 December 2003 06:34 (twenty-one years ago)

oh yeah, my mom used to pick earwax out of me when i was a little kid with that korean earspoon!

― phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 29 December 2003 06:36 (twenty-one years ago)

And yet you people talk of tongue scrapers in all seriousness...

― petra jane (petra jane), Monday, 29 December 2003 06:51 (twenty-one years ago)

it tickles my throat though

― phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 29 December 2003 07:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I bought earwax removal drops yesterday. Apparently I won't have to stick anything in my ear at all. The stuff'll just drain right out!

― may pang (maypang), Monday, 29 December 2003 07:26 (twenty-one years ago)

did you know that in any 'given year' hundreds of people are admitted to Sydney hospitals with cockroaches in their ears?

true!
revolting yes. kind of puts one off sleeping really.......apparently they like to nose about in there.

― donna (donna), Monday, 29 December 2003 07:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I've heard this about earwigs too but I'm pretty sure it's not true at all.

― may pang (maypang), Monday, 29 December 2003 08:04 (twenty-one years ago)

http://us.f2.yahoofs.com/users/3fefd00f_32d0/bc/inkdrinker/__sr_/earspoon.jpg?phB9.7_A2_vXNo7u

― Ernest P. (ernestp), Monday, 29 December 2003 09:00 (twenty-one years ago)

three years pass...

yeah they SAY don't use a q-tip, but wtf else CAN you use?

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Monday, 24 September 2007 16:04 (seventeen years ago)

icepick

― latebloomer, Monday, 24 September 2007 16:05 (seventeen years ago)

Ooh ooh use the rounded end of a regular bobby pin. It's small enough to not bash around in there too much, and the loop allows you to drag out the debris.

― Laurel, Monday, 24 September 2007 16:06 (seventeen years ago)

i don't see how q-tips are harmful as ong as you use them right

― latebloomer, Monday, 24 September 2007 16:07 (seventeen years ago)

breakin the law, breakin the law

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Monday, 24 September 2007 16:07 (seventeen years ago)

yeesh, i just use a q-tip and don't go deep. if it's that far back it doesn't need cleaning.

― Will M., Monday, 24 September 2007 16:08 (seventeen years ago)

man, every morning i have to fiddle with my (usually left) earlobe for like two minutes before stereo is restored. also, pushing that little flap of cartilage into the earhole, then releasing, often helps to blast a way through.

― Just got offed, Monday, 24 September 2007 16:09 (seventeen years ago)

xp Well but if you take up swimming or diving suddenly you ARE going to have different reactions due to pressure changes, getting water in there all the time, and stuff. Also I think there's a condition mostly unknown in the industrial world that comes from never taking hot showers, so you never soften up the accumulation of wax or melt it away and it gathers and gets painful. I read about it once, fuck if I could find it again.

― Laurel, Monday, 24 September 2007 16:10 (seventeen years ago)

the reason they say not to use a q-tip isn't so much about safety, it's that yes you get a bit of wax out but you are also compacting about the same amt of wax down FURTHER into your ear!! so it's six of one, half a dozen of the other and eventually all that compacted wax will harden like cement and you will have to go to a clinic and have them "irrigate" you for some unholy amount of time.

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 24 September 2007 16:47 (seventeen years ago)

that makes sense. fucked either way.

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Monday, 24 September 2007 16:49 (seventeen years ago)

is everyone allowed their own ear wax thread?

Ear-Cleaning Thread (Do Not Read If I'm Trying to Impress You)

what does your ear wax semll like?

Has anyone ever used an ear candle?

I HAVE OIL STUCK IN MY EAR

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 24 September 2007 16:53 (seventeen years ago)

i am telling you! don't go far enough in that you're "jamming" anything! make sure there's always enough clearance to swirl it like you're mixing your ear. MY METHOD HAS NEVER FAILED.

― Will M., Monday, 24 September 2007 16:53 (seventeen years ago)

evidently a popular topic.

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Monday, 24 September 2007 16:55 (seventeen years ago)

Now I have 'Jammin' stuck in my head. At least it's not stuck in my ear, though, I guess.

― Michael White, Monday, 24 September 2007 16:57 (seventeen years ago)

not cleaning your ears is gross

― kenan, Monday, 24 September 2007 17:02 (seventeen years ago)

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i had that done to me as a kid! the big shhets of earwax coming out looked corn flakes.

― latebloomer, Monday, 24 September 2007 19:41 (seventeen years ago)

*sheets

― latebloomer, Monday, 24 September 2007 19:42 (seventeen years ago)

this sounds kind of cool, actually.

― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Monday, 24 September 2007 19:42 (seventeen years ago)

it hurt but it was nice and refreshing afterwards

― latebloomer, Monday, 24 September 2007 19:43 (seventeen years ago)

i'd recommend an earnema to anyone

― latebloomer, Monday, 24 September 2007 19:43 (seventeen years ago)

could you hear better afterwards?

― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Monday, 24 September 2007 19:48 (seventeen years ago)

yes!

― latebloomer, Monday, 24 September 2007 19:48 (seventeen years ago)

if only they could do the same for my eyes i wouldn't need glasses

― latebloomer, Monday, 24 September 2007 19:49 (seventeen years ago)

they do. but instead of water they use lazers.

― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Monday, 24 September 2007 19:50 (seventeen years ago)

it's like getting a new stereo installed inside your head, it's awesome!

xpost

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 24 September 2007 19:51 (seventeen years ago)

x-post

yes but can the lasers remove EARWAX from the eyes?! dont think so!

― latebloomer, Monday, 24 September 2007 19:54 (seventeen years ago)

i think glasses for ears would be awesome

― latebloomer, Monday, 24 September 2007 19:54 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.nzeldes.com/Miscellany/images/Ganot01.jpg

― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Monday, 24 September 2007 19:56 (seventeen years ago)

i think i want contacts instead

― latebloomer, Monday, 24 September 2007 19:59 (seventeen years ago)

EYEWAX, ew

― HI DERE, Monday, 24 September 2007 20:11 (seventeen years ago)

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