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White person with super goopy earwax checking in. One time so far in my life I've gotten lazy with the Q-tip regimen, and ended up in a doctor's office for an ear canal irrigation so I could hear on that side again. That's where I learned that hydrogen peroxide dissolves earwax, at least partially. Now, a doctor will shoot high-pressure peroxide into your ear to clear out impacted wax. I don't recommend attempting that on your own, but occasionally dipping a cotton swab in peroxide before the standard "shove in and rub around" maneuver can help loosen things up if you feel like there's goop starting to accumulate. (Plus you get to enjoy that lovely sensation of OH MY GOD IT'S BUBBLING AND POPPING IN MY BRAIN, similar to what I imagine you might get by snorting Pop Rocks, but toward the sides instead of centered.) Just follow up with another swab or two soaked in regular water afterward to dilute it and stop the reaction, then an un-soaked one to dry things out. #lifehack #waxhax
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Don't use q-tip to clean your ears.... you are just pushing the ear wax further in.
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Only if you just jam it straight in and piston. A true QTip connoisseur knows you go in at an angle central to the middle of the canal, then press towards the ear canal wall and begin the orbital rotation. Kind of like how a KitchenAide beater moves around. Been doing that for decades and never just "pushed it farther in".
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RandomFerret posted:Ear wax clears itself out naturally, only try to remove it manually if you have a medical condition effecting your ear canal, or you want to have one. The medical community insists upon this, but I am skeptical. It has the feel of one of those things that was never based on decent evidence but isn't significant enough for anyone to disprove. Literally everyone I have provided personal care for who is either physically or mentally unable to clean their own ears has to seek medical care for their blocked ears, and this is a big enough sample size to assume it is representative. We aren't allowed to stick anything in their ears, and the doctors insist on just using ear drops (which seem to barely work or end up making things worse). It could be based on medical logic like: if someone sees a doctor for ear wax problems they have a medical condition, and everyone who doesn't seek help has naturally self-cleaning ears. The huge amount of people who manually clean their ears and would have to seek medical help if they didn't are assumed to not exist, since they don't present to doctors. Definitely cotton buds not being intended for use in ears is something Johnson & Johnson and Proctor & Gamble state to avoid having to take legal responsibility for the rare negative side effects of injury.
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Guy Axlerod posted:I'm the proud winner of some AliExpress coins. WTF are they for? If you use the mobile app you can go into the coins and coupons section. Then tap coupon exchange. Don't waste your coins on express coupons. They're pretty worthless. Instead swipe until you see the section for exchanging for store coupons. Those usually have better value, although they only work in a specific store. If you hunt around enough you can sometimes get oddball stuff for literal pennies.
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Moon Atari posted:The medical community insists upon this, but I am skeptical. It has the feel of one of those things that was never based on decent evidence but isn't significant enough for anyone to disprove. Literally everyone I have provided personal care for who is either physically or mentally unable to clean their own ears has to seek medical care for their blocked ears, and this is a big enough sample size to assume it is representative. We aren't allowed to stick anything in their ears, and the doctors insist on just using ear drops (which seem to barely work or end up making things worse).
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Moon Atari posted:The medical community insists upon this, but I am skeptical. It has the feel of one of those things that was never based on decent evidence but isn't significant enough for anyone to disprove. Literally everyone I have provided personal care for who is either physically or mentally unable to clean their own ears has to seek medical care for their blocked ears, and this is a big enough sample size to assume it is representative. We aren't allowed to stick anything in their ears, and the doctors insist on just using ear drops (which seem to barely work or end up making things worse). I imagine you don't see as many people that need medical attention for hurting themselves by shoving things in their ear as most doctors do.
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Jun 15, 2019 16:38
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Can you perverts make another thread for your ear wax fetish? Really disgusting tbh
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Jun 15, 2019 17:52
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*sensually rubs earwax all over mike1237962684#78248*
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Busy Bee posted:Don't use q-tip to clean your ears.... you are just pushing the ear wax further in. Don't put a fork in your mouth, it will just keep going and if it doesn't make you vomit you'll eventually jam the tines into your spinal column
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Jun 15, 2019 18:42
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I use a q-tip because I have good control over my actions, maybe some people just jam it in idk
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Jun 15, 2019 18:46
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Use a dry Q-tip to remove eye makeup mistakes!
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Jun 15, 2019 18:51
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How loving gross would you have to be to not clean your ears. gently caress what doctors say.
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hayden. posted:How loving gross would you have to be to not clean your ears. gently caress what doctors say.
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You idiots are going to spend your fifties and sixties in a silent prison of your own making, I hope aliexpress has good hearing aids that can counter tinnitus
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It's Ali-adjacent, but they opened up a Daiso by my office and I snagged these little plastic mugs for my kids the other day... https://m.imgur.com/a/aWQTW1r Edit: stupid imgur crap brocked fucked around with this message at 04:51 on Jun 16, 2019 |
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Jun 16, 2019 04:48
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I live daiso. its like aliexpress but in real life
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Jun 16, 2019 04:51
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Daiso is the tits. Miniso is good, too- even cuter stuff- but AFAIK it only exists in China and, probably for Chinese tourists, in Shibuya.
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Jun 16, 2019 09:40
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Miniso's in Malaysia, Singapore and Australia as far as I've seen.
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Jun 16, 2019 09:53
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Synthbuttrange posted:Miniso's in Malaysia, Singapore and Australia as far as I've seen. Oh, cool! I love it so much. I hope it makes it to Europe.
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:Oh, cool! I love it so much. I hope it makes it to Europe. There's a Miniso store in Poland. I bought some counterfeit Lego Architecture sets there
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Jun 16, 2019 10:48
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The antivaxx controversy but earwax
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Fleta Mcgurn posted:Daiso is the tits. Miniso is good, too- even cuter stuff- but AFAIK it only exists in China and, probably for Chinese tourists, in Shibuya. We've got a couple minisos in Toronto! I spend an embarrassing amount of time there! I wish we had a daiso, I went to one once on a vacation to California but didn't have a way to take home anything ceramic and that place had some HELLA cute mugs
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Killingyouguy! posted:We've got a couple minisos in Toronto! I spend an embarrassing amount of time there! We have neither Miniso nor Daiso in Michigan, though. 
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Jun 16, 2019 18:43
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I got a paint marker. I can confirm that it is, indeed, pretty permanent, or at least resistant to rubbing alcohol.
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Jun 16, 2019 19:28
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HELLOMYNAMEIS___ posted:I got a paint marker. I can confirm that it is, indeed, pretty permanent, or at least resistant to rubbing alcohol. Nice I think I’m gonna try a silver one and see if it covers a small scratch on my car bumper lol.
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There’s a Daiso that just opened in NYC in Flushing and it’s rad
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I swear you people act like a normal adult with a soft ball of cotton on a flexible rod is like Michael J Fox trying to clean your ear with an icepick
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The Bloop posted:I swear you people act like a normal adult with a soft ball of cotton on a flexible rod is like Michael J Fox trying to clean your ear with an icepick Don’t kink shame me.
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I spend a lot of time laying on one side trying to get rid of migraines, and that sticky pop when your wet ear canal sticks to itself is maddening. I keep qtips by the bedside for it. I'd love to get a set of silicone ear mace to drag out all the moisture.
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Killingyouguy! posted:We've got a couple minisos in Toronto! I spend an embarrassing amount of time there! Oh yeah I'd seen those in Vancouver -- I kinda thought they were just a weird Uniqlo knock-off. Guess I should check them out.
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Daiso is my kryptonite and I shouldn't be allowed inside. In other news, I ordered a hoodie a few weeks back and it's actually too big. 
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theflyingexecutive posted:There’s a Daiso that just opened in NYC in Flushing and it’s rad I’m psyched as hell to learn that thanks 
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Lead out in cuffs posted:Oh yeah I'd seen those in Vancouver -- I kinda thought they were just a weird Uniqlo knock-off. Guess I should check them out. Oh yeah, you're totally missing out. The tinseltown one is good. Not as good as the Richmond one, but still good
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I dub thee FleshRipper    yeah so I spun it up once and when I switched the power off it unscrewed itself and flew off, I think I'll frame it for now and hang it on my wall in case of a demon invasion.
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Jun 17, 2019 08:41
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coldpudding posted:I dub thee FleshRipper Holy loving poo poo
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I'd rather die from lead accumulation myself 
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Jun 17, 2019 08:47
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coldpudding posted:I dub thee FleshRipper How are you still alive?
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coldpudding posted:I dub thee FleshRipper This thread delivers in so many ways.
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You should set up a camera and remote power and record it disassembling in slow motion
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