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Let's talk earwax

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Pruni · 19/09/2006 23:02

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hunkermunker · 19/09/2006 23:04

Can you tip your head to one side so it rattles out? I like it when that happens [weirdo]

mummyplonk · 19/09/2006 23:05

Pruni, my Dad was recently reprimanded by a nurse for sticking things in his ears (as she pulled out a huge lump of tissue, from probably the 60's) and advised him to pour Olive Oil in his ear to dislodge anything else in there?!!!

QueenEagle · 19/09/2006 23:05

pmsl!!!

Actually i went to my gp only yesterday as I have a blocked ear due to too much swimming. You know that feeling when you have water stuck in your ear and it just won't shift?

Anyway she looked in my bad ear and said it looked ok to her (?) and that my good ear was full of hard wax. Great.

She advised putting a drop of ordinary olive oil in just before bedtime and sticking a bit of cotton wool in to stop it running out. Overnight it will gradually loosen the wax so you can gently remove it NOT witha cotton bud though!

JoolsToo · 19/09/2006 23:05

I had a burst eardrum once and used to awake to crust pillow cases ....................

JoolsToo · 19/09/2006 23:06

crusty

MrsSpoon · 19/09/2006 23:06

"Any other earwax-related stories you want to tell, though, feel free." - I've got an ear that runs, realised it's been doing this on and off for 10 years and has now become a permanent situation, it makes noises too.

Not sure if I should have shared that with the world wide web.

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Pruni · 19/09/2006 23:06

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hunkermunker · 19/09/2006 23:06

I've been swimming this evening and don't think my ears will do rattly wax for some time yet.

hunkermunker · 19/09/2006 23:07

Don't laugh at Miaou's jugs, you'll give her a complex

(Yes, PMSL at that wonderful typo at regular intervals )

Mercy · 19/09/2006 23:07

Olive oil - at room temperature or slightly warmed. Get your dh/p to do it for 3 to 4 days. Dropper better than spoon!

TinyGang · 19/09/2006 23:07

'shoogly'

Did you ever watch Father Ted? They made candles out of Father Jack's enormous lumps of earwax.

bubble99 · 19/09/2006 23:08

Off topic....but maybe not?

Did you see the programme 'Guys and Dolls' last night on C5?

C5? I can feel you all recoiling in horror.

Anyway. It was about ( V lonely, by the looks of it) men who live with 'life-size/weight latex dolls'- complete with realistic 'orifices.'

One of the dolls went for repair and was found to have 'sexually-damaged' ears.

So, there you go, Pruni.

Would that cure it?

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Pruni · 19/09/2006 23:09

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Pruni · 19/09/2006 23:10

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hunkermunker · 19/09/2006 23:10

Oh...crikey...Bubble!

I subtitled something about fuck machines a while back (while at work, you see, not for pleasure ). Twas a bizarre programme...

I'm thinking perhaps the "" emoticon's not the most appropriate one for a post concerning blow-up dolls...

MrsSpoon · 19/09/2006 23:11

bubble, that's not helping, I've been putting off going to the Dr for months/years, I wouldn't like him/her to think my ears had been 'sexually damaged'.

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Pruni · 19/09/2006 23:11

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Pruni · 19/09/2006 23:13

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bubble99 · 19/09/2006 23:17

The thing is, Minker, these were V realistic looking.

One of the men on the programme dressed his up in a sun-dress and put perfume and make-up on her/it. And then took her/it out in his car and parked her in a spot to 'watch' him hang-gliding.

Another man found a RL girlfriend and then invited her to his birthday party a few weeks after they'd met. The RL girlfriend was filmed walking into a room where he'd sat his dolls on the sofas..complete with party hats and blowers.

At the end of the programme it was announced that 5 days after the 'birthday party' the girlfriend had left him. No kidding??

Mercy · 19/09/2006 23:18

Love Iggy too!

hunkermunker · 19/09/2006 23:19

Yes, these "dolls" were also v realistic - there's a name for them - probably the same ones. One man had some kind of contraption he put her in so it could swing and...er...pleasure him standing up. He demonstrated it, fully clothed, and discussed his problems maintaining an erection. He looked like a church gardener - it was most disconcerting.

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Pruni · 19/09/2006 23:19

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Pruni · 19/09/2006 23:20

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bubble99 · 19/09/2006 23:22

Yes, they're the ones...

One bloke on the programme had a hook behind 'her' neck so that she could both 'pleasure' him and watch him while he played PC games..

The 'doll doctor' admitted to 'having a go' with a couple of his 'patients', too....

LiliLaTigresseCantSpeakPirate · 19/09/2006 23:25

WHAT?