You are not supposed to use q-tips to clean your ears. But if it’s wrong, I don’t wanna be right.
- KindnessInfinity ( @KindnessInfinity@lemmy.ml ) English8•1 year ago
What are you supposed to use? I have been cleaning my ears with them my whole life.
- Wilshire ( @Wilshire@beehaw.org ) English9•1 year ago
I started wiping my inner ear with a tissue to keep my earbuds clean. No qtips, just my finger covered in tissue paper.
- KindnessInfinity ( @KindnessInfinity@lemmy.ml ) English3•1 year ago
👍
- WhoRoger ( @WhoRoger@lemmy.world ) English6•1 year ago
Nothing. By constantly rubbing the inside of the ear, you’re irritating it and removing the oils, which in turns makes the ear produce it more, which in turns makes you clean it constantly.
It’s unnecessary. When you stop, the ears will get to their normal balance and self-cleaning.
If the ears do get dirty or truly well stuck with wax, there are ear cleaning sprays you can buy, or make a solution of hydrogen peroxide, warm water and alcohol, then gently rub in some olive oil.
- zkikiz ( @zkikiz@lemmy.ml ) English3•1 year ago
If you still have excess wax you can of course use a tissue or something to clean your outer ear, but yeah sticking hard objects in your ear canal isn’t great.
That said I’m a qtip fanatic
- KindnessInfinity ( @KindnessInfinity@lemmy.ml ) English3•1 year ago
I appreciation the info though
- KindnessInfinity ( @KindnessInfinity@lemmy.ml ) English2•1 year ago
Oh I don’t clean them that often
- lazylion_ca ( @lazylion_ca@lemmy.ca ) English3•1 year ago
There’s these.
I’m not a Doctor. Be careful taking medical advice from strangers on the internet.
I think that if you feel you must clean them, you’re supposed to use some kind of water pick or something, but you’re not really supposed to clean them much at all.
- KindnessInfinity ( @KindnessInfinity@lemmy.ml ) English2•1 year ago
Makes sense, honestly
- Gabtraf ( @Gabtraf@lemmy.ml ) English4•1 year ago
I once heard someone say “you should never put anything smaller than your elbow inside your ear”. Not certain if that meant just because of the size. For me at least, it’s rather difficult to get my elbow anywhere near my ear which I think is the point.
- blayde ( @blayde@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English25•1 year ago
I think it’s silly to put punctuation inside quotes if they’re not part of the quote, but that’s what’s technically correct. I put periods or whatever after the end quote instead of before. Can’t think of any good examples at the moment though
- TeaHands ( @TeaHands@lemmy.world ) English18•1 year ago
I butter my bread with the back of a spoon instead of a knife. In fact my username would be “butterspoon” except someone had already taken it on twitch back in the day!
It’s genuinely more efficient than using a knife. Don’t knock it til you’ve tried it.
- Gabtraf ( @Gabtraf@lemmy.ml ) English9•1 year ago
You may be getting a visit from some men in white coats in the near future. You are clearly insane.
- TeaHands ( @TeaHands@lemmy.world ) English6•1 year ago
Don’t. Knock it. Til you’ve tried it!
- YerbaYerba ( @YerbaYerba@lemmy.one ) English2•1 year ago
Do you cut the butter off the stick/block with the spoon? Or a knife for that part?
- TeaHands ( @TeaHands@lemmy.world ) English2•1 year ago
We use spreadable butter. This isn’t the 1980s.
- howey ( @howey@beehaw.org ) English11•1 year ago
I write my number “6” starting from the inside-out.
- TeaHands ( @TeaHands@lemmy.world ) English7•1 year ago
This makes me weirdly uncomfortable
I hold a pencil wrong. I’ve done it this way my whole life. I used to have a callus from it, too.
- WhoRoger ( @WhoRoger@lemmy.world ) English10•1 year ago
I will pour in the milk first, and cereal second. And I’ll do it very deliberately in front of anyone who gets annoyed by it.
(If I have any milk and/or cereal that is.)
- MeKillU2Day ( @MeKillU2Day@lemmy.ml ) English4•1 year ago
Half milk in first, then some cereal, and then top off with milk to finish!
- Admiral Patrick ( @ptz@dubvee.org ) English9•1 year ago
I’ll continue running more than one service in a Docker container if I want to.
- vrac ( @vrac@beehaw.org ) English8•1 year ago
Opening banana from the wrong end.
I do it from the bottom. It’s much easier that way.
- Netsettler2k ( @Netsettler2k@lemmy.one ) English7•1 year ago
I grew up making Top Ramen in the microwave, and never thought anything of it. The square noodle bricks, not the soup cups. I’ve recently been informed that’s not the correct preparation method and I should be using the stove. Oh well, I’ve got the timing nailed, not stopping now. lol
- Designate ( @Designate6361@lemmy.ml ) English6•1 year ago
Shaking it more then twice …
- Wilshire ( @Wilshire@beehaw.org ) English6•1 year ago
My wife always puts her alcohol in after her mixer and it drives me nuts.
- Dessalines ( @dessalines@lemmy.ml ) English6•1 year ago
This reminds me of Proper tea.
- zkikiz ( @zkikiz@lemmy.ml ) English2•1 year ago
I have to wonder what absolute psychopath would put milk, then boiling water, then a teabag into a cup and consider the result drinkable. I’ve made that mistake… once.
- bdonvr ( @bdonvr@lemmy.rogers-net.com ) English4•1 year ago
TIL I mix my drinks wrong
- zkikiz ( @zkikiz@lemmy.ml ) English4•1 year ago
Ah, the macchiato of alcohol
- Gabtraf ( @Gabtraf@lemmy.ml ) English4•1 year ago
Niche to warehouse environment, but we where trained to pull the lever on a pallet jack to drop the load to the floor if you needed to break suddenly. Instead of doing this I very quickly turn the handle a sharp 90degree so the wheel itself just drags along the floor. It’s so much easier as it means I don’t have to pump it back up when I want to get moving again.
- Pumpkin ( @pumpkin@sh.itjust.works ) English3•1 year ago
Saying “ice ring” instead of “ice rink”. What’s a rink?