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  • Nick Armstrong
    Host
    • Nov 2010
    • 26523

    Originally posted by burning dog View Post
    Which a rather "refined" relative assures me is pronounced An-you-sole
    "...the isle is full of noises,
    Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
    Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
    Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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    • oddoneout
      Full Member
      • Nov 2015
      • 9141

      Originally posted by burning dog View Post
      Which a rather "refined" relative assures me is pronounced An-you-sole
      The same refinement that has Americans referring to a planet called Urinous?

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      • ardcarp
        Late member
        • Nov 2010
        • 11102

        Originally posted by burning dog View Post
        Which a rather "refined" relative assures me is pronounced An-you-sole
        Arsenol in our less refined household.

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        • ferneyhoughgeliebte
          Gone fishin'
          • Sep 2011
          • 30163

          Originally posted by oddoneout View Post
          Urinous?
          Which is basically the chief ingredient of Otex, by the way. Olive oil - much better (and far cheaper) bet for dealing with earwax.
          [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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          • Pianorak
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 3127

            Cerumol or Otex, both work well. Ear-syringing or micro-suction probably the most effective.
            My life, each morning when I dress, is four and twenty hours less. (J Richardson)

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            • Dave2002
              Full Member
              • Dec 2010
              • 18008

              Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
              Which is basically the chief ingredient of Otex, by the way. Olive oil - much better (and far cheaper) bet for dealing with earwax.
              I think Otex is immediately more effective than olive oil, but contains irritants, and hydrogen peroxide, and maybe a few other things. There are warnings about skin conditions in the instructions. I do wonder also whether diet and vitamins might have an effect on ear wax build up. When I had my ears cleaned out a couple of years ago, the doctor who did the micro suction mentioned a lot of dead skin. Perhaps diets which improve skin condition will also reduce problems of dead skin in the ears, and hence reduce ear wax build up.

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              • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                Gone fishin'
                • Sep 2011
                • 30163

                Originally posted by Dave2002 View Post
                I think Otex is immediately more effective than olive oil, but contains irritants, and hydrogen peroxide, and maybe a few other things.
                I think you're right - it's the idea of putting one of the "other things" into my lughole that makes me stick to olive oil.
                [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                • Bryn
                  Banned
                  • Mar 2007
                  • 24688

                  Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                  I think you're right - it's the idea of putting one of the "other things" into my lughole that makes me stick to olive oil.
                  Since this is the Radio 3 Forum, perhaps the Beeb's advice might be relevant, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/art...an-out-my-ears .

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                  • Boilk
                    Full Member
                    • Dec 2010
                    • 976

                    Originally posted by Joseph K View Post
                    ...Also, both my ears are blocked.

                    ...I think this is the first time my room (which I shared growing up with my younger brother) has actually had a proper thorough clean, and as you can imagine, I have hoovered up a hell of a lot of dust.
                    There may be some connection between blocked ears and spending at least one third of your life in a room with a "hell of a lot of dust". Post-clean up, future likelihood of ear blockage (and maybe even breathing) might improve?

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                    • Joseph K
                      Banned
                      • Oct 2017
                      • 7765

                      Originally posted by Boilk View Post
                      There may be some connection between blocked ears and spending at least one third of your life in a room with a "hell of a lot of dust". Post-clean up, future likelihood of ear blockage (and maybe even breathing) might improve?


                      Perhaps. I didn't mean it had gone entirely undusted, just that there were certain places that had done, e.g. under the beds - awkward places you'd probably clean once a year.

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                      • Serial_Apologist
                        Full Member
                        • Dec 2010
                        • 37588

                        Originally posted by Joseph K View Post


                        Perhaps. I didn't mean it had gone entirely undusted, just that there were certain places that had done, e.g. under the beds - awkward places you'd probably clean once a year.
                        It's amazing how cobwebs accumulate in such hidden spaces. I wouldn't mind if house spiders did what they're supposed to do, ie deal with damaging insects I always thought they fed on, such as clothes moths.

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                        • oddoneout
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2015
                          • 9141

                          Originally posted by Dave2002 View Post
                          I think Otex is immediately more effective than olive oil, but contains irritants, and hydrogen peroxide, and maybe a few other things. There are warnings about skin conditions in the instructions. I do wonder also whether diet and vitamins might have an effect on ear wax build up. When I had my ears cleaned out a couple of years ago, the doctor who did the micro suction mentioned a lot of dead skin. Perhaps diets which improve skin condition will also reduce problems of dead skin in the ears, and hence reduce ear wax build up.
                          I think it's more a case that if the wax system is working as nature intended then the debris will be removed in the wax, but where for whatever reason things don't move along then said debris adds to the buildup.

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                          • Padraig
                            Full Member
                            • Feb 2013
                            • 4224

                            Originally posted by oddoneout View Post
                            I think it's more a case that if the wax system is working as nature intended then the debris will be removed in the wax, but where for whatever reason things don't move along then said debris adds to the buildup.
                            What next - waxbergs!

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                            • oddoneout
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2015
                              • 9141

                              Originally posted by Padraig View Post
                              What next - waxbergs!
                              Well, some of the lumps I get I do wonder! I just wish my hearing would improve when another pea-sized chunk falls out
                              It would seem that wax problems are (yet) another thing to which advancing age contributes.

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                              • Joseph K
                                Banned
                                • Oct 2017
                                • 7765

                                Originally posted by Joseph K View Post
                                yes, the entire floor will have to be changed because of this, there's no other option.
                                … we've not long discovered that this, in fact, is not true.

                                Happy Pancake Day everyone!

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