I had that same problem, and then finally I caved and went to a new dentist in the town I'd just moved to and she doesn't use them! The cleaning is all done with a water pick or however you spell it, and she doesn't scrape or do anything painful or annoying. That woman is one of my heroes. She also doesn't yell at me or lecture me, but she does do the parental "disappointed" face pretty well, which shames me into being better.
Yeah, that's my problem. My ear wax is rather liquidy for ear wax and it starts to leak out, and often I can feel it running out and it FREAKS ME OUT. It's like when finally get all the water that got into your ears when you're swimming to flow out, only a thousand times more squicky.
Now I'm paranoid that I'm impacting wax into my ear canal though. Gotta luck up all these things about oil/peroxide/stuff...
Yeah, srsly, I'm SUPER paranoid about accidentally doing something stupid and jamming the thing into my eardrum so I tend to barely breath when I'm cleaning my ears.
I'm kind of OCD about things like this, so is there a website that says exactly what the ratio of vinegar/water and such should be? If you should lean your head one way or the other?
Like, seriously, I'm ridiculously paranoid about things like home remedies because I'm always afraid I'll screw them up, and yet I always would rather use them. I just research them to death first.
It's far too easy to push them too far in and damage your ear drum, so doctors and adults were always telling me "don't put anything smaller than your elbow in your ear."
I don't listen entirely, but I do make sure that the q-tip doesn't go more than a centimeter or so into the ear canal. I just want to clean the edge, not all the way in.
I have horribly dry skin in my ears (well, in general, but it's especially bad on my ears) and my doctor actually recommended that I wash them out with a little dab of dandruff shampoo once a week or so. Like, not shampoo IN my ears, but just along the outside where it's really bad. So my hunch is that lotion can't be that bad, unless you're going really far into the ear canal with it.
Part of me thinks this sound amazing and I must try it, part of me is petrified that it's a bad idea and will kill something important...it's actually endorsed by an ear doc safe?
That intrigues me a bit because E! has never gotten in Joel McHale's grill about all the shit he talks about...well, E!. He's said multiple times in interviews that they let him do his thing and don't get mad at him.
Granted, I can have some poor eyesight, but I assumed it was sand...and for some reason that made more sense to me. But who knows, probably just to "show movement and a dynamic visual" or some design mumbo jumbo.
Yeah, that's why I've been asking people for years to stop looking at Washington so much and look towards their capital. All these crap is happening in Virginia while people have their backs turned because they're too busy ranting about National concerns.
Or they're worried about the traffic.
You should look up what Bob McDonnell actually thinks of women. He laid it all out in his master's thesis, which got a lot of press before he got elected.
Highlights from the Washington Post article: "he described working women and feminists as "detrimental" to the family. He said government policy should favor married couples over "cohabitators, homosexuals, or fornicators." He described as "illogical" a 1972 Supreme Court decision legalizing the use of contraception by unmarried couples."
"He went on to say feminism is among the "real enemies of the traditional family.""
He of course insisted that these were statements made a decade ago and his opinion has changed since then, but my opinion is that anybody who ever could think that sort of crap deserves no place in our government, EVER.
But you know, he's "hard on crime" and promised to fix the state's transportation mess, so everybody voted for him anyway.
Exactly, and it really feels like there's a bit of "We're going to do anything we can to you that makes your life suck because you deserve it you slut."
It was basically in response to that exact thing that the "in the vast majority of cases" comment comes from. He basically dismissed that as saying people always come up with scary stories and hypothetical situations but that it just didn't happen enough to be worth his brain power, what little he has.
Okay, I editorialized that a bit.
That's the inherent problem with the Bechdel test. It DOES mean that if they're talking about ANY male then it doesn't pass.
But it doesn't mean the conversation needs to be anything substantial either. They could talk about the weather, chocolate, shoes, their nails, their hair, and other horribly sexist things and still pass on that count.
That's why the test is so inherently flawed and illogical that I desperately wish it would stop being a thing. The only viable question it has is "Is there more than one female character?"
After you ask that one, you've got to think and actually use your brain to analyze the movie a bit, and if people continue to avoid doing it by using the Bechdel test, I'm going to lose my mind and start agreeing with other filmmakers that the audience is inherently stupid.
I'll give you a better three step process than the Bechdel test for actually affecting change.
1. Go to Kickstarter or IndieGoGo.
2. Find films written, produced, or directed by women.
3. GIVE THEM MONEY.
As a female writer/director, I can tell you right now that until people are paying women to write/direct films this is just going to keep happening, and the only way that we'll get to write/direct films is if people are giving us the money we need to do it and we show that we are viable as an investment risk (as in, people will pay to see our films because we've made something successful before). The only way to do that is for people to invest in our films in the first place.
That, I have to give to you. I don't understand it either. I've known some Catholic women who just throw their hands in the air and say "what can you do" about things like women not being able to be ordained, even though they think it's stupid. Actually, I know a lot of Catholics who don't really believe half the things that the Vatican is saying they're supposed to believe. But the women who gleefully follow a few steps behind their husbands and go for the ultra-conservative and scary religions? The only thing I can assume is that they've grown up in that kind of church/seeing that kind of relationship and they think it's the way things should be. Which is just so very sad...
About five years ago, I started telling people that the growing anti-abortion sentiment was going to turn to restricting birth control and reproductive health. I said that if we let these "pro-life" people keep chipping away at Roe v. Wade and the legality of abortion, they were going to attack my right to control my own decisions about fertility and children. I saw this coming because even then, I was told by multiple doctors that I wasn't able to make the decision to be sterilized and I couldn't be trusted to know what I wanted. And now that it's here, all I can think is that every single woman who has ever used birth control, all 98% of us, need to stand up and tell them to STOP. Find out who your representatives are and they aren't already fighting for your rights, CALL them and tell them they need to. Then send them an email. Send them an email every day if you have to. And never, ever, ever vote for someone who has ever made a statement against your reproductive freedom. Even if it was years ago, any man who has said that even married couples shouldn't have free access to birth control should NEVER be elected to office in America (I'm looking at you Gov. McDonnell). Make sure every woman you know votes, and doesn't vote for these clowns. Because I have my thoughts about where this is going next, and I really want to be wrong this time around.
Even my ultra-Catholic very religious mother-in-law has said that since we don't want women to have abortions, maybe we should work harder to make sure there are less unwanted pregnancies. She didn't come right out and say "give everybody the pill" but I imagine that was too much for her.
Seriously though, I grew up in the South in a very small town and I never saw or heard of any of this crazy crap down there. We had massively comprehensive sex ed, and while Planned Parenthood wasn't nearby or anything, it was common knowledge that if you need the pill, you went to Planned Parenthood and it wasn't vilified or anything.
I've never heard of another religion except maybe those quiverful people caring about BC.
Oh, they definitely want them back. If you listen to them long enough, you'll hear them say that we have to deport all Muslims because ALL Muslims believe that we should have a religious government and that we must establish a Christian government as soon as possible to protect our religious freedom.
That is one big pharma lobby action I can actually get behind.
