Texas banned them in 2019 after a public outcry. Might be a cause you could take up in your spare time.
Q-tips make me happy for a variety of reasons, but mainly because, unlike a double-edged sword, they are soft on both ends!
I suggest you keep this from your primary care physician. Otherwise, you will receive a stern talk about inappropriate use of Q-tips. Nonetheless, I agree that Q-tips are mighty things!
Stainless steel earpick FTW, and I don't have a primary care physician or an ENT, so guess modern medical science can take a leap:
Q-tips are the only consumer product I can think of with a warning on the package against using them for the very reason most people buy them.
Homer said you can't get shit out of your ears without Q-Tips. I respectfully refuted him. Ear picks are great, just use them carefully.
I sayeth unto thee that Sweet Oil is the magical elixir that will render the gummy waxen residue of your ear passages into a liquid state and allow it to flow forth, thus restoring full hearing and ear-canal cleanliness once again. Let it be known. Oh, and it can be purchased at any and all corner drug stores for a mere pittance.
Cockney rhyming slang. No idea why and I don't understand much of it, but the sound of it makes me laugh.
In DC they have parked cars (not cop cars... Regular cars with regular plates). No ones in them. Its a residential street so you just assume they belong to a resident. But when you speed past them, theres a camera in the front bumper that doesnt even flash. My mom had gotten a lot of speeding tickets there and i guess a lot of others too, because they figured out what/where the car was the speed camera (i didnt know what the car looked like, just where it was, so i always slowed down on that street), and the cops moved the car to another location on that street.
Golly! I'm glad I live in fly-over country where speed traps are manned by honest cops I likely know, or know of, but who are looking to fill a quota. I know it sounds weird. But YOUR speed traps sound a bit soulless. Having real cops balances the need for traffic enforcement with someone's need to vent and get somewhere faster than normal.
Where I live they have these portable radar things they put alongside a street and it has a display where it shows your speed as you're approaching it: I don't think it has a camera or records anything (not sure) but it makes everybody slow down. They move them around every so often to new locations. I think it's a good thing, it gets people driving safely without ticketing everybody. If I'm riding my bike I like to see if I can hit the speed limit.
they have those in Key West, Florida. my brother and I used to do the same thing, too (well, at least who could go the fastest... we were like in elementary/middle school and could hardly break the limit with our little legs)
Not quite the same thing but I love the way (note sarcasm) back in I think the 8o's they outlawed commercials that show people actually drinking alocoholic beverages and you could no longer advertise them as tasting good or giving you a buzz, so all they can say anymore is that they have "The coldest brew in town!" Yeah, that's what I look for in a beer, is low temperature!! Give me a Budsickle on a stick every time!! Hell, when we used to do beer-bongs we'd hold it in our hands until it reached room temperature, because you can't shotgun it if it's too cold or you get that fucked up freezethroat!
Watching the value of my (tiny) Ameritrade account go up (usually) with no effort on my part. Made six bucks yesterday without lifting a finger.
There's a hugely popular manga/anime that glamourises them at the moment, Tokyo Revengers. It's being made into a live action movie as well.
I'm sitting with my niece while she watches her show (it's Mickey's Christmas show) after playing outside for the better part of the early morning.
1) My adopted daughter (former youngest niece). It's a challenge, raising a child, but it's the greatest feeling in the world. 2) Sleep. Sometimes it's the best retreat from worldly issues. 3) Exercise. Lifting and wrestling are things that bring so much joy to me. Sure, that soreness afterward is...unpleasant for some. But for me it's a good feeling. Nothing beats climbing that inner mountain an all. 4) Eating a tasty meal.
