exileindevon said:
i kept going deaf in my left ear so someone suggested this.the doctor told me to hold the metal bowl on my shoulder underneath my ear while he blasted away.after about a minute he looks in and says mmm maybe a bit more power.a few more blasts and still blocked.he turns it up to super duper blast and then i hear kerching into the metal bowl.it was the end of an artists paint brush that must have snapped while i was poking away and hadnt noticed.
bloody hell,my dad uses all manor of things when cleaning his ears,from cotton buds to hair clips,but one day he used a match and ended up getting it stuck right in his ear got it out with a pair of tweezers,but he always said the reason it got lodged in that far was due to many years ago,he was asleep and my(older brother)who was about 5 or six at the time came into the bedroom with a knitting needle and proceded to insert it in my dad's ear all he recalls is a piercing pain and awoke to see my brother with a mischievous grin on his face..