In fact “No, Luke! I did not kill my brother! (uncle, cousin, nephew)” would have been much easier to swallow and still cause an unwieldy mythos struggling to support it’s own weight.

This. I keep wondering how many people would walk up to a 94 year old WW2 veteran and tell them that due to the current rise of nationalism and fascism globally their successes meant nothing.

He also could’ve left whenever, so why was he even there?

Rey has sticky fingers. Yoda tells Luke that essentially, everything she needs is no longer in the tree. Yoda knows of Rey’s sticky fingers.

British conservatives decided they wanted a woman running the country, and they did it more than once. I’m pretty confident they can handle a female doctor.

What a stupid, unnecessary comment. I also seriously doubt that a female Doctor would offend the overly-sensitive conservative dullards more than the numerous people of color and openly homosexual characters presented within the show since its reboot.

Casting a woman in the role isn’t a political issue. It’s not like women only exist on the left side of the political spectrum.

I think the key part of the quote is “at it’s core.” Because yes, at its core, this is a fairly left-leaning show. That doesn’t mean the show, and the Doctor, don’t do things from time to time that are wildly out of step with that generalization, but the show and its lead always seem to swing back around to those…

Hey, you’re the one who made gross generalizations. I’m just pointing out why they don’t hold up.

Smoking? Dietary habits that promote obesity? Cool alternate study.

No one has an issue with doing bad things for their health until they do. And as you can see, there are multiple people here with perforated ear drums from similar stories just like yours.

You don’t need to. It’s there for a reason (it protects the skin of the ear canal, assists in keeping dust and dirt from reaching the inner ear and adds lubrication, and also provides some protection against bacterial and fungal infections). No one can see it. The only reason to remove earwax is if it builds up so…

I once got a gross infection from having ears that were too clean. I had a miniscule scratch in my ear and that was all it took to get infected and grow this nasty bumpy thing in my ear. I remember it making me sick—maybe a fever?- and it looked disgusting. I’m getting goosebumps just thinking about how gross it…

You could use thousands of them dipped in paint to serve as the spectators in a scale model of a pod racing arena....

You are supposed to have wax in your ears, just like there is supposed to be a thin layer or mucus in your nose. Its there to protect from the outside world. its when its in excess is when you remove it, and only stay outside the hole, never dig deep.

You’re not supposed, it says right there in the article. Your own body will get rid of it by pushing it outwards and it crusts up around the outside ear. That’s when you use a q-tip, to clean up AROUND the ear canal, not inside it.

I dip them in rubbing alcohol and use them to clean small parts on electronics, cleaning the area around small wounds, and cleaning the interior of my Xbox 360 controllers when my kids gunk them up. There are plenty of uses for Q-Tips aside from cleaning your ear(s).

People: Stop making Q-Tips ear-sized.

Most earwax is naturally pushed out by the chewing motion of your jaw.

If you seriously have the waking up deaf issue you described, that’s not earwax. You’re having issues with the inner ear draining properly.