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Nicholls595 Oct 2020 2:52pm, 1 Oct 2020 22,353 posts	Quote Pin Nicholls595 Olive oil is now available in supermarkets
Velociraptor Oct 2020 3:05pm, 1 Oct 2020 48,908 posts	Quote Pin Velociraptor You can get lots of DIY earwax removal unguents and devices over the counter at the pharmacy. But not cotton buds because they're illegal now, and about bloomin' time because when you've seen the consequences of someone having their elbow nudged while they've got a cotton bud down their earhole it sticks with you.
Diogenes Oct 2020 3:09pm, 1 Oct 2020 53,479 posts	Quote Pin Diogenes Wait, cotton buds are illegal now? This is news.
McGoohan Oct 2020 3:12pm, 1 Oct 2020 46,966 posts	Quote Pin McGoohan Only six cotton buds can gather together, unless they're in a pub. I think that's how it works.
swittle Oct 2020 3:16pm, 1 Oct 2020 68,276 posts	Quote Pin swittle Not hearing about this earlier.
Velociraptor Oct 2020 3:17pm, 1 Oct 2020 48,911 posts	Quote Pin Velociraptor Yup. Come Brexitmageddon, I won't starve because I have a plastic-stemmed cotton buds and the sort of thing Dr Shipman might have used to exchange for food. And I've also got all the food.
Raemond Oct 2020 3:17pm, 1 Oct 2020 6,365 posts	Quote Pin Raemond Do you need your ears syringed, Swits?
swittle Oct 2020 3:37pm, 1 Oct 2020 68,281 posts	Quote Pin swittle 'Pardon?' would be too predictable but I think I've been hoisted by my own petard.
Raemond Oct 2020 10:37pm, 1 Oct 2020 6,371 posts	Quote Pin Raemond I looked up David Suchet (who is 3/4 Russian) to confirm it was really him in an old episode of Dr Who I'm watching and a) his entry on IMDB starts with 'is one of England's finest...' 2) doesn't even list Poirot as his most famous role
alpenrose Oct 2020 2:42pm, 4 Oct 2020 46,679 posts	Quote Pin alpenrose I thought that the banning of ear syringing was a consequence of CV19, as in it's liquid being sprayed, just like the dentists going back to scraping teeth with a pointy instrument.