Our town offers zero in the way of recycling or composting. We compost our horse and chicken manure along with everything else compostable.
In NOLA we play along with the guys guessing where we gots our shoes and offer to buy them some drinks/food. Fun times hanging with them and chatting.
I have no clue what the shoe poll refers to.
A scam pulled on tourists, allegedly in New Orleans, as well as other places.
It came up in the “More Jokes” thread.
But I don’t take these sorts of bet, based on the “Ear Full of Cider” Principle, as articulated by Sky Masterson’s dad:
I remember the 21st night of September* which for me is tonight.
*by Earth, Wind and Fire
Our plumber told us never to put eggshells in the disposal.
Our condo did this via some city department, but one of my neighbors who set hers up before we did got ants. So, we haven’t used it. We have enough problems with ants without providing them with a smorgasbord. If we lived in a house with a yard, I’d compost.
You need to do one or two at a time and grind well. But I’ve never had a problem.
Probably most people don’t have your patience, so he generically recommends “no eggshells.”
Egg shells go in the drain strainer until I’m done then they go into the trash. No composting options here.
My trash and recycling gets picked up by a private company. The company is paid out of our HOA fees.
If the Phil Collins reference is to “In the Air Tonight”, the line isn’t “Do you remember” but “Well I remember”.
If you live in New York, you might be civilly liable:
Wow that is interesting. I can’t even imagine having that kind of conversation. My Pennsylvania real estate transaction has been done and over for more than a year now.
I am relieved to see that, at least so far and in this very small sample of the total population, nobody has actually poked their eardrum out with a Qtip (or equivalent); despite my being not the only one who gets their earwax out that way.
My ears itch, so i scratch them with a Q tip, but not so far as to touch the eardrum.
I use qtips, usually after showering because the wax in my ear is runny.
Now, to freak out the doctors in this group, I use a bobby pin to scratch and clean out the itchy wax. I am very careful, and only go as far as the itch, then pull the bobby pin out only.
Have heard of the bobby pin thing but I am far too clumsy for that lol!
That’s what pen tops are for !
I use an ear syringe, like these things. They squirt to the side rather than straight forward, so you don’t even risk damaging your eardrum with a forceful stream of water. I would never stick a Q-tip or (shudder) a piece of metal in my ear. Besides the risk of damaging tissue, it seems like poking things in there is just going to pack the wax in, not remove it.
I wash my outer ears with soap and water like my pediatrician told me to do when I was little. I don’t get much earwax.
See, I don’t poke at all. Think “scraping the side of a bowl” not churning butter