I’ve done worse. After discovering the item exists, i bought a set of ear spoons. Basically tiny plastic utensils designs to scrape crap out of your ear. They came with a little Bluetooth otoscope, too, which is kinda neat, but the real win was the spoons.
The idea of intentionally squirting water into my ears makes me shudder. My ears get soggy and itchy when i get water into them, and it’s horribly uncomfortable. When i swim, i squirt rubbing alcohol down my ears when i get out, to break the surface tension of the water and to dry the insides of my ears. I got swimmers eat every summer until someone suggested the alcohol. I try to keep my ears dry for everything other than swimming.
I’m definitely removing wax, not shoving it in, with qtips and spoons. Doctors routinely lecture me not to do that, but they are also always surprised by how clean the insides of my ears are. Honestly, they are probably cleaner than is really good for the skin, but they itch horribly, and if i remove a little wax i feel like “I’ve already scratched that, i need to leave it alone for a while.”
I was pondering my vote in the “Bigotry towards Jews v. Muslims” poll, and wanted to articulate it a bit. I voted that I’m a Jew (secular) and felt the bigotry towards Muslims was more severe than that towards Jews.
But there’s a lot of “but…” in there.
First off, most Jews I know just pass, they don’t bring it up, and of course, almost all of the ones I associate with are secular or Reform. There are plenty of Muslims that also pass, are semi or fully secular, or otherwise don’t ask for much additional accommodation for their faith who may feel similarly. But on the whole (another of those huge buts) more Muslims are more visibly “different” and therefor targeted more frequently.
For that matter, the types of bigotry are quite different, and may lead to different outcomes. In general (which is all a poll of this granularity can cover) it seems Jews are seen as puppet masters behind the scenes and should be thwarted, avoided, or challenged. But not quite a direct threat. Muslim bigotry has some of that (all the talks about enforcing “sharia law”) but mostly it’s the assumption by the bigots that muslim=terrorist, and a subtle (or NOT) need for direct violence.
As a non-Muslim and non-Jew, I think Muslims are subject to more bigotry in America, mainly because of terrorism, 9/11, and all that. Nobody thinks Jews are potential hijackers or bombers in America. But at the same time, Muslims are given shielding and deference in America in a way that Jews don’t seem to be. There seems to be more of a rush among academia and media to label something as Islamophobic than anti-Semitic, for instance.
(Not to derail the thread, but it’s true of other religions as well. Christianity and Islam are both riddled with lots of errors, bad logic and problems, for instance, but you never hear someone called a bigot for opposing Christianity or being a “Christianophobe,” but Islamophobia is a real label. But I disgress since the poll creator wasn’t asking about non-Jewish religions.)
So I still voted “Muslims” as experiencing more bigotry.
I haven’t seen the word “Christianophobe”. But I’ve certainly seen plenty of cases of people being attacked for opposing Christianity, including many in which they had been doing nothing of the sort but had only been opposing having Christianity, or some specific version of it, being pushed upon them.
I agree that bigotry towards Jews and Muslims takes different forms in America. I feel like Muslims are at more physical risk than Jews, so i voted that it’s worse for Muslims. But speaking as a Jew, antisemitism is definitely picking up.
I voted “I don’t have any real opinion,” but that’s not necessarily the case. It’s just that as a non-Jew and non-Muslim, I can’t presume to guess how much or what sort of bigotry each group may face. I do my best not to be a part of it; maybe that entails burying my head in the sand? I dunno.
Speaking as somebody who is not a Jew or an Israeli, I feel that the current upsurge of bigotry is a sort of blending. There are people who don’t like Jews in general; there are people who don’t like Israel; and there are people who don’t like the Netanyahu administration. (My personal position is no, no, yes.) The problem is these three positions are close enough that there’s a lot of overlap.
I’m not Jewish or Muslim. It’s my feeling based on observation is both face discrimination but it’s different. Muslims face bigotry because in many cases they look different, have “weird” names, maybe an accent and have customs some don’t understand. I have seen a huge uptick online of the same old lies about Jews. How they are pulling the strings behind the scene. The Nazi playbook. To me I find that more dangerous and disturbing.
Now to get serious. Liverwurst. I voted “Yes, please” but that doesn’t really answer it correctly. If you offered it to me I would turn you down. But once every couple of months I get a craving. But it has to be certain brands and it has to be on a good fresh kaiser roll. I don’t like Boars Head liverwurst and that probably saved my life.
I mostly eat liverwurst when i visit Germany. I enjoy it when I’m there, and it’s served at the buffets. But i don’t think I’ve ever had it in the US. I sometimes buy a liver pate, though, which is pretty similar.
The only liver wurst I’ve had was tasty but too greasy. I guess I could search for a low fat version, but a store here carries a Pâté de Campagne that I really like
I thought it was, and answered on that basis; that’s the liverwurst I occasionally get. (I’m another one who doesn’t eat it that often, but occasionally gets a craving for it.)
Are Liverwurst and Braunschweiger the same thing? Liverwurst and Braunschweiger are both types of German-style sausage made from liver, offal, and scraps with added spices. The main difference being, Braunschweiger is a style of liver sausage made from only pork livers, offal and scraps that originated in the German city of Braunschweig. Whereas liverwurst is a more general term to describe any type of liver sausage. Meaning it could contain a variety of meats like pork, beef, or chicken. Both share a similar spice profile and a spreadable smooth texture. The spice combinations and types of offal used vary based on regional tastes and traditions.
Awkward sentence. I think what they mean is that the style originated there, not that the ingredients must have originated from there? I should look at a label; but it seems unlikely that all the cheap Braunschweiger I’ve bought in various stores in the USA came from one city in Germany.
Yes, and there are people who intentionally conflate them to try to squash dissent. They try to equate anti-Israeli-government-policy with anti-Semitic.