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25 Dec 2024, 1:32 pm

People use them mainly to clean their ears, but you're not supposed to stick them in your ears. Doctors recommend not to. So why are they still being made and sold at stores when you're not supposed to use them?



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25 Dec 2024, 4:15 pm

There's multiple uses for Q-tips. The fact that some people use them for inappropriate tasks shouldn't be an excuse to stop selling them, especially so long as demand exists.


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25 Dec 2024, 4:24 pm

What else would you use to stuff glitter down your urethra?



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25 Dec 2024, 4:30 pm

They can be used to groom flower petals so they are more symmetrical for photographs.



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25 Dec 2024, 4:53 pm

I've used them to put on eye shadow. :)

Maybe they should quit making and selling vehicles because of all the bad drivers that kill and injure hundreds or even thousands of people horribly every year. But it's not going to happen.

And then there's the alcohol that people consume that leads to many of those deaths and injuries. Should alcohol be banned? Not gonna happen.

Guns? Forget it. :roll:

Some people go swimming, and they drown. Maybe nobody should be allowed to swim anymore.

Stairs. I just know one day I'll fall down the stairs and snap my neck. But we still have stairs. If they were all turned into escalators I'd likely be more afraid to use them. :oops:



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25 Dec 2024, 5:05 pm

Carbonhalo wrote:
What else would you use to stuff glitter down your urethra?


I assume this was so you could feel like a unicorn by pissing sparkles?


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Yesterday, 10:27 pm

Just because someone could misuse a merchandise, does not mean that stores should stop carrying them altogether.

Sometimes there is just one correct usage of a merchandise. Everything else: misuse ("abuse").

Tomatoes could be used for food fights. That does not prove that stores should stop selling tomatoes.

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***(footnote) ( from age 15 til 41 (and counting), been digging in ears with bobby pin. Every day. Feels relaxing in a way that nothing else does. @ age 15, while trying to dig in ear with qtip, cotton came off and stuck in ear. Terrified of going deaf or something drastic, but nothing has happened. I think if something bad was going to happen as a result of getting cotton wad stuck in ear, it would've happened the first 26 years, not the second 26 years.)



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Today, 6:00 am

funeralxempire wrote:
Carbonhalo wrote:
What else would you use to stuff glitter down your urethra?


I assume this was so you could feel like a unicorn by pissing sparkles?


Let's assume that
ROFL