Interesting link, Pericles. I suspect the best use of the 'ear candle' would be to hold it to the side of the patient's head, while peering intently into the opposite ear.
If you can see the flame, not only does the patient not have a problem with ear wax, she probably doesn't have an IQ of 170, either.

For those of 'us' that love ear candles and think that they are good for anything, the following experiment might be of interest.

Position and light one up on the ear of a doll and see how much 'earwax' you can get out of one of those things. You'll be amazed!

It's far more effective than the saline wash for getting earwax out...(of dolls).

Bugsy

Dolls? Earwax? Out of?

(I am probably going to be struck down by lightening just for what I am thinking).

Dear Ammonite,

I'm thinking the same thing. So we'll go down together.
My thoughts were prompted by an article I read in an old
magazine in my GP's office while waiting to get my flu shot.
This particle article was entitled, "Three Men and a Barbie,"
by Ross Anderson, and I quote:

"For most people, Barbie dolls and pornography don't go together.
Although there is something fundamentally salacious about her,
with her cascading hair and perpetual ingratiating smile, in
some ways Barbie could be considered more suitable to star in an
adolescent boy's fantasy then as a plaything for pre-teen girls.
Especially those girls with tender body images and normal feet.
Similarly, one wouldn't think of Barbie in terms of big money.
Made of plastic and mass-produced. Barbie is well within the
financial reach of most consumers."

Yet the article was interesting because one of the world's biggest
Barbie doll collections (valued at over one million dollars), went
missing, both money and pornography came very much into play. Before
the case was closed, allkinds of un-Barbie-like things would happen,
arson, forgery, a raid on a porno movie studio, the uncovering of
a drug ring, suicide. What followed was an account of how Barbie
found herself in such netherwordly social circles.

It made for interesting reading in the doctor's office.

Lexi

Oh no! Not the Barbies!

Er, no I wasn't thinking about Barbie dolls, maybe I spend too much time watching SBS. There was a docu series about men and their very lifelike dolls - nothing so prosaic as inflatable dollies, but flexible full size dolls that were um, correct in every detail. The program also showed the regular, um, maintenance that these dolls required after, um, regular use. Very expensive, these dolls were shipped in special crates back to the manufacturer for repair of broken parts... and then shipped back to their owners, who very distraught during the absence of their dolls.

These men were very brave going on TV to discuss the reasons for the dolls, only one man was in a relationship and by the end of the series the relationship was floundering.

Ammonite "These men were very brave going on TV to discuss the reasons for the dolls, only one man was in a relationship and by the end of the series the relationship was floundering."

i think I have seen a documentary about that some time ago....

alot of their reasoning was to do with being in "total control" etc...

from what I recall, it was a long time ago that I saw the doco', I thought the blokes were all sad cases....

the "doll" in that context, is nothing like a real lady (regardless the nickname).