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should this be merged with 'earwax'? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.237.5.13 (talk • contribs)
Yeah, I did the deed :) I apologize to those who wrote the bulk of the article when it was still a section in earwax, their work and effort does not show up in the history of this article. However, I think the item deserves it's own article since it really a unique thing on its own with its unique history and cultural connections. Sjschen 22:04, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
Feels like heaven getting your ears cleaned, I swear. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.132.31.72 (talk) 06:33, 23 January 2007 (UTC).
Boy oh boy do I agree, it feels amazing. But as Pomte said, doing it too many times lose it's charms, kind of like sex.((Subst:unsigned|24.224.154.12}
No, no, no! Removing earwax hurts like hell, especially when you have a mother eager to test your new earpicker, and shot to shoves it so far in your ear canal, you're thinking "Well, my eardum's gonna be shot to hell." Fortunately, that hasn't happened...yet. -- John R. Sellers 01:35, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
However nice it may feel, it is a dangerous practice. See the external links in the ear wax article, and some of the discussion. 80.2.194.3 12:57, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
Yea this looks totally like a good idea. Next up---using knitting needles to clean your ears. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.47.15.38 (talk) 20:43, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
No more dangerous than cotton swabs, and more effective for the admittedly dubious purpose, silly ethnocentrists.122.102.238.156 (talk) 01:05, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
The last reference:
^ a b Fumiko Keehn, Laura, "The Art of Ear Picking", SWINDLE Magazine (10)
does not link to anything. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.226.176.247 (talk) 00:52, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
The first referenced link does not mention anything about ear picks. Perhaps the link was meant to be to another page on the same site, such as this one which is more pertinent to the topic of this page: http://www.deafnessresearch.org.uk/content/your-hearing/other-ear-problems/earwax/ So I am changing it. 71.163.222.167 (talk) 05:55, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
I changed one of the first lines about the hazards so it actually reflects information from the sources. The first source did not mention ear picks at all, it was only a general article about earwax that was used later on in the article and seemed to have just been copy+pasted, so I removed it. The third reference is also not about ear picks so I removed it as well. I also added the words "inexperienced" to reflect the later portion of the article and because the previous edit made ear picks sound much more hazardous than the sources say. 140.180.190.188 (talk) 16:54, 31 January 2013 (UTC)
The search box was sending people to the ear pick article when searching for "earspoon". I added a disambiguation hat for the intended article about the European pole-arm known as the "Bohemian Earspoon". Bosef1 (talk) 22:30, 24 July 2020 (UTC)