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• Obelix@feddit.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s kind of crazy - those plastic Q-tips are only better if you want to totally wreck your ears and every doctor is warning against that. For every legitimate use, those paper variants work perfectly well

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  • desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    how can a paper a tip grease a bearing?

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    • nahostdeutschland@feddit.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Why would you grease a bearing with a q-tip? Use a proper tool for that!

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      • desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        name a cheaper tool?

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• then_three_more@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think Americans call the q tips

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  • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah but a q-tips here are paper / cotton

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    • then_three_more@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Over here cotton buds used to usually have plastic sticks. They’ve all changed to paper because of this EU thing though.

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    • ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not anymore, they switched to plastic.

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      • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I just bought some today at Costco and they’re def paper still.

        When did they switch?

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• thesystemisdown@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Unbranded Q-Tip

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