Is your earwax wet or dry?
I've known for a long time that my wife's earwax is all dry, but I always thought it was really weird and just because maybe she doesn't consume enough water every day.
I saw an episode of Mythbusters years ago where they had dozens or so people pile up their earwax to see if they could create a functioning candle with it, and all their earwax looked like mine, so that's always help me assume my wife is the one oddball and everyone else is like me.
I recently discovered while listening to the DVDASA podcast (starring David Choe and Asa Akira) that what's actually going on is Asians have dry earwax and non-Asians have wet earwax. I've confirmed researchers determined this is really the case via some science sources online. Fascinating, isn't it?
My sons are half Asian, but I haven't found any good earwax samples in their heads yet, so I'm not sure what a 50/50 person's earwax might be like. Maybe dry in one ear and wet in the other? Maybe a 1:1 mixture of dry and wet?
Anyways, what is your earwax like? Please inform what your genetic ethnicity is. Thanks for participating in this highly scientific poll!
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I especially need you to comment if you're some kind of a mixed-breed ir if you have a type of earwax that isn't supposed to apply to you (e.g., Asian with wet or non-Asian with dry).
9 Comments
dystopianfuturetodayI've got normal earwax, you know, light green in color with little flecks of dried clotted blood smelling faintly of ammonia.
chingaleraEwww, do you guys lance each others ingrown hairs and take care of each other's blackheads, too?? Whoa...Come to think of it I don't think I've ever seen an Asian with an ingrown hair....Do Asians get ingrown hairs?
DUDE! Asians males don't have chest hair, what's up with that??
WHO has dry earwax?? That's funked-up!
Wet, non-stinky here.
critical_dyuck
antDry if any found, but my left ear hole is tiny and my right ear's hole does not exist. Both were like that since birth! Yeah, I am defected with disabilities (e.g., mostly deaf).
rebuilderDry. Finnish, born and raised. They say the people inhabiting Finland originally came from somewhere around modern day Mongolia, which may lend support to your Asian theory. OTOH, that would have been some time around the last ice age, or shortly thereafter, with significant mixing with other, European, elements up to this day.
probieAnglo-European decent. Wet and buttery smooth. Good on crackers with a little Marmite.
chingaleraI use mine to wax the floss-peppermint drops in the ears after a shower, bobs yer uncle.
Anglo-European decent. Wet and buttery smooth. Good on crackers with a little Marmite.
siftbotVoting for this poll ended with the majority of users voting Wet (and stinky).
alien_conceptWell, I break the mould with what I would guess at a 50/50 wet and dry and flaky. I'm not asian.
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