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Reynolds
10-30-2007, 05:37 AM
The other day in the bathroom I felt a piece of earwax come loose in my ear, so I picked it out and flicked it into the toilet. The thing started buzzing around like a miniature motorboat in the toilet bowl, looked like a bug almost. Why did this happen? Serious answers only please.
RAAMONE
10-30-2007, 05:40 AM
because you had a bug in your ear
Coach_Mac
10-30-2007, 05:45 AM
Serious answers only? I never agreed to that.
BeerBandit
10-30-2007, 06:10 AM
Was there any soap in the toilet? You may remember the old Dawn commercials where a hand squeezes a drop of Dawn into a greasy tub of water and the grease "runs" away. Soap has both hydrophilic and lipophilic characteristics and the repulsion you see might be the hydrophilic portion of the soap pushing away the greasy wax.
Reynolds
10-30-2007, 06:19 AM
Was there any soap in the toilet? You may remember the old Dawn commercials where a hand squeezes a drop of Dawn into a greasy tub of water and the grease "runs" away. Soap has both hydrophilic and lipophilic characteristics and the repulsion you see might be the hydrophilic portion of the soap pushing away the greasy wax.

Interesting.... I have no idea if there was any soap in the toilet, but maybe it has something to do with all the chlorine in the water down here?
torker
10-30-2007, 02:55 PM
http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/1/12/Khan_Noonien_Singh.jpg
TooLowBrow
10-30-2007, 04:02 PM
think about this rationally.

what buzzes in water?

electricity, easy.

therefore... you had electricity in your ear
sr71blackbird
10-30-2007, 05:30 PM
Most toilets have a slow trickle of water coming into them, sometimes it is hardly noticeable. The water trickling in causes the water to ripple slightly and the earwax was reacting the the minute ripples in the water.
Chigworthy
10-30-2007, 06:03 PM
Earwax in general is scared of anacondas, so there must be an anaconda coiling up in the trap below the bowl right now. Anacondas love biting assholes and genitalia, but only when the sky goes dark.
TooLowBrow
10-30-2007, 07:17 PM
goofus's earwax buzzed in the toilet

gallant's earwax did it's homework immediately , then passed the test
SatCam
10-30-2007, 07:36 PM
did you smell it first?
waltermitty
10-30-2007, 07:40 PM
Earwig maybe?????

http://www.insectsofalberta.com/images/2006-apr-3_earwig.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earwig
tele7
10-30-2007, 07:51 PM
goofus's earwax buzzed in the toilet

gallant's earwax did it's homework immediately , then passed the test

:thumbup:
Reynolds
10-30-2007, 08:00 PM
Most toilets have a slow trickle of water coming into them, sometimes it is hardly noticeable. The water trickling in causes the water to ripple slightly and the earwax was reacting the the minute ripples in the water.

No, this chunk was really moving. I'm sticking with the soapy toilet water theory, followed closely by the anaconda one.
JPMNICK
10-30-2007, 08:09 PM
it has to do with static electricity. the inside of your toilet has a charge and between the water and wax from your ear creative an imbalance and then it moves around
suggums
10-30-2007, 08:49 PM
dont clean your ears for a while and try to repeat this bizarre feat-get a better analysis, maybe set up a camera