Pluck it, shave it, use dipilatory or juse braid it??? As I get older my body starts to do (and sprout) stuff it didn't do when I was younger-for all you young guys-go ahead and laugh-you'll get there soon enough

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Ear hair? Like.... that stuff on corn? I just pull off as much as I can before I cook it... and then the rest usually comes off easy after.

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Bi-directional double comb-over.

Noah

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In Iraq, some of the barbers would take a piece of paper towel and light it on fire. Then, they would take it and quickly move it around your ears to get rid of the unwanted hair. All this, plus a haircut was only $3-$5. Here in ConUS, my barber takes the clippers to it about once a month. Of course, she cuts my hair weekly, so she stays on top of it.

Bill

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Been meaning to get my wife in there with a set of tweezers but in the interim have been making do with pinching it and yanking it out upon occasion. This is not entirely satisfactory (but works in a pinch).

Now the guy I admire, a real man's man, is our Gatorfarmer who uses a leatherman tool on his nose hair! Whoa! I think the CIA shoulda come up with the leatherman/nose hair enhanced interrogation technique, forget waterboarding.

My wife trims it with a small battery razor as she does my nose. No fooling! Since I had my nose cut off due to cancer and a new one built with a scalplock, I have to shave my nose! I been threating to let it grow out, but she wont have that. She inspects me every two days and gets out the razor for what I miss.
Once many years ago I saw the weirdest thing. There was a old tourist from probley tibet or china in the crowd at disneyland. He had let his ear hair grow and had a thin braid about a foot and half long out of each ear! Would have great possibilitys for a foe in a fight!

I haven't paid for a haircut in about 4 years. One of the first things I did after BMT was buy a set of clippers. Best investment I ever made. After short learning period I can now give myself any style......as long as it's short, shorter, or high and tight.

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Panasonic makes a $15 nose and ear trimmer...plucks them right out.

Or, you could grow it out and look like this guy:

http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2009/02...AR_450x300.jpg

Pull it around front. Tie it together under your nose and pretend that it's a mustache.

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Buy some good Swiss tweezers (Rubis!) and pluck it out. At least weekly.

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Andis clippers...plug in type. Battery powered ones don't work for me.

Occasionally, whilst sober, use my Gillette Fusion razor to crop it close. Don't forget the hair on top your ears. Grows there, too.

Note: Though none of them have gone beyond the compliment, many young ladies have stated they admire my grooming. No ear or nose hair, regular manicures/pedicures, and a shower every three days or so.

Be safe.

I use the little straight, AA battery powered straight clipper. You can really route out the ears inside and on the outer curves. They work well on a light nose hair trim when you don't need the tiny shears and that clipper works very well in "other" places as well. Pinches hardly at all unless you really get down on it. It can glide very smoothly and will do double duty on contrary/unruly under arm hair too. Seriously. Wilson

Hey Caj, I'm only 34 and I've been getting a few stragglers for the past couple of years. As the old joke goes, why does it fall off your head and grow places you don't want it?

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http://www.thenakedscientists.com/fo...hp?topic=17247



Hair growth is very susceptible to hormones, to the so-called sex steroid hormones: principally oestrogens and androgens. The dominant hormone for males is in the androgen category, particularly testosterone. Surprisingly the levels of testosterone continue to increase with age up until the age of 70. Since most of male hair is responsive to androgens with age and with increasing hormone levels you tend to get more and more vigorous hair growth particularly in the areas that were perhaps not as robust as when the individual was younger. For example, on the nose, ears and on their eyebrows. The nose and the ears have got thousands and thousands of hairs. They’re so small you can’t see – in fact the tip of the nose is the hairiest part of the body in terms of density of hairs per unit area. With time these can be stimulated with these male hormones which go up with age and therefore can become more cosmetically visible with age. The same applies for the eyebrows and for the ears. In women their oestrogen levels drop after menopause and their lower levels of testosterone become more engaged with the process of hair growth because they stimulate whereas oestrogens tend to inhibit. You’re just releasing more stimulatory power from the androgens we have.

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I used to be disgusted..

I pluck mine out with my government issue tweezers (my fingers ) and mix them up in my wife's coffee every morning.

HA! Naw...just kidding.



Or am I?

I use my wife's hair straightener and then hairspray.

Could you use a flame thrower on it?

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(BTW, GREAT pic J/L!)
Ironic ain't it? The hair on top goes away and now sprouts every where else!
The high quality tweezer routine here.
(TIP: LED flashlight held at a hard angle in a dark bathroom, makes them easier to see. Also that way even if you don't get all of 'em, you won't be as painfully aware as I am of just how old and ugly I've become!)

I usually wind up selling it in quantity to either to my local herbalist who makes some really good potions with it, but lately she's been down on her luck- so I've sold it to an online discount witch doctor supply house that was advertising "Cash 4 ear hair!"

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You could modify one of those electronic fly swatters sold at Harbor Freight .Make some modifications to them and zap out the hairs like they zap the flies . You will get a smell of burning hair but you can get use to that . Sometimes you miss the hairs and zap the inside of your nose , that kinda smarts.

Wasn't it Gallagher who said we don't lose our hair, it moves lower on our body the older we get. I f we live long enough, we'll be left with a tuft just above the buttcrack. Joe

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I saved mine up and made a nice vest with it.

Wasn't he on Star Trek the Next Generation or something?

Anyway, it's sort of a New Wave/New Age thing....I'll bet it drives the wimmins wild

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Those butane gas grill starter thingies (small flame thrower Joni!) work great. You only have to use them once. Hair doesn't grow on scorched skin!


WG840

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Yeah, my wife hates it when I do that. She says the ripping noise makes her cringe. I find tweezing just draws the pain out, so I just try to grab as much as possible and yank. Usually two or three tuft pullings suffice per nostril. The pain does tend to make the eyes water, but eh... It's less annoying then those battery operated things.

I just sterilize the Leatherman with a lighter before and after.

Ear hair I haven't been plagued with as of yet. I imagine yanking it out with a Leatherman would be more problematic than nose hair.

I thought I was the only one that did that. As far as the sound, my wife is deaf so no big deal there.

The leatherman works on ear hair too. The fire trick sounds interesting, but I've been to the ER to many times in recent years for stupidity, so I'll pass for now.

Like this?

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Gotta' tell ya' 41!
Those two are only slightly worse than my Wife has to endure?
I'm now considering changing to a Ryobi.
I guess I'll have to wait and see what Santa brings?

The very pretty young lady who gives me my haircut takes care of that for me. Along with my mustache, and eyebrows. My wife has been known to pin me down on the couch with a pair of tweezers in her hand, to pluck the hairs growing out of the tip of my nose. Not inside but up on top. They really bother her, so of course, I let them get out of hand.

I use tweezers and a hand mirror, unless I can get my daughter to pluck the hairs out with the tweezers on my Swiss Army knife when she visits me and we eat out somewhere. (No, she doesn't tweeze me in the restaurant; out at the car.)

My barber trims my ears, but I see her only every two or so weeks, so I have to do some tweezing on my own, unless the daughter is with me. When she does it, I feel like a happy baboon or chimp being groomed by someone in my troop.

Nasal hair, I trim with the scissors on a Victorinox Classic knife. I use a flashlight to help me see them up the nose.

T-Star

I knew a former Green Beret who had his nose blown off and they built a new one out of plastic and skin from his butt. He had the weirdest looking hair growing on his nose. He claimed that everytime he saw a piece of toilet paper his nose would start running.

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1002 uses for a Leatherman, lol, but seriously that really does sting pretty good, and I have half inch holes in each ear, I know stinging

Braid it.

Paladin, thank God, they can do wonders now. I dont know why, but they didnt use any plastic on mine. They used cartridge from my ribs and ears for a framework. This is a picture when I was about done recouperateing. However, shortly after the picture I got my feet tangled up, fell on my face on the concrete and broke my nose again! Its a little flatter now but ok.

If your wife can knit they make great stocking caps.

You know, when I first saw this thread started, I knew it was going to be real good. I was right. Men over 40 should all carry the little swiss army knife that cost about $10 in their pocket. Those little scissors on it can really keep you looking partially civilized when you have those sudden nose hair growths. For the ear hair, maybe a kitchen match, just blown out. Ugh, gives me shivers just thinking about it.

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Torn & Frayed

Those clipper companies and all their talk of "fatal infection" are just trying to sell more clippers.

Rip it out!




BTW, the advert right in the body of the first post on the page is a new one ... hmmm... Sometimes it appears, sometimes it doesn't. Whatever, like I said, as long as it helps Lee defray the cost of our little addiction here ...

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Braid some and thread it on your cleaning rod and use as a lead remover!