This Might Seem A Distasteful Question...

[sandyRoe]

If you vomit after 8 or 9 pints some of it seems to get lodged in the tubes behind the nose. This produces a burning, eye-watering sensation. What are the 'tubes' called?

[BlueToffee]

Overflow!

[woofgang]

sinusses

[yogasun]

Are they the Eustachian tubes.?..... sorry Sqad if I'm wrong!

[sandyRoe]

It'd be some spewing of vomit that came out of the ears. :-)

[yogasun]

Oh no they are from ear to throat, sorry!

[ChillDoubt]

Are they the Eustachian tubes.?
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If there's vomit in those, he really DID have a skinful!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eustachian_tube

[Sqad]

Eustachian tubes is the best answer.

[ChillDoubt]

I have to ask:

Heavy night, sandyroe?

[sandyRoe]

No. I drink nothing stronger than tea now. I was dreaming last night that I'd been drinking.
I'm sure I remember seeing someone on television who could exhale cigarette smoke from their ears, so Eustachian Tubes isn't as unlikely as it first seems.

[Sqad]

sandy blowing smoke through your ears via the Eustachian tubes is only possible if you have a perforated ear drum..............and that was the trick.

[EcclesCake]

I thought grommets also facilitated this 'trick'?

[sandyRoe]

The lengths some people will go to just to perfect a parlour trick... ;-)

[Sqad]

Eccles.......LOL.......yes they do, but Gromit tubes have a hole in the middle, which is the same as the eardrum being perforated.