You're spot on there and if you leave them, you wake up in the middle of the night with an itch in your ear and when you grab a hold of the brillo-pad texture hair, it rolls out with the potential of growing to be an inch long!

Haha. Anyone have moles that sprout coarse hair?

My wife pulls them out with tweezers regularly.

I highly recommend waxing for ear and nasal hair removal, a bit painful but lasts a lot longer than other hair removal method. If you have a local college that does 'Beauty and Hair' courses you can get it done very cheap (or even free).

The ones to avoid :
Threading, a true torture possibly worthy of Git-mo.
Laser removal, expensive and doesn't work too well in the long run and can cause very visible thread veins.
Sugaring, like waxing but even more painful and you smell like 'burnt cotton candy' afterwards.

My niece is a qualified beautician and has tried many of these techniques on me (and my family) during her studies. She also delights in the pain she can inflict on stroppy clients