Nose picking -- DISCLAIMER: MAY BE DISGUSTING

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calandale
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24 Mar 2007, 3:47 am

Which brings up a much more frightening question. Anybody eat other people's boogers?



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24 Mar 2007, 4:05 am

Oh, I love getting big ones!

However, eating OTHER people's claims is totally off the wall, into the bucket and out to sea for me. (Ha! I came up with a metaphor!)


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24 Mar 2007, 5:06 am

Eating it actually is healthy. It helps strengthen your imune system by allowing the body to absorb and destroy already dead bacteria that is trapped in the mucus. Your nasal passage will filter some of your first contacts with bacteria so between picking/mucus draining down your throat your immune system will know what to do next time.*

There ya go maybe not so gross just nature being effective.

*Obviously dont tempt fate as will not work against some biological/nerve/blister agents - early and tragic tests of the booger-tron-3000 as a defense against anthrax and mustard gas attest to this.**

**may not be true



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24 Mar 2007, 6:39 am

I pick my nose only when it's itchy or when I'm incredibly bored. I flick the bogies. :lol:



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24 Mar 2007, 9:01 am

calandale wrote:
Yes. But I'm discrete. I taste my ear wax too. It helps me tell if I'm healthy.


Ear wax makes my tongue go kind of numb. I don't like it.



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24 Mar 2007, 9:32 am

Ee-yew! I can't even stand when I stop at a red light and see the person in the next car picking their nose. It's disgusting.



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24 Mar 2007, 9:40 am

As long as we're being disgusting, I don't pick my nose, but when I have a cold, I can reach my tongue pretty far back towards my nasal cavity and sweep out the mucus, and if I've nowhere to spit it, I just swallow.

This thread is really complicating my life as a germophobe. :x



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24 Mar 2007, 5:15 pm

I pick my nose quite a bit, but I always feel guilty about it. I do try to be discreet instead of excavating it overtly, though.

And while I've never eaten my own boogers, I have tasted (but not eaten) my own ear-wax. Which is never nice...


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24 Mar 2007, 5:16 pm

DejaQ wrote:
As long as we're being disgusting, I don't pick my nose, but when I have a cold, I can reach my tongue pretty far back towards my nasal cavity and sweep out the mucus, and if I've nowhere to spit it, I just swallow.

This thread is really complicating my life as a germophobe. :x


I have to suck my moustache clean in cold weather.