# Because I know how much the SDMB loves their zit videos... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 13, 2015, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-i-know-how-much-the-sdmb-loves-their-zit-videos/740296 "2015-12-13T01:57:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![mistymage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mistymage/32/459_2.png) [@mistymage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mistymage)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2015, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-i-know-how-much-the-sdmb-loves-their-zit-videos/740296/21 "2015-12-14T08:37:06Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > BTW, those giant blackhead things are called “dilated pore of Winer” and Dr. Sandra Lee, who has her own You Tube channel, removes tons of these. They seem to be more common in the elderly. Um, yeah… that’s the the site I linked to… well, not the Youtube but her actual website. One thing I agree with … on many of the vid comments on the web is the word “satisfying”. There is nothing like popping a zit whether white, black or “holy crap!!”. I hit “holy crap!” when popping daily a “zit” on my diabetic mother… which turned out to be a staph infection. I missed a few days and then stopped home… and then ran her to the ER. One of those “I feel sick but don’t want to bother any one” things. I’m in my 40s and thought I would be over zits by now. Nope. Monthly hormonal induced ones, weekly ones (fill up in a week) and the odd one showing up here and there. Having big pores in the first place sux. Blackheads have no chance because I squeeze what I can see despite the “don’t pick at your face, see a dermatologist!” ---
**Author:** ![mistymage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mistymage/32/459_2.png) [@mistymage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mistymage)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2015, 8:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-i-know-how-much-the-sdmb-loves-their-zit-videos/740296/22 "2015-12-14T08:59:50Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > My husband has a cyst the size of a golf ball on his head. It’s been there for 45 years. The only time it’s a bother is when he has to get his hair cut, and he must warn the hairdresser, so they don’t cut his hair short there. > > I so very much want to pop that sucker. Can you imagine the splort of a 45 year old golf ball sized cyst? I don’t dare though. Way too big for home surgery, and way too close to the brain for my peace of mind. But it would be sooooooo cool. Why hasn’t he had it removed? I mean… I have a skin tag/maybe mole since I was a baby in my scalp that I can ignore. The only time I think about it is if I comb vs brush my hair and I always tell any hair cutters about it. But it’s more like the size of a nasty deer tick (pinky finger nail sized/tiny bit smaller) vs… a golf ball. I’m thinking about getting it removed. It, my “beauty mark” on my lip which is now growing “witch hairs”\* and a mole on my back ( it’s flesh colored but annoying cos I can feel it ). But I don’t know/haven’t checked if our insurances will cover what amounts to cosmetic surgery. \*since it’s a mole I can’t shave them off (the 3 or 4 hairs sprouting from it), I’ve thought about some kind of fire to sizzle the hair gone but I don’t even trust my hunnybunny to do that w/o pain. But I’ve almost hit the point of… get rid of the moles and being able to wax my woman mustache (olive skin tone to almost black/dark red brown when I suntan, mixed with black-ish hair… thanks German and Native American heritage). Almost. Otherwise, I don’t care what others think when they see me. I’m sure they see my white hair first (all around my temple when brushed back) … or my waist length blowrned hair (black, brown and the red highlighted tips) or me being “brown” while being in the Midwest. Unless they think I’m Hispanic. Or, nowadays… Muslim. And me being fat. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2015, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-i-know-how-much-the-sdmb-loves-their-zit-videos/740296/23 "2015-12-14T09:18:20Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > I’m sorry, but I simply can’t resist posting a link to my favorite icky YouTube video, in which two brothers work on removing a cyst from the arm of one of them. It has language, probably NSFW > > They actually did a pretty good job. I was waiting for him to pull the sac out with his teeth. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2015, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-i-know-how-much-the-sdmb-loves-their-zit-videos/740296/24 "2015-12-14T12:30:18Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > I spent part of the morning of 9/11 having a cyst removed from my scalp. > > When the plastic surgeon who’s doing the procedure says he thinks they’re gross, he’s right. :o I saw one of those head cysts removed in a really elegant way – the doc managed to cut the skin above it, but not into the cyst. The whole cyst – totally unpunctured – just popped out of the incision. The doc just had to remove the little tail. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2015, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-i-know-how-much-the-sdmb-loves-their-zit-videos/740296/25 "2015-12-14T13:47:46Z")
> [@mistymage](#): > > Why hasn’t he had it removed? He’s chosen to leave it alone under the doctrine: “If it ain’t botherin’ me, I ain’t botherin’ it.” He did offer to get it removed when we started dating, if it creeped me out. It doesn’t. I mostly forget it’s there until a discussion like this comes up, and I get the itch to splorch it again… > [@GrumpyBunny](#): > > I saw one of those head cysts removed in a really elegant way – the doc managed to cut the skin above it, but not into the cyst. The whole cyst – totally unpunctured – just popped out of the incision. The doc just had to remove the little tail. Very elegant. But no splorch? Sadness… ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2015, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-i-know-how-much-the-sdmb-loves-their-zit-videos/740296/26 "2015-12-14T14:11:49Z")
Good cysts are like geodes or those fancy filled candies; you can’t just look at the outside without wanting to know what manner of glories (or disappointments) hides within. Tell him it’s full of teeth; you might get him curious enough … ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2015, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-i-know-how-much-the-sdmb-loves-their-zit-videos/740296/27 "2015-12-14T14:30:52Z")
A guy self-lancing and draining a Pilonidal Cyst. You have been warned. 🆒 [spoilers][- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t5aNRLMin4%5B/spoilers%5D) ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2015, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-i-know-how-much-the-sdmb-loves-their-zit-videos/740296/28 "2015-12-14T15:43:41Z")
I’ve seen a fair share of zit videos now - and they are ‘interesting’ for sure - I just ran accross this [booger from hell video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBw1GWsr8mI) during the youtube surf. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2015, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-i-know-how-much-the-sdmb-loves-their-zit-videos/740296/29 "2015-12-14T16:11:41Z")
Hole E Fuck! I gagged the first time I watched. Being an idiot I watched it a second time. That time I almost threw up three times. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2015, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-i-know-how-much-the-sdmb-loves-their-zit-videos/740296/30 "2015-12-14T17:37:11Z")
> [@GrumpyBunny](#): > > I saw one of those head cysts removed in a really elegant way – the doc managed to cut the skin above it, but not into the cyst. The whole cyst – totally unpunctured – just popped out of the incision. The doc just had to remove the little tail. The 9/11 appointment was a do-over, and this is how he was able to remove it. The first time, he squeezed out the contents and then removed the capsule - but not all of it, because that’s why it grew back. It also got infected in the interim, which wasn’t fun either. However, that 9/11 appointment took care of it, even though the scar STILL itches sometimes. ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-i-know-how-much-the-sdmb-loves-their-zit-videos/740296/31 "2015-12-15T04:39:26Z")
Motherlode pore on the leg! [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9w-8sdm-5jg) ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-i-know-how-much-the-sdmb-loves-their-zit-videos/740296/32 "2015-12-15T04:50:52Z")
> [@Enola\_Straight](#): > > Motherlode pore on the leg! > [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9w-8sdm-5jg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9w-8sdm-5jg) I think I’m a seriously sick little monkey, because all I could think while watching that was “Dammit, stop wiping it away! I want to see how much you get out of there!” :eek: ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-i-know-how-much-the-sdmb-loves-their-zit-videos/740296/33 "2015-12-15T18:58:34Z")
> [@Infovore](#): > > I’m being led down a disgusting rabbit hole by the suggested videos next to the ones I was watching. The earwax removal ones are disgusting and strangely satisfying, too. I used to think so too until there was one where it ended up being a bug of some kind. I have a fear of bugs crawling into my ear so I don’t watch those anymore ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2015, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-i-know-how-much-the-sdmb-loves-their-zit-videos/740296/34 "2015-12-15T21:00:22Z")
The thing to fear is when they crawl back out … the other ear. You’re welcome. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2015, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-i-know-how-much-the-sdmb-loves-their-zit-videos/740296/35 "2015-12-18T02:13:14Z")
> [@Infovore](#): > > I think I’m a seriously sick little monkey, because all I could think while watching that was “Dammit, stop wiping it away! I want to see how much you get out of there!” :eek: The dude pinching it needs some gloves. He totally got that shit under his fingernails. Oh My god! :eek: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/because-i-know-how-much-the-sdmb-loves-their-zit-videos/740296.md?page=1)