it’s healthy! and nutritious!
Hehe… a new diet for Dopers! Read this thread, and lose your appetite! A lot less expensive then those diet drugs, and with the same results!!
Book compilation by the dopers as a whole:
“Popping Zits for Fun and Profit”
I look for zits on myself to pop so that the infection can clear up quickly. I don’t think I’m fascinated with them enough to stalk members of my own family in order to overpower them and squeeze their zits against their will. That goes double for strangers.
I have been reading threads on this website for some time with out registering but after reading this specific thread I just had to register to comment. I have never laughed so hard in my life and I must say I did not feel grossed out at all even though I read the whole thread in one seating. I just have to say I found my new home with you all. You guys are the greatest!! 
BTW I know other people have said this but Broomstick, I must say you are a great story teller and hope you never go through this again.
I have been reading threads on this website for some time with out registering but after reading this specific thread I just had to register to comment. I have never laughed so hard in my life and I must say I did not feel grossed out at all even though I read the whole thread in one seating. I just have to say I found my new home with you all. You guys are the greatest!!
BTW I know other people have said this but Broomstick, I must say you are a great story teller and hope you never go through this again.
:: shudder ::
I think I’m becoming more wussy in my old age. I read The TMI Thread giggling, but this one is makin’ me queasy. But I still read it all…
Ok, to share.
I’m lucky not to get zits on my face. (Actually I every now and then I get one on my scalp, but it’ll be covered by my hair). However, once I had one big pus-ey fucker explode a’ right offa my shoulder blade.
Thing is, I previously thought it was a mole. You know how you can never remember how long you’ve had a particular sun spot or blemish? Well this once was around for so long, I assumed I was born with it. Kinda like a birth mark, all benign like.
One evening in the shower I noticed this “mole” was itchy. Unthinking, I scritched it. It was still annoying me, so I shrugged my shoulder so the “mole” was closer to the hot spray. It felt kinda lumpy under my hand. I rubbed it with my wash cloth – hard!
pop!
Immediately, I felt hot goo run down my back. I yelped in pain and surprise and clutched behind my shoulder. Unseeing, I grabbed a handful of pus of my back. Shrieking now (how embarassing :o), I flicked my hand at the shower screen.
splat!
Yellow runny pus dripped down the steamy glass, leaving in its wake a ball of hard goop. Dazed, I scraped it up. It was hard, but rubbery. (Kinda like those knuckle bones you get in your mouth knawing on the end of a chicken leg, but smaller.) It was dark like a mole, and slippery.
Once I got over the shock, I was almost in awe at my achievement. Like a broody chicken, I even considered keeping it. But I didn’t. I washed my Ball of Hard Goop down the drain hole and sprayed the pus off my back. The hole where Ball of Hard Goop emerged healed up. Where I once had a mole (or so I thought), my skin is now baby smooth.
Welcome, LucChiq!. You are going to love it here. Now that you have posted for the first time it will get easier and easier, and soon you will be like the rest of us, chained to your computer and the SDMB.
Narrad… I’m so jealous!!!
Ahhh! I love zits. Doesn’t everyone?
Unfortunately, I don’t have many good zit stories of my own. The oddest zit, however, I got below my eyebrow, on that soft, thin skin above your eyeball. I caught it gently between my thumb nails, then squeezed delicately. This…yellow ball thing… squirted out. I looked so much like ant pupae I actually wondered if an insect of some kind had laid an egg on my face.
But for a true MonsterZIT story, I shall have to relate to the SDMB the tale of the monstrosity that erupted on my brother’s back a couple of summers back. I was sitting in my room, watching TV, when bro strolls in, shirtless. He tells me something, then turns around to leave, at which point I spy what can only be described as a volcanoe on his back, right below his shoulder blade. I shriek, leap forward, and pinch the end, which splatters everywhere. Bro yelps, then feels the spot tenderly, a puzzled look on his face as he examines the spot from whence the monstrosity came.
Though I pinched off about half of it, the MonsterZIT was still huge. I’m talking a zit so big it had an attitude – it looked you in the face and almost said, “Hey buddy! Whatcha think yer gonna do about me, huh? You think you gonna pop me? I’d like to see you try, sucka!”
I drug bro into the living room where we enlisted the help of our Mom. Despite my fingernails and her pin, we still can’t get that fiend to pop. It’s now standing half an inch off his back, and it’s so big it should have a moon orbiting it. Finally Mom straps on a jumbo-sized bandaid and lets bro go. The next day, we tenderly peel the bandaid off to reveal what looks like a warzone on his back. The thing popped, oozed pus everywhere, bled in a variety of strange colors, you name it.
sigh I love a good family get-together zit pop.
.:Nichol:.
You guys make me proud. This thread went farther then I ever thought it would. I am lovin it.
Ben
Narrad Could you provide a link for “The TMI Thread” you mentioned? My curiosity is getting the bes of me 
Search for these key words:
TMI
Toothbrush
Oldscratch
SPOOFE
But don’t say I didn’t warn you…
have you people NOTHING BETTER TO DO?!?!
Yeesh!
There is nothing better to do! Except sex, and sex rubs you raw if you don’t take breaks every so often.
So how many of you have special tools you use to pop pimples?
Bobby pins (the closed end). Got the idea after a dermatologist cleaned out my face with a tool that looked very similar. Great on blackheads too.
Anyone else?
… will… will you marry me!!!
Okay Narrad… all I could come up with is something about Survivor… My curiosity is getting to the point where it is consuming my life
Btw, do you have any more stories for us Broomstick??
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’m hoping Broomstick develops more painful medical problems. They’re fascinating!
My household has a zit-popping implement, it’s a small piece of metal with a large hole (2mm) and a small hole at the other end. We call it simply “The tool.”
Long ago, I crashed my bike, and skidded to a stop on my shoulder on the dirt/gravel side of the road. My shoulder was fairly bloody, so I went home and scrubbed it out (but not too hard…scrubbing open wounds doesn’t feel that good) and bandaged it up and let it heal. It healed over within a few weeks…but every now and then after it healed, I’d get a pimple on my shoulder. Each one, when I popped it, contained both a little bit of pus and a grain of sand.
I was going to post my oh-so-funny story about nearly getting into a fight for bursting a huge one on my friend’s parents’ hall mirror, and calling him in to admire it, but having read Broomstick’s post, nothing can compare.
Broomstick, you have a rare gift, and not just for oozing pus.