# I just accidentally ate a pube **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 22, 2012, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-accidentally-ate-a-pube/629012 "2012-07-22T01:57:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Simple\_Linctus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Simple\_Linctus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simple_Linctus)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-accidentally-ate-a-pube/629012/1 "2012-07-22T01:57:34Z")
I thought I was eating nostril hair. Truthfully, that’s not a good reason, is it? Time to go to bed I think. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-accidentally-ate-a-pube/629012/2 "2012-07-22T01:58:50Z")
As long as it was your own or your lover’s, we all might be guilty of that from time to time. If not… well… ---
**Author:** ![humblebumble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@humblebumble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/humblebumble)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-accidentally-ate-a-pube/629012/3 "2012-07-22T02:00:09Z")
Go on… ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-accidentally-ate-a-pube/629012/4 "2012-07-22T02:01:37Z")
You are supposed to floss after eating. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-accidentally-ate-a-pube/629012/5 "2012-07-22T02:02:03Z")
AKA poor man’s dental floss. ---
**Author:** ![ThisSpaceForRent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thisspaceforrent/32/345_2.png) [@ThisSpaceForRent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisSpaceForRent)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-accidentally-ate-a-pube/629012/6 "2012-07-22T02:25:24Z")
> [@Confused dart cum](#): > > I thought I was eating nostril hair. Truthfully, that’s not a good reason, is it? > > Time to go to bed I think. Class of 2012 once again shows ignorance…nothing to see here. zzzzzz… ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-accidentally-ate-a-pube/629012/7 "2012-07-22T12:22:08Z")
Call Clarence Thomas. He knows what to do with those. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-accidentally-ate-a-pube/629012/8 "2012-07-22T16:29:22Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > Call Clarence Thomas. He knows what to do with those. No, call Robert Bork. He keeps his on his chin. ---
**Author:** ![Curiosity\_Kills\_Her](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@Curiosity\_Kills\_Her](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Curiosity_Kills_Her)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-accidentally-ate-a-pube/629012/9 "2012-07-22T16:32:40Z")
_The whole thing?_ ---
**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:** [July 22, 2012, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-accidentally-ate-a-pube/629012/10 "2012-07-22T16:35:59Z")
Scott Tenorman? Is that you? ---
**Author:** ![Simple\_Linctus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Simple\_Linctus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simple_Linctus)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-accidentally-ate-a-pube/629012/11 "2012-07-22T16:44:13Z")
I was sitting at the computer naked, and pulling out long nostril hairs and eating them (I assume you probably shouldn’t do this but no one has actually ever told me not to). Anyhow somehow with the nakeness, my not concentrating on hands, and not thinking I ate one of my own pubes and only realised when it was too late. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-accidentally-ate-a-pube/629012/12 "2012-07-22T16:51:49Z")
Anyone else suddenly feel the need to lobby for year-round school? ---
**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:** [July 22, 2012, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-accidentally-ate-a-pube/629012/13 "2012-07-22T17:05:34Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > Anyone else suddenly feel the need to lobby for year-round school? \ ---
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-accidentally-ate-a-pube/629012/14 "2012-07-22T17:07:28Z")
How fucking long are your nostril hairs??? ---
**Author:** ![tapu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@tapu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tapu)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-accidentally-ate-a-pube/629012/15 "2012-07-22T17:12:43Z")
There are a lot worse things to eat. Ask any woman. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2012, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-accidentally-ate-a-pube/629012/16 "2012-07-23T00:39:16Z")
Feh. My Wife is a very conservative woman. If there were any health dangers from swallowing pubic hair, I would have been dead twenty years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Recusant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/838e76/32.png) [@Recusant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Recusant)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2012, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-accidentally-ate-a-pube/629012/17 "2012-07-23T02:25:54Z")
I don’t think what’s called for here is more schooling so much as more dictionaries- you know how those things on your scalp aren’t called heads? Same deal here. The ‘pube’ isn’t the hair, it’s what the hair grows on. ---
**Author:** ![tapu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@tapu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tapu)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2012, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-accidentally-ate-a-pube/629012/18 "2012-07-23T02:49:04Z")
“Pube” is used for pubic hair in the parlance of today. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2012, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-accidentally-ate-a-pube/629012/19 "2012-07-23T18:05:03Z")
> [@Confused dart cum](#): > > I was sitting at the computer naked, and pulling out long nostril hairs and eating them (I assume you probably shouldn’t do this but no one has actually ever told me not to). what the… \ you were eating your nostril hairs? On purpose? the fuck, dude? ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2012, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-accidentally-ate-a-pube/629012/20 "2012-07-23T18:06:16Z")
> [@tapu](#): > > There are a lot worse things to eat. Ask any woman. Ok. What worse things are there to eat? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-just-accidentally-ate-a-pube/629012.md?page=2)