Don’t know if it qualifies as an injury, but my dad’s nose used to bleed when he did the “silent sneeze”. Eventually he decided, to hell with decorum, and now he just lets rip with a high-decibel roaring sneeze. As do I. Some people find this frightening, but it can be very satisfying.
I am man, hear me sneeze.
PS ThisYearsGirl, are you named after a Buffy episode?
But it just seems like a bad idea.
Sneezing is the body’s defense mechanism to rid itself of an irritant. When you sneeze into your shirt, you would be placing the germs, dust and whatever the body was trying to rid itself of but is now encased in mucous right back under your nose again only to be breathed back in.
Please don’t do this; it is unsanitary and just plain icky.
If you have a tissue use it.
If you are tissueless, turn your head over your shoulder.
If you are in close quarters where you would be sneezing into someone’s face or person, use your hand.
BY ALL MEANS WASH YOUR HANDS AFTER YOU SNEEZE, COUGH OR TOUCH YOUR EYES OR NOSE WHETHER YOU USED A TISSUE OR NOT.
Over 90% of colds and viral infections are spread through direct tranmission. Not only cold germs but bacteria from people using the bathroom and not washing their hand, people touching contaminated surfaces and then touching you, your food or some surface that you later touch.
Believe me everything is crawling with germs. Good frequent handwashing is our best defense.
eh, nuts to that.
I’ll keep sneezing down my shirt.
Unless I’m misunderstanding you:
I know I’m weird, but my nose is on my face. It is not under my nipple. If I sneeze down my shirt, How would I be breathing it back in?
And mermaid, germs aren’t that bad. C’MERE & gimme a big snotty hug!
I sneeze down my pants. Yes, it requires flexibility, but this comes in handy on those cold, lonely nights…
50 % tissue sneezer (tissue held in hand)
49 % elbow sneezer… I love the “vampire sneeze” ROTFL!
1 % turning away from everybody else - bending down and sneezing on the ground… it is not as yucky as it sounds…
If I could sneeze down my pants I’d never leave the house. (Isn’t that how that goes?)
Also, St. Attila I assume you’re talking about the BACK of your pants. right?
Unless you ARE very weird, your nipples are under your nose. Look at your nares (nose holes) What direction are they pointed. Not up in the air (I hope) The next time you sneeze and you open your shirt to deposit yet another load of bacteria, the previous deposits wil have been incubated in the nice warm moist environment under your shirt. Ready to breath in again
Trust me I’m a professional. Just wash your hands already, and take a bath too. THEN we’ll talk about a hug.
Well, i’ve got your regular, common domestic sneeze…
And then i’ve got your free range, buffalo scareing, mind shattering, ear splitting, tree knock downing, tissue vaporizing, death ray like, frightening like lightening, Thor impressing SNEEZE TO END ALL SNEEZES
i only get it when i’m sick, which is no good, cause mum would always know if i was sick when i didn’t want to be, and and not sick when i did want to be.
It goes a little something like:
“waaaaaaaaamaagaehnaballllttKAAAAAAAAEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHAAAAAA
AAAAAFUCKINGCHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO”
And if i ever tried to sneeze that down my shirt… well i just don’t want to think about it…
I don’t doubt that when I engage in this habit, that in my shirt there is a festering cesspool of germs that could wipe out several villages in Kenya.
However, I don’t breathe in when I open my shirt. It’s in one quick motion, sneeze and close.
>makes mental note that you can’t tell some people anything
Ok fine, mouthbreather and all your down-the-shirt-sneezing brothers and sisters, Fine.
>re-reads thread to see just who MB’s family includes and makes mental note never to hug any of them. Ever.
Carry on.
The back of my pants? When I’m bending over like that, the last thing I need is extra in my lower intestinal tract.
WTF does that mean? There’s no way that possible that I might not be breathing in anything that is under a T-shirt and shirt on top of that? 
I didn’t quite understand …
“There’s no way that possible that I might not be breathing in anything that is under a T-shirt and shirt on top of that?”
But, if what you meant to say is “Is there no way possible that I might not be breathing in anything that is under a T-shirt and a shirt that is on top of that.”
Or “is it possible that I might not be breathing in anything that is under a T-shirt with a shirt over that?”
Then the answer is No and No
Bacteria are very small, viruses are smaller still; the openings between fibers in your t-shirt and over shirt are HUGE by comparison. They can get through the holes. I suppose it can be argued that technically you would only need to take precautions against the droplets themselves since the bacteria themselves aren’t airborne, unless we are dealiing with chicken pox, shingles or something like that.
Now I don’t intend to argue with you why it’s a bad idea to sneeze on yourself * on purpose *, I was merely responding to the OP.
You are a person with free will, do what you will.
Sneezing down your shirt seems kinda gross to me… I keep my sneezes in, I sneeze like a cat but without spraying anything anywhere. And I do my silent, nonexpulsive sneezes into my elbow.
See, you CAN tell me something. You originally said (or so I thought) that I would have to breathe from inside my shirt to get the critters back inside me. I said that I don’t do this (take breaths from inside my shirt), and then you ended the argument by implying that I am thickheaded and you can’t reason by me - which may otherwise be very true - but I don’t think I’ve displayed that behavior in this thread. I have no problem believing what you just said, what is quoted above.
This seems to be getting more confrontational than I’d like, which was not my intent. Apologies if that was my fault. I just like to walk around with a warm, snotty chest and stomach. Is that so wrong? 
There is a breast thread over in BBQ: you folks are killing me. Nipples and now mucous covered chests.
Had a deaf co-worker. She couldn’t hear herself sneeze, but we could across the facility. She would open her mouth and let fly. I began sneezing that way on occasion, with no modulation. Very freeing. I think stifling your sneeze is dangerous, pop you eardrums or force snot too deep in your sinuses or something. If I am in a situation where the tickle is there but I ought not to sneeze (like the symphony) I apply pressure to the point directly below my septum (above the upper lip) and moan softly to myself. Usually works for a while. But when it finally comes out watch out.
The first time I 'deaf sneezed’in front of my wife she dropped a glass.
Hey if you like it, it’s ok with me
{{{{{mouthbreather}}}}}
If the sneeze comes to quick for me to catch it in any way and I’m wearing a low cut shirt (which is fairly often) it ends up going down my shirt because of the way my head goes forward or whatever. It’s kinda gross but hey whatever floats your boat 
Personally I normally have a tissue or steal my dads hankerchief or cover my nose with the back of my hand and now you know more than your ever wanted to about me and my nose.
Yeah, until one day on the bus the guy sitting next to you gets snot and ear wax sprayed all over him…
mumble. That’ll teach me to post a duplicate on the SDMB without doing a search first.
Anyway, as I (sort of) mentioned elsewhere, I always sneeze into my elbow/shoulder. Nobody’s gonna touch me there, and by the time someone does, the microbes are presumably dead. I never sneeze into my hands, and I think it’s rather disgusting - I mean, you touch EVERYTHING with your hands! That’s the LAST place I’d want little snot-droplets to be.
I don’t hold in sneezes either, but (perhaps because of that) my sneezes are not loud or annoying.