# OMG OMG OMG Gross Gross! I touched someone's loogie! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 14, 2011, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-omg-omg-gross-gross-i-touched-someones-loogie/574672 "2011-03-14T17:14:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Silver\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2011, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-omg-omg-gross-gross-i-touched-someones-loogie/574672/21 "2011-03-15T12:40:47Z")
> [@Stoid](#): > > Jeepers, people, it’s not dumpster diving. Yeah, but it’s still nasty. You know how I know? Because you started a thread titled “OMG OMG OMG Gross Gross!” ---
**Author:** ![Lorski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Lorski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lorski)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2011, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-omg-omg-gross-gross-i-touched-someones-loogie/574672/22 "2011-03-15T12:52:11Z")
> [@wheresgeorge04](#): > > Jeez, it’s only a loogie. Just lick it off. > > Joe _hurk__gag_ We need a puking smilie…🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2011, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-omg-omg-gross-gross-i-touched-someones-loogie/574672/23 "2011-03-15T16:52:17Z")
> [@Stoid](#): > > Jeepers, people, it’s not dumpster diving. It’s not? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2011, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-omg-omg-gross-gross-i-touched-someones-loogie/574672/24 "2011-03-15T17:59:11Z")
> [@Autolycus](#): > > If you found a slice of pizza on the top, untouched, would you eat it? That is a stupid question and I can’t imagine why you’d ask it. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2011, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-omg-omg-gross-gross-i-touched-someones-loogie/574672/25 "2011-03-15T18:02:29Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > It’s not? :dubious: If the cans contained the garbage from multiple homes, including, food, diapers, and bathroom garbage, and I was the size of a faerie and had to _enter_ the can and slosh around, then I suppose it would be. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2011, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-omg-omg-gross-gross-i-touched-someones-loogie/574672/26 "2011-03-15T18:03:34Z")
> [@Silver\_Fire](#): > > Yeah, but it’s still nasty. You know how I know? Because you started a thread titled “OMG OMG OMG Gross Gross!” True enough… ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2011, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-omg-omg-gross-gross-i-touched-someones-loogie/574672/27 "2011-03-15T18:50:29Z")
If we could get ahold of the liquor store security camera video of **Stoid** ’s “experience” and add in a suitable soundtrack (I’m thinking Randy Newman singing “I Love L.A.”), that baby’d go viral on YouTube in no time. _Look at that mountain Look at those trees Look at that bum over there, man He’s down on his knees Look at these women There ain’t nothin’ like 'em nowhere_ ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2011, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-omg-omg-gross-gross-i-touched-someones-loogie/574672/28 "2011-03-15T19:06:09Z")
> [@Stoid](#): > > If the cans contained the garbage from multiple homes, including, food, diapers, and bathroom garbage, and I was the size of a faerie and had to _enter_ the can and slosh around, then I suppose it would be. You _do_ know that dumpster diving doesn’t actually involve you getting in the dumpster, right? > [@wiki](#): > > Dumpster diving is the practice of sifting through commercial or residential trash to find items that have been discarded by their owners, but which may be useful to the dumpster diver. > [@Urban Dictionary](#): > > Dumpster Diving: > Actively searching through trash in commercial or residential dumpsters to find discarded but usable items; Therefore this _is_ dumpster diving. (and kinda gross, actually). ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2011, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-omg-omg-gross-gross-i-touched-someones-loogie/574672/29 "2011-03-15T19:20:00Z")
> [@Fenris](#): > > ``` > Originally Posted by **Urban Dictionary** > Dumpster Diving: > > ``` > > Actively searching through trash in commercial or residential **dumpsters** to find discarded but usable items; > Therefore this _is_ dumpster diving. (and kinda gross, actually). No dumpster. And yeah, it is kinda, which is why I’ve always been careful…now I’ll be even more so- cold coffee is one thing, cold loogies another. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2011, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-omg-omg-gross-gross-i-touched-someones-loogie/574672/30 "2011-03-15T19:31:44Z")
It’s in the realm of dumpster diving though – the dumpster’s just smaller. ---
**Author:** ![Walmarticus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Walmarticus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walmarticus)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2011, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-omg-omg-gross-gross-i-touched-someones-loogie/574672/31 "2011-03-15T19:50:12Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > It’s in the realm of dumpster diving though – the dumpster’s just smaller. dumpster wading? ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2011, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-omg-omg-gross-gross-i-touched-someones-loogie/574672/32 "2011-03-15T19:59:38Z")
> [@Autolycus](#): > > If you found a slice of pizza on the top, untouched, would you eat it? Ewww dude that’s gross. Now if it’s cornbread then it’s game on. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2011, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-omg-omg-gross-gross-i-touched-someones-loogie/574672/33 "2011-03-15T20:17:36Z")
> [@Walmarticus](#): > > dumpster wading? The issue is the dumpster itself…it’s the size of a bucket. So…bucket diving. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2011, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-omg-omg-gross-gross-i-touched-someones-loogie/574672/34 "2011-03-15T20:18:52Z")
> [@Tahssa](#): > > Ewww dude that’s gross. Now if it’s cornbread then it’s game on. Only if it has plenty of butter. ---
**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:** [March 16, 2011, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-omg-omg-gross-gross-i-touched-someones-loogie/574672/35 "2011-03-16T01:53:33Z")
> [@Stoid](#): > > Jeepers, people, it’s not dumpster diving. I have to admit that I had never considered the subtle difference between dumpster diving and trash can diving. Either way, interesting career choice. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2011, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-omg-omg-gross-gross-i-touched-someones-loogie/574672/36 "2011-03-16T03:30:05Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > Either way, interesting career choice. No time clock to punch! ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2011, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-omg-omg-gross-gross-i-touched-someones-loogie/574672/37 "2011-03-16T16:27:04Z")
> [@Autolycus](#): > > My trite Seinfeld reference has been thwarted by a lapse in memory! > > Replace pizza in my previous post with a giant ham. That which is adjacent to refuse is refuse. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2011, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-omg-omg-gross-gross-i-touched-someones-loogie/574672/38 "2011-03-16T16:56:29Z")
> [@Lord\_Ashtar](#): > > That which is adjacent to refuse is refuse. So if someone dropped a hundred dollar bill in the trash, touching trash, it would cease to be money and become trash? A rolex? A diamond ring? Harsh, dude. ---
**Author:** ![lisacurl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/41988e/32.png) [@lisacurl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisacurl)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2011, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-omg-omg-gross-gross-i-touched-someones-loogie/574672/39 "2011-03-16T16:59:28Z")
I think if \*\*Stoid \*\* is willing to go through what is normally, er, “dry” trash to her net financial benefit, more power to her. I still pick up pennies I see on the ground, after all. After this loogie incident, though, I’d recommend some nitrile gloves. Or you could use leftover plastic grocery bags as an impromptu glove… although you might want to use two at a time (as I do when I use them as emergency doggy poo pickup bags). ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2011, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-omg-omg-gross-gross-i-touched-someones-loogie/574672/40 "2011-03-16T17:01:33Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > If we could get ahold of the liquor store security camera video of **Stoid** ’s “experience” and add in a suitable soundtrack (I’m thinking Randy Newman singing “I Love L.A.”), that baby’d go viral on YouTube in no time. Good suggestion. But the answer is always\* “Yakety Sax”. [Proof](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-lBMG2sIc8&feature=related). \*Unless it’s a montage, in which case the answer is always “You’re the Best Around”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-omg-omg-gross-gross-i-touched-someones-loogie/574672.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/omg-omg-omg-gross-gross-i-touched-someones-loogie/574672.md?page=3)