# Picking your nose and eating it. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 25, 2007, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/picking-your-nose-and-eating-it/397378 "2007-03-25T00:29:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![wendigo1974](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@wendigo1974](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wendigo1974)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2007, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/picking-your-nose-and-eating-it/397378/61 "2007-03-25T21:37:30Z")
[QUOTE=Jurph] Boogers, scabs, sun peelings, zit burst, eye crud, toenails, earwax, eyelashes, eyebrows, nose hairs: trichtillomania / trichophagia, where he feels compelled to remove things from his body and then eat them. [/QUOTE] Boogers : Check Sun peel, skin scrapes : Check Eye Crud : Check Toenails/Fingernails : Check Eyelashes if attached to Eye Crud :Check Nosehairs : Check Never took issue with my eyebrows although I did used to grow one really long grey eyebrow in my early 20’s which I pulled out but did not eat. Although I wouldn’t say I was compelled to pull/poke or pluck … I just do. I’m not paranoid about said items, when they present themselves to me they go down the hatch rather then elsewhere. Oh and yes, it isn’t a conversation for the Dinner Table. Which is why I raised it amongst the anonymity of an internet forum. ---
**Author:** ![wendigo1974](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@wendigo1974](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wendigo1974)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2007, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/picking-your-nose-and-eating-it/397378/62 "2007-03-25T21:59:20Z")
I googled trichtillomania / trichophagia and it is more related to hair-removal and eating as a subconcious behaviour. I don’t think I qualify for that as I’m trying to keep hold of meh blonde locks for as long as possible. Is there another disorder that purely pertains to not being terribly bothered about eating stuff that falls off/out of the human body? ---
**Author:** ![Caridwen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c89c15/32.png) [@Caridwen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caridwen)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2007, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/picking-your-nose-and-eating-it/397378/63 "2007-03-25T22:57:39Z")
**Wendigo1974** , you’ll probably forever be remembered as the SDMB snot eater. I doubt if you’ll have a problem with that. Personally, I’d change my username. ---
**Author:** ![wendigo1974](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@wendigo1974](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wendigo1974)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2007, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/picking-your-nose-and-eating-it/397378/64 "2007-03-25T23:06:52Z")
[QUOTE=Caridwen] **Wendigo1974** , you’ll probably forever be remembered as the SDMB snot eater. I doubt if you’ll have a problem with that. Personally, I’d change my username. [/QUOTE] Everyone has to work from a common ground perspective. Otherwise we’d be changing usernames every other day if we spoke out of turn or were subsequently embarraressed by a posting. That wouldn’t lead to a very stable environment now would it. I’ve said what I do, and that’s what I do. Any guy who subsequently polls in and says he’s a lawyer instantly elevates me 😛 It’s not a lot to get hung up about in the grand scheme of things, let alone changing names for. ---
**Author:** ![MoodIndigo1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@MoodIndigo1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoodIndigo1)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2007, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/picking-your-nose-and-eating-it/397378/65 "2007-03-25T23:49:26Z")
[QUOTE=WhyNot] 'Cause, ALL babies and kids do it. Without exception. Okay, I guess thalidomide babies don’t. [/QUOTE] Thanks for that. I was feeling slightly queasy reading this thread, and this made me snort-- I’m bad. And no, I never eat boogers. I’ve known a couple of people who did; in periods of distraction or concentration they did it in public. (These are boarding school memories, I don’t think I’ve met an adult since then who did, at least not to my knowledge. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/picking-your-nose-and-eating-it/397378/66 "2007-03-26T00:08:50Z")
Since I recently watched a guy drive by in his car and pull his finger out of his nose and nibble off whatever was on it, I’m gonna have to say that while eating the gleanings of your nose treasure hunts is not done by the majority of us, it is done by more than I would like to think of. And yes, everybody picks their nose. The Queen of England picks her nose (well, she might have staff for that). This also reminds me of one of my favourite stand-up comedian bits about homeless people picking their noses in public; of course they pick their noses in public - they don’t have cars! ---
**Author:** ![Carnick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Carnick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carnick)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/picking-your-nose-and-eating-it/397378/67 "2007-03-26T01:31:55Z")
I think you’re horribly mistaken if you think everyone above the age of five does it. Hell I used to do it when I was VERY young, but now the thought makes me want to puke, and I’m not easily disgusted. I know that the mouth and sinuses are connected so we’re all probably drinking snot a lot more than we’d like to admit, but still. Ew. It reminds me of an old America’s Funniest Home Videos of a little boy sticking boogers into his sleeping brother’s open mouth, which I had repressed until now. Thanks, I’m gonna go vomit now. Hey, let’s hijack this thread onto a happier topic. What’s the strangest place you’ve stuck a booger? Go! ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/picking-your-nose-and-eating-it/397378/68 "2007-03-26T02:28:56Z")
Is this thread a propos of [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VaP1HB7Vew) ? :dubious: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/picking-your-nose-and-eating-it/397378.md?page=3)