I suppose those who eat their snot make the world a little bit more hygenic for the rest of us but I wouldnt want to kiss one of them.
And Ive never been in the least tempted to eat my own earwax either.
How about biting your toenails?
Sorry, dude. Not since I was four. Maybe five at the absolute oldest.
Picking one’s nose is one thing-THAT everyone does. But hopefully, they do so in private, have a tissue handy, and wash their hands afterwards.
If you like eating your boogers, hey-knock yourself out. Just don’t act like it’s not gross, or that everyone does it.
I was in a bar last night and saw a totally hot, but very grumpy waitress on her break having a good root around in her schnozz and devouring what came out. Mmmm.
The OP as originally stated was started correctly(and answered) in General Questions. The merrymaking after the third post belongs in another fora. Let’s try MPSIMS.
samclem General Questions Moderator
Mine doesn’t even do it. He blows his nose into a tissue.
Robin
True. But it’s not just about cleanilness. Boogers won’t kill you (altough if I find a wedsite dedicated to eating other’s boogers I’m just giving up.) But there’s a good reason for snorting and swallowing certain substances…well depending on you definition of good. But eating your own snot is just…what’s the DMSIV take on it?..icky.
Picking happens. But even when I was 5 I never had a thought to eat it. Anymore than I’d eat a bannana slug (which I hear is pretty nasty).
No we don’t all do it.
I think this thread is a giant whoosh. The booger part was disgusting but believable, but this guy keeps raising the stakes, first with scabs, then with eye detritus. What’s next, toe jams? I ain’t buying it.
All I will admit to is biting my nails–especially my thumbnail–when I’m thinking hard.
This thread really makes the case for the vomit smiley…
I’m not selling anything.
I wanted to know what the stuff is, I got my answer.
How is also mentioning other bits and bobs I may or may not eat be raising the stakes of anything.
If your appalled at the fact I do chew on a booger or two then as night follows day your going to be just as mortified at anything else I may mention.
Not more so.
Toe jam like belly button detritus is foul smelling, and is made up of dead skin, dirt and sweat. Not an obvious candidate for someone to just plop into there mouth on a whim.
Have you not licked a small cut in the past to salve it?
Or am I pushing up the stakes once more with that little revelation :rolleyes:
HA!! 
Not while I have a mouthful of coffee!!!
Oh, as long as I’m here, NO, we don’t all do it…no, not even in private…sheesh.
Sorry, still no sale.
Sucking on a bleeding finger to try and stem the flow of blood is different-I’m not deliberately drinking my own blood. Nor am I really drinking any blood-the flow is miniscule.
And on that note…
“Everybody’s doin’ it, doin’ it doin’ it
Pickin’ their nose and chewin’ it, chewin’ it, chewin’ it…”
(Tell me that’s not going through your head right now)
Likewise I am not a snot-Vampire, I’m not farming it for my own cullinary delight.
I don’t see it as poisonous in the same way your own blood is not going to have a detrimental effect on you if you taste it.
The hygiene issue as I see it is more to stop children putting there fingers in there nose and mouth as it is the hands that pick up the most dirt bacteria.
So shoving them into sensitive parts of the body is seen as a no-no.
Same reason why dirty hands should be kept away from the eyes.
As for eye-gunk - “sleep”, if this stuff was detrimental to my health then I would have thought my eye might pick up on it first. What with it being the most sensitive organ in the human body.
Scabs are dried oxygenated coagulated blood, more often then not enfused with lashings of disinfectant. They are also clean to the same degree as the rest of your body after a shower.
I can’t see a heck of alot in there that is going lead to a full body shutdown if I do nibble on it. Any less then licking a bleeding cut on a finger.
Now if I was purpousefully removing scabs early so as to prevent the healing process and was thereby “farming” my scab habit. Then yes that would be pretty disgusting and ChefGuy would be vindicated in not making a purchase.
As it is, I don’t and he isn’t.
I’m just tickled that this thread has provoked more (mock?) outrage and disgust than threads on popping gigantic zits or swallowing someone else’s bodily secretions or even commercial cannibalism. .
Seriously, it just goes to show how strong that early impact was of your mother slapping your hand away from your nose and making an icky face. 'Cause, ALL babies and kids do it. Without exception. Okay, I guess thalidomide babies don’t. But all babies who can reach finger to nose pick their nose (if there was one argument for intelligent design that I might accept, it’s how perfectly formed and sized the fingers are for extracting boogers), and all of them taste what results, just like they taste everything else in their environment.
I vant to suck your boogers!
Booger eating is disgusting. Coming from me, that says a lot.
Well, it is now. Fuck.
I’ll stick to booger eating over shoving a ladle up my butt anyday
So… is there anyone here who claims not only not to eat it, but in fact not to pick it?
Boogers, scabs, sun peelings, zit burst, eye crud, toenails, earwax, eyelashes, eyebrows, nose hairs: I know a person who picks and eats all of these things. My guess is that the OP has a mild disorder similar to trichtillomania / trichophagia, where he feels compelled to remove things from his body and then eat them.
It’s not mainstream, wendigo. Admitting this in public - especially at the lunch table - will make you a pariah. Keep it to yourself.