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Underwear is WAY Grosser than a hanky. What a bunch of over-reactors we have here.
I have an idea, let’s start a new trend of using only air hankies (AKA Snot Rocket) from now on. No trash, no laundry.
You may think it’s disgusting, but it’snot.
THREE CHEERS FOR DEFORESTATION
THAT DESTROYS THE GLOBAL ECOLOGY!
HIP!
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PHOOEY!
I bet your kids use disposable diapers, too. :rolleyes:
If I did, yes, they would. I know, and I think that everyone else knows, that they are terrible for the environment; however, I have never known anyone that has kids that doesn’t use them. Doesn’t make it right, just saying…
Well, it’s mighty interesting to read about different people’s reactions to ordinary substances. Maybe some mommies did more overacting than others when it came to teaching children about blowing their noses.
It’s peculiar that there’s so much revulsion from the idea of reusing a handkerchief. OMG, :eek: I might touch my nose with :eek: …stuff I wiped off my nose 15 minutes ago! :eek: Yike! I might infect myself with germs I already have in my body! :rolleyes: Ick! Ick! Ick!
Are you also afraid to lick saliva onto your own lips?
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Don’t wear that either. 
try this. spit onto something, then come back 15 mins later and lick it back up. it’s only your own spit right?
My parents didn’t use them, and my father was a journalist and my mother was a medical intern throughout my infancy, so they weren’t exactly swimming in free time.
If I wiped my mouth with my handkerchief, I would not hesitate to pull it out of my pocket to wipe my mouth 15 minutes later. If it were socially acceptable to carry around a box of Puffs, maybe I would. It isn’t and I don’t. I have to make accomodations to the real world.
If you touch and kiss your SO, and get close enough to breathe each other’s air, you share most of your bacteria. There is no reason to use a hazmat suit and tongs to handle your SO’s handkerchiefs and underwear. You’re probably in more danger when you handle raw chicken. If it skeeves you out to handle dirty laundry, wash your hands, like you would after handling raw chicken.
How did it ever come about that men used to offer their handkerchiefs to weeping women. Did they carry 2? One for them, one for potentially weeping women? Hopefully, they remembered which was which.
I’m actually not that skeeved out or prissy, just curious. Again: blow nose, make sure boogie is tucked away, oops, gotta sneeze or blow nose again, reach in, unfold… Now you have to blow/wipe nose with hankie already containing wet snot. Sure, it’s your own snot, but you don’t want to wipe it back on to your nose, right?
Btw, I meant that I didn’t know anyone who used cloth diapers currently or for the last 3 decades. I know my parents and everyone else used cloth ones…they were the only game in town.
I’d take a bite of food with a fork, set the fork down for over 15 minutes and put it back into my mouth. Not only that, but doing what you suggest here, still doesn’t really gross me out. I’ve chewed gum, took it out for the night, and chewed it more the next day.
Oh, and I have a REALLY good one for you, that is probably going to gross out a LOT of people but…
I was umpiring a youth fastpitch game and I asked any of the kids in the dugout if they had a piece of gum for the nice umpire (it helps a little on those hot Georgia days from getting so thirsty). Anyway one of the wiesenheimer kids stuck out her gum that she’d been chewing on and said I could have that piece. Her friends all thought that was funny until I grabbed it from her and chewed the rest of the game.
As I say to my kids… “meh… i’ve had worse things in my mouth”. :dubious: 
:eek: (never have so many smilies been so adequate)
A man is getting a physical and the dr requests a sperm sample, a urine sample, and a stool sample. The man say, “I’m kind of in a hurry, do you min if I just leave my underwear?”
Getting parents to use cloth nappies. What a crock. Aged care facilities use an incredible amount of disposable continence aids; they reduce the prevalence of UTI’s, reduce odour and are better for skin integrity. Suggesting using cloth would probably have you accused of everything up to and including elder abuse.
Why not? Seriously, I can tell you that my dad always used to carry an extra handkerchief; I remember being given it in cases of emergency like runny nose, bloody nose, etc.
Heh. Hands up who blows their nose into their hands in the shower? Or is that just me? Really, it’s not a bad thing at all - the steam loosens up all the snot and it really is the best time for a good blow.
I have always been known as a strong anti-germaphobe but I am sorry, cloth hankies are fucking disgusting plain and simple if even from a social standpoint. I have seen claims in this thread that they are a modern-day necessity because not everyone has access to Kleenex brand tissues at all times. That is why I picked to be born into a First-World country over the other choices offered in Heaven. There is toilet paper, paper towels, off-brand tissues, and even wadded up newspaper in a pinch everywhere. None of these require stuffing mucus soaked cloth in my pockets after the fact. I don’t stuff used condoms in my pockets, no matter where they came from, in my pockets either and that is even more predictable. I am not sure where all of these spontaneous snot orgasms are coming from anyway. I have the flu right now so I manage to keep something around to blow my nose at all times. Even if I forget, someone else has something to offer. This may be a mute point however because I have never met anyone under 75 that does this so some people may be fudging a bit on your age.
Well, you have a few fellow board-members that do…nice to meet you! I actually know quite a few mothers IRL who use cloth diapers.
I use cloth handkerchiefs, too. I usually have a few with me, so not a problem having a clean one. Worst case scenario is that I use it, fold it up, then need it again and use the unused portion with the whole thing still folded up. Then I fold it into an even smaller piece.
I hate, hate, hate our disposable culture. It drives me completely insane when we go over to my parents’ house and they go through an entire roll of paper towels in a day. They have Kleenex boxes EVERYWHERE and hate that I don’t. I feel guilty even using Ziploc bags. It’s such a freaking waste. Not only the actual materials that go into the disposable product, but all the energy it takes to make it, package it, and ship it. Totally unnecessary.
I don’t put my snot in my pocket.
I roll it into a little ball and flick it across the room.
you’re avoiding the question. wiping your mouth does not measure against blowing snot onto your handkerchief. snot has a certain glutinous quality only a hearthy hack from your throat would do justice to the comparison.
is my reaction different from other’s? i find chewing your own overnight gum way more disgusting than chewing a stranger’s (whom you’re willing to kiss).
it’s not about bacteria. it is the difference between swallowing cum and saving it for dinner later.
The lady would only be offered an unused handkerchief, which would not be returned at the time. She would return it after laundering it.