# Stick a Q-Tip as deep as you can into your bellybutton... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 12, 2006, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stick-a-q-tip-as-deep-as-you-can-into-your-bellybutton/360495 "2006-06-12T21:51:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2006, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stick-a-q-tip-as-deep-as-you-can-into-your-bellybutton/360495/1 "2006-06-12T21:51:46Z")
Does the mere thought of this cause your hairs to stand on end and your entire body to suddenly feel all trembly and sweaty? Because I just thought of this the other day (no reason) and I realized that it completely freaks me out. That, and a deep papercut ON YOUR EYEBALL. Just imagine the feeling of a piece of paper slicing open your eyeball…YeeaaaAChhKkhhhuubbabaooogabooga!!! Do other people spend time thinking of stuff like this? Or is it just me? ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2006, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stick-a-q-tip-as-deep-as-you-can-into-your-bellybutton/360495/2 "2006-06-12T21:58:49Z")
I have to close my eyes shut really tight when snapping a three-ring binder closed because I am irrationally frightened of closing it on my eyeball. You are not alone. ---
**Author:** ![Viridiana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ebca7d/32.png) [@Viridiana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Viridiana)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2006, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stick-a-q-tip-as-deep-as-you-can-into-your-bellybutton/360495/3 "2006-06-12T22:52:10Z")
I frequently comtemplate both instances with fear (a friend actually got a papercut on her eyeball once - she didn’t seem too phased but I couldn’t stop shivering upon hearing of it), as well as getting fork tines stuck between my teeth, accidentally shaving off extremities such as lips or nipples (no, I don’t shave either) and getting chopsticks stuck in my brain (through the ear) - that one was due to childhood trauma. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2006, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stick-a-q-tip-as-deep-as-you-can-into-your-bellybutton/360495/4 "2006-06-12T23:08:15Z")
I also harbor a secret fear about popcorn bits getting up between my teeth and my gums and then rotting, and all the while I have no clue, until one day - my tooth falls out and green slimy pus gets in my mouth. Blearghh. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2006, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stick-a-q-tip-as-deep-as-you-can-into-your-bellybutton/360495/5 "2006-06-12T23:12:33Z")
If I do the thing with the Q-tip I get a sharp pain all up my insides. And the Q-tip doesn’t smell good afterwards. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2006, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stick-a-q-tip-as-deep-as-you-can-into-your-bellybutton/360495/6 "2006-06-12T23:17:33Z")
I have the same belly-button/q-tip reaction that **jjimm** does. I also don’t have too much eye-related squeamishness, but I just found a new horrible idea to torment myself with, while reading a pit thread: Being barefoot… in a movie theater… during a children’s matinee. _-the stickiness-_ …nnngnnn… ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2006, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stick-a-q-tip-as-deep-as-you-can-into-your-bellybutton/360495/7 "2006-06-12T23:20:12Z")
What scares me: having my balls crushed by an elephant. Or a vise. ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2006, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stick-a-q-tip-as-deep-as-you-can-into-your-bellybutton/360495/8 "2006-06-12T23:28:35Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > What scares me: having my balls crushed by an elephant. Or a vise. Is there anything that could crush your balls that _wouldn’t_ scare you? Just wondering. ---
**Author:** ![congodwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2006, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stick-a-q-tip-as-deep-as-you-can-into-your-bellybutton/360495/9 "2006-06-12T23:34:39Z")
The paperclip on the eyeball doesn’t bother me. I’ve had both a pencil point and a fork stuck in my eye. So, eye accidents don’t really get to me. I love science and I loved discecting stuff in school. Even though things in my own eye don’t bother me, just the idea of Lasik surgery grosses me out. I can watch all kinds of medical shows without a single shudder but watching Lasik makes me almost pass out. I don’t get grossed out by sticking things in my bellybutton. But, I know from experience that pushing anything too far in there hurts pretty damn bad. I clean mine out pretty regularly and it always hurts. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2006, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stick-a-q-tip-as-deep-as-you-can-into-your-bellybutton/360495/10 "2006-06-12T23:39:34Z")
> [@Ghanima](#): > > Is there anything that could crush your balls that _wouldn’t_ scare you? Just wondering. Shakira. ---
**Author:** ![drewbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drewbert/32/15890_2.png) [@drewbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewbert)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2006, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stick-a-q-tip-as-deep-as-you-can-into-your-bellybutton/360495/11 "2006-06-12T23:39:37Z")
Belly button? No problem. I just did it in fact, just to be sure. However anything to do with eyeballs is too scary for words. ---
**Author:** ![YaWanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/bbce88/32.png) [@YaWanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YaWanna)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2006, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stick-a-q-tip-as-deep-as-you-can-into-your-bellybutton/360495/12 "2006-06-12T23:41:30Z")
> [@Ghanima](#): > > That, and a deep papercut ON YOUR EYEBALL. Just imagine the feeling of a piece of paper slicing open your eyeball…YeeaaaAChhKkhhhuubbabaooogabooga!!! > > Do other people spend time thinking of stuff like this? Or is it just me? OMG - that is exactly my worst irrational fear! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2006, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stick-a-q-tip-as-deep-as-you-can-into-your-bellybutton/360495/13 "2006-06-12T23:41:51Z")
Even the replies about the Q-Tip/Bellybutton question are making me shudder. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Bird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Little\_Bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Bird)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2006, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stick-a-q-tip-as-deep-as-you-can-into-your-bellybutton/360495/14 "2006-06-13T03:17:33Z")
Q-tip in belly button–whatever. Papercut on eyeball–neeeeeagggghhhh _shudder_ Catching the tendons of my neck on a clotheshanger hook–egads, it took me 90 seconds to type that sentance because I was freaking out so bad. I can’t even look at \*other \*people having things touch their neck, much less have anything touch my own. I also can’t look dead on to a pencil or other pointy object because I’m sure I’m gonna fall on it and gouge out my eye. And many, many other crazy things. :rolleyes: ☹ ---
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2006, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stick-a-q-tip-as-deep-as-you-can-into-your-bellybutton/360495/15 "2006-06-13T03:32:52Z")
I was having my teeth cleaned at the dentists a while ago. As the tech was scraping my teeth with the curved hook of maiming, I wondered what it would feel like if she slipped and slashed my gums really bad. This was almost a self-fulfilling thought as I almost sat up in fear. Every time I get shampoo in my eyes I think they’re going to corrode away. It doesn’t hurt _that_ bad, but it makes me feel like damage is being done. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2006, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stick-a-q-tip-as-deep-as-you-can-into-your-bellybutton/360495/16 "2006-06-13T05:46:21Z")
[In which Smeghead has all sorts of things inserted into and coming out of his navel.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=375002&highlight=navel) Not for the overly squeamish. I’ll just point out that at one point, I had several foot-long cotton swabs sticking up out of my navel as I lay on a doctor’s examination table. It was my impression of a flower vase. ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2006, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stick-a-q-tip-as-deep-as-you-can-into-your-bellybutton/360495/17 "2006-06-13T07:06:20Z")
Q-tip in your bellybutton? Child’s play…ticklish, maybe. Q-tip going down your urethra? … :eek: ---
**Author:** ![KJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b2d939/32.png) [@KJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KJ)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2006, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stick-a-q-tip-as-deep-as-you-can-into-your-bellybutton/360495/18 "2006-06-13T07:38:27Z")
Somehow, I can tolerate thinking about most of the stuff in this thread. The eye stuff doesn’t get to me that much…one time I randomly found a video on Google Video of an eye surgery being performed, and after the intiial HUUUEEAYYYGUAAAHHH reaction, I actually found it fascinating to watch. What sends chillds down my spine is the idea of being barefoot and having one of my toes caught in a piece of machinery and ripped off. I can’t imagine a situation where that would ever be likely to happen to me, but thinking about it makes me shudder. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2006, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stick-a-q-tip-as-deep-as-you-can-into-your-bellybutton/360495/19 "2006-06-13T07:50:06Z")
> [@KJ](#): > > Somehow, I can tolerate thinking about most of the stuff in this thread. The eye stuff doesn’t get to me that much…one time I randomly found a video on Google Video of an eye surgery being performed, and after the intiial HUUUEEAYYYGUAAAHHH reaction, I actually found it fascinating to watch. I have my own laser eye surgery on tape. ---
**Author:** ![Tikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5daacb/32.png) [@Tikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tikki)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2006, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stick-a-q-tip-as-deep-as-you-can-into-your-bellybutton/360495/20 "2006-06-13T08:23:50Z")
Gee, thanks for the paper cut to the eyeball image. Before this, all I had to worry about was getting zapped by a static shock to the eyeball every time I empty a dryer. Everything else on here so far, meh. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stick-a-q-tip-as-deep-as-you-can-into-your-bellybutton/360495.md?page=2)