# What grosses you out? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 3, 2003, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-grosses-you-out/185956 "2003-07-03T04:58:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Melanie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Melanie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melanie)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-grosses-you-out/185956/1 "2003-07-03T04:58:22Z")
Here are my two grossest stories of all time. A friend took his dog and a pedigree stud to a ‘dog manipulator’ because the doggies were not getting it on. This man proceeds to spank off the dog, suck up the dog sprog using a pipette and his MOUTH, spits out some that got in his mouth by accident, sticks the pipette in the female doggie and then follows it by shoving his finger up there (just to check???). ‘Ah there goes her orgasm’ he announces proudly. What an interesting job for the resume (imagine the job description and list of skills learnt). In primary school, my friend opened her bottle of liquid paper/white out/that stuff you paint on over your mistakes and somehow it flicked up and she got a gob in her eye. She was taken to hospital where they gave her a local anesthetic and then she had to keep her eye open and watch while they scraped the dried liquid paper off with a sharp metallic instrument. Aggggh. Others? ---
**Author:** ![samarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@samarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samarm)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-grosses-you-out/185956/2 "2003-07-03T05:01:32Z")
The first story is a joke, yes? Please tell me it is a joke! ---
**Author:** ![Melanie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Melanie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melanie)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-grosses-you-out/185956/3 "2003-07-03T05:07:27Z")
Samarm, Its no joke. I’m sorry. I took me days to recover. Mel. ---
**Author:** ![samarm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4da419/32.png) [@samarm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samarm)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-grosses-you-out/185956/4 "2003-07-03T05:09:32Z")
Now seriously, you’re saying that he sucked some dog semen into his mouth and then spits it out? That is possibly the most disgusting things I have heard in a long time. ---
**Author:** ![tram2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3da27b/32.png) [@tram2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tram2)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-grosses-you-out/185956/5 "2003-07-03T05:12:36Z")
People who scrape the fork on their teeth… gives me the willies just thinking about it. ---
**Author:** ![Melanie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Melanie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melanie)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-grosses-you-out/185956/6 "2003-07-03T05:37:52Z")
Samarm, Do you know those pipettes that have no suction mechanism and you have to use your mouth? We used to use them in high school chem and I was terrified. Why he can’t invest in a regular syringe I’ll never know. 10 years ago they were hard to get because they were worried you were going to inject drugs but now they give em away in buddles just in case you inject drugs. Mel. ---
**Author:** ![Drabble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8491ac/32.png) [@Drabble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drabble)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-grosses-you-out/185956/7 "2003-07-03T05:45:31Z")
If you ever go to vet school or whatever, dog semen would hardly faze you, I’m sure! Anyway…safety training is the worst! A guy told a story about when he changed tires. He forgot his goggles. The tire explodes and he gets gravel imbedded into his eyeballs. He went into great detail about the scraping and how much light hurt his eyes after. ughgh. I accidently came across this site where people have poo fetishes…let me tell you how I almost vomitted!! Scat lovers…that was it!! Never type a site address in wrong!! ---
**Author:** ![vasyachkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c5a1d2/32.png) [@vasyachkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vasyachkin)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-grosses-you-out/185956/8 "2003-07-03T07:36:01Z")
ye Mel, that first one is pretty bad 🙂 i would say on par with that other one posted in the BBQ pit some time ago where a man ate his own penis and then his gay lover ate the rest of him. ---
**Author:** ![Atomic\_Badger\_Racing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@Atomic\_Badger\_Racing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Badger_Racing)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-grosses-you-out/185956/9 "2003-07-03T09:37:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by samarm \* > \*\*Now seriously, you’re saying that he sucked some dog semen into his mouth and then spits it out? That is possibly the most disgusting things I have heard in a long time. \*\* Wouldn’t it be worse if he _didn’t_ spit it out? ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-grosses-you-out/185956/10 "2003-07-03T09:43:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Melanie \* > \*\*Here are my two grossest stories of all time. > > A friend took his dog and a pedigree stud to a ‘dog manipulator’ because the doggies were not getting it on. This man proceeds to spank off the dog, suck up the dog sprog using a pipette and his MOUTH, spits out some that got in his mouth by accident, sticks the pipette in the female doggie and then follows it by shoving his finger up there (just to check???). > > \*\* You win the **GROSS** contest **Melanie**. Nothing, and I mean NOTHING could beat that. Ewwwwwwwwwwwww. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-grosses-you-out/185956/11 "2003-07-03T10:46:26Z")
Quite a tame one for me: Foreign bodies in my food - chewing at a mouthful of sandwich and suddenly there’s something much too crunchy, or gritty, or there’s a long HAIR in it, but you can’t get it out of your mouth because it is all mixed up with the food and your mother-in-law is visiting. ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-grosses-you-out/185956/12 "2003-07-03T12:00:26Z")
I have a fairly high gross-out tolerance, but some things totally get me. One is a phlegmy cough. I can’t stand that sound and it really challenges me to hang on to me lunch. The other is any story having to do with eyeballs. Yeah, the doggie semen story is nasty, but there were some responses in the “What’s your grossest medical procedure” thread that were all about the eyeballs and they did me in far worse than anything. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-grosses-you-out/185956/13 "2003-07-03T12:33:15Z")
That photoshopped picture of a human breast combined with a lotus fruit came close to launching my lunch the other day. ---
**Author:** ![kimlittle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ea666f/32.png) [@kimlittle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kimlittle)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-grosses-you-out/185956/14 "2003-07-03T12:38:13Z")
The worst thing is lifting the lid on the dumpster and getting a lungful of rot gasses. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-grosses-you-out/185956/15 "2003-07-03T12:42:51Z")
What a lovely thread! I caught a fish hook and the attached weight in my eye. Ripped my eyelid halfway off. They kept me awake while they sewed it back on. Then they shoved a long, thin, proby-thing into my smashed tear duct to unblock it. All of the tears that were backed up in it came out my nose. My pupil was egg-shaped for years. But my vision came through unscathed. Gross, huh? ---
**Author:** ![YoudNeverGuess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a587f6/32.png) [@YoudNeverGuess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YoudNeverGuess)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-grosses-you-out/185956/16 "2003-07-03T12:59:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by tram2 \* > \*\*People who scrape the fork on their teeth… gives me the willies just thinking about it. \*\* Me too. And people who eat noisily or chew gum noisily/ with their mouth open. Phlegmy coughs can be gross too. People who spit on the street! I also once bit into a rotten hard boiled egg and retched immediately. Most disgusting thing I have ever tasted. ---
**Author:** ![Tarantula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e274bd/32.png) [@Tarantula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tarantula)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-grosses-you-out/185956/17 "2003-07-03T13:05:16Z")
“Ass-on-Face” aka “the Arabian Gas-mask” Now **that’s** skanky ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-grosses-you-out/185956/18 "2003-07-03T13:16:09Z")
Any type of eye surgery or joint surgery…which I’ve caught glimpses of passing the surgey stuff on one of those cable channels. I don’t care if they are ripping the heart out of some guy, or disemboweling him, but joint and eye surgery make me feel the pain. Also, ashtrays and worse: People who use drinks/drink cups for ashtrays, and the thought of someone gulping it by accident - which of course happens every now and then. I just made myself ill. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Martiju](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@Martiju](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martiju)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-grosses-you-out/185956/19 "2003-07-03T13:17:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Melanie \* > \*\*…sticks the pipette in the female doggie and then follows it by shoving his finger up there (just to check???). ‘Ah there goes her orgasm’ he announces proudly. What an interesting job for the resume (imagine the job description and list of skills learnt). > \*\* Dogs have orgasms? Really?! I’ll add this one to the :dubious: pile! J. ---
**Author:** ![Yersinia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/6bbea6/32.png) [@Yersinia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yersinia)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2003, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-grosses-you-out/185956/20 "2003-07-03T13:48:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Melanie \* > \*\*Samarm, > Do you know those pipettes that have no suction mechanism and you have to use your mouth? We used to use them in high school chem and I was terrified. Why he can’t invest in a regular syringe I’ll never know. 10 years ago they were hard to get because they were worried you were going to inject drugs but now they give em away in buddles just in case you inject drugs. > Mel. \*\* Ahhh, you think that’s bad? They used to mouth-pipette in MICROBIOLOGY labs on a routine basis, until OSHA made it illegal. But still, some of the microbiologists I used to work with, the “old-timers,” were so accustomed to mouth pipetting after 10, 20 or 30 years they did it anyway because for them it was easier, faster and more accurate than using the pipette pumps which came out (in the small contract testing lab I started in; not the big pharmaceutical companies I worked in later). Me, I was a “half-way” between the mouth pipetters and the pump pipetters: if I was pipetting microorganisms from tubes of broth, I used the pump without fail; if I was pipetting uninoculated media sometimes I mouth pipetted. (I wanted to make sure to be ABLE to do it, even though it wasn’t my standard practice.) I gotta say it was an experience to see some of my colleagues mouth-pipetting Salmonellae from one test tube to another, LOL. Surprisingly, none of them ever swallowed it by mistake. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-grosses-you-out/185956.md?page=2)