# What's grosser than this? Or, my "ism" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 15, 2001, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-grosser-than-this-or-my-ism/76313 "2001-08-15T01:56:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jane\_says](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/47e85d/32.png) [@jane\_says](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jane_says)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-grosser-than-this-or-my-ism/76313/1 "2001-08-15T01:56:40Z")
Well, probably lots of things, I guess, but for me the ick factor is right up there with nasal-hair-hanging, visible boogers. I absolutely cannot stand to sit down in a chair still warm from someone else’s butt. Even people who have butts that normally aren’t yucky to me at all, like my hubby and Jane the Lesser and Jane the Least. Am I alone here? And if so, what’s your “ism”? ---
**Author:** ![absoul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc8723/32.png) [@absoul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/absoul)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-grosser-than-this-or-my-ism/76313/2 "2001-08-15T03:32:58Z")
…a warm toilet seat? (this is a competition. isn’t it?) ---
**Author:** ![Mercutio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@Mercutio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mercutio)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-grosser-than-this-or-my-ism/76313/3 "2001-08-15T03:46:16Z")
SPOOFE and the toothpaste ---
**Author:** ![Jester](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jester/32/8223_2.png) [@Jester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jester)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-grosser-than-this-or-my-ism/76313/4 "2001-08-15T03:48:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by absoul \* > \*\*…a warm toilet seat? > > (this is a competition. isn’t it?) \*\* Hah! I’ll see your warm toilet seat and raise you a warm, _sweaty_ toilet seat! Now if you’ll excuse me, I must go throw up. ---
**Author:** ![Daowajan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@Daowajan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daowajan)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-grosser-than-this-or-my-ism/76313/5 "2001-08-15T04:25:15Z")
Okay, try this. The following tubes are the same shape, size and color: Vagisil, Crest and prescription zit cream. I wear very, very thick glasses. Usually, anyway. I don’t want to talk about it. ---
**Author:** ![Cleophus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e57/32.png) [@Cleophus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cleophus)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-grosser-than-this-or-my-ism/76313/6 "2001-08-15T04:37:10Z")
It was going to be mentioned sooner or later. Obviously, nothing is nastier than felching. ---
**Author:** ![Cleophus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e57/32.png) [@Cleophus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cleophus)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-grosser-than-this-or-my-ism/76313/7 "2001-08-15T04:42:46Z")
It was going to be mentioned sooner or later. Obviously, nothing is nastier than felching. ---
**Author:** ![sewalk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@sewalk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sewalk)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-grosser-than-this-or-my-ism/76313/8 "2001-08-15T04:44:24Z")
Yeah, but did you have to mention it twice? [sub]ewwww[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Heath\_Doolin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Heath\_Doolin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heath_Doolin)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-grosser-than-this-or-my-ism/76313/9 "2001-08-15T04:48:42Z")
stuffing grapenuts up your ass and sitting on a pailful of gerbils? Recommended by 4 outta 5 Richard Gere’s! ---
**Author:** ![Pnuk\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Pnuk\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pnuk_Guy)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-grosser-than-this-or-my-ism/76313/10 "2001-08-15T10:42:18Z")
There are many things more disgusting than felching. Golden showers, for one. [sub]ick.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-grosser-than-this-or-my-ism/76313/11 "2001-08-15T11:21:05Z")
Jane\_says may have more to worry about than she thinks, vis-a-vis sitting in Chairs Warm From Other People’s Butts. There is a Peter Cook/Dudley Moore sketch in which PC (stuffy upper class father) is explaining the Facts Of Life to DM (naive son). According to PC, and I didn’t know this, it is possible for a woman to become pregnant merely by sitting on a warm chair recently vacated by her husband. So there you have it. ---
**Author:** ![Sn-man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@Sn-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sn-man)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-grosser-than-this-or-my-ism/76313/12 "2001-08-15T12:16:32Z")
One of mine: when someone sneezes on you. For gods sake people catch it! Use you own hands if you have to. ---
**Author:** ![psychogumby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c0e974/32.png) [@psychogumby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychogumby)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-grosser-than-this-or-my-ism/76313/13 "2001-08-15T12:41:36Z")
The grossest thing I have ever endured is Gwenyth Paltrow’s singing voice. I didn’t think it was possible for anyone to make ‘Bette Davis Eyes’ sound worse than the original, but whenever there’s an envelope out there, some sick twisted individual is bound to push it too far. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-grosser-than-this-or-my-ism/76313/14 "2001-08-15T14:44:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by psychogumby \* > \*\*The grossest thing I have ever endured is Gwenyth Paltrow’s singing voice. > > I didn’t think it was possible for anyone to make ‘Bette Davis Eyes’ sound worse than the original, but whenever there’s an envelope out there, some sick twisted individual is bound to push it too far. \*\* Welcome to the boards! I can’t agree with you more on this one. Your evelope line would make an excellent sig line. ---
**Author:** ![Cleophus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e57/32.png) [@Cleophus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cleophus)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-grosser-than-this-or-my-ism/76313/15 "2001-08-15T15:19:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by sewalk \* > \*\*Yeah, but did you have to mention it twice? [sub]ewwww[/sub] \*\* Sorry about the double post. ---
**Author:** ![Tygr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df788c/32.png) [@Tygr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tygr)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-grosser-than-this-or-my-ism/76313/16 "2001-08-15T15:36:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Pnuk Guy \* > \*\*There are many things more disgusting than felching. > > Golden showers, for one.\*\* How about, on a sweltering hot humid mid-August day, falling face-first into a warm festering pile of day-old roadkill? I’ll admit that if I were ever forced, on pain of dismemberment, to chose between having eighteen sweaty, unwashed, overweight guys stand over me and drain their bladders, versus having to be within thirty feet of someone/thing that is dead… …actually I might just go with the dismemberment. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![DeathLlama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@DeathLlama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeathLlama)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-grosser-than-this-or-my-ism/76313/17 "2001-08-15T15:48:22Z")
Don’t know why, but the sound of a dog licking itself just makes my skin crawl. I’m glad they do it. Heck, gotta keep themselves clean, but I can’t stand the sound. Though I suppose it’s not all that gross compared to other things… perhaps a urine enema? ---
**Author:** ![Delta-9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3be4f8/32.png) [@Delta-9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Delta-9)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-grosser-than-this-or-my-ism/76313/18 "2001-08-15T15:51:54Z")
I may regret saying this, but having the seat “preheated” for me isn’t such a bad thing. Especially on those cold winter mornings. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Kiki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dc4da7/32.png) [@Kiki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiki)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-grosser-than-this-or-my-ism/76313/19 "2001-08-15T15:53:27Z")
Following up on what **DeathLlama** said, how about a dog licking your face after he’s been cleaning himself. Yuck! That grosses me out completely. I can’t stand the thought of a dog licking his balls and then licking my face. ---
**Author:** ![Acco40](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/58956e/32.png) [@Acco40](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acco40)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-grosser-than-this-or-my-ism/76313/20 "2001-08-15T16:01:59Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by **Cleophus** _: > Obviously, nothing is nastier than felching. Oh yeah? How about **bad** breath? As in “stop-a-400-ton-train-dead-in-its-tracks-bad”. _[aside]_ “Sir, I can _see_ your breath… and it’s not even cold out. And why is it green in color?” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-grosser-than-this-or-my-ism/76313.md?page=2)