Never had one inside a nostril, so my vote is for inside the ear.
Styes ain’t no fun either. Had several in a row in junior high, alternating eyelids each time.
Never had one inside a nostril, so my vote is for inside the ear.
Styes ain’t no fun either. Had several in a row in junior high, alternating eyelids each time.
Right in the bit where your nose meets your cheek. Just can’t squeeze 'em!
Those subcutecus(sp?) cysts down below are annoying too.
Inside the nostril or on your ear. Or on your testicles or, ahem, other locales nearby (I kid you not.)
Oh, ick. I’m not saying I don’t get them. I’m not saying I don’t pop them. I’m not even saying I don’t pop the OP’s, cause I do.
But jesus christ on a pogo stick people. This is too much.
I had three of the edge of the lip zits in one week. Horrible.
And I am one of those people who when I have something like that, I absolutely have to pick at it until it is gone.
Which means that I was in some pain getting rid of them. They weren’t even the pussy zits, but the super-blackheads that absolutely refuse to cooperate.
*Usram wrote: *
Usram, you beat me to it. Though, I was going to say Youngstown, Ohio, because then you’d be in Youngstown, Ohio, with a zit.
Then again, maybe a zit wouldn’t look so bad if you had to suffer the indignities of a town where the economy is so bad that even the Mafia has gone out of business. Perhaps that’s the best place to get a zit. Take your mind off the real problems. Maybe we should start the “What’s the best place to get a zit?” thread. I wonder if **herownself **would find that more dignified.
But now back to your regularly scheduled thread, while Zeb goes gets some much-needed sleep. :o
I’ve had two on the aforementioned girly bits in the past…and while they were zits that I will always remembered…I still cast my vote for the inner nostril.
The last time I had one in my nose, I gave it a valiant effort. I managed to fully inside out a nostril with one hand, while helplessly trying to use two fingers from my right hand as a sophisticated popping device. I eventually got it, too–after three or four days of perfecting the technique.
Actually, girly bits get third, now that I think about it. Second I’d have to award to the ear. I’ve had a giant, pulsating inner ear zit or six (once, I had on in each ear simultaniously–they popped within a day of each other after nearly a week of brewing. Anguish, tears).
Lip ones are real bastards, too though…although the occasions I’ve had them they’ve always been easily poppable, thank God.
ZebWalton…I happen to be in Youngstown, Ohio, with a zit, as we speak. (A suburb of Youngstown, Ohio, at any rate). Rather than act enraged, I will only nod in resignation. And try to pop this mother that’s sprouted on my shoulder.
You think this thread is bad, herownself, you better avoid anything labelled TMI on this board.
The one on my girly bits hurt like a MF. It was on the inside of my right labia. How in HELL do you get a zit THERE? It was the most painful zit-pop I’ve ever had.
The coolest was a huge one I found on, of all the places, my left elbow. This was a zit worthy of some people’s backs. It was most satisfying to pop, but it never came back. Drat.
I’ve never had an inner-nostril one or a girly-bits one, fortunately.
That being the case, my vote goes to the deep painful ones that I used to get in the crease between the top of my ear and the scalp, right where my glasses rest. The weight of the glasses on the zit results in constant stabbing pain, and there’s just no way to get at the thing. Really bad.
Let’s see. The ones that hurt like hell AND are irritating are the ones I get in that little crack where my nose meets the rest of my face. They’re so painful and you can FEEL them, sitting there, getting bigger.
I’ve gotten the lip pimples too, usually ingrown hairs that I don’t notice until I hit them with food. GAH!
I also get HUGE zits on my back from time to time. I mean, lengendary, monstrous zits. And god, they hurt. Especially when they get to that painful, red skin covering half my back and it hurts to move phase. GAH!
I love you guys.
And here I thought I was the only one that ever got a zit on her girl stuff.
Where, but for the SDMB, would I have ever known that they were at least second in the race for worst-place-to-get-a-zit race.
Thank you. Thank you all for sharing.
Definitely girly-bits. Also, in between the butt cheeks and of course the ear. Also, on the scalp under the hair sucks because you look like a monkey eveytime you go to try to squeeze it or anything.
Appearance-wise, on the tip of the nose is the worse, because you look like Rudolph. Between the eyes takes second because of the ensuing Indian jokes. In fact, anything on the line-of-symmetry seems to draw a disproportionate amount of attention.
Sorry to pick, but this killed me. Don’t you mean subcutaneous? The OP had me thinking of some sort of underground volcano, which is maybe what is felt like…
Inside the nostril, yes those are bad. I think the in the ears are a bit worst. But my most painful ones have been right on the side of what I call Big Wally. NOT a place that you want to squeeze.
Have I mentioned lately how much I love each and every one of you?
Exactly. I used “subterranean” to suggest the presence of those nasty critters from Tremors lurking in the earth. That’s what a deep zit is like for me. Except it doesn’t move around. And it doesn’t drag a truck down into the skin. Okay, so maybe it isn’t like that for me. But that’s the idea.
That’s the sentence of the week, for me.
Inside ears and nostrils are definitely a close first and second, with below-the-equator zits coming in third. elfbabe and whiterabbit, I laugh at your one-zit-each tally and wish I were only so lucky.
TMI - I had an ingrown nostril hair that finally poked out through the skin on the outside of my nose. After a painful tweezer yank on the thing my eyes watered so much it looked like I was crying.
My immediate thought was that Inever wanted to do that again.
Blech… I was eating ice-cream while reading this thread. Vanilla ice-cream. I’ve sworn off vanilla ice-cream forever.