Poll included: Does the smell of vomit make you want to blow chunks too?

SunnyD

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Ugh - cleaning up my daughter's dinner, I almost couldn't hold myself back. If this like a vomit chain-reaction sort of thing? Like maybe line a bunch of people up and get the first one to puke - then it dominoes from there?

A poll for your pleasure I guess...
 

blackdogdeek

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we used to theorize that it was a survival mechanism based on social eating patterns in early man.

figuring people ate in groups and if someone ate something bad you'd want to make sure everyone else vomited the offending tidbits as well.
 

Compton

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Yes, I remember back in elementary school some kid threw up in the hall and set off a chain reaction. About 5 of us threw up, including myself. I'll never be able to forget that.
 

Kev

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actually it makes me hungry. sometimes i will even eat the vomit. mmm.... vomit
 

Ryan

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Not really - I remember looking at one of my schoolmate's upchuck and wondering how he swallowed such large pieces of meat. That said, I don't ever remember feeling like I was going to spew, but it did stink.
 

anxi80

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nope. never has. i was put to the limits one time also, had to tend to someone who had alcohol poisoning.
 

prvteye2003

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just the sound of someone throwing up makes me want to blow chunks, much less the smell of it. I've worked as a paramedic for 7 years and have never gotten use to it.
 

Nah, I've got a pretty good tolerance for gross stuff. It grosses me out, but it doesn't make me want to puke.
 

dpm

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yes.

btw, is anyone else thinking of the film Stand by me, with the story about the fat kid? :D
 

azazyel

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Back in the day I was in a Frat and well, you had to get used to it. We used to have these things called Bo Breakfasts where people would go down to the kitchen at 6am and start beer bonging gross stuff. I can't really remember how the winner was decided but I remember seeing the same gold fish get beer bonged 3 times. The first 2 times it came back out it was alive, the second time it was dead.