poll: is nose picking bad?

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Gurck

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Originally posted by: Eli
Actually, they've come to the conclusion that picking your nose and eating it is some sort of natural tendancy.. It is only shunned depending on your society.

Your nose is like an air filter. When you eat those juicy, salty boogers.. you're helping your immune system along by giving it samples of what it needs to fight.

Once again, proof of the necessity of a grimacing emoticon.

Originally posted by: gururu
i wash but i don't stick the soap up my butt.

There's a first time for everything
 

Mo0o

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Having those clear nasal passages after picking out two big ones feels like a small orgasm.
 

spidey07

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Originally posted by: welst10
So we've got 4 people with good hygiene here. better than I expected.

I would consider one with a booger filled nose to have poor hygene.

aka somebody who doesn't clean/pick it.
;)
 

iamme

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Jul 21, 2001
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Originally posted by: gururu
Originally posted by: iamme
Originally posted by: gururu
nose picking isn't any better than ass picking. its gross, unhygienic, and can spread disease. learn how to blow your nose. not even dogs pick their nose.

no kidding! we could learn something from dogs!



*licks genitals and sniffs gururu's butt*


tell me you have a girlfriend.


only you, baby.


*mounts gururu*


now sit still, bitch.
 

Slappy00

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t isn't unhygenic, you morons. Your nose is probably cleaner than the door handle leading to the bathroom.

Auctually Eli is right on (although i have a feeling he get his news from fark). Your nose like any oriface exposed to the outside world has built in protection to help prevent harmful debris and microorganisms to come into your body and infect you. I'm not going to get into detail about IgA and the macrophages that are in your mucus and what not, but in short it can be a good or bad thing. On the one hand by jamming your finger in your nose is an easy way of inoculating whatever was on your finger into your nose. Now most of the time your immune system will catch whatever was there and you will be fine, but sometimes you will get something resistant and you will get sick. My reccomendation is to pick with a clean finger so you can get all the bugar goodness with out all the sickness, although in my opinion the more pathogens you are exposed to now (not like antherax or anything im thinking more along the lines of influenza) the stronger your immune system will be as you get older (as you will not be able to mount up a strong defense against an unrecognized pathogen as quickly as when you were 18-40).
 

Eli

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Originally posted by: Slappy00
t isn't unhygenic, you morons. Your nose is probably cleaner than the door handle leading to the bathroom.

Auctually Eli is right on (although i have a feeling he get his news from fark). Your nose like any oriface exposed to the outside world has built in protection to help prevent harmful debris and microorganisms to come into your body and infect you. I'm not going to get into detail about IgA and the macrophages that are in your mucus and what not, but in short it can be a good or bad thing. On the one hand by jamming your finger in your nose is an easy way of inoculating whatever was on your finger into your nose. Now most of the time your immune system will catch whatever was there and you will be fine, but sometimes you will get something resistant and you will get sick. My reccomendation is to pick with a clean finger so you can get all the bugar goodness with out all the sickness, although in my opinion the more pathogens you are exposed to now (not like antherax or anything im thinking more along the lines of influenza) the stronger your immune system will be as you get older (as you will not be able to mount up a strong defense against an unrecognized pathogen as quickly as when you were 18-40).
It was from a post here a while back, actually.. I'm pretty sure it was from a legitimate source, but maybe not. It seemed plausible enough.
 

Slappy00

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LOL me too. I found a good one

yah this one time my g/f was all concentrating on something atthe computer, completely oblivious to what was going on around her and i was walking in the living room with my slippers on (ninja slippers aparently) and caught her all geeking up in there, i mean she was digging like she lost some money. Anyways as soon as she ''found a good one' i was like 'i know ur not going to wipe that under my seat' . and she whipped around (i mean shes a cute girl so this was something you need a camra to see to believe) with this boogar hanging from her finger , complete with scaffolding and a hair. She was dumbfounded for a sec (kinda just siting there with a boogar, not knowing where to put it if she couln't wipe it under the chair). I was reveling in my "success" untill she lifted up her hand and flicked it at me. It landed on my arm and iwas like "sh** sh** get it off! get it off!" and flicked it back at her cept that it got all stuck on my finger and at that point i ran to the bathroom and scrubbed like i was about to do some brain surgery, as i was scrubbing i heard her say ' thats what you get for fvcking with me'. Its ok though b/c i dutch-ovened her the next night... we called a truce before i would catch myself going out to the car and have her hop out from behind and prank me with a tire iron.
 

welst10

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Originally posted by: Slappy00
LOL me too. I found a good one

yah this one time my g/f was all concentrating on something atthe computer, completely oblivious to what was going on around her and i was walking in the living room with my slippers on (ninja slippers aparently) and caught her all geeking up in there, i mean she was digging like she lost some money. Anyways as soon as she ''found a good one' i was like 'i know ur not going to wipe that under my seat' . and she whipped around (i mean shes a cute girl so this was something you need a camra to see to believe) with this boogar hanging from her finger , complete with scaffolding and a hair. She was dumbfounded for a sec (kinda just siting there with a boogar, not knowing where to put it if she couln't wipe it under the chair). I was reveling in my "success" untill she lifted up her hand and flicked it at me. It landed on my arm and iwas like "sh** sh** get it off! get it off!" and flicked it back at her cept that it got all stuck on my finger and at that point i ran to the bathroom and scrubbed like i was about to do some brain surgery, as i was scrubbing i heard her say ' thats what you get for fvcking with me'. Its ok though b/c i dutch-ovened her the next night... we called a truce before i would catch myself going out to the car and have her hop out from behind and prank me with a tire iron.

woah, that's some story. Pics of your gf?
 

Slappy00

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lol slappy you got some good similes there

I guess if you date a girl for more than 3 years you get to see all the weird obsessive compulsive things that women (in my experience) all have, but dare not show you when you first meet.
 

biostud

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Same as going to the toilet: it feels good, it has to be done........and it has to be done privately