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What disgusting thing do you do?

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eqpi4t2hbsnktd · 25/03/2025 16:20

I blow my nose on the washing before it goes in the machine... rather than find a tissue!

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Towwanthustice · 26/03/2025 12:18

eqpi4t2hbsnktd · 25/03/2025 18:21

Just talking to a friend... she brushes her teeth in the shower. Not disgusting but weird rinsing with warm shower water no?

I can't rinse my mouth with cold water. I also sometimes brush my teeth in the shower too.
I also blow my nose on clothes going in wash and I love picking my nose but unlike my 13 yr old I don't eat it! 🤮🤮. I have also used cotton wool after a poo if I've run out of loo roll.

TorroFerney · 26/03/2025 12:17

mumofoneAlonebutokay · 25/03/2025 16:32

Not disgusting but weird

I sometimes climb the stairs on all 4s when dd isn't home 🤭

This has come up before, it’s a habit shared by a lot of people, not weird!

littleorangefox · 26/03/2025 10:46

Iwannakeepondancing · 25/03/2025 20:13

My DH took the used condom off one night inside a sock and left it on the floor. I obviously forgot and put it in the wash, hung up the washing, put the clean washing away, put said sock on and found a nice clean condom in the bottom of my sock!!

Sorry, he did what? Why was a sock involved in this process at all??

Peclet · 26/03/2025 10:23

Sniff under the covers after I fart if no one is there.

pick my nose.

examine my nose pickings.

JudgeJ · 26/03/2025 10:10

Perx · 26/03/2025 06:25

Oooh, a hair clip would get loads out. But obvs very bad for you. X

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But very satisfying!

JudgeJ · 26/03/2025 10:08

MooFroo · 25/03/2025 23:06

And me!

I fart in public sometimes when I can’t hold it in b- sorry!

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When I was still teaching in a High School and I felt one coming on, I would go and stand near the grottiest, usually male, pupil then look at him when it quietly exited! To be honest, they let so many off I didn't feel bad about it at all.

Bubblebubblepoppop · 26/03/2025 09:52

JudgeJ · 25/03/2025 22:56

We've done a few long road trips in the South West of the USA, lots of desert areas and I love getting cornflake bogeys, incredibly dry and large that I can blow out.

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Cornflake bogeys 😂 I'm stealing that term!

Freshflower · 26/03/2025 09:42

I rip skin off the soles of my feet.....so satisfying

DaleyDerDrache · 26/03/2025 09:38

PalmTreeAngel · 26/03/2025 08:16

How does one bite their toe nails?

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Probably the only way you can imagine. I just sit on my bed and hold my foot up to where my teeth can reach 😂 I don't even think I'm that flexible but it's quite easy!

Floogal · 26/03/2025 08:41

Londog · 26/03/2025 03:44

Wear my husband’s y-fronts if I can’t locate any clean knickers - sooo comfy 🤭

Same here lol

PalmTreeAngel · 26/03/2025 08:16

DaleyDerDrache · 25/03/2025 16:36

Bite my nails. Including toenails.

How does one bite their toe nails?

babasaclover · 26/03/2025 08:10

GG1986 · 25/03/2025 21:52

Pick my nose!

Why is it considered dirty though? It’s just air that your noise has filtered. I don’t understand the dirtiness and I’m pretty sure everyone does it but just won’t admit to it

BumbleBeegu · 26/03/2025 07:52

Grumblegrub · 25/03/2025 18:31

Pick my nose.

Look at the paper I’ve just wiped my bum with to see if I can see what kind of food it was (I have IBS so it’s useful to see whether a reactive food might have passed through)

if I’m having a pyjama day I’ll leave the same knickers on all day that I’ve worn to bed the night before.

haha…are you my long lost twin?? 🤣

ladymammalade · 26/03/2025 07:38

katepilar · 25/03/2025 19:16

I thought around a week is normal?

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A friend of mine (family of four) once told me that she washed their towels after one use. I imagined her spending half her day just doing bloody laundry.

AlwaysCoffee25 · 26/03/2025 06:35

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Like reusable period pants?

JasperTheDoll · 26/03/2025 06:30

LeaderBee · 25/03/2025 16:40

Wipe my mouth with the bathroom towel if i still have a load of toothpaste around it in a morning.

Are you my child?

Perx · 26/03/2025 06:25

Ireallyamgross · 26/03/2025 01:15

This is real bad forr you. I poke the wax out of my ears usin a hair clip and eat it,

Oooh, a hair clip would get loads out. But obvs very bad for you. X

Londog · 26/03/2025 03:44

Wear my husband’s y-fronts if I can’t locate any clean knickers - sooo comfy 🤭

anonymous98 · 26/03/2025 03:36

Forgot one: Sometimes when home alone I'll skip a hair wash and then shake my head to see how much dandruff comes off. Horribly satisfying.

anonymous98 · 26/03/2025 03:30

Pick my toenails (so much so that I barely even have toenails anymore)
Pick scabs

Topseyt123 · 26/03/2025 03:21

I fart long and loud around my own house and sometimes in public too (checking first that nobody is too close and in my direct firing line). I find a good, long, loud fart extremely satisfying.

DH does it too. He used to be quite posh and polite about things like that but I have got him better trained after 31 years of marriage. 😃

Musntapplecrumble · 26/03/2025 03:15

In the work restroom, senior manager emerges from toilet, straight out the exit (I was drying my hands in tissue).
I kid you not:
I was washing my hands in the hospital public loo and a nurse came out of the cubicle and walked straight out.
When I was making coffee in a bank staffroom, one of the senior staff (30s f) used the dishcloth to wipe dog poo off of her shoe and threw it back in the sink (never used it anyway, but..)

Musntapplecrumble · 26/03/2025 02:47

Slurple · 25/03/2025 16:35

I didn't know I was going to leave this thread with new ideas!

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I do this loads...is it weird!!??😂😂

PollyValente · 26/03/2025 02:29

Goody2ShoesAndTheFilthyBeast · 25/03/2025 18:34

When I'm alone and I burp, I say burp as I'm burping.
I'm 51. It's revolting. Blush

Two possible goals with this; archbishop, or encyclopédia. I find archbishop funnier.

Ireallyamgross · 26/03/2025 01:15

This is real bad forr you. I poke the wax out of my ears usin a hair clip and eat it,