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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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Lulu49 · 27/03/2025 20:11

I take tea/coffee into the toilet with me

BlueFlowers5 · 27/03/2025 19:38

I dry my cats in a hand towel when they come 🫴in soaked after being in the pouring rain.
I sometimes forget I've used said hand towel in this way.

coldcallerbaiter · 27/03/2025 18:42

Notashamed13 · 26/03/2025 22:48

@coldcallerbaiter Hey! I'm not just a vag hair puller..... I'm also a bum spot picker! 🤣🤣 how do the eyelashes taste? 😂 best thread ever!

They are crunchy but no flavour and they don’t last long.

You are lucky to have spots, I am older and don’t get them anymore. Make the most of them, you’ll miss squeezing and then examining/dissecting them….

I do enjoy my own farts too….they are notorious as I like artificial sweeteners.

scalt · 27/03/2025 14:55

Oh, and speaking of grandparents, I've remembered this quote from my late grandmother, on the shaking of hands for the "sign of peace" at church:

"The way people sneeze into their hand, then hold it out and expect you to shake it: it makes you want to keep your gloves on!"

scalt · 27/03/2025 14:52

Sorbetto · 27/03/2025 12:34

I love combing out my my DCs nits and looking at them under a microscope

Perhaps you remembered looking at them under a microscope at school. I remember looking at nits under a microscope then. (Not living ones, but ones preserved in a slide.)

Tessabelle74 · 27/03/2025 13:26

CowboyJoanna · 25/03/2025 16:31

If it was disgusting in my eyes, I wouldn't do it.

But people at the place I used to work at before having the kids gave me grief for not washing my hands after a wazz (i wash them after a poo obviously)

That is the ultimate in disgusting actually. Toilet roll isn't waterproof so you have pee on your hands gen you touch the lock and the doors etc. that's grim!

Sorbetto · 27/03/2025 12:34

I love combing out my my DCs nits and looking at them under a microscope

Tipofthecattoes · 27/03/2025 10:24

Nina7648 · 27/03/2025 10:16

Apparently in Japan if you don't burp loudly after a meal it's seen as an isult to your host, and in China I've heard people spit on the floor in restaurants. I'd vomit.

Ffs

Nina7648 · 27/03/2025 10:16

Apparently in Japan if you don't burp loudly after a meal it's seen as an isult to your host, and in China I've heard people spit on the floor in restaurants. I'd vomit.

MusicMakesItAllBetter · 27/03/2025 10:13

Forget to change my knickers 🫣
But consciously changing the panty liner

MibsXX · 27/03/2025 10:13

Question285 · 27/03/2025 06:30

Yeah, cause washing your hands after wiping shit is tantamount to mysophobia 🙄

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Using bits of paper every time you want to touch something is though

MusicMakesItAllBetter · 27/03/2025 10:11

FeministUnderTheCatriarchy · 25/03/2025 17:33

Men baffle me.

If it is reasonable for me not to want to touch your bare willy, it is also reasonable for me not to want to touch your hand after it had just been around said willy.

Yes, you may not have urinated on it, but you still have willy hands.

Willy fingertips

Chelsea2026 · 27/03/2025 10:10

Devilsmommy · 25/03/2025 16:41

Omg thank god I'm not the only one🤭😂

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I do the same - I get up early when WFH and go down stairs backwards so I dont wake my other half (who is a light sleeper) and my brats.

fataroundthemiddle · 27/03/2025 09:56

Pinkgown , hope you are a bloke. I’ve heard that a wee on your compost heap helps make good compost

Nina7648 · 27/03/2025 09:13

PrettayGood · 26/03/2025 23:23

I am absolutely nauseated by handkerchiefs. My brother in law still uses one. He has no problem with doing a gigantic trumpet parp into his gigantic handkerchief, in company, which he then puts back into his pocket.

There’s so much about this that’s disgusting, I don’t know where to start.

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My late grandad used to do this ALWAYS in the middle of the family dinner. It was just a matter of waiting for it. Trumpet lol That's exactly what it was like. My brother always blows his nose and examines the tissue afterwards to see what he's found up there.

Nina7648 · 27/03/2025 09:10

This is making me smile so early in the morning, such a funny thread.

I worked with someone a while back, who was not only going between houses for a new relationship during covid, but would also eat his yoghurt with his fingers because 'he had no spoon', before using a communal keyboard. I used to have so many arguments with him, over how he couldn't understand the problem with any of this.

Poopyfish27 · 27/03/2025 08:42

CowboyJoanna · 25/03/2025 16:31

If it was disgusting in my eyes, I wouldn't do it.

But people at the place I used to work at before having the kids gave me grief for not washing my hands after a wazz (i wash them after a poo obviously)

You don't wash your hands after a wee?!! Let's hope you don't handle too many goods at the supermarket or anywhere else afterwards...eurghh! 🤢

Flufflelump · 27/03/2025 08:40

I also eat scabs. And anything solid-ish that comes from a spot/blackhead/whitehead.

And I set time aside about 5-6 days after doing a Footner to spend some quality time with my trotters. (Although I don't eat that!)

Brahumbug · 27/03/2025 06:56

TwinklyOrca · 25/03/2025 20:32

I’m actually crying 😂😂😂😂😂😂

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No wonder the Japanese bow 😁

missdeamenor · 27/03/2025 06:33

I was eating in a restaurant where you could see through to the kitchen. I saw a big sweaty chef blow his nose of the tea towel, then carry on drying dishes with it.

Question285 · 27/03/2025 06:30

MibsXX · 26/03/2025 22:27

Because years ago folks were NOT watching endless germ killing product adverts and getting paranoid

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Yeah, cause washing your hands after wiping shit is tantamount to mysophobia 🙄

scalt · 27/03/2025 06:11

I'm a firm believer in "germs are good for your immune system", and "clean house = wasted life". However, I do try to avoid catching colds, by not touching my eyes and nose with unwashed hands. That's my one concession to avoiding germs: and I really noticed the difference when I made a point of keeping hands away from face, and I used to be a huge miner of "nose nuggets" when I was younger.

On a par with going up stairs on all fours, here's one that not disgusting, but everyone thinks is weird: I love to keep my DH company while he wraps my presents. I can't see what he's wrapping for me because I'm blindfolded, but I love to hear him in action.

MillieMinx · 27/03/2025 01:32

NDornotND · 25/03/2025 19:05

I have occasionally dried the rim of mugs that have been draining on the draining board, so mostly dry other than a bit of damp around the rim, on my boobs (covered in bra and t-shirt) - they're just the right shape and you can do two mugs at a time before putting them back in the cupboard...Anyone fancy a brew? ☕😁

I’ve not (to my knowledge) tried Titty Tea before!! Now wondering if my boobs are the right size and shape for this trick😆

Jillybloop393 · 27/03/2025 01:12

Lovin' this thread, you disgusting lot!! Lol

SleepingStandingUp · 27/03/2025 00:16

PoopingAllTheWay · 25/03/2025 16:38

So a shared work bathroom and you didnt wash your hands after a wee?

So you flushed the chain and touched the lock on a shared bathroom ?

Thats rank!!!

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Every work loo I've been in, the sink is outside of the loo. So even though I wash my hands, I still have to flush the toilet and open the door and turn on the tap with unwashed hands.