AIBU?
to have identified a huge MN double standard?
StealthyKissBeartrayal · 19/04/2011 16:22
The general attitude on MN is a bit of dirt never hurt anyone, don't be too precious, a bit of someone else's snot and a few germs never killed anyone good for the immue system etc etc.
But then it seems everyone hates people who lick their fingers to turn pages or open a carrier bag! How can this be??? Surely it;s a miniscule amount of someone else's saliva - you probably get more on your hand by shaking hands with them!
StealthyKissBeartrayal · 19/04/2011 16:27
Snorbs, no this is just my MN-inconsistency-of-the-week :o
Ahh nickel another one! So glad - I couldn't care less if the person who read the book before me licked their finger while turning the page. Now if they read it on the toilet...
Get0rfMoiLand · 19/04/2011 16:30
I cannot BEAR page lickers.
I also don't like using public toilets because I know that loads of people don't wash their hands, and even though I have washed mine i will have to use the doorknob with other people's pissy remnants.
But then I have never been of the persuasion that 'a bit of dirt won't hurt'. I always like things clean clean clean.
StealthyKissBeartrayal · 19/04/2011 16:33
ooh yes public toilet doors and money! I always have to wash my hands ater holding coins (not so much just lifting them with my fingers, but if I have held them for a while in my hand). And bins are disgusting - dont know how people can lean on wheelie bins etc. Other than that, am fairly germ OK
I think
alistron1 · 19/04/2011 16:39
I am a page licker, don't mind using public toilets and have never felt the need to wash my hands after handling money. I haven't needed to see a Dr for illness (touches wood!!) for over 10 years. I may be a minger and possibly a slattern but I'm a healthy minger 
Draw your own conclusons
limitedperiodonly · 19/04/2011 16:44
I'm a page and plastic bag licker. It wasn't until I joined here that I realised I disgust people virtually everyday without trying.
A friend who told me about this place said that some people are disgusted by people who dry their feet using the hairdryers in the gym.
I was drying my feet at the time.
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