to thinks lots of random people KISSING something is fucking revolting and should be banned?

[thedirtydirtybastards]

I know people may think I am being a killjoy and/or a bit paranoid

but in the 21st century when we are all so aware about personal hygeine and public health, why is it OK for people to kiss and slobber over things and spread their germs? We have just come back from a long weekend in Ireland (republic) and along with the usual souvenirs dh has brought home a crop of coldsores which has resulted in ds2 (3yo) having his first ever coldsore

I am pretty sure it was \link{http://www.blarneycastle.ie/pages/kiss-the-blarney-stone\this} which caused the coldsores. I do not get them and dh does not kiss anyone on the lips except for me and our dc.

tbh it has got me thinking about other communal slobbering, like communion cups, and I think it is really weird that in an age where people carry alcohol gel to sanitise their hands it is still deemed OK to do this kind of thing. AIBU?

[Serenitysutton]

maybe he gave oral sex to somone with herpes?







sorry, was dying to say that

[CurrySpice]

You'll be teling us not to drink out of damp glasses next in case we get something vile

Tyelperion I LOVE that book! :o

[fuzzywuzzy]

More to the point is your DH now very eloquent? I need to know (dunno why), but I do!

[DramaInPyjamas]

From Wiki

In 2009, Tripadvisor.com ranked the Blarney Stone as the most unhygienic tourist attraction in the world (although it admitted it had no scientific evidence to back its case).

[Bearcrumble]

More unhygienic than eg. The Ganges?

[thedirtydirtybastards]

well there you go then! It is unhygeinic. If I had been with him he would not have been kissing the stupid thing.

And an apology would be nice, to the people who said my dh was playing away... yours might be... mine isn't!

[ElsieR]

YABVU.
I'd rather be full of bacterias than never been kissed.

[bonkers20]

"What is disrespectful about not wanting to slurp from the same cup as a hundred strangers?"

You actually said in your OP "it has got me thinking about other communal slobbering, like communion cups".

Calling it communal slobbering is disrespectful. Not wanting to drink from the chalice is not disrespectful.

There is no scientific evidence that the Blarney is unhygienic!

[iamkirsty]

"According to legend, whoever kisses the Blarney Stone is gifted with eloquence and persuasiveness"

Maybe he did both? ;) Haha

[worraliberty]

In 2009, Tripadvisor.com ranked the Blarney Stone as the most unhygienic tourist attraction in the world although it admitted it had no scientific evidence to back its case

Your DH getting the kissing clap is just one of those things I'm afraid. You can't blame the Blarney Stone for it.

As others have said, it's sterilised frequently.

[BitOfFun]

I thought this was going to be about kissing the Pope's ring...

[insertfunnynicknamehere]

Kissing the Blarney Stone is a touristy thing, kind of like going up the empire state building no point tio it but the view is lovely...

Having said that OP, as a catholic living in blarney you have really annoyed me..but you do manage to type so well from your hermetically sealed bubble.....

[thedirtydirtybastards]

thank you, I am a medical secretary so I do a fair bit of typing

BOF kissing the pope's ring is disgusting as well. And if you are offended by that, well tough I am offended by people suggesting my dh is kissing an OW.

[animula]

You have a username of "the dirty, dirty bastards" and you are offended by a joke with regard to your husband having kissed another woman/man?

I'm guessing your life is quite a fairground ride, with you being the surprised recipient of some quite fruity retorts, when you have (unwittingly) provoked an offended, and offensive response from those you engage in coversation.

[CurrySpice]

I don't think it takes the brains of einstein or much of a sense of humour to be honest, to realise that the comments about your DH kissing someone else were made in the general light-hearted spirit and irreverant turn that this thread had taken OP

Maybe lighten up a bit eh?

[BitOfFun]

I think you'd have a bigger problem than coldsores if he was kissing the Pope's ring.

[thedirtydirtybastards]

I didn't expect Christians to be offended, I am a bit taken aback by that

I don't think they should stop taking communion or anything, have no opinion on it really, but I do think the communal cup is unhygeinic

it was the blarney stone that gave my dh the cold sores and through him, my ds1

[DameShirleyKnot]

TapTapCurlyWhirlyCuckooBOING!

[CurrySpice]

Well perhaps a "sorry, I didn't mean to cause offence to anyone" and join in with the joshing would be a less sour-faced better reaction then

[freeandhappy]

Are the dirty dirty bastards the Irish? What are you on about saying our family don't get cold sores? As if there's two types of family, the superior non cold sore type and the other kind with manky big sores. It's a virus that everyone is vulnerable to.

[thedirtydirtybastards]

sorry I didn't mean to cause offence to anyone! Honestly I didn't

BUT I do not think people jeering at my marriage is very funny! And I am surprised that so few people agree with me that this stone-kissing thing is disgusting. Do you all enjoy swapping spit with complete strangers then? Griss!

[thedirtydirtybastards]

Gross, I mean

[thedirtydirtybastards]

of course not the Irish three quarters of my family are Irish, that is what we were doing over there

I mean people who go out of their way to kiss a filthy lump of rock that is covered in strangers' saliva and then pass the germs onto others!

[Ormirian]

Well why did he kiss it then

And I think it's the carrying of alcohol gel that is weird.

[CurrySpice]

Oh FFS OP nobody enjoys "swapping spit" with strangers but the thread is funny. The situation is funny

Not content with sucking the joy out of the blarney stone visit, you seem determined to do the same here