omg SNIFFING!!!!!!

[YonWhaleFish]

ARGGGGHHHH!!!! Fecking work experience person WON'T STOP SNIFFING!!!!!

BLOW YOUR FECKING NOSE!!!!

Pass a tissue and say "would you like a tissue, you are sniffing a lot!".

I have done this to complete strangers on the tube, in the cinema.

Be proactive, come on!

Oh god I know how you feel. Posted myself once about a man in my office who wont stop, it drives me insane. You have my sympathy, one of the most annoying noises in the world!

My husband is on a final warning. here is a typical reading session with dd2

"The cat sat "sniff" on the "sniff sniff" cat. "Sniff"
"Sniff" where is the cat "sniff"
On "sniff" the "sniff" mat
Blow it or lose it

YADNBU disgusting! [yuck]

I'm with bibbity - get in there with the tissues!

Yep. Offer a tissue.

yes...pass the tissues

and if they still carry on pass another and ask if their brains are running out.

I have a phobia of blowing my nose. Now I'm worried that I'm a sniffer

I couldn't blow my nose until I was a teenager; I found it so rankly disgusting I couldn't bring myself to do it. I'm pretty sure that publicly blowing your nose in some cultures (Japan?) is considered as vulgar as pooing in the street. It's all cultural (in my native culture nobody cares about sniffers or blowers).

So I will continue to sniff sniff here.

Habitual sniffers are an affront to humanity and civilization and I'd gladly have them cast out into the wilds forever more.

See also people who whistle and people who hum.

And yes ragged you're right, apparently in Japan blowing ones nose in public is on a par with dropping your pants, bending over, parting your bum cheeks and farting in someone's face. Fascinating aren't they these cultural differences?

I worked with a man who had a permanent drip on the end of his nose. He sniffed constantly. It was extremely annoying and I would happily have slammed his head through a wall when he refused my offer of a tissue, stating that he didn't like handkerchiefs and preferred to sniff . He did eventually retire :).

Ugh. YANBU.

I hate it, with a passion, especially at work. It's as though they want someone to say 'oh poor you, you sound awful, do you want to go home?' because along with the sniff sniff sniff tends to come the faux-sore throat voice, you know the one, and the moping around, dragging feet. AAARRRGH!

Then you see sniffee in staff room snarfing down on a Big Mac, strawberry sundae and large milkshake, chatting away on phone to friend - perfectly healthy sounding.

Just stop it.

My son sniffs incessantly.

But then, he has Tourettes, and it is his "thing".

I know not all sniffers have Tourettes, but some might. Just saying.

I hate sniffers. But I also hate nose blowers.

I sniff, to me it's a lot more hygeinic than blowing snot and germs into a tissue.

I only blow my nose in the bathroom where I can immediately flush said manky tissue and wash my hands.

Sorry if it annoys people but tough shit, which is precisley what I tell my DH when he complains to me too!

I hate sniffing and sniffers. How is sniffing the snot into your gut hygienic? Sniffing sounds disgusting as well.

I (silently) object when a colleague blows what sounds like a bucket full of snot into a tissue when sat at their desk.

Yuk yuk yuk. Go to the loo and do it and then wash your hands!

I'm a teacher. I teach students from different cultures, sniffing is not seen as rude by everyone. I have trained myself to ignore it.

Which is a good thing, as my son has a sniff thing too.

DH does this all the time at home

I say do you want a tissue, and sometimes even shove the box under his nose, but it does no good whatsoever

Oh no! The guy I used to work with did this and I really got wound up about this (and whistling, don't get me on that one!)

In the end I bought a box of tissues and plonked them on my desk and said to him that I've got plenty of tissues here for him to use, funnily enough he did quieten down after that and then left...hooray....!

I have however now got a singer

Did I just discover an extremely subtle cultural difference between UK and Australia? We would call this 'sniffling', rather than 'sniffing'. I thought you were going to talk about some weird co-worker who picks his ear and sniffs it. Bleurgh!

(maybe its just me though)

You'd hate our office MissCalamity - we ALL talk to ourselves, its a concentration thing I think.

sometimes no matter how many times i may blow my nose it is still running, it is called Persistent rhinitis and there is not much i can do about it sometimes, try being on the other end where unless you have you head back constantly you are sniffing and knowing everyone is getting pissed off with you.

I sat next to a sniffer on the bus last week - a young lad, studentish. When we got to my stop I handed him a tissue and said "you need this". He was very sweet and grinned awkwardly - I wish I'd done it 20 minutes earlier.