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Original poster

The woman opposite me on bus...

78 replies

fanjoforthemammaries7850 · 21/08/2013 11:05

Is clipping her nails onto the floor.

AIBU to actually throw up a little?

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Original poster
fanjoforthemammaries7850 · 21/08/2013 11:58

Yes, that is inappropriate on the bus!

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DropYourSword · 21/08/2013 12:41

If I tried to do that, I'd stab myself in the eye with my mascara wand!

Northumberlandlass · 21/08/2013 12:43

Rank. Throw up on her. YANBU

I was once on holiday on a beach, looked up to find a woman tweezering her bikini line.....

Thurlow · 21/08/2013 12:49

I HATE people who apply make-up on the bus or train. I know there is no real good reason to but... bluergh, it makes me very, very irate. Do it at home! A quick swizz over with some powder is fine, the full eyeliner and lipliner job is just not. This might have someone to do with the fact that they are always elbowing the person next to them and powder just seems to go everywhere.

Hate hate hate it.

quesadilla · 21/08/2013 12:51

Thurlow glad it's not just me I thought I was being especially neurotic.

KarmaBiatch · 21/08/2013 12:56

I was on a 10 hour flight not that long ago, and there was one woman who spent the majority of time filing her nails.. but not just the normal 'shaping', she was filing the surface of her nails too, and then whipped her socks off and started on those nails too.. she quite obviously had a fungal nail infection, and I DID go to the toilet and dry retch at the thought of breathing in her fungus in the recycled aeroplane air.. YUK!

Patosshades · 21/08/2013 12:58

Christ on a bike, people are weird.

enormouse · 21/08/2013 12:59

I saw a woman brushing her teeth on the bus a few months ago. Around 4 in the afternoon. I was a bit Hmm over it.

squoosh · 21/08/2013 12:59

I'm hypnotised by people who put makeup on on public transport, I find it so relaxing to watch. Of course I might look like a bit of a weirdo if I stare at them too much!

Nail clipping though is beyond vile.

Original poster
fanjoforthemammaries7850 · 21/08/2013 13:00

Karma..oh that is so vile

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70isaLimitNotaTarget · 21/08/2013 13:04

Sometimes my nail splits across and I have to snap it off instead of risking it catching.
I put the bit of nail in my pocket though, because I'm tidy Smile

Actually it's in case some mad Big Bang Theory type steals my nail and gets my DNA to clone me.

runningonwillpower · 21/08/2013 13:05

She must have planned it! She had the clippers with her.

Bokey, boke boke.

KedenTTC1Cycle2 · 21/08/2013 13:09

I think nail clipping in public is disgusting.

I am a firm believer that all personal grooming should be done at home!

Sure a quick touch of lipstick, a bit of powder or brushing your hair and so on is perfectly fine. The rest just seems...ill-mannered.

Edendance · 21/08/2013 13:10

OH was clipping his toenails while on the phone to my dad the other night... I was downstairs and could hear him doing it upstairs in the spare room. By the time I'd clocked what he was doing and gone upstairs to tell him that if I could hear and recognise what he was doing so could my dad, he was finished... Not cool.

NotDead · 21/08/2013 13:16

btw is filing ok?
what about buffing

Original poster
fanjoforthemammaries7850 · 21/08/2013 13:17

No no save your personal grooming for at home

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5Foot5 · 21/08/2013 13:22

I think nail clipping in public is disgusting.

Why? Seriously I don't get what is so offensive about it. Admittedly leaving the nail clippings behind on the bus is messy but why is the act of clipping them so upsetting to you?

Recently at work I had to go over to talk to some other women who work here and they were all quietly outraged that a man on a table a few metres away had been clipping his nails. I saw him to but I couldn't see anything wrong in the way he was going about it. He had all the clippings carefully kept on the desk in front of him and then swept them all up and disposed of them in the bin. They were saying things like "Oh I wanted to boke!" "How disgusting". But I honestly cannot see what is so grim about it.

Genuinely.

Original poster
fanjoforthemammaries7850 · 21/08/2013 13:23

It is just intrinsically ming

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KarmaBiatch · 21/08/2013 13:30

There's nowt worse than going to take a seat (anywhere) and getting poked in the buttock by a piece of someone that they left behind..

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 21/08/2013 13:32

Something that might horrify you Fanjo

When I go to some residential homes (I'm an NHS Podiatrist) the staff expect me to treat residents in the lounge.
The main seating area where they all sit watching TV, having tea etc.

I always ask if there's a treatment room or the residents own room.
Unless patient is extremely confused/ immobile or in so much pain they can't be moved. Then I'd make the area as private as possible.

One Nursing Home said "Oh Mr Bloggs is in the toilet, can you treat him in there?"

Fuck Right Off my brain shrieked.
"Ermm, NO " I said. "You are kidding aren't you"?

They weren't Shock

So, some things are more gross than nails on a bus. but not many.

quesadilla · 21/08/2013 13:33

5Foot5 I actually am not overly bothered by the act of clipping itself but leaving the clippings on the floor/seats is gross.

It's probably not actually super unhygienic as the clippings are too dry to harbour serious bacteria. It just suggests a certain lack of respect for other people and their personal space and a lack of self control.

I also dislike it when people eat on public transport for the same reason. Forcing other people you dont know from Adam to share in your digestive habits in a space not intended for eating seems a bit selfish to me. (And don't get me started on noisy or smelly eaters). It's a bit like defecating or having sex on the bus/tube. Just a bit too intimate an activity for me to be comfortable about and I can see very few situations where it's really necessary.

KarmaBiatch · 21/08/2013 13:35

I have witnessed a used tampon on the bus floor before. Would definately not eat on public transport Shock

KedenTTC1Cycle2 · 21/08/2013 13:35

5Foot5 the same way I think littering is disgusting, I am equally disgusted at littering a public space with one's bodily debris.

Nail clippings, spit, balls of hair, dead skin and whatever bits can come from a human body, should not intentionally be discarded in public.

But that's just me Confused

5Foot5 · 21/08/2013 13:40

5Foot5 the same way I think littering is disgusting, I am equally disgusted at littering a public space with one's bodily debris

But I have already said that I think leaving the clippings behind is messy. I accept that. I also detest littering in any form

But I just don't get why the act of nail clipping in public is so offensive if you are going to clear up after yourself - see my example in the office.

KedenTTC1Cycle2 · 21/08/2013 13:48

5Foot5 I don't consider one's personal desk in an office "public" per se. I was talking about on the bus, on the train, where people have no choice but to be in close proximity to you. In those situations, I have rarely observed people being careful enough to save their clippings.

For what's it worth, I think cleaning one's ears in public = disgusting. Popping a pimple on the train = disgusting. Flossing while sat on the bus = disgusting. Nail clipping may not be the worst of the bunch, but it's still a part of personal grooming and should be done at home.