To think this should be done in private?

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Blowing your nose.

AIBU to suggest that if anything is exiting your body (with the exception of breastmilk) then it should be done in a locked toilet away from me.

No I'm not BU. It's gross. Guess this thread was pretty redundant

Wet boak, chirpyburbycheapsheep

When I was in about year 11 I had a teacher suggest I should go out of the classroom to blow my nose. It was utterly ridiculous as with the allergies I had it would have meant that I would have frequently spent half the lesson outside. Ironically that teacher took a trivial lesson that didn't matter - those where I was actually doing some work didn't object.

Nose blowing is FAR FAR better than the sniffing and dripping horribleness that would occur without it.

In my husband's culture (not Japanese) it is very rude to blow your nose in public. A discreet wipe til you can get in private is fine. It's just not done at all. Somehow you adjust, just like you adjust to not farting in public or burping, you kind of minimise the need and if you need to do it, you do so as discreetly as possible. It can be done.

Haha - never work with four year olds then OP! Any snot on your hand should be wiped on chairs, tables, carpets, your clothes, your friends or any adult in the vicinity (because tissues or paper towels are clearly just for decoration!)

@cathcath2 the snot that exits my incredibly impolite toddlers really makes me consider the idea of adoption

I would never choose to work with kids for this reason, especially the little, snotty kinds. Unless I was to teach lessons on nasal etiquette, which I may consider doing

Why is it ok for breast milk to leave the body in public but not blow nose? They are both natural things?

Breastfeeding is legally protected, I'm not getting into that debate.

Nose blowing is not written into UK law yet so I'd like to start a movement aiming to make it illegal in public - like pooping and peeing.

I don't see why that would be so unreasonable or unrealistic.

My late mother-in-law would take out her hankie and with her finger covered with it she would pick her nose as we conversed. She examined the freshly mined booger and then proceed to pick her nose with a clean spot on the hankie. Both nostrils got a thorough going over.

For her grand finale she held up the hankie - complete with its harvested boogers, to admire or study, and then she laid the thing opened up on the sofa next to her. It was revolting.

After that first exhibition I would bolt from the room soon as her hankie came out - I’d tell her I heard the washing machine beeped or something.

(My son told me he’d seen her do it on another occasion and also found it revolting).

My husband (her son) would blow his nose into a paper napkin after he ate, and then, after he examined the napkin, would throw it onto the table and sometimes it would land right next to my plate. I put a stop to that.

Up until my mil’s nose picking demonstration I had no issue with nose blowing, now it makes me feel sick if I’m eating.

Blowing nose into fabric hankies that end up in my washing all crispy, now that should be banned (this was dh before I taught him this was gross and it wasn’t 1950 anymore)

It's a natural function. YABU.

@ImNotWhoYouThinkIAmOhNo so is taking a dump, still I can't imagine that going down to well in a restaurant

Adds this to the mental list of ridiculous things people on mumsnet get offended by. How do people cope in real life getting offended all the time?

@ZzzMarchhare I wouldn't say offended, just makes me go ewwww inside.

Are you telling me there's nothing that people do that make you go eww?

Loud, slappy eaters?

Spitters?

Nose pickers?

Bogey eaters?

Toenail biters?

Why do I automatically have to be labelled as "offended", that word is thrown around in such a ridiculous manner these days.

What about the people that clear their nose out by holding one nostril closed and just blowing, I've seen that a couple of times, not indoors though.