To think this is really unhygienic ?!

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To think you don’t bloody sneeze in public?Probably get flamed for this but I absolutely detest people sneezing openly in public. It spreads germs and it’s NOT THAT HARD to internally sneeze as in like hold yourself back when you sneeze!

What about you hygiene pet peeves?

Another one is LICKING THE SUPERMARKET BAGS....why?! Why would I want you to slurp on your finger and then use your saliva to lubricate my bag and then continue to put my fresh produce into said bag. EW EW EW.

PS. Don’t say people can’t help sneezing, because unless you are challenged in someway , you ABSOLUTELY can.

I was in the supermarket this morning and there was a middle-aged man (old enough to know better) waiting for his wife, standing by the vegetable display, sneezing repeatedly and forcefully in the direction of the produce. Revolting! I nearly went up to him and said "were you not taught as a child to turn your head away and sneeze in to a handkerchief?" But I bottled it of course. Didn't buy any veg either!

I would sneeze subtly if in public but I don’t like doing it..

I have a real aversion to people blowing their noses at the table/while I’m eating. My fil ALWAYS does it...makes me feel sick🤢

"I’m not angry I’m just sick of travelling on the tube etc with people sharing their germs!"

Just because people sneeze doesn't mean they have germs.

I sneeze a lot but I'm not ill (or challenged)
I don't sneeze over people but I won't hold it in every time either.

If there's one thing I'm jealous of, it's the people who can make sneezing sound like the adorable hiccup of a newborn kitten.
I'm a dramatic, blokey sneezer. Each sneeze has whiplash potential.

Sneezing internally is a must-have skill for anybody using 2 hands at the same time (I.e. waitress/waiter carrying two hot plates!).

Or sneeze / cough into your elbow.
It’s not hard. Makes me feel sick when people openly sneeze. Our yr8 teacher told us a sneeze travels around a room in 7 seconds! I’ve never forgotten that, although I’m guessing it depends on the size of the room

Me too. If I tried to sneeze in a delicate ladylike manner my eyeballs would fly out.

Some people are just minging. Absolutely minging.

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

OP: I still argue you can sneeze internally without snot and germs spraying all over the joint!!! You close your mouth and just sneeze - try it!!!!!!!

No.

Firstly my sneezes come from nowhere, if I sneeze, and by the time I've thought about holding it in, it's out.

Secondly... and more importantly, read the link below. If you think I'm going to hold in my sneeze because you're precious about sneezing, you need to think again!

www.aol.com/article/lifestyle/2018/01/16/a-man-held-in-his-sneeze-and-ruptured-the-back-of-his-throat/23335098/

and

www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2018/01/15/dont-hold-sneeze-warn-doctors-could-death/

It is a natural bodily function.

You clearly don’t have allergies OP. If you did have like me or worse my poor DH if you internalised every sneeze you would combust!

You’d hate me, once I start sneezing, I go on for ages and ages. If I tried to “internally sneeze” I believe my head would blow up!

Unless I have the lurgy, the germs I’m spreading are no worse than the germs on your phone screen or supermarket trolly handle.

I don’t lick my finger to open bags —mainly because I have reusable, cloth bags for my fresh veg— but I doubt a fingerful of spit would hurt anyone. In the old days mums used to spit on a handkerchief and use it to wipe grubby faces, but I do understand your revulsion.

I hate public swimming pools because of kids with snotty noses, just grosses me out, but happily swim in the sea and fish poo in there, so go figure.
I also cringe when friends post photos of their dog on the sofa, or worse, on the bed 😱😱😱

I work in a supermarket. Customers try and give me things that have been in their feckin MOUTH!!!!! No I don't want to scan your moist card you freakin revolting animal.
They suggest I lick my finger to open a plastic bag..... Do you know what my hands have been touching?
A child spat at me once. Little shit. I just hate saliva

'Previously people have been admitted to hospital suffering from burst eardrums, ruptured blood vessels in the eyes, damaged facial nerves, pulled muscles and even cracked ribs from trying to contain the huge force of a sneeze'

Holding in your sneeze or sneezing internally can cause nosebleeds and sinus infections. Not a great idea.

Nobody wants to have a sneezing fit, but often you just can't help it.

Once a customer sneezed into my hair. I nearly died. Actual death

wayward oh I like a good sneeze!!

Is this a joke?
How do you ever leave the house ?

People used to carry tissues and handkerchiefs for a reason. My husband still puts a fresh handkerchief in his pocket every morning.

Hysteria at it's finest on this thread, I see.

I love the debates on here about how to manage bodily functions such as sneezing, farting, shitting and piddling.

Sneeze if you need to, wherever you are. Into a tissue if you have one, but otherwise cover your mouth and nose with your hand and turn away from other people.

Farting - better out than in.

Shitting and piddling - just sit on the fucking toilet. Sod trying to levitate above it.

There are certain sneezes that you can stifle but the majority can't be held in. You are most definitely being very unreasonable!

Thanks for this thread OP. All I’ve learnt is that I shouldn’t hold in sneezes or else I might die.

People used to carry tissues and handkerchiefs for a reason.

Agreed. However, since developing arthritis in my hands, I have no chance of being able to get a tissue out of anything until my hands 'thaw'.

I don't like it but I sneeze into the sleeve of my elbow (if I can lift my arm up high enough) or into my upper arm). Of course, where possible, I'm also trying to stand with my back against a wall if I can make it.

This is going to be the most millennial thing I’ve ever said but @SheChoseDown’s post has just reminded me of what I did to the postman the other day.

I bumped into him as I was throwing out the avocado skin from breakfast into my compost bin and he handed me the electronic signature thingy to sign. It was only after I’d signed it and picked up the letters and saw green snot like gunge all over the envelopes in my left hand that I must have handed him the signature device back covered in green slime. There’s no way he’d guess it was avocado. That poor man. I can never look him in the eye again. He’s gorgeous too.

Oh, and DH and I are both legendary sneezers.

Ybvu. Sneezing it just one of those things. Yes we should sneeze into our arm or something, but expecting everyone to do something that most find uncomfortable and carries health risks because you don't the alternative says a lot.

What about you hygiene pet peeves?

Cat in the bed.

Sheds hair everywhere and been standing in her own shit and piss in the litter tray.