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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Disgusting Confessions

337 replies

MochynBudr · 11/09/2019 08:46

AIBU to dare you to confess your disgusting habits? Just a bit of light hearted fun Grin

OP posts:
mumderland · 11/09/2019 12:05

Another nose picker here! But I have my nose pierced and bogeys get caught so a tissue is useless

DiscontinuedModelHusband · 11/09/2019 12:09

i'm just going to put this picture here, and say no more.

those that do, will know...

Disgusting Confessions
LittleMy20 · 11/09/2019 12:10

This is really gross.

NearLifeExperience · 11/09/2019 12:10

Will hold my number two in till very last minute as find it quite pleasurable

I can't stop laughing at this! 😂

LittleMy20 · 11/09/2019 12:12

The not hand-washing after the toilet is pretty inconsiderate.

Geekynzmum · 11/09/2019 12:13

Another nose picker here.
I'm also a massive fan of Dr Pimple Pooper and love it when DH lets me pop his. Grin
I'm also a fingernail chewer though am a lot better than I used to be.

womenspeakout · 11/09/2019 12:16

People always use this as an excuse to be disgusting on these threads. Yes, spraying everything with antibac isn't good for developing immune systems. But equally faecal matter is harmful and you really should wash after using the toilet, as a bare minimum. If a surgeon was operating on you without washing his hands, would you say, "Oh it's fine, it'll boost my immune system?!"

Faecal matter is there even after washing. Those hand dryers blast it everywhere.

Anyway, I wash after going to the toilet.
And performing surgery is a completely different matter to day to day issues. It's not comparable hands being in an open cavity to day to day things.

StoppinBy · 11/09/2019 12:19

My first house had an outside toilet and I am scared of the dark.... I used to pee in the bath instead of use the toilet at night..... one night after a few too many I overbalanced and tipped in to the bath (and kept peeing cos I couldn't stop as I laid there on my back) haha.

Apparently I shoulda just peed in some Tupperware hahaha

Ringdonna · 11/09/2019 12:23

SIL tests the bouquet of her fanjo/pants often Shock

SheSellSeaShells · 11/09/2019 12:24

Throwing my hair from my hairbrush out the bedroom window

Op you're not my old neighbour are you Grin - we used to live a maisonette - we had the ground floor with garden. She used to throw her hairbrush contents down in our garden - drove me potty finding her hair sitting on the plants and the decking (she had really long dark hair).

littleorangecat22 · 11/09/2019 12:26

I stick hair to the wall in the shower so it doesn't block the drain but don't always remove the hair the same day.

cherryblossomgin · 11/09/2019 12:27

I have scalp psoriasis and enjoy brushing my hair and collecting the flakes on a black towel to see how much comes out.

Reindeerssmellbetter · 11/09/2019 12:27

This thread is disgusting, I can't believe there are so many people who don't wash their hands after the toilet. Also a question for the pickers and flickers don't you find dried bogies every where?

FlightOfTheCat · 11/09/2019 12:32

@womenspeakout As others have suggested, he wasn’t in hospital or even bedridden. He was up and about, walking around and looking like an ordinary four-year-old. He just happened to be a four-year-old who was also having weekly chemotherapy. Even his medical team advised that we kept life as normal as possible for him - going out, seeing peers, etc.

I’m well aware that I can’t control the world but that won’t stop me at least drawing people’s attention to the fact that germs that are harmless to you could be lethal to others. I do appreciate the problem you have eczema; I also suffer badly and my hands were a bleeding wreck during the most intense part of his treatment.

Anyway, what I really hope is that the people who don’t wash their hands after peeing are doing so only in their own homes. Imagine how many hands have touched the flush and the door handles of public toilets, and who’s to say they are tidy wipers?

womenspeakout · 11/09/2019 12:44

@flightofthecat

It must have been very hard for you all. I hope he's fully recovered now.

When I had a similar situation, I had to over wash my hands, and like you, they were bleeding and cracked, even if I have a day when I need to wash them a few times more, say my dog has a cut or I'm handling medical things, everything is so, so sore.
As I said, I do wash my hands many times throughout the day.

Speaking for me, it's only in my own home and not every times. And, I do always wash after a public loo, but I also try to touch as little as possible in there, including the locks, I usually use loo roll to touch things in there to avoid the germs in a public loo.

HotChocolateLover · 11/09/2019 12:45

Love picking my nose. Hardly ever wash my hands after going for a wee. Love silent but violent farts. Bite my toenails.

Intheupsidedown · 11/09/2019 12:47

Too gross to read everyone's posts

But want to say a big hello to the fellow hand/finger skin pickers and biters.

Have done this for years and I know my anxiety levels by it. My husband hates me doing it and will tell me to stop biting but I cant help it.

Sometimes it's so bad i have to wear big plasters to stop myself.

Have tried all different methods and apart from being on mat leave and stupidly busy I cant stop.

If anyone has found a way to stop please let me know because I hate myself for doing it and it upsets me!

BiologyIsReal · 11/09/2019 12:47

Lordy, I'm not a fusspot but reading this aversion to hand washing I find it no wonder that things like norovirus spread like wildfire.

HotChocolateLover · 11/09/2019 12:49

I really hope the people that wee in Tupperware have a dedicated box. It wouldn’t be nice to be eating your ham sandwich and realising that you’d tinkled in the box 🤦‍♀️😂

wanderings · 11/09/2019 12:54

I am a serial wearer of trainers without socks: not especially disgusting to me, but I know it is to MN! Why? Because I like how it feels, and I might be known to have a sniff sometimes. Shock

2kids2jobs · 11/09/2019 12:54

I use toenail clippers to trim the hard skin on my feet. It's really satisfying! 🙈

savethebeestoday · 11/09/2019 13:01

Don't wash my hands when using the loo at home, kind of figure that I don't wee/poo on my hands so all good!
In a public/office loo I will though.
Have had a wee in the back garden before, at night when I can't be seen!

Love squeezing the blackheads on my OH's back, and get quite upset if he doesn't let me!

I also, and this is really REALLY gross, at the beginning of my (heavy) period when I'm having a shower I will 'push' the clots out..... Sorry, that is gross (but surprisingly satisfying).

CookPassBabtridge · 11/09/2019 13:04

I pee in a glass when toilet is busy at home.
I pick and eat my bogies.
I don't wash my hands after having a wee but only at home, not in public or other houses.
I forget to pick up my toe nail trimmings
I fart and enjoy the smell

weekellye · 11/09/2019 13:07

@discontinuedmodelhusband ... Absolutely Smile

saraclara · 11/09/2019 13:08

everyone washed their hands after loo EVERY TIME wherever they were then we all would get 85% less colds and flu

That's bizarre, because colds and flu have nothing to do with faecal matter or urine. Washing your hands after sneezing into them is what protects from colds and flu.

I often don't wash my hands after going to the loo, but the friend who sneezes into his hands and then rubs them together makes me want to heave!