Disgusting things discovered on MN

[Pricklypear12]

During my time on MN I have read about some disgusting/unhygienic things that people do on a regular basis.

Examples are:
Letting dogs lick human plates
Washing dog bowls in dishwasher with regular dishes
Sharing bath water (seen this one today!)
Sucking snot out of a baby's nose (I somewhat get it but really think I could never)

What are some vile things you've read about on MN that are seemingly normal to those that post about them?

Would those of you who won’t share bath water use a swimming pool on holiday or at your local leisure centre? There’s urine, dead skin and the hair of strangers in a pool.

The most disgusting thing I’ve seen on here was someone asking if they would be unreasonable to wash some inherited bog brushes and pots (they’d been left by the previous occupant of the house) in their dishwasher rather than buy new ones. They didn’t like the idea of cleaning their loo with something possibly contaminated by someone else’s shit but apparently had no issue with someone else’s shit contaminating their cutlery/plates. As others have pointed out...no dishwasher can sterilise to that degree! What a revolting idea. The thread was hilarious. Someone pointed out that if there were a bit of sweet corn left in the dishwasher they wouldn’t know if it had come out of the poo or not

@Chanjer but in Greece you have to wipe your bum with dry paper and throw it in the bin. That seems grim to me.

In France there are still many public toilets that are troughs and there is pee all over the floor

I don't think we are the only grim set of people!!

I don't know anyone who things dry wiping is grim!!

Bet you love Zoflora 😂

@OhToBeASeahorse

I've done the snot sucking. She poo'd in my womb, I'm not that fussed about a bit of snot.

👏👏👏🤣🤣🤣🤣

There are far worse things we do as parents.

I think it’s gross when pet owners basically French kiss their pets. Peeing in the shower is gross (just use the toilet beforehand!) I thought most people just use toilet roll? We don’t all have bidets and wet wipes are nasty for the environment.

Brilliant

@ElephantsNest

Would those of you who won’t share bath water use a swimming pool on holiday or at your local leisure centre? There’s urine, dead skin and the hair of strangers in a pool.

I think the difference is those of you reusing water are trying to get clean. Whereas a swimming pool is for leisure, and we accept it's not very hygienic hence the shower afterward.

There's literally no benefit to sharing bath water. If you're that concerned about waste, why not do a timed 4 minute scrub? Wash your face and do teeth before getting in?

I do find swimming pools a bit grotty but I like to think the chlorine makes up for all the crap in there and there is a lot more water so it feels like the crap is more diluted in a pool than a bath which reassures me. I remember seeing clumps of hair and plasters in the local grotty pool when I was a kid. I do prefer not to think about hot tubs too-sure there’s not enough chlorine in there to kill anything!

I actually think I’d rather share bath water with my dog than my parents or in-laws or strangers! As long as I could shower after

About 60 percent of people on a thread don’t wash hands after a pee ever 🤢

@ElephantsNest

Would those of you who won’t share bath water use a swimming pool on holiday or at your local leisure centre? There’s urine, dead skin and the hair of strangers in a pool.

Two main differences:

1. swimming pools are also full of chlorine
2. it's very easy to have a bath WITHOUT sharing bath water. It's not very easy to swim in a public pool without sharing pool water. Needs must and all that.

@Chanjer

Why would that be disgusting?

The logic being if you had a bit of shit on any other part of your body you wouldn't just scrape it off with paper

But I don’t open doors with my arsehole, neither do I cook dinner with my arsehole. I also don’t frequently feed the dog or the baby with my arsehole, I haven’t before shaken a hand with my arsehole...

My butt that is neatly hidden away under enormous knickers and some sort of trouser/jean doesn’t need the same disinfecting that my hands would for example.

I don’t understand why putting the dogs bowl in the dishwasher is unhygienic? It’ll get hot washed with detergent and rinsed. I put the dogs bowl in the dishwasher all the time, I haven’t killed anyone yet.

I never understand why some people are OK with having a chunk of a dead animal on their plate to eat but are so grossed out by a live animal touching a plate that's going to be cleaned. It just seems ironic.

I say that as a meat eater with no dogs or cats.

My rule is if it doesn't kill you or make you unwell it's probably ok

Seriously though, our dogs eat off plates which are always put through a hot dishwasher cycle. If you have a dog in your house they are probably doing more unhygienic things than licking your plates.

We all have different standards but I'd be wary of calling harmless things 'grim' or 'vile'. Just a bit twatty isn't it? Might not be something you're happy with and that's fine but live and let live perhaps?

@Mrgrinch where do you put all your washing though. It takes time to dry, I don't have a tumble dryer so my house then gets damp 🤷🏼‍♀️

Oh God I just googled both dragon butter and munting. I need eye bleach, brain bleach, mouth bleach...

As long as anyone isn't rotten dirty what is wrong with sharing bath water. My kids share unless they are really dirty, (in which case they would have a shower) why not! I couldn't bring myself to run 3 baths a day! If the kids have a bath I have a shower to save water.

I have literally never heard of anybody wetting a toilet tissue before they wipe. It would just go mushy for a start. Also, if you need to wash your bum after a poo you most likely have digestive issues. After a healthy poo your bum would be clean after, shock horror, a dry wipe! Did nobody watch gillian mckeith (I think that was her name).

We live in such a sanitary place there is absolutely no need for this level of germ monitoring.

My Mum bleached everything in sight when I was growing up, pure ammonia even if she could get her hands on it and my brother and me still got sick all of the time. It was so bad a visiting GP came out once and told her to ease up. He told her to go easy and that we needed to be exposed to some level of germs. I worked in public health for a while and was told the same thing when I went in bleaching everything in sight!

I've been in some fairly revolting homes as part of my work. I can quite honestly say most people's relatively clean homes and habits come as a welcome relief.
Seriously most homes I go in are fairly cluttered and a bit grubby, so I can't get too exercised about your dry wiping or not washing towels often enough.
I have to say though, mine is as minimalist as I can get away with and pretty clean just as a lovely restful place to come home to.
Dog's bowls go in dishwasher though. And the cat sleeps on my bed.

Also there is absolutely nothing wrong with peeing in the shower, its actually better for the environment as its saves water that you would flush in the loo. I do it all the time!

Well said @Chocolatefreak. When I was a child some 50 odd years ago the only allergy I had ever known anyone to have was hay-fever. Very different now.

Also, in reference to my earlier post, I am very rarely ever ill.

Sootikins is a fabled crock of misogynistic BS, IM humble O. How physically likely does that scenario really seem? It's a form of mockery at women's expense and doubtless intended to make them sound disgusting (just as taboo language is always the more taboo when related to woman's bits: compare 'prick' and 'cunt').

Foofs do not cough up owl pellets.

The dry wiping one is hilarious.

I don't go around having people look at, or sniff my asshole multiple times a day. I'm not a dog.

Dry wiping and a daily shower is fine.

Apart from the snot one I don't think any of original things count as vile but then I share towel with husband, wash bed sheets when I feel like it and have grown up thinking it is normal for pet dogs to lick my chin!