Gross things you do that you know is gross but continue to do

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Occasionally my scalp can be a bit scabby. I love nothing more than picking them out... And eating them. There's something so satisfying about that crunch between the teeth.

Don't come at me about how disgusting it is. I know. Hence the title 😄

AIBU to ask you to share away your also gross but cannot help habits? Let's rejoice in anonymous grossness!

Name changed!

I have a really difficult to clean bellybutton, it’s like a labyrinth of twisty chambers. Occasionally it really pongs so I have to use cotton buds to dig in and remove the bellybutton scum!

The satisfaction of digging out a really big piece of scum just can’t be beat, I even give it a good sniff before disposing!

I am envious of DH’s ‘bowl’ like bellybutton, nothing seems to get trapped in his!

Oh and a love a good crunch on a freshly picked scab! My mouth literally waters at the thought!

The disappointment when you lose your picked scab is like no other!

Oo dear think you lost me on that one. We re fox feeders!
But also on a farm and coping with rats is a never ending nightmare. We grow hops and they love it. Another good reason to feed the foxes.

And the world keeps going round naturally.

I've never used the flush water in a toilet to rinse out my mooncup. But pee is sterile, so I've used that instead. It works really well! (and yes of course I wash the pee off my hands afterwards).
Actually quite proud of this innovation, and don't think it's gross at all, so no need to NC!

Not the point of the thread I know, but pee is not sterile.

Er pee is not sterile.

I'm not one to judge AT ALL - as you can hopefully see from my foot related posts - but why would you choose to wash it in pee, when presumably water is readily available?

@JMSA I am missing the point I know, but this is one of the funniest sentences I have ever read on here;

'why would you choose to wash it in pee, when presumably water is readily available?'

It's the comma after the 'pee' that does it for me

Thanks! I think I know what they are now… I always thought they were just lodged food in my teeth that had hidden well from my tooth brush.

@MediaevalPeopleDidIt Ahem. In my last house, the bedroom was two floors away from the bathroom. I used to pee in a variety of receptacles, whatever was to hand really … no idea why I didn’t invest in a ‘special’ one … & rather than slosh it down two flights of stairs in the morning I used to chuck it out of the window. It wasn’t on the street, so I didn’t need to shout “garde d’leau!” though … it generally ended up on the kitchen roof.

My DP kindly bought me a chamber pot when we moved (bathroom just one floor away now though) but it’s Victorian & it’s bloody tiny - my wee would not fit in it I am sure. Maybe the Victorians had very small bladders.

I also wee in the shower and I don't think it's gross at all, it goes straight down the plughole. We don't have a shower curtain for it to get on.

DH and my mum think I'm awful though

My DH and DM claim not to be in either category

Try a Spode large cream jug
Perfect
Snug fit
Lovely
Mine has flat sides and is wide graduating up and in to the top.

Not going to NC because I think I'm barely stepping into this gross camp so...

Those blackhead pore strips you put on your nose? I LOVE looking at the terrain afterwards! I leave them to crisp up the next day and have a serious up close-eyeball examination of all the blackheads. I don't know why, it's just so satisfying!
I get tiny spots on my scalp, probably from the rich conditioner I sometimes use. I love popping them. Sometimes they're too small so have to annoy it a little until it's big enough to give in.

I pee in the shower. I don't think it's a gross habit. You poo (in the toilet), wipe, you wash your hands afterwards. Totally acceptable . You pee in the shower, you wash your legs and privates afterwards. Bathroom cleaned regularly and no one has ever died from it. I just don't understand the preciousness of people who don't do it. But, to each their own!

What a delightful piss jug! What a great suggestion - it’s that kind of creative, yet sensible, advice that really showases MN at its finest

I have a jug for that too. No one else knows but Im.53 & cant hold on for long if I need to pee anymore. Pee jug, rinse and back under the sink! Fabulous.

Blimey, mines secret too!
What a great thread, now we all realise we’re not alone.
🤣🤣

ps. Just got caught out and had to grab a measuring jug from the kitchen, 0.5 litre……! Now I can measure it too 🙃🤣

I understand picking spots and scabs and things but you've all lost me at eating stuff🤢

I love the smell of my ear wax. I'll stick the string from a hoodie in my ear and then smell the wax. I used to suck my thumb and it started with my school tie. I'd suck my thumb, stick my tie in my ear, then smell the wax and rub my nose with the tie.

I bite my toenails, and play with them in my mouth for ages afterwards, nibbling them and moving round with my tongue. Sometimes I have to speak to someone when I've got one in my mouth, and have to decide whether to swallow it or try to stash it in my cheek.

I clean my ears of wax with my finger and then my cat eats the wax.
He goes mad for it.
Efficiency.

Is this the Spode jug? It does look the perfect ergonomic shape!

Not the point of the thread I know, but pee is not sterile

Apparently it is. I splashed urine in my eye emptying a commode at work. Got sent up to the walk in centre who then sent me onto our main hospital for blood tests and whilst I was waiting for someone to come and take a blood sample I could hear another Dr say I wouldn't need to have one because urine is sterile so wouldn't cause any adverse affects. Probably different if it was from someone with hepatitis or something which it wasn't and as soon as it happened I'd already washed my eye out with a load of hot water anyway

Earwax tastes like perfume.