People who blow their nose...

[Carmargo]

... while you're sat at a restaurant, home dining table, etc eating a meal are fucking disgusting.
There's no need for it!! Just go to the bathroom, pub toilets to do it.

Some c*nt has done this to me right now. There's fuck all wrong with him that stops him from moving away from his table to do it-I've known him for years and there's no reason he couldn't retire to the toilet to do it.
It's just fucking rude and turns my stomach.

Even my aunt-who is usually reasonable- does this. I can't go out for family meals anymore if she's present as it's a habitual thing.

I'm not talking about capturing an errant sneeze in a tissue BTW.

Yeah I'm probably being unreasonable but capable adults should just fuck off and blow their noses out of sight and sounds of those that are eating.

TBH I find people who eat on the train (looking at you, man opposite me with the bloody stinky tuna sandwich!) far more repulsive than those who blow their nose at the table.

Blowing your nose is natural (unless we’re talking full foghorn). Eating stinky food on public transport however…send them straight to jail.

It really makes me heave.

What a strange take. It's perfectly acceptable, nothing wrong with it at all.

YABVU!!

It’s a normal bodily function and is acceptable in the UK.

I'd rather someone blow their nose than incessantly sniff.

People on here are barmy! Blowing your nose is perfectly acceptable. Sniffing not so much

It does make me wonder how the anti-blow folk manage to take a shit without passing out in disgust.

Wow, what a violently aggressive post over something so utterly nonsensical!

I often have to blow my nose while eating with others. Spicy food makes my nose run, and our caterers at work are particularly keen on chilli. So if I didn’t blow my nose during lunch, my colleagues would have to watch nose drip into my meal, which I imagine would be more effective at putting them off their food.

This would be the weirdest bodily thing to be offended by - but I think it’s just beaten by the opinion I saw recently that toes are offensive and no one should wear sandals in public.

you wouldn’t like me then. I have a lot of allergies and blow my nose all the time. If I couldn’t blow my nose in public I’d never leave the house!

What are those of us with chronic allergies supposed to do, though? Run to the bathroom every 5 minutes?

I sometimes think I've stepped into a parallel universe when I get onto MN. Things I have never heard a person moan about in over 60 years become such a drama here. There seem to be a lot of batshit posts atm.

Yes! Why not just let it run down your face instead.

I suffer from a mild version of misophonia and even I think you're being unreasonable. I think it's context - I appreciate some people could be more discrete but as for finding a public toilet - that's so impractical!

I couldn't disagree with you more.

It's impolite at a dinner table, you should excuse yourself and discreetly deal with it.

We have to go to the toilet to blow our nose? Wtf? People really get offended far too easily. As long as they’re using a tissue it’s totally normal behaviour. Stop making life harder imposing your bonkers rules on everyone.

If you have to you should wipe your nose but not blow your nose at a dinner table.

It's good manners not bonkers rules.

Probably go around with a bell while someone walks ahead of you shouting unclean.

Er paper napkins are used to dab your mouth. Not much difference, surely

Now anticipating the 'AIBU to make DH have a shower before getting into bed if he has sneezed' thread.

Oh yes, I bet we will get one a bit like that. And then there would be outrage if he used the en-suite during the night 😂

Oh no sometimes you can hear the snot bubbling along the nasal passage and slap into the tissue

Umm, no. Presumably everyone is taught as a child not to chew or swallow noisily, to chew with their mouth closed, not to blow their nose or pass wind in front of others? It's very basic consideration for others!