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What disgusting thing do you do?

655 replies

eqpi4t2hbsnktd · 25/03/2025 16:20

I blow my nose on the washing before it goes in the machine... rather than find a tissue!

OP posts:
FiveWhatByFiveWhat · 25/03/2025 21:33

mumofoneAlonebutokay · 25/03/2025 16:32

Not disgusting but weird

I sometimes climb the stairs on all 4s when dd isn't home 🤭

I do this all the time!

Hwi · 25/03/2025 21:37

DaleyDerDrache · 25/03/2025 19:09

The answer is that you need to relax a little. Germs aren't all bad for you. Have you never been swimming?

Yes, sea mainly. I get what you are saying, absolutely, but find it disgusting when parents bathe together with their children.

UndermyShoeJoe · 25/03/2025 21:42

Hwi · 25/03/2025 21:37

Yes, sea mainly. I get what you are saying, absolutely, but find it disgusting when parents bathe together with their children.

Yes that’s a never have I ever shared a bath with any of my children.

A brief shower with a clingy newborn. But I find no joy is being pooped or peed on while trying to get clean

Hwi · 25/03/2025 21:47

UndermyShoeJoe · 25/03/2025 21:42

Yes that’s a never have I ever shared a bath with any of my children.

A brief shower with a clingy newborn. But I find no joy is being pooped or peed on while trying to get clean

Sorry, did not make myself clear - I meant that adults are 10000% dirtier than babies and children - that no child should be exposed to naked parents mentally and physically - gross, all of it.

GG1986 · 25/03/2025 21:52

Pick my nose!

MoonWoman69 · 25/03/2025 21:53

I also go upstairs on all fours! Glad to know there's a few of us!
I use wet loo roll for the occasional smudgy turd issues!
I comb my cats frequently and if I find fleas, I crush them with my thumbnail on my table (one of those fold up pine ones, I have it in front of me) then the flea drops are deployed!
My cats walk along the kitchen work tops, but as soon as they get down, I'm out with the antibacterial spray! They get done all through the day anyway, I'm not a total heathen!!! 🤣
I cut my toenails and eat any big pieces!
I smoke too!

MissScarletInTheBallroom · 25/03/2025 21:53

Hwi · 25/03/2025 21:47

Sorry, did not make myself clear - I meant that adults are 10000% dirtier than babies and children - that no child should be exposed to naked parents mentally and physically - gross, all of it.

I don't know about that, I'm pretty sure I have not done a shit in the bath since the 1980s, which definitely can't be said for either of my children.

lifeonmars100 · 25/03/2025 21:53

mumofoneAlonebutokay · 25/03/2025 16:32

Not disgusting but weird

I sometimes climb the stairs on all 4s when dd isn't home 🤭

I do this when I am knackered which seems to be all the time these days. In my defence my stairs are steep and narrow and I do not have have a bannister. I liken myself to a monkey when I am climbing in this way, when i start to make appropriate noises is when I will start to worry!

BubbaHorovitz · 25/03/2025 21:56

The most disgusting thing I do is engage with certain lunatics on MN

Booboobagins · 25/03/2025 21:56

CowboyJoanna · 25/03/2025 16:31

If it was disgusting in my eyes, I wouldn't do it.

But people at the place I used to work at before having the kids gave me grief for not washing my hands after a wazz (i wash them after a poo obviously)

You know from covid that any bacteria virus or mold can get through tissue and be on your skin so when you touch your face or eat you transfer it.

It's disgusting not washing your hands.

monkeysox · 25/03/2025 21:57

CowboyJoanna · 25/03/2025 16:31

If it was disgusting in my eyes, I wouldn't do it.

But people at the place I used to work at before having the kids gave me grief for not washing my hands after a wazz (i wash them after a poo obviously)

Rank. Poo particles on the flush and foor from previous use. Dirty

JitterbugFairy · 25/03/2025 21:57

CowboyJoanna · 25/03/2025 16:41

Id argue blowing your onse on your kids clothes is more disgusting than not washing hands after a simple tidy wazz i suppose but you do you Wink

Well at least the clothes are getting washed 🤷‍♀️

Showdogworkingdog · 25/03/2025 22:02

Met two ladies at a hobby event once. They were friends who often went out together. Somehow the conversation turned to toilet queues and they assured me it’s never a problem when they go out, they just wear a tena lady and piss in that instead of standing in line waiting for the ladies. I still wonder if everyone else is doing this but me.

Tigergirl80 · 25/03/2025 22:03

CaptainCabinets · 25/03/2025 16:58

On the clothes that are about to go in the machine with detergent, you mean? Meanwhile your pissy hands that have touched the toilet roll and the flush are going to go out and touch the keyboard, mouse, the milk…Envy

I get a lot of satisfaction watching videos of ears having hardened wax removed and huge blackheads. I’m not into them disgusting puss filled abscesses though.

Pricelessadvice · 25/03/2025 22:05

Goody2ShoesAndTheFilthyBeast · 25/03/2025 18:34

When I'm alone and I burp, I say burp as I'm burping.
I'm 51. It's revolting. Blush

I do this!!

lifeonmars100 · 25/03/2025 22:06

Justrestingmyeyes1 · 25/03/2025 20:13

Me too! 😀

And me! relieved I am not the only one

DaleyDerDrache · 25/03/2025 22:07

Hwi · 25/03/2025 21:37

Yes, sea mainly. I get what you are saying, absolutely, but find it disgusting when parents bathe together with their children.

Why is it disgusting? Are you sexualising it? If so, then that sounds like a you problem.

Tigergirl80 · 25/03/2025 22:08

Showdogworkingdog · 25/03/2025 22:02

Met two ladies at a hobby event once. They were friends who often went out together. Somehow the conversation turned to toilet queues and they assured me it’s never a problem when they go out, they just wear a tena lady and piss in that instead of standing in line waiting for the ladies. I still wonder if everyone else is doing this but me.

That’s gross fine wearing one to catch the drips. But even then you it.

We walked past a lass one night squatted down pissing in the street. In full view of loads of people walking between pubs. Told her she was disgusting she said to her friends I told you I needed to go before we left.

Readyornot8565 · 25/03/2025 22:09

PoopingAllTheWay · 25/03/2025 16:38

So a shared work bathroom and you didnt wash your hands after a wee?

So you flushed the chain and touched the lock on a shared bathroom ?

Thats rank!!!

Yep, that was my thought!!

It's less about whether you get your own wee or poo on your hands, but more about getting other people's (potentially illness-inducing!) germs after touching the toilet, door etc.

After washing my hands, I'm even careful to use my sleeve to open the main toilet door will be even more so now

Bubblebubblepoppop · 25/03/2025 22:09

It has already been mentioned but I too love picking my nose, obviously just in the privacy of my own home. Especially if it's been a few days- I seem to get huge bogies right in the corners of my nostrils so they come out sort of flattened. I often wipe them on my leggings, admire them, wait until they are bone dry and then pick them off and finally get rid of them in a tissue 😂

lifeonmars100 · 25/03/2025 22:10

Showdogworkingdog · 25/03/2025 22:02

Met two ladies at a hobby event once. They were friends who often went out together. Somehow the conversation turned to toilet queues and they assured me it’s never a problem when they go out, they just wear a tena lady and piss in that instead of standing in line waiting for the ladies. I still wonder if everyone else is doing this but me.

Wow, never thought of that! tempted to give it a go, do not need Tena Lady and have a strong bladder but I hate queiing for the toilet in a too short intermission or having to go for a wee in the cinema and missing part of the film, plus some films are so long these days.

Purplebunnie · 25/03/2025 22:11

Trumptonagain · 25/03/2025 21:03

Would never dream of not washing my hands after having a pee so this has got me thinking...

In a lot of public/work toilets you would flush the toilet and touch the lock on the door before washing your hands as normally in many places the wash facilities are outside of the cubicle.

Use a sheet of toilet paper to open the door then drop into the loo. I have been known if the facilities are a bit grim to use a sheet of loo roll to flush the toilet and if you are very clever it gets flushed away. It's a good game😂

CalleOcho · 25/03/2025 22:13

Pick ear wax out of my ear with my acrylic nails.

Smell my own farts in bed.

Play with chewed chewing gum in between in my fingers.

Scrape plaque off my teeth and smell it.

I’m sorry 😂

Notsosure1 · 25/03/2025 22:14

Annajones101 · 25/03/2025 17:22

This, ladies and gentlemen, is why they say you shouldn’t trust other people’s hygiene standards. There are people like this walking amongst us.

And everything you buy in supermarkets/shops that you bring into your home will have been touched by someone who hasn’t washed their hands/ scratched their privates or arse/ picked their nose/ dug a finger in their ear/ stroked or been licked by an animal… or torched items that the previously listed ppl have also touched.

It’s best not to think about it

PoopingAllTheWay · 25/03/2025 22:17

PointsSouth · 25/03/2025 17:54

There are just as many germs on the taps and the door handle. So when you come out of the stall, you turn on the tap, which leaves some germs and picks up some too. You wash the germs off your hands, then turn off the tap, getting more germs on your hands. Then you open the door, getting more germs on the handle, and picking some up as well. Then you go to the kitchen and turn on the tap to fill the kettle.

We're surrounded by germs. Good hygiene can reduce risk, but it can't stop you coming in contact with germs. And in shared loos, there's nothing you can do to avoid them, short of a hazmat suit.

Edited

I actually dont touch the tap or the door handle after washing my hands. I use a clean tissue or similar
Because they are equally just as dirty!

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