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Stuff you think must happen to other people - but can't risk asking?

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IMissFrance · 03/02/2021 11:21

Anyone else have stuff happen to you that must happen to others.

But you can't really ask because what if they say "NO! How weird!" And then you can never talk to that person again. Wink

So I'm bringing it to the anonymity of Mumsnet.

I'd love to hear other peoples. And will start off.

  • whenever I wash my hair in the shower (I have long hair) loose hairs wash down my back and end up in my bum crack. End of my shower I have to check there's no hair left.

I can't be alone in this grossness! (Or can I)

OP posts:
MolyHolyGuacamole · 03/02/2021 13:49

@vivariumvivariumsvivaria

Breastfed 3 babies in a row. Weaned them each at a year.

Still could produce a decent squirt of milk for SIX YEARS.

GP did some blood tests, found nothing and suggested that I must be either still feeding the babies...or my husband.

I changed GP, I mean, I ASK YOU! but, am none the wiser about why my boobs kept busy.

😂😂😂 I would have squirted the GP in that face at that comment
IAmStrange · 03/02/2021 13:49

Omg I have found my people! Yes to so many of these

Shower bum hair
Stabby arse
Bogey pulling satisfaction
Eye bogeys (especially black mascara ones)
And the period poos - omg they are horrendous

I'll add to the list...

The satisfaction of squeezing/digging out an ingrown hair - especially when it's a REALLY long one!

Picking dirt/fluff from toenails - fingernails mentioned by PP but toes even stinkier!

Squeezing the stinky stuff out of piercings

Apologies if I have lowered the tone, was so excited to see I'm not alone (but not excited enough to not name change first!)

usedandabusedx1000 · 03/02/2021 13:50

I have one of those random hairs. One day it’s not there, the next there an inch long hair on my boob. I don’t understand how it just appears so suddenly

goodwinter · 03/02/2021 13:51

@Tigertealeaves

Does anyone else bite bits off the inside of their mouth? I've been doing it for 20 years.
Haha, was absentmindedly doing it as I was reading the comments! My poor cheeks.
IAmStrange · 03/02/2021 13:51

@PowerhousePatty

Sometimes (maybe once a month) I open my mouth to speak or yawn and a spray of saliva comes out. I don’t know how it happens and can’t replicate it so I don’t know when it will happen which can be embarrassing at times!
Omg yes! This too!
Salmonwindow · 03/02/2021 13:52

I have a cystocele and rectocele (types of prolapse). The only way I can poo is to stick my finger up my bum and hook it all out. Then I scrub my hand with bleach.

rossogingerale · 03/02/2021 13:52

I love threads like this.

Yes my pubes grown down my thighs too and my mums did.

I didn't pooh in labour.

I cringe a lot about thinking things I have said and done, think this is very common tbh.

I get freak hairs on my face and upper arms, very fine on the cheeks but its a good 2 inches long sometimes. Under my chin is a different matter, like white wirey pubes! I am on tamoxifen after breast cancer, I believe being on that encourages the growth of these hairs.

I have always had a discharge from my belly button! I have never met anyone else this happens too! After chemo, it was brown and smelled like wet moss, totally disgusting but I had antibiotics for that and it cleared up and but still now and again I still get a discharge.

I love a good nose pick too.

AintPageantMaterial · 03/02/2021 13:52

The medical term for Javelin Arse is Proctalgia Fugax. I don’t get it anymore but did as a teenager. I had an excruciatingly embarrassing conversation with my dad who was a doctor because I was worried that there was something really wrong with me.
Dd15 now gets it and had the same worried, awkward conversation with me recently. It made my own embarrassment worthwhile that I was able to reassure her.

mamaatthegym · 03/02/2021 13:52

I’m the only person I know who gets diarrhoea as a reaction to nerves, excitement or adrenalin.

Thus - I did not poo giving birth because I had got so excited and nervous in early labour that I had already emptied the contents of my bowels Grin

Imissthegym · 03/02/2021 13:53

@Tigertealeaves I do that. I started doing it when I got braces as a teen and bits naturally rubbed off. Is that how you started?

Also squeezing gunk out of my previous nose piercing is one of the highlights of my week!

Onlinedilema · 03/02/2021 13:55

Oh dear I got my nails onto a paper and throw the clippings in the garden! I never thought this was weird but now I’m wondering.

DamnitImTired · 03/02/2021 13:55

Bits of toilet paper left on your fancy after you wipe ....

Husband laughs but I make sure before I go to gynae there are not little pieces of rolled up toilet paper residue left. I would die.

PussGirl · 03/02/2021 13:56

I get one of those long fine hairs on my face - I never notice it till it's several inches long - Witch Hairs, apparently Smile

And shower bum-crack hairs

And little rolls of toilet paper tangled up in the pubes round my bumhole - I'd make a rubbish pornstar - or a very niche one Grin

HaudMaDug · 03/02/2021 13:58

@Daydreamsinglorioustechnicolor

Fanny farts is definitely something no one discusses in real life.
I'd like to talk about my unfortunate episode of fanny farting as I've been mortified since my last smear. I was lying on the bed, legs akimbo, speculum inserted and nurse was having a good poke around looking for my cervix without much luck. I said to her "It must be in there somewhere as I'm not aware of leaving it anywhere since the last time". She cackled with laughter and as I laughed my stomach muscles must have pressed down and my fanny spat the speculum out at her followed by a long echoey fart. I feel the heat of embarrassment just typing this. Blush
FangsForTheMemory · 03/02/2021 13:58

@Salmonwindow I think you’ve won the thread there.

I get hairs trapped in my bra and they drive me nuts so I have to strip off and remove them. Also random long white hairs growing out of my arm once. I plucked them and they never came back.

But can I add, the weird thing when you swallow and ‘miss’ and get an awful clenching pain in your throat about five seconds later.

PS I also choke on my own saliva

sorepinkfeet · 03/02/2021 13:58

I peel the dead skin off my feet (esp when I am stressed). Sometimes I over do it and make my feet sore.

NC for this!

Tigertealeaves · 03/02/2021 13:58

@Imissthegym no, I have no idea how I started, as I didn't have braces til adulthood!

Yep I also squeeze the stuff out of my ear piercings, 100%, and it's really satisfying when some comes out

sorepinkfeet · 03/02/2021 13:59

I also choke on my own saliva!

Colouringaddict · 03/02/2021 13:59

@NoProblem123

I could launch a hot air balloon when I first get into bed Blush
I can do it when I wake up, that’s how my DC used to know I was awake apparently 😂
BlackAmericanoNoSugar · 03/02/2021 13:59

@Tigertealeaves

Does anyone else bite bits off the inside of their mouth? I've been doing it for 20 years.
I've done that since I stopped biting my nails in my twenties. So for about 30 years. It doesn't seem to have done any permanent damage.
MoreMorelos · 03/02/2021 14:00

@IAmStrange the piercing one - I haven't worn a belly button bar/ring for 18 years and still gives a good squeeze of solid gunk

Tigertealeaves · 03/02/2021 14:00

Also have the water retained in vag after swimming/bath thing, but ALSO, (ahem) fluids after sex. They have sometimes returned to haunt me later when I've already left the house !!! Blush

unicornpoopoop · 03/02/2021 14:01

@hauntedvagina me too! 😮

BottegaBish · 03/02/2021 14:03

I can only climax if I have a finger up my butt.

sapnupuas · 03/02/2021 14:03

@MisiSam

Sometimes I will get a pain like someone has stabbed me up the bum, only lasts a second and it's really sharp!
This was known as "shooty bum pain" at my last job. We all got it. It's common. Not sure what it is though.