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

999 replies

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:
sasparilla1 · 03/02/2021 14:03

@1sttimemumtobe2021

Did you poo whilst giving birth? Key thought of mine being due in April with first baby. The stats are high for this from what I hear but I can't really ask haha!
Yes! Two out of 4 births....
ifigoup · 03/02/2021 14:05

The spray of saliva is colloquially known as “cobra yawn”!

torquewench · 03/02/2021 14:07

Love a good bogey rakeout, I find the best are the ones that appear after Ive had a fresh set of acrylic nails (which are also handy for said rakeout). I have a small recurring blackhead in my cleavage, every week or so I give it a good squeeze and i can get a good 2 inch long sporn out of it before I stop the pressure. I dont know where it comes from as This part is quite bony.

TwunchOfBats · 03/02/2021 14:07

The dog has a large pore on his belly that fills with gunk. I make him lie down while I squeeze it out!

Poor old bugger.

Ginpalacequeen · 03/02/2021 14:07

Yes, yes and yes again to all, thank goodness as it sounds as though I’m normal and not a candidate for a science project.
deffo been days where I wonder if something is wrong with me and I’m so pleased to know I’m not alone. You are my people Grin

doris9034 · 03/02/2021 14:10

@LouNatics

I have never fished hair out of my bum crack and I wear mine long. So it can’t be universal.

I always want to know where and how exactly you are supposed to cut your nails. I mean surely wherever you do it, they fly off everywhere. Do people do it in the bathroom? In their bedroom? Do you go hunting for nail pieces after or sweep or vac after? Do you do it in the bath? Over the loo? It’s so grim to find nail pieces but there never seems to be a sensible pace to do it...

I cut my nails outside - stand at the back door!
LaCicciolina · 03/02/2021 14:10

@ILoveAnOwl I do this too - I can't cope with the horror of some memories!

TheQueef · 03/02/2021 14:12

@arethereanyleftatall

Fanny farts during doggy.
Got a bit of a baggy belly? When you relax into it it hangs and draws air in like bellows.
Pebbles574 · 03/02/2021 14:13

I get the arse dagger thing, but I also have an old pile which if I wipe too hard sends a painful twinge to MY LEFT FOOT!

WTF is that about?
It's convinced me that it's something related to reflexology though!

justasking111 · 03/02/2021 14:16

@1sttimemumtobe2021

Did you poo whilst giving birth? Key thought of mine being due in April with first baby. The stats are high for this from what I hear but I can't really ask haha!
with the third yes, first two years before had an enema.
tmh88 · 03/02/2021 14:17

@besos21 that actually made me laugh out loud Grin

Londonisburningg · 03/02/2021 14:17

@PowerhousePatty I do too!! Googled it and apparently it’s called “gleeking” when you squirt saliva out

@arethereanyleftatall Yesssss to fanny farts during doggy and really loud ones once you stand up after😬

50shadesoflunacy · 03/02/2021 14:17

Anyone get really stinky piercing holes? I only have my ears pierced, rarely wear earrings. I am meticulous about hygiene and yet, streuth, my ears reek sometimes!

NeedCoffeeToSurvive · 03/02/2021 14:18

Long hairs in my bum whilst showering is one of the most infuriating things ever, they drive me mad, although I do find it hilarious that my partner also finds MY hairs in HIS bum crack! Probably a sign to get my hair cut.

babbaloushka · 03/02/2021 14:18

@50shadesoflunacy

Anyone get really stinky piercing holes? I only have my ears pierced, rarely wear earrings. I am meticulous about hygiene and yet, streuth, my ears reek sometimes!
You just made me take the back off an earring I've had in for a while and Christ, you're definitely not the only one...
81Byerley · 03/02/2021 14:19

@FoxyTheFox I have no hair on arms or legs, no under arm hair, though I used to have a little, and very little pubic hair. My grandmother had 16 babies, but in those days people didn't talk about body hair or the lack of it, and she didn't know that there was such a thing. She went into hospital for an operation, and the nurse came to shave her pubic hair. She was horrified and refused to pull up the gown. The nurse insisted, forced the gown up then said "Why didn't you just say you've already shaved?" and was amazed when Nana said she didn't know what she was talking about!

NotAnotherUserNumber · 03/02/2021 14:19

@MisiSam

Sometimes I will get a pain like someone has stabbed me up the bum, only lasts a second and it's really sharp!
Not sure if anyone else has replied to say this yet, but that is called proctalgia fugax.
borntohula · 03/02/2021 14:19

Loads of these just on the first page apply to me. So, does anyone know what causes shooting pains up the arse? Or have I missed that?

IAmStrange · 03/02/2021 14:20

@Salmonwindow

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.
Omg, I've just thought of another, sometimes when I really need to poo/finish pooing but can't go, I have to poke my finger in my vagina, to almost ease it along and out my bum Blush I don't know what on earth started it but I can remember doing it as far back as being about 15 and started fumbling around with boys Don't know what first made me put my finger up there but I think I realised that it could be felt by a finger inside my vagina so saw it as something to 'clear myself out' before anyone 'went there' in the same way as I'd go to the loo to make sure I didn't need to wee etc

No idea why it stuck around, still do it 20 odd years later Confused

Flippyferloppy · 03/02/2021 14:21

@Tigertealeaves

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
Glad I'm not the only one. The "fluids" usually get me sometime between the time when I've finished my shower and the time I get some knickers and a panty liner on.
50shadesoflunacy · 03/02/2021 14:21

babbaloushska thank goodness! It's grim, huh?

usernotfound0000 · 03/02/2021 14:23

Yes to hairs in my bum crack
Yes to belly button discharge, sometimes I have to clean it with an ear bud
Yes to vag soaking up bath water (and swimming pool water!)
Yes to eye bogeys
Yes to nervous poos
Yes to period poo - always one big, loose poo the day my period starts

TheQueef · 03/02/2021 14:23

@Baublebox

Does anyone elses vagina store up bath water and then release it at some time after you have gotten out of the bath (usually just after you have put clean pyjamas on)? Or do I just have a massive fanny?
Always been able to do it on demand. Proved it to my chums at a school residential (197*) by sitting in a horse trough and ahem 'decanting' water, several times, which was then sniff tested by Alison C. to rule out piss.
whitershadeofpale · 03/02/2021 14:24

My discharge bleaches my knickers after I’ve had them for a while Blush

LindaEllen · 03/02/2021 14:25

@LouNatics

I have never fished hair out of my bum crack and I wear mine long. So it can’t be universal.

I always want to know where and how exactly you are supposed to cut your nails. I mean surely wherever you do it, they fly off everywhere. Do people do it in the bathroom? In their bedroom? Do you go hunting for nail pieces after or sweep or vac after? Do you do it in the bath? Over the loo? It’s so grim to find nail pieces but there never seems to be a sensible pace to do it...

I do mine over the sink with the tap running so they just go down the drain. I've had to gently encourage DP to do the same rather than wherever the fuck he feels like as he misses massive nails which become embedded in my feet. I swear to god his nails are like something I've never seen before.