Do you pick your nose?

March 15, 2002 12:05 AM

Do you pick your nose? You'd be surprised.
posted by jcterminal (24 comments total)

Doesn't everyone?

That is probably the most fascinating two page website I've seen in a while. Thanks. I think.
posted by insomnyuk at 12:08 AM on March 15, 2002

I have a feeling this isn't going to be an incredibly popular thread with everyone chiming in...however, I wait for MeFi to prove me wrong.
posted by BlueTrain at 12:29 AM on March 15, 2002

I've become obsessed with picking my nose recently - well actually it's more like "probing". My son (who to be fair is only 9 months old and "nose" no better) rammed his finger up my right nostril (left if you're looking at my face) a few weeks ago. Unfortunately he has razor sharp nails and sliced a piece of the mucus membrane off the inside of my nostril. It's very sore. So for the last few weeks I've been probing the interior of my nose to see how healed it is.

However - I would NEVER eat a nasal nik-nak.

Nice website too.
posted by Spoon at 12:31 AM on March 15, 2002

pick, yes.
eat, no.
flick, yes.
posted by ajbattrick at 12:49 AM on March 15, 2002

Ah nothing satisfies better than pulling a nice long booger out of your nostril.
posted by Aikido at 12:59 AM on March 15, 2002

It is really odd how your own boogers are just fine, but other people's are about the grossest thing one could imagine.
posted by McBain at 1:03 AM on March 15, 2002

wintertime is miserable because you drive to work in the dark and you drive home in the dark.

however, driving in the dark allows superior booger mining time.

the glass is always half-full.
posted by Frasermoo at 1:35 AM on March 15, 2002

It's amazing how many people seem to think their car windows protect them from prying eyes when they're exercising prying fingers. And how guilty you can make them look by staring straight at them from the window of a passing car, especially if they're eating as well as picking.

nasal nik-nak

...shall now become part of my vocabulary.

Thank-you Spoon.
posted by Markb at 2:32 AM on March 15, 2002

It is really odd how your own boogers are just fine, but other people's are about the grossest thing one could imagine.
A bit like farts really.
posted by kebab at 2:33 AM on March 15, 2002

You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friend's nose.

Hey. Somebody had to say it and it might as well have been me.
posted by ZachsMind at 3:59 AM on March 15, 2002

I've had a bloody oatmeal-like substance in my nose in the mornings lately. Soooo, it hasn't be a pick insofar as it as been more of a flush. Not unlike flushing bloddy blubber off of the decks of a whaling ship.
posted by internook at 4:22 AM on March 15, 2002

I'm so glad you're back mike.
posted by Neale at 4:34 AM on March 15, 2002

Ah nothing satisfies better than pulling a nice long booger out of your nostril.
...except possibly the chewy, sticky goodness as it rolls off the back of the tongue and eases on down one's esophagus.
posted by quonsar at 6:19 AM on March 15, 2002

Not the point, but internook wins for most amusing profile.
posted by dong_resin at 6:55 AM on March 15, 2002

I pick with abandon, I'm surprised I haven't been caught yet.
posted by Mick at 7:09 AM on March 15, 2002

I didn't pick my nose. . I was born with the big thing, unfortunately. . .
posted by Danf at 7:14 AM on March 15, 2002

You haven't lived until you've gotten IMs reminding you that your webcam is still on while you pick your nose. Good times...
posted by RJ Reynolds at 7:19 AM on March 15, 2002

I'm picking my nose RIGHT NOW!!! Ha-Ha!
posted by briank at 7:23 AM on March 15, 2002

Behold the power of the internet.

Booger discussions.


I'm sure this is what Charles Babbage had in mind.
posted by ColdChef at 8:37 AM on March 15, 2002

The picture could at least have been of a child actually picking their nose, rather than simply pressing their finger against their nostril. Unless... Dear God. Could it be that this poor, deluded child actually thinks that this is how one picks one's nose? I pity the youth of today.
posted by MUD at 8:38 AM on March 15, 2002

pictis nasis, flictus boogerorum
posted by kindall at 8:41 AM on March 15, 2002

I pick with abandon, I'm surprised I haven't been caught yet.

You probably have but it's a sensitive subject for some people. The last taboo.

Who eats? Never the wet ones.
posted by vbfg at 8:55 AM on March 15, 2002

I don't know... from hygiene reasons, I would think that if you're going to pick (and eat, if you want) boogers from a nose, it's better to do it from your own nose than from someone else's. At least you don't run the admittedly small risk of contracting infectious diseases.
posted by adrianhon at 4:37 PM on March 15, 2002

Here is mr. Nose Picker himself: http://freshmaker.mit.edu/
posted by selanna at 4:14 AM on March 16, 2002