What's grossing you out today?

[jimhelm]

I caught 3 teenage boys sorting through the bucket inside the smokers outpost thing outside the back door at work. I was astonished. I was like..

"oh, damn! What the he'll are you guys DOooooing?!"

They were looking smokes! Ew!

What the Christ!? Thats has got to be top ten on the most dangerously nonhygenic practices list, right?

[DanaC]

I've done that. During times of serious financial difficulty, and also during times of trying to stop smoking (walked past a pub and seen almost full cigarette left in ashtray on tables outside - fell off the wagon having first made sure nobody was around to see :P)

Heres the thing about nicoteine: it messes with the part of the brain that deals with fear. That's why the scary health messages don't persuade smokers to stop. They're great at scaring people into not trying, but once you have a nicoteine addiction, then that's not going to work.

Fear of germs and disease is a pretty basic human fear. The fact that someone will disregard that in favour of a nicoteine fix isn' just due to the need for nicoteine outweighing the fear of disease, but also that the brain has stopped processing fear in the usual way when the addicted brain is nicoteine starved.

[grynch]

I worked for a time at the WHO ( World Health Org ) ... it's now a no-smoking site..anywhere indoor or out, but at the time it was rather funny, sad to see the smokers huddled behind a stairwell at the back of the building.

[Trilby]

I can think of way grosser things.

smoking someone else's butt? No biggie.

[monster]

Less gross than toddlers picking up old gum and chewing it.....

[BigV]

alert-- you have been warned.

























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I have cats and a dog. I used to have two dogs, but Bora died a couple years ago so I only have Andy the Reluctant Outdoor Dog now. He likes cat food. He likes it way better than his dog food. He will (pussywhipped dog that he is) wait until the cats have eaten their fill and then nip up any remaining kibbles in their dish, leaving his own dog food untouched.

He likes cat food so much...

"how much?" you say.








Ugh. I've caught him bypassing his own full bowl of dog food to get at the cat food, even after it's been passed through the cat. Yeah. He eats cat shit.





not all the time, not every day or every week. but regularly enough to make ME sick to my stomach. :HURL: I warned you.

[monster]

I thought all dogs did that. yet another reason why I hate them to infinity and beyond

[BigV]

I've had a number of dogs... not all of them did it. THIS one is by far the most annoying one wrt this habit.

I am a dog person, and I love my cats. This habit is fucked up though.

[glatt]

And then it licked your face while wagging its tail vigorously.

[BigV]

Ah, no.

I know where that tongue's been. And even when it's not the catbox, it might have recently been "on vacation". No. Thank. You. I'm not a dog kisser. I love'em, but it's strictly platonic. Ew.

[Sundae]

Today?
Got a lift home with my lovely cow-orker.
She was down in class 1 today, as they were a TA short.
She told me a story which grossed me out.

She was working one-on-one with a boy I know from Reception last year and she realised he was a bit... whiffy.
Oh dear, what's that on his fingers, which he keeps sniffing?
Whatever is on his fingers it looks like he's been wiping it on his shirt too.
Ah.
Yes.
That would explain the colour of his socks too..

Turns out he was sitting on a pretty heavy load for a while.
I am so grateful I wasn't seconded down there today. She used to work in a pre-school, so she is used to poo-bums.
I am not and would totally have disgraced myself by retching and possibly even running away.

[monster]

It's nasty enough cleaning up your own child, but somebody elses....

Nurses are underpaid

[DanaC]

Originally Posted by monster

I thought all dogs did that. yet another reason why I hate them to infinity and beyond

No. Not all dogs.

We had a westie that was a bit of a sod for eating shit. But he's the only dog I've ever had that did.

They used to say that it was a sign of some vitamin or nutritional deficiency, but that might just be folk wisdom.

[Clodfobble]

Neither of the two extra kids I watch for a couple hours after therapy are potty-trained. One is okay as long as you take him frequently, but the other one specifically refuses to use the toilet at my house so far. The therapists always change her into a diaper before I pick them up... but the other day, she went out of her way to pull down her diaper, squat, and drop a load on my carpet.

[monster]

lovely.