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To sneeze or not to sneeze.

Mistoffelees

05:32 / 29.03.06

Just a moment ago, I had my mouth full of tasty cinnamon breakfast cereal ("Mini Zimtos"). Then my nose started tickling like ants had taken up lodge up my sinuses. Yes, spring has come and so has my hayfever.

Now it was a matter of chewing and swallowing the milk/cereal mix fastly, and at the same time to control the owerwhelming urge to sneeze, thereby splattering my surroundings with healthy breakfast matter.

I won.

Now I didn´t find an appropriate thread to post this in for your reading pleasure (headsick and rage didn´t fit, and so did not "recycling is fun"). So to start a new thread on this lovely sunny spring day!

Now tell us about your adventures. When was your last memorable brawl with your body? What happened? Did you succeed, did you fail? Did other people notice? Do you have photographic proof?

Jack Denfeld

05:38 / 29.03.06

I try to give a bit of a war cry when I sneeze, to show that I'm in control of the sneeze and not the other way around.

Tuna Ghost: Pratt knot hero

07:28 / 29.03.06

I do sort of the same thing with belches. In private, of course. I sort of say "Aiyaaaa".

Mistoffelees

11:31 / 29.03.06

Oh yes, the loudness! I forgot about that. I am a very loud sneezer. I regularly startle people, but there´s no point in trying to do it silently, that feels as if I´m sneezing inside in all the wrong tubes.

I knew a colleague that tried to sneeze very silently. And it always sounded as if you were accidently stepping on a tiny mouse, so all heads turned. And that´s pretty much all, anyone remembers of her.

BTW, there´s no point holding your hand before your mouth while sneezing. I once saw a show on tv, where sneezing people were filmed, so that the tiny spit particles could be seen. And the spit cloud was always there, almost the same shape and size, regardless if they used their hand to shield it or not.

Pants Payroll

12:36 / 29.03.06

Well, theres the spit cloud, and then theres actual projectile saliva/mucous. Do what you can for innocent bystanders.

Mistoffelees

12:48 / 29.03.06

You´re right, of course. And since I´m not holding my hand before my mouth [we´re talking about spontaneous sneezing, not the one where you actually have the time to get the hanky into position], especially when I´m walking, my sneezing can look as if I´m shot-putting:

Mourne Kransky

18:35 / 29.03.06

I too am Loud Sneezer Dude. I seldom know they're coming but when they do, it's like an surprise orgasm. Terrifies the cats.

I remember hearing that in Japan public sneezing is taboo. I would like to visit but might have to wear a scuba mask for the duration. Or wait till after I'm dead to tour the place.

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

19:47 / 29.03.06

Every morning, for at least five minutes. It's a family inheritance: anywhere from five minutes to twenty minutes of uncouth sneezing. I have full body sneezes, arms out cruxifiction style (unless it's a small enough one that I can try and block it, shoulders all contorted, and out it comes, blasting supersonically from my nostrils, exiting along with a small seizure of some sort.

Dead Megatron

19:55 / 29.03.06

I'll give one advice: DO NOT listen to a joke and drink coffee at the same time while wearing a white T-shirt. If the joke is too funny, disaster may ensue.

I'll leave you to the mind pictures.

Mistoffelees

19:58 / 29.03.06

Xoc and Papers, I believe we could found a club.

20:00 / 29.03.06

Blowing your nose in public, I think, is very impolite in Japan. Possibly has something to do with the fact that it was ubiquitous in China at certain periods of history (see Marco Polo and the Discovery of Facial Tissues). I don't think there's much to be done about sneezing... I think it might be considered impolite on the level of belching at the table in polite company here, but I'm not really sure. I also don't think it's "taboo" exactly, in the sense of being forbidden because of associated dangerous or sacred power.

Mourne Kransky

20:03 / 29.03.06

I'm afraid I must decline your kind offer, Herr Mistoffelees. I couldn't possibly be publicly associated with someone who eats something called Mini Vimtos.

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

20:10 / 29.03.06

(id): Blowing your nose in public, I think, is very impolite in Japan.

This is a bit like having people hear me in the washroom; I don't like having to blow my nose or even, if I can avoid it, sneeze in front of people. It feels like a private moment.

That and, let's face it, I have sneezes from Krypton.

Mistoffelees

20:23 / 29.03.06

I couldn't possibly be publicly associated with someone who eats something called Mini Vimtos.

Zimtos, Mini Zimtos!

Just look at the positive reviews that breakfast is getting, 5 out of five stars!

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

20:26 / 29.03.06

Yes, but will eating them give you an entire hour of super-power?

It's still Miraclo-Pops for me, thanks.

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