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Feet, borrowed toothbrushes, and nail clippings

bitchiekittie

19:59 / 30.05.02

was talking the other day about what strange things people are disgusted by, particularly in relation to some of the things they enjoy

his example: youll eat someones ass but wont use their toothbrush?

I worked with a fairly foul mouthed woman who would freak out if someone said the word fart. I now work with a woman who routinely gets manicures and pedicures but hates nails, even the mention of toenails gives her the willies

Margin Walker

22:16 / 30.05.02

his example: youll eat someones ass but wont use their toothbrush?

I was going to say something, but I've decided not to play the salad tosser card. So, um, "no comment."

Mazarine

22:34 / 30.05.02

I have no problem with dissection, looking at blood, gore, or injuries, but a snot joke can make me sick to my stomach if I can't get the visual out of my head. Woog.

Yay Paul

23:15 / 30.05.02

On the snot topic ...
I just can't stand to see people picking their nose and then eatting it!
Even thinking about it makes me feel all weird ...
*shudder*

Trijhaos

23:32 / 30.05.02

I will happily dissect something. It doesn't matter if it's a cat, frog, pig, or some other critter. I will happily slice that sucker open and fondle the organs, but the minute I see something like vomit, be it human or animal; I'll have to walk out of the room. For some reason the sight of vomit makes me want to be sick.

bitchiekittie

23:47 / 30.05.02

"I just can't stand to see people picking their nose and then eatting it!"

you see this a lot, then?

Mazarine

00:17 / 31.05.02

Jeez, in the fifth grade, I went to nature camp and this chick who sat at the same lunch table as me (assigned, unfortunately) picked her nose and ate it. It was pretty damned horrible.

Murray Hamhandler

00:46 / 31.05.02

***Kind of gross story alert***

I used to be full-on vomitphobic. I mean, the very thought of vomit was enough to provoke paroxysms of fear and revulsion. Then, one night a couple of years ago my ex-roommate got really drunk and kind of semi-passed out on our porch swing. I saw that she was going to be sick, so I leaned her forward and held her (as she was completely incapable of doing so herself) so she could do so w/o getting sick all over herself...and then stayed in that position for roughly five or six hours as she continued to intermittently throw up. My face was about a foot and a half away from her vomit (filled w/chunks of the food that I myself had also eaten for dinner) for that entire time and now, strangely enough, vomit and the thought of vomiting don't really bother me nearly as much as they used to.

Saint Keggers

04:24 / 31.05.02

Im fine for most anything except the smell of cat food. And seeing as how I have a cat (not mine!) who demands food....its basically an hour each day trying not to throw up. (But if I do I'm aiming for the cat!!!)

DaveBCooper

08:27 / 31.05.02

I used to go out with someone who picked her nose and ate it.

I managed to block it out of my mind, which was kind of essential if I wanted to kiss her, which I did.

But I feel she overstepped the line the afternoon she picked her nose and asked if I wanted to eat it.

DBC

Saveloy

10:14 / 31.05.02

The smell of newspapers which have sat in the sun. I dunno about you, but my smell detectors seem to report from positions further apart than they could possibly physically occupy; they form a field which goes way back into my skull. This particular smell is one of a family of subtle but disgusting odours which sneakily flies over and above the frontal smell detectors (which give sharp, accurate reports) and lands on the vague ones which sit a quarter of the way into my head, below the eyes. It's a nasty, sharp-edged, watery/metallic shock of a smell which you can't get a hold on - the nasal equivalent of slipping on ice. Probably something they use to treat the paper.

that

10:18 / 31.05.02

Mould. Mould freaks me out. Makes me shudder... used to really be horrified/terrified by it though, but I am a bit better now...

e-n

11:58 / 31.05.02

I ghave a friend who will react will despair and disgust if you pinch the skin on your own wrist in front of her.Especially the back of the wrist with the viens.I find that funny.
She....doesn't

bitchiekittie

13:10 / 31.05.02

Im very flexible, and can do nasty things with my fingers. bend all of my fingers at just the top knuckle, twist my thumbs around at grotesque angles. I like watching the squirms it sometimes produces

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