Did you examine it? That's what I would have done.
Sometimes Benson's face smells because of all the folds and stuff. I clean it everyday but he gets into a lot of trouble so it's hard to keep up with. I don't mind though. I kind of like it because it smells like him.
― ENBB, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 06:40 (thirteen years ago) link
I have a writer's callus on my right middle finger, and every once in a while I'll clip away at it with a pair of nail clippers, greatly reducing its size and leaving the skin all red and raw (but not (usually) bloody). it always grows back.
― i probably busted a nut when i was tossing her cookie salad (unregistered), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 18:23 (thirteen years ago) link
teach me how to lougie
― I Lost A COGHdrop in His Pato (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 18:27 (thirteen years ago) link
gross, dude
― i probably busted a nut when i was tossing her cookie salad (unregistered), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 18:32 (thirteen years ago) link
I take a shower approx every 4th or 5th day -- more often if I need to go out and face the public, but that's not common.
― earnest goes to camp, ironic goes to ilm (pixel farmer), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 18:36 (thirteen years ago) link
I swallow a bunch of burps & wait for them to resurface as one giant fart.
― i probably busted a nut when i was tossing her cookie salad (unregistered), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 21:28 (thirteen years ago) link
this is a good thread
I've eaten in the bath and then put the dishes in it to wash them off.
― peacocks, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 22:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, being unemployed for quite a time has upset my showering schedule so much that sometimes I realize it's been a full week since my last one. I have to wash my hair more often than that, though, because I've got a naturally dry scalp.
Speaking of my dry scalp, it's particularly satisfying when I can pick a really sizeable fleck of dead skin off and have it remain intact long enough to look at it closely.
― Dr. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 13 January 2011 00:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh, I just remembered something...several years ago, I had a bump on my jawline that just wouldn't go away. I had it for a long time. One night I was lucky enough to finally pop it and there was a whisker/hair in there that, stretched out, was probably about six inches long. And the smell was t o x i c.
― Dr. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 13 January 2011 00:44 (thirteen years ago) link
HOw in the shit do you bite your toenails? I dont think I could manage to get my foot anywhere near my mouth o_0
― 1981 Nothing happened. (Trayce), Thursday, 13 January 2011 02:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Really!
― kate78, Thursday, 13 January 2011 02:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh i love popping zits. It's one of my greatest joys in life.
― kate78, Thursday, 13 January 2011 02:29 (thirteen years ago) link
I am pretty much ENBB, minus toenail chewing, with fewer showers.
― kate78, Thursday, 13 January 2011 02:30 (thirteen years ago) link
¯\(°_o)/¯
I'm double jointed and have long legs?
― ENBB, Thursday, 13 January 2011 02:31 (thirteen years ago) link
I'd just like to reiterate that I don't do the toenail thing anymore.
im generally pretty clean w one conspicuous exception: i eat my own snot, like launch the globs and strands onto my fingers and lick em clean. I relish it. Ive always done this. I realize it's pretty gross but i get zit-popping satisfaction out of doing it so ive given up trying to quit.
― enfuque (Matt P), Thursday, 13 January 2011 02:56 (thirteen years ago) link
THIS THREAD DELIVERS
― Dr. (Johnny Fever), Thursday, 13 January 2011 02:58 (thirteen years ago) link
thread got gross
xp lol
― Kerm, Thursday, 13 January 2011 02:59 (thirteen years ago) link
― kate78
...hey, was I just zinged? :|
― 1981 Nothing happened. (Trayce), Thursday, 13 January 2011 03:03 (thirteen years ago) link
no zing, the "really!" was about biting the mechanics of toenail biting.
― kate78, Thursday, 13 January 2011 03:07 (thirteen years ago) link
I like popping my own zits but I think it's gross to pop other people's zits
― dayo, Thursday, 13 January 2011 03:11 (thirteen years ago) link
I have keratosis pilaris on my upper arms and I like to pick off the skin cap over hair follicles when I'm bored
― dayo, Thursday, 13 January 2011 03:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Hahah I thought it was some "o rly" comment re foot-in-mouth syndrome lol ;)
― 1981 Nothing happened. (Trayce), Thursday, 13 January 2011 03:15 (thirteen years ago) link
I am truly disgusting in every way.
― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Thursday, 13 January 2011 03:16 (thirteen years ago) link
i wash myself with the same towel over and over for like 1-2 months before I launder it
― strawberry shartcake (San Te), Thursday, 13 January 2011 03:17 (thirteen years ago) link
I do that with my bed sheets :( No wonder I never get any dates.
― 1981 Nothing happened. (Trayce), Thursday, 13 January 2011 03:21 (thirteen years ago) link
haha wasn't there a towel washing thread?
I haven't washed my sheets since I started using them back in september. otoh I wash my towel every week.
― dayo, Thursday, 13 January 2011 03:22 (thirteen years ago) link
― I Lost A COGHdrop in His Pato (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, January 12, 2011 11:27 AM (8 hours ago)
Whiney do you smoke cigarettes? It was only after smoking for a year that I learned this skill.
BTW nothing made me feel more disgusting and trashy than when I smoked! Not that I am knocking on the cigarette fans of ILX. Most young ppl I see smoking do not disgust me. (Most old ppl I see smoking so, though, bcz they are usually doing something like putting their fake teeth on a concrete bench while rolling a smoke from a big tub of Top tobacco.)
But man, when I smoked, I just felt like an ashy stinky mucousy asshole basically 100% of the time. Esp. if I ever had to hock a loogie while walking around town. So embarrassing to me. Also I couldn't smell (not from smoking, but born that way, you all know that) – so I just imagined the worst as far as how I smelled to people. OTOH, it gave me something to project all my self-loathing onto: "man, I am such a fucking revolting and graceless woman...thanks to this cigarette!" When I quit, I basically just kind of had to absorb those feelings...no more scapegoat for me. Also you can't blame cigarettes for a queefing problem.
― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Thursday, 13 January 2011 03:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah the one thing I feel disgusting abt with smoking is when I become very aware that I stink. Mainly when I'm somewhere - like my parents place - where no one smokes ever. Suddenly every bit of my clothing, my bags, everything reeks faintly of smoke. Ugh!
― 1981 Nothing happened. (Trayce), Thursday, 13 January 2011 03:26 (thirteen years ago) link
i got onto washing my towels weekly only three or four years ago. sheets are still on for way longer than they should be
― karajan camping (electricsound), Thursday, 13 January 2011 03:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh I cant go without washing my towels too long now - they just start to smell horrible!
― 1981 Nothing happened. (Trayce), Thursday, 13 January 2011 03:28 (thirteen years ago) link
i also sleep on a mattress that usually has no sheets on it and also has various degrees of trash, fast food bags, cds, dvds, and clothes
― strawberry shartcake (San Te), Thursday, 13 January 2011 04:21 (thirteen years ago) link
today in the bathroom at work I cleared my throat and a tonsilith came out and landed in the urinal -_-
― =(^ • ‿‿ • ^)= (corey), Thursday, 13 January 2011 04:26 (thirteen years ago) link
when i was a freshman in college i didn't sweep or vacuum the whole year. And I had cheap blue towels that shed fuzz, so I had these little dusty towel fuzz clouds congregating in any corner of the room.
hey can you guess how many ppl came to visit?
― Z-Ro Price (m bison), Thursday, 13 January 2011 04:43 (thirteen years ago) link
-i kind of enjoy the smell of my armpits?
― aka the pope (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, January 12, 2011 12:17 AM (22 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
ps...this, with certainty
― Z-Ro Price (m bison), Thursday, 13 January 2011 04:45 (thirteen years ago) link
how many times do you use yr bath towel before you wash it?
― mookieproof, Thursday, 13 January 2011 04:45 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQxjg5uyaww
― dayo, Thursday, 13 January 2011 04:51 (thirteen years ago) link
i wear the same socks over and over
― strawberry shartcake (San Te), Thursday, 13 January 2011 05:16 (thirteen years ago) link
I rotate between two pairs — once they start to get stinky I wash them in the sink.
― =(^ • ‿‿ • ^)= (corey), Thursday, 13 January 2011 05:24 (thirteen years ago) link
i go commando at least 3 times a week
― strawberry shartcake (San Te), Thursday, 13 January 2011 05:25 (thirteen years ago) link
I usually only bring 2-3 pairs of socks on vacation
have found that reducing sock wearing as much as possible is the key to relatively non-stinky feet.
I haven't cleaned my flat in over 3 months. I broke down last week and got a toilet scrubber and bleach though, to clean the plaquey orange stuff that has been growing in the hole for the past month.
― dayo, Thursday, 13 January 2011 05:27 (thirteen years ago) link
That bath towel thread gives me the horrors imaging some americans running loads of washing and drying every single day. I shudder at the waste of energy.
― 1981 Nothing happened. (Trayce), Thursday, 13 January 2011 05:28 (thirteen years ago) link
I knew a guy in high school who would wash pants after a single wearing
― dayo, Thursday, 13 January 2011 05:29 (thirteen years ago) link
I'll wash tops after one wear, but I seem to get stinky easily, esp in the current horrid humidity.
Jeans can wait, tho.
PS I pick my nose.
― 1981 Nothing happened. (Trayce), Thursday, 13 January 2011 05:31 (thirteen years ago) link
work pants are washed weekly, but yeah jeans can go for a month or more
― karajan camping (electricsound), Thursday, 13 January 2011 05:37 (thirteen years ago) link
apparently i'm not that gross, thanks everybody
― mookieproof, Thursday, 13 January 2011 05:39 (thirteen years ago) link
I farted at least 12 times in the war room at work today
― strawberry shartcake (San Te), Thursday, 13 January 2011 05:40 (thirteen years ago) link
I will wash (or wear washed) clothes if I even remotely think I might pick up.
... this does not happen much ;_;
― 1981 Nothing happened. (Trayce), Thursday, 13 January 2011 05:43 (thirteen years ago) link
This is not to imply i mostly wear stinky gross clothes btw
in giving in to the raw denim trend, I have worn the jeans I'm wearing now for the last 3 months without washing them
I put them outside to air out though
― dayo, Thursday, 13 January 2011 05:45 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm not too gross, I only pick my own nose.
― StanM, Saturday, 18 February 2012 06:07 (twelve years ago) link
i feel like such a jerk doing the multiple dates in a week thing
I have this issue with a guy Ive met on okc who I really like (and he see,s to like me) but hes all "oh I already had a succesful date w/someone else this week I feel like a heel so I cant say this'd be a date" which is soooo frustrating cos I like him a lot, but this is more for the okc thread anyway carry on chaps
― Lindsay NAGL (Trayce), Saturday, 18 February 2012 06:37 (twelve years ago) link
I had to buy ... athlete's foot cream
the other week I diagnosed myself w/athlete's foot so I bought the cream and used it for a week and it made no real difference, so then I had to wonder "ok, did I misdiagnose myself or do I actually have the worst athlete's foot in the history of feet and should go to the doctor", but I decided to assume the former since that didn't involve doing anything
(foot is mostly fine now without me doing anything)
but I am p. gross in general and also my washbag is a graveyard for half-used tubes of cream of varying ages against various embarrassing conditions so I hope nobody ever looks in it
― Schleimpilz im Labyrinth (a passing spacecadet), Saturday, 18 February 2012 10:45 (twelve years ago) link
PS good luck w/today's date Z S
― Schleimpilz im Labyrinth (a passing spacecadet), Saturday, 18 February 2012 10:46 (twelve years ago) link
tell her we said hi
― StanM, Saturday, 18 February 2012 11:11 (twelve years ago) link
yeah good luck Z S!!
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 18 February 2012 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
B-)
― tmi but (Z S), Saturday, 18 February 2012 19:51 (twelve years ago) link
Too late, but it'd be a shame to waste an opinion: Band aid is a good look except that the middle padding part stands out. For aesthetics and healing, may I recommend a hydrocolloid bandage - no contrasting pad, heals much more quickly and with less scarring, and available at your local chain drug store.
― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Sunday, 19 February 2012 02:14 (twelve years ago) link
I had a bump on my back that I squeezed and this stuff with the consistency of soft cheese came out. I'm guessing it was a blackhead, so gross.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 16:17 (twelve years ago) link
was the cheese white, or yellow? smelly or not smelly?
gross is all in the details, milo :)
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 16:41 (twelve years ago) link
Possibly a sebaceous cyst! Those are exciting.
― drawn to them like a moth toward a spanakopita (Laurel), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 16:59 (twelve years ago) link
otm
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 17:03 (twelve years ago) link
Mine hasn't come back yet. So stoked about life.
― lag∞na beach: the real ∞range c∞unty (beachville), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
dealing with gross toe fungus!
yaaaaaaay!
― 1986 Olive Garden (Z S), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 17:38 (twelve years ago) link
I have a spot on my back that has a recurring ingrown hair -- I scratched at it for so many years that there's a bit of scar tissue back there, and that one hair and surrounding dead skin accumulate as a hard mass. About once a year that grain of rice is ready to harvest and I get my wife to dig it out with a penknife or tweezers. It feels great when she catches hold of it and pulls it out.
― Carlos Pollomar (WmC), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 17:48 (twelve years ago) link
I usually use a sharp pin sterilized with rubbing alcohol rather than a penknife to work the ingrown hair free - I find it's less obtrusive to surrounding skin than a knife - before using tweezers to pull the hair out. I sometimes need to keep an alcohol pad handy to wipe the skin if it bleeds, but nonetheless, having a painful ingrown hair pulled out is one of life's unsung small pleasures....
― everything else is secondary (Lee626), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 19:15 (twelve years ago) link
yep, just looked up sebaceous cyst - definitely what it wascottage cheese + funky odor
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 19:15 (twelve years ago) link
There is a thread for this: Cysts
― kate78, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 19:18 (twelve years ago) link
dude
― Joan Cusack clumsily running into a water fountain (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
Marital aid
― Jeff, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 19:29 (twelve years ago) link
sentences that single-handedly demonstrate the all encompassing monster that ILX has become.
― 1986 Olive Garden (Z S), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 19:42 (twelve years ago) link
I have what I guess is a sebaceous cyst on my neck, mentioned itt way upthread. Though my doc called it a ganglia. It gets full of stinky cheese once or twice a year, not v big, squeeze it out and it goes back to normal. It doesn't hurt or bleed or anything. the cheese is gross. but secretly I think it's kind of fascinating in a grody kind of way.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 20:08 (twelve years ago) link
I kind of dig getting rice grains stuck in my sinuses, it feels good to snort them out and eat them
― flagp∞st (dayo), Saturday, March 17, 2012 7:02 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark
― flagp∞st (dayo), Saturday, 17 March 2012 23:14 (twelve years ago) link
sometimes I get these little... growths? I don't know how to describe them, except that I can scratch at them, and they'll come out, and leave a little 'socket' behind. sometimes I get a nice big one and it leaves a little hole behind that's big enough to be dark (i.e. light can't get in). feels good
― flagp∞st (dayo), Saturday, 17 March 2012 23:17 (twelve years ago) link
I love rubbing neck acne
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Saturday, 17 March 2012 23:38 (twelve years ago) link
I just looked at a carton of whole milk and though "buttwhole milk" that's how gross I am.
― how's life, Sunday, 21 June 2015 22:28 (eight years ago) link