I don't know if this is gross or not but I'm sure that some ppl would think so. I'm not at all freaked out by body fluids. In fact, I'm sorta fascinated by them.
― ENBB, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 06:22 (thirteen years ago) link
btw - As a general rule I do not pee in other ppls showers so please don't worry if I ever wind up staying at any of your houses.
― ENBB, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 06:27 (thirteen years ago) link
bodily fluids are not gross at all. I don't think peeing in the shower is either but I'm sure some ppl would disagree.
― tables n tables (crüt), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 06:27 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost lol
I am dirt under the fingernails level super gross and yknow what, fuck it. I give -1 fuck.
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 06:27 (thirteen years ago) link
my fingernails are always really dirty :(
― tables n tables (crüt), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 06:28 (thirteen years ago) link
-yeah i think peeing in the shower is totally acceptable and people who think its weird are horrible human beings
― aka the pope (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 06:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh i love popping zits. It's one of my greatest joys in life.
― ENBB, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 06:28 (thirteen years ago) link
also if you really want you can pee directly into the drain
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 12 January 2011 06:28 (thirteen years ago) link
what about a bunch of popped zits clustered together
― tables n tables (crüt), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 06:29 (thirteen years ago) link
See when it comes to hygiene stuff I'm pretty fastidious. Like, I feel gross if I don't shower every day and my nails are usually manicured (short nails not gross long fake ones or anything). I even keep up with the leg shaving in winter most of the time. I did grow out my pit hair one winter just to see what it was like but then shaved it when spring came.
― ENBB, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 06:30 (thirteen years ago) link
x-post if they were clustered together then it might freak me out
It's bad though. I was sitting behind some guy with a huge fucking whitehead on the back of his neck and it took so much willpower to stop myself from just reaching over and popping the shit out of that thing.
― ENBB, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 06:32 (thirteen years ago) link
OK wait - this one is pretty bad. I used to bite my toenails but then I started getting pedicures and don't do this anymore. See, I told you I'm gross.
― ENBB, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 06:33 (thirteen years ago) link
i just coughed and before i could cover my mouth a lougie landed on my hand
true story
― aka the pope (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 12 January 2011 06:39 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― 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
anyway you're nowhere near as gross as me: I had to buy ringworm cream AND athlete's foot cream. For myself. You sir, are dating. Which puts you firmly in the W column :)
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 18 February 2012 02:27 (twelve years ago) link
go with a spongebob squarepants band-aid. then go to the bathroom 20 minutes into the date and switch it for a hello kitty bandaid. refuse to acknowledge the switch.
― how did we get here how? (ytth), Saturday, 18 February 2012 02:35 (twelve years ago) link
ooh that's good.
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 18 February 2012 02:38 (twelve years ago) link
Put a fake scab on the other side, then 1/2 hr in just rip off the fake one without any warning
― Wub wub wub wubwubwubwub wub Pzzzzzzz WUBB wubwub (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 18 February 2012 04:07 (twelve years ago) link
Tell her you think she should kiss it better!
...ew wait no maybe not.
― Lindsay NAGL (Trayce), Saturday, 18 February 2012 04:14 (twelve years ago) link
eww
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 18 February 2012 04:17 (twelve years ago) link
I mean ZS is cuet but that's just a bridge too far
1st pic: your hairline is so awesome I didn't even notice your chin
2nd pic: I'd probably wear the bandage but it's not seriously gross or anything as it is. Key thing is that it's temporary; if your date is freaked out about it band-aid on or off, red flag. If not, good portent.
3rd pic: that's how i look after most of my dates......
― Lee626, Saturday, 18 February 2012 04:21 (twelve years ago) link
well, it didn't go well at all, but nothing to do with the grossness!
― tmi but (Z S), Saturday, 18 February 2012 05:23 (twelve years ago) link
:(
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 18 February 2012 05:33 (twelve years ago) link
eh, it's ok, the girl i'm REALLY excited about is tomorrow afternoon! i feel like such a jerk doing the multiple dates in a week thing but it's online dating and almost everyone seems to have severe problems when you meet them in person, so it seems good to have a backup plan
― tmi but (Z S), Saturday, 18 February 2012 05:34 (twelve years ago) link
iirc it's why you jump with 2 parachutes
― Janet Snakehole (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 18 February 2012 05:39 (twelve years ago) link
you have nothing to worry aboutthink about whether or not you like them
for real
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Saturday, 18 February 2012 05:46 (twelve years ago) link
oh, i'm not worrying at all. i'm not excited at all about either of the people i saw this week, although they were both nice enough. i have high hopes for tomorrow, but if that doesn't work, whatever. i never ever want to settle
― tmi but (Z S), Saturday, 18 February 2012 05:55 (twelve 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