How Gross Are You?

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.

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.

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

Really!

Oh i love popping zits. It's one of my greatest joys in life.

I am pretty much ENBB, minus toenail chewing, with fewer showers.

¯\(°_o)/¯

I'm double jointed and have long legs?

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.

THIS THREAD DELIVERS

thread got gross

xp lol

Really!

― kate78

...hey, was I just zinged? :|

no zing, the "really!" was about biting the mechanics of toenail biting.

I like popping my own zits but I think it's gross to pop other people's zits

I have keratosis pilaris on my upper arms and I like to pick off the skin cap over hair follicles when I'm bored

Hahah I thought it was some "o rly" comment re foot-in-mouth syndrome lol ;)

I am truly disgusting in every way.

i wash myself with the same towel over and over for like 1-2 months before I launder it

I do that with my bed sheets :( No wonder I never get any dates.

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.

teach me how to lougie

― 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.

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!

i got onto washing my towels weekly only three or four years ago. sheets are still on for way longer than they should be

Oh I cant go without washing my towels too long now - they just start to smell horrible!

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

today in the bathroom at work I cleared my throat and a tonsilith came out and landed in the urinal -_-

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?

-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

how many times do you use yr bath towel before you wash it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQxjg5uyaww

i wear the same socks over and over

I rotate between two pairs — once they start to get stinky I wash them in the sink.

i go commando at least 3 times a week

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.

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.

I knew a guy in high school who would wash pants after a single wearing

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.

work pants are washed weekly, but yeah jeans can go for a month or more

apparently i'm not that gross, thanks everybody

I farted at least 12 times in the war room at work today

I will wash (or wear washed) clothes if I even remotely think I might pick up.

... this does not happen much ;_;

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

god you people have nothing.

- i leave wine bottles by my bed before i go to sleep and pee in them so i don't have to climb down my loft in the early morning, only empty/throw them out once a week.
- i've been wearing the same undershirt and t-shirt for three days straight. this is a regular occurrence.
- haven't washed these jeans in a while, but hey, i'm working construction tomorrow, who cares
- i can put out cigarettes on my tongue
- there are cigarette butts, receipts, and clothes all over the floor of my room

i dunno, i'm pretty gross. that said, i make sure i look good/feel good all times, so that's what matters. i also do wear deodorant and brush/floss/mouthwash 2-3 times a day.

I am currently sleeping under a doona whose cover my cat has puked on thrice this week. I just wiped it off with a paper towel. CBF washing the damn thing again I only washed it a week or 2 back.

re: popping zits

Not even 1/10th as satisfying as squeezing out a blackhead that was much deeper and more gnarly than you ever expected, and then seeing the open hole on your face where it had been lodged for ages.

i haven't trimmed my pubes in months. starting to curl.

sometimes i absent-mindedly pick/tear the ends of my fingernails off if theyre getting long and i'm not paying attention to what my hands are doing enough to go get the nail clippers

wait san te, you trim? are you male or female bodied? just curious. cuz i find trimming fine on dudes, shaved is gross..shaved on girls is like, "ugh". know so many sex worker ladies who do it for their jobs but it just looks disgusting, imo

i's a dude, I trim but have never been 'hair free' in that area. mostly cuz I'm afraid of nicking my bag

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.

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.

was the cheese white, or yellow? smelly or not smelly?

gross is all in the details, milo :)

Possibly a sebaceous cyst! Those are exciting.

otm

Mine hasn't come back yet. So stoked about life.

dealing with gross toe fungus!

yaaaaaaay!

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.

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....

yep, just looked up sebaceous cyst - definitely what it was
cottage cheese + funky odor

There is a thread for this: Cysts

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.

dude

Marital aid

There is a thread for this: Cysts

sentences that single-handedly demonstrate the all encompassing monster that ILX has become.

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.

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

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

I love rubbing neck acne

I just looked at a carton of whole milk and though "buttwhole milk" that's how gross I am.