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epiclady
10/15/09

In reply to Tyra: People Who Eat Their Boogers
Last year I read some article saying that eating one's boogers actually does provide a little immune-system boost. I don't remember the details, or how, or why it does, but since I've been known to dig for gold and sample the goods on occassion, it's nice to know that that might be why I never get ill.

On a somewhat-related note: whenever I see little kids with half-eaten food on their mouths or hands, and their moms eating it (I see this a lot...whether it's a saliva-soaked Cheerio or a munched-on, goopy banana) I absolutely want to yack all over the place. How is zit-popping or toenail-biting any worse?

Grossness is all subjective.
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formerflautist
10/14/09

In reply to Tyra: People Who Eat Their Boogers
As I recall, excessive zit popping is an OCD behavior. I believe it's in the same category as those who compulsively pull out hair and can be a major problem.
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Rabbitty
10/14/09

@formerflautist: that's what my doctor told me. I'm pretty bad about picking at my skin (including popping zits). I went to a dermatologist who gave me a lecture on how popping zits isn't actually good for your skin and I was like, no shit. The desire to pick is just overwhelming, I can delay it but it doesn't go away.

If people feel compelled to eat their boogers, who am I to judge. Just keep it to yourself.
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LaFemme
10/15/09

@Rabbitty: I pick zits and blackheads way too much...I can't resist. I justify it by telling myself that when you get a facial you are basically just paying someone to do that for you, why is it bad to take care of it yourself? I do it after a shower, and go at it. Then I do an astringent for bacteria purposes. I don't do it in front of people who aren't family, so who cares?

I have also done this for other people, admittedly, who didn't know how to get rid of blackheads. Honey, come to me and I will hot-towel you and get rid of those big ones in five minutes. I just...cannot fathom letting some get so big I can't resist at least offering.
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Cafezinha
10/15/09

@formerflautist: I tend to tell people that my facial scarring is just because the acne was really, really bad, but I think a good deal of it was/is compulsive squeezing of pimples and blackheads.

I recall reading somewhere that it can be an unusual form of self-injury, too--instead of the obvious cutting or burning, some people pick to a point where it leaves scars.
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pesematology
10/14/09

In reply to Tyra: People Who Eat Their Boogers
Really, who doesn't have at least one "repulsive" habit? Who cares as long as you do it in private?
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bookling
10/14/09

In reply to Tyra: People Who Eat Their Boogers
Hmm. I have a weird compulsion to PICK AT my scabs, but eating them never occurred to me, even as a child. (Not that I'm contemplating starting.)
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voteforme
10/14/09

In reply to Tyra: People Who Eat Their Boogers
Zit-popping isn't all that weird or gross.
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pesematology
10/14/09

@voteforme: I know, I thought it was pretty much standard "Icky" behavior, one of the reasons the bathroom was invented.
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KATE!
10/14/09

In reply to Tyra: People Who Eat Their Boogers
i wonder if any of these people have dermatillomania.
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o-line
10/14/09

In reply to Tyra: People Who Eat Their Boogers
I'm going to reiterate what I once told a camper: your body does not make snacks. It also does not have cubby holes.
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mariamariamaria
10/14/09

In reply to Tyra: People Who Eat Their Boogers
I HATE pimple popping videos. HURL. I for one was grateful for the blurring.
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JohanPaladin
10/14/09

In reply to Tyra: People Who Eat Their Boogers
I went to highschool with a young woman who had some sort of issue that compelled her to (brace yourself) pull off pieces of skin from her face and bits of hair and eat them. Literally (I die!) she was ripping pieces of her face off to eat during ninth period english. To eat. Her own. Face. W.H.A.T.?
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KATE!
10/14/09

@JohanPaladin: she probably has dermatillomania.

[en.wikipedia.org]
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ArtfulSlinger
10/14/09

In reply to Tyra: People Who Eat Their Boogers
While I was growing up, one of my friends and both of her siblings were big booger pickers and eaters. Her littlest sis, who was about 7 years younger than us, was watching TV one Summer day and she was picking the longest and most disgusting booger ever and my friends and I started yelling and her response, at age 4 was, "ITS JUST A BOOGER!" Truer words have never been spoken.
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shorty63136
10/14/09

@ArtfulSlinger: Well, I guess if you can swallow your own spit, it's roughly the same kind of mucus - just a little more...dried? All those pipes (ears, nose, throat, mouth) are all connected so...yeah...maybe.
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ArtfulSlinger
10/17/09

@shorty63136: Dr. Oz said today there is nothing bad within your boogers, its the act of picking your nose that is bad. And now unemployment has officially killed me. #tyraboogers
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SonicNapoleonic
10/14/09

In reply to Tyra: People Who Eat Their Boogers
Wtf? Why do they blur it out? That's so fucking stupid it's unbelievable.
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Tippi Hedren
10/14/09

@SonicNapoleonic: To make it seem worse than it is... If they blur it, it's "obscene." Which, it is pretty gross, but not blur-worthy.
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LaFemme
10/14/09

@SonicNapoleonic: Someone on here said in reference to a puke post that there is a law prohibiting public television from showing bodily fluids on TV with the exception of blood.
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SonicNapoleonic
10/14/09

@LaFemme:
That makes NO sense whatsoever. People love blood but can't stand the sight of BOOGERS!? Fucking babies have snot running down their nose all the time and you see that shit everywhere, but on TV it's taboo? Wtf, tv networks?
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LaFemme
10/14/09

@SonicNapoleonic: If that is the case, it sounds like the kind of thing what would have really been aimed at things like feces and ejaculate and just kind of ended up encompassing EVERYTHING with the exception of blood.
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Tippi Hedren
10/14/09

In reply to Tyra: People Who Eat Their Boogers
When I was a kid, my friend wanted us to tell each other our deepest darkest secrets. Mine was that I picked my nose...

Wanna know what her secret was? She was pretty sure that her heart was made of gold. Being a weird-ass religious fundamentalist freak child is worse than eating your boogers, in my opinion.
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winner
10/14/09

@Tippi Hedren: LOL.

I am priiiity, priiiiity, priiiiity sure I have an inner dolphin.
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TexasCrude
10/14/09

In reply to Tyra: People Who Eat Their Boogers
Hahhaha. I love that Tyra blurred out the scab, as if the scab had nipples or was putting a shot glass in its vagina.
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howdydoody27
10/14/09

@TexasCrude: My scabs do that. Maybe your scabs are just underachieving.
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TexasCrude
10/14/09

@howdydoody27: My scabs are here for BRET so nyah.
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Tippi Hedren
10/14/09

@TexasCrude: LAAAAAAAME
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JessickerFletcher
10/14/09

In reply to Tyra: People Who Eat Their Boogers
People eat their scabs? Say what? Um, I have never heard of this before. Like ever. And I'm not sure that I want to hear about it.

Also, Tyra, I think it would have been better to interview people who have never popped zits before. It's something we've all at least done once. Mmkay?
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LucyTuzy
10/14/09

In reply to Tyra: People Who Eat Their Boogers
So, why exactly are the alleged boogers blurred? Is this that booger porn I've been hearing so much about?
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labeled
10/14/09

@LucyTuzy: Common sense tells me that you do NOT want to google this phrase.
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JessickerFletcher
10/14/09

@labeled: I concur. Put away the google image search, madam. When I was younger, I didn't understand how anyone could have a sexual attraction to feet. I only wish someone was there to stop me before I put in the words foot fetish into google image search (with safesearch off). To a thirteen year-old, those were some of the most upsetting images possible. That summer I wore tennis shoes everyday and averted my eyes from the sandal-wearing populace.
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mariamariamaria
10/14/09

@JessickerFletcher: I learned the hard, disgusting way to be veeeery careful what I google image search (changing the setting to "moderate" or "safe" helps, too) and what I look up on Urban Dictionary. There are some things I just wish I didn't know.
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JessickerFletcher
10/14/09

@mariamariamaria: Ignorance is truly bliss... at least when it comes to sexual eccentricities.
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