Things other people do that defy belief and gross you out...

[Truebrit71sbruv]

... I shared a house with 5 other mates at Uni, and one of them had this habit of clipping his toenails whilst we watched TV. Not gross or defying belief per se of a group of 20 year old blokes sharing a roach infested, mould-clad student flat.

But the thing that defied belief was that we would studiously sweep up all his clipping and keep them ALL in a little pewter box - he had ferkin MILLIONS of the damn things - I have NO bloody idea why.

Evenin' all by the way - and I apologise to anyone eating a microwave pizza at the keys.

:evilgrin:

[Deep13]

1. Come to work sick ...

...and give it to everyone else. Of course those people usually are on a look-at-me-I-am-such-a-martyr trip. If you are sick, stay the fuck home.

[Jamastiene]

46. Agreed.

I stayed home from a few college classes recently when I got sick. Luckily is was on the weekend so I had time to get better. It was the first time in years I had gotten sick. I wouldn't have gotten sick if all these sick disgusting germ carrying repubs I seem to live amidst down here in the south would quit spitting their nasty tobacco all over the school, drooling all over each other in school, and getting too damn close to me in school.

[Taverner]

2. Not washing your hands after using the restroom

Ewwww that just grosses me out!

[myrna minx]

5. Then shoving their filthy paws into the communal M&M jar.

:scared: I stopped eating the M&M's at work, btw.

[Truebrit71sbruv]

6. on this point...

... there was a study conducted by an English Local Council Environmental Health Department, that took a bowl of salted peanuts from the bar of a pub and found traces of over 13 different urine samples on them.

Nice eh?

[Left Is Write]

14. Ewww!

[Left Is Write]

15. That makes a good case for having only individually wrapped candy

in the communal candy jar.

[Shell Beau]

3. People who hack a loogie! (sp?)

It honestly makes me gag and almost throw up!! Yuck!

[Jara sang]

4. sounds like your mate had OCD

[Truebrit71sbruv]

9. I thought that too at first...

... but OCD usually manifests itself with a whole series of other weird patterns of obsessive behaviour. This seemed his only quirk.

Oh... wait... he was also an extremely obsessive Dire Straits fan (the Lord help us...)

[Loonman]

7. One roommate never washed his clothes

Ever. Maybe once. He said "waaaah.. I shower twice per day..waaaah".


Yeah, bucko, but it doesn't matter if your clothes stink.

[taterguy]

8. Too obvious?

Drive giant SUVs

[Truebrit71sbruv]

37. On the school run...

... which is half-a-mile...

God I love the smell of fresh benzine first thing in the morning!

[Redstone]

10. Voting Republican.

Redstone

[Truebrit71sbruv]

19. An obvious...

... but VERY worthwhile post!

I commend you to the floor!

:applause:

[Redstone]

22. Thanks. And welcome to DU. Hey, the "Truebrit" part I get,

but if you don't mind, where does the "sbruv" part of your screen name come from?

Redstone

[Truebrit71sbruv]

26. heh

My brother Truebrit71 (who lives in Illinois) introduced me to the delights of DU - and therefore I am Truebrit71sbruv ("bruv" being a cockney abbreviation of brother).

Not very interesting I'm afraid...

:smoke:

But thank you for the welcome!

:toast:

[ucmike]

11. ugh. college roommates.

i had one who kept the family sized tub of peanut butter under his bed. whenever he was hungry he would sit on his bed watching tv and eat it out of the jar with his finger. sometimes he would do this for an hour. he'd have peanut butter all over his hands and the jar. then he'd lick his fingers clean and put the jar back under the bed. i offered him a spoon from the cafeteria once and he said he didn't need it.

another night his girlfriend was hanging out in our room waiting for him (he was at the other dorm getting laid). she got hungry and had no money so she started looking through his stuff and found a big bottle of fruit flavored tums or rolaids. she sat down and ate about 50 of them. i tried to tell her that she was going to have concrete in her stomach if she ate too many of them, so she put them down...then picked them up about 5 minutes later.

[Truebrit71sbruv]

18. ROFL

:rofl:

Life in the Educational Establishment eh?

And some of these people go on to positions of power and responsibility... and then we vote for em...

I forsee the end of the world!!! :nuke:

[Angry Girl]

12. Ewwww. Shades of Howard Hughes....

Will he freak if the jar goes missing?

[Truebrit71sbruv]

21. He lost it once in fact...

... and ended up using a "substitute" snuff-box for a while. But he later found his original recepticle again during his annual room-clean.

[Angry Girl]

36. Too funny! Thanks for the laugh and welcome to DU!

[Truebrit71sbruv]

38. Grins

My pleasure!

And thank you for the welcome!

:bounce:

[Left Is Write]

13. Oh, yuck...

I'm not eating microwave pizza, but I *am* trying to enjoy a bowl of shredded wheat!

[bicentennial_baby]

16. exist

[Nikia]

17. Keeping food at room temperature too long

I know that some people are in the habit of thawing meat on the counter all day, but it really is unsafe. The same is true of picnic or potluck like type events where the food is out for several hours.
What really freaked me out though was when my mother-in-law thawed steaks on the counter all day and then something happened that changed our dinner plans of grilling those steaks. As a result, my mother-in-law put the steaks back in the freezer after they were out for 8+ hours. I can only assume that they were rethawed under the same conditions.

[Truebrit71sbruv]

43. Woo Hooooooo

Bacteria Hoedown!!!

:woohoo:

[Madrone]

20. I used to live with a girl that would spend any free hand time

squeeeeeeeeeeeezing out the zits on her face. When she'd hit the payola she'd examine what she'd extracted before then popping it into her mouth. YUMMY.

:puke:

I wish I were kidding.

[Truebrit71sbruv]

28. Holy

Shit...

The wonders of humanity...

(And we're supposed to be at the TOP of the tree???)

[fleabert]

34. popping a zit is one thing...EATING THE FUCKING PUS IS ANOTHER

omg. I think I just died. my brain exploded a little bit.

[Truebrit71sbruv]

41. Just try to think of it as a kind of...

... personalised environment-friendly recycling...













(if you can...)

[fleabert]

42. I would sooner eat a booger than pus.

whoa, I am kinda-sorta-really freaked out now. I am a bit OCD, and I can't get that image out of my head. I almost gagged for real.

[Truebrit71sbruv]

44. I'm less OCD...

... and more OCDU

[WeRQ4U]

47. Fuck. That.

That is so out-there gross. I can't think straight right now.

[billyskank]

23. At uni I shared a house with a frenchman

who criticised me for throwing my used ear buds down the bog. Which I thought was a bit rich seeing as he left his on the coffee table!

Thinking about it, I could have just left that post with the subject line and no text, and it would still make sense! :evilgrin:

He played harmonica, too. :scared:

[Truebrit71sbruv]

30. LMAO

... but man... the harmonica???

Aren't there laws against that kind of thing?

[Tikki]

24. Women (or men, for that matter) wearing high....

...heeled shoes or boots.

This can not be correct for the human muscular-skeleton system.



Tikki

[Nikia]

25. It isn't

That is one reason why women have a much higher incidence of foot problems. If it was anything other than fashion, wearing high heels would be considered a high risk factor and something that should be avoided, just like smoking or obesity.

[Truebrit71sbruv]

27. All very true and sensible...

... but DAMN my girlfriend looks sensational in her heels...

:evilgrin:

[Beaverhausen]

29. I'll get flamed for this but - people who eat whole crabs

sitting next to someone tearing crabs apart just grosses me out. It seems like a lot of work for a little meat. And then there is that part you can't eat or you will die. :puke:

Not to mention that you put them live into a pot of boiling water.

:evilfrown:

[Truebrit71sbruv]

31. I'm glad you qualified...

... exactly which kind of crabs...

:scared:

[Beaverhausen]

33. LOL!!!

:spray:

[kwassa]

32. Crabs! Yum, yum. RAW OYSTERS, too, Ah, shelfish .....

Have to be from Maryland, where we even have crab potato chips.

LOBSTERS, too.

[Truebrit71sbruv]

40. I'm actually...

... a HUGE seafood fan! Gimme a bivalve or bottom-feeder any day!

:headbang:

[Initech]

35. Pee in the public swimming pool

Thank fucking god I no longer have to go to a public swimming pool anymore!

:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[fleabert]

39. mouth noises

like smacking or slurping while eating.

I have to change the channel if a commercial or show decides to include these noises for food scenes, or kissing scenes. makes me shiver, blech!

and I cannot sit next to someone who is eating like that, I will leave the room.

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

45. When I was in Hong Kong

I never got over how people would spit on the street, or worse, close one nostril, snort & propel a torrent of snot onto the pavement.

Plus my younger brother, who bites his toenails.