Early morning. I’m talking 6am early. Standing at a bus stop, minding my business, and trying not to fall asleep standing up. Up walks a “gentlemen” who is also waiting for the bus. He looks just as exhausted as I am. He starts with the always annoying sniffles. I think “great, I’ve got to listen to this for the next 10 minutes until this damn bus decides to show up”. It’s that time of the year when everyone is getting sick so I brush it off until…you turn and do the most vile and horrible thing I’ve ever witnessed. You shot a snot rocket right in front of me. I couldn’t control myself and let out a huge groan and tried to keep back my vomit. You looked at me like I was crazy between my dry heaves. You are fucking disgusting. I can’t get that image out of my head and want to puke everytime it pops up in my brain. Thanks a lot you disgusting pig! —People are Gross
This article appears in Dec 20-26, 2012.
Pretty sure you didn’t have to “keep back [your] vomit”, let alone experince dry heaves, so fuck off.
Ah, The nastiest body fluid of all.., mucous. I can handle urine, shit, blood and vomit…but the sound and sight of mucous makes me cringe. People who hock on the pavement or shoot “snot rockets” (barf) should be hit in the face with a chair. Merry Christmas 🙂
Hey, OB, it’s legal to kill yourself. If snot bothers you that then maybe this world is not for you. *snort, hack, spit*
Your turn, Col. Ivan Yvan of the Yucatan Humperdink.
suicide was removed from the criminal code in 1972
I can’t fathom why it would ever have been illegal in the first place.
If you can’t enforce punishment, what’s the point of illegality?
Hezzie, do you have a pet?
Cause a cat horking up their cookies is way worse than a little mucous.
OB … I agree with you.
I can’t for the life of me understand why anyone would want to spit out snot or phlegm.
It is so much better to suck that snot into the back of your throat, or cough up a big ole hunk a phlegm, swirl it around in yer mouth before you swallow it .
Um Um Good ! (I’m being fuckin’ sarcastic here people)
I actually happen to agree with the Ole Shrek moto . ” Better out than in ! “
That doesn’t bother me, it’s the old guys that honk into their hankercheif then ball it up and stick it in their pocket. Mmmmm…nice wet snotrag to pull out and blow in again. Blech!!
zzz, if you didn’t succeed, they could nail ya with the law.
“People who hock on the pavement or shoot “snot rockets” (barf) should be hit in the face with a chair.”
Love It Hezz. My feelings exactly.
A lady ALWAYS wraps her dirty tissue in clean piece of tissue before discarding it or placing it in her pocket,if not near a trash can.
This is just gross. Can’t be any more eloquent than that comment.
My boyfriend is a carpenter and during colder months at work he has developed a similar one handed snot disposal technique. He will blow his nose all over his extended pointer finger, flick his wrist to send the snot flying and finish by wiping the tend ants on his pant leg.
He forgot himself and out of habit did this while we were taking a romantic stroll years ago. He was mortified and I just laughed.
Unless it lands on me or it’s excretion involves particularly unpleasant sounds or odors other people’s bodily sludge doesn’t bother me. I have a very accepting approach to bodily functions though.
^^^ that comment, made, was just all over full of common sense and decency and good humour. and no, i am not being sarcastic. give you 10 likes on that if i could.
The people that think snot rockets are okay are obviously the people that do it. I wouldn’t want to be walking down the street and see someone’s snot flying toward me!
GDM, oh. I see… though you’d never ever be charged with it… closest you could get is attempted suicide and even then, talk about a real way to kick people when they’re down.
I’m all for it… and assisted suicide as well so long as proper measures are taken.
Let’s not ball this in with murder.
zzz i think the rationale behind making it illegal was so they could cart you off to the funny farm against your will after you got well enough to be carted off. enforced ‘shrink-age’
re the snot rockets (man that’s disgusting term) is practical for people working outdoors in the cold. if you have your gloves duct taped to the jacket cuffs how would you manage a wee tissue?
some guy at the bus stop or walking down the sidewalk is different. if they do it right in front of someone, it’s probably aggression.
Zed, I have a cat and a dog, and I have cleaned up more barf and diarrhea than you could possibly imagine… Both from humans and furry friends. I don’t know what is is about mucous, but it grosses me out to no end.
@ More… Ew. Just Ew. Lol
So this guy with a cold shows up and rather than choke on captain trips, he choses instead to potentially turn you off with his “annoying sniffles” (it’s called having a cold you retard) and then shooting a snot rocket (which yes.. it’s gross but better than not breathing i guess)
And what do you do? you pretended to puke and made a huge loud big deal about it because, i dunno, being inwardly disgusting like a dignified human wasn’t dramatic enough for your theater school dropout ass. No. you had to prove to the world in the loudest way possible that you have feelings and you are feeling them.
you’re right. People ARE gross. And loud. And dramatic and make fools of themselves. Just promise me next time you react like this to something nasty i am there. With a camera? promise me that? Because i know a pack of 12 year olds who would eat you alive on youtube…
understand op. it’s not that what he did isn’t gross. It’s that your reaction IS. One douchebag in the crowd doesn’t mutually exclude other douchebags from existing in the same crowd.
And here’s the other thing OP. While snot rockets are gross as fuck, having a runny nose isn’t. Stop being a goddamned pussy. Even your shit smells. I bet if i walked into the bathroom after you took a shit i’d be like “DAYMN op.. what the fuck did you do in here??”
And i bet when you have a cold you’re as nasty as the rest of us. And i bet you farted at least once while reading this.
didn’t you?
Snot rockets (farmer shots, according to my mom) are disgusting. I get that snot needs to come out, but there’s better ways to go about it. Even walking a few paces away to extract the vile bile is appreciated.
I also have a immediate reaction of dry heaves if I see, or even sometimes hear, a snot rocket being launched…. can’t do anything about how the grossness of someone else makes me almost hurl, but people can do something about their manners, FFS!!
Blech!!!
Now.. let me start this by saying i have never blown a snot rocket.. but I AM an asthmatic.
When it comes down to either your delicate western sensibilities or me being able to breath, you can all go fuck yourselves because you mean nothing.
Again, not that i’ve ever blown a snot rocket. But if i can’t breathe, i’ll strip, swear, fuck the neighbour’s goat, punch a baby dolphin in the face or puke all over you to be able to breathe again. Breathing trumps all.
Me breathing is more important than you. Everybody should wake up every day with that motto. If we did, nobody would ever go to war.
also as a world traveler, i have to laugh at this.
You people who are surprised by this are clearly NOT world travelers. This shit is pretty commonplace everywhere except your perfect little western bubble.
that’s what’s super funny. That most of you probably fancy yourselves fairly tolerant people and obviously have no basis for saying that since you dont’ even realize that what we find gross is pretty normal in most countries. And things we find normal are actually quite gross (putting your feet UP comes to mind)
so you know.. fucking mind your own business. You don’t like it? don’t do it and stop being fucking fascists.
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so you know.. fucking mind your own business. You don’t like it? don’t do it and stop being fucking fascists.
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I know that I am being COMPLETELY SELFISH because I don’t like getting other peoples’ horque up on to my hands, via the wheels on my chairs. It’s my own Western Hangup(according to what you are saying) at work here, and not me wanting to avoid getting the sickness expectorated onto the sidewalk.
So, if we’re uptight for putting our feet up(and offending people who can’t see us, on the other side of the world), surely the reverse is right, and they’re wrong there for the horque, that offends us here?
Or is it just that each country has its own customs and culture(and laws), and it’s completely fine that we here in Canada have a problem with walking/rolling through that gross mess?
PisP
Peurto Rico airport/in transit
http://www.theonion.com/articles/my-morocc…
Oh and what do you do with YOUR muccus? Swallow it? Yecckkk!