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This is the Conversation Forum for Bad Habits and How to Stop Them << female - seats down! Nail biting comments >> Subject: Nose Picking Posted May 19, 2003 by Rains - Wondering where time's going and why it's in so much of a hurry! This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 21 I remember from my school science classes that your nose hairs are responsible for filtering out various bits of airborne detritus, so you don't inadvertently breathe nasty little bit of stuff in. Therefore, by extrapolation, bogeys are the accumulation of whatever airborne pollutants are around, with a side helping of nasal mucus. So, if you spend a lot of time working with cars, your bogeys will be a mass of exhaust particles. And so on. I once did some work in an automobile factory putting bodyshells together and the resultant bogeys were black and very gritty from all the metal dust..... Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Nose Picking Posted May 19, 2003 by PQ - possibly back This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 22 There was a report in the paper a while back saying that bogeys contain roughly the same chemicals as junk food, the same mix of sugars and carbohydrates etc etc...no wonder they taste nice Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Nose Picking Posted May 20, 2003 by Rains - Wondering where time's going and why it's in so much of a hurry! This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 23 Hmm....interesting. Plus I also remember a report that junk food was addictive due to its composition of fats, sugars etc. I wonder where the impulse to nose pick came from? Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Nose Picking Posted May 20, 2003 by McKay The Disorganised This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 24 *shakes head* Only on H2G2. I also bite the bits around my nail, but with hair I used to use it as a kind of floss - pulling it between my teeth till I reached the follicle, which could be sort of 'popped off.' Now I've got less I take better care of it..... Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Nose Picking Posted May 20, 2003 by Rains - Wondering where time's going and why it's in so much of a hurry! This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 25 Ewwww.....even I have to draw the line somewhere! Mind you, I did try that once as a kid, and recieved a hefty slap round the earhole for being disgusting. It tended to get stuck between my teeth, though - most unpleasant. Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Nose Picking Posted Jun 13, 2003 by Galen This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 26 yummyy! i also pick my nose, eat folicles and the skin arond my nails. i love peeling off the nails from my toes and then eating the stuff below the nails, and also eating some of the nails themselves. although there is too much tere to eat it all generally... i cant take it in one sitting. scabs are also tasty! Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Nose Picking Posted Jun 16, 2003 by PQ - possibly back This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 27 Nice to know we're not alone anymore... Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Nose Picking Posted Jun 16, 2003 by Galen This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 28 hehe, yup were all in this together! Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Nose Picking Posted Jul 21, 2003 by Vestboy II not playing the Telegram Game at U726319 This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 29 http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/F29815?thread=298208 I should perhaps have placed the above contribution here but go and have a look anyway Subject: Nose Picking Posted Feb 11, 2004 by finorgan This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 30 For the men out there (and the ladies with ronnies), grow a goatee and the distracting action of stroking it will keep your nosril bound hand at bay. Presuming beard stroking is a better bad habit of course... Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Nose Picking Posted Feb 16, 2004 by Rains - Wondering where time's going and why it's in so much of a hurry! This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 31 Certainly, goatee beard stroking is more socially acceptable and gives a nice air to a person.... Bushy beards, however, just invite trapped food, and that's just wrong. Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Nose Picking Posted Feb 16, 2004 by Galen This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 32 another solution, if you are always having trouble finding somewhere to put the booger once you have got it out... grow a goatie, and store it in there... Subject: Nose Picking Posted Jan 16, 2005 by Alex 'Tufty' Ashman [!] This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 33 And now for something completely different: I have no bad habits involving picking at / eating / chewing parts of my body whatsoever. The furthest any sane person should ever go is washing inside their ears now and again. Read the First Reply to this Posting Subject: Nose Picking Posted Apr 9, 2005 by mrs. slartibartfast This is a reply to this Posting   Posting 34 Not to beat a dead nose or anything... People with severe nose-picking problems are called rhinotillexomaniacs. And it COULD kill you. True. 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