The epidemic continues!
related: It’s called “performance art”
Dear Booger-Flicker
May 6th, 2015 · 50 comments
FILED UNDER: bathroom · Florida · nose-picking · that's disgusting
FILED UNDER: bathroom · Florida · nose-picking · that's disgusting
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50 responses so far ↓
#1
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Capital FLICKING looks a bit rude at first glance, doesn’t it?
I sympathise with poster-maker, but I do have to wonder about the use of the pronoun “we”. Has there been a group consultation about how everybody feels about the boogers? Perhaps some people like them. It enlivens an otherwise dull day in the office to take a toilet break and see these gelatinous marvels, quivering there on the wall.
I’m drunk. FRIST!
May 6, 2015 at 10:01 pm rating: 90
#2
AP
Can’t they just flick them into the toilet?
May 6, 2015 at 10:51 pm rating: 90
#3
Dana
Just the thought of boogers makes my gag reflex engage.
May 7, 2015 at 2:57 am rating: 90
#4
Belaani
Hey, B.F. – If I catch you, I cut you!
May 7, 2015 at 6:13 am rating: 90
#5
Sara
“Also, I will shoot you in the fucking face.”
May 7, 2015 at 7:22 am rating: 90
#6
TRT
Bob the Builder,
Does he pick it?
Bob the Builder,
Yes he does!
Scoops muck and digs it,
Rolls it up, licks it and flicks it,
Now it’s stuck.
Bob and his crows, have so much fun.
Wiping’s for sissies, just look at his bum.
May 7, 2015 at 8:15 am rating: 90
#7
The Beast Among Us
What makes the note writer believe the boogers are being flicked and not wiped?
May 7, 2015 at 9:32 am rating: 90
#8
pooham
This, as well as not flushing, purposely missing the toilet and the extreme act of smearing feces, signifies a mental disorder. To me at least. I don’t understand behavior like this in the least.
May 7, 2015 at 11:09 am rating: 90
#9
Kasaba
Once, while waiting for my parents in the car outside a supermarket, my brother smeared one of his boogers on my cheek. This made me want to retch, so I got out of the car, making the car alarm go off. My dad ended up chastising ME, because a booger on the cheek is apparently no reason to want to puke. My brother laughed.
And that, my friends, is being the eldest child in a nutshell.
May 7, 2015 at 11:48 am rating: 91
#10
Pants Go Brown
The writer sure knows a lot about how dry the boogers become and what process is attempted to remove them — paint scraper. Makes me think the author is also the scraper. If they are so hard to remove, I suggest some chemical analysis take place to make sure these are in fact garden variety boogers and not something more nefarious.
May 7, 2015 at 1:08 pm rating: 90
#11
Never known as The Kid
Some people consider boogers ‘fucking delicious.’
Just sayin’.
May 7, 2015 at 1:08 pm rating: 90
#12
Lita
Firebomb the place. It’s the only way to be certain.
Of course, then you’ll probably come back and find boogers flicked all over the wreckage…
May 7, 2015 at 2:48 pm rating: 90
#13
Dane Zeller
University of Rutgers Chiropractic Research Journal, 1989, “Time and Motion Study of Disposal of Nasal Substances in Natural Receptacle” Doctor Heimlick and Doctor Flick.
Abstract: A comparison of the time it takes to deposit a nasal substance on the wall of a bathroom versus retrieving a block of toilet tissue from the roll, wiping the substance on the tissue, and throwing the tissue into the toilet: Wall: one second (without rolling). Tissue: three seconds (moderate rolling).
I rest my case.
May 7, 2015 at 4:24 pm rating: 90
#14
Poltergeist
You people are obviously not visionaries. This individual is clearly trying to create a community art piece a la the bubblegum alley in California. Please contribute.
May 7, 2015 at 8:21 pm rating: 90
#15
Emmy
I worked at a hotel some years ago and saw many nasty nasty things whilst cleaning the rooms… but the one that still makes my stomach clench is the one an old man had stayed in. Now, you may be expecting poo or other bodily fluids, which I have encountered numerous times – this one took the cake. He’d COVERED the lampshade in boogers. Like, sat in his bed for three nights and excavated, depositing them on the lampshade for my sorry ass to find after he’d left.
You’d think – oh, just throw it out, replace it! My company was so cheap I had to shampoo a bed after a trucker peed in it repeatedly. So no, I got to take that shade off, and scrub the boogers off with a toothbrush in the sink. Just typing it makes me queasy!
May 8, 2015 at 11:07 am rating: 90
#16
rushgirl2112
A few months ago, I started noticing these pink globs here and there on the walls at home. Finally I figured out what it was – denture cream. My husband had lost his teeth due to grinding from a prescription med. Whenever he had a stray glob of denture cream in his mouth, he would flick it.
He hasn’t stopped, saying that they just pop right off (which admittedly is true). A couple of days ago, I discovered a blob on the windshield in my car. I’m not as upset about it as you might think. I’m kind of amused most of the time, to be honest.
I don’t think I’d feel the same way about boogers, though.
May 10, 2015 at 5:58 pm rating: 90
#17
Kelly
We have people who do this at my work. The company spent a good deal of money cleaning and repainting the bathrooms as a result. Few months later and it’s booger city up in there all over again.
One, I don’t understand the behavior. I can’t say I’ve never picked my nose. Hell, this is anonymous so I’ll even admit I’ve picked it tons of times. But always always always put them in a tissue.
Two, (despite what I just wrote above) I’m pretty sensitive to gross shit. Have nearly lost much lunch many times walking into the bathroom and unexpectedly finding a new glob of snot on the wall. If I could hold it all day, I’d never use the bathroom at work ever again.
If it weren’t illegal and weird to videotape people in the restroom, I’d setup hidden cameras to catch the booger offender(s) in the act, then set their car(s) on fire and do other terrible things. I’d even go so far as to say these sick idiots deserve to have their nostrils stapled shut.
May 13, 2015 at 1:03 am rating: 90
#18
Raichu
1. Fucking disgusting. If you are not over the age of 4 you shouldn’t be working in an office (or anywhere).
2. It annoys me that the biggest problem they had with the cleaning people having to clean it was their ineffectiveness, not the fact that you just made a probably very poorly paid person scrape boogers off the wall.
3. I don’t know whether it’s more amusing or sad that PAN has a tag for nose-picking.
May 19, 2015 at 4:43 am rating: 90
#19
Luz Manzano
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