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Gross things that people do in public

MarkR

Ok, we've all seen nose picking, emergency crotch adjustments, underwear relocation etc, but I came across a new one today.

Was in Eddie Rockets, and this lady was eating her chips. Instead of pouring some ketchup onto her plate, she was dipping it into the top of the bottle!

Maybe she's really thrify, and didn't want to "waste" whatever was poured out onto the plate, but she was even double dipping (dipping, biting chip in half, and dipping again).

Not exactly stomach wretching, but gross enough. Anyone else come across this eccentricity?

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magnum69

clearing one's throat of a sticky phlegm then swallowing it! :eek: :mad: :eek:

Dooom

zynaps wrote:

I wouldn't use that excuse if I was standing on the street with a poisonous gas source. Somehow, smokers think they have a right to vent their poison publically and that people who get annoyed about it are being inconsiderate or something.

I wouldn't expect you to agree :rolleyes:

And you'd be right, I don't. I'm quite a considerate smoker. But if I'm walking down a street, I can't really accomodate everyone on the street.

Screw it, I don't actually really care where my smoke goes when I'm walking. If I'm standing somewhere, and someone downwind from me is getting it in the face, I'll move. Other than that, take it up with god.

Beelzebub

MarkR wrote:

Ok, we've all seen nose picking, emergency crotch adjustments, underwear relocation etc, but I came across a new one today.

Was in Eddie Rockets, and this lady was eating her chips. Instead of pouring some ketchup onto her plate, she was dipping it into the top of the bottle!

Maybe she's really thrify, and didn't want to "waste" whatever was poured out onto the plate, but she was even double dipping (dipping, biting chip in half, and dipping again).

Not exactly stomach wretching, but gross enough. Anyone else come across this eccentricity?

Now licking the bottle would be gross!

Katykaboom

Real Slim Shady wrote:

I think the worst thing is when you're on the way home from a night out or even during the night out and someone gets sick on the street in front of you. I know when you get sick you can't help it but i mean just because you can't handle your drink doesn't mean i should have to watch you throwing up all over the place. Some people do it in the worst places too like in doorways or all across a footpath.

Yeah I hate that too, but there will always be once, when you dont realise youve had to much to drink then all of a sudden, you need to get sick. Cant be helped. Swallowing is way to dangerous!

Beelzebub

The worst 2 I have witnessed (not necessarily in order of grossness):

1: Person picking their nose on the bus and saving to their filthy hanky(looked like it had never been washed), then folding up hanky and replacing in coat pocket.
2: Woman filing her finger nails next to me on the DART - in the process getting nail dust on me.(would have been worse if it had been toe nails!):eek:

tman

smoking and spitting are the only ones that disgust me really...

Collie D

How can you say smoking outdoors is as bad as hocking up phlegm or not washing your hands after going to the toilet. You've gotten us out of the pubs which is fair enough, should we smoke in bubbles now?

bounty

lol

Rhyme

bounty wrote:

lol

Where have i seen that before and why does it make me think of 'that' Marty Whelan picture?

Spitting, crotch manipulation and a general disregard for hygiene annoy me.

Gaspode

Not exactly in public this one, but my wife told me recently of a woman in the changing room at the gym, who reached down and pulled a tampon from herself, dropped it onto a bin beside the sink and went back to getting dressed.
Yeeeeuch!

zynaps

Collie D wrote:

How can you say smoking outdoors is as bad as hocking up phlegm or not washing your hands after going to the toilet. You've gotten us out of the pubs which is fair enough, should we smoke in bubbles now?

Yes. Ideally... But, since I recognise that smokers are people and their exhaust isn't necessarily fatal (although of course, second hand smoke is proven to be harmful to our health too), and I have smoker friends and don't want to alienate them/myself over it, I do put up with it. Still, I graphically wave smoke away without embarrassment when someone puffs away in front of me on the street.
You might consider this a personal attack on smokers, but since I'm personally affected by their smoke whether they try to be considerate or not... I don't feel that my reactions are unjustified. Just don't want to pick up cancer someday because of someone else's habit is all.

zynaps

Brian Capture wrote:

I was waiting to be served and he ran in, cock in hand, and ended up ejaculating over the crisps section.

As you do...

I think someone mentioned Eddie Rockets - I was in the Stillorgan branch once with my aunt, who was considering some vegetarian stuff, but wasn't ethically or morally emotionally involved or anything - more a diet thing.
Good thing too, because while we were waiting for our food, we saw through the perspex window on the counter a Chinese guy in the kitchen, cooking some burger patties.
When he was done and had given the meat to someone else to plop between some buns, he slapped her veggie burger and stuff down on it, sitting in all the meat juices and little crumbs of beef and watched it sizzle away.

I laughed, and he turned and laughed too. It was funny... but a word of warning to any staunch vegetarians planning on eating in Eddie Rockets, or probably any fast food joint.

OliviaM

Spitting just anywhere!:eek: makes me wonder if that person is merely existing.:mad:

conky_05

Ickle Magoo wrote:

Men who walk around or stand at bus stops, etc, with their hand down the front of their trousers - not a quick adjustment, I can understand the necessity behind that - just grabbing a handful in full view of the rest of the world .:eek:

i went to school with a chap whose nickname was 'pubes'. i wasnt in the school at this stage, but apparently when he was a young nipper brat he used to stick his hand down his trousers, grab a handful, put them on a paper airplane and throw it across the room. s'pose that's how he got his nickname.

now THATS gross

molypiper

gargling and swallowing it up. :eek: have seen one do that after eating his lunch. made me feel sick!

daymobrew

Archeron wrote:

I think one of the most disgusting things is seeing people hurling litter out of car windows. For fecks sake, put it on the floor til you get to a bin instead of just flinging it out on the street.

You can report them to the Litter Wardens of the appropriate county/city council. Just call in the reg plate, car desciption, time/date, location and incident details. The fine is e125.
The likelihood that it goes to court is unbelievably minute.

Miss Fluff

I flew back from NYC to Dublin yesterday morning. Opposite where my Mum and I were sitting on the plane was a family of four travellers in the seats opposite. There was a chap seated on the edge of the row. For the entire duration of the journey he took it in turns for the duration of the flight to fart and belch. Loudly. He also had his shoes off. To say that the smell that emanated from his every pore was like a rotting sheep's carcass in an understatement. I find public behaviour like that simply gross.:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

Tar.Aldarion

zynaps wrote:

I laughed, and he turned and laughed too. It was funny... but a word of warning to any staunch vegetarians planning on eating in Eddie Rockets, or probably any fast food joint.

Order a vegetarian burger froma fast food place... I hope more than I are smarter than that.

petes

Miss Fluff wrote:

I flew back from NYC to Dublin yesterday morning. Opposite where my Mum and I were sitting on the plane was a family of four travellers in the seats opposite. There was a chap seated on the edge of the row. For the entire duration of the journey he took it in turns for the duration of the flight to fart and belch. Loudly. He also had his shoes off. To say that the smell that emanated from his every pore was like a rotting sheep's carcass in an understatement. I find public behaviour like that simply gross.:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

Where's the smiley for getting sick?

EOA_Mushy

IzzyWizzy wrote:

How do you 'need to spit'? I've never spat in my life. If I have a chesty cough, I cough, covering my mouth with my hand, then I wash my hands.

Its a smoking thing... Most colds turn into chest infections leading to mucous in the cough.

Happens to me too although I try to avoid any one seeing the result.

Other "Gross things": People, and i use the term loosely, who deside to P!SS on the D.A.R.T. I have seen it more then once. Some times into bottles some times not. :eek:

Also on the washing you hands business. All ways people! All ways. (Except when really drunk....

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[Deleted User]

I spit only when I really need to. If I've got a bad chest infection and I cough up a load of phlegmn, I dont want it to go back down. So I go somewhere where theres not many people and spit.

EOA_Mushy

zynaps wrote:

I wouldn't use that excuse if I was standing on the street with a poisonous gas source. Somehow, smokers think they have a right to vent their poison publically and that people who get annoyed about it are being inconsiderate or something.

I wouldn't expect you to agree :rolleyes:

Fumes from a car exaust are the same. Are you going to quit driving/never start?

Counter to my argument. Smoking is discusting... I smoke. And start using biodeisel and such like!!!!!

EOA_Mushy

magnum69 wrote:

peeing on a wall :eek: so disgusting. i saw one myself this morning.

Women please, the jealousy ... lol But really only when 105% necessary

NutJob

EOA_Mushy wrote:

Women please, the jealousy ... lol But really only when 105% necessary

Fumes from a car exaust are the same. Are you going to quit driving/never start?

Counter to my argument. Smoking is discusting... I smoke. And start using biodeisel and such like!!!!!

Dont be mean smoking is disgusting and yes i smoke. Try to keep it to myself though

Good news is if i piss anyone off ill be dead soon (or so im told)

Space Coyote

There are way too many sensitive individuals out there. Being disgusted with any form of spitting, come off it, that's pathetic! For some people its a necessity, anyone who suffers with bronchitis or emphysema will testify to that.

Anyway, personally speaking, I find picking and eating snot one of the most disgusting habits. Even the thought of it. Sickening. I have two friends who do it. Anywhere. In a bar. In the car. At home probably! The problem is, it's far too late to tell them how disgusting a habit it is. I presume they've done it most of their lives, so at least 20 years. What can ye say? "Hey man, I never mentioned this before, I know I've known ye 15 years or so but could ye stop with the eating the f*kin snot business, it's f*cking disgusting!" Maybe a subtle anonymous note would do it. Any suggestions welcomed folks.

jaggeh

Things i do and why

Spit, my mouth produces a lot of saliva, i mean a lot. this means i have two choices (same as the ladies) spit or swallow. now as i said, swallowing said saliva/pleghm makes me sick and i would puke all over the place. which would you prefer.

Pick my nose, my left nostril is blocked by cartelage from when i broke my nose 8 years ago, so when i blow my nose only the right side clears. so sometimes i have to pick the left clean. i used to eat it when i was younger but its not my thing anymore.

if i offend your delicate senses.....good. screw you i dont care what any of you think, because you all seem to like taking a hold of the wrong end of the wrong stick. try thinking about the reasoning behind other peoples actions before lumping them into the 'your disgusting' category.

People who piss in the street, i dont have a problem as long as they go into a lane and be descreet about it. i would rather they dont piss their pants and smell like urine walking down the street.

People who **** in the street, same again, but most people dont know that you can walk into any establishment that has a public use toilet and use it. i saw a guy get stopped from going into a burger king because he was making a b-line for the toilets. so as soon as he was outside the door he dropped his kaks and scuttered at the front door.

If someone needs to get sick, they need to get sick. whoops sorry i should have held that in. have you ever done that, usually makes things worse. dont always assume someone is drunk when they aregetting sick either. my friends girlfriend ate some muscles a few months back and she got sick 17 times in the space of 300 yards. amazing amount of puke from such a tiny girl i tell ya.

anyhow, my diatribe is over. commence flaming.

Gaspode

jaggeh wrote:

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anyhow, my diatribe is over. commence flaming.

As if anyone on this forum would flame... perish the thought!

I think the idea of this thread is more to collate data on the gross things that people do rather than to comment on how bad it is.
One mans gross is another mans norm. (speaking as someone who spits through necessity not choice)

zynaps

EOA_Mushy wrote:

Fumes from a car exaust are the same. Are you going to quit driving/never start?

Well, I don't drive due to money, nowhere to park, never learned how, ridiculous insurance/tax costs and environmental considerations (I do think about this stuff now and then). I cycle, so the only exhausts are my CO2 and the occasional fart. Might drive someday though.... about the fumes, I'd only drive if I felt it was a necessity (ie: public transport/cycling was just too far/inconvenient), rather than smoking which is a bad habit/pleasure. Also, I wouldn't drive my car at the same speed as a pedestrian walking, with the exhaust pipe directly in front of their face.

EOA_Mushy wrote:

Counter to my argument. Smoking is discusting... I smoke. And start using biodeisel and such like!!!!!

If I did drive, I'd probably try to find some kind of hybrid car or one using biodiesel, although I'm not sure how different the exhaust would be. I know they put a lot of effort into removing all dangerous particulates from it - a mate of mine worked on it in Daimler Chrysler in Stuttgart for a year and gave me the spiel.

zynaps

petes wrote:

Where's the smiley for getting sick?

Is it possible to smile while puking? I'd have thought it was an automatic grimace, really.

nobodythere

Peacheh wrote:

Men who put their finger over one nostril and force snot out of the other one. Disgusting.

Was getting off the bus in college about 2 years ago and saw one guy do it but there was a bit of a breeze and the fool managed to get it all over himself.

I have ways to the tops of some of the roofs in my city. One night i was up there at about 4am and the street was empty, and this guy that I recognise from being around was on his own on the street.

Looks left, looks right. Snots all over the place not knowing I was watching from directly above him. Could barely contain the laughter