When you've got a barbed wire booger in the nostril what's your protocol?

The wife and I were having a heated debate about this subject. She is of the opinion that discretion is absolute, keep a stiff upper lip and all that until said problem obstruction can be removed. This is to be done privately.

I'm of the mindset that if it's bothering me I'm going to get it. Search and destroy, whether I have a handkerchief, tissue, or not. Especially when I'm at the house, in the car, or I've turned my back in public.

So am I alone or wrong on this?

To emulate the young lad from Natchez: When I itches I scratches.

I try to be discrete, but when it's gotta go, it's gotta go.

Then again, I'm an animal, just ask my wife.

When in doubt, pull it out. Words to live by

I believe your wife is correct. It's an activity best practiced in private.

To each his own-unless you are an E.N.T. Surgeon.

Wife is correct.

A bit a' spit and shove'er in right up to the first knuckle, Hell, the wrist even, if necessary.

Lick clean and repeat as necessary.

If you must dig for gold, try to do it privately. No one else, ever, wants to see that. Same as picking your ass, cutting your toenails, or anything similar.

Excuse yourself to the restroom, unless that shit is literally dripping/hanging out already.

It appears there's gentlemen and real men here.

I leave it to you to figure out who's who.

BTW, the cat's licking my hand as I type this. Gettin' 'er ready, so to speak.

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Originally posted by GarandGuy:

So am I alone or wrong on this?

Yup.

Only slightly off topic, is there another word -- medical, polite, whatever -- for "booger"?

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Originally posted by Ripley:
Only slightly off topic, is there another word -- medical, polite, whatever -- for "booger"?

dried nasal mucus or Curtis Armstrong

This is one subject I never thought I'd see here. What's next? Eating boogers for connoisseurs? LOL

Nasal effluvia.

Never having been in the union, I don't picket.

Besides, my fingers are too fat to fit in my nose. So I hit the bathroom and q-tip it. Worst case I hose 'em out with a syringe. But then, I have to go to the doctor twice a year and have the ear wax pressure washed out of my head, too.

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Originally posted by Ripley:
Only slightly off topic, is there another word -- medical, polite, whatever -- for "booger"?

South African English is "snolly bomb" or "snot rocket"; in Affrikaans its "nasalslym."

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Originally posted by bald1:
This is one subject I never thought I'd see here. What's next? Eating boogers for connoisseurs? LOL

White wine, unless there's dried blood involved, then red wine.

Just because it came up, I despise that saying some here use, "keep your booger hook off the bang switch." Just grosses me out.