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markie_farkie

2012-01-05 04:01:21 PM

This thread's not going to deliver. I can put my finger on it.

MaudlinMutantMollusk

2012-01-05 04:03:37 PM

pluck this

relaxitsjustme

2012-01-05 04:05:12 PM

What am I I suppose to do? Walk around looking like I have caterpillars crawling out of my nostrils?

old_toole

2012-01-05 04:07:39 PM

There is a certain satisfaction for me when I pull out more than eight at a time.
And then the wonderful sneeze.

timujin

2012-01-05 04:13:17 PM

old_toole: There is a certain satisfaction for me when I pull out more than eight at a time.
And then the wonderful sneeze.

It's those thick ones that are rooted really far in the back that I love to get to; it feels like they're attached directly to my brain.

LaChanz

2012-01-05 04:13:40 PM

Marcus Aurelius

2012-01-05 04:13:53 PM

Pulling out a stray nose hair is a great way to keep yourself awake.

dahmers love zombie

2012-01-05 04:19:38 PM

Jesus. My eyes are watering now.

AdolfOliverPanties

2012-01-05 04:26:09 PM

I have a few gray nose hairs. Those, I pluck. Otherwise if I catch a glimpse of my nostrils in a mirror, the gray looks like a normal black or dark brown nose hair that is simply glistening in the light with snot.

Kid Lester

2012-01-05 04:29:20 PM

If it's good enough for Willem Dafoe, it's good enough for me.

sigdiamond2000

2012-01-05 04:35:22 PM

Invest in an electric nose hair trimmer. You won't be disappointed.

Meatzilla

2012-01-05 04:52:22 PM

shanrick

2012-01-05 04:55:48 PM

hobblekitty

2012-01-05 04:58:14 PM

I don't care what anybody says. I have one annoying nostril hair that grows really long, curls under my nose trying desperately to poke its way into the other nostril. That little bugger has got to go.

MaxxLarge

2012-01-05 05:02:11 PM

FTA: "Nose hairs trap dirt, viruses, bacteria and toxins"

No wonder Iggy Pop is the very picture of health.

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DjangoStonereaver

2012-01-05 05:04:53 PM

My nostril hair seems to grow very long whenever I have a cold or sinus infection.

What's up with that?

Dead for Tax Reasons

2012-01-05 05:10:25 PM

You can pick you nose and you can pick your friend.
but you shouldn't pick you friends' nose hairs?

Ok, gotcha

robmilmel

2012-01-05 05:13:54 PM

DjangoStonereaver: My nostril hair seems to grow very long whenever I have a cold or sinus infection.

What's up with that?

It's just the snot acting as a styling mousse.

ParallelUniverseParking

2012-01-05 05:18:47 PM

No plucking? Guess I'll have to dye them nostril pink then.

RoyBatty

2012-01-05 05:21:35 PM

Lumpmoose

2012-01-05 05:31:22 PM

I'm calling bullshiat.

Denser nose hair can be an advantage. Scientists at Hacettepe University School of Medicine in Turkey found that patients with sparse nose hairs were nearly three times as likely to suffer from asthma as those with more-hirsute nostrils.

Nose hair is just the first line of defense, though. Cilia, very small hairlike strands in our nose, constantly wave back and forth. (They keep waving even after we die, but at a steadily decreasing rate, so forensic scientists use them to determine time of death.) Cilia sweep dusty and potentially dangerous molecules toward our throat, where they collect in a glob of mucus that we either cough up or swallow. If we swallow it, stomach acids will destroy most of the harmful material.

Correlation != Causation. Did the university check if the hairy nosers also had more cilia? Do nose hairs actually do anything provably useful or is it all cilia? And will a nose hair trimmer touch the cilia at all? I could see how plucking is bad though.

FunkOut

2012-01-05 06:20:31 PM

Sometimes you see men reach up and pull their nose hair out with their fingers. In public. WTF?

Crackers Are a Family Food

2012-01-05 06:20:53 PM

Damnit, I thought TFA was going to be about some guy plucking his nose hair out, triggering a massive nosebleed, and bleeding to death. I am disappoint.

tortilla burger

2012-01-05 06:21:08 PM

this thread is just fine without pics

Teen Wolf Blitzer

2012-01-05 06:21:18 PM

Ugh. The other day I was taking a shiat at work, and on the wall above the toilet paper dispenser was a huge booger with a long nostril hair and folicle still attached.

SDRR

2012-01-05 06:21:41 PM

markie_farkie: This thread's not going to deliver. I can put my finger on IN it.

gunther_bumpass

2012-01-05 06:23:03 PM

Teen Wolf Blitzer: Ugh. The other day I was taking a shiat at work, and on the wall above the toilet paper dispenser was a huge booger with a long nostril hair and folicle still attached.

WHO DOES THAT????

Pinner

2012-01-05 06:24:23 PM

NorCalLos

2012-01-05 06:24:45 PM

FunkOut: Sometimes you see men reach up and pull their nose hair out with their fingers. In public. WTF?

I don't carry a tweezer.

Lars The Canadian Viking

2012-01-05 06:25:16 PM

FunkOut: Sometimes you see men reach up and pull their nose hair out with their fingers. In public. WTF?

I do that when I'm on the bus, then eat them. Keeps the stinky bus people from standing too close.

Bob16

2012-01-05 06:26:03 PM

I believe those are nail pullers he's using in that picture that accompanies the article (used to pull nails from trim that is going to be reused ).

Litig8r

2012-01-05 06:26:05 PM

sigdiamond2000: Invest in an electric nose hair trimmer. You won't be disappointed.

Concur. Bought my first one a couple of months ago. Awesome, just awesome. I wish I'd bought one ten years ago.

Truncheon

2012-01-05 06:26:11 PM

hobblekitty: I don't care what anybody says. I have one annoying nostril hair that grows really long, curls under my nose trying desperately to poke its way into the other nostril. That little bugger has got to go.

yeah i have this issue too. drives me up a wall.

had a friend who used to 'sniff' deeply over lit candles to burn out his nose hairs. can't imagine the lingering smell that would leave.

same friend was very hirsute and would shave only halfway down his neck. most of the time he had a hair collar extending above his shirt collar. it worked for him, i guess...

Tarmangani

2012-01-05 06:26:21 PM

AcneVulgaris

2012-01-05 06:26:24 PM

FunkOut: Sometimes you see men reach up and pull their nose hair out with their fingers. In public. WTF?

It's a challenge. If the other men don't respond by pulling out two nose hairs, the first man gets to choose a mate from the nearby females.

The_Sponge

2012-01-05 06:26:26 PM

I pluck mine with the pliers on my Swiss Army knife.

NorCalLos

2012-01-05 06:27:24 PM

Lars The Canadian Viking: FunkOut: Sometimes you see men reach up and pull their nose hair out with their fingers. In public. WTF?

I do that when I'm on the bus, then eat them. Keeps the stinky bus people from standing too close.

That's digusting! I just gently brush them against my lip to see if I can feel how many I got.

Grables'Daughter

2012-01-05 06:27:25 PM

FTA: "Your nose is not a sterile place."

Huh.

Mad Scientist

2012-01-05 06:28:18 PM

Don't cheap out on the nose hair trimmers. I bought a cheap one, and all it did was grab the hairs and yank them out by the roots. Spend the extra few buck for one that will actually cut the hairs.

Beeblebrox

2012-01-05 06:28:52 PM

What about waxing inside your nostrils?

FunkOut

2012-01-05 06:29:12 PM

AcneVulgaris: FunkOut: Sometimes you see men reach up and pull their nose hair out with their fingers. In public. WTF?

It's a challenge. If the other men don't respond by pulling out two nose hairs, the first man gets to choose a mate from the nearby females.

So that's what all the ensuing humping was about.

crab66

2012-01-05 06:29:33 PM

They annoy me. Gotta trim em'.

elffster

2012-01-05 06:29:58 PM

One time I was taking a dump at work and i pulled out this huge booger and it had a huge nose hair in it.

I wiped it on the wall.

AlwaysRightBoy

2012-01-05 06:31:44 PM

Kwality Assurance

2012-01-05 06:31:54 PM

I love to pluck my nose hairs. Like others said, feels like some are attached to my brain they're so far back and the sneezing that follows...so wonderful. But the older I've gotten the thicker it's gotten. If I go a few weeks with out plucking I can easily pull out 20 at a time but by doing so I think I'm sort of "scalping" myself inside my nose. Like I pull so many hairs out that I know it takes a chuck of skin too and that hurts for weeks. I finally started using a nose hair trimmer for just that reason.

/OK, just one...
//Oooo that feels good!

buckler

2012-01-05 06:32:17 PM

My barber does this weird "sticking the corner of the electric trimmers into my nostrils" thing.

YouPeopleAreCrazy

2012-01-05 06:32:25 PM

Plucking nose hairs isn't recommended.

Um, no. If I can see it without looking in the mirror, that biatch is coming out.

skinink

2012-01-05 06:33:49 PM

Bullshiat. Between the long nosehairs and the large boogers that feel like gravel in my nose I get the feeling that my nose does not like me too much. I think it and my left ear that has too much hair and wax are planning a mutiny.

Mad Scientist

2012-01-05 06:36:19 PM

I've yanked five nosehairs while reading this thread.

Minimally Hairy Beer-Powered Simian

2012-01-05 06:36:27 PM

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Dr. Oz is really obsessing over that damn nose hair huh?

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