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I know many of you will have a hard time talking about this subject, but as you

all might know, there is no limit to Yogi's .....................Nose????? :blink: :01:






















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Anything to break this taboo is welcome:pictures, stories,culinairy ideas,

tools, tips on losing yournosepicking shyness, touristictips, best nosepicking sites,

animatons,movies. But please keep the boardrules in mind!!!!



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Now I'm sure that we all know how one goes about picking their nose, so we can skip the step-by-step instructions.

We've all caught someone at sometime picking their nose. Some try to do it in secret. Others do it openly without embarrassment. Maybe even you have been caught in the act.

Nose-picking is one disgusting habit and is certainly not socially acceptable. So, are these people normal?

One would guess that this is not the type of thing researched at our institutions of higher learning.

Guess again.

Believe it or not, there was a study on nose-picking published in February of 1995 in the Journal of Psychiatry. Yes, you read it right - college professors being paid the big bucks to find out who picks their nose.

Of course, scientists must give everyday things complicated scientific names. Nose-picking is a term for us common folk. Nose-picking should really be referred to as rhinotillexomania (rhino=nose, tillexis=habit of picking at something, mania=obsession with something). So, the next time that you see a person picking their nose, tell them that they are a rhinotillexomaniac.

The researchers prepared their "Rhinotillexomania Questionnaire" and randomly mailed it to 1000 residents in Dane County, Wisconsin. Each survey included a cover letter that stated "The University of Wisconsin is conducting a survey of a common but understudied habit scientifically known as 'rhinotillexomania'. Its common name is nose-picking."

Even better, the letter actually defined what nose-picking is: "Insertion of a finger (or other object) into the nose with the intention of removing dried nasal secretions." I'll bet that you already knew that.

Can you imagine getting this survey in the mail? Even with the University's seal on the stationary, one would have to wonder whether this was a joke or not.

Now for the results (assuming that they are reliable):

Of the 1000 surveys mailed out, only 254 were completed and returned to the researchers.

8.7% claim that they have never picked their nose. (In other words, they are liars or they can't remember doing it as a kid.)
91% stated that they had picked their nose in the past and were still actively practicing this habit. Yet, only 49.2% of the respondents actually thought that nose-picking was common in adults.
9.2% rate their pickin' as "more than average."
25.6% actually pick their noses daily, 22.3% do it 2 to 5 times each day, and three people admitted to doing it at least hourly.
55.5% spent 1-5 minutes, 23.5% spent 5-15 minutes, and 0.8% (2 people) spent 15-30 minutes each day cleaning their nostrils. One lone soul claims to devote over 2 hours each day to this ritual (I'm not a doctor and I can tell you that this guy definitely has rhinotillexomania).
18% reported nosebleeds, while 0.8% claimed perforation of the nasal septum from their nose-picking.
82.8% had picked their noses to "unclog the nasal passages", 66.4% had done it to relieve discomfort or itchiness, 35.7% to avoid the unsightly appearance of a booger hanging from their nose, 34.0% for personal hygiene, and 17.2% picked out of habit. 2.1% (five people) claimed to pick solely for enjoyment. To no one's surprise, one perverted person picked his/her nose for "sexual stimulation."
65.1% use their index finger, 20.2% use their pinky, and 16.4% use their thumb (must have BIG nostrils to fit a thumb in) as their instrument of choice.
Most people (90.3%) disposed of the goop in a tissue or a handkerchief, while 28.6% used the floor, and 7.6% stuck it to the furniture.
8% of the respondents actually ate the end product. In case you are thinking of trying this delicacy, the study claims that the pickings are quite tasty (salty).
So, what have we learned from this groundbreaking study?
First, we now have positive proof that picking one's nose is almost a universally practiced custom, although most won't admit to it.

Second, boogers apparently taste good, although I can guarantee to you that I will never do the taste testing to find out.

And, lastly, when researchers are devoting money and time to studying the picking habits of the United States, it comes as no surprise that we can't find a cure for cancer or HIV.
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Just so you know.........


YoDigsMore

From AskAlice:

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Dear Alice,

I am an avid nose-picker. Is this bad for my nose?

-- Nosepicker




Dear Nosepicker,

Thanks for sharing. Sure, some will say, "Alice, must you post and respond to such an obscure and disgusting question?" Alice says yes, because like many other touchy topics and matters that are close to home, nose picking is a more common pastime than most folks, big and small, would like to admit. Alice bets some of you are picking and clicking right now! Besides, this act, however revolting it may seem, carries health risks that compel Alice to take a swipe at your inquiry.

Because the nose, mouth, throat, and sinuses are fertile territory for the development of infections, your picking finger can act like the Space Shuttle, delivering bacteria from a door knob or public telephone, let's say, directly into your body. (Of course, this route of transit works in the reverse direction, too.) Cuts in the nasal passage are another hazard that can result from your fingernails, whether they're well-clipped or not. Even microscopic lacerations that draw no visible blood, can open the door even wider to bacteria and infections. Avid nose-pickers, such as yourself, may see more pimples in and around the nose due to increased oil deposits from the fingers. For a very small minority of the nostril-inclined, the consequences of their behavior have been nothing to sneeze at. Alice knows of one vigorous young nose-picker who broke a blood vessel that required cauterization (a burning process that deadens tissue) to halt the bleeding that resulted. And she never picked again.

So far, Alice has focused on possible self-inflicted nose-picking consequences, but what about secondhand effects? Alice would bet that most people, even closeted nose-pickers, would not relish watching others picking, or, God forbid, dipping, sticking, or flicking. Public pickers everywhere (as well as belchers and spitters too, for that matter), keep this in mind.

As always, safer nose-picking is best done with a tissue. But if you must pick without protection: wash up, go easy, and keep it to yourself.

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Version for Jonno:

Dear Alice,

I am an avid nose-picker. Is this bad for my nose?

-- Nosepicker




Dear Nosepicker,

Thanks for sharing. Sure, some will say, "Alice, must you post and respond to such an obscure and disgusting question?" Alice says yes, because like many other touchy topics and matters that are close to home, nose picking is a more common pastime than most folks, big and small, would like to admit. Alice bets some of you are picking and clicking right now! Besides, this act, however revolting it may seem, carries health risks that compel Alice to take a swipe at your inquiry.

Because the nose, mouth, throat, and sinuses are fertile territory for the development of infections, your picking finger can act like the Space Shuttle, delivering bacteria from a door knob or public telephone, let's say, directly into your body. (Of course, this route of transit works in the reverse direction, too.) Cuts in the nasal passage are another hazard that can result from your fingernails, whether they're well-clipped or not. Even microscopic lacerations that draw no visible blood, can open the door even wider to bacteria and infections. Avid nose-pickers, such as yourself, may see more pimples in and around the nose due to increased oil deposits from the fingers. For a very small minority of the nostril-inclined, the consequences of their behavior have been nothing to sneeze at. Alice knows of one vigorous young nose-picker who broke a blood vessel that required cauterization (a burning process that deadens tissue) to halt the bleeding that resulted. And she never picked again.

So far, Alice has focused on possible self-inflicted nose-picking consequences, but what about secondhand effects? Alice would bet that most people, even closeted nose-pickers, would not relish watching others picking, or, God forbid, dipping, sticking, or flicking. Public pickers everywhere (as well as belchers and spitters too, for that matter), keep this in mind.

As always, safer nose-picking is best done with a tissue. But if you must pick without protection: wash up, go easy, and keep it to yourself.

just when i was getting over being scared of you....... (119)

I touch myself!

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/me sings I dont want anybody else when i think about you i touch myself (121)

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Ohhh, hyo, when i pick my nose,

i start feel like rhinoceroos..........


Yoho, yahu, yaddy, yaddy, pick yi nose&#33;&#33;&#33;



YoDigsevendeeper

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again...... (147)

I kinda wish I hadn&#39;t looked in here.


I really wish I hadn&#39;t read the whole thing and looked at the pics.

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yeah is a good example of where knowlege isnt always good :S (169)

It&#39;s not really the kind of trivia one would want to mention at a dinner party is it

glad u pointed that out

/me scratch it off list of future "small talk"



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glad I saved you from a small faux pas

:)

i owe u one (176)

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It&#39;s not really the kind of trivia one would want to mention at a dinner party is it

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It&#39;s the best topic to start at a dinner party&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;


Here&#39;s some more studymaterial:


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The Fine Art of Nosepicking, Volume 3, Enhanced

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I believe it was Mark-Jason Dominus who first noted how odd it is that a society intent on being open about masturbation still considers nose-picking to be a taboo subject. (He went on to discuss how the air of Taiwan seemed to have a beneficial effect on the asthetic qualities of his boogers, but a comparison between different climates and their manifold effects on mucous is quite beyond the scope of this discussion.) Of course, there are those who find nose-picking--and that activity so often associated with nose-picking, booger-eating--to be totally offensive. As one contemporary wag comments, ``To me, nose-picking is like homosexuality--whether or not you do it is your own business, I just don&#39;t want you to do it in front of me.&#39;&#39; Other sources have drawn the same parallels, only between heterosexuality and nose-picking.
Nevertheless, people are picking their noses as much as ever. To understand why this is it may be profitable at this point to explore briefly the history of nose-picking, after which we will give a short overview of the current state of nose-picking, followed by a quick forecast for the future of this idler&#39;s art.
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This marvellously well-preserved painting from the wall of King Tutankhamun&#39;s tomb shows Nut, the Sky-goddess of ancient Egypt, delicately picking the nose of the young pharaoh. Clearly, ritual nose-picking was expected to continue in the after-life.

This Paleolithic cave painting from Ardèche, France, clearly shows nose-picking (left), as well as communing with the People&#39;s Representatives from the Dog Star (right) and not having sex (not shown).
No one knows who it was who first used their digits to scrounge around inside their nasal passages for tasty morsels, for, like the discovery of fire, the advent of nose-picking occurred before there were written records. However, we have some good evidence that nose-picking was already fairly widespread as of about ten thousand years before the birth of Christ; for, in the south of France, among other places, researchers have found exquisite cave paintings clearly depicting primitive nose-pickers among figures performing several other day-to-day activities, such as hunting, farming, fishing, communing with the People&#39;s Representatives from the Dog Star, and not having sex.
The first surviving written record of nose-picking was discovered by Wilbur Leakey in the late seventies while working in Egypt. Here we have a marvelously well-preserved papyrus scroll used for daily accounts by the scribe of the famous boy pharaoh Tutankhamun, noting the payment of three head of cattle in addition to food and lodging given to the young king&#39;s personal nose-picker. That the ruling class had by this time--approximately 1350 BC--evolved the need for a specialized nose-picker is testimony to its widespread practice. That some historians have dismissed this evidence, asserting that Tutankhamun was certainly an anomaly in having his own picker, shows only their shallow reading of the contemporary texts; several other papyri dated only a few decades after Tut&#39;s death clearly denote the importance of nose-picking to the nobles of Egypt.
Nor was nose-picking confined to the relatively advanced society of the Nile River valley. It is believed that the Celts were notorious nose-pickers; in fact, there is some evidence that the henges scattered about the British Isles--of which Stonehenge is the most famous and well-preserved--were used not only as astronomical calendars, but also as the sites for enormous snot-hunting ceremonies. Also, several manuscripts from ancient India, which a few researchers think may very well be the missing 33 books of the Vedas, allude to nose-picking and booger-eating, believing that such practices lead to a better sense of smell and a smooth, warm complexion.
This marvellously well-preserved painting from the wall of King Tutankhamun&#39;s tomb shows Nut, the Sky-goddess of ancient Egypt, delicately picking the nose of the young pharaoh. Clearly, ritual nose-picking was expected to continue in the after-life.
Only a scant thousand years later, though, nose-picking fell into disrepute. Aristotle, writing circa 350 BC, admonishes, ``Being, or that which is, can be said to be in many ways, as has been previously stated, in accordance with Nature, an entirely non-nose-picking enterprise.&#39;&#39; Archimedes was to top Aristotle just a century later, stating, ``My screw will not be used for the benefit of nose-pickers, for they are truly unpleasant fellows.&#39;&#39;
Nose-picking, of course, went on regardless, though now it was confined to the privacy of one&#39;s own home. The great Emperor Constantine issued a decree in 299 AD stating, among other things, that anyone caught with a finger in their nose deeper than the first joint was to be summarily executed. A contemporary account, which comes to us rendered into English from the Latin by the learned medieval scholar St. Rectus, details an event that took place in Rome around 300 AD: ``Ther was dwellynge at Rebus a mayden who, after interrogaciouns, confess&#39;d that she was wont to pyck her nose. She was ston&#39;d in accordans wyth law, and her abode burnt.&#39;&#39;
With the eventual decline and collapse of the Roman Empire, nose-picking again became a favored sport of the populace. All through the Middle Ages, nose-picking was considered, if not a noble activity, at the very least an accepted one. From all accounts, it was not considered uncouth to pick one&#39;s nose at table; and we find even the poorest baron could count among his possessions a gilded nose-picking spoon. The wealthier houses actually rediscovered the need, first expressed in ancient Egypt, for a nose-picking assistant; this position was highly coveted by lesser landless nobles as well as the peasantry. It was not uncommon for counts to give visiting dignitaries the honor of their own personal mucous, and no prince was unmoved by the prospect of being allowed to slip his pinky into the nostril of the king. A table has been uncovered, too, which, on its underside, bears the distinctive marks of trailing boogers having been scraped off.

This medieval woodcut depicts the predominant Christian belief of the time: that nose-picking was the prerogative of an undoubtedly shady person. King John of England was particularly known for his nose-picking habits, and the wealth and plenty of his boogers was well thought of throughout the land. But such approval did not extend as far as Rome: When word reached the pope of John&#39;s activities, he immediately had the king excommunicated. Soon after, however, John did penance and was restored to the Church, though he never did wholly cease his nasal explorations.
In the following years, the papal distaste for matters olfactory grew, until Pope Sixtus IV issued a bull banning nose-picking under pain of eternal damnation. The bull got deeper, though, as the fifteenth century drew to a close, with Sixtus&#39; successors on the throne of St. Peter waging an all-out war against the practice of nose-picking. At about this time, the last known copy of Gropius&#39; classic Latin treatise, On Nose-picking, was burned with great ceremony at the Vatican, and to this day we only know about it through second-hand sources.

Juan Bautista de Naranja bolo Querecza sierre Padre del Jomama y Tupapi Castrolonuevajorca. The similarity bewteen this portrait and contemporaneous portraits of Shakespeare has led some modern scholars to believe that Castrolonuevajorca was, in fact, like Cervantes, the Spanish translator of the works attributed to him from Shakespeare&#39;s English. The Renaissance dawned for all human endeavors, but somehow the ancient art of picking choice bits from one&#39;s nose was left behind. While many other arts and sciences found their fulfillment in the greatest of their proponents--da Vinci, Michaelangelo, Raphael, Shakespeare, Cervantes, and so on--nose-picking fell to men of much shorter stature for its advancement and nurture. In particular, one Juan Bautista de Naranja bolo Querecza sierre Padre del Jomama y Tupapi Castrolonuevajorca wrote several small tracts regarding nose-picking, some of which have survived to the present day. ``Picking one&#39;s nose,&#39;&#39; he writes, in a manner oddly similar to recent comments, ``is like making love to a fine woman; one must be subtle and graceful, and never dig too deeply, except when occasion truly demands it.&#39;&#39;

During World War II, posters such as this one, showing a German soldier preparing to flick a booger at the Allies and ridiculing the ``Huns&#39;&#39; for their alleged nose-picking practices, were commonly seen in the United States. More often than not, these posters were sponsored by automobile manufacturers, who competed for their steel with the many nosespoon companies that had sprung up between the wars. Most of those companies were bankrupt by 1942, in part due to this propaganda.
The last few centuries have seen a slow but sure resurgence in the practice of nose-picking. This does not mean, however, that it does not have a great deal of social stigma still attached to it--as late as 1942, American anti-Hitler propaganda declared the Germans to be ``rapers of women, eaters of children, defilers of the dead, and pickers of their noses&#39;&#39; and picking one&#39;s nose in public is still a capital offense in some Middle Eastern countries. However, the trend has certainly been towards a much more open attitude about nose-pickers and nose-picking in general. For example, during the United States presidential elections in 1992, Democratic nominee Bill Clinton admitted to having picked his nose in college--though he denied having eaten his boogers--and was later elected president. In addition, several powerful world leaders were photographed shamelessly digging deep into their nostrils during public ceremonies; these photos, though well-publicized, were not received with the acrimony the publishers had expected, and in fact most of those leaders are still alive today.
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So where is nose-picking headed? With such a varied history, it is difficult to say. We can hope that, as the people of the world grow more tolerant of others who fail to bathe, worship crocodiles and politicians, insert their sexual organs into other people&#39;s egresses, continue to wear seersucker out of season, and play with their privates in public and their publics in private, they also grow more tolerant of nose-pickers. We can hope this even as we pull a long jelly-like strand from our left nostril, or a thick crunchy paste from our right, and eat it, slowly reveling in its texture.



YoDiggy

Ya bunch a&#39; woozies&#33;&#33;&#33;

Come&#39; out o&#39; yha [nosepickin&#39;]closet&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;



NOSE PICKING GLOSSARY



The KiddiePick
When you&#39;re by yourself and you uninhibitedly twist your forefinger into your nostril with childlike joy and freedom. And the best part is, there&#39;s no time limit&#33;

Camouflaged Kiddie Pick
When, in the presence of other people, you wrap your forefinger in a tissue, then thrust it in deep and hold back the smile.

Fake Nose Scratch
When you make believe you&#39;ve got an itch but you&#39;re really trolling the nostril edge for stray boogers.

Making A Meal Out Of It
You do it so furiously, and for so long, you&#39;re probably entitled to dessert.

Surprise Pickings
When a sneeze or laugh causes snot to come hurling out of your nose, and you have to gracefully clean it off your shirt.

Autopick
The kind you do in a car, when no one&#39;s looking.

Pick Your Brains
Done in private, this is the one where your finger goes in so far, it passes the septum.

Pick And Save
When you have to pick it quickly, just when someone looks away, and then you pocket the snot so they don&#39;t catch on to what you did.

Pick And Roll
No explanation needed.

Pick And Flick
Ditto.

Pick And Stick
You wanted it to be a "Pick and Flick," but it stubbornly clings to your fingertip.

Paydirt
The kind where you remove a piece of snot so big, it improves your breathing by 90%.



I&#39;m still waiting for some recipe&#39;s&#33;&#33;&#33;&#33;


YoSurprised

im not a nose picker im a muff diver ;) :lol: :P

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im not a nose picker im a muff diver ;) :lol: :P

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A true master of Muff most certainly pick his nose......

Imagine you wondering what those pieces are when she............. :blink: :helpsmile: :x


I never left the kiddiepick-stage..................... :P

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Imagine you wondering what those pieces are when she............. :blink:&nbsp; :helpsmile:&nbsp; :x

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