Top Doc Back Picking Nose and Eating It

Annanova ^ | 3/26/04

[11th Earl of Mar]

Top doc backs picking your nose and eating it

(Annanova) 3/26/04- Picking your nose and eating it is one of the best ways to stay healthy, according to a top Austrian doctor.

Innsbruck-based lung specialist Prof Dr Friedrich Bischinger said people who pick their noses with their fingers were healthy, happier and probably better in tune with their bodies.

He says society should adopt a new approach to nose-picking and encourage children to take it up.

Dr Bischinger said: "With the finger you can get to places you just can't reach with a handkerchief, keeping your nose far cleaner.

"And eating the dry remains of what you pull out is a great way of strengthening the body's immune system.

"Medically it makes great sense and is a perfectly natural thing to do. In terms of the immune system the nose is a filter in which a great deal of bacteria are collected, and when this mixture arrives in the intestines it works just like a medicine.

"Modern medicine is constantly trying to do the same thing through far more complicated methods, people who pick their nose and eat it get a natural boost to their immune system for free."

He pointed out that children happily pick their noses, yet by the time they have become adults they have stopped under pressure from a society that has branded it disgusting and anti social.

He said: "I would recommend a new approach where children are encouraged to pick their nose. It is a completely natural response and medically a good idea as well."

And he pointed out that if anyone was really worried about what their neighbour was thinking, they could still enjoy picking their nose in private if they still wanted to get the benefits it offered.

[Maceman]

He says society should adopt a new approach to nose-picking and encourage children to take it up.

Maybe they should at least be encouraged to do it discreetly, when no one is watching?

When I was a kid, there was this one unabashed booger-eater in my class whose public indulgence in the habit made him the brunt of all kinds of hostility from classmates. He never was able to overcome his social outcast statue as a "booger-eating spaz."

The poor kid was so tormented and oppressed by his grossed-out peers that he never got over it, with the result that he grew up to be an ACLU lawyer, a university law professor and the author of several published leftist screeds on the oppression of minorities (no kidding).

[Mr. Bird]

Maybe, but then you are depriving yourself of the health benefits of booger digestion.

I had a friend who wanted to build a booger ball. Keep it in jar next to bed, watch it grow with each addition. Imagine picking up a cue-ball size booger and eating it like an apple.

Gotta run..lunch time.

[spunkets]

[AngryJawa]

ACLU lawyers are booger eaters? Shocking!

[11th Earl of Mar]

How about a picture of Henry Waxman?

[FlJoePa]

Sort of like a Wonderlic Test question:

Jimmy eats boogers. Jimmy grows up to be a leftist ACLU attorney. Therefore all leftist ACLU attorneys are booger eaters, True or False?

[r9etb]

Picking your nose and eating it

Interesting phrase, that. Among English-speakers, at least, this appears to be a universal way of describing the ingestion of boogers. I can't recall many times when I've heard it said any other way.

I wonder why?

[the OlLine Rebel]

THAT is just soooo.....


bbllllaaaauuuurrrrrggghhhh

[Tribune7]

"Fifty bucks the Smalls kid picks his nose."

[Maceman]

ACLU lawyers are booger eaters? Shocking!

Public booger eaters, that is.

[Cold Heat]

Arrrrrrrggggggggggg!

[Keith]

it's picking their nose and CHEWING IT...CHEWING IT...

let's be exact here.

I came onto this thread with great trepidation...but all this thread has done is to convince me, once again, that Freepers are hilariously witty on almost ANY subject...and Lord knows, this thread is proof that almost EVERY subject has been convered here...

[r9etb]

The other option is to twist a tissue into a finger shape, and twist it in ones nose while blowing through nose and pinching other nostril shut.

I've got a little wire brush attachment for my Dremel tool. Talk about clean nostrils....

[AngryJawa]

Imagine picking up a cue-ball size booger and eating it like an apple.

No thank you.

[Shryke]

Fun "science" for Friday. Funniest damn thread I've seen on FR. I've been crying. Please read all responses, Mr. Bird's is best so far. Happy Friday!

[headsonpikes]

We may not be able to pick our families, but at least, we can all pick our threads.

[spunkets]

That's the only big cheese pic I have that demonstrates the proper technique. Somewhere is a pic of some smiling Indian PM hoising a glass of their own yellow water.

[moonhawk]

Wonder if it would help my allergies?

Seriously, it might make watching C-SPAN more interesting...

("Senator Clinton just downed a really big one.")