POST HERE EVERY TIME YOU INADVERTENTLY TOUCH YOUR FACE

Fuck.

ah fuck

I lost the game!

Goddamn, again.

This is how the world ends ppl.

fuck fuckity fuck fuck

Ah shit.

must invest in a face glove

dammit

oh god

Again!

#facepalm

fuck, again!

Tabarnak!

Must...not...ugh...

I absent mindedly stuck a fiver in my mouth when looking for change in a taxi yesterday, can anyone beat that?

does touching with your tongue count

I absent mindedly stuck a fiver in my mouth when looking for change in a taxi yesterday, can anyone beat that?

I got bored waiting for my Cipralex prescription so I started licking the pharmacy counter

lol

Yeah, I think I must touch my face constantly and have only become hyper-aware over the past couple of weeks that I am, in fact, Mitch from Dazed and Confused.

Touch her eyes
Press my stained face
I will never be clean again

I did manage to get from home to work on the dirty-ass train this morning without touching anything in the external world with my actual hands until I got to my office door. No mean feat.

And then I opened the door with my face. OOPS.

This is my five-year-old if i take him to the supermarket

Parents: panic buying tissues and soap.

Children:pic.twitter.com/Bvr7PHNhHY

— Matthew (@dlglsh) March 7, 2020

Wasn't until the corona that I realized just how often I absentmindedly cram my entire fist into my mouth and get it stuck there for days at a time

we all clearly need the cone of shame

oops

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42fzkIaHaW4

Scratched my nose at least three times in past two minutes before I realised :( second cone of shame

I regret to inform you that I have touched my face repeatedly since last opening this thread.

Not sure if I am not doing it more or if I just wasn't aware of it previously. My nose is very itchy and slightly runny, it is torture.

if u have a beard I find it's impossible to not pick at it in some way roughly 45 times an hour at minimum

I shaved my beard to help curb Covid-19's spread. Just doing my part, you know.

I'm gonna catch it, stay home, weather it out, THEN shave after it gets expelled from my innards and trapped in my face hairs. That's just science.

licking this post out on a touchscreen in the jacks tbh

do you have to be bearded to post on ilx or does it just help

Hi dere

do you have to be bearded to post on ilx or does it just help

On average I think I posted less when I had a beard, so…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CduA0TULnow

https://i.imgur.com/Nmd9mIY.gif

me irl

MUST. NOT. TOUCH. FACE. pic.twitter.com/KBm0Y5RVNK

— Al Yankovic (@alyankovic) March 7, 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyF8RHM1OCg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eI4P--OYmrA

dammit

https://previews.agefotostock.com/previewimage/medibigoff/d6fcc3da7afdb9ee698315dc07d566d2/esy-048609205.jpg

can't be held responsible

i was touching my face

we were merely freshmen

When you're rich you don't have to worry about this

I'm touching my face ADVERTENTLY right now

because I gotta touch face

🙊

REACH OUT
TOUCH FACE

Meat Loaf - 'Getting to Third Base (With My Face)'

pomenitul

REACH OUT
TOUCH FACE

Ha, yeah, I've been humming that too since seeing Siegbran's post in "Phrases that, when you see them, you inexplicably start singing them to the melody of something else" thread

Phrases that, when you see them, you inexplicably start singing them to the melody of something else (and then will forever be associated with that)

my shirt was clean on this morning but the cuffs got wet on the way in (1st rained on, and then caught in vigorous handwashing) and now they smell of wet dog, so I guess at least that'll alert me every time I raise my hands near my face

(no, I'm not sure a clean shirt which caught a few drops of rain and got damp with clean tapwater should smell of wet dog either. thanks, laundry detergent; might need to reconsider the terms of our contract)

I should probably go all in and touch ONLY my face then I can't catch anything from touching other surfaces.

excellent approach, might work on this myself

do I have to stop typing entirely or type with my nose now?

Very much in the same position re: touching my face. Can't stop won't stop. It's more easy and helpful for me to not touch anything else.

You need one of these

http://totallyabsurd.com/handnearmouthalarm.htm

That looks pretty neat actually!

'Patently absurd' my ass.

Haha.

I'm distracting myself from touching me face by keeping my hands in my underpants

This thread has actually been a very helpful reminder to not touch my face. I'm getting good at using my facial muscles to scrunch various parts of my face that are in need of a scratch or a tweak or a rub. I'm sure I look completely psychotic to anyone who happens to notice me doing this, but at least I'm not touching my face, amirite.

That was the plan all along. Starting this thread has genuinely helped me fiddle with my face less.

My biggest worry now is that I'll break myself of the habit altogether and that, once this is all over, I'll forget to ever touch my face again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=so-L12LFRR8

I can't touch my face when I'm with me
And I hate it
And I hate it

ah fuck my eyes itch

Staircase wit in action: I can't believe I quoted the coronized version of 'The Man Who Sold the World' without the two preceding lines. Here, then, is the erratum:

Oh no, not me
We never lost control
You're face to face
With the man who touched the world

I'll never take touching my face for granted again.

I keep having these moments of, oh noes my face feels weird, am I getting sick? and oh noes, my neck hurts, am I getting sick? And then I realize that, no, my face feels weird because I'm not manually attending to every tiny signal flare of my facial nerve endings and, no, my neck hurts because I'm not constantly cracking it when it starts getting stiff. So I guess I've done a decent job of retraining myself in a relatively short span of time. Soon hope to stop touching any part of my body with my hands ever again.

Like if there was ever a time to tap into those latent telekinetic abilities buried down deep inside our brains, now is that time, my friends.

I'm actually not having any trouble at all following this protocol, though I am a little confused as to the nuances. If you're at home and have thoroughly washed your hands, I assume it's okay?

Only if you use your feet.

.

facepalming during the trump address

Forgive me father, for I have pawed my face.

Fook

I haven’t shaved my beard in almost two months so not touching my face is an absolute nonstarter right now.

yeah I haven't shaved in one and god I hate mustaches but every time I go back to my old house I forget to get my razor.

my gravestone will say "husband, father, face toucher"

Lol, RIP

Saw this dude yesterday reach into a garbage can, fish out somebody's used mask, and put it right the fuck on his face. Not a homeless or particularly poor looking dude, mind you, just a dude outside the grocery store who realized they were serious about not letting people in without masks. Seeing this filled me with an indescribable kaleidoscope of emotions. Then I probably touched my face.

I, too, would have copiously touched my face after beholding such a scene.

Having not beheld it, I have just touched my face regardless.

First habanero harvest and Belizean hot sauce canning is a good time for object lessons.

;_;

I still think about trash can face mask dude sometimes.

Has his face fallen off? What other things has he put on his face? Is he just blissfully living a life untouched by pathogens of any sort, like Bruce Willis in that movie?

Trash can face mask dude. I just don't know. Everything is weird.

This is like the album you've passionately declared AOTY!1! back in March, but now you find the folder containing a bunch of sad-eyed, overlooked mp3s and you swiftly drag it in the trash, not even knowing what it sounds like anymore.

A sad state of affairs indeed, but at least touching face is no longer a death sentence these days.

Has that been ruled out? I mean I'm not nearly as conscious of it as I was back in April, but common sense seems we should all probably continue to refrain. I saw a new study last week suggesting the virus stays alive on some surfaces *longer* than recently assumed.

I feel like there's this continued tendency to want to simplify the contagion circumstances that has less to do w/ the science and more w/ the understandable desire to get a break from thinking about it all the time....

It hasn't been ruled out to my knowledge, no, but prolonged exposure to airborne particles appears to be the main culprit.

I still wipe down groceries just in case tho.

I'm not going that far but I genuinely admire your dedication.

I feel like there's this continued tendency to want to simplify the contagion circumstances that has less to do w/ the science and more w/ the understandable desire to get a break from thinking about it all the time....

This, of course, is otm and goes for a lot more than just the rona.

I've been touching my face extra to make up for the months I spent avoiding it

Sometimes you need somebody, if you have somebody to love
Sometimes you ain't got nobody and you want somebody to love
Then you don't want to walk and talk about Jesus
You just want to touch His face
You don't want to walk and talk about Jesus
You just want to touch His face
You just want to touch His face

xxp yeah I bailed on the grocery-wiping months ago but suspect those measures are all coming back over the winter as things intensify

We haven't wiped a grocery for a month or so. My wife thought I was being ridiculous the whole time. She was probably right.

Yeah I doubt it makes enough of a difference to be worth the hassle. It's just become a habit at this point.

I accidentally walked into the grocery store without a mask on last week. I made it halfway down one of the aisles before realizing, then bolted back to my car to retrieve it.

I’ve walked out of my apartment once or twice without my mask on and had that Wile E. Coyote responds to gravity feeling.

done

Over a year, dude that's amazing