Bad Habits

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What are they? I'm sure you all have plenty.

I will not divulge mine until I am assured that you are all more disgusting than me. Here is a small taster. My hair moults everywhere and clogs up the bath and forms hair tumbleweed in the front room.

Also which habits annoy you? Like Pete snoring frinstance.

Emma, Thursday, 5 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Pulling that squishy stuff out of my eyeball, rolling it into a ball and flicking it.

tarden, Thursday, 5 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I yell obscenities at the top of my voice randomly

anthony, Thursday, 5 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Emma, surely that is not a habit? Hair moulting is just something that happens.

Richard Tunnicliffe, Thursday, 5 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Trust me, she does it on purpose. Its the kind of mutant power that people would have in real life rather than those useful ones they had in the X-Men.

My snoring is not a bad habit - it is involuntary. Therefore I have no bad habits.

Pete, Thursday, 5 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Instead of using cotton buds to clean out my ears I have a habit of unwinding paperclips so that they make S shapes and then using the narrower ends to scoop out my ear wax. It's much more effective than cotton buds which tend to push the wax further back into your ear, but I guess my habit of doing it at work is a bit disgusting. (But it's where the paperclips are).

scott, Thursday, 5 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I mine for earwax all the time. You're right, paperclips do make good mining implements but I'm not too fussy. Pen lids and the ends of my old glasses have sufficed in the past.

Richard Tunnicliffe, Thursday, 5 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Did you know that Brasso used to be made of earwax (about 30%). You can get a great shine off of any metal using earwax and a bit of elbow grease.

Pete, Thursday, 5 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Methinks this is one of Pete's infamous lies.

Richard Tunnicliffe, Thursday, 5 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I use paperclibs to mine for elbow grease

mark s, Thursday, 5 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

AAAAARRRGGGGHHHHHH!!! My mum used to do that paperclip thing and it used to drive me BATTY!!!

I don't know what my bad habits are, I suppose I should ask Paul. I don't like the way other people wash dishes, I will actually rip dishes out of his hands if I see him doing them wrong (Wash the back of the plate as carefully as the front!!! Even if you don't eat off the back, if you stack them up, the dirt on the back will GET on the front!) But that's more about HIS bad habit than mine...

Oh, I know! I will eat all the chocolate in the house, no matter how well hidden it is. I cannot leave it alone.

masonic boom, Thursday, 5 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Damn, my main bad habit has been discovered. Making up lies. (Interestingly though the earwax as polish lie is a varient of so unbelievable it is true truth that in the early fifties in China the main washing up liquid there was actually based on human bile recovered from routine hospital check-ups. Would you wash both sides of the plate if you knew that).

Pete, Thursday, 5 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I'm not sure I have any *good* habits.

Tom, Thursday, 5 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Is being a tidying obsessive a bad habit? (Think Monica from friends only worse.) If things are not tidy, I cannot deal with life. Oh, and obliterating my fingernails etc at every waking moment.

Bill

Bill, Thursday, 5 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I pull individual hairs out of my face and I sing quietly all the time - literally all the time, like some people whistle, walking down the street so people think I'm mental.

chris, Thursday, 5 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Had my ears professionally dewaxed once. Was amazed and bemused at how much gunk came out. But apparently that's normal. Ears should be discussed in the Doctor Who thread, under objects w/ Tardis-like deceptive spatial qualities.

AP, Thursday, 5 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I'll fess up to mine. Well, some of them.

Smoking. Eating too fast. Dropping hair everywhere (I do indeed do it on purpose, to mark my territory. Better than pissing on stuff). Shouting. Eating split ends (mine). Nose picking - though this did once win me a can of lager at Glastonbury and gave us all the opportunity to scare a young crusty by shouting 'do you know what a grolley is?' at him.

Emma, Thursday, 5 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Since we're talking about ears, I used to get ear infections ALL TIME TIME. I mean, like, twice a year, every year. Finally, the last doctor I went to told me that the reason I kept getting the infections was because I kept using that over the counter stuff to dissolve and flush away all the wax. He said if I wanted to get my ears cleaned, I should come to him and he would do it. I have since decided that the wax protects my eardrum, because since I've stopped flushing the wax out, I've stopped getting infections. Too bad this is contributing terribly to my ongoing worsening deafness problem. Never talk to my right ear. I won't hear a thing.

masonic boom, Thursday, 5 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

What??

(N.B. Saying what? loudly / mouthing instead of speaking when someone has temporary deafness is one of the world's funniest jokes)

Emma, Thursday, 5 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I bite my fingernails, and my toenails too when I could get at them. Yum yum.

DG, Thursday, 5 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Ear infections? Malingerer.

Pete, Thursday, 5 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Is being lazy a bad habit or a character flaw? If it is considered a bad habit, then that's my major bad habit.

Nicole, Thursday, 5 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

i have too many. biting my nails, smoking, being absurdly messy, pulling out my hairs individually (which leaves me with attractive little hairs constantly growing in), messing with scabs (i know, gross), watching far too much television...

amy, Thursday, 5 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I think being lazy is a character booster. Its just being passive- aggressive that's a character flaw.

ILE of course is a hard habit to break. I'm just not sure if its a bad habit or not.

Pete, Thursday, 5 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Full-on procrastination. Trying to finish other people's thoughts. Hearing only what I want to hear. Swearing a lot. Semi-constant burping & belching. Forgoing home cooking for fast food. Compulsive spending. Picking my nose. Making strange mouth-popping sounds. Being an all-around snob just to be contrary.

Turn-ons include ingrown toenails, hair clots in the shower, and the letter Q.

David Raposa, Thursday, 5 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Oh, I have just been reminded of my worst bad habit. Telling the host that Emma doesn't like the food being cooked at dinner parties just as it is being served. I am a bitch for doing that.

Pete, Thursday, 5 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Not to mention: snoring; inflating his belly so he looks pregnant; eating and drinking too slowly so everyone else falls asleep waiting for him to finish; wearing a scary dressing gown when I have a hangover and frightening me; walking too fast; refusing to get the tube.

It is only because I am almost beyond reproach that I can diss him on the internet thus.

Emma, Thursday, 5 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I have absolutely no good habits at all. I mean, I smoke, I drink heavily, I dress ridiculously half the time, I wear too much makeup, I pick at my zits, I'm late to everything, I never sleep, I hate cleaning, I buy new clothes instead of doing laundry, etc etc etc. I am a good worker, there's my good habit. I get really annoyed by certain habits but I won't talk about them because people might think I'm talking about them.

Ally, Thursday, 5 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I'm a selfish egotist. Maybe not so much a habit as a condition.

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 5 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I see earwax coming up a lot. This figures soundly...I mean, earwax is the one gross thing on yourself that not even you like to taste/smell. It tastes gross...yet I might nonetheless suck it out of my nails, on occasion. I use to wipe it on a speaker-cover by my bed til it was heavily covered...this was a long time ago, I assure you. I no longer use hi-fi equipment, but rather pen lids (which I dab some Bactine on, so as not to infect anything), tissue or long nails (which I then instantly wash; I am NOT a sicko here).

Other than that, I enjoy all of my most horrible smells. The worse, the better. Except puke, I guess. Puke would pretty much be flushed right away...

Chris, Thursday, 5 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

The best thing for cleaning out earwax is bobbypins. My main bad habit is playing with my earlobes when I'm nervous or bored. Or putting my fingers in my ears all around, but then I am an obkommy about ear cleanliness.

1 1 2 3 5, Thursday, 5 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Wow, I feel so normal. Fingers, and Q-Tips. Why stick anything else in your ears?

Josh, Thursday, 5 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

i eat the crud in my eyes when i wake.if i have a scab i'll peel it and chew it for awhile. i've eaten my butt lint. and just to be normal here..i smoke and sleep too much..

kevin enas, Thursday, 5 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Eating butt lint is the nadit of human culture and I don't care if Paul McCartney's girlfriend does it too.

Crud in eyes by the way is known as "sleep" round my way, though someone tweeer (twee-er?) than me refers to it as "sleepy dust".

Pete, Friday, 6 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

i've eaten my butt lint.

Thank you for DESTROYING MY WORLD. I'm completely convinced that you're a great person, but remind me not to share my spoon with you.

My worst habit is procastination in almost every form imaginable. This leads me to a tendency for tardiness, chronic laziness, and incorrigable messiness. I used to bite my fingernails constantly, but now only do it sporadically. I also had an almost pathological obsession with public nudity, but that disappeared once I got into a serious relationship (funny, that).

Dan Perry, Friday, 6 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

what's the ILE line on eating OTHER PEOPLE'S BUTT LINT? (bearing in mind that the pro-management faction over on Passive- Aggressive have no prob making recalcitrant office juniors eating THEIRS, ie management's)?

mark s, Friday, 6 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Um, call me Little Miss Naive (or Little Miss Regular Washer perhaps) but what IS butt lint? Is it just a boy thing? Not that I go round regularly inspecting buttocks (despite what you may have heard) but I am sure that none of those I have come across (if I were a bloke that would be such a grate pun) have lint in them.

Emma, Friday, 6 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

what is butt lint?

Ed, Friday, 6 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

i have absolutely no idea, and i get the feeling i really would be better off not knowing

gareth, Friday, 6 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

"Lint" = fuzz consisting especially of fine ravelings and short fibers of yarn and fabric (ie, debris from a recently-laundered t- shirt or set of underwear)

"Butt" = self-evident "Eating" + "Butt" + "Lint" = CREEPING HORROR FROM THE DAWN OF TIME (for me, at least)

Dan Perry, Friday, 6 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Dan: go to yr local laundromat. Kneel down and look under into the reach-space under one the dryer drums. There you will find a fabby grey carpet, inches thick, softly folded into luxurious piles. Some of this = fabric. MOST of it = H UMAN SKIN!! (ALL OF IT = LINT...)

CREEPINGER HORROR FROM BEFORE THE DAWN OF TIME!!

mark s, Friday, 6 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Thank you, Dan, I do know what lint is, I was just wondering how it gets up your arse crack?

More top Emma bad habits I've just remembered: leaning over pans of food on the hob with fag in mouth dropping ash into food; boredly picking off bits of old toenail varnish and dropping them about me so when I get up I am surrounded by flecks of purple / blue / red.

Emma, Friday, 6 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

You realize that Dan's obsession with butt lint is obviously a sign of deeper-seated problems. But of what sort?

Ned Raggett, Friday, 6 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Deeper seated - very funny Ned. That sets me up nicely for Karaoke tonight.

Pete, Friday, 6 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

not sure if this deserves another thread, but why is lint, be it butt, belly button or other cavities, almost always blue?

Geoff, Friday, 6 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

It's not really blue. It's more sort of a greyish purple colour.

Oh wait, no, that's lint, not earwax.

Best tool for removing earwax: grow little finger of right hand excessively long. Does the trick nicely. Of course, then people will think that you have a heavy coke habit, but still.

Pete, have you never even had a hangover?

masonic boom, Friday, 6 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

i disgust myself sometimes.

kevin enas, Friday, 6 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

seven months pass...
ILEWhacked via "Incorrigable flaaa", for some odd reason. And again, I have THE FEAR.

Dan Perry, Thursday, 28 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

nine years pass...

kevin enas more like kiefin anus

blapsolutely (absolutely clean glasses), Thursday, 31 March 2011 00:42 (thirteen years ago) link

three years pass...

Somebody give me some exclamations of astonishment other than "holy ____!" Variants in current use include "holy shit" "holy crap" "holy moses" and "holy simoleons" for some reason. Do I even need to be exclaiming anything at all? I really wish I could get my verbal communications in order and not be such a font of repetitive tics.

Here's another one. Someone will tell me something of little interest to me, and I'll reply "I bet." It could be anything: "Did you see the news - ISIS killed another hostage!" "I bet!" What the fuck am I doing here?

how's life, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 20:04 (nine years ago) link

five years pass...

when my fingernails start to get to the point of needing cutting but not being 'long', I incessantly click index and thumbnails together to where it makes a loud, audible sound. it doesn't come across as that loud to me, but my friend cannot take it at all. she goes "ROB you're doing it again!"

I was leading a virtual training class once and doing it without realizing and someone on the line kept asking what the weird sound was, and it was the sound of my fingernails clicking.

I can't stop, and yet I don't chew or bite them at all. I usually stop it by cutting them, but that usually only keeps me at bay for a week.

clickity clack

Neanderthal, Wednesday, 28 October 2020 03:08 (four years ago) link

Here's another one. Someone will tell me something of little interest to me, and I'll reply "I bet." It could be anything: "Did you see the news - ISIS killed another hostage!" "I bet!" What the fuck am I doing here?


ugh yeah feel this one. when ppl ask me “what’s up” or “what’s goin on” I tend to reflexively respond “not much”. This is not the proper response when one’s boss is asking the question!

brimstead, Wednesday, 28 October 2020 04:17 (four years ago) link

like of course I’m busy with shit but it’s like, my brain just spits that out.

brimstead, Wednesday, 28 October 2020 04:18 (four years ago) link

"I bet" is my go to when someone is talking to me about something that I have no clue about and not picking up on the fact that Im lost.

or when I literally can't hear what is being said.

Neanderthal, Wednesday, 28 October 2020 04:23 (four years ago) link

ten months pass...

leaving things to the last minute, by which time unforeseen events mean it's actually too late.

ledge, Friday, 3 September 2021 10:40 (three years ago) link

clicking my damn fingernails

Duke Detain (Neanderthal), Friday, 3 September 2021 13:23 (three years ago) link


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