do you clean your belly button?

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or do you think the fluff inside protects you somehow and removing it makes you ill?

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 08:47 (twenty years ago)

I eat the fluff. It inocculates against five major diseases.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 08:49 (twenty years ago)

I clean work surfaces with the fluff. Its anti-bacterial action leaves my countertops sparkling and germ-free.

― Penelope_111 (Penelope_111), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 08:50 (twenty years ago)

Why is the fluff always blue?

― M Rissbrook (Koorbssir), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 09:15 (twenty years ago)

i have a man do it

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 09:15 (twenty years ago)

mine is crimson actually!

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 09:18 (twenty years ago)

I never get fluff. I have no idea why - everyone else seems to get it.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 09:20 (twenty years ago)

CLONE!!!

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 09:49 (twenty years ago)

I don't have a belly button...

― Stone Monkey (Stone Monkey), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 09:57 (twenty years ago)

Huh? Is it an outie? It's still a belly button if it is.

I vacuum it every day.

― nathalie's body's designed for two (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 10:18 (twenty years ago)

no if you leave it long enough a small civilisation will hatch out and you will see them evolve fight and die....

― battlingspacemonkey (battlingspacemonkey), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 10:32 (twenty years ago)

No, it's a definite innie. I've been told it's smaller than usual, so maybe fluff finds it more difficult to get in. It's quite neat.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 10:37 (twenty years ago)

I dont get fluff either (I thought only boys, or at least anyone with a hairy belly, would get the fluff?).

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 10:38 (twenty years ago)

I had a hernia operation as a small child - I'm fairly certain it was a birth defect. They go in (or they did back in the early 70s) through the navel, which they replaced with a small scar where they stitched me back up.

This has either freaked out or intrigued my ex-girlfriends.

― Stone Monkey (Stone Monkey), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 10:42 (twenty years ago)

the fluff comes off your clothing!!

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 10:44 (twenty years ago)

Ack, ack, ack. We do not speak of this. I hate belly buttons.

― It Is What A Man Does Which Demeans Him, Not What Is Done To Him (kate), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 10:45 (twenty years ago)

I have no fluff, but am convinced that weird bacteria are growing in there, and perhaps flesh eating viruses that will one day be my downfall. I worry that if I put my finger in there it will go all the way through into my innards. I am often freaked out by my bellybutton and try not to think too much about it. Ick.

― Raston Warrior Robot (alix), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 10:51 (twenty years ago)

What? I think belly buttons are sexy! Except outies. Ew.

They go in (or they did back in the early 70s) through the navel, which they replaced with a small scar where they stitched me back up.

Eck! Can you still see it? I always thought of it as a plug when I was a kid. So opening it would drain me. Yes, I know, what about your holes... I haven't gotten much smarter through the yrs.

― nathalie's body's designed for two (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 10:51 (twenty years ago)

I do clean it though, as a result of being convinced about the presence of bacteria/ viruses. I quite like the idea of leaving some kind of anti bacterial powder in there all the time, to get rid of Evil. Sealed over with sellotape.

― Raston Warrior Robot (alix), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 10:53 (twenty years ago)

Now you mention it, I can’t ever remember purposely cleaning it. Though on quick inspection, it’s impeccably clean.

Maybe I have one of them self-cleaning belly buttons you?

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 11:28 (twenty years ago)

you get? that was supposed to say.

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 11:31 (twenty years ago)

omphaloinoixaphobia is the fear of your belly button exploding iirc

― beanz (beanz), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 13:00 (twenty years ago)

my belly button fluff is the exact same colour as my eyes.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 13:03 (twenty years ago)

(red)

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 13:11 (twenty years ago)

Yes, I've still got the scar. It's horizontal and a couple of inches long...You can still see the marks of the stitching. Back when I was very young I used to think that if I ate too much I'd burst along the stitches - I don't know why, it's not the kind of thing my mother would have said to me.

Which is one reason why I used to find them [navels] kinda freaky as a kid.

― Stone Monkey (Stone Monkey), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 13:11 (twenty years ago)

I have no fluff either. I'm glad I'm not a freak.

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

Occasionally I send mine to the dry cleaners.

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 14:20 (twenty years ago)

I have no fluff either due to belly-button being present but neither innie nor outie.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 14:37 (twenty years ago)

In my own freakish way, I really can't say that I envy those of you who possess a body cavity, however small or cute, that collects lint.

― Stone Monkey (Stone Monkey), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 14:50 (twenty years ago)

mr dahlin generates an alarming amount of fluff. often blue.
my belly button is a no-go zone. it's smelly

― dahlin (dahlin), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:09 (twenty years ago)

i have a big ol' scar over my navel, too, from surgery!!

i dont get fluff

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 18:20 (twenty years ago)

The lovely Emma B has a strange anxiety about her belly button, she doesn't like it to be touched or cleaned. It really is very strange!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)

I do clean it, and when I do so it makes this clicky/squeaky noise, and so even if my wife can't see what I'm doing she will say "I can hear you, cleaning your belly button". If I get anything substantial out of it, I usually drop it on her face in retaliation.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 19:22 (twenty years ago)

Sometimes I'll chew the belly fuzz and use the resulting mixture as a paste between two other pieces of belly fuzz.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 19:25 (twenty years ago)

(not really, of course)

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 19:25 (twenty years ago)

I would love to ask some naturists if they get the blue fluff. It would be the easiest way to find out if Jim's theory of the fluff coming from yr clothes is correct or not.

I get the fluff. Usually washing is enough to clean it out but occasionally I put some almond oil in there.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 21:51 (twenty years ago)

I TRIED TO DO A POO GARU G STYLE IN ME GRANS BELLY BUTTON ONSE BUT SHE'D GOT AN OUTTY AND IT REBOUNDED OF HER AND WENT INTO ME GRANDDADS (RIP) ERN AND MIXED WITH ALL HIS ASHES,SHE DRANK IT THE DIRTY COW!

― GARU G, Wednesday, 27 July 2005 21:54 (twenty years ago)

then, let me guess, yr sister Gina said "Ooh ah!"?

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 21:58 (twenty years ago)

how come belly button lint is all fashionable to talk about now?

Belly Button Lint - What is it, where's it come from and what should I do with it?

― plain ol' jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 21:59 (twenty years ago)

ME SISTERS DED YA FOOKIN TWERP

― GARU G, Wednesday, 27 July 2005 22:07 (twenty years ago)

i only need two more outies to complete my collection

― gockpunch, Thursday, 28 July 2005 00:08 (twenty years ago)

yes

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 28 July 2005 00:11 (twenty years ago)

i heard that pregnancy often turns innies into outies. disturbing!

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 28 July 2005 00:17 (twenty years ago)

It does. I've seen it on a poster. Creepy.

I wash my navel but I've never had fluff/lint. I just don't want dirt to get in it.

I had a staph infection in my navel when I was a baby.

― Cheeseburger-style funbox to GO! Fries come in regular and crepuscular size (Eas, Thursday, 28 July 2005 01:24 (twenty years ago)

I clean mine pretty regularly. Sometimes it gets really icky.

― Chicks with Dicks / Kate (papa november), Thursday, 28 July 2005 01:30 (twenty years ago)

All your questions about belly-button fluff answered... by SCIENCE!

― kit brash (kit brash), Thursday, 28 July 2005 10:56 (twenty years ago)

I have no fluff either due to belly-button being present but neither innie nor outie.

Huh? So what is it then? I'm confused.

― nathalie's body's designed for two (stevie nixed), Thursday, 28 July 2005 10:58 (twenty years ago)

I wonder if there is a specific implement for a thorough belly button clean? hang on, that above link might tell me...

― Menelaus Darcy (Menelaus Darcy), Thursday, 28 July 2005 11:01 (twenty years ago)

Q-Tip?

― dahlin (dahlin), Thursday, 28 July 2005 11:22 (twenty years ago)

http://www.abcdrduson.com/images/illustration/news-qtip.jpg

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Thursday, 28 July 2005 12:02 (twenty years ago)

twelve years pass...

yes

― infinity (∞), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 23:33 (eight years ago)

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