Title: Where Do Boogers Come From?
LynnMcG - January 13, 2006 01:39 AM (GMT)
OK, I know the gross topics are usually kept in the guy's forum, but this is really only mildly gross.
SO! I'm sitting here, with a stupid Breathright strip on my nose because I cannot breath and I'm waiting for my DH to get home with my cold medicine, and I'm wondering where boogers come from.
Yes, I could google this. But I don't feel well and that would only make my cranky.
So what do you guys think?
Where's the nose blowing smilley?!
Redguard - January 13, 2006 02:00 AM (GMT)
Boogers come from your brain melting, and the bi-product oozing out of your nose.
Sometimes, it's chunky. :|
andiesmama - January 13, 2006 02:41 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE |
Boogers are mucus (myoo-kuss). Mucus is the thin, slippery material that is found inside your nose. Many people call mucus snot. Your nose makes nearly a cupful of snot every day. Snot is produced by the mucous membranes in the nose, which it moistens and protects.
When you inhale air through your nose, it contains lots of tiny particles, like dust, dirt, germs, and pollen. If these particles made it all the way to the lungs, the lungs could get damaged and it would be difficult to breathe. Snot works by trapping the particles and keeping them in the nose.
After these particles get stuck inside the nose, the mucus surrounds them along with some of the tiny hairs inside the nose called cilia. The mucus dries around the particles. When the particles and dried-out mucus clump together, you're left with a booger!
Boogers can be squishy and slimy or tough and crumbly. In fact, boogers are a sign that your nose is working properly. |
From
HERE...altho I liked Red's answer MUCH better.... :thumbsup:
oIgo - January 13, 2006 03:51 AM (GMT)
So now that the booger delema is over, does anyone know why men have nipples?
I think I still remember from school but I'm making an attemp to keep the thread going. See if you can guess with out google.
and titty twisters is not the answer Red.
Redguard - January 13, 2006 04:03 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (oIgo @ Jan 12 2006, 10:51 PM) |
So now that the booger delema is over, does anyone know why men have nipples?
I think I still remember from school but I'm making an attemp to keep the thread going. See if you can guess with out google.
and titty twisters is not the answer Red. |
I think that they're there purely for sensual pleasure.
andiesmama - January 13, 2006 04:05 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (oIgo @ Jan 12 2006, 10:51 PM) |
So now that the booger delema is over, does anyone know why men have nipples?
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because they would look REEEEAAALLLLLY weird without them!! :blink:
Mandy - January 13, 2006 04:30 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (oIgo @ Jan 13 2006, 12:51 PM) |
| So now that the booger delema is over, does anyone know why men have nipples? |
Because everyone basically starts out with the same physical characteristics and some become developed or remain undeveloped, or develop along different lines, depending on the hormones the child is exposed to early on.
I've always hated the word "develop."
Knight4God - January 13, 2006 04:32 AM (GMT)
I'd like to know if it's harmful to eat them boogers?
Mandy - January 13, 2006 04:36 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Knight4God @ Jan 13 2006, 01:32 PM) |
| I'd like to know if it's harmful to eat them boogers? |
I've heard it's good for your immune system. I'd rather take echinacea though.
oIgo - January 13, 2006 04:40 AM (GMT)
Good job Mandy, That was the nipple answer I was thinking too. I did like Debs answer as well. I don't know what I'd look like without my nipples but I am sure a little silly.
Knight4God - January 13, 2006 04:41 AM (GMT)
If I cut my nose-hairs out,will my nose stop forming boogers?
oIgo - January 13, 2006 04:42 AM (GMT)
LynnMcG - January 13, 2006 01:34 PM (GMT)
Thank you everyone for your thought-provoking booger responses.
Now let's share our grossest booger-eating stories!!
Just last week I saw a grown woman pick her nose and eat it!! AND we were in the food court at the mall. Her husband was getting her lunch. Couldn't she have waited just a few minutes to eat?!
:screwy:
Oh, and btw...
:tgif:
andiesmama - January 13, 2006 01:50 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (LynnMcG @ Jan 13 2006, 08:34 AM) |
Just last week I saw a grown woman pick her nose and eat it!! AND we were in the food court at the mall. Her husband was getting her lunch. Couldn't she have waited just a few minutes to eat?!
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:sick: and :puke:
Thanks for THAT visual first thing in the morning.... :rollseyes:
Honey - January 13, 2006 02:05 PM (GMT)
I find when I have a cold, when the booger changes (aka discharge from nose) another sort of "discharge" changes....
As for nipples on men being for sensual pleasure? Really? Hubby has a problem, then....
clayman - January 13, 2006 02:11 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Lena @ Jan 13 2006, 08:05 AM) |
I find when I have a cold, when the booger changes (aka discharge from nose) another sort of "discharge" changes....
As for nipples on men being for sensual pleasure? Really? Hubby has a problem, then.... |
Eeeeewwwww
:sick: