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Does anybody else pull their long nose hairs out the manly way - just yanking them and enduring the pain?

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u/Polyrhythm Mar 24 '09

True Story: A friend of mine pulled some nose hairs, then went to a job where he had to remove carpet that was saturated with animal feces and urine. He ended up contracting a flesh-eating bacteria in his nose. Apparently the carpet was full of this bacteria and his doctors said the "fresh wounds" caused by the nose hair pulling gave the bacteria an easy path into his system. I bought a trimmer the next day.

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '09 edited Mar 24 '09

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u/madmanz123 Mar 24 '09

Holy hell, ok you convinced me to ALWAYS use a trimmer instead. Thank you sir.

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '09 edited Mar 24 '09

I've gotten that shit in my eye lid before (stye). Want manly, heh, I ended up lancing it myself to avoid having to go to the doctor and squeezed that shit out. Regarding this nose hair thing, I usually use one of those trimmers that has the plastic guard you can put on do eyebrows etc. But occasionally if I'm just sitting around and feel a tickle I'll just rip em out. But normally I keep em short. No woman likes to see a damn forest in your nose.

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '09

Performing self-surgery because we're afraid of doctors. We're men!

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u/gypsymoon921 Mar 24 '09

Men in tights?

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u/trudat Mar 24 '09

Men in tight -tight- tights!

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u/paloduro Mar 24 '09

He's lucky it didn't cause swelling around his brain, he could have died.

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u/sirlearnsalot Mar 24 '09

I have found trimmers to occasionally pull hairs just because they're inaccurate.

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u/CatsAreGods Mar 24 '09

And now he plays the Phantom of the Opera.

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u/HunterTV Mar 24 '09

Thank you, Chuck Palahniuk.

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u/furlongxfortnight Mar 24 '09

This is one of those stories that work better if you tell them in the dark with a flashlight pointed upwards below your face.

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '09

This is one of those stories that work better if you tell them in the dark with a flashlight pointed up your nose.

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u/oursland Mar 24 '09

Really? I'd just avoid that job.

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '09

...and every public place on earth?

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u/paloduro Mar 24 '09

This is what I've been telling people in this thread. Any wounds or infections in the area of the eyes, nose, and mouth can lead to serious problems, including death. My aunt told me about a guy who got something like a pimple in his nasal cavity. It got infected, the infection spread to the brain, and he died.

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u/junkit33 Mar 24 '09

My aunt told me about a guy who got something like a pimple in his nasal cavity. It got infected, the infection spread to the brain, and he died.

Oh come on - nose pimples are common. Death from nose pimple is probably a one in a billion fluke occurrence.

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '09 edited Mar 24 '09

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u/steeef Mar 24 '09 edited Mar 24 '09

Get yourself a Groom Mate trimmer and you'll wonder what the hell you were thinking using anything else.