Talk:Dried nasal mucus

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Keep it encyclopedic[edit]

Please try to keep some class to the article.--It's me...Sallicio!^{$\color {Red}\oplus$} 05:34, 17 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Ok. What about this?--John (talk) 06:45, 17 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Urbandictionary is not a reliable source and fails WP:N (much the same that myspace and youtube do not conform to standards as references for every band or music ensemble that an IP address tries to include in the newpages). Euphemisms and neologisms need reliable sources or we'll have every teenage booger-eater entering "colloquial" terms. All I ask is to keep some professionalism to the article.--It's me...Sallicio!^{$\color {Red}\oplus$} 01:16, 18 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

George Carlin did a study on boogers. I believe it's on one of his records, and likely to be in one of his books. That should be usable as a source. The difficulty is that people generally shy away from the subject, and so reliable sources are going to be harder to find while poor sources will abound. I do believe the best way to combat childish attempts to write an article about boogers would be to write a scholarly one.--Neptunerover (talk) 19:20, 5 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It's GOOD for your system? Eugh. Disgusting. So, anyway, that must be why I sometimes get one nostril clogged with dry boogers. It stops up my breathing a little, but I usually find it only on the sides of my nose anyway. (BY MIRROR) Ian.bjorn (talk) 21:22, 2 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Article should be "Nasal mucus", not "Dried nasal mucus"[edit]

Why dried? It should cover both. Jason Quinn (talk) 20:54, 4 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Why not? By the way, the article "Mucus" is, like, 50% about nasal mucus. As for the origin of this article, I created it to undermine numerous childish attempts to write an article about snot, booger, bogey, and other colloquial terms for this quite popular subject:-). - Altenmann >t 02:00, 5 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I got redirected here from a search for Booger. While boogers usually do consist of at least partially dried mucus, limiting the article to being exclusively about dried boogers overlooks a large percentage of boogers that retain some or even most of their moisture and stickiness. Stickiness should be it's own section under boogers (I believe in calling a spade a spade).Neptunerover (talk) 07:11, 5 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It was exactly for Neptunerover's reasoning that I posted. Nasal mucus does not have to be dry (and usually isn't when the would "snot" is used"). I'm not sure what terms a doctor would use but here's my breakdown of how Wikipedia should treat this sensitive topic:

"snot" should redirect to "nasal mucus"
"dried nasal mucus" should, if anything, be a subsection for "nasal mucus"
a "See also" section on "nasal mucus" should point to "mucus" and "Respiratory disease"
"boogers" and similar should redirect to either "nasal mucus" itself or the "dried nasal mucus" subsection

Jason Quinn (talk) 14:18, 5 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Jason Quinn, I'll take care of that. Ian.bjorn (talk) 21:23, 2 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Misleading picture![edit]

On closer inspection one can easily see that only a partial percentage of that bogey is dry, while most of it remains wet given the teardrop shape dangling of the dried crusty top. I find it misleading, perhaps a fully dried up crusty booger would be more appropiate held with the finger tip to gauge its size proportional to a finger. WaddlingTimy (talk) 04:10, 10 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Gross picture[edit]

My question is this: Why do we need a picture for something that is considered disgusting? Everybody knows what a booger is, so why show a "barf-prone" picture? Nashhinton (talk) 22:51 May —Preceding undated comment added 03:53, 13 May 2011 (UTC).[reply]

Because it is a encyclopedia, more complete is better, more images is more complete. If you or someone think booger is "disgusting" shouldn't be searching about it, as someone who think blood is "disgusting" shouldn't search about hemorrhaging, or nosebleed, or wound, or abrasion. If we remove things because someone thinks it is disgusting, it's better erase all the Wikipedia. 189.104.172.158 (talk) 21:10, 20 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ovbious Vandalism[edit]

Will somebody please remove this line of vandalism: "witnessed eating his very own bogey extracted from his genital warts. This was followed by mass bogey round ups in the western districts of the Baltimore police department" and replace it with a previous good revision. I attempted to do so myself, but got squashed by clue bot. I did file a false positive report. Perhaps a registered user or admin will have better luck. Unless I am mistaken and people in Baltimore really do mass bogey round-ups. 71.53.9.164 (talk) 23:15, 23 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Mato (talk) 23:17, 23 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much!71.53.9.164 (talk) 23:26, 23 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

'Nose confidantes'[edit]

Is this a real term? Notreallydavid (talk) 01:33, 5 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Assessment comment[edit]

The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:Dried nasal mucus/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.

I'm glad Wikipedia has an article that is still slightly encyclopedic, and rather humorous. Given the topic, I think it is unavoidable.

Last edited at 16:17, 5 December 2008 (UTC). Substituted at 13:51, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

Yuck![edit]

Hard to believe that half of this page is dedicated to eating boogers. CsikosLo (talk) 19:36, 29 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]