Let me say… I work in healthcare. I clean human waste. I’m not easily grossed out.
I wouldn’t let a dog lick my face.
Comment on kissies
Xantar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Am I the only one getting irrationally grossed out by people letting dogs lick their faces ?
flicker@lemmy.world 7 months ago
dave@feddit.uk 7 months ago
Let me say… I work in healthcare. I clean human waste. I’m not easily grossed out.
Come on Jo, we’ve talked about this. You’re supposed to call them patients.
dingus@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I also work in healthcare and deal with lots of poop and blood and dogs licking my face doesn’t gross me out. Cats on the countertop do squick my out a bit though.
naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Idk, you probably just live an artificially clean life.
If you do any sort of manual labour you get all sorts of gross crap on you. If it’s on your hands it’s on your face a few moments later anyway.
Carcinogenic grease, random lab chemicals, who knows what the fuck from soil, lightly rotting food and bathroom grime from housework, kitchen grease whatever.
That’s why you wash your hands and face regularly through the day and shower /shrug.
BubbleMonkey@slrpnk.net 7 months ago
You wash your face regularly throughout the day? How much dos your skin hate you?
naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
My skin is mostly blemish free aside from a few moles, some scars from old piercings, and the occasional spot of hyperpigmentation from old wounds.
Why? I use my own homemade true soap (I’m convinced modern detergents are much harsher than they need to be and that a superfat of olive and jojoba oil is good for my skin) if a simple wash with water and a towel won’t clean me off.
Skin will only get angry if you strip away protective oils or clog up the pores with who knows what. I don’t scent my soap either, perhaps that makes a difference?
Xantar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
I really don’t get your argument…how is me living a theorical “artificial” clean life relevant ?
It’s like arguing that getting kicked in the balls is fine because “you’re probably just live in an artificially painless life, with painkillers and modern medicine”.
naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
huh it’s not an argument it’s just my opinion. Dogs mouths are super dirty, saliva is a bit gross. If you are used to just getting dirty and clean all the time another way of getting dirty doesn’t seem that bothersome.
Like most people are grossed out by being vomited on, after you care for babies for a while or work security at a messy bar or whatever you stop being that grossed out because it happens hundreds of times. Work at a vet or on an animal farm and piss and shit getting on you stops being so nasty.
It’s not a moral judgement, just that if a pet licking you seems really gross you probably aren’t used to getting stuff on your face that you just go wipe/wash off.
Xantar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
You can have opinions with arguments. That’s not mutually exclusive.
“I think [opinion] because [argument]”
Just in this case your opinion was just implied by your argument.
Atropos@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I don’t think it’s very irrational to be grossed out by that.
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 7 months ago
If anything, being grossed out is rational and being enamored by it is an emotional response.
Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You’re not wrong to be grossed out, but dog kissies give me the big dopamine so I allow it.
Xantar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
It’s more than grossed out in fact, it’s a deep disgust that makes me nauseous. I can’t stand to even look at the image in this post.
But I’m glad it’s fine for you, I wish I was in the same boat.
aport@programming.dev 7 months ago
I let my dog kiss me on the mouth
GammaGames@beehaw.org 7 months ago
Yeah
TheSlad@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Naw, dogs are fuckin gross
tamal3@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Eh, I don’t know, I don’t have any allergies… And I think my gross lifestyle has something to do with it.
lowleveldata@programming.dev 7 months ago
Probably not. But you get used to dirty things when you have pets.