What's worse to do in public?

[Rarity Paige Belle 1,854]

•Picking your nose

•Spitting

•Scratching your butt

•Farting

Or Burping?

[Nulln 755]

I do all of these things, except picking my nose in public.  I'll go in a bathroom stall for that.  XD Spitting is the most impolite, I think, but nose picking is probably more embarrassing for me.  I'd even fart before I pull out a booger in front of someone.

[Nine 707]

Why would anyone do any of these things unless it was a life-threatening necessity? I realize some people give up on class the moment they put on their clothes for the day, but really I don't think it's a virtue to make it that obvious to anyone looking at you that you actively oppose it.

[Envy 6,162]

Um... How about all of those are disgusting and inappropriate, and you shouldn't do any of them in public?

Edited May 17, 2014 by Envy

[Camouflage 26]

I see all of these everyday so most are normal by now. However I think the worst is nose picking.

[Nulln 755]

I am a classy lady, yessirree 

[Shanks 10,816]

Scratching butt, the butt is natures sewer pipe so um yeah.

[SkyDream 315]

• Burping - First thing when I get to work in the morning, 100% of my coworkers are burping. Loudly. They do the same in the tech room in my other job. Even louder, somehow.
  • But this is just a sound. It only extremely rarely adds a scent to the air.
• Spitting - I've seen customers spit outside the store. One hit the windows once. While a cashier was looking. Then walked in and smiled at the cashier, who was then forced to say "Hello, how are you?" and was kind of hiding her face after that. The little old lady who entered after him didn't say a thing.
  • When's the last time you stepped into someone's spit? Really. It doesn't smell, it doesn't pollute, it clears their throat, ... I mean I'm sure I'm wrong on this, but this hardly seems truly harmful.
• Scratching your butt - When I was in 10th grade, we were in small circles in groups discussing our own presentations. One of the more peppy girls was sitting sideways in her chair, and suddenly lifted both of her legs so her knees were above the desk surface, and scratched her 'nether region. Right there in front of everyone. Right in the middle of her discussion her part of the project. Nobody batted an eye. I don't know if they were too bashful to say anything, (half guys, half gals there.) or were all like "Oh hey, if she can do this, I feel okay with being myself, and I don't have to be uptight."
  • Entirely harmless. Scratch yourself if you have to. I'd hate to be the person who stops you from feeling comfortable in your own skin, whether I know it or not.
• Farting - The guys in the tech room in my other job do this all the time. They even make a sport of it. I just need to tolerate it. If it doesn't smell awful, I don't care. When it does, I open the door, or I spray the perpetrator with the air compressor.
  • I don't want to smell it. But I also don't want to see you uncomfortable in your chair, or having to get up in the middle of doing something important just to rush to the bathroom for little to nothing.
• Picking your nose - This is the one entry that I don't have a story for. I'm reminded of the Seinfeld scene where Jerry is in the car, scratching the outside of his nose, but his female friend saw him from a bad angle, and thought he was digging for gold.
  • Okay, this one, I might have a qualm with, if I was forced to have one at gunpoint. I just don't want to end up touching it. It could be on a wall, or under a chair that I'm pulling into a desk while sitting on, etc.

It's really weird how picking your nose is the thing with the most allowance for merely scratching an itch that everyone gets all the time, but can also be misconstrued for picking. Everything else is just really obvious as to what it is. Edited May 17, 2014 by SkyDream

[Hastur 505]

I say picking one's nose is the worst, however most of these seem really bad

[Frith is Magick 1,471]

It depends on where you are in public. If your outside, then that is a great time to fart or spit, but if you're going to spit, spit off to the side somewhere rather than in the middle of a walkway. Even inside, if you need to fart just go for a short courtesy walk. I wouldn't belch in a room full of strangers, but there is nothing wrong with a controlled release.

 

Butt scratching and nose picking are okay, but only if discreet. Someone may notice, but at least make the effort.

 

"In public" is a very broad category; there is a time and place for everything, so it's not a problem if you judge the situation well.

[CT-1138 3,182]

Spitting. It's just plain disgusting. Pick n' Flicking you can get away with so long as you're discrete about it, same with burping, farting, or itching your bum. 

[Hovershy 3,814]

Picking your nose is pretty terrible. So is scratching your butt.

[Nulln 755]

what if you scratch your butt and then pick your nose?

 

actually, spitting gets on my nerves.  people are always spitting on our campus.  right in the walkway while people are trying to walk.  if i step in someone's spit, i'm going to vomit on them, and they will deserve it.

[Foxx 258]

Picking your nose and spitting are by far the worst. Please, would it hurt to do it in private!?

[Celtore 2,770]

Picking your nose is understandable, sometimes there are points where a tissue simply wont do. Farting is perfectly natural as well as burping. Those two are bodily functions that, while embarassing, aren't really that big a deal. Scratching one's behind is alright too, it's mostly embarassing for the scratcher if anyone catches them in the act.

 

Spitting is the worst. It isn't a bodily function nor is it caused by some kind of discomfort. It isn't really harmful (just like the other ones), but it's the one that takes some conscious effort to do.

[Champion RD92 8,658]

Well farting and burping are just natural bodily functions, so...I would say picking your nose is the worst to do in public I guess.

[Kel_Grym 1,917]

Farting is comedy refined into its most sophisticated form.

 

Nose picking is gross.

 

Burping is a compliment to the chef.

 

Scratching your but is a no-no.

 

Spitting I think is the rudest gesture though.

 

But this isn't the nastiest I've seen.

 

When I moved in with my old buddy to the trailer park, the land lord snorted a loogey, spat it out on to his hand, then wiped it on his shirt and stuck his hand out to shake.

 

Yeah...that really happened.

[Sugar & Sins 156]

Spitting... Its unnecessary and its horrible to see just lying there on the ground, big green blobs of phlegm on the pavement... No thanks...

[ReverseFaller 2,483]

Spitting. So many guys in my grade spit all the time, and it's nasty. Thankfully I only know of one guy who picks his nose, and eats it. (God, that's disgusting!)

[Banul 3,831]

Depending on the area, sptitting may be worse because somebody will have to clean it up

[DubWolf 17,263]

It depends. Picking your nose is "just gross". Farting is probably a little more acceptable since well...you can't always control it or you get distracted while holding it!

 

If you burp out loud however, that overweights everything else.

[SkyDream 315]

Hey, why isn't "walking around almost naked" not on this list? I've had more than one person walk into the store wearing only a trenchcoat. One of them even bent over.

 

Maybe it's just a weird area of Long Island, New York. I don't know.

[Erza 581]

Do you know what is worst one? Touching your privates in public, this one is such a disregard to your own modesty and really disturbing.

[Frosty Nerd 833]

Spitting. Unless a bug or dirt got in your mouth, you are sick and your throat is extremely sore, you are coughing up mucus because you are sick, you threw up, or you are cleaning your mouth (brushing, mouthwash, salt water), there is no reason to spit. We ladies don't find it attractive .

[SveciaDash 364]

I find that all these gestures are extremly manly and since I wanna prove my manliness all the time, I do all these things and find them not wrong to do. Kappa

Edited June 2, 2014 by SveciaDash