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Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago

So if I'm having a conversation, and the other person is wiping their nose a lot, does that mean they think THEIR nose is dirty, or that they're trying to tell me MY nose is dirty?

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So if I'm having a conversation, and the other person is wiping their nose a lot, does that mean they think THEIR nose is dirty, or that they're trying to tell me MY nose is dirty?

Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago
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  • ClassifiedPancake@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    Maybe it was Slavoj Zizek!

  • athos77@kbin.social
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    Are they looking meaningfully at you while they’re doing it?

    • intensely_human@lemm.ee
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      Ah yes. Looking meaningfully. Thank god NT culture has such wonderful disambiguating methods. I love this place.

  • keepcarrot [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    My “wiping nose because its dirty” is very different to my “pantomime wiping nose to indicate someone else’s is dirty”. Also, I will say something before for the latter case like “Hey, you have a little bit of…”

    • tetris11@lemmy.ml
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      “… shit smeared over your crotch”

      • keepcarrot [she/her]@hexbear.net
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        1 year ago

        That’s what I say for machine oil on the edge of someone’s nose, yes

  • ChihuahuaOfDoom@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Yes

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    Removed by mod

  • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    They’re signaling the sniper.

  • Today@lemmy.world
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    If they’re like me, it’s allergies and they’re so miserable they forgot you were talking.

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    It could mean either one!

    source: I am autistic and really enjoy NT communication patterns

    Also, if you interpret their signal wrong they’ll take it as a sign you hate them. Yay humans.

    • tetris11@lemmy.ml
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      “Wait, you mean you don’t want to dock noses?”

      • bastion@feddit.nl
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        I thought docking didn’t involved noses.

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          Not with that attitude

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            That comment was fun. Kinda typically a bit of a snarky comment, but really came off as nice and wholesome in context.

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    It means it’s allergy season (spring).

  • Tiefling IRL@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    It likely means they deal with allergies

    • Willy@sh.itjust.works
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      or dealing with coke.

      • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
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        Or dealing coke.

        • tetris11@lemmy.ml
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          Or just don’t like that sweet sweet pepsi

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    I seem to remember that frequently wiping ones nose is a sign of regular cocaine consumption.

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      Can confirm, but it is also something people do when sick or they just got an itchy nose due to hay fever or something.

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    In the US this means steal 3rd base.

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    My nose is just itchy but I don’t want to pick it during the conversation

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    If you immediately know the candlelight is fire, then the meal was cooked a long time ago.

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      But meal has been cooked so often or missed entirely, that you’re not sure if the fire is even warm

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    It means they’re wearing a wire

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