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Gringo · 08-15-2003, 07:29 AM

Sometimes it's necessary to pick one's nose in order to clear the airway. With all the air pollutants agigtating our respiratory systems, we probably pick our noses with a greater frequency than in the days of old.

Heathen Dawn · 08-15-2003, 07:50 AM

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Originally posted by Gringo
With all the air pollutants agigtating our respiratory systems, we probably pick our noses with a greater frequency than in the days of old.

Hey, that's interesting, and it's thrown me off to an idea: assuming the current environmental changes (I mean pollution, of course) stay, what do you think will be mankind's evolutionary adaptations to them?

Oolon Colluphid · 08-15-2003, 08:09 AM

More nasal mucus.

In the 'developed world', I should think that pollution will have little effect on our phenotype. But it'd be interesting to see what effects it has on countries that have inadequate healthcare systems. Things like asthma would doubtless have been weeded out by natural selection in the past, but I for instance am still here because of medicine.

Oolon

scigirl · 08-15-2003, 08:48 AM

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Originally posted by Duvenoy
Old saying: "You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friend's nose."

I think an ear-nose-throat doctor would disagree with you!

scigirl

KC · 08-15-2003, 09:08 AM

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Originally posted by Duvenoy
Bovines pick their noses (sort of) with their tongues.

Old saying: "You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friend's nose."

doov

I always heard it as, 'You can pick your nose, and you can pick your friends, but you can't wipe your friends on your saddle'.

KC

Spaz · 08-15-2003, 09:43 AM

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Originally posted by Duvenoy
Bovines pick their noses (sort of) with their tongues.

My gf kinda picked my nose with her tongue before, but I don't think it was on purpose...

It's good to pick your nose, I can't blow half that shit out, and when it gets dried up it just inhibits breathing. Oh, and I don't think you can get nose cancer, but you can get AIDS

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RufusAtticus · 08-15-2003, 01:01 PM

I knew someone who spend a summer studying in Africa and where she was it was so dusty that everyone simply pick their nose whenever they needed to. She had to learn to stop that when she got back to Georgia.

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08-15-2003, 07:29 AM	#11
Gringo Regular Member Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: WV Posts: 207	Sometimes it's necessary to pick one's nose in order to clear the airway. With all the air pollutants agigtating our respiratory systems, we probably pick our noses with a greater frequency than in the days of old.

08-15-2003, 08:09 AM	#13
Oolon Colluphid Contributor Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Alibi: ego ipse hinc extermino Posts: 12,591	More nasal mucus. In the 'developed world', I should think that pollution will have little effect on our phenotype. But it'd be interesting to see what effects it has on countries that have inadequate healthcare systems. Things like asthma would doubtless have been weeded out by natural selection in the past, but I for instance am still here because of medicine. Oolon

08-15-2003, 01:01 PM	#17
RufusAtticus Veteran Member Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: NCSU Posts: 5,853	I knew someone who spend a summer studying in Africa and where she was it was so dusty that everyone simply pick their nose whenever they needed to. She had to learn to stop that when she got back to Georgia.

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