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Thread ID: 102107 2009-08-07 06:09:00 Mystery of human behaviour. Cicero (40) PC World Chat
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799036 2009-08-07 06:09:00 Worth a look?

www.telegraph.co.uk
Cicero (40)
799037 2009-08-07 06:15:00 Just think, someone out there has spent 20 years getting educated,and is now earning a living by mulling over the possible reasons some teenagers eat what they pull out of their noses...... Metla (12)
799038 2009-08-07 06:26:00 Just think, someone out there has spent 20 years getting educated,and is now earning a living by mulling over the possible reasons some teenagers eat what they pull out of their noses......

Are we suggesting that human behaviour is not a mystery to some?

Or that the facts are not worthy of consideration?
Cicero (40)
799039 2009-08-07 06:45:00 Well it did give some insight into your witty repartee:


more laughter is produced by banal comments than jokes
andrew93 (249)
799040 2009-08-07 06:51:00 It's a puzzlement. R2x1 (4628)
799041 2009-08-07 07:11:00 6 - Picking your nose: the unappealing but common habit of ingesting 'nasal detritus' offers almost no nutritional benefit, so why do a quarter of teenagers do it, on average four times a day? Some think it boosts the immune system.

Albert Einstein did that from time to time. Apparently the action of picking the nose tends to improve your intelligence!

Source: NZ Herald Sideswipe
Renmoo (66)
799042 2009-08-07 08:57:00 6 - Picking your nose: the unappealing but common habit of ingesting 'nasal detritus' offers almost no nutritional benefit, so why do a quarter of teenagers do it, on average four times a day? Some think it boosts the immune system.

Albert Einstein did that from time to time. Apparently the action of picking the nose tends to improve your intelligence!

Source: NZ Herald Sideswipe

Re the Einstein para.
Does that mean that some of the teenagers who I see around Wanganui need to walk around with their tongues permanently up their noses? In case it is true. PJ
Poppa John (284)
799043 2009-08-07 09:52:00 Re the Einstein para.
Does that mean that some of the teenagers who I see around Wanganui need to walk around with their tongues permanently up their noses? In case it is true. PJ

Ummmmm... Cows do that. Probably more intelligent than us humans.

At least they know what time to be at the gate waiting to be milked. I may add that I have never seen a cow wearing a watch either.
Sweep (90)
799044 2009-08-07 18:06:00 6 - Picking your nose: the unappealing but common habit of ingesting 'nasal detritus' offers almost no nutritional benefit, so why do a quarter of teenagers do it, on average four times a day? Some think it boosts the immune system .

I watched one of the documentaries about an African tribe where the father takes care of the children and as their infant noses run from a cold or the flu or whatever, they suck the mucous out of their child's nose and swallow it for themselves .

The theory? It's all simple protein - and protein is in short supply in some African cultures if not from the lack of meat to eat .

I've often heard it's a craving for the nutritional ingredients - and maybe it's the protein again, but there's some creditability to the immunological thought too .

Protein is incredibly expensive for the body to manufacture - is this a way of harvesting some that might be lost?

After all, most pathogens and germs enter into the nose through normal respiration and since the bacteria is "killed" or rendered safe by the anti-agents in mucous, then all that's left is the DNA and perhaps - PERHAPS - this is a way for the body to get a fingerprint of the next infectious problem and prepare some antigens for it? Hmmm?
SurferJoe46 (51)
799045 2009-08-07 18:24:00 I think there should be an eleventh factor too .

11) Moon-faced appeal: in that humans have an innate appreciation for and of infantile and immature faces in small animals and their own kin and children . The effect of seeing a childish-shaped face causes emotions of protection, adoration and generally good-will toward that persona or anima .
SurferJoe46 (51)
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