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...'Mouth-breathers'?

Started by Narf the Mouse, August 11, 2008, 09:55:39 PM

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Narf the Mouse

August 11, 2008, 09:55:39 PM
So I encountered the term today, didn't recognize it and looked it up in the Urban Dictionary.

Wow. Big problem for me.

See, my nasel passeges are too narrow. I try breathing through them, especially if walking and it feels like I'm slowly suffocating.

And now I find I may well have been classed with 'Uncivilized louts' because I don't want brain damage - Or at least, to not feel like I'm being strangled. :(

Doesn't help that I may be autistic to a certain extent.
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August 11, 2008, 11:39:58 PM
No, no.  Don't worry.  The term really doesn't apply to people who have to breathe through their mouths out of necessity.  It's intended to apply do it absent-mindedly due to a lack of composure.  A parallel term is "slack-jaw".

As someone who has suffered chronic sinusitis most of my life, I feel for you.  But let it go.

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Narf the Mouse

#2
August 11, 2008, 11:43:54 PM
Ah, ok. Was having flashbacks to hell...School for a bit there. Which largely consisted of being put down for things I knew not why.

Thanks. :)
The main problem with government is the difficulty of pressing charges against its directors.

Given a choice of two out of three M&Ms, the human brain subconsciously tries to justify the two M&Ms chosen as being superior to the M&M not chosen.

Ian Absentia

#3
August 12, 2008, 12:05:55 AM
A good friend of mine -- brilliant fellow -- says he's never breathed through both nostrils at once in his life.  He apparently also dug up a study somewhere that correlated restricted nasal passages with higher tested intelligence.  No, really, I couldn't make this stuff up.

Now, on the other hand, if your knuckles drag on the ground when you walk, I'm going to call you a...well, a knuckle-dragger.

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Aos

#4
August 12, 2008, 12:09:59 AM
Actually, when used to aid locomotion, the don't really drag...
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Narf the Mouse

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August 12, 2008, 12:11:37 AM
Quote from: Ian Absentia;234706A good friend of mine -- brilliant fellow -- says he's never breathed through both nostrils at once in his life.  He apparently also dug up a study somewhere that correlated restricted nasal passages with higher tested intelligence.  No, really, I couldn't make this stuff up.
.../me is going to call everyone who only breaths through their nose a 'stupid nose-breather!' :D

(No, not really)
The main problem with government is the difficulty of pressing charges against its directors.

Given a choice of two out of three M&Ms, the human brain subconsciously tries to justify the two M&Ms chosen as being superior to the M&M not chosen.

pathar

#6
August 12, 2008, 03:50:39 AM
Quote from: Ian Absentia;234696As someone who has suffered chronic sinusitis most of my life, I feel for you.  But let it go.

Yeah, man, take a breath!

Er, wait.
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#7
August 12, 2008, 04:16:37 AM
Yeah, as a chronic allergy sufferer whose nose is usually clogged, I used to not get that one either.  I was like "Wait, so I'm dumb because by sinus are too stuffed up to breathe through my nose?"
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August 12, 2008, 09:03:54 AM
Quote from: Ian Absentia;234696A parallel term is "slack-jaw".

Quote from: Ian Absentia;234706Now, on the other hand, if your knuckles drag on the ground when you walk, I'm going to call you a...well, a knuckle-dragger.

As someone with both jaw muscles that are weaker than normal and overly long arms, I am deeply offended.  You, sir, are an insensitive jerk!
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shewolf

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August 12, 2008, 09:27:40 AM
Take it tangency, nancy-boy!

;)

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August 12, 2008, 11:26:10 AM
Quote from: Technomancer;234811As someone with both jaw muscles that are weaker than normal and overly long arms, I am deeply offended.  You, sir, are an insensitive jerk!
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Joey2k

#11
August 12, 2008, 12:51:15 PM
Quote from: Ian Absentia;234836Mouse-breeder.

!i!

That's better.
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Leo Knight

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August 13, 2008, 01:41:30 PM
Long ago, in the '70s, there was a TV show called "The Streets of San Francisco", starring Karl Malden, and a young Michael Douglas. I still remember Douglas' character dismissing someone as a "mouth-breather". It bothered me then, and no Google to figure it out. My library's "Dictionary of Modern Slang" topped out at about 1965. I'm glad to learn I'm not the only one confused by the phrase.
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KrakaJak

#13
August 13, 2008, 09:37:07 PM
I have NEVER breathed through both of my nostrils. However, which nostril I can breath through changes a couple times every day.

I've never bothered to find out why :D
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TheShadow

#14
August 14, 2008, 01:26:21 AM
Quote from: KrakaJak;235267I have NEVER breathed through both of my nostrils. However, which nostril I can breath through changes a couple times every day.

I've never bothered to find out why :D

Apparently, all of us (apart from mouth-breathers, presumably) breathe through one primary nostril, which alternates at regular intervals during the day. This according to some Indian yogic breathing stuff I read, and confirmed in my own case by desultory observation. So you're not alone.
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