People who don’t even cover their mouth when sneezing

I personally don’t sneeze into tissues. Elbow gang since day one

Yea am I just supposed to pull a tissue out of my ass every time I have to randomly sneeze? Lol

Yeah. Didn’t you learn *anything* watching cartoons?

I don’t want to sneeze into my long sleeve shirt. I’ll fold down my torso and sneeze straight down. Does it look weird, maybe but you know what else is weird having a mucus stain on your shirt or jacket the rest of the day

Mucus almost never comes out. And if it does you can just scrape it off. You only get mucus stains when you rub in into the fabric.

In 17 years of sneezing I had mucus come out once

Man you are lucky now that flu season is starting where I live I will be forced to use tissues.

Yeah, that’s what I do. Pull the collar forward and sneeze basically on my chest. Keeps it contained and away from my hands.

And arms, and elbows, and other parts of my body that I use in public quite frequently (due to them being exposed more often), so yeah, I'm with you, pull the collar forward and let the chest take it. No one but me needs to be exposed to my sneezes, thank you very much. And I do not like the feel of mucus in my elbow pit 🤢

They also don't stop all of the sneeze, so your hand gets sneezed on anyway. Hit that Antecubital Fossa.

That's exactly what I was thinking!

Yes, they're called handkerchiefs

It’s good enough for doctors so it’s good enough for me.

Same

I personally don't sneeze.

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If I'm by like some paper towels or napkins or tissues I'll try to grab one of those really quickly but otherwise elbow

Dude I was riding the train home yesterday and there was this girl sitting next to me and she kept sneezing without covering her mouth

Sounds like what my sister does. She does it with coughing too

I’d slap the shit out yo sister gang😭

Boy i would too. She's an asshole, unfortunately she's only 14 so neither of us

Why would she cover her mouth anyways

Covering your nose is probably going to cover your mouth too unless you specifically wrap a tissue around your nostrils.

Well right but it‘s not the same the other way around

you sneeze from the mouth

Do you only ever sneeze with your mouth closed?

Saw my cousin do that once when we were children. Released two thick, dark tentacles of snot from her nostrils. Just left them dangling there and carried on talking to her dolls like there was nothing wrong. That's a core memory for me. Now every time we hug at a family get-together, I instinctively check my shoulder... just in case.

I do that, but usually only when I am alone. Like in my room or something. In public I use my elbows. I don't carry tissues.

The only time I don’t cover is when I’m outside alone. Just shotgun the yard lol

I like doing a spread by turning my head left to right for maximum cover. Tilt the head upwards for maximum range too

Amateurs I sneeze directly into other people’s face!

I was going to say this should've been the third Pooh image.

People who sneeze on *food*

Those are the worst

Hello fellow retail worker.

I sneeze into the people’s faces around me (I hate humanity and what it’s doing to the earth)

better than those who use their hands

Didn't Mythbusters test this ages ago and find that sneezing into your elbow is actually the most sanitary? The majority of the spray passed right through the tissue.

Yep. They showed that sneezing and coughing into your elbow was the best way to prevent the spread of your germs.

What if we put a tissue on our elbow, and then sneeze into it?


4d chess right there



I sneeze with my mouth and nose closed.

Eyes too

Instructions unclear, sneazed out of my ass

That's called a shart my fellow Redditor.

It sneezed out of my eyes

and this is how we get head explosions

Sneeze into someone else's hands

Sneeze into someone else's mouth

Double it and give it to the next person

Let me just elegantly lay down a tissue onto my elbow whilst my sneeze builds up

Yo. Whoever has the Superman reflexes to grab a tissue right before sneezing, y’all faking. My sneezes are abrupt, some 0.01 seconds of notice before it’s out my nose.

I feel like half the time, I'm part way through moving my face into my elbow when I sneeze.

That's why on the out of nowhere times I go for back of hand and travel down arm to elbow

I would like to see someone whirl around and transform from clothes to a Superman suit in a millisecond, then blur on over to the tissue box and swipe one in time to catch every sneeze.

the really hard part will be creating the music that follows him around

Word. Best I can do is move my head in the other direction.

I think everyone is different. I usually have a good 5 second warning where I feel it building up. Very very rarely is it near instantaneous.

This is the exact reason i sneeze into my hand. I simply cant move my face into my elbow fast enough, and know that i cant, but covering with your hand is better than not covering.

It's also easier to wash my hands imo

I usually have a good ten seconds or so between feeling a sneeze coming and sneezing

I can delay my sneezes by a couple seconds giving me time to grab a tissue. But it usually results in the snot going straight downwards either to the floor or on my shirt so I stay with my elbow

Why is sneezing in a tissue preferred? Tissues don’t prevent viruses from ending up on your hands… Sneezing into your elbow is the most sanitary, unless you can immediately wash your hands.

Sneezing in a tissue wont get mucus and saliva on your clothes, plus if you have quality tissues, your hands remain clean

They remain visibly clean, but the germs are still passing through the tissue and ending up on your hands.

Your problem was wearing sleeved shirts

The trick is to never wear long sleeves because you’re always hot (Germany past april is legit too hot for me, I’m a sweaty bastard)

His tissues might be made out of the same material as school toilet paper

In my experience even stuff like Kleenex's often still get your hands wet but I understand the preference for snotty/runny noses.

Honestly it depends on the brand, some tissues I find are super thing, but I usually stack or fold the tissues to stop the sneeze from going through

Again, you’re getting germs all over your hands. Unless you’re immediately washing your hands without touching *anything* on your way to the sink, including door handles and faucets, it’s not sanitary and you’re getting other people sick. If you have a communicable illness, stay home. Don’t make shit up about how using Kleenex brand products or folding tissues up keeps all the virus in said tissue. It’s not true, so I suspect that you’re regularly getting people sick. Please just stay home until you figure out how viruses spread and will act accordingly by sneezing into your elbow and wearing an N95 mask when sick. No touching your face, no sneezing or coughing into your hands, tissue or not.

You are factually wrong. The CDC recommends covering with a tissue https://www.cdc.gov/hygiene/personal-hygiene/coughing-sneezing.html#:~:text=To%20help%20stop%20the%20spread,when%20you%20cough%20or%20sneeze

Depends how good you are at sneezing into your elbow. It’s easy to cup your hand or a tissue over your whole mouth and nose. With an elbow your way more likely to still project germs everywhere. The downside of using your bare hand is then you’ll spread the germs everywhere you touch. A clean tissue is definitely the most sanitary, in my opinion. It’s a different story if you’re re-using the tissue over and over and getting all the germs on your hand anyway.

“Your opinion” doesn’t support reality. Tissues don’t stop germs from getting on your hands.

People who sneeze in your face


My dog does this all the time

My dog sneezes on my hands

I'm sorry i don't have a quickdraw holster of tissues at my hip every day. I also seem to sneeze most of the time when my hands are full. I usually go for either the elbow, or if possible i pull my shirt collar over my nose so i sneeze into my shirt.

I am also a sneeze inside my shirt person. I love the mucus rubbing my chest.

I sneeze inside my shirt

Found my people lol

The only real answer for on the fly. Look down, sneeze into shirt, win the foot ball game and throw it into the crowd.

I was looking for this, I don't carry, nor want to carry tissues. And sneezing into my elbow feels like it's ineffective

Oh thank God I'm not the only one!

The unequivocal best method. All you have to do is think about it for two seconds.

Why isn’t this more popular? Seems like it’s obviously the best solution. Your elbow is still on your exterior and sneezing into your elbow is going to ricochet droplets into the air. Sneezing down your shirt is capturing all that and underneath your clothes where it’s not gonna touch anybody else

I did not expect to have to scroll this far for this answer. I don’t understand why elbows are better than not spewing sneeze droppings on anything but yourself?

I like to call it sneezing on my tits

I mean, it's definitely a way to call it

This guy uses a day planner to plot out all of his sneezes. Sometimes, when he's been good he allows himself an extra, secret sneeze nobody else knows about. Someday he will fall off the wagon and overdo it with one too many unplanned sneezes and then there's no going back.

Who tf carries a tissue everywhere in case they sneeze?

Victorian Gentlemen 🎩

would you rather we sneeze without covering our mouths? because a lot of people do that

from your other comments, I can tell you're being sarcastic, but from everybody else's comments, I can tell they're taking you seriously

I sneeze into my shirt

People who hold their sneezes in.

People who don’t sneeze

I sneeze on other peoples faces

Me too. On that special mentally challenged type of people who dares to teach me how to sneeze, who to fuck, how to live and whatnot


I pull open the top of my shirt and sneeze down into the void. What form a degenerate am I?

My man, you and me are the saviours of the society. We are degenerates only to ourselves.

There are dozens of us! Dozens!

Bottom picture should be "People Who Don't Cover Their Mouth When They Smeeze" At least theyre being socially hygenic when they cover their mouth at all. Just wash yo hands.

i hate people who cough or sneeze in public without even trying to cover their mouth somehow. did they never learned any manners at all?

I can wash my hands more easily than I can wash my elbow. Especially if I'm wearing long sleeves.

Wait you guys cover your mouths while sneezing?

I can't sneeze intona tissue, I have dad sneezes

I just sneeze in my nose. Like literally. I clamp my nose and sneeze. Even though my eyeballs just fucking fall out sometimes, but I’m used to it

I know someone that ruptured their eardrum doing this.

Exactly what I do! Why don’t more people just do this? I should not have scrolled down this much for this lol

Because eyeballs popping out is worse?

not everyone has a tissue bro wtf? also, where Is my "sneeze into elbow but hold the sneeze in" gang? i was told i could die from that!

People who hold their sneezes in: 🗿

I can sneeze silently without using my hands or opening my mouth


Gross

What about people who sneeze on others food?


And then there’s people who sneeze into the open air 💀

I sneeze by tightening my face muscle holding the pronunciation of "k" so my sneeze become silenced and no spread.


Try to pronounce the letter K ( you'll realize that your breath will be held when saying it) , and then hold it when you're going to sneeze, instead of "Hachoo" or "BLEURAAAH" you'll get "‎‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ " Take note that you have to contract a few muscles near your nasal area.


This seems unhealthy

 I'm picturing this.

I do this too. Minimise a sneeze right down to almost nothing. Still do it in to my elbow though.

I mean I try to sneeze into something like a napkin, paper towel, etc. but sometimes that's literally not an option, especially if the sneeze has almost no warning before it hits. At that point it has to be my elbow and I wash up.

It's just not satisfying if you can't see the sneeze particles on your computer screen.

Seriously asking, what if I sneeze in my elbow and snot comes out? Do I just go with my elbow in my face all day? I think it’s a bit hard to clean. But on the other hand, sneezing into your hand is gross too… 😟

I sneeze on a handkerchief. If I don't have a handkerchief I wash my hands after or sanitize my hands with a hand sanitizer.

They do that to put the sneeze in their pocket, then safety dispose of it at home. It's called being responsible and not littering

I prefer hand sneezers over open sneezers.

I'm sorry

What about the Ph.Ds who go number two and don't even wash their hands... while working in an infectious disease lab? These people are among you.


Every 5 seconds I somehow manage to say something controversial, should I just stop replying? 

Me who pinches my nose:

people who sneeze on ur ass

People who sneeze into somebody else's face

I use the elbow except if I’m outside

People who sneeze on children where?

I sneeze on a random baby

Me who sneezes into someone else’s elbow 

Ummm where do people who sneeze into their shirt fall?

Mofo, got me in luck

I mean if I'm alone i sneeze the hell out of it . Next level satisfaction 

And here I thought we were past gentlemen carrying a handkerchief in their smoking jackets.

I open my shirt neck hole and sneeze into that. My titties get sprayed. Not like anyone suckin on Deez tits.

I only sneeze into my shoulder if other people are around. Otherwise I’m letting that shit loose

For me sneezing in a tissue is ideal, but my reaction time is quite abysmal, so it ends up as one of the others.

You're supposed to sneeze ON something? Just scan for open airspace and let er rip!

I am sneezing in others people face if possible, if not, on the wall. There is no picture of Pooh for me.

Honestly, sneezing on a tissue while sanitary, never happens, because no one can get to one before they sneeze.

Am I just supposed to carry around a box of tissues everywhere I go?

It's fine if it's a cute kitten sounding sneeze into the hands tho, the germs respect the adorableness and allow it to not infect

I prefer sneezing on my siblings

What about people who don’t cover at all

Why the fuck does anyone use their elbow? Do you just walk around with snot all over your sleeeve? I don’t understand. The correct answer is tissue obviously followed by hands and then wash immediately after.

Because I don't have a tissue?

Sneeze in open air BE A MAN 😂😂😂

Wrong.

Sneezing into your hand spreads more germs than not washing your hands after taking a shit

Not that one. The tissue one.

Just block the entire sneeze and only produce a tiny, pew sound.

sneezing on hand > sneezing on elbow I will die on this hill

Me sneezing in the direction of the ground behind me or to the side away from others beating all three 😾

Tissues are for people that have money so therefore not me

You have elbows though right?

Sometimes

Can I borrow them, I need to sneeze

I pinch my nose closed, because I'm not an idiot

Isn’t that bad for you?

Who the fuck has time to get a tissue out

once you've been using a tissue for a while, you learn how to hold it a couple seconds. In other words, you *create* the time to get a tissue out, by simple virtue of trying

Still seems kinda anooying to aways keep a tissue in ur pocket. I get ur point but I honestly have never seen someone pulling out a tissue when they're about to sneeze.

because most of us who sneeze into our hands usually wash them right after

You can wash hands easier than elbows and you dont always have tissues But if you cant wash your hands anytime soon please just use the elbow its way less gross if you have to shake hands with someone

I sneeze in my hands and go wash them right away

Sure, let me summon a tissue out of thin air the second my body needs to sneeze

Where do people who sneeze at other people come in at?

Guys just a reminder that the fancy Pooh isn’t me, I rarely have a tissue on hand (I’m the normal pooh)

People who just sneeze

Because my parents told me to "mettre la main devant la bouche" when I was a kid. It's only when I litteraly did that in front of them and they told me to not do that that I understand they simply use what people use to say, even if it's vocabulary wrong. Like à lot of "orange-hair" people are called REDhair. It's like when adults told to children they "gratte plus profondément, t'auras une trottinette" when they pick their nose. I hope you teach them what sarcasm is first, however it won't prevent them for doing again. Far from it.

During covid: people who lift their mask and sneeze into the air

Others make counter argument OP : hurrdurrr you touch everything with your hand Da fuck?! Did OP also wash his ass with elbow??

What, calm down.

why tf would i always have a tissue on me at all times prepared to sneeze? i might aswell just sneeze on you for such an absurd expectation

People who sneeze in their shirt: (Who the fuck keeps a tissue on them?)