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Re:London put in emergency lockdown as U.K. fights new strain by curiousllama on Saturday December 19, 2020 @04:13PM (#25481250)
"nose slingers"
Re:London put in emergency lockdown as U.K. fights new strain by smcl on Saturday December 19, 2020 @04:54PM (#25481585)
That’s a nice phrase. In my group we called it “dick-nosing” - iirc it came about due to:

1) you wouldn’t (shouldn’t?) go around with your dick hanging out of your trousers, so why would you do the same with your nose and your mask

2) you’re a dick if you do this

Re:London put in emergency lockdown as U.K. fights new strain by MaulingMonkey on Saturday December 19, 2020 @05:16PM (#25481771)
A decent amount of it is unintentional I suspect. Subconcious fiddling, poor feeling / awareness of slipping masks... a gentle reminder that "your mask has slipped a bit" can do wonders.
Re:London put in emergency lockdown as U.K. fights new strain by yissp on Saturday December 19, 2020 @05:47PM (#25482002)
Similarly, a gentle reminder when one's dick accidentally slips out of one's trousers is also appreciated.
Re:London put in emergency lockdown as U.K. fights new strain by ethbr0 on Sunday December 20, 2020 @06:52AM (#25485642)
Too rarely does good, cutting satire grace HN.
Re:London put in emergency lockdown as U.K. fights new strain by morlockabove on Saturday December 19, 2020 @05:51PM (#25482028)
Some responses to that will be (in the spirit of) coughing in the speaker's face.
Re:London put in emergency lockdown as U.K. fights new strain by MaulingMonkey on Sunday December 20, 2020 @03:05AM (#25484733)
So far nobody's coughed in my face, in spirit or otherwise.
Re:London put in emergency lockdown as U.K. fights new strain by mirekrusin on Sunday December 20, 2020 @07:24AM (#25485791)
Seen a guy on the street taking off mask to do giant sneeze, put it back on afterwards promptly. His wife facepalmed. To his defence he’d probably have to wear juicy mask if he didn’t do it.
Re:London put in emergency lockdown as U.K. fights new strain by pwg on Saturday December 19, 2020 @05:11PM (#25481735)
My interpretation is that this is referring to those individuals who are wearing a surgical type mask, with the top of the mask resting on their upper lip and their nose not covered by the mask.
Re:London put in emergency lockdown as U.K. fights new strain by dboreham on Sunday December 20, 2020 @01:42PM (#25488482)
Yes. I get the impression that often they simply don't know how to put these masks on -- you need to pull them apart somewhat so they extend from the nose bridge to the chin. If you don't know that's how they're fitted, you'll end up with either of the nose or bottom of the mouth uncovered.