The habit of finger-licking: getting a solution out of the pandemic

[nx18]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8221159/

[koshergweilo]

I was just thinking about this. I often have to lick my fingers to open doggie bags when walking my dog. My solution has been to use a water bottle with inbuilt bag holder, then instead of licking my fingers I squeeze a drop out of the bottle and use that.

Similarly at the grocery store I go to the produce section and swipe some water there to open bags.

Nice to have some validation for my idiosyncrasies

[rockzom]

Perhaps my biggest pet peeve. There is almost never a reason to do this.

[ipspam]

This is so inhuman. Humans are dirty. Stop trying to turn us into machines. Licking fingers is perfectly fine, no matter what anyone says.

Next they will be try to get us to stop sniffing ourselves, something everyone does and just doesn't realize.