Are you a handerkiech user????

[Piquechampion]

This last week, I was pretty sick with a cold (which maybe explain my sombre mood here at JUB) and let me tell you all, I actually found better to blow my nose with the handkerchiefs of my father than with kleenex or any other tissue. Better for the environment and for my nose.

So, my father is an old school user of the handkerchief, but I never used them (I find that carrying around in my pocket a piece of cloth soiled with nose liquids, to be sick). But this past week they proved to be quite useful. Of course, I used them once and throw them on the dirty clothes rack.... I ended up using like 50 or so

Well, anyways, are you and old school handkerchief user or not????

 

[LilBit]

I find that they leak much more than paper tissues. I wash my hands after blowing my nose anyway, but I'd still prefer not to have to wash goo off of my hands.

 

[Spiff]

Handerchief? Ewww gross. I use my sleeve like a normal person.

 

[Piquechampion]

^ Oh God, I'm mortified.... I misspelled handkerchief

PS: I knew most of you wouldn't use them, or even heard of them.... I think that it's something that is simply not used anymore there in the US or Europe.

 

[Piquechampion]

My father is very old school.... hid handkerchiefs are specially made by his tailor, with his initials embroidered.

That's why I feel a little, but not too much, bad for soiling his'.

 

[AnalblasT]

my ex-bf YES

but NOT me

 

[Audio Tech]

it would be like using the same cum rag for a month.

And yet, someone out there would DIE to get that cum rag from you.

 

[Piquechampion]

They're not used in Mexico either, unless you're like 80 something or live in the jungle.
As I said, Kleenex all the way, all the time, everywhere.

De hecho, tampoco nadie aqui en Guatemala abajo de los 40-45 años los usa. Yo no los uso, solo en me pequeña historia.

Mi padre, que tiene 55 años, no puede vivir sin ellos, y mis abuelos y tios abuelos los usaban.

 

[MarkMySpoT]

i carry a handkerchief around with me. i rarely use it to blow my nose. but i will use it to wipe my nose when i have a cold. i also use it to dry my hands and other misc uses. it is great because they dry quickly.

 

[desmond]

Sympathies, i'm getting over that awful cold too. I used one years ago in a fit of environmanetal consciousness, but it began to gross me out. However, it might be nice to have a nice clean soft one on hand for emergency use of whatever kind, one never knows, might be gallant to give to a stranger in need

 

[Críostóir]

Bait and switch AGAIN. Here I thought I was going to learn a new word ('handerkiech') and it was just about plain old invented-by-Richard II handkerchiefs.

Nuts.

 

[Paws]

Post some more variations on the word hakerndchief:

- handkercheev
- hankyrchef
- hankerhceif
- hasföljchasdle
- lulu

 

[syntax]

I keep a couple dozen white cotton handkerchiefs at my house for wiping my nose and many other things. When they get dirty, I wash them or throw them away.

When I leave the house, I always take two. They are great for mopping your brow or neck in hot weather, wiping face and hands or cleaning up a spill. The second one I keep in reserve so that I can offer a clean white cotton handkerchief to someone in need.

I'm not old school, just cool.

 

[freefall]

I use handkies for wiping sweat only. I use tissue paper for the others.

 

[RationalLunacy]

I've never seen a handerkiech. What is it? Is it Amish?

 

[Críostóir]

I admire those studly men who can blow their nose by holding one nostril shut and propelling their snot onto the grass or sidewalk or sink.

I never know whether to go after them with a meat cleaver or just send them back to kindergarten. Obviously they didn't eat enough paste.

 

[honooryuu]

definitely not... i think they are disgusting...