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Which of these mask misbehavior is the worst?

  • Placing mask on table, face side down

    Votes: 4 0.3%
  • Wearing mask on one ear

    Votes: 12 1.0%
  • Wearing mask on your chin

    Votes: 87 7.2%
  • Showing your nose

    Votes: 386 31.9%
  • Taking off Mask to cough or sneeze

    Votes: 330 27.3%
  • All of the above

    Votes: 385 31.8%
  • Other

    Votes: 5 0.4%

  • Total voters
    1,209

Tavernade

Tavernade
Moderator
Sep 18, 2018
8,633
These are all awful but I want to nominate "taking it off in public to take a phone call" to the list, which I see a LOT and don't understand.
 

Alcoremortis

Member
Oct 25, 2017
2,575
While any form of having the face exposed is equally hazardous, the chinstrap is the most annoying to me because it just looks horrid in addition to being dangerous. If you want to take off the mask, just take it off and put it in your pocket. Don't also abuse my eyes.
 

Just Great

Member
Oct 25, 2017
2,994
I think this has to do something with language and I'm not understanding it.

Why this strong response to just an answer to the poll and what this has to do with mental capacity? Honest question.

The response isn't about those answers, but the people their answers are about. In other words, it's (rightly) insulting people who wear their mask with their nose out.
 

B_Spooky13

Member
Oct 25, 2017
757
Michigan
I work at a local bar as a cook. Just a little hole in the wall pub. Before Covid it was pretty packed most nights.

Now that Michigan has lifted their bar shut down but with still a curfew and body count regulations. Our bar is outta control. The past 2 nights there were at least 90 people in there with no masks.

Mind you we're only allowed about 21 people inside and another 21 in the tent. I don't leave the kitchen. Even with my mask on. People are gross and just want to get drunk
 

Vitet

Member
Oct 31, 2017
2,573
Valencia, Spain
The response isn't about those answers, but the people their answers are about. In other words, it's (rightly) insulting people who wear their mask with their nose out.
Oh ok, thanks! Then it was a language thing and me not understanding it. Now i get it, sorry!

And I choose that option too because masks being mandatory here is the most common I see. The other ones I only saw them when people can take their masks off on a bar drinking or eating, so it offends me a bit less (although in those cases I think the best scenario is to put it in your pocket or in a mask bag to avoid contamination).

But the nose thing is the most common by far, and while sneezing or coughing while you put out your mask is worse, the nosers damage is higher as there are lots and lots of them.
 

mhayes86

Member
Oct 27, 2017
5,249
Maryland
Coughing and sneezing is easily the worst. Fortunately, I've never actually seen someone remove their mask in person to do it.

Every single time I go out to the store there are people wearing their mask under their nose, whether employee or customer.
 

Weltall Zero

Game Developer
Banned
Oct 26, 2017
19,343
Madrid
Jul 16, 2020
1,103
Yeah, I get that. I'm talking in the context of a museum visit here, that's why I'm (clearly) annoyed a lot.. it's been a struggle, getting visitors to wear masks both properly and at all times.


Yeah, while I don't wear glasses anymore, I know (from other situations) how annoying foggy glasses can be. I'm just pissed at people acting like this makes them exempt from the rules everyone has to follow. We got workers with glasses wearing masks for hours at a time, and visitors who act like they're being bullied when they have to follow similar rules.

I know I'm using this thread to vent, but there are people who just... take off their masks. And when you talk to them, they say that they "can't breathe". Offering to escort them out of the museum and refund their ticket is usually a good way to get them to mask up.
I feel your pain with these posts. I see these behaviors at the Art Institute of Chicago all the time.
 

Sanka

Banned
Feb 17, 2019
5,778
Taking off your mask to sneeze is not ok in a public area even if you're alone. That stuff will be in the air long after you leave.
You are supposed to keep them on and in addition sneeze into your elbow. But if you don't have them on in the first place because no one is around you can sneeze into your elbow or into a tissue. Just need to be aware that those could carry droplets now. The goal is to prevent those droplets to get to other people however way you do it. That's why social distancing is so powerful.
 

Surakian

Avenger
Oct 27, 2017
10,872
If you are alone, in a closed space where you are around people you consider a part of your bubble, are eating/drinking following social distancing protocol, or in weather that would otherwise ruin your mask (I.e snowfall or rain that will absolutely wet your mask up no matter what you do), then none of that behavior is acceptable.
 
Oct 26, 2017
3,946
The nose being visible. It is beyond annoying because it is like a flagrant "screw you/i don't care) to everyone around them.

the coughing and sneezing thing I can almost excuse as a split second reaction and the person making a bad decision. The nose being visible is an ongoing decision the person is making and I always feel it comes from a place of malice and lack of empathy.
 

Altazor

Member
Oct 25, 2017
8,153
Chile
If you're wearing it over your chin, hanging from one ear or not covering your nose, you might as well not have the mask, because that clearly defeats the entire fucking purpose.

it's not that hard, ffs. And while it may be uncomfortable, I'll take that instead of FUCKING CATCHING COVID-19.
 

Hollywood Duo

Member
Oct 25, 2017
41,968
It's definitely the nose one. Like having it completely off I get atleast from a logical standpoint. But having it cover your mouth but not your nose is so illogical it hurts my head.
 

gaugebozo

Member
Oct 25, 2017
2,834
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Deleted member 22750

Oct 28, 2017
13,267
they wear it on their chin as a badge where I live

people around here are fucked in the brain and it hurts my brain
 

GeekyDad

Banned
Nov 11, 2017
1,689
USA
" Taking off Mask to cough or sneeze "

That shit just made me laugh out loud.

Why would anyone do that!? :D
 

Richiek

Member
Nov 2, 2017
12,063
The exposed nose is the fucking worst. I get stressed out when I see them while grocery shopping.
 

Dant21

Member
Apr 24, 2018
842
The real worst offenders are the malicious compilers. The people who wear masks that are a loose mesh, or have large holes in them, knowing it's ineffective, but just smugly trying to get people to get angry at them because they don't want to wear a mask at all.
 

Seductivpancakes

user requested ban
Banned
Oct 25, 2017
7,790
Brooklyn
Exposing your nose cause I see that very frequently in the trains, which is pretty dumb considering how packed they are with no room to keep your distance.
 
Nov 17, 2017
12,864
It's not in the poll but I hate when people have their mask pulled up over just their lower lip. Like I don't understand why you would do that.
 

Snake Eater

Attempted to circumvent ban with alt account
Banned
Oct 27, 2017
11,385
As much as I wouldn't appreciate it, I don't actually expect somebody to do a full blown sneeze right into their mask. That would be pretty disgusting and I'm comfortable for someone
 

ChrisD

One Winged Slayer
Member
Oct 25, 2017
4,612
I mean they're all bad, and the nose sticking out is the most common and thus most frustrating. But I saw a guy do the take off to sneeze thing once and just



how
why

Automatic worse thing
 

steejee

Member
Oct 28, 2017
8,618
I'd go with penis nose, just because people seem to think that they're still protected when like that.

The others even the biggest idiot seem to understand are bad (well mask on table maybe not, though unsure how bad that actuality is), penis nose though I see even in well masked areas sometimes.
 

Tochtli79

Member
Jun 27, 2019
5,777
Mexico City
Nose showers and people taking them off to talk (on the phone or otherwise) are really stupid and frustrating, but people taking them off to cough or sneeze is like... do you even know the basics of mask wearing and covid?

Also: if you are going out to work all day why not take an emergency replacement mask in case you sneeze in one or something else happens to it like it rips or you drop it on the dirty ground?
 

TheBaldEmperor

One Winged Slayer
Member
Oct 25, 2017
2,840
Pulling their mask down to talk when they get close to someone is the most bizarre/stupid one I see frequently.
 

HardRojo

One Winged Slayer
Member
Oct 25, 2017
26,133
Peru
Mask under the nose, only because it's so common and irritating to see so many people still wearing them wrong one year into this shit. Taking it off to cough is a distant second because I haven't seen it happen very often and it shows you didn't understand the very purpose of the mask...
 

jroc74

Member
Oct 27, 2017
28,996
I have to adjust the mask for my 6 y.o. so much one time I just told his mother to take him back to the car. We have regular ones where we tie the loops to fit his face better. Those specialty masks that look cool really arent cool for children.

I voted all of the above, but the nose showing is the one I see the most. Its like ppl dont understand anatomy.
 

sebn

Member
Oct 26, 2017
124
Dick-nosing is infuriating, I was sat in the doctors surgery the other day, we all had masks on and there was an 80ish year old man just sat there with his nose out completely oblivious. Drives me nuts.
 

The Albatross

Member
Oct 25, 2017
39,038
When people take their mask off to talk to you. Drives me crazy.

There's this very nice old lady who is very sweet to our daughter from a take out place, she's very very nice and always has been, but ... wheneevr she sees us and our kid she walks over, takes her mask off to talk to her, like pulls it down... and I'm like ugggh.
 

I_love_potatoes

Attempted to circumvent ban with alt account
Banned
Jul 6, 2020
1,640
Definitely all of the above.

But the one that I've constantly seen is the nose showing.