Mouthbreathers?

[Ftaghn To You Too]

Where exactly did this insult come from? It doesn't even make sense, in some cases. For instance, I'm forced to breathe through my mouth due to sinus damage from a cleft palate.

So, where did this come from? Why is it considered an insult? If it's referencing an injury, is it right to use it?

 

[Xeros]

I've never understood it myself, though I've also never given it much thought. Dammit, now I'm curious.

EDIT: Apparently it means someone so incredibly stupid that they never learned to breathe through their nose.

 

[RatRace123]

I think it's part of the "asthmatic, coke-bottle glasses wearing, awkward nerd" stereotype.

 

[L3m0n_L1m3]

According to urban dictionary,

A person of inferior intellect that lacks the faculties to recognize he is breathing heavily through his drooping open mouth.

So it's basically just an insult to their intelligence.

 

[Stir72]

I remember being told years ago that breathing through your nose provides better oxygen to the ol brain, plus the mouthbreathers have a droopy lower lip since the muscles there are always relaxed. So that would explain why the mouthbreathers look/are not as bright as the nosebreathers.

Probably bullshit but there you go. Urban legend or science!?!

 

[Shapsters]

Where exactly did this insult come from? It doesn't even make sense, in some cases. For instance, I'm forced to breathe through my mouth due to sinus damage from a cleft palate.

So, where did this come from? Why is it considered an insult? If it's referencing an injury, is it right to use it?

:O You have a cleft palate?!

Cleft palate friends forever! Single or Bilateral?

OT: Mouth breathing whilst doing something quiet such as watching a movie can be annoying because it can be quite loud.

EDIT- Maybe I am thinking of nose breathing... >.>

 

[manythings]

When I was born I had Kawasaki disease [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawasaki_disease] (go ahead and make some motorcycle jokes, get it out of your system and then take it seriously) which caused massive inflammation especially in my sinuses and ever since (until a few operations a while back) I've had to breath through my mouth. Good news is that now I can breath through both simultaneously.

If the word disease follows I really don't think anyone, that happens to have any value as a human, is going to start cracking wise.

 

[manythings]

When I was born I had Kawasaki disease [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawasaki_disease] (go ahead and make some motorcycle jokes, get it out of your system and then take it seriously) which caused massive inflammation especially in my sinuses and ever since (until a few operations a while back) I've had to breath through my mouth. Good news is that now I can breath through both simultaneously.

If the word disease follows I really don't think anyone, that happens to have any value as a human, is going to start cracking wise.

There's always someone who's like 'Haha, Motorcycle disease'. Humans are jerks, you best be learning that now.

If I could find it I'd show you my "Perennial Bastard" membership card. Some situations call for a bastard but there is never justification for being a jerk... Though being able to just classify someone as a jerk saves a lot of time for you in the long run.

 

[Ftaghn To You Too]

Where exactly did this insult come from? It doesn't even make sense, in some cases. For instance, I'm forced to breathe through my mouth due to sinus damage from a cleft palate.

So, where did this come from? Why is it considered an insult? If it's referencing an injury, is it right to use it?

:O You have a cleft palate?!

Cleft palate friends forever! Single or Bilateral?

OT: Mouth breathing whilst doing something quiet such as watching a movie can be annoying because it can be quite loud.

EDIT- Maybe I am thinking of nose breathing... >.>

Single! Huzzah for modern medicine!

 

[Shapsters]

Where exactly did this insult come from? It doesn't even make sense, in some cases. For instance, I'm forced to breathe through my mouth due to sinus damage from a cleft palate.

So, where did this come from? Why is it considered an insult? If it's referencing an injury, is it right to use it?

:O You have a cleft palate?!

Cleft palate friends forever! Single or Bilateral?

OT: Mouth breathing whilst doing something quiet such as watching a movie can be annoying because it can be quite loud.

EDIT- Maybe I am thinking of nose breathing... >.>

Single! Huzzah for modern medicine!

Bah! You singles have it easy!

 

[Ftaghn To You Too]

Bah! You singles have it easy!

But... I thought we were friends!

 

[Shapsters]

Bah! You singles have it easy!

But... I thought we were friends!

Well... I can let it go this time, but let it be known you damn singles got it easy! XP

 

[Altorin]

it's a term for someone who breathes loudly without realizing it.. the sound of breath can be really annoying to a lot of people, so it has connotations with unintentional or ignorant rudeness.. Once the term became used to describe unintentional or ignorant rudeness. I don't think the term applies specifically to mouth breathing anymore (although it can), and I would imagine someone with a physical inability to breathe through the nose from something as severe as a cleft palette really should worry about the term.. probably got more important things to worry about then bothering people because your incapable of breathing silently.

 

[Gildan Bladeborn]

I remember being told years ago that breathing through your nose provides better oxygen to the ol brain, plus the mouthbreathers have a droopy lower lip since the muscles there are always relaxed. So that would explain why the mouthbreathers look/are not as bright as the nosebreathers.

Probably bullshit but there you go. Urban legend or science!?!

It's not so much that it provides "better" oxygen to the brain, but rather that breathing through your nose is better for you given there is additional filtration when air is forced to navigate the sinus cavity versus the 'shortcut' of the mouth - the nose does a much better job of filtering out airborn pollutants. There's absolutely no difference between the oxygen content of the air though, neither your nose nor your mouth are involved with oxygen absorption, they're just different pathways to the lungs, so that part is indeed bullshit.

 

[Nomanslander]

Every time I think of mouth breathers I think of some 40 something dude walking about outside in a robe, glaring at children headed off to school....0o