When someone says something is "So gross" why do they then insist you try it?

It’s a ‘sharing’ thing. I had this experience and if you have it too, we’ll have a shared experience. It’s a leftover from childhood.

Happens all the time. People like to share and also like confirmation of their observations to something that is outrageous to them.

I think it’s just a confirmation thing, the other person wants you to verify that it is indeed gross, it’s not just them thinking it.
I’ve been guilty of doing this once in a while. I just recently did this to my bf because I wanted him to taste this new drink we got from the grocery store. It was some sort of coconut water thing. It WAS disgusting and I wanted him to taste it to confirm it as well. He ended up thinking the same thing. We certainly won’t be buying that drink ever again.

I ran into a friend many years ago. He said “Hey, have you seen Barbarella yet?” I said no, and he stressed that I should as soon as possible.
I ran into him again a few months later, and he again asked if I had seen this movie, and told me to hurry up and see it.
I ran into him again, with the same conversation. “You’ve got to see it!” he said.
I bought the laserdisk when I came across it. $35. I hated the movie.
I soon ran into him again, and said “Hey, I finally saw Barbarella!”
He said: “Doesn’t that movie suck???”

I do that because I like to share. Even if it’s gross. I’m just that sharing kind of person.~

I have had the opposite happen. I’ll try something that is gross and warn people away and they want to try anyway.

Why do we stop to look at accidents, pick at scabs, stick our thumbs up our ass and smell it and check the skid marks on our underwear before throwing them against a wall and if it sticks only then putting them in the laundry?

Edit: No, I ma not editing what I just wrote – all truth. I am adding a note to @filmfann; reminds me of the knock knock banana joke. Orange you glad…

@zensky Why do we stop to look at accidents, pick at scabs, stick our thumbs up our ass and smell it and check the skid marks on our underwear before throwing them against a wall and if it sticks only then putting them in the laundry?

O_o

lol

I think maybe people word it this way as a taste of things to come. Letting you know it’s some nasty shit, and it’s not that they’re not your friend and wanna traumatize you…but there’s just this need to share something, even if it’s something minor, like a nasty tasting soft drink, or something major, like some gross ass picture of a rotting dead guy you found on the Internet. Things affect people, it shocks and confuses/scares them, and sharing might be a way for them to cope, seek reassurance or guidance in respect to what they’ve experienced. The magnitude may be small or great, but that doesn’t matter if it affects you. Many people will use fake enthusiasm to disclose some adverse factor that fucked up their day, whether they know it or not. Even if it’s ass flavored butt Coke.
Or probably I denno what I’m talking about. Could be a lot of reasons. Sharing things doesn’t, obviously, always have to have some negative or dark and dreary pillar driving it. Maybe people just wanna be recognized for finding something fuckered up. I suspect that everyone on Encyclopedia Dramatica is actually really hurtin’ insidez

Kinda reminds me of a short Stephen King story, where it explains a character’s point of view on pets; that giving a kitten or a puppy to someone as a gift really isn’t a gift. It’s like, so here’s a cute little animal for you. It’s all fuzzy and bouncy and stuff…also, it shits everywhere, destroys everything, and costs heaps of cash to take care of. Happy Christmas, suckaaa! Seeyou on divorce day. Not that this has anything to do with this question, but I do think that the subconscious and the need to not be alone in the presence of Mountain Dew might slightly be related to…sticking your thumb up your ass or something. I denno, I forgot entirely where I was going with this.

Isn’t it similar to kids sharing their farts with each other, or showing each other their awesome scabs/wounds?

@zensky
Dude….You OK?

@WillWorkForChocolate Scabs kick ass.

As long as they don’t make me eat it…

@josie – ok? Me?