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There's an enormous difference between having a disgusting bad habit and being batshit crazy.
Heck, as far as I can tell this has happened only once. Raise your hand if you've never done something stupid and disgusting in public by mistake. Congratulations, you are all batshit crazy.

Some consider that picking your nose, chewing your nails and scratching your genitalia to alleviate an itch in public is disguising. In some countries belching is acceptable and in others it's considered very rude.

More: I'm fairly certain some of yours or mine regular habits could be found disgusting by quite a few people. NVM possibly random quirks (but it's telling how bowkota bases on something like this his efforts to disparage Dr Stallman)

Plus, from how it looks, it might as well be a simple case of (series of) automatisms that went haywire.

He was clearly focused, immersed in the conversation going on ...OK, so he happened to pick something from his feet at the time. OK, so he has eaten a small object he's holding in a particular way in his hand. What we must realize: it's entirely possible those two actions were two separate background tasks, not really conscious processes, that got combined in an unfortunate way.

We all do this. Simplest example is when we get to some room and don't know why we went there in the first place.
Heck, a buddy of mine once wanted to throw out garbage and get some food in a shop nearby. It ended with him throwing the purchase into garbage container, and putting garbage on the kitchen table...

And while it's not 100% reliable, it's also good that we often operate on such level - otherwise our minds would get swamped with what are, in reality, just constant background tasks that we pay little attention to.


BTW, not far every-other-part-of-the-body tends to be more hygienic than hands, and biting peels of skin from them (around nails and such) seems socially acceptable.