Clipping nails in pubic.........FACKING GROSS!!!!

[AnaKhouri]

My stepdad does this! It drives me crazy too. If we are waiting for a table or something, or if he is waiting for the rest of us to get packed up to leave a restaurant, he whips out the clippers. He only ever does it in restaurants, too, which seems like the WORST place.

Clipping your nails is like plucking your eyebrows or shaving your legs. Do it at home!

[XCashier]

I've had to clip a nail in public before but in winter my nails get iffy and rip easily, doesn't help when a packages edge doesn't let go.

I've had to do it at work when I've snagged a nail on a fabric bolt (happens more often than you'd think). An emergency clip of one broken nail is one thing, though; sitting there in a dining room clipping all of your nails is not appropriate. Do that before you go out!

[Seshat]

I have fragile nails, so an emergency clip is unfortunately common. If I can get away with it, I do an emergency file instead - people seem less annoyed by that.

[dalesys]

Well, you can make extremely convincing fake boogers out of of rubber cement or gum eraser. But when you are literally plugged into a camera by your headset and stuck there for a while, you make do with what you have on hand.

Not safe for tender tummies:

Roll a couple of raisins around in your fingers until they're skinned: Simulated Coal Miner's Booger.

(highlight to read)

[zombiequeen]

I think that's just disgusting. He couldn't wait to get into the car or back home to do it?

But I also have to remember that a lot of male seniors tend to spend hours at a time at McDonalds (and Hardees and BK) every day, so it might as well be their livingroom by now, I guess.

So this explains all the old guys I see scratching their balls at Mccy-Dees then?

[sweetj82]

we have a co-worker who everyday files and clips her nails in the lunch room and she never cleans up.

[Canarr]

Every day? That's some fast-growing nails she's got there!

I remember, way back when I was a teenager, we went on a student exchange to France, by train. One of our escorting teachers, at some point, got out his nail clippers and started clipping his fingernails during the train ride. I felt a little put out.

Though not half es much as when he did the same to his toenails at the beach...

[LillFilly]

It's a hard call on this one. A lot of people hate the little 'snick-snick' sound of clipping nails. Now, if you're out and you have one torn nail, do it over a trash can, not a big deal. But when someone's sitting say in a coffee shop area or on a bench in the middle of the mall with those full-sized clippers giving themselves the full manicure/pedicure treatment, that's going too far in my book. A, those clippings are going all over. B, I don't know how clean they are! C, there are restrooms they can do that in. I think either some people are ignorant about what you should/shouldn't do in public, they don't care, or they do it on purpose because they know it bugs people. If I were near someone and their clippings landed on me, I'd bug out a bit.

[Shalom]

The Talmud teaches that people should take care to destroy their nail clippings, because if a pregnant woman should happen to walk over them, it can have a detrimental effect on the pregnancy. Believe this or not as you will, but most of my co-religionists are very careful not to leave them lying around. I personally flush 'em down the toilet; previous generations burned them or buried them. I remember a bit in a Yiddish short story by Shalom Aleichem (no relation) in which a guy finished clipping his nails at an inn, flung them into the fireplace, and added two slivers of wood from the bench he sat on, to serve as witnesses in Heaven that he didn't treat them disrespectfully.

(Oh, and I can't stand to see someone filing their nails (or hear it, which is even worse). Can't even pick up an emery board. It sends shudders right up my back and makes my tongue feel too big for my mouth. Sandpaper, unpeeled peaches, and those horrible grade-Z brown paper towels we got in school have the same effect on me. I suspect that's an autism-spectrum-type hypersensitivity to ordinarily non-annoying environmental stimuli.)

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Oh. Man. The cheap brown paper towels.



How about this? Styrefoam. The brittle paper in old books.

Ack. My freakin' teeth are on edge just thinking about it.

EDIT: Oh I just thought of the worst one: a pencil with the eraser missing from the aluminum eraser socket. I can't even....I can't....

[Andara Bledin]

EDIT: Oh I just thought of the worst one: a pencil with the eraser missing from the aluminum eraser socket. I can't even....I can't....

Ok, I was totally fine until you got to this point... >_>

^-.-^

[Becks]

You guys are making my teeth itch.

[Kogarashi]

Eh, none of that gets me.

Now, microfiber cloths when my hands are really dry...worst sensation ever. ::twitch::

[Setsunaela]

I'm thinking I should have stopped at page 2 here.. getting the heebie-jeebies thinking about such things, and RK killed me with the pencil bit.. and then Kogarashi kicked me while I was down. >.<

[ShinyGreenApple]

It's gross, IMO. I'm squicked out beyond belief when I can hear people at home in the next room clipping their nails, the noise drives me buggy. I'll put on music or TV really loud with headphones until they're done. To me it's the same thing as shaving or brushing your teeth, do it where I can't see you! Also my Dad and one of my brothers have the bad habit of clipping toenails (ACK!) in the living room and letting the clippings go everywhere. Those fuckers will hurt like hell when stepped on, not to mention the bacteria possibilities.

I was also astonished when I was sitting in a church service and some guy whipped out a pair of clippers and went to town right there. I mean WTF? How rude. It's something I do once a week or so when they get too long to safely manage anymore, but I don't do it at work, or church, or the movies. I dunno where common manners have gone