Where do you clip your finger/toe nails?

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So that the clippings don't go everywhere?

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 11:50 (twenty years ago)

bed

― dahlin (dahlin), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 11:52 (twenty years ago)

do you think that there are people out there who fetishise the activity and that we could all film ourselves clipping our toenails in exotic locations and sell the footage? Anyone got a good name for this project? c'mon, who's with me?

― Menelaus Darcy (Menelaus Darcy), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 11:52 (twenty years ago)

Bathroom washbasin.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 12:09 (twenty years ago)

i don't clip, the snap goes through me and gives me goose bumps. i cut them over the bin.

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 12:59 (twenty years ago)

aaargh -- major pet peeve.

what the fuck makes people think its okay to clip their toenails in places like the car or the office? this drives me insane.

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 13:00 (twenty years ago)

Over the trash can in the bathroom. I chase down the mavericks and put into the trash.

My old boss used to clip his nails at his desk. A lot.

― pullapartgirl (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 13:01 (twenty years ago)

alba is supple.

― N_RQ, Wednesday, 27 July 2005 13:02 (twenty years ago)

I am, I guess. I often do them in the bath too, I should have said. Leaving them around is gross, yes. I make sure mine go down the plughole.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 13:04 (twenty years ago)

over a bin.

― haitch (haitch), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 13:12 (twenty years ago)

over a bin/plastic bag in bedroom/ bathroom.

never ever in the presence of anyone else.

― battlingspacemonkey (battlingspacemonkey), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 13:20 (twenty years ago)

Oh man, how long did I share a bath with Alba for? I do mine over a magazine because then you can curl up the edges and it's easy to make them go in the bin.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 13:31 (twenty years ago)

In the bath, I'm afraid. But normally I try and collect them and throw them in the bin after.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 13:46 (twenty years ago)

I MAKE SURE THEY GO DOWN THE PLUGHOLE. What is the problem?

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 13:55 (twenty years ago)

How long did I share magazines with Madchen??

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 13:56 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I made sure I only used ones with Nicole Kidman on the cover.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 13:57 (twenty years ago)

I assumed those clippings were free Nicole gifts.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 14:26 (twenty years ago)

An urgent matter, I presume.

― Carol Stream (dymaxia), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 14:44 (twenty years ago)

i go outside to do it. on the porch.

― ai lien (kold_krush), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 14:45 (twenty years ago)

Over a paper towel on the bed. When you finish, carefully fold the paper towel and dispense in an appropriate trash bin.

― Mickey (modestmickey), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:00 (twenty years ago)

The problem with the bin/towel/magazine solution, as I see it, is that if you use nail clippers then unless you've softened your nails in the bath/shower beforehand, they have a tendency to sometimes go flying off in unexpected directions.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)

I am with Alba here.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)

You've just reminded me of a friend who clipped her nails on a train when we were travelling up to London once and the bits flew all over the carriage. That was very bad etiquette, I thought.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

Also bad etiquette was the time a professor clipped her nails during a presentation by her advisee. In my PhD seminar.

I clip my nails in private, using towel method as above.

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:07 (twenty years ago)

You've just reminded me of a friend who clipped her nails on a train when we were travelling up to London once and the bits flew all over the carriage.

And you're complaining about me cutting them in the bath??

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:08 (twenty years ago)

But I might have sat on them!

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

I rinsed the tub v.carefully.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)

I clip them in my room or in the bathroom, but I don't really collect them afterwards... They're tiny, I don't think they bother anyone, or at least none of my flatmates have ever complained about them. Plus they're off the next time you vacuum anyway.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)

I used to (ok I still do but hardly ever honest) have a bad habit of picking my nails and putting the bits in my pockets. This is ok until I lend my clothes to anyone.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:23 (twenty years ago)

Tuomas, deliberately leaving things all over the floor in the knowledge/hope that they'll be removed next time the hoovering is done might be the WAY YOU DO THINGS IN FINLAND but NOT OVER HERE.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

BECAUSE WE ONLY HOOVER ONCE A YEAR.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:27 (twenty years ago)

QUITE.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:28 (twenty years ago)

I sit on the loo, stick my feet up on the side of the bath and clip them into the bath. I then chase them down the plughole with the shower. I file my fingernails.

― Penelope_111 (Penelope_111), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:28 (twenty years ago)

Well, after I've clipped them, I never see them anyway, and if I can't see them I don't think anyone else does either. I think the idea of clippings is more disturbing than the clippings themselves, in your regular apartment there's plenty of space for them to disappear in.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:31 (twenty years ago)

jerry the nipper taught me to clip them over the loo

as in standing over it, not, while you're, you know, on it

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:33 (twenty years ago)

I don't really understand Tuomas's invisible clippings. Do you cut your nails so often the clippings are like dust? If so, why not just file?

(which raises the question: is filing one's nails onto the floor acceptable?)

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:34 (twenty years ago)

i have one of these fancy clippers that has a compartment which collects the clippings! Which then makes for easy disposal.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:36 (twenty years ago)

But when you're walking around in bare feet don't you feel them? Or if you're in socks, don't they stick in your socks?

― sgs (sgs), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

i have one of these fancy clippers that has a compartment which collects the clippings! Which then makes for easy disposal.

Ooh - is it electric, like an executive pencil sharpener?

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

Carpet shagginess is a factor here?

I think worrying about nail FILINGS is a bit anal, not to mention a fool's errand of Ashputtel dimensions. More bits of skin and crud fall off you without you even knowing than are represented by nail filings, probably.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

oh no, not that fancy.. it's a purely mechanical thing, basically the clipping bit is all sealed in (like a mouth) and when you clip you turn the thing upright and the clipping falls into the bottom (the 'stomach' if you like). there is no equvalent of the anus, but rather the stomach can be opened after the clipping session and then you just pour the lot in the bin/bath/nicole kidman etc.

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

I file my fingernails over a towel so the white stuff doesn't drop on my clothes. It's hard to brush off, like deoderant marks are. Needless to say, when I was Alba's flatmate I used HIS TOWEL.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:41 (twenty years ago)

How often to you cut your toenails? Long toenails are a complete turn off. Yuck.

― Penelope_111 (Penelope_111), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:41 (twenty years ago)

I used yours as a terry nappy.

x-post

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:42 (twenty years ago)

it's so much more satisfying to clip a big fat bit of big-toe toe-nail though

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)

I try to cut my nails (toe and finger) once a week but often forget and then I notice they (usually fingernails) are too long when I'm out and about and there's nothing I can do about it and it bugs me and I have to put the thought out of my mind.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:46 (twenty years ago)

ok, googling "toenail clippers" return this

http://www.supersizeworld.com/24-600.htm

"nobend" toenail clippers, indeed

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:46 (twenty years ago)

THAT IS A TERRIFYING IMPLEMENT

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

You should see their home circumcision kit.

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:48 (twenty years ago)

I'd be scared of cutting off my whole toe - there should be some kind of periscope integrated with it that would allow you to see where you were clipping.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:48 (twenty years ago)

Oh hang on - it does include an adjustable magnifying lens. Still, it looks to far away if you're doing the "no-bend" thing.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:50 (twenty years ago)

You could clip your nails and trim your hedges at the same time.

― Penelope_111 (Penelope_111), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:50 (twenty years ago)

You should see their home circumcision kit.
-- Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr_...), July 27th, 2005 4:48 PM. (dr g) (later)

nobend nobend clipper

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 15:57 (twenty years ago)

oh, how i've laughed tonight.
anyone use their discarded fingernail clipping/rippings to clean their teeth?

― dahlin (dahlin), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 18:03 (twenty years ago)

there was a teacher at my middle school who supposedly took off his shoes and socks while the students were doing some sort of worksheets and clipped his toenails in front of the class

― mike h. (mike h.), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

In front of the tv. I have such an awful attention span that sitting doing this and having nothing else to hold my attention is pretty painful.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

The hygiene threads on ILE of late have revealed me to be the devil-may-care slob I truly am, despite all my metrosexual affectations.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

Kitchen table. Haw haw.

― Peo, Thursday, 28 July 2005 01:25 (twenty years ago)

Clip over the wastebasket in the bathroom.

― Cheeseburger-style funbox to GO! Fries come in regular and crepuscular size (Eas, Thursday, 28 July 2005 01:27 (twenty years ago)

But when you're walking around in bare feet don't you feel them? Or if you're in socks, don't they stick in your socks?

No, no. Once I've clipped them, usually I never see them again.

anyone use their discarded fingernail clipping/rippings to clean their teeth?

Sure, but it's awful if the get stuck between your teeth.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 28 July 2005 05:37 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

I'm like old Ackley here, all clipping my nails all over the house at any old time and probably grossing out the hoosband.

― Abbott, Monday, 18 August 2008 18:44 (seventeen years ago)

Man, my boss clips his nails at his desk and it makes me gag every time! I guess because the boss can do it, the bailiff thinks it's o.k. that he do it at his desk, too! GAG.

― Ai Lien, Monday, 18 August 2008 18:52 (seventeen years ago)

As with the boss, so with the bailiff.

― Abbott, Monday, 18 August 2008 18:52 (seventeen years ago)

How come everyone throws them away when we could be famous like this guy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNzZCDbiRNE

(warning: gross)

― StanM, Monday, 18 August 2008 18:53 (seventeen years ago)

When I was young, and worried about starving kids in Somalia, I thought we could solve the world hunger problem by grinding fingernails into flour. Reasoning: they're a renewable resource. I now see every single problem with this plan.

― Abbott, Monday, 18 August 2008 18:56 (seventeen years ago)

Hey guys, there are these nice cheap nail clippers out there that have a little plastic triangle between the teeth, kinda blocking the sides, so that they collect your trimmings and allow you to dump them out later. They're simple, effective, not entirely uncommon, and would have made this thread about a quarter as long.

― nabisco, Monday, 18 August 2008 19:43 (seventeen years ago)

I am not trying to be smug or nothin' -- I have only been using such a thing recently, and I am still just pleased about it

― nabisco, Monday, 18 August 2008 19:44 (seventeen years ago)

Show us the contraption, nabisco.

I do my toes outside. The ex used to tear his toenails off with fingers when they reached kangaroo length. and would make a small effort at getting them into the trash *shudders at the memory* Yeech. Glad he's "ex".

― Wiggy Woo, Monday, 18 August 2008 19:55 (seventeen years ago)

Automobile.

― libcrypt, Monday, 18 August 2008 19:56 (seventeen years ago)

I clip them in my mouth and then I keep them in a little pile on the nearest table, or in a coke can or something that will become trash. If I'm in a car I try to throw them out the window. Sometimes I find a small pile of clippings in my room that I never threw away.

― CaptainLorax, Monday, 18 August 2008 19:59 (seventeen years ago)

I now see every single problem with this plan.

aaaaahahaha

For the record, since I (still) bite my nails, I "clip" them in the same places that one would spit out sunflower seed shells.

― Z S, Monday, 18 August 2008 20:02 (seventeen years ago)

my brother collected his clippings (finger & toe) in a mason jar for a while there, on the threshold of puberty. it became a bit of a neighborhood sensation, especially as it approached the three-quarters full mark.

― collardio gelatinous, Monday, 18 August 2008 20:14 (seventeen years ago)

Either I am having a very judgmental day on ILX or else y'all are gross

― nabisco, Monday, 18 August 2008 20:27 (seventeen years ago)

Latter!

― Abbott, Monday, 18 August 2008 20:27 (seventeen years ago)

Gross-Out Nation 2k8

― Abbott, Monday, 18 August 2008 20:28 (seventeen years ago)

Starring: a mountain of guts!

― Abbott, Monday, 18 August 2008 20:28 (seventeen years ago)

Jeez, and I thought my piles of licked sans cheese Doritos were gross.

― Z S, Monday, 18 August 2008 20:31 (seventeen years ago)

Either I am having a very judgmental day on ILX or else y'all are gross

no, this is like those threads where people state they ahven't been to the dentist in 25 years. I don't know why I read these, they make me terrified of all of you

― akm, Monday, 18 August 2008 21:38 (seventeen years ago)

I think the more practical interpretation is that the people who DON'T clip their toenails and get at least a little bit fascinated with such a weird byproduct are the freakish ones.

― Laurel, Monday, 18 August 2008 21:40 (seventeen years ago)

Trim your guinea pigs' nails or they will turn out like THIS:

http://cavyspirit.com/images/Pigs/nails9.jpg

I trim the guinea pig's nails on my lap so he is chill and cozy.

― Abbott, Monday, 18 August 2008 21:42 (seventeen years ago)

Is there an emoticon for barfing?

― nabisco, Monday, 18 August 2008 21:57 (seventeen years ago)

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― nabisco, Monday, 18 August 2008 21:57 (seventeen years ago)


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― nabisco, Monday, 18 August 2008 21:57 (seventeen years ago)

how is this even a thread?? "over a trash can" is the answer.

either a lot of people of my generation ARE totally helpless or they like to pretend to be to have something to talk about. i don't know which is lamer.

― goole, Monday, 18 August 2008 22:03 (seventeen years ago)

My answer is "in bed while watching a movie" because that's the only place from which I can see my TV and the rest of my apt is public. So although I normally think you a votm, you're wrong above.

― Laurel, Monday, 18 August 2008 22:04 (seventeen years ago)

*you are votm....

― Laurel, Monday, 18 August 2008 22:05 (seventeen years ago)

we did get a pic of gnarly guinea pig claws out of it

― Edward III, Monday, 18 August 2008 22:05 (seventeen years ago)

I would definitely agree with adding "in front of the television" to the "obvious places to clip nails" category. Anyone who can clip nails without half-doing something else is a person with far more mental discipline than I am capable of.

― nabisco, Monday, 18 August 2008 22:06 (seventeen years ago)

I clip them into a poopsock (see other thread). And someone else's at that.

― snoball, Monday, 18 August 2008 22:59 (seventeen years ago)

I had some like this from Japan. They are pretty good but after about a year they kinda gave up on me. Ah well. BAck to the reg ones. I trim above the lavatory (or whatever the fuck you call it).

― stevienixed, Tuesday, 19 August 2008 09:04 (seventeen years ago)

Generally in the bathroom, vaguely over the toilet, though I live alone and so don't have to be overly fussy about it.

If there's a room which is decidedly messy and due for an imminent tidying then I will do it there instead (e.g. the kitchen just the other day).

― krakow, Tuesday, 19 August 2008 09:40 (seventeen years ago)

I would like to see a blurb from nabisco on the nail clipper packaging.

"Not entirely uncommon!" – Nabisco
"Nabisco OTM" – Johnson & Johnson

― Abbott, Tuesday, 19 August 2008 16:56 (seventeen years ago)

"poopsock"?!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i'm gonna go die now

― dell, Tuesday, 19 August 2008 16:59 (seventeen years ago)

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