ONE long fingernail

smk135 · 06-09-2006 08:03PM #1

completely random question:

to all you lads out there, why would ANY lad have normal fingers, normal nails, but then let ONE FINGERNAIL grow exceedingly long?(a part from the "guitar players")

I don't know why, but I find that so disgusting. I am probably wring to be so repulsed by it but I cant help it...

i think i find that even more off putting than dirty nails...

anyone else find it horrible? anyone knw what the story is with it???

agentrache · 06-09-2006 08:05PM

That's disgusting...I would be so repulsed by that! Don't think I've ever seen a guy with that though..

Silverfish · 06-09-2006 08:06PM

It is apparently to enable them to carry out some....personal hygiene procedures...er......

theTinker · 06-09-2006 08:10PM

obviously he uses it as an emergency screwdriver, perhaps hes an expert back scratcher?

honestly though i couldnt fathom wat it could be for, It would defintely look gross. If i seen it myself i would assume sum wierd mental thing unless i seen him in a guitar shop lol.

Dirty fingernails though are worst(sorry

) green yucky tips make me want to puke.

WellyJ · 06-09-2006 08:10PM

Eh....

Who does this?

I've never seen that

bobbyjoe · 06-09-2006 08:13PM

For snorting coke off?
Thats what Harvey Keitels character had one for in taxi driver.

Rhyme · 06-09-2006 08:15PM

http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/c/casanova.htm

Use it as a weapon.

Myself, i have a thing about fingernails (eyes too, but thats beside the point)... cant stand long fingernails for the fear that they'd come off *Shudders*

Creamy Goodness · 06-09-2006 08:16PM

even for a guitar player having one long fingernail is odd, we normally keep them all the same length or just tape five picks to our fingers

Ruu_Old · 06-09-2006 08:20PM

What about the chap that has the world record for the longest fingernails? They just look teh mank. Poor wifey has to clean and file them for him all the time.

Beruthiel · 06-09-2006 08:23PM

bobbyjoe wrote:

For snorting coke off?
Thats what Harvey Keitels character had one for in taxi driver.

Yup
That's what I thought when I read the question.

smk135 · 06-09-2006 08:29PM

well at least im not the only one who finds it gross.

i have seen it sooooo often and it puts me off every time.

but yeah i supose dirty nails are worse.

what about dirty nails with ONE long DIRTY nail as well???:eek:

iFight · 06-09-2006 08:30PM

Ruu wrote:

What about the chap that has the world record for the longest fingernails? They just look teh mank. Poor wifey has to clean and file them for him all the time.

They look hilarious. Good owl book of records.

But anyway, Ive never seen anyone with just one long nail.

agentrache · 06-09-2006 08:31PM

Eeew dirty nails are bad enough on their own!

Gordon · 06-09-2006 08:35PM

I've got a mate that has one long thumbnail. I think he said that he likes it when I asked him.

agentrache · 06-09-2006 08:37PM

...Well each to their own I guess!

Strokesfan · 06-09-2006 08:47PM

Yuck Yuck Yuck - poor personal hygiene if Irish lads have one long fingernail - mank

JPA · 06-09-2006 09:18PM

I knew a Chinese guy who had it.

This explains it.

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/060428.html

Caco · 06-09-2006 09:24PM

A friend of mine has a long nail on his pinky! He plays guitar but I dont think thats why he has it as I think it's on his left hand (he's a right handed guitarist and uses left hand for chords etc.) I think he just has it for the craic
Also a guy i worked with had a long nail on his thumb
I don't really like the look of it either but èach to their own as agentrache said!

smk135 · 06-09-2006 10:19PM

CACO? you never thought to ask them what posessed them to grow a skakny long fingernail???!!!!

bluto63 · 06-09-2006 10:29PM

I can sort of see it why guitarists have it. But I was never a fan of using my nail, I much prefer using a pick
Or 5 taped to my fingers as Cremo said

thehomeofDob · 06-09-2006 10:44PM

I've got all the nails on my right hand long, and my left thumbnail slightly long. The left is just to clean the right hand ones :-P It's great for when there's no nail brush around

Oh yeah, guitarist :P

Terry · 06-09-2006 10:47PM

anything like this?

bluto63 · 06-09-2006 10:54PM

julep wrote:

anything like this?

I want that!

Karl Hungus · 06-09-2006 10:59PM

Although I find it odd, even for guitarists (I'm a guitarist, and I keep 'em short), I don't get people here who are saying it's skanky and gross...

It's not as if fingernails are hard to keep clean. Sure all you need is one of those nail scrubbing brushes. So what's with all the revulsion?

monkeyfudge · 06-09-2006 11:20PM

I tend to keep my tumb nails long. They come in handy as I hate not being able to tear into things with blunt fingernails... Also handy for getting into tight gaps as well.

They're not really long though.. maybe just under a centimetre.

smk135 · 07-09-2006 10:22AM

Karl Hungus wrote:

Although I find it odd, even for guitarists (I'm a guitarist, and I keep 'em short), I don't get people here who are saying it's skanky and gross...

It's not as if fingernails are hard to keep clean. Sure all you need is one of those nail scrubbing brushes. So what's with all the revulsion?

do you know, im not sure why i find it so gross but i think it may have to do wit hthe fact that there are so many freakin germs under your fingernails and long ones are even worse obviously.
so, ONE SINGLE long nail prob symbolises as previously stated someone using it for (un)hygenic reasons.... it's just weird as well.

biko · 07-09-2006 10:47AM

Just plain revolting.
And ghey.

Giruilla · 07-09-2006 04:31PM

I always let one nail grown longer than the others! It comes in handy when your dyin for a scratch but all your nils are too short to be effective. Good for opening cans too!:)

arbeitsscheuer · 07-09-2006 04:37PM

monkeyfudge wrote:

I tend to keep my tumb nails long. They come in handy as I hate not being able to tear into things with blunt fingernails... Also handy for getting into tight gaps as well.

They're not really long though.. maybe just under a centimetre.

Likewise. Although I must say in my case it's never been conscious or intentional really, I just don't tend to bite my nails but all the rest break. Generally my thumbnails just last longer I spose. *shrugs*

And it's certainly not unhygienic - any germs which can, will lodge themselves under even the shortest nails. In fact, longer ones seem to be easier to keep clean. That's just my take on it anyways.

5starpool · 07-09-2006 04:37PM

I know a good few Chinese that do this. I have always wondered, never asked, just assumed it was some sort of cultural thnig. I hate having long fingernails, have to cut them every week or 10 days at the most.

smk135 · 07-09-2006 05:07PM

yeah...even that explanation of gerems getting everywhere i still just find it gross. sorry.

ONE long fingernail

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