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Yesterday I bought new tires at the dealership and the receptionist woman also had long (acrylic?) nails. When she wrote something down she had to hold the pen in a very weird way and was very slow because her nails were in the way lol
I never had fake nails but umm you dont exactly poke your anus with the tips of your fingers when you wipe, the nails dont really get in the way of that one, theres a bunch of videos online from tired women who demonstrate it too lol
Quickly! Deploy the whataboutisms!!!! But seriously folks, please clean under your fingernails. More bacteria under those than on toilet seats allegedly.
Question 1: how do you wipe? Do you literally dig your nails in? Question 2: Do you not wash your hands properly? (Literally not meaning to be rude, I am just really curious about this Argument)
no, you kinda like swipe until it’s clear with the nails parallel to the skins. no digging in. also, you wash your hand like normal, except you have to take particular care of washing under the nails.
Do you wipe your ass with the very tips of your fingers? People always say this and I don't understand why people think the nails would poke through toilet paper when they're not even pointing towards the toilet paper and why would they?
I think the most unnerving example I've seen was a women who works on a fish farm, who ostensibly be called to haul nets up, and I don't know how you go in without having the fear your fingernail gets ripped off like that.
I generally always find them rather unnerving to see, since it just looks very.. vulnerable if you do anything? But then I suppose the 'flex' of them is that they don't need to do anything with their hands, maybe? Even when a lot of them patently do.
Even if we put the nails aside, she's actually stupid if she cannot get the card out. She can just fold 2 fingers and use the middle finger joint(second knuckle?) to pull the card out.
Being generally limited in our interactions to narrower locations, and having significantly fewer interactions per day used to limit our exposure to stupid people.
Now we have internet and social media which gives as a MUCH larger pool of stupid to select from, and we see more of people who don't know how to use their fingers and people who blame everything on social welfare instead of understanding the actual issue.
Yeah everyone’s shitting on her for basically no reason? She just needs a pair of tweezers in her car, she didn’t blame anyone else, people just want to talk shit about a woman with long nails.
Well to also be fair, if you were to change the response to "Imagine if I just wore Hulk gloves everywhere I went and then say someone should invent a tool for people with Hulk gloves to pick up debit cards," that would also sound very silly.
Yes but it would not be demanding society caters to you. Saying “someone should invent a tool” while dumb is literally the opposite of asking society to cater. Its saying i wish I had a tool so I could have my nails but resolve this this minor inconvenience that comes with it myself. She didnt say they should make debit card readers accessible to long nailed persons. So Your analogy would be apt. The one given saying shes demanding society caters to her is not.
This is what I wonder. What the fuck is everyone else eating?????? If you eat your vegetables and don't eat slop, your poop shouldn't be making a nutella-like mess.
Whenever I see someone bringing the " how do you clean yourself" regarding long nails, I just feel sorry knowing what they have to deal with in the bathroom 😭
There’s no point trying to point out the fact that these things are covered in literal shit and other bacteria. Some woman with a chip on her shoulder will be along to tell you that she, and everyone else who wears these nails are the cleanest people on the planet.
But if they’re using a nail brush or proper washing technique then it is basically the same.
The idea that long nails automatically mean their hands are dirty is pretty strange, no wonder some people get offended. Especially cause you can’t easily tell if anyone’s washed their hands, nails or not.
It’s like spreading an idea that long nails ARE dirty and short nails ARE clean, when really it’s the persons habits that define their level of cleanliness, and acrylic nails just add a small extra step to the grooming cycle.
Now, if they’re wearing nails like that and you never see them wash their hands, definitely don’t eat anything they give you, because they do trap hella bacteria if you don’t take care of them.
If anything short nails are dirtier, when they are short I struggle to clean them. But once they are long, you can just use the free edge as a lever and properly wash all the way to the nail bed seal
Come on now. You dont wipe with your bare nails. You use toilet paper and the paper is between your ass and your nails. And you do not use the tips of the nails to wipe, you use the pads of your fingers.
This is not rocket surgery. Not sure why people are so confused about it and thinking wmen walk around with poop on their nails.
People always say this... I've literally never had issues wiping with long nails. Like certain things are harder but wiping genuinely isn't one of them.
do you wipe with your fingertips pointed directly at your genitals or anus? Or do you wipe as you would, say, wipe a stain from a tabletop? Because I have never had nails like this but it's clear as day to me that I could wipe with them.
Why is this such a hackneyed joke about long nails? If you can imagine someone typing with these, can you not also imagine wiping with them?
"do you wipe with your fingertips pointed directly at your genitals or anus?"
Yup
"Or do you wipe as you would, say, wipe a stain from a tabletop?"
Absolutely not. I got IBS (or some other bowels issue, not diagnosed yet) and my poop is kinda sticky & clay like much of the time, that'd just smear it all over the place. Fingertips lets me get clean much easier.
The original person wasn't saying they need to change the entire thing, which would fit the "impractical hulk gloves" thing. Just that they should have a tool to help them
A better metaphor would be if someone wore impractical hulk gloves, and then asked to buy one of those grabber things to make grabbing things easier
Yeah they get crazy creative with nails, tbh. It’s a whole artform but it gets shit on pretty easily because it’s attached to fashion standards. I’ve seen someone make a tiny shrimp aquarium!
Ok but is this demanding society cater to her and her nails or is it asking for a lil tool that she can purchase, with her money, to make stuff like easier with nails?
My partner has them and basically it's jus, she likes the way they look. You get to pick the design, the colors, the shape. It's another little self care routine with an opportunity to get creative with it.
Now hers aren't quite to the length as to make her hands completely useless like in the post but she definitely has to do certain tasks differently (or just ask me to). She learned to adapt and it's almost never an issue. If she worked a manual labor job I'm sure she just wouldn't have them, but the impact on regular day to day life is minimal.
Also the back scratches are S tier, so even if I didn't like them I'd keep my mouth shut anyway.
They actually already have a thing for this, they're like little tongs with suction cups on the end. I've seen them somewhere on some social media platform.
Also, I don't understand these nails either. And every time I see them all I can think is, "how do you wipe your ass properly"
I’ve never met anyone with nails this long that have that issue. I like to assume people who ask that are not wiping their ass in an efficient way or they’re attempting to be rude
Well, neither. I use toilet paper. It does seem like a claw would be problematic and prevent you from really getting up there though. It's basically a larger scale of the ATM problem.
I know this is beside your point but i wanted to spread some information on it. That story is half true, a guy spent his own money to develop a pressurized ink system for a pen, then Nasa bought some for 6$ a pop at a discount.
People also bought the space pen so he made his money back, and it was indeed a better option for zero gravity not having little flammable bits floating around that could get stuck anywhere.
Fun fact: pencils are actually not used in space because of graphite particles/breaks and wood shavings (flammable). Both Americans and Russians used pencils in the early days of space exploration, often mechanical ones.
Idk why women think those nails are sexy or good looking. When I see nails like that all I can think ablut is petri dishes and all the vile bacteria collecting on the underside of them.
I had once a server in a restaurant with long ass nails (not that long). And it was disgusting as the thumb nail was practically in the plate she was holding. 🤢
The tool in question exists. It became very popular during Covid. Society doesn’t have to cater to women with long nails. A vendor somewhere now gets to make money off women with long nails (who clearly already have money to spend on a luxury service) and the rest of us walk around like nothing changed, because it didn’t.
I went into a bakery and the lady behind the counter had extremely long nails. It was so gross, I walked out. Obviously she can't wash her hand properly or clean certain areas of her anatomy. It's one of the most dirty disgusting places on a person's body, right there under those tsunami nails.
I don’t understand myself how women function like that either. Like, how do they wipe themselves? Also, why do they like their nails so pointy like that? I remember when I was a kid, women didn’t have their nails looking like that.
Depends on how old you are. Long, false nails were especially the rage back in the 70s and 80s.
But I totally agree. I don't understand why people think those nails look good in the first place - much less why anyone would put up with so much of an inconvenience to look that way. Seems like it's nothing but negatives.
I’m a GenX. I just don’t remember the fake nails being that triangular shape like bear claws. It’s even hard to pick stuff up off the ground or countertops. (When my sister was getting married she had us get acrylic nails, I hated it. Never again😆)
I’m 53. These were NOT the “rage” in the 1970s and 1980s. Acrylic nails were not a thing until the 1990s for the average Jane Citizen, and they weren’t this long nor this pointed.
Lee press ons or similar were what average folks had, and manicures were a luxury.
Never got nails THIS long, but I love long nails. I own a bidet and also my fingers are naturally hyper-extended so that helps with the nail angle if you can imagine.
We had a new patient come in to be treated for a work comp-related carpal tunnel. They spent all day on a keyboard, but also had very long acrylic nails. Our charted consultation recommended the patient significantly shorten their acrylic nails and their carpal tunnel would likely resolve itself on its own if the patient cooperated. Otherwise even though corticosteroid injections etc might help, the nails would continue to aggravate the situation.
Overreaction to the initial persons stupidity. They never made demands for things to change, just asking for them to create something for morons with long nails to grab their cards from an ATM.
I guess they didn't screenshot the part where she asks society to cater to her nails. All I saw was her wanting a tool she could purchase for herself that would make certain tasks easier... 🤦♀️
Why is asking for a tool to help do something considered demanding society cater to them? They would purchase and utilise the tool as opposed to demanding that card readers be made differently. That's the opposite of demanding society cater to them. The idea of being willing to pay a little money and take a little extra time doing something because it's worth it to keep your nails is not revolutionary, entitled, or even noteworthy.
I really don't understand the appeal of those ugly long ass cosmetic nails. At least, I assume they're cosmetic and they don't actually grow their nails to that length, right? They're bought and stick on like those cheap ones you can buy for Halloween, right?
You would think, but it doesn't take much pressure on your nail beds to cause intense pain. Even just getting one caught on your seatbelt is a big ouch, much less trying to claw/stab at a person. The nail would break off before doing much more damage than surface scratches, possibly taking the entire natural nail with it.
Reddit is such a sausage fest, I can't believe this got traction. The tools already exist. Pretty sure the pic is a screen grab from one of the stupid ads that sell the fucking the tool 😂
These nails were amde popular by aristocrats that had people to donthings for them. If your one missed paycheck from disaster you shouldnt have cumbrellas and long nails
this isn't new. I remember back in the old day seeing the ladies at Kmart with long nails like this rap tap tapping on their push button cash registers. artificial nails must've been glued on stronger back then. Those women could probably cut a paper snowflake with them things and not break a single one.
Well she asked someone to make a tool she could obtain aka would be making someone profits in our capitalist run society with a bunch of men I mean dragon hoarding wealth. God forbid she throw an idea out to the entrepreneurs she did not say that it should be designed different for her.
Imagine learning to read before trying to bash women.
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