that's gross

think of all the places your hands have been

7/13/2011 9:04:30 AM

i don't bite my fingernails nearly as much as i used to

i bit my toenails more, though

7/13/2011 9:08:47 AM

I was biting my nails as I came across this thread.

7/13/2011 9:11:42 AM

I stopped for a long time but recently did it out of stress... It was the first time my nails hurt or bled in about a year (besides an occasional nail breaking that I actually didn't cause)

Time to break out the disgusting nail polish

7/13/2011 9:17:08 AM

7/13/2011 9:20:10 AM

use nail clippers instead

that's my advice

7/13/2011 9:20:54 AM

I peel my nails when I get bored or stressed. I recently used a nail clipper on them and now they feel weird.

7/13/2011 9:23:01 AM

That's bad advice for me... I have sat at the sink for over an hour clipping anything and everything I could on my nails, or the skin around them

7/13/2011 9:24:38 AM

i recommend stopping when you have reached an optimal nail length

7/13/2011 9:31:28 AM

It's pretty rare that I have optimal nail length

[Edited on July 13, 2011 at 9:33 AM. Reason : .]

7/13/2011 9:32:58 AM

maybe let them grow for a while

7/13/2011 9:35:56 AM

Dur... Easier said than done

Once I stopped biting them, I realized I had a problem with constantly picking them

So now I have to work on that :/

7/13/2011 9:37:48 AM

perhaps mittens would help

7/13/2011 9:39:01 AM

aww, mittens is such a cute word.

7/13/2011 9:40:08 AM

if only these cupcake mittens came in larger sizes

http://www.amazon.com/Zooni-Sweet-Mittens-Size-Months/dp/B004KZ2KUO

7/13/2011 9:43:35 AM

Hahaha aha I really love those.. I have pretty small hands

7/13/2011 9:45:04 AM

I'm glad I have dealt with stress in other ways...

like cookies, sex, and alcohol

7/13/2011 10:13:19 AM

I used to be a really bad nail biter. I still nibble on them but not nearly as much.

7/13/2011 10:23:35 AM

I used to bite my nails but then one day in 1st or 2nd grade some kid told me that I'd get a bubble on my butt from biting my nails


so I quit

7/13/2011 10:37:41 AM

Maybe that's why I have a big butt

7/13/2011 10:39:38 AM

supposedly Mike got a bubble on his butt from biting his nails and that's why everyone called him bubble butt

7/13/2011 10:45:08 AM

I've bitten my nails for YEARS.. and I probably always will... yea.. I know it's gross, but it's a habit.

7/13/2011 10:56:49 AM

feels good man

7/13/2011 10:57:22 AM

i have a question

what do fingernails taste like?

7/13/2011 10:58:47 AM

depends on how much shit is embedded in said nail. Yesterday, I bit down on a nail that was especially feculent.

[Edited on July 13, 2011 at 11:06 AM. Reason : .]

7/13/2011 11:05:41 AM

Paging opeii

7/13/2011 11:06:24 AM

Quote :

"what do fingernails taste like?"

a hint of iron

7/13/2011 11:08:20 AM

What causes people to do this disguisting stress habit. Slight mental disorder?

7/13/2011 11:09:59 AM

Quote :

"What causes people to do this disguisting stress habit. Slight mental disorder?"

anxiety

7/13/2011 11:10:50 AM

Frat boy looking down on other people well i never

7/13/2011 11:11:54 AM

For me it's boredom.

7/13/2011 11:13:03 AM

ew

nails gross me out... especially seeing/finding/stepping on someone's nail clippings

7/13/2011 11:15:20 AM

^^^how's that looking down. It was an honest question.

7/13/2011 11:22:25 AM

I find this quite gross too. Once in a while I will bite a cuticle if it is really bothering me but then I always feel so icky afterward.

7/13/2011 11:25:14 AM

I had a coworker who would sit next to me and audibly nibble on his fingers in meetings. Sounded like a squirrel eating nuts. That was kinda gross.

7/13/2011 11:30:26 AM

I once bit my nails

now I pick at them when they're getting cracked or weakened, and I then file away the rough edges

7/13/2011 11:36:16 AM

ayo gurl

ill bite yo toenails

7/13/2011 11:37:33 AM

Whats worse, nail biting or nose picking? Also which do you think is more prevalent? Just curious. IMO Nail biting + nose picking ft

7/13/2011 11:38:14 AM

I bite my nails but it has a purpose(sorta). I have kept the nails beyond the quick so long that the first 1/4" of the top of my fingers are calloused skin, not nails. I do this because I play guitar like a piano (vertical depression of the strings, rather than laying them down) and if I have regular length nails the strings get caught UNDER the nail, so I bite them back...some of you are prolly like, "you could still use clippers" - I feel like I can get my nails shorter without drawing blood using my teeth...clippers are blunt instruments by comparison...I also only bite my nails right after a shower when they are soft and clean...it isn't a nervous habit.

7/13/2011 11:55:09 AM

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7/13/2011 11:56:56 AM

^^ A girl I went to high school with never used clippers and swore she only bit her nails because she did a better job with her teeth.

7/13/2011 11:57:56 AM

I ate better without a fork until i turned 3

I'm AstralAdvent and i approved this message.

7/13/2011 12:03:04 PM

now if only you could learn to sing

7/13/2011 12:05:10 PM

i still bite my nails, not as often though, i got accustomed to biting them all the time and the constant short length, it seriously irritates me to have any length on them

when i wore gloves everyday for a year i didnt bite my nails and kinda broke my habit, but then when i took off the gloves i started carrying clippers on my key chain, that helped too but now i'm about half and half between biting and clipping

7/13/2011 12:40:42 PM

I was the worst nail biter ever until I was like 28. Pain every day, most days I would tear at least one far enough back that it would bleed. If I could separate the layers I would strip off the top layer all the way back to the cuticle. Then I just stopped. I've maybe bitten them three times since then. I have no idea why I did that shit to myself.

7/13/2011 12:43:56 PM