it came to my attention that most redditors bite their nails. right?

Darminian · 2012-10-03T18:43:34+00:00

The nails you lower and lower and the skin is like an encroaching army, so the key is to chew your nails low, and when the skin get's uppety you chew that too.

CHEW ALL THE FINGERS.

Hax0r101 · 2012-10-04T00:34:37+00:00

EVERYBODY POINT AND LAUGH AT GECKO FINGERS! AHAHAHAHAH!

Gregxor · 2012-10-03T23:11:57+00:00

I seriously thought I was the worst nail biter I had ever met, but GODDAMN! I'm about to be a new father and I am genuinely concerned that my child may learn from my habit. I'm not really self conscious about it normally, but how do you bring 20+ years of aggressive nail biting to a manicurist?

Pic just for fun

enderw87 · 2012-10-04T03:24:38+00:00

This is not from fingernail biting, its actually a physical disorder. I had a friend in school that had these exact same fingers, I actually did call them gecko hands, he never bit them, they just grew that way. I tried to find something about it, but could find nothing, I couldn't figure out how to search for it. He also has slight FAS, so it could be connected to that.

Jeffyfox · 2012-10-03T22:50:07+00:00

Nail is long enough for me to get my teeth around it? I'm gonna bite it. Cuticle too callusey? I'm gonna bite that shit too.

jesuswithoutabeard · 2012-10-03T22:54:55+00:00

I like big nubs and I can not lie, You other redditors can't deny...

Mickeymousears · 2012-10-03T20:56:59+00:00

manicurist here... ive seen this, toes too. I can be fixed...by NOT biting your nails!

redefinedreality · 2012-10-03T19:36:55+00:00

I guess people can get along without nails, toenails more than fingernails, but nails protect the tips of your fingers and without them it would be hard to feel things when most of the sensitivity at your fingertips disappears.

rubikscube748 · 2012-10-03T21:10:30+00:00

I always bit my nails, still do. But now taken up classical guitar, so there's a huge contrast between my right and left hand nails.

purplepicklepicker · 2012-10-03T22:47:26+00:00

I swear nail bitting is like an addiction. I just cant stop and its oddly satisfying to get a big piece of nail or skin off

Rozo-D · 2012-10-04T02:26:53+00:00

my roommate bites her nails. it's the grossest sound in the world. just that hollow "chomp, chomp, chomp" sound. I have to always tell her to stop and that she's being disgusting.

weaver2109 · 2012-10-04T02:29:54+00:00

TIL fingernails are very fucking important.

11_11_is_a_lie · 2012-10-04T03:43:08+00:00

I never realized that people who bite their nails often bite cuticles and things like that. I don't share the nail biting or really "skin biting" because it never seemed effective but I can't help but scratch or pull off skin that's not all the way attached. It's a compulsion, if I notice it, I can't not do it. Current state of my thumb: http://imgur.com/5DGmY (not horrible by any means but it started as nothing. Also, it's a picture from my phone.)

Princess41463 · 2012-10-03T18:53:54+00:00

My son's nails aren't this bad...yet, but they are getting there! He even chews through the middle of the nail down to the meat. It's soooo gross!

marcyjo26 · 2012-10-03T21:21:43+00:00

FROG FINGERS!!!

lindseywitt · 2012-10-04T01:56:56+00:00

His fingers remind me of light bulbs.

yyx9 · 2012-10-04T02:31:12+00:00

Just bit my thumb nail down so far it's bleeding dark colored blood instead of bright colored blood. Now it hurts to hit the space bar.

sarabration · 2012-10-04T03:14:13+00:00

EEEEEEEWWWWWWW!

chilldo_baggins · 2012-10-04T03:23:55+00:00

it's kinda gross that we're talking about eating our own fingers/skin. I do it too though so who am I to talk?

RevChance · 2012-10-04T04:07:08+00:00

I grew up compulsively chewing my nails. The only thing that was effective was my girlfriends smacking my hands when I started to and her telling me she preferred nails. That was a cool 6 months of nails. Then due to crazy life things I started again. I was able to basically quit once my life leveled out. Although now that I am in massage school I get graded down for long or dirty nails. So I went back to chewing. Plus three hour longs classes twice a day three times a week makes it hard not to.

On the plus side I can alter techniques without fear of stabbing a client!

pizzlewizzle · 2012-10-04T04:23:08+00:00

Isn't this indicative of some sort of heart problem? Clubbed fingers?

DeathofLies · 2012-10-04T04:32:22+00:00

i bite my fingernails but i haven't for the past 2 weeks..hopefully i can last this time...

doneandone · 2012-10-04T05:18:18+00:00

makes me wonder...do our fingers have their shape because of our finger nails? if we had no finger nails would our fingers look large and swollen like these? hmm..

darthrobyn · 2012-10-04T07:03:36+00:00

Yikes.

ShiversLovesGod · 2012-10-04T07:12:38+00:00

Out of all the pictures on here..This one bothers me the most.. If that really is from biting thier nails...thats just nasty, wierd...and makes me feel funny...

hstarbird11 · 2012-10-04T07:28:57+00:00

No.

breaking_bald · 2012-10-04T08:08:00+00:00

Thats in-grown fingernails. Not sure why your fingerTIPS are so thick, but as far as i know, thats just crazy ingrown. If you want shit like that to get better/look normal, youd probably need surgery.

civilian11214 · 2012-10-04T08:34:02+00:00

I don't.

TheKillerBurrito · 2012-10-03T20:35:44+00:00

I used to bite my nails when I was a kid, then one of my nails fell completely off from doing it. Never again.

missC08 · 2012-10-03T20:47:37+00:00

My boyfriend does. So fucking annoying.

thehahn · 2012-10-03T22:30:11+00:00

I've never chewed, not even if there's a hang nail. I use fingernail clippers to cut the excess then file down ~2mm from the non white nail. I always think people look a bit off when they are biting their fingers.

niamhish · 2012-10-03T22:37:04+00:00

This guy got his fingernails removed if I remember correctly from the last time this was posted. There was a link to bme(?), some sort of body mod/

Erosindra · 2012-10-03T23:11:32+00:00

So glad I stopped biting my nails years ago.

Izawwlgood · 2012-10-04T03:14:42+00:00

Wow, if this is a picture of your hands, you have incredibly disgusting hands.

orbital667 · 2012-10-03T22:42:26+00:00

This is hideous. I want to call you a freak soooooo bad. Freak. There. I said it. CUT IT OUT!

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