Long Fingernails

[rowanwitch]

Just a thought but all those sporting long and complex. manicures.....
You can't wash your hands properly. Why do you think nurses have short nails, and food handlers should. Even flaking nail polish can trap bacteria.
Is this the end of the talon......

[aelmpvw]

these images are bizarre
https://www.google.com/search?q=longest+fingernails+in+the+world&rlz=1C1CHBF_en-GBGB835GB835&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiwj8v5pojoAhWbUhUIHflGCNcQ_AUoAXoECAwQAw&cshid=1583582154446294&biw=1536&bih=722#imgrc=yMBxJNt7YuMBfM

[shoota]

Hope so - most unattractive, especially the bling ones.

[shoota]

S'pose I'm going to get dodgy emails now I've clicked on aels link...

[aelmpvw]

:-)

[Apc2604]

I always wonder how people with long nails can do anything properly.
(I actually hate long nails and nail art, but that's not the point). You make a good point Rowan.

[Cloverjo]

Good point, Rowan. I can’t bear fake, placcy long nails. Who knows what’s hiding under there?

[Samuraisan]

I think they are hideous too. Especially when they are like talons and bend down. Do men really think they are sexy ?

[wolf63]

I don't have nails - life-long nail chomper. At one stage I managed to grow them and they were like daggers. At certain times of the month they were fekking dangerous.

The late Princess Merlin used to bite her claws. ??

[ladybirder]

Oh I hope so Rowan. They are hideous ghastly things. Why anybody would want to stick those on the end of their fingers I have no idea.

[Bobbisox1]

I have manicured nails ( my own) which I get done regularly, they are shortish and rounded, never talon like
And I wash my hands a lot more regularly than I did before this Covid19 , always after the toilet anyway but guilty of chopping veg and forgetting......but not now

[rowanwitch]

I am surprised it hasn't been picked up by the press, so I have just emailed the beeb, about to forward the question to a few of the nationals.

[Butterbun]

The mind boggles...

[pastafreak]

What I hate...and need to bite my tongue when I see them...are hideous talons on young mums with BABIES. How on earth do they cuddle them or change nappies?
My nails were very short when I was working. Now they are longer and stronger...but not too much longer.

[Bazile]

Are those fake or real nails ?

[rowanwitch]

Either, both get in the way of proper hand hygiene

[douglas9401]

Hygiene nothing, it's an early warning system developed by dating companies to let the observant know when to keep walking.

[gness]

Many years ago I was at a fete where there was a homemade bread stall. I recall hearing the two ladies who'd made the bread discussing how they loved how clean their nails were after a bread making session...... :-(

[aelmpvw]

no knead for that ...

[rowanwitch]

True though, even if you scrub them before, the bleaching agents in the flour whiten them.

[Canary42]

I believe the modern obsession with clinical sterility is the cause of the rise in allergic reactions - people fail to develop the appropriate anti-bodies and tolerances which people of my generation easily acquired through eating "a peck of dirt before you die". Grandma knew best.