August 24, 2006: Longest fingernails

[Wombat]

Gross.

How does she wipe her arse?

[Karenv]

What a waste of a life. She could be helping save the world .... and she grows fingernails?

[xoxoxoBruce]

Doing things to make hygiene more difficult, don't sound like a good plan to me.

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by Elspode

The picture is flipped. Or she's wearing her wedding ring on the wrong finger.

She probably started putting the ring on one nail, and by the time she realized it was the wrong one, it just wasn't worth fixing.

[Ibby]

Yeah, I KNOW there's some indian dude with fingernails so long they just roll into a massive spiral. Maybe they decided he doesnt count cause he only has it on one hand?

[depmats]

Can we just club her like a baby seal?

[incommunicadocat]

Hideho.
I'm thinking this is a wig she is wearing.
I'm imagining it hangs off a peg in her specially engineered bathroom, and each morning she steps under and it wraps itself around her naturally bald scalp. Look Ma, no hands.
It may be an intelligent wig, and may, in actuality, be the only sentinent part of her.
In fact, it is a member of an alien species, wearing an outrageous human form so bizarre no one will notice its' seventeen beady little eyes. Classic case of misdirection... and sleight of hand?

[breakingnews]

i bet those things make a helluva good booger scraper.

<glass half full>

and I agree with whoever said this is a waste of time/effort. it's just so ... pointless. go do something else with your life. but this is the state of the world - everything is about being the biggest, the most, the longest.

[xoxoxoBruce]

But, you see, it is her life. It's the thing that defines her now. Her claim to fame.

You can imagine what a huge pain in the ass they are, maybe literally. They scare children, repulse many people, they control, or at least highly affect, every aspect of her life. That said, she's persisted with them, so the attention they bring must be what drives her.

Class A attention whore.

[rupip]

she must be the inspiration behind "edward scissorhands" - and it is not only the nails! also the very special hair.

by the way here is the indian guy with the REALLY longest fingernails of the world. maybe the people promoting her think that India is not on this planet...

[xoxoxoBruce]

Since the Guinness Book is in the UK, maybe the publisher is pissy about that ingrate colony.
By Jove, we'll take away their fingernail record....that will teach that Gandhi bloke.

[glatt]

I imagine there are different categories i the Guinness book. She has them on both hands, which I had never seen before. So maybe that's the category she is in.

And I can see how this happens. She doesn't clip them for a while, and they just slowly get longer. She gets used to them. I bet it has been very easy for her to adjust to having these, since it was so gradual. Now if she cuts them off, she's making a bold change. She's in a rut with no courage to get out.

[depmats]

Think how the average woman reacts when she breaks a nail. Now multiply that by 17 levels of insanity. Her husband will rue the day he asks her to do something that results in that broken nail.

[lulu]

To each their own and all that, but... gross in my opinion.

[The 42]

by the way here is the indian guy with the REALLY longest fingernails of the world.

There it is! Thanks rupip! There's a picture in my 2000 world records book but it wouldn't fit in my scanner and anyway it would have come out crappy quality- that's how it is with glossy paper...