Official Random Fact/Random Thought Thread!

[CurSedVoyce]

Happens to me working on mechanical things. You just reach in knowing you'll get nicked, bloody knuckles, arms cut. It is what it is.
Half the time, I could not even tell you how.

 

[Burnham]

My technique is to bore in with a straight pin and squeeze. For the type that goes in longitudinally, I use a pin, pick the skin up inline til I get enough uncovered to get tweezers on it to pull it out.

For less deep ones, that's my method too. I only use the scalpel for buried deep.

 

[Dave Shepard]

All I know is, it's coming out, one way, or another.

 

[Burnham]

Yup.

 

[lxskllr]

I get thorns more than splinters. Sometimes it takes awhile til I even know they're there. It'll pus up as the skin tries to eject it, and it hurts when you bump it on something. Popping them like zits is extremely satisfying. Dig a little hole on top of the bump, squeeze hard, and a thorn pops out. Might be better than bubblewrap :^D

 

[Tree09]

I get little metal slivers all the time, best way I've found is to scrape the skin with a knife blade. It'll usually catch the tail and pull them out, without all the cutting and digging. I usually force myself to wear gloves, but I'm still taking them off for certain tasks, and invariably I'll find something sharp to cut myself on. All thread is probably the worst (followed closely by unistrut), razor sharp little hook if they didn't debur it, and they often don't. I never understood why people wouldn't take 2 seconds to take a couple licks with a grinder or file so someone doesn't bleed from their work, but thus is life.

 

[Nutball]

Watch out for fiberglass, and plastic reinforced with long coarse glass fibers.

 

[Cobleskill]

I have tweezers that are sharp as a pin. They do double duty. They work well for getting under ticks bodies for pulling them off also.

Squeezing them out is about half the time for me. Under the nail are the worst ones. Dam Japanese.