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Scraping the dead skin off my heels
With your teeth?
Home made parmesan
Yeh I slice the buniony hard skin on my little toe first joints off from time to time. Something low carb to chew on 😁
A recent new one from me - spreading rim cement (tubular tyre glue) around the wheel rim with my fingers, letting it dry and then peeling it off.
With your teeth?
I'm not flexible enough for that, but probably would if i could :/
Removing stitches from my chin amid all the scab and dried gunk.
You do wonder whether such atavistic pleasures come from the preening of our early ancestors.
Reminds me I did have a friend who used to bite his toe nails!
I’m not flexible enough for that, but probably would if i could :/
Its good to set your self goals.
Reminds me I did have a friend who used to bite his toe nails!
I used to do this as a child but can’t each any more.
Removing stitches from my chin amid all the scab and dried gunk.
Years ago i sliced off a large part of the side of my thumb and the hospital placed a gauze dressing on it.
The flesh grew through the gauze as i hadn't changed it often enough, and i had to slowly and very painfully pull each strand of it through the half healed flesh. God that really hurt.
I started using colloid plasters because they heal scrapes so much better- which has cost me a lot of the joy of removing scabs, but on the plus side has given me the gift of walking around with bags of pus-looking slime on my body which occasionally split
Weirdly I had the exact dead skin/scab removal feeling the other day while peeling an incredibly bad auxiliary belt off a ford engine. It even made a disgusting, biological noise. So good.
Reminds me I did have a friend who used to bite his toe nails!
I used to be able to if I wanted to, it’s as much as I can do to get my foot up onto my knee sat on the couch!
I can barely see to cut and file my toenails, biting them is completely out of the question!
I could comfortably sit in a full lotus position, I can barely sit comfortably on the sodding floor now!
Grumble, mutter… 🤬😤😖
I had a big spot come up on the back of my leg, where the edge of my (lyra) shorts rubbed. It grew for days and got really painful, setting off all sorts of pains in my glands about my body. And when at the point of eruption I gave it a good squeeze. Out of the primordial goop (that would have filled a couple of thimbles) arose a black ball roughly the size of a pea. Not hard but a bit chewy. Evidently an ingrown hair and follicle that had got properly messed up. With its expulsion came instant pain relief.
One of the most satisfying things I've ever done.
I've always been an advocate of squeezing things that contain unpleasantness. Like, your basic custardy spot is just a pore full of infected pus, right? That's gotta be better out than in.
Talking to a mate the other day. He had a blister on his little finger that he burst. It went properly manky, he had antibiotics, it cleared up at first then he described a red ring flaring up round his finger, now something about equine-strength painkillers and suspected bone damage. 👀
Jeez Convert... 😀
I’m not flexible enough for that, but probably would if i could :/
Its good to set your self goals.
Hmm seems a waste just to chew your own toes.
Eeeww just realized I can suck my own toes 🙂
A yone want a photo of my arse? I can't see it but after 1500 miles in six weeks it should be good
No. No thank you.
But, guessing, after long rides I've had big boils appear on my undercarriage which can't be seen but with with a good thumb and forefinger squeeze generate a satisfying splatter. Good times.
I, on occasion, have to remove the lumps of dead skin on my heels with the nail clipper or scissors. Or sometimes I can just pick a bit loose then twist it round lots until it drops off.
I really should moisturise them or something…
Not hard but a bit chewy.
Before you embark on a hike, rub olive/ vegetable oil into your feet.
When you take a shower on your return, your feet will feel brand new.
When i was about 16, i had chicken box very badly. This left me covered in literally thousands of chicken pox scabs. Possibly the most satisfying thing ever pealing those off over days during my recovery..
Out of the primordial goop (that would have filled a couple of thimbles) arose a black ball roughly the size of a pea. Not hard but a bit chewy.
What did it taste like, though?
Who doesn't like a good dig and a serious trim of an ingrowing toenail?
What did it taste like, though?
Chicken? Everything tastes like chicken doesn't it.
Seriously, I teased it between my teeth but didn't crunch it up or swallow. I mean - there are limits! I wondered if it was a bit of gravel from a crash. But no, squeezy like a little rubber ball.
Oh good grief. I'm glad I just finished my lunch!
Had a cyst on my neck behind my ear when I was a teenager. When that blew the recoil nearly knocked me over.
It was like porridge.
Seriously, I teased it between my teeth but didn’t crunch it up or swallow.
Pus-ian Roulette.
Not satisfying for me, but my partner had a great time picking out a boil or boils from the middle of my back over the course of a week. She believes it was a number of boils conjoining into a carbuncle, or one great mess. She had a great time with it... I was like a spare wheel.