I have a thing about nails. There’s this new advert where a little monster type think ‘opens’ a nail (like as if it’s a door into the finger). This is the bit I can’t stand to watch. The mere hint of a suggestion of the possibility of the thought about the idea of removing a nail horrifies me.
I can’t remember what exactly happened in the older ones, but they creep me out too.
The worst part, for me, is when the little germatophytes(?) dig the nail bed. Gah! :eek:
Oh, I hate that commercial!
I also have a “nail thing”. I have very thin nails and whenever I tear a nail down to the nail bed or bend it back, I freak out. I get an eerie feeling and let out a little scream. I even went to far as to get fake nails for awhile, so that would’nt happen to me.
I think if I ever lose a whole nail, I may need a straightjacket.
Heh. How timely. I just lost part of my left middle fingernail a few days ago in a bizarre basil-chopping incident. Not a huge chunk, just about 10% of the nail or so. Good thing that knife was sharp. 
I’ve never seen the commercial in the OP, but it sounds like it wouldn’t bother me as much as it would have a week ago.
I smashed my thumb really badly with a dogging wrench when I was in the Navy. A big painful blood blister promptly grew under the thumbnail causing terrible pain and pressure. I had to go to sick bay and have the doc burn a little hole in the nail with a heated needle so the blood clot could ooze out, letting off the pressure and bringing the pain down a little.
Two days later, my thumbnail fell out. It took a good while to grow back.
feels wiggy just reading this
Gah! That sounds so bad!
Glad I haven’t seen any of these ones
Hehe…I’m going to REALLY wig you out lobsang, back in my 20s, I ran a sewing machine needle all the way through my thumb and thumbnail, where it broke off.
I then had to pull it out ALL BY MYSELF!! I tried to get my best friend and my sister to do it, but they were just as grossed out as I was, and they refused. So I ended up having to do it myself…GAAAAAH, I can still remember how weird and creepy that thick needle felt pulling out of my poor damaged thumb!! I swear it even made a teeny little SLllUUUUURRRRRKkkmmmmfff’ sound…
And then, to make it even MORE disgusting, I had to drill a hole in the nail myself to alleviate the pressure from the damage under the nail, which eventually fell off.
Took a couple of years before the nail looked normal again, without a weird little ridge.
(chuckles evilly and watches all the nailphobes shudder and gag).
Oh, the nail is just fine now, just a tiny pink spot under the nail remains, only noticeable to me because I know what happened.
Been there, done that, limped around for a couple of weeks. Spoilered for the faint of heart.
Rammed a door into my big toe by accident, then two days later the heaviest kid on the soccer team landed on it hard with his cleats on. Nail came off not too long after.
The Daily Show actually did a parody of that, in which one of the correspondants (Ed Helms?) watched that commerical, screamed out “Oh dear God!,” and sprinted to a drug store where he told the pharmacist that there were “Demons under his toenails.”
Reading this caused me to involuntarily press a fist against my mouth and stamp my foot.
I have long nails, and whenever something causes one to get pulled backward, I walk around for hours bitching and pressing down on my nail to remind it where it belongs.
My gross toenail story:
I used to get really bad ingrown toenails. The worst one was during a multi-day class trip to Yosemite. My toe was so swollen that when the doctor was injecting novocaine into the BOTTOM OF THE TOE, pus came oozing out around the needle. They ended up removing half the nail.
Did that myself, though only far enough to split the nail.My toenails are really bad. They’re thick but brittle and will easily tear if snagged on anything; I have to keep them short lest they get snagged on a blanket or sock. They also get ingrown easily. I’ve had the nails on both big toes removed in hopes they’d grow back straight but it didn’t work. I ended up having one cauterized at the corners and will do the other one come spring so I can wear sandals while it heals. The smaller nails also get ingrown, especailly one crazy toe that’s off kilter at the tip. Those are pretty easy to deal with.
Nail damage is pretty creepy isn’t it? What are my creepy stories you ask. You did too ask . . . but it doesn’t matter cuz I’m sharing anyway:
Boyscout whittling accident - I slipped while whittling and ran the blade of my handy boyscout knife into the top of my finger, starting at the cuticle line and proceeding down and into the finger at a 15* angle for about 5/8". The cut extended beyonde either side of the nail. A nice flap of skin remained. Anyway, the nail grew back in with a hole in it and still has a ridge in it that is aligned with the larger scar.
High school football - left index finger. After the play the nail was hanging off; all of it. I grabbed it with my teeth and pulled it the rest of the way off (being poisoned with testosterone and adrenaline, one can do these things). The problem was that I still had a mouthguard in and it got caught in the back of my throat for a second. Luckily I was able to spit it out.
Fungus toenail - This incident actually made me get the medicine. Nasty white, crumbly claw of a toe nail was hit with an opening door. 1/4 flew off (those things are brittle dammit), 1/4 hung there, and the remaining 1/2 stayed put and bled. I’d rather have liver damage than have that happen again. Besides, my wife was getting grossed out, and she’s a doctor.
CJ