# Discussion thread for the "Polls only" thread (Part 2) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 16, 2024, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636 "2024-02-16T02:56:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 390
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2025, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7782 "2025-07-28T23:57:13Z")
> [@Dr.Drake](#): > > I use human nail clippers on the cats. I don’t really understand why other people don’t The feline (or canine) version has a notch that helps hold the claw. Useful when the creature is squirming. > [@susan](#): > > My tattoos were for radiation positioning during my cancer treatment, so none of the above Obligatory XKCD: > **[Tattoo](https://xkcd.com/933/)** ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2025, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7783 "2025-07-29T00:09:48Z")
The tattoo poll left out sports-related tattoos, which would account for mine and a non-trivial percentage of those on people I know. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2025, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7784 "2025-07-29T00:10:37Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > The feline (or canine) version has a notch that helps hold the claw. Useful when the creature is squirming. Oh! Interesting. My cats are **good girls** and only wriggle a little towards the end of the process. (And I only ever do their front claws.) ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2025, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7785 "2025-07-29T00:16:06Z")
The feline hind paw claws, IME, rarely need it. I’m not sure to what extent this is because they wear down more on their own, and to what extent it’s because it’s the front paws that they, um, paw at me with so those are the claws that I notice. – Although I note that cats scratching on scratching posts and/or assorted other objects always seem to be working on the front claws, not the back ones. So the cats also seem to think that front claws need more work. (Some cats learn to retract claws when touching humans, who have no protective fur coating. Other cats never figure this out.) ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2025, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7786 "2025-07-29T00:25:23Z")
> [@Baker’s Dozen III](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baker-s-dozen-iii/970093/8162): > > Penn and Teller I wanted to say Reebo and Zooty, but I wasn’t sure if a fictional comedy duo was ok. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2025, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7787 "2025-07-29T00:32:02Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > (Some cats learn to retract claws when touching humans, who have no protective fur coating. Other cats never figure this out.) I have mostly succeeded in teaching this to kittens i rear, by saying “ouch” and removing the kitten when they stick their claws into me. But i find that old, arthritic cats aren’t good about retracting their claws, and younger ones sometimes get carried away and forget to. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2025, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7788 "2025-07-29T01:03:34Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > I was naming albums. Piano Man is his second album. The song is of course overplayed but there are other good songs on the album. The title track may be the worst song on it. I can buy that. Still we agree on Piano Man the overplayed depressing song. We have both cat nail clippers and human nail clippers. The cat ones we used on …cats! But once or twice i have clipped a cat claw with a human clipper. . ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2025, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7789 "2025-07-29T01:49:48Z")
And the one I plan to get as soon as at least one of the 300 things currently going wrong gets somewhat resolved and I have time to do it. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2025, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7790 "2025-07-29T01:50:44Z")
They didn’t fall into the top 50 most popular motifs for tattoos, according to my source. Likewise, spiders and spider webs. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2025, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7791 "2025-07-29T02:32:21Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > I have mostly succeeded in teaching this to kittens i rear, by saying “ouch” and removing the kitten when they stick their claws into me. But i find that old, arthritic cats aren’t good about retracting their claws, and younger ones sometimes get carried away and forget to. And cats who move in as adults without having learned it often don’t want to learn it. The Most Recent Addition occasionally bites. This gets him shouted ‘ouch’ at and immediately and moderately roughly dropped on the ground; but that only seems to work temporarily. They’re not of course really serious bites, but they’re hard enough to hurt. He was probably close to 2 years old when he moved in, and a full tom at the time, though no longer. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2025, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7792 "2025-07-29T04:04:21Z")
I voted “other” for non-human clippers/snippers of nails. I bought a medium sized one 15ish years ago to trim my Savannah Monitor and Black Throat Monitor’s claws. The worked fine for the Savannah, but the black throat was uncooperative and the clippers were probably too small for him. Cat Primus (Coco) haaaaaates having her nails clipped, and I can manager once every month or so to get a few when she’s extra loving on me or napping. Cat Secundus (Kai) doesn’t like his nails being clipped and yowls and squirms, but is a kilo lighter, and far less violent, so I clip his forepaws every 2-3 weeks, or if I notice the sharpness when he swats me. To date the lizard clippers have done far more work on cats than they ever did for lizards. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2025, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7793 "2025-07-29T04:27:50Z")
I don’t clip my cats’ claws. All of them are good enough about velveting their paws, and they like to climb the cat tree. We used to have a cat who sometimes got an ingrown claw that looked painful, so we clipped that one. (I think one of her toes was broken as a kitten and healed at the wrong angle.) But other than that, i can’t remember the last time we trimmed their claws. We do have clippers made for cats, but we’ve had them for a very long time. ---
**Author:** ![saje](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saje/32/3631_2.png) [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2025, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7794 "2025-07-29T10:57:36Z")
Once a month I clip 288 cat claws and 31 dog claws. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2025, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7795 "2025-07-29T11:05:23Z")
Billy Joel grates on my nerves… I was once on a company outing where they had one of those tribute acts to him, and I was in a room full of my coworkers singing along to that nonsense. Gah! Elton John is OK. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2025, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7796 "2025-07-29T12:02:40Z")
I don’t enjoy either. Not my musical genre, dislike both voices, and more specifically, think Billy Joel’s lyrics are often internally inconsistent. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2025, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7797 "2025-07-29T13:15:47Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > Billy Joel grates on my nerves… I was once on a company outing where they had one of those tribute acts to him, and I was in a room full of my coworkers singing along to that nonsense. Gah! > > Elton John is OK. Did they only play 80s Joel? ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2025, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7798 "2025-07-29T13:48:00Z")
I think _ **And So It Goes** _ is one of the greatest songs ever written. _ **Yesterday** _ level. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2025, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7799 "2025-07-29T14:20:38Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Did they only play 80s Joel? Yeah, I think it was what would’ve been very familiar to a Boomer-ish crowd. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2025, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7800 "2025-07-29T14:57:37Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > > [@Loach](#): > > > > Did they only play 80s Joel? > > Yeah, I think it was what would’ve been very familiar to a Boomer-ish crowd. It’s a movie reference. I would think Boomers would be more into his 70s music. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/kFJdl7t2k5E/maxresdefault.jpg "We Strictly Do 80s (Billy) Joel Music (!)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFJdl7t2k5E) ---
**Author:** ![Reeses\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reeses_monkey/32/2885_2.png) [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2025, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-polls-only-thread-part-2/997636/7801 "2025-07-29T16:13:21Z")
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