# Paper Cuts **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 5, 2005, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paper-cuts/302548 "2005-05-05T16:18:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mint\_Julep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bc79bd/32.png) [@Mint\_Julep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mint_Julep)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2005, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paper-cuts/302548/1 "2005-05-05T16:18:57Z")
I just razor-ed my finger open on a Post-It. Manilla Envelopes, copy paper, Files…they all seem out to slice my fingers open in the most painful ways possible. It seems that at least once a week, I brutally wound myself. I am beginning to wonder if some skin is thinner than others since the other people in my office do not appear to receive so many crippling attacks from seemingly harmless paper products. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2005, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paper-cuts/302548/2 "2005-05-05T16:23:31Z")
The drier your skin is the more susceptible to paper cuts you’ll be. Start using a moisturizing lotion regularly - particularly in the drier, colder months, and you should find that you get fewer of this nasty little buggers. [http://www.mothernature.com/Library/Bookshelf/Books/19/173.cfm](http://www.mothernature.com/Library/Bookshelf/Books/19/173.cfm) ---
**Author:** ![Madd\_Maxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Madd\_Maxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Madd_Maxx)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2005, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paper-cuts/302548/3 "2005-05-05T16:27:46Z")
Hell hath no fury like a mylar-paper cut. ☹ Carboard paper cuts suck too. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2005, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paper-cuts/302548/4 "2005-05-05T16:30:00Z")
Thank you **UncleBeer** for channeling “Hints From Heloise.” 😃 Every friggin’ time I load up copy paper in the copier at work I get paper cuts. Maybe I should just bandage all my fingers before I do it. Course then, I’d probably manage to slice open an artery on my arm or worse. ---
**Author:** ![Daithi\_Lacha](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daithi_lacha/32/5430_2.png) [@Daithi\_Lacha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daithi_Lacha)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2005, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paper-cuts/302548/5 "2005-05-05T17:16:43Z")
Worst one I’ve had was licking envelopes and got one with a slightly-curled flap - sliced myself nicely right at the tip of my tongue, almost a quarter inch deep! And my fucking co-workers laughing, 'coz I’m yelling “Sthit! Sthit! It reawy reawy hurspth!” ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2005, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paper-cuts/302548/6 "2005-05-05T17:21:00Z")
Just wear Kevlar gloves whenever you handle paper products. ---
**Author:** ![Tupug\_Anachi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@Tupug\_Anachi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tupug_Anachi)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2005, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paper-cuts/302548/7 "2005-05-05T17:47:35Z")
OWWWIIEE!! Paper cuts! ☹ They hurt almost as much as the fingertip sticky thing at the doctors office. I’d rather have a needle any day. But back to paper cuts, I got one today myself. What if somebody got a flesh-eating-bacterial infection from an office paper cut? Would that be covered by Workmen’s Comp?? ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2005, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paper-cuts/302548/8 "2005-05-05T18:10:33Z")
I used to make blueprints for a living. You don’t know what a paper cut is unless you’ve sliced your skin with a sheet of paper a meter long and a meter and a half wide while being exposed to gaseous ammonia. ---
**Author:** ![Mint\_Julep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bc79bd/32.png) [@Mint\_Julep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mint_Julep)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2005, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paper-cuts/302548/9 "2005-05-05T18:34:10Z")
Well I moisturize alot, but I will be glad to step it up a notch. I did manage to find some hand sanitizer to clean the cut with (ALCOHOL BURNS) and then used scotch tape to keep it from flapping open when I type. It just never ceases to amaze me, How badly it hurts when it happens. I mean, searing pain! ---
**Author:** ![Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2005, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paper-cuts/302548/10 "2005-05-05T18:45:18Z")
> [@Barbarian](#): > > I used to make blueprints for a living. You don’t know what a paper cut is unless you’ve sliced your skin with a sheet of paper a meter long and a meter and a half wide while being exposed to gaseous ammonia. Ignorance is bliss. ---
**Author:** ![AThingWithFeathers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@AThingWithFeathers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AThingWithFeathers)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2005, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paper-cuts/302548/11 "2005-05-05T19:18:55Z")
Grr, regular papercuts aren’t too bad, but I hate cardboard ones. I swear a little alarm goes off in my head every time I take a coke from one of those refridgerator packs. Extremely large papercut on writing hand = painful. ---
**Author:** ![Madd\_Maxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Madd\_Maxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Madd_Maxx)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2005, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paper-cuts/302548/12 "2005-05-05T19:38:01Z")
I do and I have. And paper cuts on that same paper still suck without the ammonia. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Bird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Little\_Bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Bird)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2005, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paper-cuts/302548/13 "2005-05-05T20:48:46Z")
I adore New Skin Liquid bandage. It has an antiseptic, so it stings a bit, but it seals papercuts right up! ---
**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2005, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paper-cuts/302548/14 "2005-05-06T12:41:00Z")
I feel for you **Maxx**. The upshot is that after several months of blueprint paper cuts you develop enough scar tissue that regular paper can’t get through…