Let your fingers do the talking/Timeless joy of cheap tools.

[hirez]

In an attack of carelessness on Friday even, I tried to hold open a loaded door with my right little finger. Or perhaps the wrong one. Anyway, the result was the nail being half ripped off an uncomfortable way down into the nailbed and presumably a deal of blood on the inside of the relevant glove. Even cut down as far as I dare, there's still a

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[moral_vacuum]

Even without the nail varnish, you have very elegant fingers. I know that's a slightly odd thing to say, but oddness comes naturally to me.

[anonymous]

Okay, at first, I thought -- "the British sure have odd-sounding names for places." Now, I'm pretty much sure that you're making them up. Wormelow Trump?

[hirez]

Wormelow Tump.

It's between Much Dewchurch, Sunnyside and Cocksbrook Wood.

(It's Herefordshire. They specialise in odd names there.)

[miss_glitch]

Goth.

[hirez]

That's a filthy lie.

[reddragdiva]

Post-punk-in-black, dahlink.

[voidmonster]

As a kid, I managed to shear off 4/5ths of the nail on my little finger. I didn't even realize it until I noticed something cold on my hand and saw that it was bleeding. My mother insisted I wash it in a cold water fountain.

That's when it hurt like galloping lubeless fuck.

Your keyboard clicks, doesn't it?

[hirez]

Ow. owowow.

I fear the k/b is a cheap and nasty squidgy-foam effort. PH-R jealously guards the IBM Model-M that I, um, liberated from somewhere or other.

[jendama]

Re: Potato

[hirez]

Arr. Be a woman's 'ands. Arr. Etc.