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This is going to sound weird but..I'm actually really curious..why do we have finger and toenails? I mean what is their purpose? I bite my nails and lots of people cut them short, so it's not like we actually USE them for anything. I mean if we didn't have them, would it make much difference?
To make girl fights more entertaining.
Yeah, I am a serious nail biter, my nails are awful. So I wonder why we do have them. We probably have them from when we actually had to hunt for food with minimal weapons..Quote:
Originally Posted by Xander
To protect the fragile finger skin. OBVIOUSLY. :greenie:
I think they derive from some sort of claws that we may have had at some point.
Nails?
a) good weapons
b) protect the ends of our fingers and toes to stop any harm coming to the fleshy bit
c) an extra part of out body to decorate with colours and stick-on jewels
Oh the joys.
To pick and eat the ticks off each others backs.
God gave us fingernails so we could open the soda cans he knew we would invent.
Actually nails are for scratching yourself. Everyone itches from time to time and it'd be annoying if you couldn't scratch without fingernails.
I dont bite my nails. I bit them once to see what it felt like and it didnt seem very interesting. Nails are useful for adding pressure to your fingers. Theyre firmer than plain skin.
To pick our noses.
I'd say, by evolutionary terms, as a weapon. I can see someone who has sizeable nails doing better generally in combat than someone who has a lump of flesh and bone. That's only my reasoning though, and is thus probably lame.
Mr. Cavemen prolly needed Mrs. Fingernail for digging and murdering.
To scratch with?!?!?! *thinks* Not sure...
I bite my nails too ^^ But having them are really useful and come in handy!
...lol, handy.
Anyway. Nails are more useful than hair, yes.
gah ingrown toenails they give you so much pain and agony
nails exist to use to scratch
To pick stuff up with.
My pointer finger nail was ripped off & I tried to pick up a quarter off of a table and I couldn't do it. It was frustrating. :mad2:
Evolution *Pfft*.
Fingernails are there because it protects the skin, to scratch yourself and etc etc we've heard all that.
Toenails are there because we can stub our toes. Toenails act as somesort of guard from that.
Nails are funny. But useful when I feel itchy or want to scratch my boyfriend xD
They're actually sex tools.
Finger nails rate up there with pubic hair.
Nails are there to give support to our extremeties (fingers and toes) while walking and picking stuff up (with your hands and feet respectively...). They also help to stop you from breaking the very top of your fingers and toes (although they havn't helped me recently...)
According to my sister, to scratch me with.
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Opening soda cans, picking up coins, and clawing out eyes are just three of the many and varied uses for nails!
Toenails remain unfathomable. I fail to see what possible protection they could hope to offer. Indeed, if you hit your toe hard enough for it to need protecting, you'll probably end up driving the nail up into your toe or shattering it or something. Grisly.
weapons out of anything, weapons out of nails! i cut mine's and make them look like kitty claws :D .
I use them for scratchin'.
I believe nails help against infection, much like hair in the nostril they trap dust and the like we pick up from touching stuff rather than it being deposited on our fingers. They are also generally useful for gaining access to food, in our case the best thing I can think of would be Bananas, our nearest cousin's favourite snacktime treat. I really don't buy the whole used in combat thing. They're flimsy, blunt and cause only superficial damage.
I use mine for... NOTHING!
we have nails because we would look stupid without them
to protect that soft skin undeneath.(it hurts like hell if you pull it off)
that makes sense to me but what is the point in eyebrows? the girls in my school pluck them and redraw them in pencil wtf?
Eyebrows help keep rainwater out of one's eyes.Quote:
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And those girls will, like as not, look dumb.
used to strum guitar strings
Don't you use a plectrum for that? ;)Quote:
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For finger picking guitar strings.
To make "bedroom time" more fun/dangerous/ridiculous
I don't use coz I don't have!
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I use them to grab tiny things and do things to tiny things my fingers can't do. Like get the small thing that holds earrings on and off so the earring actually stays. Putting keys (or the thing at the end of a zipper) inside a keychain, I could never do that with my nails cut short. Also need them to get the plastic off of dvd box covers, could never do those without having to find something sharp if my nails couldn't do any damage. Sometimes I have trouble taking my contact lenses out if my nails are too short, but it's just as difficult if they get too long. I also paint them and make them look pretty to match whatever I'm wearing.
Also, don't you notice that if you cut your nails a little too short, your finger starts to hurt? My sister says hers bleed if she cut the nail too short. Maybe it's better to ask why is the skin under the nail too soft and delicate and need cover?
Because it never formed properly
i cannot see how people can bite their nails! ewwwwww icky!!
i liek to sharpen mine so i can scratch people xD
MEOW! :love:
Me too. And I have said this before that I rip my toe nails off.Quote:
Originally Posted by Xander
I use my "nails" to catfight :D
I love my nails, there so long :love:
Ive never bit my nails xD
We use nails everyday, opening cans.. i usually use my nails to pick thins up a bit until i actually grab it with my fingers... omg that sounds wrong >_<
1) To scratch with.
2) To help pick stuff up with it helps you hold stuff somehow
3) Protection of the fleshy stuff underneath.
In Soviet Russia, nail bites YOU
You might as well ask 'why do we have lips.'
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