#296 – Splinter
Posted on July 24, 2007 at 12:00 am by Chris
Chapter: Comics
Usually I’m lucky and get a nice fat easy to remove splinter in my hand. But occasionally I get the evil kind that is parallel with the surface of my skin with no exposed end visible. I have to slice into the skin to get at it or tear at the entrance of the wound with the tweezers.
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I guess they’re perfect at removing fingers.
*shudder*
I hate splinters. I once had a splinter get stuck in my palm so deep that I couldn’t pull it out. It left a permanent mark on my skin, too. I once tried to dig it out with a pocket knife, only to discover that the splinter had either pushed itself out or dissolved into my skin, but the mark still remains… no matter how many times I try to dig it out.
i like the comic. i haven’t gotten a really bad splinter in awhile, but i don’t think that’s because i’ve been particularly safe – i think i’ve just had too much practice at not getting them.
I hear you Heinrich, and agree.
Macabelle has decided to speak in the third person from now on.
Macabelle has never seen such a nonchalante reaction to such a painful action.
yeah, i usually end up having to dig them out with a pin or my pocket knife.
I used a staple once to take out a splinter once. It was either that or sit at work all day feeling the little bastard in my finger. This was the beginning of a shift, too.
Macabelle simply bites out the entire area. Macabelle then has to bandage badly bleeding area for an hour or so. Macabelle then has to remove splinter from tongue.
Man…is Biff getting all this equipment from a website, or something? If so, can I get the address? I could use those Dirt Magnet shoes..
damn it… i always get the ones that are parrellel to the skin…. i think its cause life hates me…
Ouch, I hate splinters. I haven’t had one in a while, actually. I remember once, we had a fibre optic lamp and I got a fibre splinter in my foot. That hurt.
Seems like Biff does all his shopping via ACME.
Owch! I got one about 5mm long under my thumbnail a few days ago, was running through a hall to get onstage (long story, lol) and slammed my hand into a door, gods it hurt! I could have used those tweezers then, I’d have preferred not to have a thumb than have that thing under my nail! Anyway, I eventually got it out, but it was one of the most uniquely painful experiences I can remember!
Fantastic comic as usual Chris, all the best.
There’s an Elle now? Man, I hope we don’t get mixed up. D:
I get the parallel splinters too. But whenever I think of splinters I think of that one exhibit at the Mutter Museum… *shudders*
When I get a splinter, I burn it out with a hot needle.
I haven’t had one in a while though, but I did manage to tear my thumb open on a nail, that’s nearly the same thing. But with a nail which didn’t actually stick in my hand. On second thought, disregard everything after ‘though’.
I got cactus hairs (very fine splinters) on my hand.
Using my epilady on them left a bloody mess
and I still had splinters afterwards.
I think Biff has no blood. He instead gets oxygen through his body with blood vessel like ducts hooked up directly to the lungs, which in turn means that his lungs have four chambers and beat like a heart. It would also cause an annoying whistling noise every time he got a deep cut.
Is my theory correct?
>>It would also cause an annoying whistling noise every time he got a deep cut.
Haha. I like that part.
I got a toothpick stuck in my calf once. It was the most painful splinter ever. Wait do toothpicks count as splinters or are they mini spears?
😛 splinters. I haven’t gotten a splinter for a while, but when I did get them, I always got more than one that buried itself in my skin. I once got, like 20 splinters on my heel after running barefoot on my grandparent’s old deck. I sat in pain for two hours while picking each one out with needle-nose tweezers. Ouchers.
That thing can’t run for very long. Unless the gas tank just isn’t shown, I’d think it wouldn’t be able to hold enough gas for anything more than starting up.
maybe he is part worm may be if a body part falls of it becomes a new biff, may be thats wy he semes to survive this stuff. hat splinters, does the quill of a fish getting in you skin count as a splinter
see i hate splinters. i always seem to get them in the wierdest spots on my hand. then what happens i try and locate it and i cant. i eventully find it and have to get it out with tweezers. man i hate them.
Pfft. That’s why I prefer my pneumatic tweezers. Beats gas any day.
I usually pull them out with either the edge of a blade, or cut them out with an exacto knife. Tweezers are for sissies.
I usually tear at it with my fingernails and then pull it out. For some reason, I seem to get metal splinters a lot more then wood splinters. 😐
I always get cactus nails in my feet because my mother has a cactus right above the pace where I drop off my shoes.
I have that problem of the unreachable splinter all the time. But I can’t bring myself to cut my own skin, so I end up biting off the somewhat dead skin over the splinter to dig it out. And man does it ever sting after the fact.
When I shave, I use a simple 2-blade razor (12 to a package). When I see these 5 to 6-blade razors, all I can think of is how gruesome it will look if you miss.
Steel splinters are the worst. You notice every last one.
I haven’t had one in awhile…I remember when I was little we had a really bad deck, and I used to get them all the time…
My mom stepped on a toothpick once. When she tried to pull it out, it broke off inside her foot and she had to have sergery to get it removed.
I remember one time I got what had to be the worst splinter of my life. It was so deep I wasn’t even going to ATTEMPT to get it out on my own. It eventually came out in the bath without me noticing it.
It DID rid him of the splinter…!
well at least he got rid of that splinter 🙂
I usually just use a needle to tear up the loose skin if its in deep, I have super tiny tweezers that I use for small evil ones.
Psymon says Macabelle’s name is too long to casually speak in third person. It might work if English didn’t require an explicit subject for nearly every sentence, otherwise it just gets tedious.
(Yes, Psymon picked this name just for the pun on every post.)
I don’t have carpet in my room, just exposed floorboards, my choice. though a few times I’ve gotten splinters in the bottom of my foot.
One time my dog was on the floor, flopping around on it’s back as dogs like to do, I didn’t want it to get splinters, so I gathered it up, and dumped it on my couch.
AAAAUHG!
Splinter. big, splinter. under my fingernail. I pulled it out with my teeth, felt like someone had hit my finger with a hammer for about a day and a half.
There is no overkill. There is only “Open fire” and “Time to reload.”
i suck on my finger till the bugger pops half way out then pull it the rest of the way with my fingernails XP, my friend covers the aira with glue then when the glue drys they peel it off which takes the splinter with it
The pun referenced above has been removed.
I’ve never had a splinter so deep I was inclined to give up on digging it out. . .I’m not sure if that’s a comment on being lucky enough to only get relatively shallow splinters or on a determinedness to keep digging at the splinter until it’s out.
I once got a splinter that was in my finger, and occasionally, it would feel itchy, and I would scratch it, and it would stop feeling itchy. Then I figured it might be a verruca (I had a verruca on my foot at the time), so I squeezed it, and out came the splinter! I was really surprised, cause I couldn’t remember where I got it, or how… Spooky.
Schlock reference, oh Mister Torg?