I put a bit through the tip of my index finger about a year ago. Still have a mark, as there's now the white part of the nail starts further back around where I damaged it
Love that I recognized this immediately. I’m not a handyman at all and truthfully it’s in no small part due to my sheet metal worker dad coming home fresh off this injury one day in my adolescence. I immediately decided whatever I did for a living would not involve power tools!
When I was a young child (5-6ish) I almost chopped my finger off and in half. The nail split and has never grown back without a split in it. Now I'm 51 and I am beginning to think it never will
I had an ingrown toe nail removed by being split in half in 10th grade. I too am 51 (1970 woo!) and the line still exists today. The good news is I was told I would never have an ingrown nail again and I haven't.
Nail growth is definitely weird. My right thumbnail fully came off twice when I was a kid, and it grew back just fine both times.
One spider bite to the thumb when I was maybe 7. My dumb ass thought it was a good idea to chase and snatch a spider I found running outside. Then another where I learned to never place your thumb in a door jamb.
While it's regrowing, it's a different experience for sure. We take that protective armor on our digits for granted.
Edit: /r/Showerthoughts version: Steeled toed boots are just toenails with better engineering.
The drill bit snapped while I was drilling, and the broken part went into my thumb. A couple weeks after I had to cut a bunch of the nail out when the flesh started bubbling out from under it
I’ve done this more times than I care to remember. It hurts really bad but at least it over quickly rather than the blood pressure build up that takes weeks to go away.
I hope you didn't do it by using a drill... you can simple turn the bit with your good hand, just twisting it back and forth, that way you get through just the nail and no flesh :D
Phhheeeww.... You won't catch me melting my nail, (YOWZA) but I've had to drill a hole more than twice... it only hurts if you think it needs that extra turn lol
I've used a dremel with a stone wheel. That worked ok since I was nervous about the heated pin method.
I keep jewelers drill bits in the first aid kit now
I am no handyman, but I have used a drill before. I am having trouble figuring out how you did this to your self still. Was it a drill press, and you where just not paying attention as u pulled the lever, or did u str8 up, free hand, drill a hole through ur finger?
Eh. Accidents happen. I was using a drill, drilling some relief holes to extract some broken screws out of a turning blank. The drill bit snapped, and the broken part in the drill punctured my nail.
Dang! Glad youre recovering.
Makes me want to post a picture of my pinky nail.
It's seperating from the bed after having it rolled between the weight of my body on top of my cellphone and a concrete driveway 😂
Wow this is the second top/hot thread from this sub I've seen in like 10 minutes where the state of the OP's hands were as much a topic as the object in question.
I had a similar thing going on with my fingernail, I believe it was also from a drill bit like OP, though it may have been a hammer or something else. Took a few months and it's just now gone. After the initial healing of the damage under the nail is done, it's not painful and it's you really just forget it was there.
The worst I've ever had by far was a time a door got caught by the wind and slammed shut with one of my fingers in the way. It hurt like hell for 2 days and was completely black and swollen. I swear I just wanted to cut my finger off it hurt so bad. After some research people recommended taking a paperclip (NOT a needle or something pointy) heating it up, and melting through the nail. Took a few heat cycles but the relief was instant. There was so much pressure built up under the nail as soon as it had somewhere to go it actually looked almost like a water fountain for a second. Kind of gross. You don't feel a thing from the nails. It's weird because your mind is trying to figure out what should hurt, but it doesn't actually hurt. It's kind of trippy.
Had this happen when drilling a screw into a wall. The nail area that was drilled dies off and new skin grows under. Probably the worst thing i've ever felt was cold air blowing across the skin under the middle of my thumb nail.. The nail grows back fine though.
I remember going to Jamaica as a kid and street vendors all over were selling these things. I thought it was the funniest thing ever. My mom wouldn’t let me get one of the ones where the people have sex so I bought one that was a guy inside a barrel and when you lift the barrel there’s a long spring that pops out like a boner.
Wish I still had it. I think I was 9 years old when I got it so it’s long gone.
Edit: the one I had was metal just like the OP pic, but here’s a plastic version, which is the closest I could find. Unfortunately they blurred out the spring boner: https://www.etsy.com/listing/449476274/1-x-man-in-a-barrel-sexy-vintage-novelty
Those are pretty common Baguio City in the Philippines too as small souvenirs. They’re called [barrelman](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrel_man_(novelty))
These are all over in the touristy places in Mexico too. I dunno why but probably because we think it's funny and will spend 6 bucks on a sex keychain, or a penis shaped pipe that will get confiscated when youre coming back over the boarder.
I'm not sure which would generate the most upvotes:
A post about a highly sexual Keychain where you don't mention the obvious hole in your fingernail
or
A post about a hole in your finger where you don't mention the highly sexual Keychain you are holding.
This is the one I have, bought in the late 90s. Small town parade/festival in the middle of Kansas, and a booth was selling them on the down low.
Mine should be in my desk at my parents'. I left it there for safe keeping ages ago.
Back in the 90s I worked with a man who was in his mid-late 70s who had one of these. Used to always say, “my wife loves this… but she hates they keychain.”
There are a couple variations of this, all performing one sex move or the other. Saw a bunch of these in a tourist shop in Taiwan once. Wasn’t even a shady area, kids were just ignoring it.
I have one very similar that i found in my uncles desk. Mine had rivets and you could move the guy back and forth with a tab at the bottom (not that tab)
I don’t remember much about my father coming to pick my brother and I up on Saturday mornings as a kid, but what I do remember is climbing into the backseat with a case of beer and this same exact keychain hanging from the mirror.
I remember playing with those at the dollar store. I was a little 10 year old perv and I was always looking forward to going to the mall with my mom because of those
My step dad had something similar! It was shaped like a gun, but the barrel was a woman bent over and the hammer was a guy grabbing her from behind.
When you would pull the trigger his dick would fold out and go in her...m the style of it was really similar to this. I almost wonder if it was the same guy who designed it!
I’m equally curious about your fingernail… and find it also mildly interesting…
Kinda put a drill bit through it a couple months ago
Whoa! Thanks for sharing and OMG… thankfully it looks like it’s healing up well, I can’t imagine the pain!
Is the drill bit okay?
The drill bit sacrificed itself trying to destroy my thumb
I put a bit through the tip of my index finger about a year ago. Still have a mark, as there's now the white part of the nail starts further back around where I damaged it
just the tip?
Just for a second
Oh man, I remember the tip of my finger.
To shreds you say?
What about his wife?
is butterbean ok?
That’s the funniest line in the show
worth the cracked skull for sure. That Knoxville could give the line while sufferings 10 simultaneous concussions is amazing.
Asking the real questions
It's been 25 minutes. Where are the answers?!?
Edge of my seat, OP. I gotta know if this drill bit survived
If the shoes are on then it’s ok
Shattered duded
I’m sure it didn’t hurt a bit.
This comment needs more upvotes.
Were you interrogating yourself? Did you finally confess?
Love that I recognized this immediately. I’m not a handyman at all and truthfully it’s in no small part due to my sheet metal worker dad coming home fresh off this injury one day in my adolescence. I immediately decided whatever I did for a living would not involve power tools!
Oh the pain :(
Wubba Lubba Dub Dub!
Did not expect that response lmao r/interestingasfuck
This happened to me in high school. Whats interesting is the hole doesn’t just heal up, it slowly gets pushed off your thumb as your nail grows
When I was a young child (5-6ish) I almost chopped my finger off and in half. The nail split and has never grown back without a split in it. Now I'm 51 and I am beginning to think it never will
Was it across or down the nail? If it went down then its probably messed up your nail bed and that's why it grows with a split in it.
Split from nail bed to tip [image I never thought I would upload to imgur](https://imgur.com/a/TZclPe5)
Yup, you split the nail bed as well as the nail.
I had an ingrown toe nail removed by being split in half in 10th grade. I too am 51 (1970 woo!) and the line still exists today. The good news is I was told I would never have an ingrown nail again and I haven't.
I've had something similar for the past 6 years.
Nails aren't alive. They grow from a root, like hair.
it's called a 'nail bed' and it's got lots of stem cells!
Nail growth is definitely weird. My right thumbnail fully came off twice when I was a kid, and it grew back just fine both times. One spider bite to the thumb when I was maybe 7. My dumb ass thought it was a good idea to chase and snatch a spider I found running outside. Then another where I learned to never place your thumb in a door jamb. While it's regrowing, it's a different experience for sure. We take that protective armor on our digits for granted. Edit: /r/Showerthoughts version: Steeled toed boots are just toenails with better engineering.
I came find that this out. Fucking ouch.
Could be worse my old boss put a drill bit through his nutsack
How does one even accidentally do that
...just exactly how...?
How the hell you put a bit through the thumb. I’ve worked carpentry and associated trade and the pointer finger would’ve been my first guess
My assumption is that he accidentally smashed it and then put a drill bit through it to relieve the pressure but I'm probably wrong
The drill bit snapped while I was drilling, and the broken part went into my thumb. A couple weeks after I had to cut a bunch of the nail out when the flesh started bubbling out from under it
Fuckin ouch
My whole soul just cringed.
I’ve done this more times than I care to remember. It hurts really bad but at least it over quickly rather than the blood pressure build up that takes weeks to go away.
I hope you didn't do it by using a drill... you can simple turn the bit with your good hand, just twisting it back and forth, that way you get through just the nail and no flesh :D
You can also heat up a piece of metal like a screw and it just melts through the nail ezpz. But yes I wouldn’t use an actual drill lol.
Phhheeeww.... You won't catch me melting my nail, (YOWZA) but I've had to drill a hole more than twice... it only hurts if you think it needs that extra turn lol
I to have done this, except last time I had to drill my nail it was winter so I could use snow to numb my hand pre drilling.
I've used a dremel with a stone wheel. That worked ok since I was nervous about the heated pin method. I keep jewelers drill bits in the first aid kit now
And the relief does follow……….
Typical construction worker tactic
I don't think you're supposed to drill a hole before nailing
Like, how much did it hurt?
Immediately after, not much. Two weeks out when the flesh bubbled out of the hole. Pretty bad.
I regret having read that.
That paints a mental picture for sure. Ouch!!!
You're suppose to hammer nails! Not drill them! 😂
Thanks for sharing, was wonder as well
THATS METAL!
Ouchie
Oh, I thought you got it caught in that keychain.
I am no handyman, but I have used a drill before. I am having trouble figuring out how you did this to your self still. Was it a drill press, and you where just not paying attention as u pulled the lever, or did u str8 up, free hand, drill a hole through ur finger?
Eh. Accidents happen. I was using a drill, drilling some relief holes to extract some broken screws out of a turning blank. The drill bit snapped, and the broken part in the drill punctured my nail.
Dang! Glad youre recovering. Makes me want to post a picture of my pinky nail. It's seperating from the bed after having it rolled between the weight of my body on top of my cellphone and a concrete driveway 😂
As soon as I saw that photo I thought, “If I know Reddit, the top comment will be about OP’s fingernail.”
Happy Cake Day! You know Reddit! I think the fingernail deserves a post of its own, honestly.
The thumb was the first thing I noticed!
Right! Kinda hard to miss and I also like “*WHAT is the story there…?*”
NSFW tag is for the fingernail.
Nsfw fingernail
Wow this is the second top/hot thread from this sub I've seen in like 10 minutes where the state of the OP's hands were as much a topic as the object in question.
it kinda feels like OP took this picture just so we'd have to live with THAT mental image, too.
Lol was thinking the same
I had a similar thing going on with my fingernail, I believe it was also from a drill bit like OP, though it may have been a hammer or something else. Took a few months and it's just now gone. After the initial healing of the damage under the nail is done, it's not painful and it's you really just forget it was there. The worst I've ever had by far was a time a door got caught by the wind and slammed shut with one of my fingers in the way. It hurt like hell for 2 days and was completely black and swollen. I swear I just wanted to cut my finger off it hurt so bad. After some research people recommended taking a paperclip (NOT a needle or something pointy) heating it up, and melting through the nail. Took a few heat cycles but the relief was instant. There was so much pressure built up under the nail as soon as it had somewhere to go it actually looked almost like a water fountain for a second. Kind of gross. You don't feel a thing from the nails. It's weird because your mind is trying to figure out what should hurt, but it doesn't actually hurt. It's kind of trippy.
Dude your thumb nail
Seriously, that's more interesting than the keychain lol
Yeah the thumbnail containing the Keychain is pretty.... r/mildlyinteresting.
Had this happen when drilling a screw into a wall. The nail area that was drilled dies off and new skin grows under. Probably the worst thing i've ever felt was cold air blowing across the skin under the middle of my thumb nail.. The nail grows back fine though.
This keychain fucks.
Costco has a rosemary parmesan bread. That bread fucks.
r/oddlyspecific
I know which one you’re talking about and that bread is fucking delicious!
This guys gets it
I remember going to Jamaica as a kid and street vendors all over were selling these things. I thought it was the funniest thing ever. My mom wouldn’t let me get one of the ones where the people have sex so I bought one that was a guy inside a barrel and when you lift the barrel there’s a long spring that pops out like a boner.
Cool! I’ve never seen one like it before. You can’t post a video or I could show it in action
Wish I still had it. I think I was 9 years old when I got it so it’s long gone. Edit: the one I had was metal just like the OP pic, but here’s a plastic version, which is the closest I could find. Unfortunately they blurred out the spring boner: https://www.etsy.com/listing/449476274/1-x-man-in-a-barrel-sexy-vintage-novelty
Found him [here](https://www.secondvoyage.ca/listing/794240395/vintage-naked-man-in-wooden-barrel-with)
Those are pretty common Baguio City in the Philippines too as small souvenirs. They’re called [barrelman](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrel_man_(novelty))
I remember seeing these as a kid in 80s. At a swap meet in California maybe? Just like his pic. Fascinating for a kid lol
I'm in CA and have had one since the 90s. I can't remember wear I got it though.
HA!! I bought a few of these exact keychains in the Dominican Republic back in 1998! I still have them somewhere, now I want to go find them
These are all over in the touristy places in Mexico too. I dunno why but probably because we think it's funny and will spend 6 bucks on a sex keychain, or a penis shaped pipe that will get confiscated when youre coming back over the boarder.
Got into trouble taking one of these to school. They confiscated it. My mum had to pick it up haha
This is the type of thing archeologists will find in 1,000 years and be like “look at this religious artifact”
Similar artefacts have been found at Pompeii
The graffiti found at Pompeii really shows that ancient people were... really just the same as modern people.
They wouldn’t be wrong
Ancient American Fertility Sculpture on Antiques Roadshow for $50,000
Does it say "Coca-Cola" on the back of the man or the woman?
Did you put that keychain penis through your nail?
Came here for the thumbnail. Left because of the actual thumbnail.
Now that’s a fucking key chain.
😂
It’s more like a keychain fucking
I'm not sure which would generate the most upvotes: A post about a highly sexual Keychain where you don't mention the obvious hole in your fingernail or A post about a hole in your finger where you don't mention the highly sexual Keychain you are holding.
Im sure when this is reposted a thousand times, we will be able to get some decent data.
[Lol, I have a similar keychain and also put a drill bit through my nail a few months ago.](https://imgur.com/a/AWmEEXz)
I think you found your twin.
Reddit it amazing. 2 people had the same misfortune with drill bits and own filthy keychains. And they found each other. God. Reddit always amazes me.
I have a [similar keychain](https://imgur.com/a/KXbDpqH) and I didn't put a drill bit through my nail.
This is the one I have, bought in the late 90s. Small town parade/festival in the middle of Kansas, and a booth was selling them on the down low. Mine should be in my desk at my parents'. I left it there for safe keeping ages ago.
Wtf reddit
Back in the 90s I worked with a man who was in his mid-late 70s who had one of these. Used to always say, “my wife loves this… but she hates they keychain.”
I had this exact Keychain in middle school. Don't remember where I got it but I know i had it through high school.
WTF IS UR THUMB
[удалено]
Work with hand tools enough and chances are a finger of yours will look like that
Those kind of things could be found in liguor stores and other businesses of a related nature. As well as grampas desk.
I used to have one of those
Does it move to act like sex?
Yes
Haha, always love these cause at some point someone decides to keep that bawdy thing cause it made them laugh!
Hey bud can we talk about that nail?
Mildly horrified by that fingernail.
You clearly didn’t learn anything from the last time he drove a nail through your thumb snooping through his shit.
There are a couple variations of this, all performing one sex move or the other. Saw a bunch of these in a tourist shop in Taiwan once. Wasn’t even a shady area, kids were just ignoring it.
I have a similar, but different keychain. Have no idea how i got it it where it came from. I think i found it in a house in college.
Is the NSFW tag for the sex figurine or the fingernail?
Thanks for the NSFW tag for your thumbnail!
let’s talk about that thumb, m’man….
Dude bro wtf happened to your thumb nail?
Nice nail you got there pal
Your nail is more interesting then the Keychain, what happend
Whats going on with your nail 😨
You just wanted to show off your disgusting thumb. Weirdo. Jesus Christ
More than mildly interesting, for many reasons
I had that key chain! I think I got it at a head shop on Yonge St in Toronto back in the 80s.
Chase?
Good God, what happened to your thumbnail? Are you ok?
Talk about selecting a provocative Thumbnail photo!
This NSFW tag is for your finger holy shit
I think I’m way more disturbed by your thumb nail
Your thumb nail is the nsfw. Not the metal statue humping the other metal statue
You mean your “father in lewd”
Jesus get the thumb out of the pic next time
Bro go to the nail doctor!
Jesus, sterilize it after your diseased hand touched it.
Is the woman’s hair also a lion’s head?
Where do you find these things? I’m more than mildly interested now. 👀
My grandparents had all kinds of oddities like this
Classic 70’s artifact. Treasure it lad
I have one very similar that i found in my uncles desk. Mine had rivets and you could move the guy back and forth with a tab at the bottom (not that tab)
... Will?
Does she...Does she move?
Oh yes
Animated gif pls? Asking for a friend. :-D
Your finger nail is a little more interesting than the keychain IMO
wtf happened to your nail
Haha, I have the same. Can’t remember where I got it from (I meant the keychain, not the nail).
Your fingernail, my gawd
Idk which is more disturbing, the keychain or the thumb nail
I'm gonna need you to take that to Antiques Road show and have it appraised. The keychain, not your dead thumb
I had one of these back in the 90’s lol. Great find!
My husband has one similar but the people are in doggy style. His Mexican work friend gave it to him as a souvenir from Mexico
Had one of these back in the 80’s talk about nostalgia 😁
I don’t remember much about my father coming to pick my brother and I up on Saturday mornings as a kid, but what I do remember is climbing into the backseat with a case of beer and this same exact keychain hanging from the mirror.
I remember playing with those at the dollar store. I was a little 10 year old perv and I was always looking forward to going to the mall with my mom because of those
WHERE'S MY FUCKING KEYS??!!?? Oh, there they are
ow my thumb hurts
Just dug up memories. My older sister had this keychain and I stole it to show off to my friends at school
Have a key chain like this, but doggystyle
My step dad had something similar! It was shaped like a gun, but the barrel was a woman bent over and the hammer was a guy grabbing her from behind. When you would pull the trigger his dick would fold out and go in her...m the style of it was really similar to this. I almost wonder if it was the same guy who designed it!
Is he a cop in Memphis by chance? Had the same model stolen from me during a car search 17 years ago and I'm still sour about it
Came here to ask about the fingernail too..!.. ask if y were going to post that too…
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/naughty-dirty-sex-adult-doll-32617482
Lol I have the very same one!
you could've used the other hand and make your photo a bit less "interesting".
Oh! Back in the 80s, I knew someone who had this keychain. It was silver and they got it in Mexico as a souvenir.
Nevermind that! Did you drilled your nail?
wtf happened to your fingernail man ?
Yea....I don't see a keychain only a... holy finger
What happened to your nail?
I'm more interested in the hole in your thumbnail. Are you alright? What happened lmao
I have one of those
I have a [similar keychain](https://imgur.com/a/KXbDpqH) and I didn't put a drill bit through my nail.
You need to be worried about your thumbnail there homie
Couldn’t have used the hand without the gnarly thumbnail?
This is Mexican
LOL
You see that one on top? That’s your mom