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This has nothing to do with fashion or 2cm long nails, but I'm a man and I sometimes like having my thumbnail around 2mm. It's like having a butter knife on the
by strken 2y ago
This has nothing to do with fashion or 2cm long nails, but I'm a man and I sometimes like having my thumbnail around 2mm. It's like having a butter knife on the end of your thumb. You can strip wire, break through thinner plastic packaging, remove splinters without tweezers, and more.
- dotancohen 2y agoIn the 80s one long nail was a sign of someone who often would need a small spoon at hand.
- thaumasiotes 2y agoIt's common for lower-class Chinese men to have one long nail. I tend to assume the reason isn't drugs, but I don't know what it is. I was annoyed once when I stumbled upon an advice column named "Ask a Chinese Girl", and someone had written in asking what that one long nail was about, and the official answer was "What? That sounds dirty, it's definitely not something Chinese people would do." You can easily observe that they do do it by walking around outside. So weak support, I guess, for the drugs theory, but I still tend to suspect it's a cultural thing. Anyone know?
- Terr_ 2y agoI had thought it was a historically recurring status symbol, showing that the owner of the hands wasn't required to use them for manual labor.
- pbhjpbhj 2y agoSurely it's to show the user does not lift a single finger for themselves. Not just labour, but all useful action is shown to be eschewed by someone with lengthy pieces of plastic glued to each fingernail.
- thaumasiotes 2y agoThese are people who definitely are required to do manual labor.