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Posted: 11/26/2009 4:48:16 PM EDT
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10,000 years.
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Posted: 11/26/2009 4:49:37 PM EDT
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I actually tested this once. I put a bunch of clippings on a window sill. They were there for over 6 months without any major changes. They darkened a bit from an ivory to a light brown.
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Posted: 11/26/2009 4:50:00 PM EDT
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Finger nail clippings?
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Posted: 11/26/2009 4:50:07 PM EDT
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There have been clippings found that dated back to 2000 BC.
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Posted: 11/26/2009 4:50:54 PM EDT
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Them and roaches are the only thing that would survive a nuclear blast.
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Posted: 11/26/2009 4:51:43 PM EDT
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They are some tough shit. I bet it would take a very long time!
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Posted: 11/26/2009 4:52:06 PM EDT
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Fingernails cause global warming.
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Posted: 11/26/2009 4:53:17 PM EDT
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Quoted: Fingernails cause global warming. Earther! |
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Posted: 11/26/2009 4:54:21 PM EDT
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They're keratin, a very strong protein. It's a component of hooves, nails, teeth, hair, and there's some in skin, too.
It's similar to chitin, the material that insect exoskeletons (shells) are made of. People who've been buried thousands of years ago have been dug up and found to still have hair and nails in pretty good shape, every now and then. Essentially, it'll stay where you put it. It won't just go away. CJ |
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Posted: 11/26/2009 4:57:43 PM EDT
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The trick is to get them into the garbage can. Otherwise they will be here long after we are gone.
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Posted: 11/26/2009 4:58:00 PM EDT
[#11]
That, sir, is why they invented "vacuum cleaners".
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Posted: 11/26/2009 5:09:55 PM EDT
[#12]
87 years
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Posted: 11/26/2009 5:18:31 PM EDT
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Imagine how long the human lifespan would be if we were covered in fingernails. We'd be invincible!
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Posted: 11/26/2009 5:37:49 PM EDT
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If kept cool and dry, fingernails will last for thousands of years.
If exposed to sufficient heat and moisture, nails (and everything else in the human body) will completely decompose in less than 40 years. Every few decades we have to renew our family's contract with the group that maintains the family burial ground in Germany. If the contract lapses, the headstones are removed and the plots made available to new occupants. This is apparently common practice throughout Europe. |
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Posted: 11/26/2009 5:59:32 PM EDT
[#15]
Well, now that AR15.COM has answered every question that I ever wanted to know the answer to. I no longer need the internet.
Thank you |
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Posted: 11/26/2009 6:03:18 PM EDT
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I don't think they do.
PS I never read any replies and not even your post. I only read your title. ~R |
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Posted: 11/26/2009 6:03:37 PM EDT
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Isn't it true that your fingernails and hair grow after you're dead?
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Posted: 11/26/2009 6:04:42 PM EDT
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Isn't it true that your fingernails and hair grow after you're dead? No. People think so because your skin starts to shrink after you die from decomposition and dehydration. |
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Posted: 11/26/2009 6:05:16 PM EDT
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Quoted: Isn't it true that your fingernails and hair grow after you're dead? False. Tissues may recede, causing the appearance of growth. But they don't "grow". |
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Posted: 11/26/2009 6:07:21 PM EDT
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That, sir, is why they invented "vacuum cleaners". I clip mine outdoors. |
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Posted: 11/26/2009 6:07:21 PM EDT
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I have a couple really messed up big toenails. During my military career they tried to kill the nail beds several times. They failed, and guess how they grow back now???? My cats walk by my feet and plop down and start nawing on them quite frequently. I think they feel sorry for me. If I clip them and they hear the clippers going, they come running. If I drop any on the floor they chew them up quickly.
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Posted: 11/26/2009 6:07:26 PM EDT
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That, sir, is why they invented "vacuum cleaners". Well, sir, we're not all fancy millionaires who can afford fancy "Vacuum cleaners" and the luxury of sanitation.
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Posted: 11/26/2009 6:11:44 PM EDT
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Quoted: They're keratin, a very strong protein. It's a component of hooves, nails, teeth, hair, and there's some in skin, too. It's similar to chitin, the material that insect exoskeletons (shells) are made of. People who've been buried thousands of years ago have been dug up and found to still have hair and nails in pretty good shape, every now and then. Essentially, it'll stay where you put it. It won't just go away. CJ Someone should make M-16 magazines out of keratin/chitin, them things would last forever! You could drive over them with a 2 ton truck! |
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Posted: 11/26/2009 6:34:36 PM EDT
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Fingernails cause global warming. Gore said it was Bush's fingernails fault. |
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Posted: 11/26/2009 6:42:49 PM EDT
[#25]
OP, your avatar is relevant to this thread.
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Posted: 11/26/2009 7:15:15 PM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: That, sir, is why they invented "vacuum cleaners". Well, sir, we're not all fancy millionaires who can afford fancy "Vacuum cleaners" and the luxury of sanitation.  That was good! |
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Posted: 11/26/2009 8:54:34 PM EDT
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If you don't want them in the rug collect them and put them in a jar! .......25years and these haven't changed much other then darken a bit.
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Posted: 11/26/2009 8:56:17 PM EDT
[#28]
In dry conditions they will probably last for hundreds of years.
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If you don't want them in the rug collect them and put them in a jar! .......25years and these haven't changed much other then darken a bit. http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p149/DionysusPhotos/ar15stuff018.jpg Is that you, Howard Hughes? I hope you have contributed to the OCD Thread. |
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Posted: 11/26/2009 8:56:55 PM EDT
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If you don't want them in the rug collect them and put them in a jar! .......25years and these haven't changed much other then darken a bit. http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p149/DionysusPhotos/ar15stuff018.jpg What. The. Fuck? |
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Posted: 11/26/2009 9:00:00 PM EDT
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Quoted:
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If you don't want them in the rug collect them and put them in a jar! .......25years and these haven't changed much other then darken a bit. http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p149/DionysusPhotos/ar15stuff018.jpg What. The. Fuck? No shit! 
What the fuck is going on with that collection? 
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Posted: 11/26/2009 9:01:12 PM EDT
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 ...they are all mine and you can't have them! lmao |
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Posted: 11/26/2009 9:06:28 PM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: If you don't want them in the rug collect them and put them in a jar! .......25years and these haven't changed much other then darken a bit. http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p149/DionysusPhotos/ar15stuff018.jpg What. The. Fuck? No shit! What the fuck is going on with that collection? I'm officially weirded out |
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Posted: 11/26/2009 9:07:32 PM EDT
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You all can rub the lotion on your skin.
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Posted: 11/26/2009 9:08:22 PM EDT
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Holy shit that's a lot of toenails.
In for an epic toenail thread. |
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Posted: 11/26/2009 9:11:04 PM EDT
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was NOT expecting that |
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Posted: 11/26/2009 9:12:04 PM EDT
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Quoted: Dude, that's fucking weird.If you don't want them in the rug collect them and put them in a jar! .......25years and these haven't changed much other then darken a bit. http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p149/DionysusPhotos/ar15stuff018.jpg |
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Posted: 11/26/2009 9:16:38 PM EDT
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What are you saving them for? A waterworld type scenario where you trade them off for some ass? Are you going to put them in your DeLorean so you can travel to a time when shit like that wasn't creepy?
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Posted: 11/26/2009 9:18:48 PM EDT
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Quoted: If you don't want them in the rug collect them and put them in a jar! .......25years and these haven't changed much other then darken a bit. http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p149/DionysusPhotos/ar15stuff018.jpg That's not the first time you posted that pic either. I remember that from a thread a while back and the first thing I thought was "pencil shavings? wtf" then I realized they were toenails and was thoroughly weirded out. I had a feeling that pic would find its way over into this thread. |
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Posted: 11/26/2009 9:36:38 PM EDT
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How long for one to digest?
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Posted: 11/27/2009 12:15:09 AM EDT
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Ok here is my reasoning...I started saving them as a joke/wtf factor when i was young. Then i got older and said ya kinda weird... but (the would be tossing out a lot of years of work)dam how many people have a collection like this!...so its back to the wtf factor and posting it on the interweb.
I think you all are just jealous. |
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Posted: 11/27/2009 12:27:03 AM EDT
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Quoted:
Ok here is my reasoning...I started saving them as a joke/wtf factor when i was young. Then i got older and said ya kinda weird... but (the would be tossing out a lot of years of work)dam how many people have a collection like this!...so its back to the wtf factor and posting it on the interweb. I think you all are just jealous. 
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Posted: 11/27/2009 12:41:17 AM EDT
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Quoted:
Ok here is my reasoning...I started saving them as a joke/wtf factor when i was young. Then i got older and said ya kinda weird... but (the would be tossing out a lot of years of work)dam how many people have a collection like this!...so its back to the wtf factor and posting it on the interweb. I think you all are just jealous. Kinda like losing a little part of yourself. 
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Posted: 11/27/2009 12:46:33 AM EDT
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Quoted: If you don't want them in the rug collect them and put them in a jar! .......25years and these haven't changed much other then darken a bit. http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p149/DionysusPhotos/ar15stuff018.jpg That's just weird.  |
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Posted: 11/27/2009 5:20:09 AM EDT
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give you a dollar if you eat a heaping teaspoon of those nails
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Posted: 11/27/2009 5:25:05 AM EDT
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A jar of fingernail clippings... http://www.askmen.com/top_10/dating/top-10-things-you-should-never-say-to-a-woman.html
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Posted: 11/27/2009 5:36:09 AM EDT
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Quoted:
If you don't want them in the rug collect them and put them in a jar! .......25years and these haven't changed much other then darken a bit. http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p149/DionysusPhotos/ar15stuff018.jpg If someone TOLD me about a jar of nail clippings, I would ROFL. When someone SHOWS me a FUCKING JAR OF DIRTY FUCKING NAIL CLIPPINGS I am disgusted. I am not sure why I should be, but Jesus tap dancing Christ man, what the fuck is THAT!? |
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Posted: 11/27/2009 5:38:48 AM EDT
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: If you don't want them in the rug collect them and put them in a jar! .......25years and these haven't changed much other then darken a bit. http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p149/DionysusPhotos/ar15stuff018.jpg What. The. Fuck? No shit! What the fuck is going on with that collection? I'm officially weirded out +1 OCD much? |
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Posted: 11/27/2009 6:09:17 AM EDT
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Norse mythology tie-in:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naglfar Naglfar, in Norse mythology, is described in the Prose Edda as a ship made entirely from the fingernails and toenails of the dead. During Ragnarök, Naglfar will be freed from the land and sailed to Vígríðr, the battlefield, by Hrym along with an army of jötunn. The ship will lead hordes against the gods in the last war at the end of time, before a new world will arise from the sea. |
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Posted: 11/27/2009 6:10:20 AM EDT
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Clip some steel wool to get it sharpened up a bit until you buy a new one.
Same for scissors. |
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Posted: 11/27/2009 6:14:10 AM EDT
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If you don't want them in the rug collect them and put them in a jar! .......25years and these haven't changed much other then darken a bit. http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p149/DionysusPhotos/ar15stuff018.jpg
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