Let your fingers do the talking/Timeless joy of cheap tools.

[hirez]

In an attack of carelessness on Friday even, I tried to hold open a loaded door with my right little finger. Or perhaps the wrong one. Anyway, the result was the nail being half ripped off an uncomfortable way down into the nailbed and presumably a deal of blood on the inside of the relevant glove. Even cut down as far as I dare, there's still a good section that's going to catch on anything within a 500 metre radius and cause more blood and swearing.

So I thought I'd try to glue it all together with some reasonably gloopy nailie. And paint the matching nail on the other side for reasons of symmetry.

Result: it looks like I'm dripping the final gothness from my life out of the ends of two fingers. Although I'm starting to wonder if I may as well do the rest, I rather like MAC 'Black and blue'...



Today I was seduced by the wonder that is the local pound shop again. A handful of maybe-useful clampy things for £1.98. Not much use for holding fingernails on, but significantly less useless than talking South Park car air fresheners. I'm sure there's a large factory in China that plans production runs using the same perl script that generates spam message titles.

And and and... Was that Howard Goodall programme (How music works) on Ch-4 a corker or what? It's self-evident that people who know their stuff (and can convey same) are going to be a lot more use that random simpering teevee presenter. Like Radio Humppa from WhatTheHack last year.

Comments

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

Even without the nail varnish, you have very elegant fingers. I know that's a slightly odd thing to say, but oddness comes naturally to me.

[(Anonymous)]

Okay, at first, I thought -- "the British sure have odd-sounding names for places." Now, I'm pretty much sure that you're making them up. Wormelow Trump?

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Wormelow Tump.

It's between Much Dewchurch, Sunnyside and Cocksbrook Wood.

(It's Herefordshire. They specialise in odd names there.) (http://streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=349500&y=230500&z=4&sv=349500,230500&st=4&mapp=newmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf&ax=349500&ay=230500) ()

[miss-glitch.livejournal.com]

Goth.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

That's a filthy lie.

[reddragdiva]

Post-punk-in-black, dahlink.

[voidmonster.livejournal.com]

As a kid, I managed to shear off 4/5ths of the nail on my little finger. I didn't even realize it until I noticed something cold on my hand and saw that it was bleeding. My mother insisted I wash it in a cold water fountain.

That's when it hurt like galloping lubeless fuck.

Your keyboard clicks, doesn't it?

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Ow. owowow.

I fear the k/b is a cheap and nasty squidgy-foam effort. PH-R jealously guards the IBM Model-M that I, um, liberated from somewhere or other.

Potato

[jendama.livejournal.com]

I'll wager [those] dainty pinkies never weighed anchor in a storm.

Re: Potato

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Arr. Be a woman's 'ands. Arr. Etc.

[poggs.livejournal.com]

Hirez - So Goth It Hurts.

Sory, that should be:

Hirez - So Goth. It hurts :(

[eljaydaly.livejournal.com]

That just sounds so damned painful.

[echo-echo.livejournal.com]

With clamps like that, I dare say you'll have a queue of dominatrix down your local pound shop.

[amanda-pink.livejournal.com]

Having ripped a nail off too, I sympathise, but you've turned it around with a monster fashion statement and kudos to you...

I won't even begin to speculate about the clampy things, my thoughts about those are far too sordid ;)

[specialunclet.livejournal.com]

how do you spend £1.98 in a poundland

i though everything was a pound?

[hirez.livejournal.com]

2 x 99 pee bargains.

[specialunclet.livejournal.com]

bloody hell, the man who gets things even cheaper in a pound shop

i bow to your thriftyness

[(Anonymous)]

Glad I wasn't the only one to think that.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Is this anonymous comment week or what?