Splinters

[Daggers]

When I was young I was forever having to have splinters extracted from my fingers, feet and knees. 
 

Why don’t splinters exist anymore and why did I used to get them? It’s not like the world was made of wood and now it’s made of PVC. 
 

 

[davieG]

Sorry to spoil the narrative but I got one yesterday off of my 40 year old stair banister. 

 

[LanguedocFox]

I don’t know how old you are, but when I was young (I’m 78) many more things were made of wood. In addition, technology for smoothing and planing wood was much less sophisticated, so rougher wood was used more widely.

 

My skin (like yours) was much softer when I was a kid. Getting splinters, cuts and bruises is nature’s way of toughening you up for life’s slings and arrows.

[Trav Le Bleu]

2 hours ago, Daggers said:

When I was young I was forever having to have splinters extracted from my fingers, feet and knees. 
 

Why don’t splinters exist anymore and why did I used to get them? It’s not like the world was made of wood and now it’s made of PVC. 
 

 

I wish it was made of PVC.

 

Phwooar, eh!?

 

 

[Trav Le Bleu]

1 hour ago, LanguedocFox said:

I don’t know how old you are, but when I was young (I’m 78) many more things were made of wood. In addition, technology for smoothing and planing wood was much less sophisticated, so rougher wood was used more widely.

 

My skin (like yours) was much softer when I was a kid. Getting splinters, cuts and bruises is nature’s way of toughening you up for life’s slings and arrows.

Outrageous!

[Raj]

Because the yoof dont go outside and explore in derelict  buildings or doss about with action men like what we Ndidi😁

Edited 30 December 2023 by Raj

[Daggers]

1 hour ago, LanguedocFox said:

I don’t know how old you are, but when I was young (I’m 78) many more things were made of wood. In addition, technology for smoothing and planing wood was much less sophisticated, so rougher wood was used more widely.

 

My skin (like yours) was much softer when I was a kid. Getting splinters, cuts and bruises is nature’s way of toughening you up for life’s slings and arrows.

 Not as old as you, but we had carpets so how was I always getting splinters in my feet?

 

I was still getting splinters into the 80s. I can remember this being one reason I got hooked on Swiss Army knives because the tweezers were so handy. 
 

I spent sixish years pretty much permanently barefoot in South America across the 90s & 00s, on wooden floors, not one single splinter. 

[Bellend Sebastian]

2 hours ago, Daggers said:

When I was young I was forever having to have splinters extracted from my fingers, feet and knees. 
 

Why don’t splinters exist anymore and why did I used to get them? It’s not like the world was made of wood and now it’s made of PVC. 
 

 

Was the solution for one of your parents to poke it out with a needle? Why they did this rather than grab it with tweezers, which definitely did exist in the late 70s/early 80s, I've no idea.

 

Also, a tiny splinter in your skin is a great thing to look at through a microscope, it looks like you've done yourself a mortal injury 

[SkidsFox]

I remember getting splinters.

And dead legs.

[Daggers]

4 minutes ago, Bellend Sebastian said:

Was the solution for one of your parents to poke it out with a needle? Why they did this rather than grab it with tweezers, which definitely did exist in the late 70s/early 80s, I've no idea.

 

Also, a tiny splinter in your skin is a great thing to look at through a microscope, it looks like you've done yourself a mortal injury 

Yes, it was always a dirty needle. 
 

My wife got them too in the early 90s and I’d use dirty needle therapy on her too. 
 

I really don’t understand how it all stopped. It’s like the millenium banished splinters and there’s a conspiracy not to discuss it. 

[Foxdiamond]

The FT splinter group 

[Chelmofox]

I now just get shin splints. Bastards.

Edited 30 December 2023 by Chelmofox

[ithuriel]

Try steel splinters, far worse, what you get working with steel.

[Trav Le Bleu]

1 hour ago, Daggers said:

 Not as old as you, but we had carpets so how was I always getting splinters in my feet?

 

I was still getting splinters into the 80s. I can remember this being one reason I got hooked on Swiss Army knives because the tweezers were so handy. 
 

I spent sixish years pretty much permanently barefoot in South America across the 90s & 00s, on wooden floors, not one single splinter. 

Surely you must have incaed some splinters?

[Trav Le Bleu]

53 minutes ago, Chelmofox said:

I now just get shin splints. Bastards.

Same.

[Trav Le Bleu]

1 hour ago, Foxdiamond said:

The FT splinter group 

Splitter!

[Daggers]

13 minutes ago, ithuriel said:

Try steel splinters, far worse, what you get working with steel.

Had a metal splinter in my eye once. Had to go have a big magnet pull it out. 

[Milo]

3 hours ago, Daggers said:

Had a metal splinter in my eye once. Had to go have a big magnet pull it out. 

😳 pull your eye out?

[Royston.]

24 minutes ago, Milo said:

😳 pull your eye out?

Calm down, they put it back in

[Sly]

You can’t get a splinter from a PlayStation or Xbox 

[Parafox]

I get splinters from sitting on the fence.

2 hours ago, Sly said:

You can’t get a splinter from a PlayStation or Xbox 

I beg to differ:

 

Edited 30 December 2023 by Parafox

[tom27111]

We should bring back splinters.

 

And Chinese burns. 

 

Modern society is seriously lacking in both.

[Parafox]

3 minutes ago, tom27111 said:

We should bring back splinters.

 

And Chinese burns. 

 

Modern society is seriously lacking in both.

 

And this:

 

[Free Falling Foxes]

Anyone who has used one of these and got a splinter from it, will confirm they are the biggest pita.

A glass fibre stuck in your finger is tiny, virtually invisible and causes max discomfort.

 

[MPH]

I remember getting splinters from an old wooden slide when I was a kid. I grew up in Wales -  my Dad was in the AirForce and there was this children’s playground  near to the air base.  Got warped due to the weather, I guess..Also split my head open falling off the play frame onto some glass on the concrete. Happy days.