Draggletail Posted November 5, 2006 Share Posted November 5, 2006 ........ Other than being useful for a good scratch? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weenireeni Posted November 5, 2006 Share Posted November 5, 2006 you can paint them pretty colours or theyre good at pinchin people when they annoy you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LibertyBell Posted November 5, 2006 Share Posted November 5, 2006 they exist to provide occupation and a living to the strange bleach-haired orange people you see in those tans'n'nails'r'us shops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lizzmobile Posted November 5, 2006 Share Posted November 5, 2006 They stop your fingers and toes fraying. Ya nutter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashbang Posted November 5, 2006 Share Posted November 5, 2006 Fingernails, for picking your nose Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heyesey Posted November 5, 2006 Share Posted November 5, 2006 ........ Other than being useful for a good scratch? That's like asking what purpose do the legs serve, other than being useful for walking around on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muddycoffee Posted November 5, 2006 Share Posted November 5, 2006 Fingernails add to the dexterity in your fingers. If you had the same hands without fingernails then the end of all your digits would be bulbous and round, you would find it much harder to pick up small things like small pins and screws. And for music it is useful to have slender finger tips for many instruments, you wouldn't have that without nails. Try threading a needle with your knuckles instead of your finger tips for a good example of why fingernails are important. As for toenails. Well toes are almost redundant in our world, I think they just help give balance. My only explanation would be speculating that millions of years ago we evolved from a species which had thick toenails which helped for grip or protection.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordChaverly Posted November 5, 2006 Share Posted November 5, 2006 On the distaff side, they evolved so that women could varnish them and to provide work for manicurists. They are also useful in catfights. On the male side, they mainly evolved as implements to scratch with or to use as plectrums, or (in the case of toenails) to provide protection before the invention of steel toe-capped boots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sTaGeWaLkEr Posted November 5, 2006 Share Posted November 5, 2006 Absolutely no idea, but I've been told that both nail and hair tissue keeps growing, even after we die, so I've made arrangements for me to be dug up every six months to have my nails trimmed and my roots touched up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattTurner Posted November 5, 2006 Share Posted November 5, 2006 I almost chopped off the end of my finger the other day with a knife, my nail stopped the blade and saved the tip of my finger!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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