Before you drift off to sleep...

[MiHale]

as you’re laying there … here’s a thought to take into the nether.

When do your fingernail clippings cease being you?

Sleep well.

[debm55]

1. As soon as you cut them off.

[MiHale]

5. Then why do you call them 'my' clippings even after two days or weeks?

Deeper.

[debm55]

18. I don't call them my clippings. I say clippings, When you get your hair cut, is the hair on the floor , my hair?

[MiHale]

22. Really don't know...

Haven’t had a haircut in a decade. But before that yes..it of course was mine.

[debm55]

24. There you said it "it was mine" but it is no longer your hair. It gets swept up and thrown in the garbage because it no

longer your hair.

[elleng]

2. When I clip them!

Same as my hair!

[MiHale]

11. Why it's still you ... right?

[elleng]

23. No, it WAS me/mine, it no longer IS!

(I sure wish it were; just saw pics of me and my 'former' hair 40 years ago!!!)

[MiHale]

27. I'll bet you're still beautiful....

Enjoy your ’former’ hair…
I seem to be moving through decades at an alarming rate, I don’t mind I just have different thoughts at times.

Just a thought experiment.

[elleng]

28. different thoughts all the time!

[unblock]

3. Clipping is murder! Clippers should be illegal!

I hear Texas gives out $10,000 bounties for info leading to clipping arrests!

[MiHale]

10. 🤣

[True Dough]

4. It's not something I have given much thought

because my nail clippings are always close to me. I keep them in a large jar on my bedside table.

[MiHale]

8. Ahh can't let go...normal

Of course they could be useful someday.

[True Dough]

15. Exactly!

It why I also keep a container of ear wax and all of my belly button lint (although that's mostly for the birds to build nests).

[MiHale]

17. You're as weird as I.

I use bb lint for fire starting.

[debm55]

20. That's gross. I throw them away as soon as I clip.

[True Dough]

31. Gross?

Gross would be the toe jam that I chisel out. The nail clippings are tame by comparison!

[debm55]

34. Question what is Toe Jam? Thanks

[True Dough]

40. debm, send me your mailing address by DM

and I'll mail you a bottle...

[debm55]

43. Thanks but I'll pass.That is gross

[True Dough]

44. Try it on toast before you judge!

[debm55]

45. Wait a minute here. Is this really jam or what some traveling medicine quack sold you?

[True Dough]

46. If it quacks like a quack...

[hlthe2b]

6. Well, they are your DNA forever (or as long as DNA can be retrieved from the clippings)...

So, potentially they are YOU forever if handled correctly.

[MiHale]

12. 👍

[keithbvadu2]

7. First I dehumanize them. Then I destroy them.

[MiHale]

14. Wowsa!

[2naSalit]

9. When...

They're fully decomposed, otherwise, DNA samples.

[MiHale]

13. They feed my soil, then me again.

[2naSalit]

21. And that's the full cycle!

[OAITW r.2.0]

16. Toe Jam....

50% DNA material. 50% fungal life. Am i Wrong?

[MiHale]

19. How the heck could you be wrong?...

[OAITW r.2.0]

25. Pure inspirational conjecture, on my part.

backatcha.

[OAITW r.2.0]

26. Nobody noticed, but I moved the conversation from fingernail clippings to Toe Jam.

[MiHale]

29. It was noticed...

[OAITW r.2.0]

30. Sorry! You had a darn good fingernail clipping OP going on.

Rude for me to introduce toe jam.

[MiHale]

32. Who cares? It's Saturday night.

[MiHale]

35. I truly thought this post was...

A little too weird for anyone to respond to.

So now what’s your recipe for toe jam… I don’t like sugar

G’nite. See ya in the morn

[OAITW r.2.0]

39. Sleep tite.

[kimbutgar]

33. Ha ha I have a senior moving job and a lady we moved had all her nail clipping in a box!

It was gross and interesting at the same time. She kept her clippings because she said it was part of the soul/energy of her body. We packed it and moved to her new senior community.

[debm55]

36. OM. I think that you cut them because they are long and you need to trim them. If you want to keep them as part of you,

let them grow on your fingers. JMO

[MiHale]

38. Okay, doaky!

G’nite.

[MiHale]

37. I owned a carpet cleaning company...

So many people did that! They even had special jars that said “ Finger Nail Clippings” .

Now…Was it still them?

[Earth-shine]

41. As soon as they are clipped off.

It could be argued that hair and nails are not part of the living body. They can be detached with no ill effect on the body.

(I just gave a serious answer to a nonserious question.)

[Hikerchick57]

42. LOL

[LudwigPastorius]

47. Another thought:

"You" are composed of equal parts, your cells and bacteria cells that aren't you.

Some scientists even estimate that the cells that are actually you (your DNA) are outnumbered by the ones that are not you.

[MiHale]

48. 👍