Showers, barbers, and fights will all be different.... As will clothes, probably the skin colour of our faces. Our digestive systems might be different (from consuming nail stuff during famines). Our vision may be different.
Torture would be different. Gender, because we'd likely all paint our nails. Tool use might have different origins. We'd likely move different, and perhaps have different neck muscles and bone structure.
Basically we probably wouldn't recognize the new society. It would be alien to us.
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viral.vegabond@piefed.social · 102 pts · 23d
Also, what if it wasn't clipped short. Instead, you could grow it out a little to have a built in baseball cap
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works · 29 pts · 23d
But which way would it grow?
viral.vegabond@piefed.social · 46 pts · 23d
ApeNo1@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 23d
You hit the nail on the head.
Fmstrat@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 22d
Our largest predator would be a hammerhead shark.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 23d
You just sold me.
Slovene85@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 22d
Woah, are you saying viral.vegabond is a human trafficker?
ceenote@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 23d
Remember to look down when filing it, though. Don't want to get scalp nail in your eyes.
viral.vegabond@piefed.social · 1 pts · 22d
True, nobody likes it when they get scalp nail in their eyes. Lol
VibeSurgeon@piefed.social · 11 pts · 22d
Extreme convenience. How cursed our biology is to have robbed us of this functionality
T156@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 22d
On the other hand, we've also never had to deal with an ingrown headnail, so small mercies.
red_tomato@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 23d
People probably would attach ornaments to the grown head nail.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 23d
Would you use a giant nail-polish brush or use the little ones to do elaborate artwork?
viral.vegabond@piefed.social · 5 pts · 23d
Giant, gotta get shit done. Lol
viral.vegabond@piefed.social · 3 pts · 23d
like piercings or something, kind of?
HoneyMustardGas@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 23d
Yay. no sun in my eyes.
viral.vegabond@piefed.social · 11 pts · 23d
Painting it would be an option too. Or sharpening it. The possibilities are endless!!
HoneyMustardGas@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 23d
Sharpening it so you can headbutt someone else in a human mating ritual lol .
viral.vegabond@piefed.social · 3 pts · 23d
Yes, definitely something one -could- do...
snoons@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 22d
And you could like carve it into cool shapes or harden it into a head spike for killing rich people.
viral.vegabond@piefed.social · 4 pts · 22d
I like where you're going with this.
otter@lemmy.ca · 47 pts · 23d
https://spykids.fandom.com/wiki/Thumb_Thumbs
Shifty@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 22d
I've had nightmares about these...
brown567@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 22d
I came to the comments expecting literally this exact screenshot
Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 32 pts · 23d
wrinkle2409@lemmy.cafe · 29 pts · 23d
Ingrown headnail
brown567@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 22d
Just decapitate me at that point
Ixoid@aussie.zone · 21 pts · 23d
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 23d
Life would be different if we pooped out of our mouths like a sea cucumber.
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net · 8 pts · 23d
Life would be different if we threw out babies at predators when startled, like quokka
DarkCloud@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 23d
Showers, barbers, and fights will all be different.... As will clothes, probably the skin colour of our faces. Our digestive systems might be different (from consuming nail stuff during famines). Our vision may be different.
Torture would be different. Gender, because we'd likely all paint our nails. Tool use might have different origins. We'd likely move different, and perhaps have different neck muscles and bone structure.
Basically we probably wouldn't recognize the new society. It would be alien to us.
Carnelian@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 23d
Mortal kombat fatality animations would be different
toynbee@piefed.social · 1 pts · 22d
I'm uncomfortable with you using "will" in that first sentence.
DarkCloud@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 22d
The crab people are cumming.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 10 pts · 23d
We'd probably fight more with headbutts than with punches. Boxing would be cray. Safety equipment probably would be different.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 22d
Hmmm make it a big toe nail so it gets yellow and thick and accumulates cheese underneath so I can scrape and eat on the go.
Artemis_Mystique@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 22d
c/cursedcomments
hdsrob@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 23d
Those nail clippers are going to be huge.
hdsrob@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 23d
Although I guess that "hair stylists" would get replaced with nail techs. Head Nail styles would be crazy.
brown567@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 22d
They'd probably use saws or grinders at that scale
I almost exclusively use a coarse file for my toenails so they don't break weird and get ingrown
folekaule@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 23d
I would say OP hit the nail on the head here. It would be different.
Quokka@quokk.au · 7 pts · 23d
Magpies wouldn't feel so smug that's for sure.
ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 23d
Amogus
HoneyMustardGas@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 23d
Sus.
inari@piefed.zip · 6 pts · 23d
Natural helmet
Fizz@lemmy.nz · 5 pts · 22d
Nail salons would be booming
Kirp123@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 23d
Imagine having a giant ingrown nail on your head. Yeah, no thanks.
hakunawazo@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 22d
Or itchy nail fungus.
Murse@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 23d
Nothin a bit of phenol couldn't take care of.
...well, maybe a lot of phenol. And a crowbar.
BradleyUffner@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 22d
Kryten?
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 23d
Do you think we’d get sunburn under the nail?
viral.vegabond@piefed.social · 5 pts · 23d
Is it possible to get sunburned under your regular nails?
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 23d
According to Google, yes. :(
viral.vegabond@piefed.social · 1 pts · 22d
I don't trust google. Ask someone in real life and get back to me. Lol
brown567@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 22d
With powerful enough radiation, you can get a sunburn through your whole body =D
That being said, keratin doesn't seem to absorb UV (A or B) very well so probably: https://www.npsg.uwaterloo.ca/data/skin.php
Jela@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 22d
Would
hairnail thinning or balding still exist?What would that look like?
Diurnambule@jlai.lu · 3 pts · 22d
You hâve to go to the nail dresser too. If you nailr is too long you can't lay flat and sleep.
Okokimup@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 22d
Are you having a stroke?
Diurnambule@jlai.lu · 2 pts · 22d
Was laughing. My bad. I trieddto correct