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KellyNYC
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Long pinky nail??
Pardon my naïveté, but what us the purpose of this? I see it mostly on men. I've heard it's to cut up coke (not sure of that's the right terminology) but I find it hard to believe people would be so quick to basically broadcast their status as a drug user like that.
I ask because a contractor I had visit my house for an estimate had this, and I seriously question having him back.
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Long pinky nail??
i always heard the coke thing, too........but my DH will take forever before he cuts his nails and get the coke finger, and I always tell him people are going to think he's a user.
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| Posted 8/15/12 8:52 PM |
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Long pinky nail??
Lol, my dad is notorious for waiting forever to cut his nails. He gets tbe coke nail, def not a user. Was it all of his nails, or his pinky only?
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| Posted 8/15/12 8:53 PM |
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KellyNYC
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Long pinky nail??
Actually all of his nails were kind of long but one pinky was WAY longer.
Eta he was also super jumpy, moving all around, and used the bathroom as soon as he walked in. Not saying he's a coke user, but just rubbed me the wrong way. Anyway, I basically just wanted to know if the pinky thing was just an old wivestale or what.
Message edited 8/15/2012 9:02:27 PM.
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| Posted 8/15/12 8:56 PM |
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DiamondGirl
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Re: Long pinky nail??
I think that this might be a "style" for some men in certain cultures. I have heard the coke thing but I don't think it necessarily is true. Did the man seem "off" otherwise? I wouldn't not hire him just based on a fingernail.
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| Posted 8/15/12 9:00 PM |
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mrswask
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Re: Long pinky nail??
I've always heard the coke thing too about the one long pinky nail.
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| Posted 8/15/12 9:00 PM |
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digweed
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Long pinky nail??
i always knew it was for coke, but a few hair guys I knew had it...hairdressers...to part hair. Not sure if it is true, but I bought it at the time.
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| Posted 8/15/12 9:03 PM |
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KellyNYC
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Kelly
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Re: Long pinky nail??
Posted by digweed
i always knew it was for coke, but a few hair guys I knew had it...hairdressers...to part hair. Not sure if it is true, but I bought it at the time.
This makes me feel better, my hairdresser has it too!!
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| Posted 8/15/12 9:05 PM |
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Re: Long pinky nail??
I always heard it was a coke thing but I have a friend who had her pinky nail that way for years just because she could. What I mean is that her pinky nail just grew and never broke. She didn't do coke. My hairdresser sometimes has it and I thought it was just a handy way for him to make a part in someone's hair. He uses it to move my hair around while he's cutting. I'd be surprised if he does coke.
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| Posted 8/15/12 9:09 PM |
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Re: Long pinky nail??
DH is a contractor and is super jumpy and anxious. That's just his personality and he also frequently has to use the bathroom. (Probably because of his anxiety).
In any event, his fingernails aren't the issue but he does have "coke" toenails 
I am always after him to cut them.
You should go with your gut though, especially if you don't have an actual recommendation on this guy and his work.
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| Posted 8/15/12 9:10 PM |
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Mrs213
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Re: Long pinky nail??
Posted by KellyNYC
Posted by digweed
i always knew it was for coke, but a few hair guys I knew had it...hairdressers...to part hair. Not sure if it is true, but I bought it at the time.
This makes me feel better, my hairdresser has it too!!
Does he use it to part your hair or does he use a comb?
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| Posted 8/15/12 10:08 PM |
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Goobster
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Re: Long pinky nail??
We had a delivery man with that and it creeped me out. Plus he accidentally scratched me with it (didnt cut me thankfully). 
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| Posted 8/15/12 10:21 PM |
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Re: Long pinky nail??
Posted by Mrs213
Posted by KellyNYC
Posted by digweed
i always knew it was for coke, but a few hair guys I knew had it...hairdressers...to part hair. Not sure if it is true, but I bought it at the time.
This makes me feel better, my hairdresser has it too!!
Does he use it to part your hair or does he use a comb?
Ah, I posted about this without realizing that the hairdresser thing was discussed. My hairdresser has a way of using the pinky to get some hair out of the way while he cuts. He uses a comb for parts also.
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| Posted 8/15/12 10:25 PM |
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Re: Long pinky nail??
I think it's an old school thing; I see a lot of older European men with it. I think it's got something to do with prosperity or philosophy ....?
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| Posted 8/15/12 10:29 PM |
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juanvi
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Re: Long pinky nail??
Posted by mzsocialworker1
In any event, his fingernails aren't the issue but he does have "coke" toenails
Im not sure the finger is for but coke toenails cracked me up
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| Posted 8/15/12 10:57 PM |
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Re: Long pinky nail??
Posted by juanvi
Posted by mzsocialworker1
In any event, his fingernails aren't the issue but he does have "coke" toenails
Im not sure the finger is for but coke toenails cracked me up
I know. I was ROTFL.
My husband used to do that but he got tired of hearing it from me and tired of me telling him that I will book his pedicure appointments. I still want him to get pedis.
One time he was in flip flops and I mentioned the long toenails in front of his mother. She said,"oh, we all have that," meaning the whole family. This was back when I was being nice to her but my thought was, "then you're all pretty gross." Now I would just say it to her.
I'm so glad my husband stopped having coke toenails.
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| Posted 8/16/12 12:12 AM |
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GoldenRod
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Re: Long pinky nail??
Here's some "reasons":
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2650/why-do-some-people-have-that-one-extra-long-fingernail-on-the-pinkie-finger
Why do some people have that one extra-long fingernail on the pinkie finger?
April 28, 2006
Dear Cecil:
For decades I've wondered, and assuming the answer would be highly personal, have failed to ask: what's the deal with the extra-long pinkie fingernail on people from the Orient (Middle East, India, Southeast Asia)?
— Jim Mundy, Pawhuska, Oklahoma
You're thinking I'm going to say I did all my research for this on the Internet. Well, not all. I have a buddy with a long pinkie nail and a high embarrassment threshold, so I called up and asked. However, let's face it: for topics resistant to conventional lines of inquiry, the Internet is hard to beat. Some theories, many lifted from the Straight Dope Message Board, this column's own little window into the demimonde:
* Organic coke spoon. As if we needed to ask.
* Booger scoop and earwax excavator. Gross, yes, but sure keeps that coke from falling off.
* In the old days in China, long fingernails were a sign you were rich and didn't do manual labor. Now they grow out the pinkie as a sign of culture, breeding and wealth. No doubt there's some truth to this. A bit of browsing turns up photos of ornate fingernail protectors worn by ladies of the imperial Chinese court. Bizarre though such talons may seem to some, one could argue that as an indicator of culture, breeding, and wealth they beat having to buy a Jaguar and read Proust.
* My Chinese students (all about 18 to 22) told me the nails are long so the little finger reaches past the last knuckle joint on the ring finger. If it does, you are rich and intelligent! Maybe, but if I'm Anna Nicole Smith trying to size up a prospective soul mate, I'm going to need to see more than a pinkie nail.
* My 76-year-old uncle keeps one pinkie nail long and sharpened to open envelopes.
* A sharpened, hardened nail is a dangerous weapon and can be a sign of prison time. Or of a man who opens a lot of envelopes.
* I thought it was a sign one was a pimp.
* My friend has one and always hints it is for sexual purposes. I really hope they don't involve earwax.
* Great for opening shrink-wrap. Ha! I bet that's what Mr. Sexual Purposes does with it.
* General scratching and ear cleaning. The longer nail also works well when trying to pick up something lying flat on a table, like a coin. Definitely seeing a common thread here. My assistant Bibliophage points to the French word auriculaire, meaning pinkie finger, of which Larousse remarks, "ainsi nommé parce que sa petitesse lui permet de s'introduire dans l'oreille" ("so named because its small size allows it to be introduced into the ear").
* My pinkie finger on both my hands is a bit longer than the other nails. I use them for playing the tarifs, or sympathetic strings of the sitar, in different fashions. I use the right one for playing a quick scale down the sympathetic strings between different movements of the Hindustani classical music I usually play. The left one I use for striking the tarifs as accents during the slow, first movement, or alap. I keep my right index nail a little long so that I can pluck each string individually (they are hard to reach) for tuning. And as a bonus, people think you're a pimp.
* The cashier at Subway had one nail grown long. I asked him why and he said he had a running competition with one of his friends as to who had the longest fingernail. This, on so many levels, is why I never eat at Subway.
* A Google search produced some interesting ones: that Picasso kept a long little fingernail for mixing paints, and that Turkish men commonly keep such a nail for opening cigarette wrappers.
* I am the only man I know that has 32 different colors of nail varnish, as I have one two-inch-long pinkie nail that I paint up like the Colombian flag. Whatever you say, partner. However, I have to point out that the Colombian flag only has three colors.
* Don't cut my nails, pinkies only ones that don't break off. My friend's answer. Give him credit for honesty.
* On a Beijing subway I saw a guy with a long pinkie nail clean his nose and his ears with it. Right after he wiped his nail on the hand rail, someone grabbed it. Wonderful place, Beijing subways. OK, I think we got it. Theory, at least in some parts of Asia: sign of culture, breeding, and wealth. Practice, regardless of locale: booger scoop.
— Cecil Adams
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LotsaLuv
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Long pinky nail??
When I see that I think drug sniffer
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| Posted 8/16/12 9:08 AM |
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2boys1girl
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Long pinky nail??
I know it's gross but I've heard sexual purposes too...
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| Posted 8/16/12 9:21 AM |
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ItsaJoya19
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Re: Long pinky nail??
Not sure about the coke thing but when I was much younger, my mom used to let me grow out my pinky nails bc I wanted long nails. It was our compromise. Now I see I might have been mistaken for a coke head!
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| Posted 8/16/12 9:23 AM |
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Jennifer
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Re: Long pinky nail??
I used to work a in a department store and our jeweler had a long pinky nail. He used it for grabbing the small gemstones.
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| Posted 8/16/12 10:56 AM |
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Katareen
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Re: Long pinky nail??
Posted by 2boys1girl
I know it's gross but I've heard sexual purposes too...
I don't want a long fingernail anywhere near my lady parts. Ouch!!
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| Posted 8/16/12 10:59 AM |
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NervousNell
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Re: Long pinky nail??
This whole thread is skeeving me to no end! 
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| Posted 8/16/12 11:07 AM |
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springchick
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Long pinky nail??
i always thought it was to clean the ears...gross
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| Posted 8/16/12 11:13 AM |
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KellyNYC
LIF Adolescent
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Kelly
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Re: Long pinky nail??
Posted by NervousNell
This whole thread is skeeving me to no end!
ITA. I'm cracking up at these replies. I'm so glad I asked! Not that I feel much better about the answers
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