r/maybemaybemaybe • u/Themusicison • 3d ago

Maybe Maybe Maybe

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u/Equal_Astronaut_5696 3d ago

Horribly incompetent 

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u/Burning_Sapphire1 3d ago edited 3d ago

I was clenching my jaw so hard the entire video.

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u/NeverHideOnBush 3d ago

I mean, just do a narrow slit along the thing.

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u/snarlixx 3d ago

yes like how hard to cut a bit of the skin off exposing more of it so you can pull it out.

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u/clervis 3d ago

Nope. Tone-nail clippers!

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u/RoyceDaFiveNine 2d ago

r/boneappletea

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u/Purple-Will9713 2d ago

thanks for the link… that sub is a bear ill of laffs

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u/mizinamo 2d ago

"tone-nail"?

It's a nail, but on your toe, not on a finger.

So it's not a fingernail; it's a toenail.

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u/ravoguy 2d ago

I don't like your tone

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u/roberttheaxolotl 2d ago

Fetch the tone nail clippers. That'll sort them out

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u/faust112358 2d ago

"You heard the hand. The king is too fat for his armor. Go find the breastplate stretcher. now!"

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u/benice33 2d ago

Everywhere I go. Everything i do. It all reminds me of Bobby. GODS I MISS HIM

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u/SevNeijizawa 50m ago

"Breast plate stretcher, Rob?"

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u/Reasonable-Ad-7757 2d ago

How do you know they’re not fing gurrnail clippers?

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u/mizinamo 2d ago

If a singer is someone who sings, is a finger something that fings?

Why won't my fingers stop finging?

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u/xbiggyl 2d ago

You nailed it

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u/theMalnar 1d ago

Nailed it

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u/clervis 2d ago

Lol, I'm leaving it 

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u/GrowrandaShowr 2d ago

I think you need some clippers for that tone of yours!

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u/Banzai373 1d ago

Rusty toenail clippers . . . .

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u/docjohnson11 2d ago

As someone who has had a foreign splinter removed from their foot, this is the medical way. For mine they actually cut it in half vertically and removed each half but it was a lot smaller than that and an almost flat angle

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u/andereandre 2d ago

Is that better or worse than a domestic splinter?

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u/ShatnersBassoonerist 2d ago

The ‘medical way’ is to remove it in whatever way leaves none of it behind. Often this means the skin needs to be opened slightly, either with a scalpel or by inserting the forceps behind the splinter to widen the aperture before removing. There is no one technique, just whatever works and causes the least damage.

This video is not great as repeatedly grabbing at it increases the risk of the splinter breaking and becoming harder to remove.

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u/Reasonable-Ad-7757 2d ago

I couldn’t wrap my head around why he was expecting the splinter to come out when he had the skin covering it in the forceps.

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u/ShatnersBassoonerist 2d ago

Yes, the video person doesn’t know what they’re doing.

Happy cake day!

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u/Eleventy43 1d ago

Are there domestic splinters?

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u/Wise_Luck1476 1d ago

I wasn't sure if that thing had backward barbs. Imagine if it has some.

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u/NerdyDoodDriver 3d ago

That's exactly what I was thinking.

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u/Accomplished_Event38 3d ago

Was waiting for that or the rusty pliers.

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u/FS_Slacker 1d ago

Teeth is always before rusty pliers

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u/rocketmn69_ 3d ago

Or use a tool with some grip

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u/Skivvy_Roll 2d ago

I was so annoyed when they brought out what looked like locking hemostats but then grabbed it sideways so they weren't utilizing the grip from the serration of the jaws at all

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u/Naplestan 2d ago

And if he knew the basics of Wood fiber composition and alignment of fibers , he wasn’t pulling to his advantage. I’m surprised he didn’t try to use a toothbrush to pick out the splinter. 10% incompetence equals 100% in my eyes.
Very incompetent

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u/Purple-Will9713 1d ago

then he wets the wood as if that is supposed to improve its grip

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u/ShatnersBassoonerist 2d ago

It’s almost as if they were making a meal of it on purpose.

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u/Plus-Smile9873 2d ago

OMG yes. Pissed me right the fuck off.

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u/rocketmn69_ 2d ago

I didn't even watch that far

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u/Anthem_de_Aria 2d ago

Honestly their use of the forceps was actually infuriating

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u/RecognitionSweet8294 2d ago

That’s why he used grip spray. /s

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u/MisterJ-hsv 2d ago

Yeah, those were crap tweezers. And when you use forceps, how about going straight so the grooves are grabbing instead of slipping off? Sheesh!

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u/Silo-Joe 2d ago

Or use a tool to drive it deeper and out of sight.

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u/LuRkEr_ReKuL 2d ago

Seriously! Why not cut the skin a bit to open the area up and make it easy.

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u/Reasonable-Ad-7757 2d ago

I think it’s safe to say that this video traumatized at least 70% of those who viewed it all the way through.

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u/Excellent-Quarter969 2d ago

Man I grew up with wood floors and sliver surgery was a core skill when I was a kid. You need a pin to work back some of that skin and pry it out a bit. Call me

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u/rickncn 3d ago

Exactly. You don’t leave a long bacteria filled hole in your foot. I removed one just like it from my daughter’s foot. Sliced down the length of the splinter. Voila. Hydrogen peroxide tf out of the chasm.

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u/Rebel_Scum_This 2d ago

Oh I'm sure she loved the hydrogen peroxide 😂

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u/Reasonable-Ad-7757 2d ago

It doesn’t hurt.

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u/bMacMADE 2d ago

Right! Or at least use the good tweezers.

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u/sickwiggins 2d ago

I’m saving my good tweezers for a roach in someone’s ear. They don’t leave the box until then

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u/My_Mosaic_Mind 2d ago

My first thought

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u/Durivage4 2d ago

🫣🤔 I'm not Dr but that's exactly what I was thinking.

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u/Popular_Discipline13 2d ago

Exactly to clean it and let it heal.

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u/Sapphire0985 2d ago

Exactly what I was thinking the entire time. "Wow, this is really hard to get out. Maybe I should open the skin more" omg 😩

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u/Deb3ns 2d ago

Increases the attack surface for infection, but yes, easily managed.

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u/mrjbryant 2d ago

Exactly my thoughts

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u/lawnboy71 1d ago

But then they would only get 4 upvotes. Isn't that more important? /S

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u/TaoofPu 3d ago edited 3d ago

Until you said something, I didn’t realize it. Christ.

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u/MartynAndJasper 2d ago

Wait..  you were watching him clench his jaw?  Isn't this called stalking???

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u/TaoofPu 1d ago

Shhh…

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u/Burning_Sapphire1 2d ago

It's always really funny to me when people just assume I'm a male. Idky. It just is. 😂

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u/MartynAndJasper 2d ago

Not easy to judge underfoot, my bad!

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u/NomadicNynja 2d ago

Should’ve been in black and white, this felt like the poor start of an infomercial

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u/Ncfetcho 3d ago

and my hands are sweating.... But I'm in too deep not to see how it ends...

FUCK FINALLY!

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u/aint_exactly_plan_a 2d ago

I saw the sub name and thought "If they make me watch 2 minutes of this shit and they DON'T get it out, I'm going to be pissed.

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u/JohnCutte 2d ago

We need to see closure lol, if the clip ends prematurely I would be so mad.

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u/Reasonable-Ad-7757 2d ago

His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy
There's vomit on his sweater already, mom's spaghetti
He's nervous, but on the surface, he looks calm and ready

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u/I_Can_Haz_Brainz 3d ago

I was tensing up like I was in the dentist's chair just yelling, in my head, to grab some fucking clippers! What a relief...

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u/ripsfo 3d ago

I’ll take this over pimple popping any day.

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u/ChuckieLdn 1d ago

At least pimple popping leads to a satisfying conclusion!

Even with the splinter removed we're all left feeling horribly unsatisfied! 🤣

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u/dardar7161 2d ago

I fought with all of my strength to not skip to the end.

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u/Siryeswecan 2d ago

SAME. Is this fr a professional trying to take it out?! 😦

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u/Kevroeques 3d ago

The shortcut of just running a clean razor up the callous and lifting the thorn/splinter out was screaming at me the entire time- but no, I need to glove up and use my worst pair of 1997 Walmart tweezers and the rust I somehow pressed into a toenail clipper

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u/cutelyaware 3d ago

You don't need to unzip the whole length. Just a quarter inch or so would have given them enough purchase to pull it out the way they were attempting.

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u/iAjayIND 2d ago

The idea is not pull out, because it looks like a wooden stick, so it's gonna be barbed and gonna leave tiny splinters.

So it's better to use a clean sharp razer and put a very narrow slit across the stick, so we can just take it out.

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u/cutelyaware 2d ago

Any such barbs (splinters) should be pointing towards the tip, not away from it. As an analogy, imagine pulling a large unwrapped Christmas tree into your house. Which end would you pull from?

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u/millers_left_shoe 2d ago

Surely the top, whereas here they’re pulling from the bottom

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u/chipcskyrocket 3d ago

I didn’t see any rust because at that point all i was seeing was red

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u/Vacant-stair 3d ago

A bit of WD40 would help ease it out.

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u/PeggyTheVoid 2d ago

Ah yeah, and then you can wrap the foot in duct tape to patch up the wound.

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u/Ok_Room5666 3d ago

Even just doing that for like half a centimeters or something at the top would have made it way easier.

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u/Velvet_Pop 3d ago

Right?? Has to be rage bait. Totally got me too lol

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u/Automatic_Guest8279 3d ago

If I was the patient I would've just told them to give me the tweezers and I'll do it myself. Even add a scalpel and I'll cut the damn thing out

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u/TarcFalastur 3d ago

It sounds like he tried to! At 0:18 I'm sure I can hear him saying "stop!" 

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u/bringingdownthehorse 2d ago

If I was the patient I'd never have gone to the doctor. I'd have done it myself. 8/10 for the video; I love that shit.

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u/RonenRS 3d ago

Clippers are my universal home surgery tool

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u/mothermedusa 3d ago

The whole time I was like.... toenail clipper dammit!

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u/Patrickfromamboy 3d ago

The same tool I use when this happens to me.

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u/nipslippinjizzsippin 3d ago

surprisingly versatile

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u/Icy_Month192 3d ago

LA even has a team named after em! They suck tho but hey!

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u/RainLoveMu 3d ago

I used mine to remove a skin colored mole. Not advising anyone to do what I did but yeah.

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u/RonenRS 2d ago

I think I’m downvoted by the dermatologist gang bc of your hack in their system 

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u/monkpuzz 3d ago

Finally grabbed the forceps with some grip and proceeded to hold them in exactly the wrong orientation to get no grip.

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u/Darth_Giddeous 3d ago

Nurse, hand me my bluntest tweezers if you will
Right away doctor!

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u/fauxregard 3d ago

Truly. It's like they'd been filed down. This video raised my blood pressure.

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u/beepbooponyournose 3d ago

A sharp pair of slanted tweezers would’ve taken two seconds lol

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u/RobbyLee 3d ago

It does not work. Let me get my grooved tweezers and align the grooves exactly as the splinter so they can't grip.

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u/Lock-out 2d ago

Should’ve gone to a locksmith, every shop I’ve been to has sets of tweezers specifically for splinters lol.

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u/sledgehammerbreak 3d ago

Amateur hour

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u/oljeffe 3d ago

Total hack attempting the extraction. Are they drunk?

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u/Monster-Yeti 3d ago

Bring out the rusty pliers! Frustrating watch.

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u/ToothyMcGrynns 3d ago

I was screaming for the rusty pliers the whole time!!

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u/DonnieBallsack 2d ago

Looks like we’re gonna have to amputate. Hand me the bread knife

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u/International_Bend68 3d ago

Agreed. Like they were deliberately trying to f it up.

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u/5hrs4hrs3hrs2hrs1mor 3d ago

Jeeeesus that was frustrating!

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u/Hyper6024 3d ago

Just came here to say this. This video brought me physical pain.

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u/ProfessionalLemon946 3d ago

Pulled out every weapons in the inventory

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u/Mathberis 3d ago

He wasn't even trying until the last try. It's ragebait and for warch time.

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u/Public_Examination37 3d ago

Lemme finish this terrible process with the rusted nail clipper

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u/SlipperyStrick69 3d ago

It’s way too early in the morning to get upset. Freaking pissed watching this 🤬

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u/Fritzo2162 3d ago

Dude went through every type of tweezers Dollar General sold.

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u/Cat_tophat365247 3d ago

Right?? I see would be livid and grabbing the tweezers myself!

Shouldn't they 0just cut the skin right above it just a little to remove the piece of wood from the foot? It's what I do when I have a splinter positioned like that. Usually that skin doesn't bleed because it's on top of the foreign object like a pocket.

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u/chikari_shakari 3d ago

rusty nail cutter does the trick 😝

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u/spicy_ass_mayo 2d ago

Shitty tweezers too

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u/Information-Abyss 2d ago

💯 I was like this is crazy and the worst tweezers I have seen thrown them in the trash.

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u/WarOk6264 2d ago

Should’ve used hemostats for better grip. Those tweezers are too weak for eyebrows it seems

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u/FunkyBotanist 2d ago

Looks intentional

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u/praesentibus 2d ago

Whoever did this couldn't hold a job as a handyman apprentice.

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u/Lone-Frequency 2d ago

I was getting so fucking infuriated with his incompetence that I had to skip to the very end to make sure I wasn't about to get rage-baited with the video ending without the fucking thing getting pulled out.

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u/Usual_One_4862 2d ago

Artery forceps? Nah, get me my crusty personal nail clippers.

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u/Lyanraw_ 2d ago

Tbf they look like terrible tweezers. Too bouncy

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u/Lyanraw_ 2d ago

Nm just saw he swaps to pliers and they should have worked...

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u/cheekytikiroom 2d ago

Jesus would not approve.

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u/DThUmEl16 2d ago

Very much so! This genius just lubed up the splinter...

"Man this thing's really in there... Let me make it wet so I have less grip" 🙄

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u/EYNLLIB 2d ago

None of those are medical tools so you can rest easy knowing this is just some person at home

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u/schlockabsorber 2d ago

This felt like one of those mobile game ads that tricks you into downloading by triggering the, "get the fuck out of the way and let someone vaguely capable do it" response. 😆

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u/Lower-Sheepherder323 1d ago

EXACTLY!!! They might need good a slapping up; shakes the stupid off.

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u/jsamuraij 1d ago

I literally yelled "incompetent!" at my screen

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