Roast pea for 4.5 years...
My ex-father-in-law had a nasty habit...

...of trimming his "verruca" with a pair of scissors in front of the telly. I had no idea what he was on about, until I too picked up a wart on the bottom of my foot.

Late one Saturday night about two years ago I got sick of this thing, so decided to remove it with a bit of home surgery. A dozen beers provided anesthetic, and my trusty pocket knife and a pair of sharp scissors were all the surgical instruments I needed. I did pour boiling water over them first in the hope of sterilising them, I'm not a complete idiot.

Using the pocket knife I dug away around the edges until a fibrous tube-shaped mass came away from the skin and hung free. The thing was attached by a fairly substantial (to me, anyway) blood vessel, and pulling or twisting the thing wasn't doing anything but cause me pain. So, I grabbed the scissors, pulled it out as far as I could, then snipped the fucker off. I packed the (bleeding) hole with cotton wool and taped it all up, then sculled another beer and went to bed.

Two years later and it still hasn't come back. Still, I don't recommend it to others - my current wife went ballistic the following morning when I told her why I was hobbling about.
( Udderbelly A tale of four titties, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 9:46, 5 replies)

Another method
which is extremely painful but effective ...

Wait for a sunny summer's day, get out a magnifying glass, apply white hot beam to veruca until smoking.

You need to kneel on the ankle of the offending foot, otherwise you reflexively buck away.
( Wet-chinned bag shanker Cannot parse Wogan, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 10:15, closed)

I want one just to do that.

(waxdart hello., Fri 21 Jan 2011, 12:22, closed)

me too

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 13:42, closed)

Oooo! Lasers!
Me likey.
( Udderbelly A tale of four titties, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 13:56, closed)

Why do people have a problem with this kind of thing?
As a kid I cut out a couple of verrucas on my feet and warts on my hands* and I never had a single problem. I also successfully removed a coldsore by applying PVA wood glue then ripping it off.
Nothing of this kind remotely qualifies as risky or being surgery -- heck, I sawed nearly to the bone on my thumb and the bleeding stopped well before blood loss would be problematic and the wound never had any infection.
People are far too cautious about this kind of thing.
*I suddenly feel like I did nothing but suffer from warts as a child.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 18:33, closed)