I'm amazed
by the number of people who claim to have cut warts off and not have them come back. I had a very small one on the knuckle of my middle finger for years and as it was awkwardly positioned I'd catch it and pull it off accidentally on a regular basis and still that fucker kept coming back.

However, the interesting sciencey bit about warts and veruccas is that because they are caused by a virus, eventually your immune system will kick their ugly warty backsides into next week. The only thing is it'll just take it's own sweet time doing it. That's what happened to mine eventually - one day I realised it just wasn't there any more. My hand still looks slightly weird when I look at it closely, giving a whole new meaning to the phrase "like the back of my own hand".

Length? It was more the circumference.
(Petite chien is going to do science to it, Sat 22 Jan 2011, 14:01, 3 replies)

Not long ago I came to the conclusion that while I have a passing acquantaince with the back of my hand
that I would be hard pressed to identify it in a line up.

Thus I have chosen to substitute either of the phrases: "I know it like the top of my dick" or "I know it like the top of your mum/girlfriend's head"
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Sat 22 Jan 2011, 15:04, closed)

Hasn't worked for Lemmy yet

(Sir Tainley Barking Ezekiel 23:20, Sat 22 Jan 2011, 15:36, closed)

I used to have a clump on my finger below the nail too.
And two on my knees, four colonies on my foot, with another two on my other. I had bazooked them, scraped them, soaked them, burned them with the ice kits and been to the doctors a million times to have them frozen (once resulting in me having to crawl on my hands and knees after a botched freeze left me with blisters the size of brazil nuts).

One day the colonies, ect were gone and only the original bastard was left (caused by a thoughtful girl in primary deciding she didn't care to get hers sorted and passing it along). Slowly, he shrunk, until my foot was free!

Hooray for building immunities to things! I was getting close to reaching for a hacksaw. =D
( vix0r was not Matthew on, Sat 22 Jan 2011, 20:56, closed)