Re: [b] -- The BRAIN

["Victoria Hiley" <karbonis@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

To the lay observer, I doubt there is an apparent difference.  Perhaps the 
qualifier for nailbiting as a nervous habit is eating the chippings: do you 
do that, and possibly chew them as well, making a horrible clicking noise?
And on a similar theme: eating bogies, repellent or fun?
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> From: "John Walker"

> > John, what *precisely* is the difference between biting your nails and 
> using your teeth to bite them off?

> Biting one's nails is a phrase used to describe the nervous or compulsive 
> habit of gnawing away on finger nails, almost unconsciously. It is a 
> continuous process, causing people to have no nails, and eventually chew 
> down to their elbows.

> Mine is a practical solution to a real problem - nails becoming too long. 
> Scissors are clumsy and pointy, and as such I'm not allowed to use them 
> without the supervision of an adult. Biting them off is a quick and simple 
> way to shorten them when the occasion is right.

> But I will quite happily do it in public without apology.

> John


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