Is it OK that...

[Sandsnake]

Someone has just clipped their nails on the train (with accompanying noise), filed them down, got off the train and LEFT ONE OF THE NAILS ON THE FLOOR?!

This is grim, right? Where are people's boundaries? Or am I just a bit of a train fascist?

Fingernails or boak toenails?

I think they're fingernails. I bloody hope they're fingernails.

Urrrggghhh i found a torn off thumb nail on the bench seat in Spoons the other day - spent ages trying to sweep it off awkwardly with my bag so i didn't touch it.

Yuck! That's so gross!

YANBU, some people are proper grim. Even if they'd cleared the cuttings, still gross to cut nails on a train.

If I get a broken nail on a train or in a cafe or whatever, I just discreetly tear it off and PUT IT IN MY BAG!
The idea that anyone would deliberately cut their nails and leave them is weird at best.

Couldn't you have picked it up, taken it to a Witch, and have them turned into a goat or something?

It's a bit slovenly, I will agree but it's only a fingernail. Do you realise other people's fingernails touch you every time someone shakes your hand? Are they really so disgusting?

I should add I am a podiatrist's daughter. My mum ran her surgery from home and the odd stray toenail clipping was often seen on our dining room floor as a result. Perhaps I'm immune to it as a result. I've never got the "feet are yuk" thing.

I think this is maybe a bit of an overreaction

There was a chap sitting behind us in the departure lounge merrily clipping his fingernails and leaving the clippings on the floor. I thought it was beyond disgusting.

It's not ok and yes, it's grim.

Don't think there is a problem with clipping/filing your nails on a train, it's the leaving bits behind that is the problem IMO

Someone sat opposite me on the tube years ago trimming off her split ends and letting them fly everywhere

Not great, but better than BO or farting.

Ewww, why can't people do it at home?. It's not bloody difficult to spend ten minutes at home, lol.

I think I'd draw the line at toenails tbh

that's disgusting, what is wrong with people? It's bad enough to witness women tarting themselves up in the morning in public transport, but nail clipping? why would you even do that. Shaving your legs is a good one too. Why, just why.

I guess if there was "revolting" at one end and "thoroughly pleasant" at the other I'd pave this in the middle leaning left. Anything to do with management of the bodily production genes to be considered private, only people frequently sniff ane blow their noses, and personally I'd rather they groomed their nails!

How about someone moisturising their bare legs thigh to ankle on the train one summer?

Don't care if it is finger and toenails or finger or toenails - it's NEVER ok to cut them in a public place and then to top it all off to leave the remnants behind. YEUCH!!!!!

If I break a nail while out I'll use nail clippers inside my bag on that one nail (I can't rip it off as they're very hard). But generally openly trimming them & filing them, no way, it's grim.

Make up - meh, whatever, so long as you don't get pissy with me watching the transformation 🤣

Moisturising or putting on sunscreen. I can't see the issue there at all?!

Cutting your nails is not a public activity.
Tough nails easily become projectiles.......potentially getting pinged in the eye by a strangers fingernail is just wrong.....doesn't matter how good a job they do of clearing up the clippings.

Id have threatened to stuff the clippers so far up she'd never need them again.

What's so revolting about someone putting on moisturiser on the train? Ditto for putting on make-up - I don't understand the revulsion.

On a personal level, the guys in my office have a open bet on which one will witness a woman stab herself in the eye with her mascara, and the jokes about women and make-up are getting old.

Personal grooming should be kept for the privacy of your own bathroom. Just get up 5 minutes earlier and do your make up at home, it looks lazy and frankly a bit dirty to see that.