To think filing nails on public transport is grim?

[nailsonthebus]

I can understand makeup. I can't understand why anyone would think it ok to file their nails on a bus or train. The noise. The nail dust going everywhere. Just grim. aibu?

Couldn’t care less if someone did this

It's the entitlement of turning public transport into your personal dressing room that I object to. I don't care if it's a man cleaning his nails or a woman doing her makeup. I once saw a man applying various creams / moisturiser etc on the train. That wasn't appropriate either.

Get ready before you leave the house, and if you can't then do your ablutions in the bathroom. Doesn't matter if you're male or female.

This. I’m a reformed nail-biter and one thing that helped me stop biting was to file or cut any nail I broke straight away.

Hell will freeze over before you see me putting makeup on in public, though.

I used to get a train every morning with someone who would floss her teeth. Now that’s grim.

In the UK? What class do you think that would be exactly?

As I said in my post, it was one occasion, 25 years ago. I was very young. Yes, it surprised me at the time because it hadn’t entered my head that it might be a problem. That experience made me realise that it wasn’t ok. So I haven’t done it since. So no, in answer to your rather spiky question, I do not think ‘subjecting the rest of the plane to that stink’ is ok.

My point was that people don’t always think things through, unless it’s pointed out to them. Especially young people, who can be very wrapped up in their own world. When I get the train, there’s usually a table or two of groups of young people who behave in mildly antisocial ways - audible music, loud chatting, offensive language, feet on seats. Etc. I think to myself “They’ll learn” and if they’re bothering me, I move away and leave them to it.

Most people become more aware of their own behaviour and it’s impact on others as they get older, as I did. Obviously some don’t. But personally, I’m inclined to live and let live.

I agree, it’s grim.

I also think applying makeup on public transport (other than a swipe of lipstick or gloss) is utterly déclassé.

Most primary school children have already caught up on what is acceptable social behaviour and what isn't. Being "young" is not an excuse for an adult.

I can't understand make up either. There is a lot that I see in the streets of London that I shouldn't. Make up application, filing nails, spitting, weeing....people are disgusting. Make up application is for the bathroom. I also don't need to see people getting their eyebrows or teeth done in the middle of a shopping mall

Not something I would actually do, but someone filing a nail on public transport wouldn't bother me at all. Cutting their nails with the bits flying off in all directions WOULD bother me. I can't really put my finger on why.

As a daily user of public transport in London I see on an alarming frequency people clipping finger and toe nails. UIRGH.

I also hate finger nail filing, nose picking, hair brushing or pulling, basically any sort of picking at body parts.

I also think its rude when people violently sweep bits off a seat and spray everyone with it. Ditto for shit they spot on their own clothing.

I would also ban usage of devices without headphones, facetime or speakerphone calls, eating hot food, spitting, bags on chairs, feet on chairs, and arm rest hoggers.

Bonus points for people who overtake you to get to the ticket barrier but then do not have their ticket ready.

Quick fix over one newly broken nail is the one I'd understand.
Applying makeup or clipping the nails (plural) not so much, as it means more strange hand movements and potential to stain others.

I see your nail filing and I raise you blowing out your nose in a health club swimming pool.

Happens every time another bloke gets in and.. TMI warning:
Snot floats over to everyone else and is highly visible 🤢

I can't get worked up about this, why is it 'disgusting'?

I rarely use public transport but I don’t really care if someone files a broken nail, there’s worse things flying around the carriages in the air than a bit of keratin. Sniffing, spitting, sneezing & coughing bother me much more tbh

Wasn't me as I took the bus, but I did the same for years . Used to be really common to see.

Actual filing I don't mind. Clipping would be gross. And painting no as the stink!

Hahaha. Made me chuckle thinking if you on the bus doing it.

I think some blokes gets lascivious pleasure from watching women apply lipstick.

I watched a woman reapplying red lippy in a restaurant one time (after eating) and the man she was with was almost drooling. He couldn’t take his eyes off the process. 🙄

I was once in a Sainsbury's cafe and watched a man clean underneath his fingernails with a fork. I had just eaten a meal in there and felt very queasy. This was years ago, if I saw it now I would say something to him.

If I've broken a nail (and I keep them short and unpainted anyway), then I'll very quickly swipe it over with a file to stop it catching, but not a full manicure.

I got the train to London for work last week (I usually fly, but I'm trying to reduce this - although you're not helping, Avanti West Coast) and sat at a table opposite two young women (late teens / very early 20s) who took out cases of make-up and professional-standard mirrors and spent three hours of the five-hour journey doing their make-up (from their chat, I think they were going to a concert).

I was both fascinated and slightly horrified: not sure why, but I guess I subconsciously feel that 'putting your face on' is quite intimate?

Anyway, I'm old (in my 40s) and I'm sure neither of them gave a hoot what I thought.

See, me and my mate have shared office deodorant 😁

This morning on the Victoria line a woman was combing her long hair on the tube 🤮

A quick file to deal with chipped nail is fine with me.

Many a time I've seen young women on the tube do more or less a full make up and am always amazed at the deftness and skill, particularly with eyeliner and mascara!

Many decades ago after a night shift I sat opposite a women who got out a nail kit and a hankie on her lap and proceeded to clean out each nail and deposit the contents on the hankie - I had to move away as it was making me heave!

Night shift workers will know how you often feel 'high' and nauseous on that journey home after a 12-hour shift.

Filing a small snag or chip to stop you from breaking or biting at the nail, fine.

Full on filing all your nails? No save it for home.

How in gods name are you getting " subconscious misogyny." ????

No one has stated what sex the nail filer is - but there are examples of MEN doing this...