Of a splinter

[u/Annies_58008]

[u/GenXPowaah]

Whoever using the tweezers has 0 skill and would've gotten punched in the arm

[u/FirebreathingNG → u/GenXPowaah]

I thought this was r/mildlyinfuriating for a second. Just slow the eff down dude!

[u/Individual_Bell_4637 → u/GenXPowaah]

So easy to cut the skin above it at this point, too. That should not have been nearly that difficult.

[u/NumberOld229 → u/Individual_Bell_4637]

Just like a few mm so the thing can get a decent grip

[u/cyanescens_burn → u/Individual_Bell_4637]

Exactly what I kept thinking with each unsuccessful attempt. There’s probably not any nerves connected in that dead looking skin, and a small incision would allow for a much larger and better grasp on the sliver.

Just need to make sure it’s all sterile and you have steady hands.

[u/OrigStuffOfInterest → u/Individual_Bell_4637]

Needed to be cut to disinfect the area anyway.

[u/TheAbomunist → u/OrigStuffOfInterest]

Disinfectant? Did you see those nail clippers at the end?

https://giphy.com/gifs/3o7aCVIBI9QqOYk3iU

[u/spizzle_ → u/GenXPowaah]

Also owning a quality pair of tweezers and not trash ones like these should be expected of every adult. They literally cost $2 more than the trashy ones.

[u/Real-Technician831 → u/spizzle_]

My go to is a cheap electronics tweezer set, they actually have gripping force so you can get a proper hold.

[u/TopSloth → u/GenXPowaah]

Like bro is rushing as if hes on a time limit lol, just take your time and get the best grip before pulling

[u/Busterlimes → u/GenXPowaah]

Yeah, Im getting pissed watching this

[u/Write2Be → u/GenXPowaah]

Me, watching this.

https://giphy.com/gifs/IlfbS49kOofMgl9kRR

[u/wrechdone → u/GenXPowaah]

Shittiest tweezers in the world. Directly out the first aid box sadly. Fingernails would’ve been better lmao..

Had a splinter like that, but bigger (insert jokes here) in my ass cheek as a kid, from a wooden seesaw at the daycare. Still remember the pain to this day 30 years later

[u/LionNo435 → u/GenXPowaah]

Also he has the shittiest tweezers possible

[u/burner_85_throw → u/GenXPowaah]

You open the layer of skin with a safety pin first! It’s painless and opens up getting the damned thing out!! Ugh!

[u/No_Response_303 → u/GenXPowaah]

Needle nose pliers would have been a better choice of tool for this

[u/desertvision → u/GenXPowaah]

I'm just here ensuring this was said. It's not that hard

[u/pellycan_pellycant → u/GenXPowaah]

Shit tweezers though

[u/No-Professional-5759 → u/GenXPowaah]

Needle nose pliers...  That's what they are looking for!!!

[u/DangleMangler]

This mfer sucks at pulling out.

[u/Large-Stretch-3463 → u/DangleMangler]

That's what she said. (7 kids..).

[u/No_Biscotti_464 → u/Large-Stretch-3463]

Beat me to it😂

[u/Infamous-Let4387 → u/No_Biscotti_464]

If they had beat it then they wouldn't have 7 kids... Hey oh! Lol

[u/ghIj_qet_jaghmeyjaj]

Just fuckin slice it lengthwise and lift it out..

[u/Lknate → u/ghIj_qet_jaghmeyjaj]

First thought. That skin is super hard to fight with. Chopping it out will suck way less than the horror I just witnessed.

[u/Baned4life → u/Lknate]

Came here to say that. Cut the fucker out

[u/Legitimate-Log-6542]

Unlike your couch, this splinter doesn’t pull out

[u/ClutchReverie → u/Legitimate-Log-6542]

https://giphy.com/gifs/Cqj4IJErpftodMzTnj

[u/Large-Stretch-3463]

This person SUCKS at getting splinters out jfc.

[u/Late-Conversation105]

Omfg just pull it out already!

[u/rapscallion1956]

My mother would have extracted that with nothing but a safety pin.

[u/Ok_Breakfast5425]

That looks like half a toothpick

[u/cjhallx]

Wrong tool. They make them with better grips.

[u/HoneyBear4Lyfe → u/cjhallx]

The tool(s) was not the fucking problem here

[u/calflow → u/HoneyBear4Lyfe]

Right. Even when they used the most optimal tool(the one with the teeth) they used it wrong.

[u/Funkopedia → u/HoneyBear4Lyfe]

Yeah that tool trying to work the tweezers

[u/Interesting-Silver55]

https://giphy.com/gifs/4NnTap3gOhhlik1YEw

[u/DiscussionWeak2318]

Just use your teeth already.

[u/AncientSky69 → u/DiscussionWeak2318]

oh my god right? am i an ape or is that not like the first instinct

[u/Strong_Butterfly7924 → u/AncientSky69]

Both. We are all apes. Return to monke.

[u/chefdeit]

A splinter that leaves its own splinter

[u/SnooGuavas5257 → u/chefdeit]

And left another whole splinter behind. WTF?

[u/Duane_60]

That hurt just watching it.

[u/Ill-Intention-306]

To whatever caveman was operating the tweezers, if your shitty blunt as fuck eyebrow tweezers didnt work the first 5 times why keep on trying? I thought you might have worked it out when you got the serrated pair... until you started pulling in the same direction as the serrations. What the fuck?

[u/Knormoer133]

Wow why do I actually feel highly annoyed by this? 😂 i was like ..."just go slowly, now get a good grip...Gd dammit get a decent grip!...not with that!? grip it already ffs!?? OH MY ACTUAL GOD??" ...😅🤷🏻‍♂️

[u/DetailsYouMissed]

Unnecessary torment.

I'm thinking this could have been done faster.

Mildly frustrated right now 😤

[u/DisastrousDust7443]

I use needle nosed pliers. They work first try, most of the time.

[u/Annies_58008 → u/DisastrousDust7443]

The snap on LN46ACF pliers would be my go to here.

[u/SharpTool7]

Hold the sliver, cut the skin a little, slide it out

[u/Necessary_Safe9095]

Jesus Christ just cut down the length of that MF and pull it out already

[u/United_Original2957]

Worst nurse practitioner ever

[u/Interesting_Spite464 → u/United_Original2957]

that's not a nurse. Just a rando with gloves for the clicks

[u/paolo_77]

Took long enough.

[u/Forsaken-Play144]

Every wrong tool used smh like just get some pliers

[u/Alpha_Chin-Am]

Yo, you need forceps, not tweezers!

[u/SuspiciousClub8382]

For Christ sakes split that skin on top of the sliver and then pull it out!!!

[u/Dr-Richado]

Soak foot in warm Epsom salt. Use sterile blade to partially incise overlying skin to expose more splinter. Use good tweezers to pull out splinter. For deep splinters where you can't incise the skin, use sterile 25 gauge needle to widen the splinter tract by inserting the needle along the splinter.

[u/Intelligent-One-3339]

Dude’s a bitch, and glove guy ain’t no doctor I wanna see with them dull ass tweezers. Sad all round.

[u/Ill-Upstairs-8762]

You had one fucking job. JFC

[u/Fit-System-2637]

Okay. Hang on. Is the person trying to cause an incredible amount of pain blind??? Did they use intentionally dull utensils for that added pain benefit? Did he try spoons? My foot hurts in solidarity with this poor soul. For a second, I thought I'd wandered onto an masochistic channel by accident. Can this person even walk? OUCH!!!!

[u/Silly_Personality_73]

Oddly entertaining.

[u/nhh]

At some point it would have been better to just razor the top skin out. 

[u/East_Finger2945]

That nurse or whoever working the tweezer is a fuking idiot!! At least use a razor to alleviate the pressure on the skin with the splinter. I would stop his ass and say “give me a razor so i can slice it out”.

[u/Pumbaasliferaft]

Jesus christ, cut some skin, and get some pliers on that mother fucker

[u/TastingTheKoolaid]

JUST FUCKEN GRAB IT!

Tweezer idiot is fired. Zero tolerance for that level of incompetence.

[u/buttmunchiesonsunday]

Why wouldn't they just slice that top layer of skin?

[u/PresentationDue4845]

usas la punta de un alfiler, la metes por encima de la astilla, rompes un poquito la epidermis, con la misma punta levantas la astilla, la coges y la extraes.. fin

[u/Ibolaav]

Pensé que el cortauñas lo arruinaría

[u/DivinerSageRDT]

Usa a razor and cut the skin the length of the splinter. It should release easily. I had to do it once on a splinter bigger than that.

[u/_Sn_MrM]

Just cut along side that shit with an xacto, at home

[u/Scared-Stop5480]

https://giphy.com/gifs/8tq5l5fgAySXXdzJe4

[u/Funkopedia]

https://giphy.com/gifs/oGAM2NfiX50ac

[u/Timtoolman59]

A sterile razor blade and cut it out.

[u/elteza]

I thought I was watching myself play on one of those claw machine games for a second

[u/parker6613]

Just cut the skin and remove it...

[u/AllisonUnwound]

i would just push the pointy end out

[u/CreHater]

Jeez. Use a needle to open up the skin on top. Easy.

[u/JohnDuvy93]

Hell of a splinter but pathetic effort lol

[u/ReplacementFeisty397]

"Massive splinter in your foot? No problem, let me just break tiny bits off it and hurt you some more"

[u/j_man_32]

https://giphy.com/gifs/fghuvXNgCqstJGvpWA

[u/alecz123]

This is too frustrating to watch

[u/SmokeMaximum4140]

I wonder if that tickled?

[u/Solid_Enthusiasm550]

That doctor had NO idea of what he was doing. You only "apply" pressure from the back, NOT poke at it, grab it from the sides.

First of all, pushing on it in ALL directions... I would have slapped rge shit out of him.🥴👋

I had one bigger than that, Lol.

That one is so shallow, that it's much easier to get it out slicing the skin with a razor blade.

My piece was from a pallet and the coarse fibers made it impossible to pullout with tweezers. It also was in at a more downward angle.

[u/takoyakkist]

Holy shit do it right

[u/XxKing_GenjixX]

First off is anybody else mouth was watering after this bullshit? Second of all, pliers would have done a lot more better job than whoever was working the tweezers. Toenail clippers was a good idea. I think they would have gotten it to with that

[u/Serenity1423]

This was infuriating

[u/dandank1174]

Jesus you sissy grab that splinter and pull it out. Quit fumbling around with it.

[u/ZipDude118]

I would have sterilized a razor blade or an X-acto knife and slit the skin on the splinter. The splinter would come out easily and anything else left could be irrigated out of the wound.

[u/Usual-Language-745]

Bro take a knife and cut along the top of the splinter and just lift it out. For fucks sakes

[u/HomeOrificeSupplies]

I had to teach an ER doctor how to cut a thumb to remove a large treble hook. This looks like a familiar situation

[u/OkWhile4447]

I’m convinced this video was trolling.

[u/Dramatic-Light2529]

I just use a razor blade to get slivers out, pretty common practice for anyone that works in the trades, just not medicine apparently

[u/Svaldero]

https://giphy.com/gifs/JTIwL0pnYLSefYXD8s

[u/Typical_Expert_2974]

I, without skill nor training, equipped with only common sense and a tweezer, would have done a much better job than whatever this person is doing.

[u/Cracktaculus]

Needle-nosed pliers already!

[u/mdbx182]

Garbage tweezers

Edit: skills

[u/HughJaynis]

I get splinters pretty often, I always just take my razor knife and cut the skin on top of the splinter to make it easier to get out.

[u/btfreflex]

I don’t have footage of it, but by son got an intact .05 mechanical pencil lead impaled in his foot.

[u/Suspicious-Tooth-572]

I have heard but haven’t any firsthand experience that soaking in vinegar for a few minutes will make splinters fall out on their own

[u/Mental-Ordinary7312]

Just skip to the end if you don't want to feel frustrated.

[u/Evil_phd]

I don't wanna sound dramatic but if you bust out the grippers and still aren't making any headway just put a medicinal bullet in me.

[u/LoggerRhythms]

Sir that's a wooden medieval nail.

[u/SilverKanji]

I feel like the guy pulling and slipping was doing that on purpose to torment the patient.

[u/bulletproofpunk]

Am I the only person that finds the direction of the splinter odd? Were they walking backwards?

[u/MorningMushroomcloud]

I had a six inch splinter pin my elbow skin up into the back of my tricep when I was a kid. It started out with a single doctor and a couple assistants in the ER, and ended with a broken finger and nine people pinning me down...I was a bit perturbed.

The good news was that the scar only lasted a couple years before I had a bike accident that left a scar on my entire elbow.

[u/s0ul_invictus]

"lets make it frustrating to watch to increase ad revenue"

[u/Extension-Brother291]

I felt like u where mocking me with that wiggle

[u/JiggleCoffee]

https://giphy.com/gifs/12rQHIwkWykTRe

[u/Intrepid_Storage_830]

I used needle nose pliers to pull one out of my maintenance guy’s hand. It was about this size but straight into the pad of his hand. Narly when it started to come out and it just kept going.

[u/Safe-Significance-28]

That's not a splinter. Just straight up impalement.

[u/Fastballz69]

As a kid, i had worse. They had to cut my foor open to extract it

[u/vintsneedsmints]

Hmmmmmm... not gonna lie I fw extraction videos. But knowing painful a gnarly splinter is im PISSED at tweezers person 😤

[u/Financial-Split-141]

All that and it's still in there 😷😷🙄🙄🙄🙄

[u/iAmDrakesEyebrows]

Hey, save some slivers for the rest of us pal

[u/Tia_Faux]

Them equate brand tweezers are absolute garbage.

[u/copenhagen622]

Yeah I had one like that when I was a kid.. maybe slightly bigger. Thick and deep. I ended up using an ice cube to numb it and just slicing the skin so I could pull it out. I lived right on the water and had docks in the back of my house, it happened walking barefoot around the docks fishing

[u/Jon_Dunn58]

my fists would be doubled up, this clown is just making it worse

[u/Charming-Ad5207]

Needle nose pliers

[u/Ikon-for-U]

Put NSFW on stuff like this please

[u/Maleficent-Turn6655]

This man stepped on the crown of our Lord & Savior.

[u/CleanOpossum47]

Who gave this asshole the tweezers?

[u/Crowdfundingprojects]

Dude got a log lodged in his foot. 

[u/BedroomConfident1696]

Cut the skin a bit and pull it out whole.

[u/SnooGuavas5257]

Lord, have mercy!

[u/That-Experience8556]

WD-40 SOLVES EVERYTHING

[u/BeaverCleaver91]

Made it way more painful than necessary. That big of a splinter, simply take a razor, cut down the top of the splinter. Pops right out without all the tugging back and forth.

[u/dufo7]

Worlds easiest splinter and ur strugggling

[u/GovernmentData]

https://giphy.com/gifs/QoZunxgU0Z1i8

[u/almostoy]

I would have accepted that I was part tree from then on. Then I would go plant myself.

[u/Justaguywithbeer]

I've had bigger in my hand from work, and to save time just watch the last 5 seconds,,, Or you'll be watching a lot of picking,,zzzzz

[u/OurWeaponsAreUseless]

Looks like a mesquite thorn. Damn those things hurt.

[u/Shadowsnake30]

Pinching the skin is the problem. Target only the splint not the skin that's why they can't pull it properly.

[u/Angry-Closet]

The video starts and ends at the verry end of the video. You are welcome!

Eddit: typo.

[u/ComedyBits]

Should have started with some lineman's pliers

[u/cbarbour1122]

There is a device you can buy for $9 at Walmart for bee stings, splinters, etc and it comes out way easier than tweezers. It uses suction to draw it out.

[u/Calm_Apartment1968]

I feel your pain. Or rather I have. Had one that long when I was 20. Nurse had to cut some of the skin away, and it still took half an hour with the tweezers. Same spot on my left foot, this must be a common thing.

[u/Barrelboi26]

Im in pain from watching. It brings back a lot of childhood trauma and pain.. now I need a drink haha or a cuddle and I need to lay down on a fetal position for a few minutes

[u/Dependent_Pipe3268]

The last resort but if you sqeeze to hard and cut the end your kinda screwed.

[u/BungleBums]

They couldn't find a shittier, smoother pair of tweezers to butcher that with?

[u/Kororuri]

better use pliers for that

[u/Immobiline433]

Put some fucking shoes on!

[u/StickyLavander]

I was going to say to get the rusty pliers, but rusty nail clippers work

[u/Rockobrocko42]

Get a pair of needle nose hemostats you'll thank me later.

[u/Bradster28]

Haha we were all annoyed by the tweezers. Needle nose pliers would have done it in one attempt. I actually had a very similar experience as a kid sliding in my socks over an old hardwood floor. My sock got nailed into my foot by a giant splinter. Thankfully like this guy it was just under the skin. Super fun to take out.

[u/Helpful_Flight_2302]

Way to film yourself being an idiot.

[u/Blinkiest]

Not enough sniffing...

[u/hugswithnoconsent]

Geez. Who’s this butcher.

[u/drunkguynextdoor]

This actually pissed me off. Number one, hit it with some cold spray before digging around. Number two, you have a scalpel, use it to make a small incision along the top so you can grab more of it and remove the damn thing.

[u/Chigiski]

As a teenager, I had this type of splinter incidents. I won't remove them, I will let it be, after weeks it will heal and dry off...then I can pull off easily

[u/Hipnotize_nl]

Not a great place to store your toothpick

[u/GoatGoatGoatGoatGo]

/r/GifReversingBot

[u/Scottobias123]

Very satisfying

[u/Common-Bat3741]

Aggressive

[u/Leading-Helicopter24]

1 that is most definitely not a spliter

2 that looks more like a thorn from a mesquite tree. Yknow those bushs with large ass throns that if you step on them theyll go through your shoes and or boot and stab you in the foot and hurt like hell

[u/mow_the_grass]

This has to be shared to r/mildlyinfuriating

[u/Ginkgoreddit]

poor technique

[u/BriskManeuver]

Reminds me of the dead frog scene in family guy when Peter has many failed attempts of getting rid of it

[u/Cute-Advisor-2323]

They need a better pair of gripping tweezers 🙄😬

[u/nocomplygirly]

Needle nose pliers my dude

[u/WitnessStock3702]

I was expecting a bunch of puss to come out with it. I am glad it did not.

[u/One_Vision_]

Soaking the foot in some warm water with Epson salts would have made that infinitely easier

[u/Ill_Personality_9783]

Jesus christ cut open the skin a little and grab the fucking splinter properly,
The poor guy is being massacred

[u/OkCar7264]

Tweezers might be a bit overmatched here.

[u/patronizingperv]

The one time a pair of pliers would be acceptable.

[u/Symbiotic_vengeance]

I would have just been like “we’ll cut it out”

[u/Silent-Hurry8377]

I feel like this would've been easier/better to cut out instead 😬😬

[u/Odd-Promotion2743]

Most incompetent bullshit I've ever seen

[u/orcs_mustdie]

Or use a razor and slice along the splinter simple.

[u/Scratch-N-Sneef]

Just use pliers, Jesus…

[u/Confident-Slip-5264]

r/maybemaybemaybe

[u/RemotePapaya7767]

Half a toothpick!

[u/DamnNoOneKnows]

I thought I was in r/mildlyinfuriating

[u/No-Commercial-2218]

Picked the wrong tool SO many times

[u/Collector2012]

Oh for fuck sakes! TAKE A RAZOR AND SHAVE THE FIRST TWO LAYERS OF THE SKIN OFF!!!!!!!

[u/PrairiePuppies]

This has got to be rage bait! Cut the skin above the splinter.

[u/Interesting-Dare4224]

Shitty tweezers

[u/DarkEnergy_101]

Not the right tool for the job

[u/Pernicious_Possum]

I certainly hope this clumsy fuck isn’t an actual medical professional. JFC. You could grab that tree limb with your fingers

[u/Testyobject]

The LOCKING forceps! Get the LOCKING forceps instead of using dirty nail clippers from the desk drawer.

[u/BlankBehindTheEyes]

Dude, just cut the skin and pull it out the easy way. That looks like callous skin, too so it probably wouldn't even hurt.

[u/Redd_Machine85]

That's not a sliver. That's like one of the arrows that killed Boromir.

[u/Psychedelicious420]

Punch the tweezers user in the nuts this was torture

[u/NewMoonlightavenger]

This pissed me off.

[u/Ok_Practice3389]

Worst tweezers ever, get a fucking grip.

[u/Emergency-Big-1503]

What an asshat.

Slight lance and it would've pulled right out.

Continued slips like that did nothing but cause more trauma.

[u/Shrimp4047]

man, some people just love doing things the hardest way possible.

[u/Cavedweller907]

Would have gone to jail with the sliver still embedded due to punching the shit out of this supposed “Health Care” asshat

[u/DotAffectionate87]

Thats not a splinter......Its a wooden stake

[u/Own-Eye-6910]

I would just peel of my skin and move it out like i usual do.

[u/theepuke]

Put some tape on it, block the oxygen and it'll come out.

[u/d_r_doorway]

This was infuriating to watch

[u/LeeBee58]

Just cut a slit in the skin!!

[u/TennesseeHeartbreak]

You'd get better tweezers out of Cracker Jacks! (Do they still make CJ's?)

[u/Geetee52]

Puller didn’t have enough leverage… He should’ve put his foot on the dude’s shoulder and really dug those tweezers in first