Comment on Why is removing stuck rings with dental floss painless for some people?

etchinghillside@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• jol@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m still confused why someone would use floss on their fingers and how…?

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  • etchinghillside@reddthat.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If you have a ring stuck on your finger you wind floss - let’s say 20 times- semi tightly around your finger in front of the ring. You then slip the end of the floss under the ring and then start trying to unwind it. The idea is that you’re both constricting the size of your finger and incrementally moving the ring forward as you unwind it. In theory.

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    • DayOk2@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Does it affect whether you have a lot or little fat in your fingers? My fingers have very little fat, and my knuckles are larger than the base of the fingers. Is that why dental floss was painful and did not work for me, but soap worked reasonably?

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