my mom just dug this splinter out of her leg...

we've been moving crap for the "heavy trash pickup" day

so what was the biggest splinter you ever removed? for me it was half as big as the one in the photos

I still have a small pencil tip stuck in my palm from like elementary school.

only regular sized ones here, yowzah

Um... how? It'd be infected.

I have a large titanium-alloy rod in my back. Two of them, actually. I also have a sturdier metal-compound rod in my right leg, potruding into my kneecap, scraping off the inside cartlidge of my knee cap.

I also had a 3 inch wood-paper splinter from this computer desk dug into my side. It's this paper that looks like wood that was glued to the surface of the plywood making up my cheep desk. It bends really easy, so a piece got jammed into my side and wrapped AROUND just under the skin. It was like a one in a million slivers, because it was so long yet perfectly bend so it'd stay in the whole way without puncturing the layers of skin. Took a knife-cut to get out.

I have a small sliver from back when I was 3. The tweezers were missing and I was scared of my mom using a pin to take it out. It's still there, but the mark is a little faded now. I'm sure if you tried to take it out by tearing my finger open it either wouldn't be there, or it'd fall apart apon contact.

Well, it's been under the skin since then, but I never really worried about, and don't even remember fully how it got in. But I can still see it. It's a little black spot, only slighty visible.

Haha, yeah, who *doesn't* have a piece of a pencil stuck in them somewhere. Mine's in my knee.

As for me, I got about a 3cm long splinter stuck in the bottom of my foot a few years back (hint: don't try to kick stuff off a wooden deck without shoes on). Despite sticking out probably half a centimeter, we just couldn't get enough force with tweezers to pull it out. And that's where needle-nose pliers came in handy.

Kyle, that reminds me of way back when I had one of those friends that whenever they were in severe amounts of pain, I was amused.

In the corner of our yard (Fenced in) there was a huge termite nest. He decided to start kicking it. Yeah, it was up against a row of nails. He got a nail right through his toe.

I've been stabbed with a pencil before.

It's made out of wood, so I think it counts.

My dad has had one in his hand since he was a little kid. He's 50.

Glass is like the worst thing to have splintered into you. It's virtually invisible when you're trying to get it out!

I've never had any splinters that were all that big.

I threw my pen to my left index finger around 1998, I can still some piece of the pen's head there.

Friend of mine has had a good inch of branch from a tree he ran into lodged in his shoulder for about 8 years now. Never got infected.

I have the exact same thing in my hand, and I never knew it was that common, based on how many have already reported it here.

One dude just tried to hit me with a pencil, and I got my hand in the way. So, he ended up striking the pencil in my palm, and ever since the dark gray shape has been there. I remember trying to remove it, but it was unsuccesful.

Regarding JediKirby's comment, I suppose the composition: graphite (plus whatever) is such that it doesn't initiate an inflammation reaction in the tissue. And of course it needed to be mainly free of harmful bacteria as well, initially.

Mine is in my abdomen.

I failed my dex check.

Graphite and clay. Glue between the wood and the lead itself. That's about it.

Funny that there is always that one person around, in real life, who believes that being cut with graphite, from a pencil, will lead to "lead poisoning".

I did that for a while when I penstabbed myself, but then got educated by a mysterious light.

I had a splinter about half the size and length of a toothpick under a fingernail once. Crappy wooden bleachers from the mid-70's in the school gym. Just as I shoved off to jump down to the floor. Ouch.

My grandfather had these strange purpleish-greenish dots on his left forearm that looked like freckles. I always just thought that they had something to do with his bad condition (bruised very easily in his late days, always had purple or dark red blotches). I only recently found out that they were pebble-like grenade shrapnel from the war.

Ouch, yeah, totally agree. I walk around bare foot far too often and glass in the foot is a total pain in the arse.

Most painful splinter type thing for me would have to be treading on a weeverfish. I've done it twice but the first time I had no idea what had happened so I did nothing to stop the poison working. First it's painful, then it gets worse to the point you don't believe it's possible for you to feel pain any more intensely. But it just keeps getting worse and worse in waves of increasing pain. I couldn't move the affected toe properly for over a month.