Do you or don't you??

Good to know. Thanks, Loretta.

I have two pair of the long rose gloves but now that the JB's are in town I've cut off 90% of the roses and buds. Let them have their fun someplace else.

Maybe LV is where MJ got his one glove.

I thought he got it from the murderer of Dr. Kimble's wife.

Thank-you! thank-you! thank-you! Every night I am scrubbing my finger nails. DH always buys me gloves that are cumbersome and he wonders why I never wear them.

Sometimes I wear those reallly thin vinyl gloves - you know - surgical gloves, but not in this weather! So, I am never going to have beautiful nails with lovely polish . . .

This thread confirms I am a real gardener! (not just a klutz too stupid to wear gloves)

I wear gloves and my nails always get compliments.

You're probably joking again, Victor, but I've known two men who had manicurists do their nails - just filing and buffing them. No, they didn't wear skirts or make-up.

They were polished gentlemen!

Probably??! Was there a shimmer of uncertainty? I've heard of men doing that too - not gardeners though.

Victor, so show us your pretty nail art. You don't want to see my fingers, but how about these hard working puppies. I actually had on shoes but I was throwing a lot of dirt. Patti

Hey Patti! My feet often look like that too! In fact, the neighbours probably assume I have a split personality 1 part deranged, dirty bag lady, 1 part presentable prof.

Badge of courage, Patti! Like a ballplayer having dirt on his uniform. Michaela, I've known (and worked with) a few professors who were closer to the former than the latter.

Yes . . .I've met a few lol

Columbia seemed to attract the most, um, eccentric. I'm being kind. Scary that these guys were teaching engineering because I did not want to be within twenty feet of them - they were that impractical and downright dangerous!

Oh . . . . wild! The engineering profs I have met tend to be very conservative, suit and tie types.

On the other hand, English and Humanities seems to attract a lot of eccentrics! Think of the profs in Harry Potter!

Oh yes - we shared the building with the Arts Department. Mamma mia!! I almost called security a couple of times when I spotted someone walking around the bldg. who turned out to be an Arts Prof. And what passes as 'art'!

Well, the most wacko are not in English or the Humanities . . . . psyc profs are definitely the weirdest! And they always squabble between behaviourism and humanism. The behaviouralists tend to be the weirdest. And of course, behaviouralism provides a ready excuse for bad behaviour - my genes naturally led me to certain conditioning - so that explains everything!

Victor and Seandor, I could swap stories of wacko profs all night with you, but my experience differs from yours. As an ex member of both physics and engineering faculties, I found the hard science guys the most interesting, the engineers the best partyers and the educators and humanities groups the most uptight and the least fun to be in comittees with. The arts people were the most fun in committees, they always served wine before taking a vote! To sort of bring this back onto topic, I always treated the psych people with kid gloves(!), they looked like they were one step away from the mulch pile.

Exactly! :-) I think some go into psyc as a form of self-therapy lol

See, there is the difference between you guys and me. You went to Penn State, and I went to the State Penn. (LOL)
Chuck

too funny, chuck!

For thorny things I put a pair of kevlar work gloves inside one of those heavy rubber gloves. Never been pierced.

I always wear gloves soft goatskin from LeeValley in red so I can always find them if I I lose them JOY

I hate to say, the other day I awoke to scratches on my foerhead. Do I need a faceglove??

Or maybe a football helmet?!

Gosh venu sounds like you need a body glove LOL. Ouch!

Actually no I don't use gloves but I should. I have a pair that I use if I am pulling out something prickly though.

I have a couple pair of nitrile gloves. I use one for handling chemicals. The other I wear 'most of the time' when I'm working in the garden. I like them because they are light but they protect from jamming things under my nails and allow pulling prickly weeds. But I do frequently forget them. Or put them in my pocket and forget to put them on. Or take them off and forget to put them back on. Anyway, when I go in the house, I wash my hands once with the gloves on, then again when I take them off. then they're always clean for next time. they dry fast.

Okay, I'm a bit confused about the nitrile gloves. I use them at work, but they are NOT tough enough for garden work. Are there different grades(thickness) ?

There are. I used 8 mil ones and I still busted them but they would last me a few days.

I wear the cheapie HD/Lowes brown mens work gloves. The ones with the pebble fronts when doing general clean-up like weeding, transplanting, plucking, etc.. When planting new plants or annuals I wear the vinyl medical gloves - yes they do rip quickly but I need to feel what I'm doing. I try to remember to scrape my fingernails along a soap bar before putting on the vinyl gloves (helps with cleaning and cushions a poke). Then I try to remember not to touch my eyes! Those bionic gloves sound good but they look bulkie.

Not bulky, believe me.

Wow! I,ve been missing this thread.
Victor, Are those bionic gloves for ,like, Captain Hook? They look like prosthetics.

I was only weird enough to get a Masters in psych. My academia theory is: the more subjectively success in your field is determined, the more pretensious the mindset. The peer pressure among professors amazes me.

I came up with a theory years back, which as science goes, became a law as it was verified over and over again. Put your math hats on. After working with many PhD's I came to realize that: 'Usefulness varies inversely as the cube of number of degrees held.' (Sorry Michaela). I chose the word 'usefulness' carefully. To those who may be math challenged, it means someone with three degrees (PhD) is 1/27th as useful as someone with one.

In many cases, that is true! (Certain profs come to mind!)

On the other hand, those who have come from disadvantaged backgrounds, who have really had to work hard to prove themselves, often turn out to be the most competent people I have ever met (even with three degrees). Getting a doctorate is not easy -even for those who grow up with advantages.

I'm 1/9 as useful?

I have respect for people who endure and get advanced degrees, but again, from my experience at CU I was shocked and disappointed to see who 'earned' PhD's. We had four or five doctoral students working at our lab and maybe one truly deserved it. I got the feeling that the School just got sick of them.

Dave, I guess math was not your thing, eh?!! Two degrees - 2 cubed equals 8 so 1/8th.

After all that theorizing I hate to be so mundane but, Victor can you "feel" with the bionic gloves??

Yes. If not, I would not use them.

Right Victor! Plus I get to be about 1/72 more useful.(timidly offering a math answer to the engineer)

With numbers like that, how can a girl resist. I'm definately going to get a pair. Thank you Dave & Victor for all the information. I also thank you for the many chuckles the two of you provide. You never cross the line, but you push it delightfully.