I like to give my back a good scratch, but have found scratchers made from split bamboo are difficult to guide to the exact right spot, at a $2 shop I spotted a bottle brush, the diameter of the brush is about 30mm and about 130mm long with a handle about 280mm long, this gives good results and covers a much larger area of “scratch patch”, so accuracy is not a problem.
Why is it if you have one itchy spot and start to scratch it other spots then start to fire up demanding attention?

I’d guess it’s because the nerves serve more than one spot of skin. Scratch one spot and another spot along the same nerve would like some attention too :)

I still use an excellent backscratcher my Dad made out of stainless steel many years ago.

I have a split bamboo jobby shaped like a little skeletal human hand with a shoe horn on the handle end. Brilliant.

I’m quite flexible and can reach everywhere without any problem.

But to answer your question, I don’t know sorry.

Spiny Norman said:

I’m quite flexible and can reach everywhere without any problem.

So can I, but I assume that is because I’m a female who has to do up a bra everyday so I have that flexibility to reach behind my back… and I’m not that fat as to not be able to reach :P

Spiny Norman said:

I’m quite flexible and can reach everywhere without any problem.

But to answer your question, I don’t know sorry.

Can you lick your elbow?

poikilotherm said:

Can you lick your elbow?

Do you mean you can’t?

Only fairies can lick their elbows.

Ref:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/128521.No_Flying_in_the_House

… I have had entire right arm inside a mare in labour working on repositioning the foetus more than once. (Don’t lick yer elbow!)

The term “Intact dilation and extraction” is an Americanism (I think).

I use whatever is at hand.

At work I grab a 12 inch steel ruler.

—-> chat

(I’m very tired)

Divine Angel said:

Only fairies can lick their elbows.

The elbow is the joint between the Humerus and Radialis/Ulnaris bones. A person with normal flexibility should be able to lick approximately two thirds of the skin surrounding the joint.

I only know what I read, and the book clearly says that only fairies can lick their elbows.

Divine Angel said:

I only know what I read, and the book clearly says that only fairies can lick their elbows.

But you just read what I wrote here!

And it’s Radius & Ulnar, of course. Got my bone names confused with all the muscles that hang off them.

:gloom:

And I’m quite aware what and where the elbow is. Hmph!

Divine Angel said:

And I’m quite aware what and where the elbow is. Hmph!

Are you seriously telling me you can’t lick your elbow?

Rule 303 said:

Divine Angel said:

And I’m quite aware what and where the elbow is. Hmph!

Are you seriously telling me you can’t lick your elbow?

I can’t lick my elbow, without cutting it off.

Rule 303 said:

Divine Angel said:

And I’m quite aware what and where the elbow is. Hmph!

Are you seriously telling me you can’t lick your elbow?

stop trolling ;)

no one can lick the point of their elbow ;) unless they are freaky arsed double jointed ;)

I haven’t tried since I was a kid, to be honest. And there’s too many people here at the moment so the experiment is going to have to wait.

Of course i can lick the “inside” of my elbow joint, which is what Rule is inferring.

Skeptic Pete said:

Of course i can lick the “inside” of my elbow joint, which is what Rule is inferring.

SP’s a fairy!

Dropbear said:

stop trolling ;)

no one can lick the point of their elbow ;) unless they are freaky arsed double jointed ;)

The Olecranon Process? It’s an extra chunk of bone that is not really part of the elbow joint.

Rule 303 said:

Dropbear said:

stop trolling ;)

no one can lick the point of their elbow ;) unless they are freaky arsed double jointed ;)

The Olecranon Process? It’s an extra chunk of bone that is not really part of the elbow joint.

Whatevah that pointeee bit is that people call an ‘elbow’…where the weenus hangs out…

Rule 303 said:

Divine Angel said:

I only know what I read, and the book clearly says that only fairies can lick their elbows.

But you just read what I wrote here!

And it’s Radius & Ulnar, of course. Got my bone names confused with all the muscles that hang off them.

:gloom:

Nouns: radius and ulna
Adjectives: radial and ulnar

OCDC said:

Nouns: radius and ulna
Adjectives: radial and ulnar

Here’s a challenge for you – Stop using those terms for 20 years, get right out of the industry or even anything remotely associated with it, and then see how you go remembering the difference.

;-)

OMG moment in local papers here over the weekend. Woman who crashed into Tony Abbott’s car was reported to be in hospital with segemented fracture of “fibula and tibula”. No shit! That’s what they wrote.

The error in segmented was, however, purely mine.

You mean in all your strange exercise related stuff you’ve not once used any of those words in the last 20 years…

OCDC said:

You mean in all your strange exercise related stuff you’ve not once used any of those words in the last 20 years…

I have just realised how rarely I would need to name the bones. I use the related names (muscles, arteries, nerves, direction) occasionally, but it could be years since I’ve needed to name the bones.

Olecranon Process came straight out, though…

Rule 303 said:

Olecranon Process came straight out, though…

Ouch!

is your skin on your back extra itchy??

few people need back scratchers because the itches on the back are rare

try giving your clothing an extra rinse (the front loaders are hopeless at rinsing clothing, its why i use top loaders seulement)

or change your washing detergent to liquid or the earth care type

stop using the washing up liquid based toothpastes use SLS free toothpastes

the sls penetrates the skin and gums and comes out in the body in the sweat making you itch

i use specially trained gerbils.

Boris said:

i use specially trained gerbils.

I thought companion Gerbils were usually de-clawed?

Oops, I may have said to much….

Boris said:

i use specially trained gerbils.

with nightvision and submachine guns and greatlooking adverts with hardjawed gerbils gazing out into the distance

My husband uses the door frame :/