When you remove a Band-aid (adhesive bandage) do you rip it off or do you try to gently peel it off?
Rip or Peel
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Rip it off. Get it all over with as quickly as possible.
rip it quickly less pain
Rip it = less agony.
Rip it. I don't want to feel each hair pull out individually. 
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Peel. I can go very, very, very slow and watch each hair separate from the sticky gum without it hurting. 
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I generally rip it off, but here's a tip: Put a little rubbing alcohol on the adhesive parts. It will loosen the glue underneath and the bandage will fall right off. 
I'm a ripper.
I've even developed a generalized principle from this: the "Band Aid Theory of Pain Management TM". Works for physical and emotional pain. The idea being that, for me anyway, if there's something you know is going to be painful (from fixing a dislocated finger to breaking up with a significant other), it's better to just jump in and do it quickly. The pain is intense for a brief period, but then fades quickly and is easier to move past. Whereas if you take the peel approach seems to just spread the pain out for a longer period of time and, like with a Band Aid, a "ghost" of the pain sensation (albeit somewhat less than the "rip approach") seems to stick around longer.
For me, I'm sayin'.
Not that anyone really asked, not that I think of it.
I've even developed a generalized principle from this: the "Band Aid Theory of Pain Management TM". Works for physical and emotional pain. The idea being that, for me anyway, if there's something you know is going to be painful (from fixing a dislocated finger to breaking up with a significant other), it's better to just jump in and do it quickly. The pain is intense for a brief period, but then fades quickly and is easier to move past. Whereas if you take the peel approach seems to just spread the pain out for a longer period of time and, like with a Band Aid, a "ghost" of the pain sensation (albeit somewhat less than the "rip approach") seems to stick around longer.
For me, I'm sayin'.
Not that anyone really asked, not that I think of it.
Rip it, dunnuh rip-it-good!
I'm a ripper.
I've even developed a generalized principle from this: the "Band Aid Theory of Pain Management TM". Works for physical and emotional pain. The idea being that, for me anyway, if there's something you know is going to be painful (from fixing a dislocated finger to breaking up with a significant other), it's better to just jump in and do it quickly. The pain is intense for a brief period, but then fades quickly and is easier to move past. Whereas if you take the peel approach seems to just spread the pain out for a longer period of time and, like with a Band Aid, a "ghost" of the pain sensation (albeit somewhat less than the "rip approach") seems to stick around longer.
For me, I'm sayin'.
Not that anyone really asked, not that I think of it.
Gosh, can't remember his name now but an Israeli economist has written a book on the fact that things that seem counter-intuitive are often right. This being one of them - that it is easier to cope with if you rip it off and get the quick intense pain rather than the longer-lasting lesser pain.
He was caught in a bomb-blast during his military service and was pretty much completely covered in burns, so he was speaking from personal experience too!
It's going to drive me crazy that I can't remember his name. Dan something. Bought the book for my sister, I shall have to ask her I guess.
Me too. It's the easiest way.
Those band-aids / plasters the nurses stick on after an immunization don't seem to react to water at all. They have to be ripped off, and my kids do seem to do better with the "okay, off it goes" rip than the "I'll go gently" peel.
This.
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