What happens if you leave a splinter in your skin for too long? Splinters are a literal pain, removing them just causes more pain. But what happens if you leave a splinter in your skin?

It might be more usual to walk in gilded splendour. Maybe that’s what Mac “Dr John, the Night Tripper” Rebennack was referring to when he twisted the phrase for “I Walk on Guilded Splinters”, the ...