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is shocking, i've been cutting 3x52mm holes into a rather rigid piece of plastic dash.
Being the typical "I dont have time to do this safely" i'm sat in the hallway hacking into it with a stanley knife :)
*thud* as it sticks into my thumb..
*bugg3r* as blood drips all over the floor, clothes and skiting board
30 mins of elevation, some time surfing the forum and a few plasters later and i'm ready to start cutting again. The 1/2 inch slice across my thumb has a clotted piece of skin about 80% of the way across it and is only slightly oozing blood, amazing...
gimme 5 more mins and i'll have made a nice wound somewhere else !
urgh...did you have to tell us...!
stanley knife, skin, slice....not a nice combination
I know what you mean, I sliced my thumb cutting plasterboard a few years ago. I cut it right to the bone and right down one side across half the circumference! :eek:
Weird thing was it didn't even hurt! It feckin did tho when the A&E nurse stuck a needle in the cut to numb it for the stitches!!!!:mad: :eek: :o
Missed all the tendons and whatnots luckily.
The Gill
20-11-2002, 00:12
Do you want to know the most painful thing in the world ever....
.... a paper cut on your bellend !:eek:
and no I haven't suffered from such an injury
Pauly_Boy
20-11-2002, 00:36
Are those porn mags getting revenge on you for the years of abuse they've had to put up with? ;)
Someones knee making contact with the side of you calf muscle is dead painful. Happened at great speed, and i didn't realise quite how serious it was until i looked down to see that my leg had swolen lump the size of a apple on the size! Got 2 weeks off work tho cos i couldn't walk at all.
Still got a sizeable lump there still, and it was 2 months ago!
If u had suffered such an injury it would be hard to explain how you came about it!:o
dave_s13
20-11-2002, 09:04
Originally posted by Pauly_Boy
Someones knee making contact with the side of you calf muscle is dead painful.
Thats one of the places you try and kick when thai boxing.
My instructor demonstrated it on me the other week, kicked my with hardly any power and it hurt like a b@stard.
Getting hit there full power willl result in the leg being instantly disabled, you'll throw up then pass out.....cool!!!
Originally posted by Big Red
I know what you mean, I sliced my thumb cutting plasterboard a few years ago. I cut it right to the bone and right down one side across half the circumference! :eek:
Weird thing was it didn't even hurt! .
The bigger the wound, the less it hurts. I've sliced through nerves before now, and the only odd thing was when one of the main tendons in my wrist got tickled, gelt like i'd hit my funnt bone... otherwise little pain...
aka-coley
20-11-2002, 22:20
my mate used to always drive crap cars and as he lived in the sticks he used to drive to a quarry in the middle of no where with friends ramp the bollox out of it till it died then have a bonfire with it. the last one he did was a crappy old manta (deserves burning!!), him and some friends started to burn it when they heard sirens, a couple of them drove off, leaving my mate and another couple to run for it, they legged it across a pitch black fields as fast as they can, unfortunately a farmer had put up a nice sharp barb wire fence, he ran into it full whack without seeing it, and unfortunately for him it was about testicle hieght from the floor!!! :eek: :eek: lets just say that a few stiches were required to mend the damaged wedding tackle!! :) and his girlfriend went without for a very long time!:)
glass:eek: to cut it short!!
messing in kitchen with missis, she lifts my leg i slip on wet floor, put hand out to support myself, not fall over hand goes in sink with arm out stretched, nice glass decides to go though my wrist and up my tendon slicing it in two, not nice, and to top it off missis panic'd that much she coulnt remember the no for 999:rolleyes: sure she was trying to remember the life ins policy no!!!!
so remember its true kitchens are nasty places, males are just not meant to be in there:eek:
This is my contribution, just me being PLAIN DUMB!!!
Just finishing up the washing up and clearing the surfaces. Have a handful of bits of food etc from the top. Looking for the binbag but it's been moved ...
see an empty can from some tomatos, decide it'd be a good idea to shake everything off of my hand into this can.
You know those lovely can openers that remove the top so it's not sharp?? yeah, well, they bloody well leave the can sharp.
Shake hand down towards the can palm first and go too far and smack my hand rather hard against the top of the can. Basically, blood explodes all over the work surface and the back of my hand. I've left a nice circular cut right across the bends of all four fingers on my left hand.
This took bloody ages to heal and was ****ing painful!!! didnt hurt when I did it, Adrenaline I guess, but it sure as hell did afterwards. You can bet Im careful with empty cans now!!
Dave
Tricky-Ricky
21-11-2002, 00:37
Just to add to the gore fest!:eek: some years ago and being a biker, i did a px/swap of my Harley sportster for a Z900 chop! anyway on loading the sportster into the back of a van i had my finger in the wrong place and the fecking thing bit the end off:eek: allmost! did'nt hurt at the time or when they sowed it back on! but for the next couple of weeks it hurt like a bassstard! what made it worse was i couldent ride the new bike cos it hurt too much to pull in the clutch leaver!!!:(
Oooooh, thats gotta hurt :(
Know what you mean though, I couldnt change gear too well without being able to bend the fingers in my left hand!!
Dave
dave_s13
21-11-2002, 09:13
Interesting factoid.
It doesn't hurt initially cos your body goes into the fight or flight response which enables you to still use the damaged limb or carry on without much pain thus enabling you to survive the situation.
It starts hurting like a bastid after as a warning to leave well alone and let your body get on with healing up.
Its a throwback from having to go out and catch your dinner whilst not becoming the main course yourself.
On the topic of knifes and thumbs, I was cutting those model frames that the bits of plastic planes/cars etc are attached too. I couldn't find a knife so I looked through my dads stuff and found a scalpel. Dawm, those things are sharp!
I cut a flip-lid style cut on the end of my thumb, but I just flipped it back into place and the bleeding stopped. It had healed within minutes, it must have been due to the nice clean cut or something?
So the moral of the story is, if your going to cut yourself - do it with something nice and sharp! :eek:
Dunc.
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