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Re: vegetable slicers are bad mmmmkay?
« on: March 11, 2005, 03:27:38 PM »
@Wayne

Ouch, that's gotta hurt X-0 (wincing smiley there, nothing to do with that sheep worrier)

When I was a kid, my brother and I were out digging garden on a hot summer day. It wasn't exactly real work, just using it as an excuse to stay out, get a bit tanned and keep fit.

Mum had made some drinks and shouted us in for some shade, so my brother jammed the pitch fork into the ground (without looking properly where he was aiming) and I suddenly felt a red hot ache in my left foot, followed by an equally ominous numb warmth.

He'd impaled me to the floor with the damn thing!
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Re: vegetable slicers are bad mmmmkay?
« Reply #1 on: March 11, 2005, 03:40:14 PM »
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He was complaining to his doctor the other day about how crooked it was. The doctor said "Well next time, cut it off straighter!"


:lol: Now that's a good come back!
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Re: vegetable slicers are bad mmmmkay?
« Reply #2 on: March 11, 2005, 03:52:00 PM »
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He'd impaled me to the floor with the damn thing!
Now THAT is sibling rivalry...!

Wayne


Yes, he did make it to the drinks a bit before I did :lol:
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Re: vegetable slicers are bad mmmmkay?
« Reply #3 on: March 11, 2005, 10:42:13 PM »
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-Don't be Floid!   :-D


'k, then.
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Re: vegetable slicers are bad mmmmkay?
« Reply #4 on: March 13, 2005, 12:44:27 AM »
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"He'd impaled me to the floor with the damn thing!"

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Did you say "Awww, for forks sakes, what are you doing man!!!"
 :-P


It didn't really hurt properly until I looked down at it, saw what it was and then pulled it out. First it hurt like hell and I couldn't - I only managed to pull the fork out of the ground (foot with it) and then surveyed the real damage.

It had literally gone through the top of my trainer, then my foot (miraculously pushing aside the bones as it was later revealed nothing was broken, but it was bruised to hell for months), through the sole of my trainer protruding about four inches out of the sole of it. Luckily passing through my shoe and sock had caused most of the muck to be wiped off before it went into the flesh.

I then had to brace my foot against the edge of the fence and pull the thing out. I think I probably invented some new swear words at that point, not to mention emiting them at a deafening volume. It also bled a lot heavier than I expected (although I later discovered there's a lot of blood vessels in the sole of the foot), which was momentarily alarming. It stopped pretty quick with some applied pressure though.

The obligatory trip to casualty ensued, followed by wound cleaning, x-rays, anti tetanus, dose of antibiotics etc.

Strangely, the scar is almost invisible now.
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Re: vegetable slicers are bad mmmmkay?
« Reply #5 on: March 13, 2005, 01:05:20 PM »
I remember the sensation of feeling the steel grinding between my bones too. That's probably the nastiest physical sensation I've ever had.

After carefully budging it about 1 inch I realised there was nothing for it other than to just yank it out as quickly as possible.
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Re: vegetable slicers are bad mmmmkay?
« Reply #6 on: March 13, 2005, 01:14:41 PM »
*thudumpfh*

Odin? Odin? Y' ok dude?
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Re: vegetable slicers are bad mmmmkay?
« Reply #7 on: March 13, 2005, 09:00:10 PM »
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After all, we've done for real what all the magicians claim to be doing on stage.


clicky here (req flash) :lol:

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On reflection, most people I know my own age have managed to impale some part of their anatomy on something at some point. It must be one of those rites of passage :lol:
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Re: vegetable slicers are bad mmmmkay?
« Reply #8 on: March 13, 2005, 10:24:09 PM »
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The next day it looked fine, so it was left alone... now I have no evidence of the injury, nothing what so ever. :-(


Yeah, it's kind of dissapointing when that happens. My foot has only  the faintest of marks :-( Mind you I had a dry skin patch for a while that might have somehow erased the mark.

As it goes, I still got a semi interesting scar on my left forearm where some half-headed glue-sniffing chav tit up Castle Eden walkway shot me with an air rifle.
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Re: vegetable slicers are bad mmmmkay?
« Reply #9 on: March 14, 2005, 02:12:53 AM »
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(Not nearly as bad as some sensations mentioned here, but 10+ years of repeatability is good staying power.)


Aye, I could have bitten through a section of 2 by 4 when pulling that fork out. I dread to think what witches brew of hormones were pumping into the bloodstream at that point.
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