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Burnt my finger and thumb on my soldering iron last night - 'kin hurt.
Cheers
Danny B
Sanding our bannister rail and got a mahoosive splinter under my finger nail. Still 'kin hurts.
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Camo
Got shot point-blank in the bollock when paint-balling on a stag-do once.
Never been paint-balling since.
Gained two kids though, so no permanent damage 🙂
standing on a lego brick barefoot.
I used to have a mouse mat that was an advert for eyeball stitches.
even thinking about that makes .... oooh i'd rather not
i used to be really proud of the fact that i would jump out of bed when the alarm went off, until my brother put a load of drawing pins by the side of my bed
I once ripped off a toenail and they decided to numb it and push it back into place. They forgot to numb it. That made me say ouch.
Toothache, and stepping barefoot on an upturned 3-pin plug. Not at the same time, thankfully.
standing on a lego brick barefoot.
...whilst carrying a sleeping toddler you don't wish to wake.
Many moons ago I badly cut the ball of my foot on a glass bottle in Egypt. Little did I realise that the Doctor's assistant who was patting my knee and saying don't worry was their version of an anaesthetic. 7 stitches later, my eyes were watering a bit.
Squashed my middle finger between the end of a brake lever and a concrete barrier and ripped my finger nail clean off bar 2mm.
I tried to flick it off but it wasn't happening so had to pull it off.
I think that the nerve was damaged as well which mitigated some of the pain.
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just saw this top tip;
[i]AVOID the pain of stepping on upturned plugs by walking around with a four socket extension lead attached to each foot. [/i]
I once copped a ricochet from a 22 rimfire round into my left nipple.
That hurt quite a bit 🙂
Plucking stray nose hairs with tweezers. Just about the worst pain imaginable!
I fell 2m from an apple tree whilst pruning onto grass. I feel very old today and can hardly move
Many moons ago I badly cut the ball of my foot on a glass bottle in Egypt. Little did I realise that the Doctor's assistant who was patting my knee and saying don't worry was their version of an anaesthetic. 7 stitches later, my eyes were watering a bit.
Ahh, that reminds me of the italian doctor who stitched me up after a skiing accident. His idea of anaesthetic was to name british military heroes and tell me to shush.
Did oven cooked rice once. Boiled water in a pan, put rice in once it was boiling then transferred pan to oven. Finished cooking and I remove the pan from the oven with an oven glove and place it on the hob. Attend to something else then go to pick up pan from hob...without an oven glove. Took a couple of seconds before the pain registered
Had mumps a few years ago and it spread to my chestnuts. The left one swelled up the size of a large baked potato for a week, followed by the right one doing the same the following week. I can confirm that the pain had me in tears for the best part of two weeks. Anyone remember Buster Gonad in Viz?
until my brother put a load of drawing pins by the side of my bed
Some awesome, and painful, similar experiences here
Once when out running with a few mates just as it was going dark I ran between one of those large motorway signs (we were nearing a slip road off the road we where running along.
The sign was missing and there was ample room to run between the two large posts however in the half light I didnt see the thin supporting steelwork for the missing frame and hit it at about 10mph !
How we laughed! there was a lot of blood and after I came around I still had a couple of miles to jog home!
Another one!!
I was in 2nd position in a Northern Vets XC race a few years ago with about 1/2m to the finish when I leapt across a ditch (which I had crossed on each of the previous 2 laps without incident) Unfortunately my spikes caught and I fell forward landing face down on the otherside of the bank as it rose up. Somehow my fist was against my ribcage as I landed and I broke 3 ribs!
Still finished 2nd though 😀
My workstand gets me occasionally. Best was probably when I had a frame in the stand without tightening the rotation clamp - I bent down then stood up and smacked my head on the frame, which then whipped around and smacked me in the chin.
Ah the old "think the soldering iron is a pen and pick it up by the hot pointy end" classic.
Never done that, no sir not me, never
Now I've started TIG welding I've started burning myself a lot. I think it's because I've been using oxyacetylene for decades, so subconsciously I think that hot things go red then orange. But with TIG through a visor they don't, and by the time I lift the visor the glow has gone because the heat is so concentrated, so I keep grabbing things I've just welded.
getting snowflakes on your eyeballs whilst cycling.
oww oww owweeeee!
Getting a tick bite on my family jewels - Bad Start
Making a hash of removing it, resulting in it getting infected - getting worse
Having the doctor lance said infection - 😯
standing on a lego brick barefoot.
trod/stamped on an upturned guitar jack plug as i was running down the stairs, that smarted a bit, along with the tetanus jab and having hobble through heathrow airport the next day, ******* long way to gate 17 I can tell ya ! 🙁
I once half ripped-off a toenail mountain biking (clipped my foot on a rock). Pushed it back into place, taped it up, looked like it might be alright.
In the middle of the night, my wife was having a bit of a thrash around in bed, kicked my foot and finished the job.
Nice way to be woken up.
Eating some apple crumble in a work canteen, bit down on a particularly crunchy bit and thought "ow, that was bloody hard!" (or words to that effect). Then thought "why is my mouth watering?!" - turns out the crumble topping had a bit of broken glass in it which had gone into the roof of my mouth, the watering was my mouth filling with blood.
Hornet sting on the left testicle, that was unbelievably painful!
[i]Things that make you go ouch[/i]
The story a guy in my office told me earlier today, where is front wheel came away from his forks during a brief lift on the bars. It resulted with him using the left side of his head as a brake applied directly to the gravel surface. This in turn produced a 120 stitch scar left from reattaching the skin on about 1/3 of his head. He can also claim to have looked into his ear, without the use of a mirror as the ear came to rest on his shoulder. While the ear was put back on with leeches applied to get the blood flow back into it. Sun glasses are a problem for which suitable grips are now required.
While listening to his story I experienced a curious combination of [i]Yeooowwwww[/i] (read ouch) one moment and poorly concealed s****ing the next.
You know when you stub a toe and it takes half a second for the pain to register?
I stubbed my toe in front of a mirror once and saw myself in the moment of calm and as the pain hit...
[i]Hornet sting on the left testicle, that was unbelievably painful[/i]
Sorry, but that is funny. If it wasn't for bad luck, eh ?
When I was a boy I knocked a bowl of steaming hot semolina onto my thigh.
It was summer term so I had shorts on.
That hurt a lot.
I find getting tattooed quite nasty if I'm honest
During a long childhood summer I was riding my bike around the garden and decided to pretend it was stuck in the mud so I needed to dig it out.
My Dad had left one of these lying around;
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Fortunately I was wearing open toe sandals so they weren't damaged and blood from my big toe washed off quite easily. I still have the scar 40 years later.
I managed to push a dirty screwdriver right through my thumb and out through the nail - thumb swelled up to the size of a ping-pong ball.
That was a bit tender for a while.
Luminous - I got off lightly! Me and my mate were messing about in the woods when it happened (stood on a nest). He had a large cut on his head from a bonce/scaffolding incident, the hornets seemed attracted to this cut and stung him in the open wound several times. The one that got me didn't sting me until about 30 minutes after the incident, we'd legged it out of the woods and were somewhere safe (or so I thought!), then all of a sudden......fire in the nads!
The bleeder must have been working it's way commando style up my leg, looking for a weak point.
I fumbled and dropped my phone last week. Good thing: I managed to catch it. Bad thing: I punched myself hard in the testicles while catching it.
Snapped a 3mm drill bit and proceeded to drill the remainder of the bit through my thumb nail... K'sake that hurt!
Just read all these comments... Now feel the need to wrap myself in bubble wrap and not leave the house! (typical Sat night for some)
[i] (stood on a nest). He had a large cut on his head from a bonce/scaffolding incident[/i]
Think I'm seeing a pattern emerge. Would you describe your friend and yourself as accident magnets ?
When my shoulder pops out of its socket, as it does from time to time. And more specifically the few days after, and even more specifically when I try and raise my elbow up or away from my body. OOOOUUUUCCCCHHHHH!!!!!!
This [url= http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/anyone-here-with-a-non-cycling-related-prince-albert ]LINK[/url]
When you have the tension in your SPDs set too low, clip out by mistake on a steep climb and the pedal whips round and whacks you in the knee.
Sneezing with cracked ribs
Climbing a tree in the garden when I was 12 or 13, the same tree to which I'd nailed a ladder some time previously....
Cue rusty nail straight across the middle of my left hand, shortly followed by my 1st (of many) visits to A&E and 17 stitches. Still got the scar now 35+ years on.
Was in passenger seat of a car, the driver parked on a street that was heavily cambered. I swung open the door to get out and[u] because of the camber I needed to haul myself out with my fingers wrapped round the opening onto the roof. Unfortunately the camber was so much that the door swung back trapping my fingers and latching. Luckily nothing was broken but I couldn't move them for 30 minutes or so.
I got walloped by a kid once with a golf club on a crazy golf course.
Thumbnail went all black and swollen and hurt like b@ggery after a couple of days.
Went to A and E where the doctor straightened out a paperclip, heated it up with a cigarette lighter until it was red hot and then jabbed it the nail.
'KIN OWWWWW !!!!!
The blood was everywhere
Made myself a Bloody Mary yesterday and must have got a tiny drop of Tabasco on my sleeve, sat down to enjoy and wiped my sleeve across my face - Tabasco ended up in my left eye... 😳
Honestly thought my eye was about to dissolve, took twenty minutes for the pain to dull once I'd watered it for five minutes. For the rest of the day it felt like I had a shard of glass stuck under my eye lid. Will be much more careful shaking the bottle in future as that's an experience I never want to go through again!!!
As a sprog I fell off a wall on too broken glass.Gran to the rescue picks out glass,then proceeds to stitch it up,with leather workers needle,remember that hurt a little,hardly a scar mind.
Chopping vegetables using that good old chefy hand on one end of knife, lever down with handle technique. Wifey comes in and asks a question and whilst thus distracted, I lever said chefs knife down across my thumb nail, slicing cleanly through nail down to the bone. Ouch!!
Discovering that the surgeon who is doing your vasectomy didn't use enough local.... 😯
My lovely wife is partially disabled, and does not have full use of her left arm and leg. When Jnr was very small and asleep in the car, we parked up and she got out the passenger side and managed to actually CLOSE the door, trapping a finger from her right hand in the door.
Due to her disability she couldn't open the door with her left hand and managed to calmly ask me to come round to her side and open the door for her. Took about 6 months for the fingernail to regrow 😳
She's not lucky with her hands actually. In 10 days time she will be having the wire that is holding her broken fingertip together removed. Which I imagine will smart a bit.....
jellyfish sting swimming in the med this summer - still got the faint imprint of a jellyfish on my forearm, holding my arm with a cloth drenched in vinegar for two hours seemed to help
Whilst stripping our Victorian fireplace in bare feet (I know) I scrunched my toes and yelped. Couldn't find anything in there, but every few days my big toe throbbed at the bottom. A couple of months later I felt something nasty in the sore area and pulled out a metal wire from a hardcore wire brush, at least 4 cm long... God knows where it was hiding. 😯
Jessies the lot of you.
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My (then 6 year old) spent 3 days with broken, overlapping, displaced at 20degree, Ulna and Radius about 2cm below elbow.
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'kin hard.
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*edit* looking again, this is day 2, he had temp support on. Still broken and overlapping in this pic.
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A week later:
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Instinctively tried to catch an iron as it toppled off the ironing board. Caught it. When the pain kicked in I dropped it on my foot. Leapt backwards into a wall cracking my head.
But even worse than all that was the first time I sat on the loo after an open hemorrhoidectomy. Almost passed out with that.
What no mention for the Prince Albert thread. Just reading that made me curl up in pain.
Reading the above I count myself lucky although a kick in the balls is never exactly comfortable and having been with my wife through two labours I know who is tougher.
Took my finger end off at work, had it re-attached but it didn't take. Eventually the doctor said it will need to come off and booked me in for a minor operation to take the dead end off.
Went in and before he injected the local anaesthetic he got pair of tweezers to pull the edge of the very black skin back to swab underneath, he pulled it back slightly which still smarted somewhat and the nurse took the swab.
Bless his cotton socks if he didn't then just grip harder and rip my finger end off...
having been with my wife through two labours I know who is tougher.
Now you mention it, this. Mrs_oab had two normally and one via the escape hatch. respect to my lass.
Most painful I've had has been when I was using a 2 man post rammer (one like this on my own)
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I misjudged the top of the post and caught it with the edge the rammer which meant the heavy end came down on top of my head and blew all my molars out of my cheeks!
Still not as bad as being half paralysed after a telegraph pole came down on my head breaking my neck!
AVOID the pain of stepping on upturned plugs by walking around with a four socket extension lead attached to each foot.
Thank you, wwaswas. Crying with laughter at that Viz top tip.
Zipping along on an evening road ride a few summers ago when something thwacked me full-on on the bridge of the nose. Skidded to a halt and fell to the ground pole-axed with pain. Genuinely thought someone had taken a pot-shot at me with an air rifle. Never known pain like it. Turns out it was a bee, apparently somehow flying ass-first.
Still had ten miles to wobble home, half blind through streaming eyes. Didn't know the sting was still stuck in me till I looked in the mirror at home.
Over the next week my eye/nose area swelled till I looked like a Na'vi (although not blue).
When I was younger, running up some stairs, caught my foot really badly under a stair edge and dislocated my ankle, then tried to keep running on it. That stang a bit.
Not actually that sore, but it seems to upset people this one... I sliced 2 of my fingers up pretty badly with a kitchen knife (being an idiot), went up to the hospital to get stitched up. Friday night in A&E, the doc doing the ring block anaesthetic got distracted and lost his balance, and instead of doing the little injection, accidentally stuck the needle right through my finger and into the worktop, pinned me to the table. But it came out again with a bit of pliar action.
When I was about 9 years old, my cousins and I were playing paratrooper, jumping off the barn into a pile of hay. I landed on a board with a 4 inch rusty nail sticking up that was hidden by the hay, driving said nail through my foot and up through the top of my shoe---did smart a bit.
What no mention for the Prince Albert thread. Just reading that made me curl up in pain.Reading the above I count myself lucky although a kick in the balls is never exactly comfortable and having been with my wife through two labours I know who is tougher.
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Still makes me wince thinking about it....
Age 12 or so, nearly took the end of my thumb clean off by means of a model plane propeller. Fortunately the bone stopped the prop. Nail came off. Never got stitches, just kind of stuck it back on with plasters - must have been lucky as it took and I still have both thumbs the same size.
Aged about twelve, in a woodland somewhere in Worcestershire. Chopping a small tree down with a small axe.
Small axe slipped from hand in to left foot, narrowly missing vital, foot-destroying pieces of said foot, but making quite the slice. "Oh look", I thought, "I'm bleeding." No pain at first, nothing beyond just thinking I was bleeding. Scars remain, foot still works. Lucky chap.
Um, how long have you got...
I had a tooth removed last week. It had died after years of repairs and then the end snapped off. That wasn't too bad to deal with, there was no pain. A burly Aussie seemingly elbow deep in my mouth using a pair of pliers with the sort of force I normally reserve for undoing stiff wheel nuts was bad. Very bad. Still feels tender in that area even now. It will hopefully be a while before I need to go back...
Not one of the most painful things I've ever done but one that made me feel unusually squeamish:
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Doesn't look very impressive but imagine a 10A scalpel blade going in top left and tip coming out bottom right. I sized it up and it must have been up to the hilt!
I was sweeping bits of wire and insulation off my workbench and swept my hand into my scalpel, which was just lying open on the bench. It was probably in my finger for a split second. Didn't realise it went all the way through until I saw my blood coming out of both sides of my finger!