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Kind of a random discussion I was having with some Dutch guys in the bar last night.
The general opinion was that it would be better to have your left foot cut off midway between the knee and the ankle than having the left hand cut off midway between the elbow and wrist.
What does STW hive mind think?
Have seen a chappie riding with a prosthetic lower leg & spd "foot". On the basis of that I'd go leg.
Foot
Your foot instead of mine. Although, who'd be organising the Big Bike bash then?
arm.. you take your leg for granted cos its always been there having seen my FIL trying to get by with a lower leg amputation i'd happily sacrifice my watch hand.. although what would you do at 99
I think on reflection, I'd rather have your left leg cut off.
Six and half a dozen for me.
Foot.
foot, and get one of those springs that Oscar the sprinter has.
I was thinking hand so you could still walk.
(actually nothing cut off would be better)
Frankenstein - MemberI was thinking hand so you could still walk.
(actually nothing cut off would be better)
There's a joke in here somewhere... 🙂
Having once spent 18 weeks with my left hand in plaster I more or less got used to having one hand so for me it would be the hand.
Can't imagine losing a foot the inability to move about freely bothers me a lot.
Foot
Leg - no contest
after all - have a hand chopped off and it leaves you without a spare hand to use to, you know, sit on and make it feel numb so it <cough> feels like someone else ....
Left foot, primarily cause I have a horrible fungal infection two toes. Quick fix.
Nick, will the answer to this question help you to set the height of the rotating blades on this year's BBB lake jump?
right hand. I'm kinda ambidextrous and can write/paint/whatever left handed. need my feet though to get about.
Foot for me. Imagine the weight saving!!!...a small titanium rod with a cleat attached instead...Lose about a pound and half I reckon!!!!.
Although some of my mates would say my chicken legs look like that anyway...
Foot. I couldn't live without the ability to pick my nose and scratch my arse at the same time.
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Boring Thursday thread ...
no fun chewkw of many useful limbs
I'd go for foot as I'd look less weird in most settings and could swim un-wonkily
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Hand my right arm in plaster for a week now, with 5 weeks to go. Think I'd go foot, as your more likely to get your normal life back with prosthetics.
Couple of toes and a few fingers an option?
I'd rather YOU had your hand chopped off, help reduce the drivel posted here 😀
Two hands are required for lots of things. Reasonable typing, guitar playing, opening jars etc etc. Fixing bikes would be quite hard, as would riding them. Harder than with one foot at least.
I'd like my left foot cut off midway between the knee and the ankle please.
Definitely a foot for me as loosing a hand would ruin my climbing career!
Foot. I could still do my job, take photos, ride a bike easily, do my shoe laces up, button up my flies, button up jackets and do up zips on jackets, (try getting the two halves to join up properly and pull up the tab one handed; some are a pain with [i]two[/i] hands).
when I saw this title and then the author, my immediate impulse was WCA's going back into his workshop shortly. And to get the paramedics on standby.
foot i play guitar and surely easier to ride with a prosthetic foot than arm/hand
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Foot. There's not really much in terms of dexterity going on in your foot so assuming you can get a prosthetic, the foot must be much easier to cope with and adapt to.
As cool as a Luke Skywalker robot hand would be, I'm not sure they're all that available on the NHS.
Jamie Andrew- RESPECT.
stupid but interesting thread?
This is on par with "blind or deaf", which seems like a toughy until you realise that life is much harder one way than the other.
Losing a foot has to be less difficult than a hand, less obvious too.
Without a doubt hand Easy to replace and spares are say to come by
Luke sywalkers hand really exists a firm I know in Leeds developed it http://www.bebionic.com/2011/04/26/brazilian-patient-celso-demonstrates-his-bebionic-hand/
I'd lose the foot, some of those false feet look fun. The hand just looks like it'd drive me insane in ten minutes flat.
The hand just looks like it'd drive me insane in ten minutes flat.
FFS why would anyone want a bionic hand ?
Surely the one good thing about losing your hand is that you can go around with a claw frightening the **** out of people, and look really cool ordering a drink down the pub, and stuff.
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ernie - I don't think the bloke in the picture goes to pubs much so he has missed his opportunity.