Wanna know what really hurts?

[KevinP73]

When you smash your finger and all that blood escapes under your nail and then you have to drill a hole in your nail to relieve the pressure.
Ask me how I know!!

[Evans, Marv]

BTDT. How about this - from a split second encounter with a circular saw Thursday of last week.

[red-beard]

My Grandpa was a carpenter...with 2 short fingers...

reminds me of descriptions of the brakemen for railroad cars.

All 10 fingers: green

missing one: in training

missing two: partially experienced

missing three: experienced

missing four: old timer

etc

[slodave]

Nope, na gana look! BTDT!!! Lets not go there.

[sammyg2]

BTDT twice, but I used a red-hot paper clip instead of a drill. I was chicken and the paper clip got it over fast.

Many moons ago when I was a member of the millwright union, they had an old saying:
"You can always tell the Joes from their fingers and their toes".
Losing a finger or any part of it was not a badge of honor, it was a mark of shame to be hidden. the general attitude was that if you were dumb enough to lose a finger you couldn't be a very good millwright.
They had another saying that I use in safety meetings way too often, "never put your finger any place you wouldn't put your dick". Of course I clean it up to make it work safe.
Harsh and crude, but it makes you think, doesn't it? Why do we feel OK about risking a finger but we wouldn't risk our genitals?

[}{arlequin]

oooh oooh i can play this game

don't clean gun w/ bullets in it (no, this is not my hand)






2 days later

[scottmandue]

The other day I got a paper cut and it stung like the dickens!

[TerryH]

Wow Marv, you got lucky.

My dad was a wood worker all his life. Early he worked at the local lumberyard and later he built homes and mach ups for airplanes at McDonnell Douglas.

When it came time for his monthly poker game, I remember vividly as a child, seeing all those missing/shortened digits holding cards around the table. It was almost a symbol of hard work 40 years ago. Let's just say safety wasn't tantamount to getting work done way back when.

While my dad never lost a finger, he did get blood poisoning from a splinter and ended up with one finger looking a little strange.

[Tobra]

For initial problem, you take a paper clip or needle, get it red hot, then touch it to the nail to melt a hole and relieve pressure. DO NOT apply much pressure, just touch it.

That is nothing, I have some photographic evidence about what happens when you pull the lawnmower instead of push(pull back, slip, foot goes under lawnmower, toes become mulch. Also have pic of a diabetic guy whose sister's parrot ate half his big toe while he was reading the paper(sensory neuropathy is tough)

[john walker's workshop]

jet drills are the cat's ass.

[Dantilla]

Originally Posted by john walker's workshop

jet drills are the cat's ass.

I feel sorry for your cat.

[id10t]

Used to shoot IPSC with a group that had one "racegun" guy in it. $4k 1911 platform, played to play the game not to become a better shooter. One match he was shooting quite poor (compared to his normal self) and was blaming it on smashing his trigger finger in his reloading press the night before, and the fact that he had to use a 1/8" bit in a drill press to relieve the pressure. We gave him a rash of ***** about it of course, but then he held up his finger... looked a lot like yours...

Originally Posted by KevinP73

When you smash your finger and all that blood escapes under your nail and then you have to drill a hole in your nail to relieve the pressure.
Ask me how I know!!

[sammyg2]

Kid in high school wood shop lets out a horrific scream. The shop teacher runs over and sees the kid holding his hand with blood running out between his fingers.
the teacher says, "what the heck happened?"
the kid says, "I just went like this and ... ahhhhh there goes another one!"

[Rikao4]

I can relate Kevin,
so I close the car door with glee..oops my finger is stuck,car door is locked !
It hurt,but tolerable..problem is I can't unlock the door..neighbor informs wife...she un-locks the door, open..I swear .. I wanted to stick it back and CLOSE it..now the neighbor is trying to convince me to stick a hot needle into it..RIGHT...
I conceded, it felt so much better.
Rika

[SlowToady]

I broke two vertabre (sp?) in my back --the ones by your kidneys. Didn't need no stinkin' doctor. Carried on with business as usual; it would hurt so badly after gym class I couldn't walk. Had to have my friends help me change.

My buddies dad was working the farm, loading big ass rocks into the bucket of uni-loader. Somehow one of the rock crushed his finger between it and the uni-loader bucket. It literally like, split his finger in half. He moved the rock, went back to the truck, and drove himself into the town to the hospital. Stitches and pins and he was good to go. Back to the farm.

I don't have any pics of my brokenness, but if you check out http://www.joex.com you can see the X-Ray of my buddies hand, broken in 5 places:-d He made it his homepage.

[masraum]

The picture that always gets me is the one where the guy's ring got caught in some equipment and peeled his finger to the bone.

[Drago]

Originally Posted by Tobra

(sensory neuropathy is tough)

No *****.

I have it in my feet. The fun part is that what caused it was the same thing I was doing to relieve it.



Careful w/ the booze guys.

[Drago]

Originally Posted by Dantilla

I feel sorry for your cat.

You ever met John's cat?

[livi]

Originally Posted by Tobra

Also have pic of a diabetic guy whose sister's parrot ate half his big toe while he was reading the paper(sensory neuropathy is tough)

Sorry for being insensitive, but knowing exactly what you are referring to I found that hilarious (in an emphatic kind of way).

[Tobra]

Originally Posted by livi

Sorry for being insensitive, but knowing exactly what you are referring to I found that hilarious (in an emphatic kind of way).

Insensate, not insensitive is the problem.

It was pretty damn funny. Guy comes to the office, distal phalanx gone, stump of proximal phalanx sticking out. He was reading the paper, and the bird was flying around the house, as birds sometimes do. The bird lands on his shoulder, and he is distracted from the newspaper, looks at the bird, sees it all covered with blood, so he tells his sister that he lives with there is something wrong with her bird. She looks at the bird, sees his bleeding stump of a toe and asks what happened. He has no clue, and Polly did not get a cracker to go with the little piggie she just ate.





Now that I think about it, stuff doctors get amused by is sort of fuched up.