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I just stapled a piece of A4 paper to my thumb.
Ouch.
Ouch, though it reminds me of a friend who borrowed a staple gun of mine and successful fired one right into his thumb :bang:
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Still smarted a bit when the (incredibly apologetic) nurse took the flookers out!!!
I've put a lit cigarette, several woodscrews (and self tappers) and assorted other items through my ear but then again, I do have it pierced and stretched out to 10mm diameter!
I've put a lit cigarette, several woodscrews (and self tappers) and assorted other items through my ear but then again, I do have it pierced and stretched out to 10mm diameter!
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I know a bloke who shot himself in the foot with a paslode (gas powered nail gun) once - it went right through his boot right through his foot and nailed his foot to the sole of his boot.
moral of that story , don't remove the safety contact switch from your paslode for faster working
moral of that story , don't remove the safety contact switch from your paslode for faster working
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okay in Ruth's defence she's no longer the dimmest person on the thread
that crown is now mine
as I've just screwed my hand to a piece of wood :bonk:
Now before everyone cringes and/or asks for pictures it wasn't as bad as it sounds - I was wearing gloves and using one of those belt fed screw guns - and managed to put not one, but two framing screws through the glove on my other hand - on each side of my wrist
no blood , no drama - but unable to move the left hand away from the work piece or get my hand out of the glove, and unable to unscrew the screws (belt fed screw guns don't do reverse) - but also couldn't reach the screw drivers to get it out manually.
ho and indeed hum
eventually I got my pocket knife (which fortunately is a spyderco with one handed opening) out of its sheath and cut my glove to bits to free my left hand
no harm done - but I officially claim the title of stupidest stupid ever to do a stupid thing (to be fair ive got things on my mind ,but seriously.... and i'm not even blonde)
that crown is now mine
as I've just screwed my hand to a piece of wood :bonk:
Now before everyone cringes and/or asks for pictures it wasn't as bad as it sounds - I was wearing gloves and using one of those belt fed screw guns - and managed to put not one, but two framing screws through the glove on my other hand - on each side of my wrist
no blood , no drama - but unable to move the left hand away from the work piece or get my hand out of the glove, and unable to unscrew the screws (belt fed screw guns don't do reverse) - but also couldn't reach the screw drivers to get it out manually.
ho and indeed hum
eventually I got my pocket knife (which fortunately is a spyderco with one handed opening) out of its sheath and cut my glove to bits to free my left hand
no harm done - but I officially claim the title of stupidest stupid ever to do a stupid thing (to be fair ive got things on my mind ,but seriously.... and i'm not even blonde)
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Actually although I must admit that was pretty stupid, Pete,
I have a mate that is a total < fill in the blank>
You never ever enter a mews (hawk house)
without wearing or at least carrying a glove.
Mistake number one.
Never approach your Imprint female Finnish Goshawk
without wearing said glove these are huge birds
Mistake number two.
The Gos threw a foot at him, and bound around his hand, yep pretty much all the way.
Never ever reach out with a bare hand to try and free said grabbed hand
with your other bare hand (yep this is why you carry a glove, "just in case")
Mistake number three.
Said Gos reaches out and grabbes other bare hand.
He is now handcuffed, by a 3lb plus killing machine on steriods.
He reckons that it took 3 hours to get free (for her to relax enough to let go)
it was probably more like 10-15 mins of relaxing in pretty much agony
Its OK folks I also PMSL when he told me the story too
I have a mate that is a total < fill in the blank>
You never ever enter a mews (hawk house)
without wearing or at least carrying a glove.
Mistake number one.
Never approach your Imprint female Finnish Goshawk
without wearing said glove these are huge birds
Mistake number two.
The Gos threw a foot at him, and bound around his hand, yep pretty much all the way.
Never ever reach out with a bare hand to try and free said grabbed hand
with your other bare hand (yep this is why you carry a glove, "just in case")
Mistake number three.
Said Gos reaches out and grabbes other bare hand.
He is now handcuffed, by a 3lb plus killing machine on steriods.
He reckons that it took 3 hours to get free (for her to relax enough to let go)
it was probably more like 10-15 mins of relaxing in pretty much agony
Its OK folks I also PMSL when he told me the story too
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Also reminds me of my friend's husband.
They'd laid real wood flooring throughout their downstairs and he took a day off work to stain it all.
He started at the front door and worked toward the back of the house and the patio doors . . . except once he got there he realised that he'd left his housekeys in the front door and had effectively painted himself back into a corner and couldn't let himself back out.
He was stuck there for 5 hours until the floor was dry enough for him to walk back over.
Not sure what's more embarrassing - being trapped by a stuck glove, a Goshawk or a wet floor
They'd laid real wood flooring throughout their downstairs and he took a day off work to stain it all.
He started at the front door and worked toward the back of the house and the patio doors . . . except once he got there he realised that he'd left his housekeys in the front door and had effectively painted himself back into a corner and couldn't let himself back out.
He was stuck there for 5 hours until the floor was dry enough for him to walk back over.
Not sure what's more embarrassing - being trapped by a stuck glove, a Goshawk or a wet floor
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Not sure what's more embarrassing - being trapped by a stuck glove, a Goshawk or a wet floor
Well I'm guessing "your mate" was highly embarrassed
as was Pete, but a few others here were embarrassed and "punctured" too
I know which I'd prefer
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Not sure what's more embarrassing - being trapped by a stuck glove, a Goshawk or a wet floor
I think this needs a poll......
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looking on the brightside 5 mins previous to my cock up I was using the table saw
rule 1 - never use power tools when you are tired
rule 2 - never use power tools when your mind is on other things ( if you've just had a long phone call and that subject is still on your mind , ffs leave the woodwork til the next day)
Rule 3 - never use power tools when you are completely alone, in a workshop in the bottom of a valley with no mobile signal
I violated all three and lived to tell the tale with nothing but a knackered set of work gloves - it could have been a lot worse ... to be that lucky, I must be living right.
rule 1 - never use power tools when you are tired
rule 2 - never use power tools when your mind is on other things ( if you've just had a long phone call and that subject is still on your mind , ffs leave the woodwork til the next day)
Rule 3 - never use power tools when you are completely alone, in a workshop in the bottom of a valley with no mobile signal
I violated all three and lived to tell the tale with nothing but a knackered set of work gloves - it could have been a lot worse ... to be that lucky, I must be living right.
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mind you if there are prizes for sheer inventive stupidity , the guy my friend Theresa treated in casualty who had given himself an impromptu circumcision with a power sander is hard to beat
in short form (as I may have mentioned before) he'd got into the habit of... ahem.... 'stimulating himself' with the sander sans sandpaper - then one day in a state of high arousal he forgot to take the 80 grit pad off (cops and nurses - they have the best stories albeit often unrepeatable in polite company)
(that said if we are limiting the pool to members here sliding down a kids slide and breaking both your ankles , might take the prize)
in short form (as I may have mentioned before) he'd got into the habit of... ahem.... 'stimulating himself' with the sander sans sandpaper - then one day in a state of high arousal he forgot to take the 80 grit pad off
(cops and nurses - they have the best stories albeit often unrepeatable in polite company)(that said if we are limiting the pool to members here sliding down a kids slide and breaking both your ankles , might take the prize
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well I've just reaffirmed my ' king of the stupid' title
I was wet shaving as you do , and as the blokes among us will know when you are using a triple blade razor bits of hair get caught between the blades.
to dislodge these bits its usual practice to rub the ball of your thumb across the blades
it is as I rediscovered just now a less good idea to run the ball of your thumb along the blades !!!
I've now got three paper cut type cuts in parallel across the top of my thumb..... ouchy
(again someone was watching over me - because when the shaving water went red I thought i'd really lacerated myself and was going to spent the rest of the day in casualty ... but fortunately I have a pad of callus on my thumb from years of forestry work so ive got a nice deep cut in the callus but only just drew a tiny bit of blood - barely even needs a plaster now that the bleeding has stopped)
honestly i'm a hazard to myself and others - Must keep mind on job at hand when using sharp things. :bonk:
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what have you done now ?
ive got one as well - but ladies first
I took a dish out of the oven....oven gloves...safe as you like.
Then in the next moment picked up said same dish to move it....bare handed. :nuts:
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ouch - lots of cold water and/or an ice pack
I was driving from branscombe to beer after my late finish tonight and there's a bit where the road goes 90 deg to the right and an unsurfaced farm track goes straight on , into a field
I completely missed the turn and went straight on into a pasture field at 50mph
how I didn't flip the car or smash the suspension I don't know - I made an impressive 90 degree skid turn and just missed putting it in a ditch on the far side of the field.
I nearly crapped myself - but again no harm done except to the field surface
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ouch - lots of cold water and/or an ice pack
I was driving from branscombe to beer after my late finish tonight and there's a bit where the road goes 90 deg to the right and an unsurfaced farm track goes straight on , into a field
I completely missed the turn and went straight on into a pasture field at 50mph
how I didn't flip the car or smash the suspension I don't know - I made an impressive 90 degree skid turn and just missed putting it in a ditch on the far side of the field.
I nearly crapped myself - but again no harm done except to the field surface
...and every time you drive past your eyes will be drawn to the marks!
Glad it wasn't too serious!
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I've got fairly good one,
At the flying field, flying my tricopter,
I made an error of allowing it to fly over the top of me and all because it went a bit wayward after a crosswind hit it, cue what sounded like a flymo overhead and me suddenly ducking whilst maintaining control of the model about 6ft from the deck.
Nothing damaged no crash or injury, but a lesson well learned.
Land it in future if it gets a bit too wayward.
At the flying field, flying my tricopter,
I made an error of allowing it to fly over the top of me and all because it went a bit wayward after a crosswind hit it, cue what sounded like a flymo overhead and me suddenly ducking whilst maintaining control of the model about 6ft from the deck.
Nothing damaged no crash or injury, but a lesson well learned.
Land it in future if it gets a bit too wayward.
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Oh that hot dish sounds damn painful
Your not doing it right if you don't have to be cut out :shake:
Glad no damage done
ouch - lots of cold water and/or an ice pack
I was driving from branscombe to beer after my late finish tonight and there's a bit where the road goes 90 deg to the right and an unsurfaced farm track goes straight on , into a field
I completely missed the turn and went straight on into a pasture field at 50mph
how I didn't flip the car or smash the suspension I don't know - I made an impressive 90 degree skid turn and just missed putting it in a ditch on the far side of the field.
I nearly crapped myself - but again no harm done except to the field surface
Your not doing it right if you don't have to be cut out :shake:
Glad no damage done
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as my focus probably has the crash integrity of a baked bean can i don't think i'd have been as lucky as you and the dodododo
it was lucky the field gate at the end of the lane wasn't closed because i'd have hit that full on at 50 - which wouldn't have been a good day out...
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Sorry Matt but
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No not good indeed, I have to say was very impressed how the VW stood up, no intrusion into the passenger space at all, amazing really I had no idea how serious the crash was until a mate told me about the state of the car from the outside, don't get me wrong I knew it was serious
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me again - I just took a tray of hot sausages out of the oven (carefully with oven gloves), put it on the side, took off the gloves and picked up a red hot sausage with my bare fingers - where upon it oozed molten fat all over my thumb
oooooowwwwww
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A few years ago I came in from a late shift at work to find the missus having a candlelit bath. As it was a corner bath there was room for me so feeling lucky I jumped in.
She was using nail varnish remover which was on the sill behind me and when she asked me to pass it to her I reached over my shoulder spilling some down my back in the process.
Didn't think anything of it until I leaned back towards the candles, then whoosh...
She was using nail varnish remover which was on the sill behind me and when she asked me to pass it to her I reached over my shoulder spilling some down my back in the process.
Didn't think anything of it until I leaned back towards the candles, then whoosh...
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As a teen, I was slicing runner beans by the sliceasfastasyoucan method (hold bean in mid air in left hand and slice away as fast as possible) when I became aware of a wet sensation in the palm of my left hand, Not a massive cut but I bled like a stuck pig and still have the scar!
When fumbling for a bike ignition key (on this particular bike, located just under the right buttock) in the wet, with the bike reluctant to allow me to find neutral so using my right hand in a stretch over), I instead found an HT lead. Electronic ignition doesn't half pack a punch! I was lucky not to release the clutch lever since the thing would have taken off!
When fumbling for a bike ignition key (on this particular bike, located just under the right buttock) in the wet, with the bike reluctant to allow me to find neutral so using my right hand in a stretch over), I instead found an HT lead. Electronic ignition doesn't half pack a punch! I was lucky not to release the clutch lever since the thing would have taken off!
