Fucking magnets, how do they work?
A few years ago I decided to try my hand at flint napping. My other half at the time suggested I do something sensible such as wear safety gloves/goggles lest a nasty razor sharp shard of flint decide to become one with my person. Naturally I ignored this and carried on regardless. After a while I was dissatisfied with my progress, and, not following the simple logic that iron is softer than flint, decided to go at it with a lump hammer. *Something* broke off and sliced my finger open, which bled profusely. It was some weeks before I realised I had something lodged deep, deep inside there. The doctor wouldn't operate as it would apparently work it's way out eventually, but just completely disable my right index finger until it did. It was some years before I was able to get it out, and I discovered my method of surgery purely by accident. The *something* inside my finger was actually magnetic! I spent days at a time at my desk in the office with a hard drive magnet slowly teasing the mysterious object from my finger, until one day it tore through the surface, I pulled out a small cresent-shaped shard of lump hammer from my finger, leaving a strangely not bleeding hole visible all the way to the bone, and the greatest feeling of satisfaction I've ever felt.
Lovely.
(brutal stack Raided the beeves of Apollo on, Thu 20 Jan 2011, 17:19, 5 replies)

That is amazing!
I'm going to eat a tube of iron filings and try doing that with my shit.
(electricteeth, Thu 20 Jan 2011, 17:34, closed)

I like this!
Particularly because I have an unknown object in my finger which I tried to remove yesterday with a magnet. Turns out it's not magnetic. Neither is the end of a pencil lead which broke off in my wrist thirty years ago and is still visible now!
( Blind Meach Cautiously optimistic, Thu 20 Jan 2011, 17:38, closed)

I went for an MRI scan recently
On the questionnaire it asked if I had any metal plates or pins, replacement hip joints and even any stents. The one that amused me was 'have you ever worked with metal turning or grinding equipment?
I pictured someone inside the scanner suddenly having 20 years worth of tiny filings coming out of them like wire wool.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Thu 20 Jan 2011, 18:00, closed)

Eww!
What a horrid image. It'd be like being cheesewired, lengthways.
( Fronds are waving gently on, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 22:56, closed)

that's great. I can just iamgine the satisfaction

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 9:16, closed)