Ouch!A friend was once given a biopsy by a sleep-deprived junior doctor.
They needed a sample of his colon, so inserted the long bendy jaws-on-the-end thingy, located the suspect area and... he shot through the ceiling. Doctor had forgotten to administer any anaesthetic.
What was your ouchiest moment?
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chthonic, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 17:29)
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Glue gun of deathDuring the eighties the glue gun was invented. My dad insisted on buying one and once devoted a whole saturday evening to glueing together everything that needed fixing and a lot of things that would have benefitted from simply being left alone.
To the uninitiated: the glue gun works on the following principle: solid stick of white plastic goes in one end, gets melted somewhere down the workings of the gun and molten sticky glueness comes out of the nozzle. Simple.
The glue gun was left unattented as my dad was laying some cable in the toilet upstairs. Adjacent to the gun was a pile of run-off glue, the inevitable consequence of too much pressure at the trigger. My young self postulates on the temperature of said pile of run-off. With my youthful curiosity unsatiated I then promptly decided to give the pile of runoff a poke to see if it was still hot.
Of course it fucking was. I am now faced with a blob of glue on the end of my finger that seemed to be burning its way up my arm. Rushed upstairs and dad is in the can. He came out, leaving a stink of biblical proportions in the bathroom, but I had to run in and get it under the tap.
It wasn't budging. No way was this puppy going to be stopped from its one purpose in life. I knew what I had to do. I tore the blob off of my finger tip. I had to run it under the warm tap to try and dull the pain, but this had little effect. In the end, as my tears of pain steamed up the bathroom mirror I removed the offending blob along with a good three layers of skin. For just about the next decade my middle finger sported a wicked round scar as testament to an injury that took six weeks to stop hurting whenever I picked anything up. Luckily I had the presence of mind to make sure I touched the glue with a finger from my left hand...
(, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 13:05, 1 reply)
I did this at schoolI accidentally glued my finger when using the glue gun, hurt like fuck.
Not as bad as the guy using the massive circular sanding machine who sanded about 5mm off the end of his finger. It left a red ring on the sandpaper surface.
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TheFinch is getting to grips with the complex plane on, Thu 5 Aug 2010, 13:32,
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