Adrenaline can do funny things.

(PsychoChomp, Mon 18 May 2009, 15:16, archived)

apparently it's called "fight or flight"
it makes you think that the best thing to do is run away
(likeajackhammer, Mon 18 May 2009, 15:18, archived)

Or fight

( wotofco pissing in your swimming pool, Mon 18 May 2009, 15:20, archived)

Flying Dragon Punch is the order of the day then.

( Master Of Turnips. Only gays and morons believe in ghosts., Mon 18 May 2009, 15:21, archived)

Clearly

( wotofco pissing in your swimming pool, Mon 18 May 2009, 15:22, archived)

So that explains whenever I injure myself I stand up and take off like a seagull...circling playgrounds for chips.

( Donkey Gums @mattcomedy, Mon 18 May 2009, 15:31, archived)

I can see an ITV2 programme in the making...
Adrenaline Does The Funniest Things...
( Jobe, Mon 18 May 2009, 15:19, archived)

It is odd
The couple of times I have hurt myself badly playing sport it hasn't really hurt at all for the first few minutes.

Generally small injuries hurt straight away.
( Anthropos Was making beer on, Mon 18 May 2009, 15:23, archived)