Silly/Annoying Injuries

Dragan · 19-02-2009 12:40pm #1

Last night i was making a bit of food. Some lovely soup, nice brown bread and some garlic bread to go with it. Lovely.

Anyways, the soup was done and poured into bowls and i was busy cutting the garlic bread into easy to deal with pieces when suddenly the knife i was using broke at the handle. It was one of those ****ty plastic handled things. Anyways, it broke as i was applying a decent bit of pressure to it, so my hand continued it's downward trends and my knuckles slapped off the still rather hot cooker ring. The most annoying thing was a small bit of plastic got stuck between one of my knuckles and the ring, which was hot enough to melt it pretty quickly, neatly fusing it to my knuckle.

So now i have one nicely blistered knuckle and another with a big whole in it from the plastic. It's not even that sore, just annoying whenever i put my hand in my pocket or put on or take off a jumper etc.

Anyone else with any silly injuries that end up being just a little bit annoying?

Degsy · 19-02-2009 12:43pm

Dragan wrote: »

just annoying whenever i put my hand in my pocket

That doesnt happen too often in fairness.You should be fine.:D

donmeister · 19-02-2009 12:47pm

I hate when you get paper cuts! Ugh that is so small and just a stingy and a bitch. Annoyance at the highest!

Dlite · 19-02-2009 12:49pm

Dragan wrote: »

Some love soup,

Eeeew.

AnonoBoy · 19-02-2009 12:49pm

I managed to cut my ear with a razor once while shaving. Big slice across it. Everyone asked me about it hoping it'd be something exciting like I was in a knife fight with the Sharks or Jets over our turf. "I missed my face while shaving" didn't quite get the same reaction.

Shaving while hungover is stupid.

I should just grow a beard.

aoibhebree · 19-02-2009 12:50pm

I woke up the other morning with no memory of how I got home, and with half my thumbnail ripped off. The PAIN!!!

Genghiz Cohen · 19-02-2009 12:52pm

Using an industrial steam cleaner in the hotel where I used to work.
The lance was made up of a few sections that (of course) leaked steam.
So I was using it to scrub the floors when the two sections I was holding came apart and sprayed lovely hot steam onto my hand.
That was a burn and a half.

Indie18 · 19-02-2009 12:53pm

My grill at home is a bit on the small side and every time I try to do something in it I always burn my bloody fingers off the top of the grill, almost without fail.

The_Minister · 19-02-2009 12:56pm

Banging the funnybone.

Puddleduck · 19-02-2009 12:58pm

Ive burnt myself off the steam from the kettle, across my knuckles. I had a big red triangle on the top of my hand for ages.

Ive also burnt myself off the grill, more big red bars across my hand.

Ive pulled my neck. By turning my head.

Degsy · 19-02-2009 12:59pm

I stamped on a nail once,mistakenly thinking it would bend.I wasnt wearing my steel toes like i thought and it went up through the sole of my runner and into my heel.
I was hopping like a lobotomised frog for over a week.

AnonoBoy · 19-02-2009 12:59pm

The_Minister wrote: »

Banging the funnybone.

Always hilarious.

jim o doom · 19-02-2009 1:03pm

Opened a front door DIRECTLY into my (shoeless foot having) big toe.. had a limp for a few days and a massive chunk of toe nail missing.. which kept continually bleeding every few days, when something touched or brushed off it.. had to stop training for a week and walking was not fun at all, or chaning socks, or shoes. anything really involving feet.

stovelid · 19-02-2009 1:03pm

Not really an injury, but in my workplace, I get static electric shocks all day. Especially on door handles. Think it's the horrible, industrial style carpet we have.

jim o doom · 19-02-2009 1:04pm

And for the men in the audience - let us never forget (even if it's been years since it happened to you) - getting your mickey caught in yer fly.. *shudder*

"How'd he get the beans above the frank?" /something about mary

Lu Tze · 19-02-2009 1:04pm

AnonoBoy wrote: »

cut my ear with a razor once ...
Shaving while hungover is stupid.

The same thing happened to me if you swap out shaving with working in a Butcher shop, and cutting my ear with slicing the top of my finger of on the Bacon machine.

Old Mrs O'Sullivan was not impressed when i told her i wouldn't charge for the extra bit in with her rashers,

IvySlayer · 19-02-2009 1:05pm

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Always hilarious.

Humerus in fact.

Standing on a plug is always a killer. Also I was swinging on my chair watching TV in the kitchen. The chair was leaned against the dresser, I got up to get a drink, the chair must of gone off course, I sat back down and was leaning on the chair back to the dresser, but I missed it and fell face first on the floor. I'll still lean though.

jim o doom · 19-02-2009 1:08pm

IvySlayer wrote: »

Humerus in fact.

Standing on a plug is always a killer.

only happened to me when I got up to take a slash in the middle of the night last week. Or when I was younger - a piece of lego in the bare foot is sore as hell too.

Kiera · 19-02-2009 1:09pm

I'm constantly sticking my hands to the grill. Keep forgetting to put oven gloves on. Stood on a nail in my bear feet while drunk. Didnt notice until i walked into the kitchen and stuck to the tiles. Had to go to hosp for an injection in my bum

I'm always doing clumsy things like these. My ex's mother used to call me oopsadaisy.

Loomis · 19-02-2009 1:17pm

In on the parents bed one morning when I was about 5 and dad threw a teddy at me. As I moved to catch it I fell backwards off the bed, smacked my head off the radiator and split it open. Have a flat part at the back of my head and scar still. That was fun.

Few months later in a friends garden at a swing set. He, for some reason, decided to swing the see-saw from one end while I was standing in front. The metal seat caught my eye socket causing a lovely gash that pumped blood making me look like something from a horror movie. Still have the scar.

Around the same age and 'looking' at my granny's old sowing machine the huge needle somehow managed to go in one side of my finger under the nail and stick out the far side. Have no memory of how this happened tbh. Just the image of it sticking in my finger.

Crawling under metal railings to get into grounds of a factory in conker season and scraped my back off the underside of the railing. Still have a small scar on my spine.

Playing with a toy car and smashing the windows in using a dart (as you do) and eventually stuck the dart through my finger.

Never managed to break anything though. Unlike the younger sister who had 5 breaks in 18 months.
1. Broke an arm as I walked her down the drive way after she got a new pair of shoes.
2. Broke an arm falling from the second step of the stairs.
3. Broke a collar bone jumping off a bed
4. Broke a leg just walking by tripping herself up
5. A second break for one of the arms. Can't remember how this one happened.

The looks my parents used to get in the hospital lol

Dave! · 19-02-2009 1:25pm

Couple of weeks ago I was in my bedroom changing my clothes or something... Was taking off my t-shirt, and obviously moved too fast cos I hit my hand on the edge of the wall hard enough to give it a little gash

It wasn't a big cut, but quite deep, and it wouldn't stop bleeding for ages! Then it wouldn't heal, and I thought I'd have to get stiches. Eventually it healed. I've got a bit of a scar now though!

And I'm currently sporting a little cut on my index finger at the moment caused by a flathead drill piece that I used when screwing something recently! Not painful, but when putting my hand in my pocket or whatever it's annoying getting it caught, etc

Lu Tze · 19-02-2009 1:29pm

Just after christmas decided i would tuck into a bottle of wine i got as a gift. No bottle opener in the house, so had the clever idea of trying to use a drill to get the cork out... the neck of the bottle shattered and had a cut on my knuckle that refused to heal for two weeks

Though this was wholly a result of my own stupidity i admit!

Lu Tze · 19-02-2009 1:37pm

Dave! wrote: »

Couple of weeks ago I was in my bedroom changing my clothes or something...

You dirty dirty boy:eek:

JohnCleary · 19-02-2009 1:38pm

I broke my spine, it's a pain in the arse

Da-dum-tisch :pac:

Degsy · 19-02-2009 1:40pm

JohnCleary wrote: »

I broke my spine, it's a pain in the arse

Da-dum-tisch :pac:

nO,breacking your cocyx would be a pain in the arse,
Breaking your spine would paralyse you from the point of the break down.

19-02-2009 1:41pm

I once got a papercut right on the tip of my tongue. T'was lousy.

JohnCleary · 19-02-2009 1:43pm

Degsy wrote: »

nO,breacking your cocyx would be a pain in the arse

Yeah but I get pains down as far as me arse now ya welly

Breaking your spine would paralyse you from the point of the break down.

Then how come i'm still walking? :rolleyes:

Spine != spinal chord my friend

Fizman · 19-02-2009 1:54pm

I collapsed my lung twice in the last 2 years. Not being able to breath right was pretty annoying. So annoying in fact that I got an op to correct it and needed 7 weeks off work.

That annoyed me and my wallet.

Blisterman · 19-02-2009 1:54pm

Kiera wrote: »

Stood on a nail in my bear feet while drunk.

You have bear feet? Wow.

homerjay2005 · 19-02-2009 1:57pm

a lad i play soccer with broke his hole (or the bone at the top of it!) playing indoor soccer a few months ago, i sh*t you not! (no pun intended!)

he got some abuse over it, poor lad couldnt walk properly for weeks.

Puddleduck · 19-02-2009 1:57pm

Oh actally I broke my toe by smacking it off a fireplace. Not fun, and you hop around like an eejit holding onto your foot or else (like me) you stand on the sore foot with the other foot.

Fizman · 19-02-2009 1:59pm

homerjay2005 wrote: »

a lad i play soccer with broke his hole (or the bone at the top of it!) playing indoor soccer a few months ago, i sh*t you not! (no pun intended!)

he got some abuse over it, poor lad couldnt walk properly for weeks.

LOL.

I hate when you fall on your tail bone. Is it just me or do others feel like vomiting immediately after it? It be nasty.

jim o doom · 19-02-2009 2:00pm

Degsy wrote: »

nO,breacking your cocyx would be a pain in the arse,
Breaking your spine would paralyse you from the point of the break down.

Not true dude; a good friend of mine fell of a balcony on to steps and cracked/broke several vertebrae, he's working as a fully functional carpenter at the mo - & he's the second person I know - another mate managed to crush a vertebrae or two & he's fine as well..

jim o doom · 19-02-2009 2:05pm

Puddleduck wrote: »

Oh actally I broke my toe by smacking it off a fireplace. Not fun, and you hop around like an eejit holding onto your foot or else (like me) you stand on the sore foot with the other foot.

ohhh that reminds me of a REALLY unpleasant one..

I had a broken leg from a motorcycle - unpleasant, but not the injury in question!

I was on crutches, with one single leg to stand on; hopped in to the bathroom with my crutches - all my weight on one leg & hopped on to a discarded THUMB TACK.

I had to stand there crowing unhappily for help until someone came along and helped extract it from my poor auld foot

Ginny · 19-02-2009 2:11pm

jim o doom wrote: »

Not true dude; a good friend of mine fell of a balcony on to steps and cracked/broke several vertebrae, he's working as a fully functional carpenter at the mo - & he's the second person I know - another mate managed to crush a vertebrae or two & he's fine as well..

Yup I have a stable fracture in my neck, will never heal, but technically i have a broken spine/neck.

Smart Bug · 19-02-2009 2:12pm

jim o doom wrote: »

ohhh that reminds me of a REALLY unpleasant one..

I had a broken leg from a motorcycle - unpleasant, but not the injury in question!

I was on crutches, with one single leg to stand on; hopped in to the bathroom with my crutches - all my weight on one leg & hopped on to a discarded THUMB TACK.

I had to stand there crowing unhappily for help until someone came along and helped extract it from my poor auld foot

Gah! Got the shivers reading that!

Mhmm...weetabix · 19-02-2009 2:14pm

Eh the worst annoying injury I ever had was tennis elbow (lateral epicondylitis :cool:).
I went out 1 night ended up in the local Nightclub and got absolutely smashed as you do. Anyway's I woke up the next morning covered in sand (club is by the beach, goldstar to the 1st person who can guess where I'm on about)
and my arm was in absolute agony without any recollection of what happened. It took over a month of rehab (possibly the worst pain ever, stripping out forearm & wrist extensor's is agony) and rest before I could go back to weight and MA training. Was back a week and went out again, ended up in the local club, got smashed, woke up the next morning with the exact same problem and no recollection! I'd love to know wtf I was doing as none of my mates or my gf at the time can tell me!! Fun and games

jim o doom · 19-02-2009 2:14pm

Jesus I just remembered another couple. I have been accident prone (read a clusmy moron) for yeaaaaars;

when younger I had a home made catapult & quite a powerful one at that (I was quite the little engineer - even made a good bow and arrow set once!)..
I also had a nice set of darts and a dart board..
In my mind I thought to myself "What's stopping me from using this here catapult to fire the darts like an smaller impromptu bow and arrow?.. why nothing!"

So I did - and the first 2 shots were successful, embedded the dart entirely (as long as the metal point) into the dart board - which I was super happy about - so I went for lucky(or perhaps not so lucky) shot number 3..

The dart launched directly into my left hand which was holding the catapult, into the bone, just under where the thumb joins your hand.. It took 20 minutes to extract the stuck in damn thing, I never told anyone about it until adulthood & at the time was unable to even wiggle my thumb without pain for about 5 months!!

JohnCleary · 19-02-2009 2:15pm

Ginny wrote: »

Yup I have a stable fracture in my neck, will never heal, but technically i have a broken spine/neck.

No kinky stuff in the bedroom for you so

Ginny · 19-02-2009 2:17pm

JohnCleary wrote: »

No kinky stuff in the bedroom for you so

Meh, did kickboxing for a good few years afterwards, think the only damage I will have is arthritis a bit earlier.
Although a swift knock to the right spot would not be good.

jim o doom · 19-02-2009 2:20pm

I wish I didn't have so many of these;

In a pub, 17/18 drunk hopping up and down on a seat in Slatterys on capel st upstairs (this is about 10 or 11 years ago when it was more dive like) - moved an inch or three to the side and got a stiff metal support bar between the cheeks - hurt my cocycx (pretty sure I spelt that wrong) - again never told anyone and just let it heal on its own; but it hurt like a B'TARD every time I coughed & especially if I sneezed for a few months

Another classic - age about 14, using a large dagger (yes my parents foolishly trusted me with these things) to tune in an old telly with twisty tuner bits to play an old NES or something that I had dug out..(in my bedroom at the time).

Tuning was a success, so I threw the knife onto my bed (like a total retard), then forgot about it seconds later (like a goldfish) and jumped on my bed.. got a hunting knife in the side of the thigh which caused stitches to be had that night (only a few) and a limp for a few weeks.

Michellenman · 19-02-2009 2:23pm

I cut myself with a spoon once while trying to scoop out a kiwi. That's was more retarded than silly though.

jim o doom · 19-02-2009 2:24pm

and just to bunch the last few I can think of currently in to a short one;

Been hit by a car twice! once on a bicycle, went partially through a windscreen - only broke a tooth and got a few bruises, then as an adult (defo this one was the other feckers fault) - had a car drive into me side on, driving a motorbike = no walkies for over six whole months and a big chunk of metal in the MIDDLE of my tibia..

also got kicked one or two centimetres above my left eye by a horse we owned when I was little - required stitches, if it had been lower I'd have been blinded in one eye! haha - still going strong to this day thank god!

If i remember any more of my stupidity I shall post again

Hail 2 Da Chimp · 19-02-2009 2:38pm

Mr. Anderson wrote: »

Never managed to break anything though. Unlike the younger sister who had 5 breaks in 18 months.

Them bones, Them bones, need calcium!

JohnCleary · 19-02-2009 2:39pm

Ginny wrote: »

Meh, did kickboxing for a good few years afterwards, think the only damage I will have is arthritis a bit earlier.
Although a swift knock to the right spot would not be good.

Pretty much the same myself, played rugger before the oul spinal crack, but still swim - swimming is legend for those kinda injuries

We can be arthritis buddies when we hit 40

:eek:

n1ck · 19-02-2009 2:42pm

When I was about 10 i was ripping off bits of that brown packaging tape with my teeth and if anyone knows that stuff it doesn't come off easy.. Well anyway I ripped a bit off but it fell and stuck to my lower lip and to my tongue(no idea how that happened!) but that was really painful and there was lots of blood... seeing as it ripped the top layer of my tongue and lip off.

Fizman · 19-02-2009 2:43pm

jim o doom wrote: »

and just to bunch the last few I can think of currently in to a short one;

Been hit by a car twice! once on a bicycle, went partially through a windscreen - only broke a tooth and got a few bruises, then as an adult (defo this one was the other feckers fault) - had a car drive into me side on, driving a motorbike = no walkies for over six whole months and a big chunk of metal in the MIDDLE of my tibia..

also got kicked one or two centimetres above my left eye by a horse we owned when I was little - required stitches, if it had been lower I'd have been blinded in one eye! haha - still going strong to this day thank god!

If i remember any more of my stupidity I shall post again

Jesus.....you have an apt username, i'll say that much! :pac:

General Zod · 19-02-2009 2:47pm

I've a blood blister under my fingernail from palying bass a little too enthusiasticly recently.

UrbanSea · 19-02-2009 2:53pm

Ingrown toe nails.

Jesus Juice · 19-02-2009 3:11pm

One Morning i was late for school and i was rushing to get my shoes,so i ran into the bedroom but stepped on the end of my trousers and they ripped up to the knee...So as my shoes wernt in the bedroom i went to the hall,but on my way down my foot got caught in the tangle of my trousers,slipped,and banged of the ground with excruciating pain....I had to walk to school with a limp,my trousers ripped to my knee and i was late...My toe was bruised for 2 weeks after!

jim o doom · 19-02-2009 3:15pm

Fizman wrote: »

Jesus.....you have an apt username, i'll say that much! :pac:

Can't argue with that - sure my old man even drove slowly (& accidentally) over my flip flop (or for the aussies thong) wearing foot in a Mitsubishi Galant when I was about 10 - nothing worse injury wise; than a red foot and me screetching my head off enthusiastically for a bit though!

I think I just realised that all these accidents are where my relatively high tolerance for pain come from

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