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What scars have you got?

  • 17-06-2017 12:56AM
    #1
    Mr.Plough
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,615 ✭✭✭


    Physical ones. Emotional ones go here -> http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=127

    I've one over my left eye from when I was 16/17. Left my mates gaff drunk after a session and forgot he had a little step right outside his door. Fell and cracked my head against the ground. The eyebrow covers most of it luckily.

    Also have scars across the top of my back from when I was about 12/13 and scratched the bejesus out of a load of midget bites. Worth it though.

    What scars you got AH?


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  • #2
    Toots
    Business & Finance Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 17,009 Mod ✭✭✭✭Toots


    One on the back of my head from when I split it open falling out of a tree at age 6.

    Episiotomy.


  • #3
    Surreptitious
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,130 ✭✭✭Surreptitious


    I've a hole in my foot.


  • #4
    Junkyard Tom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,115 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


    As a lifelong Pirate I'm covered in scaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrs.


  • #5
    pangbang
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 672 ✭✭✭pangbang


    Surreptitious wrote: »
    I've a hole in my foot.

    Read that backwards for a sec.

    I'm basically one lump of scar tissue, on the inside.


  • #6
    jamesbere
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,022 ✭✭✭jamesbere


    Had a kidney removed so I've a scar there, accidently cut my finger with a scissor went I was eight and still have the scar.


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  • #7
    Donald Trump
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,325 ✭✭✭✭Donald Trump


    pangbang wrote: »
    Surreptitious wrote: »
    I've a hole in my foot.

    Read that backwards for a sec.
    toofy m nielo have i ?

    I don't get it


  • #8
    Donald Trump
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,325 ✭✭✭✭Donald Trump


    Mr.Plough wrote: »
    Physical ones.  Emotional ones go here -> http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=127

    I've one over my left eye from when I was 16/17. Left my mates gaff drunk after a session and forgot he had a little step right outside his door.  Fell and cracked my head against the ground.  The eyebrow covers most of it luckily.

    Also have scars across the top of my back from when I was about 12/13 and scratched the bejesus out of a load of midget bites.  Worth it though.

    What scars you got AH?
    Ya "little person racist" ya
    How do you know they weren't dwarfs?


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIHLTKGyJ58


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9IJSI2Ebzo


  • #9
    gitzy16v
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,093 ✭✭✭gitzy16v


    On my forehead,a Harry Potter style scar caused by a flying pint glass.
    On the side of my skull, from falling out of a moving camper van(2hrs knocked out)
    On top of my skull,split open as a teenager diving in the shallow end of a pool:o
    On my forearm,spilt open protecting myself from a baseball bat.
    Little Finger,caught in the spinning spokes of a bike(nearly chopped off)
    My hands have a few mostly sharp glass or metal damage.
    And on my neck ive one from a cyst removed when I was a week old...still clearly visible.
    Im like a fcuking Picasso.:pac::pac:


  • #10
    harry Bailey esq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,814 ✭✭✭harry Bailey esq


    My head looks like it has hieroglyphics on it,im unfortunately thin on so top so keep my hair cropped so they are visible.I've one on my right eyelid that you would hardly notice most of the time but when it's cold outside its very apparent.I've a good few on my hands,and one on across my right ankle.I hate them.


  • #11
    retro:electro
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,039 ✭✭✭✭retro:electro


    Have a few. One on my forehead from getting stitches there when I was 18.
    Had two moles removed from my back so two scars there.
    One on my knee from when I was running outside with my pram as a kid and as I was running the pram folded up and I fell. I was crying and picking stones out of my knee as I walked home.
    Another on my finger from when the Christmas tree collapsed one year as I was decorating it!


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  • #12
    Summer wind
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,285 ✭✭✭Summer wind


    Burn mark on my arm about the size of a 50 cent because I burned my arm with steam last December.
    Six small scars on my torso from keyhole surgery where the rods went in.
    Caesarean scar.
    14 stitches in my knee from surgery.


  • #13
    prinzeugen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,882 ✭✭✭prinzeugen


    I am Harry Potter. I have a scar on my forehead as a result of me not wearing a seatbelt in the 80's. (Not there was a seatbelt)

    Scar from a slip of the blade on a TORO machine at the golf course and a hole in my chin when I extracted a bit of metal with a Stanley knife after a bearing change went wrong.

    Slash on the wrist (was lucky) that just missed an artery. I liked my tools sharp and the thing slipped.

    Shattered ankle X2 and the scars from getting them fixed.

    Several burns that never healed right and could be called scars but I call them "we have been here before" scars.

    Think that is it.


  • #14
    Manic Moran
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 17,896 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manic Moran


    Only one that is visible is on my left arm where the hydraulic armored door for the ammunition compartment on my tank opened on it. Bless the designers, they put a pressure sensor on the far side, so I kept the arm.


  • #15
    ED E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,094 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    Manic Moran wrote: »
    Only one that is visible is on my left arm where the hydraulic armored door for the ammunition compartment on my tank opened on it. Bless the designers, they put a pressure sensor on the far side, so I kept the arm.

    Yikes, I thought the normal issue was arms in the path of the returning breach block.


  • #16
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,926 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    One on my forehead when I took on the fireplace aged 3.


  • #17
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 78,543 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    Left knee from when I did a slide tackle on ice playing football over 40 years ago
    Right hand when i foolishly inserted it in some farm.machinrry to clear a blockage in the late 1970s
    Lower back where they inserted the knife on 4 separate occasions between 1994 and 2002 to deal with slipped discs
    Left knee following cartilage surgery early in 2009
    Left eye due to skin graft required following a cycling accident in 2009
    Both lower arms as a result of road rash in the same accident
    Just above the right wrist following another cycling accident 3 years ago - the plaster they put on the broken wrist meant the cut did not heal properly
    Left sinuses, below the eye and temple area where they inserted titanium plates following the same accident
    Still have a couple on the right shoulder following surgery earlier this year

    Other than that pretty much in pristine condition


  • #18
    FanadMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,824 ✭✭✭FanadMan


    One across my chin from when I wanted to shave like my father. I was about three years old and it was an old style open razor - the blade went straight into my chin.

    Loads more all over my body from scratching due to psoriasis and more from self harm......still hate them :(


  • #19
    SeamusG97
    Closed Accounts Posts: 384 ✭✭SeamusG97


    You've all probably seen this before but I couldn't resist.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNOsA4nH8yE


  • #20
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Nasty barbed wire scar on my leg dating from back when I was a child. It stands out because it's a pure white line and I've a sallow complexion.

    Also have red oven baking tray scars on both forearms.


  • #21
    phill106
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,838 ✭✭✭phill106


    Main ones would be from when i was hit by a car, for that one i got 10 stitches on the back of my head where there is a nice scar, along with large hard scar between my middle and index finger which goes halfway up the the index finger (nearly lost it! think that was 8 stitches).
    Also have one on the middle of the top of my head from where a neighbours child threw a rock at my head ( i deserved it, i stole his rabbit).
    Also on top of my head i have a a line from where a computer i was working on fell off a shelf onto my head.
    On my shin i have a fairly long scar from the spring of a car seat gouging me.
    One on my left shoulder from banging into a concrete fence post.
    Outer wrist from scratching it while installing car radio and keep bloody picking at the scab (im awful for that, i do the same to my fingers all the time).
    Sole of my foot from carrying my youngest up the stairs as a baby, i knocked a pint glass that had been at top of stairs and it landed just as i put my foot down, had to shout for my wife to grab the child off me as i couldnt move)
    Think thats the main ones!


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  • #22
    Hank Scorpio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,631 ✭✭✭✭Hank Scorpio


    Some on my hand when I stupidly punched a glass door


  • #23
    Tazio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 710 ✭✭✭Tazio


    Back of hand...

    Spanner slipped working on engine and bolt poked hole in back of hand. Hand subsequently stuck to said bolt. Had to pull hand away. All alone in workshop.. fun morning all the same.


  • #24
    osarusan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,059 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    My back, from barbed wire. My wrist, from some cut I can't remember. My thumb, from a really deep cut while cutting an apple. My index finger, from dropping a heavy stone on it at the beach, which was later extended by the talons of a hawk grabbing food from my hand.

    Best story is the scar on the back of my head, from when a 4 or 5 year old me fell for my brother's shoulders while playing 'circus' and landed on a upturned plug. The longest of the 3 pins got stuck in my head and I had to go to hospital to have it removed. The doctor was from India or Pakistan or somewhere and it may well have been have been the first time I ever saw somebody who was not white.

    I spent the whole time sobbing to my mother not to let "the brown man" touch me.


  • #25
    PucaMama
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,129 ✭✭✭PucaMama


    I have a big scar on the back of my head from surgery I had as a child. I'm told there was 200 stitches but I don't know


  • #26
    DrPhilG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,437 ✭✭✭✭DrPhilG


    Had 2 stitches under my lip due to me flinging a tennis racket at the ground in a rage, it bounced straight back up and split me.

    2 at the side of my eye from jumping off a swinging farm gate at the wrong time, it rebounded off the pillar and the bolt on the gate hit me.

    11 stitches in my chin from an unfortunate incident involving a home made swing, a 10ft copper pipe and falling off a shed.

    6 stitches over my eyebrow from a fall at school following a collision with a girl running the other way.

    2 stitches in my forehead from walking into a chair. The stitches were only out a few days and I headbutted a wall and reopened the wound.

    2 stitches in a finger and 1 in my thumb due to various bouts of stupidity cutting things with stanley blades.

    And a big scar the size of a €2 coin on my leg caused by a shotgun (long story).


  • #27
    Erik Shin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,721 ✭✭✭Erik Shin


    14 stiches from a ruptured appendix as a preteen...a week in ICU also,
    A 1" scar on my chin from a homemade spear that was thrown at me and stuck in my chin, plenty across my knuckles from boxing, a 4" one on the back of my skull from falling down the stairs drunk and waking up 6 hours later in a hospital bed.
    Fell out of a skip and have a 2" scar on my knee and shin from hitting concrete...that's it I think

    Edit...I have another scar on the back of my head from a drunken fall at home where I hit my head on the metal corner of the sink....woke up in a pool of blood...that was, to the day, 7 years before the other head injury


  • #28
    [Deleted User]
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    Metal plate in arm and scars from the surgery.


  • #29
    julyjane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,244 ✭✭✭julyjane


    Episiotomy, although I was under the impression they disappear after a time I don't really want to check.

    Appendix out 14 years ago, scar is just a faint white line now.

    Fell off my bike and cut my face 23 years ago and didn't think I needed to see a doctor but I still have scars so maybe that was a bad decision.

    Had a lump removed from deep in my armpit 2 years ago and the 4" scar still looks nearly new


  • #30
    xzanti
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 10,464 Mod ✭✭✭✭xzanti


    Small dog bite scar under my left eye. Only noticeable in sunlight.
    C Section Scar.
    Small scar on my head (under my hair) where I split myself as a child.

    That's it.


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  • #31
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,244 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Big scar on right foot afer slicing it open on a bottle. 10 stitches and nerve damage.
    Appendectomy scar.
    Little scar on the back of my right hand, from when I was playing with another kid's pocket knife and he grabbed it back suddenly.
    Scar on my chin from a bike crash.

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