I did a stupid and want to say thanks to the NHS who patched me up. Ask me about the stupid, it's pretty stupid.
To see if I still feel.
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I focus on the pain
The only thing that's real
The needle tears a hole
the old familiar sting
try to kill it all away
But I remember .. everything.
What have I become?
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know, goes away in the end.
And you could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you...
squirt
What a ride! That's what she said.
Spoiler
I normally hate crass jokes like this, but this was genuinely unexpected and perfectly placed. Johnny Cash had already sung "I will make you squirt" in my head before I even know what was happening. Bravo.
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And you could have it all,
My empire of dirt.
Or was it an empire of shit?
We need to know if you wanted Jesus or heroin.
Empire of dirt.
The shit was "crown of shit" in Trent Reznor's original. In Johnny Cash's cover he changed it to "crown of thorns".
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I hurt myself today
to see if I still feel.
I focus on the pain
the only thing that's real...
Lol that's the first thing I thought of when I read the title.
Same, hehe.
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What have I become?
My sweetest friend ?
The same, but with an index finger that now and forever won't point straight.
Stop posting here, you should focus on the pain.
The only thing that's real.
What have I become?
You’ve become my Swedish friend.
What did you do to get the injury?
So...you know how sometimes vehicles sound a bit rough, and you think " I'll look at YouTube" and youtube says maybe it the wheel bearing, and you jack it up and spin the wheel and listen and see if it is the wheel bearing? What youtube (and common sense) doesn't say is don't put your finger in the rim to spin it, because there's a caliper there. Trust, you do not want your finger in between a wheel and a caliper when you are trying to spin the drive wheel as hard as you can.
My partner calls me a cat because I can catch flies. Good reaction time, hand-eye coordination, likely from being a former hockey goalie in uni. If I drop something, I can often manage to catch it with the same hand I dropped it from, which is usually pretty neat.
Not so long ago I was drying a sharp kitchen knife.
...amazing
...ly fucking stupid. I am stunned at my own idiocy.
You shouldn't be so hard on yourself, even from an injury like this.
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And here I thought I was stupid for constantly burning my hand on the exhaust cause I don''t let it cool off before working on it
Thank you for sharing, glad you still have ten digits.
Your finger good tho right? If you go knuckle first it's usually losing skin and a learning lesson. I don't talk about the other way
Yep, might be a bit wonky. Thought about leaving it, cover with a bandage and hope for the best, but went to hospital just in case. Glad I did, open fracture and stitches required. Nurses and doctors were great, glad I did.
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Yikes!
Two recent finger injuries to make you feel better!
I sliced my thumb open vertically with a pocket knife trying to cut a zip tie off of something. My thumb looked like a snakes tongue, and now I have a scar that makes my thumb look like a dick head.
Same thumb, just post healing, I was helping a friend move, grabbed a bicycle by the wheel to put it on top of the truck. Wheel spun, bike frame spun the opposite direction, the spoke cut into my thumb, and had my buddy not reacted quickly (or if he had simply grabbed the bike and pulled instead of just stabilizing it), I likely would have lost the thumb entirely. Broke the bone, spoke cut all the way to the bone. It suuuuuucked.
In the future rather then spin it grab the tyre and wobble it.
If it's got movement it's shagged.
Just don't pull it off what ever you have it jacked up on.
The real benefit is if you're wheel bearing is really rooted you can tell on the ground.
Spinning can tell you about cv shafts though because they tend to click.
Source am mechanic
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to see if you still feel the pain ? right
I hurt myself today
To see if you still feel?
Did the needle tear a hole?
I know this is a NIN reference but no, the doctor decided the stitches would hurt less than the lidocaine injection. But yes, did get a tenanus shot.
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I did mine two days ago, took a chunk of finger tip out while cutting a loaf of bread on a cutting board which was not on a non-slip surface. People talk about how nice sourdough is, but never how dangerous. Worth it.
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you prolly shouldnt do that. it can be painful.
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