What's the dumbest way you've sustained an injury, and what was the injury?
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Many, many moons ago. I rode my Big Wheel standing up, no hands, down hill.
Ended up crashing into a fire hydrant. Ouch. At least a broken right arm from what I remember.
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I've broken my pinky toe twice by stubbing it on furniture corners.
Hmm, I could be wrong, but, I think you were trying to respond to the other comment about hurting their toe.
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I broke my toe on a case of ramen noodles.
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I cut a good part of the way through my thumb opening a can of beans
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Hmm, I could be wrong, but, I think you were trying to respond to the other comment about hurting their toe.
Lol i meant to reply to the post in general but replied to your comment by mistake. Sorry about that. I'm just gonna leave it lol. Too lazy to fix. Have a good weekend!
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Wanted to see what happened if I stuck my finger into a pencil sharpener. Didn't really think that one through
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Bad cut on my finger from a bread knife trying to cut a particularly crusty loaf of bread I baked. Only time in my life I've needed to go to the emergency room (for myself).
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Earlier today I decided to trim my own hair. I was holding a section of hair with my free hand and snipped right into the side of my thumb. On the bright side, my hair came out nice anyway.
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I slipped a disk and pinched a nerve in my neck by sitting up to get out of bed.
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Fell off a tram on my 16th birthday and sprained my ankle. I didn't realize, so I went into the local river "for fun" and I conveniently forgot to take my clothes off.
So I come home, and the next day everyone thinks I tried to kill myself.
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When I was around 12 I sat crouched on the floor and was hyper focused on drawing. I must've sat there for hours with little to no movement and when I got up I couldn't lift my right foot. I severely damaged a nerve and had to go through weeks of physiotherapy.
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I cut a good part of the way through my thumb opening a can of beans
Is this interrupted a Star Trek marathon you were streaming from your Linux server you are hereby Lemmy royalty
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-freshman In Collage
- walk downhill to get food from cafeteria
- Winter in Alaska = ice city
- Spontaneous dancing
- Broken wrist.
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wrote on last edited by [email protected]On day 3 of a meth bender, non-stop looking at and Photoshopping porn, paralyzed my ulnar nerve by the way my arm was resting on the armrest. Yes, I sat there that long in the same position. Couldn't feel my pinkie and ring finger for a couple of years. No, I haven't done meth in 20 years.
Sliced my forearm open trying to make a small scratch to do a blood brother thing with my gf. My god, I barely got it to stop bleeding. Now I have what looks like a suicide scar. In other news, I was top-tier at sharpening pocket knives back then.
Hit a brick wall, head on, driving my motorcycle drunk, on an unfamiliar street, at night, wearing dark goggles. The bike exploded into fragments, I got a light concussion.
Broke my femur, most crippling injury to date. Knew my motorcycle brakes were far too worn, drove it anyway. Lady slammed her brakes, guy in front of me did same, I tried to do the same, rammed him from behind.
Using a non-locking pocket knife to trim a washer hose. It folded and cut me to the bone, had to have surgery to repair the extensor tendon. Also using a non-locking pocket knife to work on my motorcycle throttle cable, you guessed it, it folded and cut me to the bone. Have had nerve damage in that fingertip since.
Riding my BMX as a kid, decided to try an endo. Slammed the front brakes at speed with predictable results. Knee hit the asphalt to hard it mashed the skin off. Still got the scar, which matches the one on my other knee from swinging over a lava rock.
Got diverticulitis, 3 times, most painful events of my life. Spent years shitting too hard, developed diverticulosis (little tears/pouches in your intestine that catch food and get infected). Surgery fixed it!
Popped a lung after a night of rigorous sex. Yes, I smoked cigarettes and weed. Also, had a lawn service where I inhaled dust all day. Maybe not so much on me though. Doc said it was common among young men and I had two friends blow a lung in those years.
Lately, my feet have been all fucked up from working at Lowe's (I rage quit BTW). Got some new shoes at the thrift, like walking on clouds. Apparently been wearing a size too small for years.
Bruised/broken my ribs several times, broke my right arm twice, countless broken toes and fingers, and perhaps more than the one concussion described above. At this point in the story I've stopped counting scars.
I can keep going. No idea how I survived my 20s without permanent injury or prison time.
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Is this interrupted a Star Trek marathon you were streaming from your Linux server you are hereby Lemmy royalty
Well I was probably streaming from my friend's Plex server (pre enshitification), which was running on a NAS probably running some flavor of Linux under the hood, and it very well could have been TNG...
So maybe the scar on my thumb is the mark of a royal lemming?
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Slipped on the sidewalk in the rain and somehow broke an arm (clean broke it). Needed surgery and 2-night hospital stay. This after climbing multiple mountains without a scratch.
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I was cutting slices out of an apple with a comically large Bowie knife.
My roommate said, “Hey, that looks pretty dangerous.”
I said, “Nah, bro, it’s perfectly safe.”
Somewhere around the middle of that sentence, the knife sliced through the apple and into my palm.
He had to drive me to the hospital for stitches.
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When I was about 12 or so I had a AA battery and some copper wire I used for crafting. Out of nowhere I suddenly got really curious how good of a conductor that wire would be. So I pressed it onto both poles with my fingers. Had a nice black scorched line in my thumb for a few months because it turns out the excess energy needs to go somewhere. In this case in the form of extreme heat.
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I once twisted a nerve in my shoulder by sitting down wrong in the bus.
Out of honest curiosity, is "twisted a nerve" a real diagnosis and a meaningful one, or is it just a colorful way to say you fucked something up in your shoulder?
I've had something that my Dr and the physical therapists called a "pinched nerve" but I understand that basically means "we don't know but assume it's something to do with a nerve because we think we can rule out all the stuff we understand better".
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I shattered my ankle, separated my tibia and fibula, and broke a different part of my fibula. All in one moment. How, you ask? By stepping outside. My dog pulled too hard on her leash and I stumbled and twisted my ankle in just the right way. Got a fancy Maisonneuve fracture that had to be surgically fixed.
