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What's the dumbest way you've sustained an injury, and what was the injury?

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    I used to work nights. When I had the next day off, I would usually stay up all day and go to sleep that evening. So, wake up around 2-4pm Friday, go to at 10pm to 6am Saturday and not sleep until Saturday evening.

    This eventually caught up with me. I was riding a bicycle down a hill, just coasting and fell a sleep for a second. Down I went. Need stitches in my head ( I still have a bump), tons of road rash, and banged up my knee.

    I recovered fully except for the bump on my head.

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    I've broken my pinky toe twice by stubbing it on furniture corners.

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      Stubbed my toe on a cat condo base while running the kitchen. Didn't think much of it. Next day it hurts like crazy. Fractured it, dislocated it, and tore the ligament.

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        In high school I was run over by a car that I was sitting in. Buddy stopped in a parking lot, I started to get out, then he went forward and my foot was caught under the rear tire. I was pulled out of the car and my leg was run over.

        Minor tear in a ligament and have a nice scar, but that's about it.

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          I had two cartoon-style injuries: stepped on a rake and fallen down the stairs, hitting my butt on every step.

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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.

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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.

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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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                  • medicpigbabysaver@lemmy.worldM [email protected]

                    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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                    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.
                              I don't think they believe the real story, even now.

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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

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                                  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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                                      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

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                                        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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