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11/05/2015 at 21:02 #24008PaulParticipant
So I’m sitting in the ER waiting to get stitches where I sliced through my thumb and nail while tidying up some corners of a scratch-built mdf building. Have had many small nicks and scratches before while scratch building, cleaning off flash, etc, but this is the most serious. Tell me about your worst hobby-related injury so I dont feel like such an idiot.
Those are brave men knocking at our door. Let's go kill them!
11/05/2015 at 21:16 #24011Rod RobertsonParticipantPaul:
About three years ago I knocked an exacto-knife of my work table and impaled the top of my foot. About ten years ago I stepped on a 4-sided die which hobbled my heel for about two weeks. About thirty years ago I stuck a spinning Drexel saw into my left knee joint, just above and behind the patella and had to get fourteen stitches. Man, was there blooded everywhere!
So Paul, I feel for you and wish you a speedy recovery.
Cheers and get well soon.
Rod Robertson.
11/05/2015 at 21:17 #24012DMParticipantDrilled through my finger when I got a bit careless. Almost as much blood as when I sliced the side of my thumb off with a corned beef tin.
11/05/2015 at 22:12 #24013PaulParticipantWell, I survived. Six stitches and a tetanus shot. Next time I won’t be too lazy to walk to the garage to get my little planer to smooth out the overhang on the corners ☺
Those are brave men knocking at our door. Let's go kill them!
11/05/2015 at 22:16 #24014Norm SParticipantknife – ruler – thumb in the way – ouch!
11/05/2015 at 22:27 #24015James EwinsParticipantOver zealous application of a hobby knife allowed me to see my thumb bone once. Luckily I lived two doors from A&E so just popped round the corner. Not even proper stiches!
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/11/05/2015 at 23:22 #24021Guy FarrishParticipantWhen you say ‘hobby related’…you just mean wargaming right?
12/05/2015 at 01:18 #24025Ivan SorensenParticipantNo cuts ever, mostly because I am paranoid about it, but I’ve glued my hands plenty of times
12/05/2015 at 20:17 #24089Angel BarracksModeratorbut I’ve glued my hands plenty of times
This, oh but I have managed to get superglue on my tongue the once.
12/05/2015 at 20:58 #24093Gaz045ParticipantThe dreaded ‘pike block’ to the arm…………nearly cost me my job back then ‘cos someone thought they were track marks……
Also I still have a scar from the knuckle to the nail of my thumb……Stanley blades will open things to the bone…-.that was trimming the flash from a landing craft……..left a big pool of blood in Emergency as they were ‘busy’………..
There was thetime that I ‘discovered’ the heat reaction between super glue and fleece jackets……………..had to get that off in a hurry!
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12/05/2015 at 21:08 #24099Rules Junkie JimParticipantNever been hospitalised with wargames-related injuries, but I got glue in my eye once, and that was painful.
12/05/2015 at 21:47 #24102SamanthaKeymasterWho knew the hobby was such a danger zone?
I have to say AB getting superglue on his tongue was amusing to me but then again I always laugh when he has a silly injury. Ask him? I often lack the right level of care and concern for him. I am a bad wife….
Never put a sock in a toaster.
13/05/2015 at 07:39 #24120War PandaParticipant“The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad,
For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.”13/05/2015 at 07:45 #24121War PandaParticipantbut I got glue in my eye once, and that was painful.
Me too. Superglue in my right eye. Painful but even more worrying. Washing it out with water for hours and was sore for about a week. Lots of cuts and bruises from my wife from spending too much time in my war room
“The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad,
For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.”13/05/2015 at 08:26 #24128War PandaParticipantbut I got glue in my eye once, and that was painful.
Me too. Superglue in my right eye. Painful but even more worrying. Washing it out with water for hours and was sore for about a week. Lots of cuts and bruises from my wife from spending to much time in my war room
“The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad,
For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.”13/05/2015 at 11:20 #24140PatriceParticipantI am not reading all this, I would faint on my computer screen!
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https://www.anargader.net/13/05/2015 at 12:21 #24162AbwehrschlachtParticipantI cut a chunk out of the top of my thumb when a teenager, cutting figures with a Stanley knife and little regard to health and safety. I still have the scar.
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13/05/2015 at 12:26 #24163PaulParticipantPatrice, be glad we aren’t posting pics.
Those are brave men knocking at our door. Let's go kill them!
13/05/2015 at 14:24 #24167MartinRParticipantI have had various cuts and burns from wargaming, I won’t go into details.
More serious injuries have been sports ones: damaged joints, broken bones etc, although my most hospitalised injuries have been bits of grit in my eye from cycling (three times now). I also made a brave attempt to cut my fingers off with a pair of shears while gardening and fell out of the loft hatch while tidying it up. Had a tooth broken playing Airsoft, and when I was a kid we decided it would be a good idea to throw darts at each other. You can probably imagine how that turned out…
So really, wargaming is relatively safe!
Cheers
Martin
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13/05/2015 at 17:46 #24188PijlieParticipantI once impaled my index finger onto the steel mast of a 1/2400 WW1 dreadnought. Into the bone. It was the HMS Inflexible, incidently….
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13/05/2015 at 17:58 #24189Not Connard SageParticipantI’m guessing some of you buggers have never done paid manual work**?
**skilled or semi-skilled manual work, with tools and things. Stacking boxes at Tesco during summer recess doesn’t count
Obvious contrarian and passive aggressive old prat, who is taken far too seriously by some and not seriously enough by others.
13/05/2015 at 18:15 #24194MikeKeymasterI’m guessing some of you buggers have never done paid manual work**?
**skilled or semi-skilled manual work, with tools and things. Stacking boxes at Tesco during summer recess doesn’t countI used to fit flashing, the lead around rooftops on tower blocks, perched on scaffolding in Dudley and West Brom.
13/05/2015 at 18:24 #24195Not Connard SageParticipantI’m guessing some of you buggers have never done paid manual work**? **skilled or semi-skilled manual work, with tools and things. Stacking boxes at Tesco during summer recess doesn’t count
I used to fit flashing, the lead around rooftops on tower blocks, perched on scaffolding in Dudley and West Brom.
Two questions:
Have you got all your fingers?
How much of the lead ended up in the casting pot?
Obvious contrarian and passive aggressive old prat, who is taken far too seriously by some and not seriously enough by others.
13/05/2015 at 18:31 #24197MikeKeymaster13/05/2015 at 18:43 #24198Rod RobertsonParticipantWar Panda:
I think we should all encourage Mrs. Panda to beat the stuff’in out of you regular like. It’ll tenderize you and make you a better
personpanda. So Panda-pinata it must be.Cheers and I hope you spend a lot of time in the war-room!
Rod Robertson.
13/05/2015 at 19:26 #24199Rules Junkie JimParticipantI used to fit flashing, the lead around rooftops on tower blocks, perched on scaffolding in Dudley and West Brom.
So Google “Dudley and West Brom flashing” and we get your picture?
13/05/2015 at 21:02 #24213War PandaParticipant…..Mrs. Panda to beat the stuff’in out of you ….
That’s why I always have black eyes…Ba Dum Tss
Actual photo before I receive a beating
“The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad,
For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.”14/05/2015 at 01:33 #24220Rod RobertsonParticipantDamn you Panda:
I’ve just wasted five minutes laughing and staring at that silly picture! That’s another great photo choice, right up there with the “apology-kitten”! Fear, nerves, back to the wall and just can’t work up the energy to do something about it. An instant classic!
Cheers and I will try to regain some composure now.
Rod Robertson.
14/05/2015 at 08:57 #24233willzParticipant“Pin drill slip finger”
14/05/2015 at 09:36 #24240AbwehrschlachtParticipantI’m guessing some of you buggers have never done paid manual work**?
I have fifteen years of archaeology under my belt. My hands are covered in callouses and scars from sharp flint…
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18/05/2015 at 00:21 #24517Northern MonkeyParticipantHere’s my tale of both worst Wargaming injury and worst Sportsmanship.
Roll back the clock about 25 years and to a tense game in our Blood Bowl 2nd ed league, the very much unfancied Lowdown Rats were playing the highly rated Chaos All stars (who needed the win to secure a place in the playoffs), coached by Neil & Bri respectively, a combination of great coaching and poor dice rolls led to a shock 3-1 victory for the Rats, and much gloating by Neil ensued which must have flicked a switch in Bri or maybe the spirit of the game had infected him, either way he jumped up (we were kids an played on the floor of my room) and swiftly put the boot into Neils face followed by a pile on, and a few punches thrown by both coaches until I managed to get between them and calm things down. My Blood Bowl pitch had realistic blood stains from Neil’s bust nose, and one of my metal goblins managed to impale Bri’s arm though he was snapped from his slotta base in return. Needless to say Bri was ejected from the league!
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20/02/2019 at 15:36 #109548Darkest Star GamesParticipantA pair of gaming buddies were in a car wreck 2 weeks ago, both of whom are supposed to be painting up little planes and tanks for our 3-way war campaign. They lived, but with the driver having both wrists broken by the airbag (10 & 2 is apparently bad hand positioning when crashing) and the other having a broken shoulder has put the slowdown on the project.
So, Shoulder calls me up lastnight to tell me he was trying to paint left-handed (he is a righty) when he dropped his mini. His natural reaction was to grab it with is right (which is in a sling) as it fell, thus dislocating his formerly healing shoulder, and should he go to the ER or flee the country as his wife was probably going to murder him for not following doctors orders?
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26/02/2019 at 10:12 #109943Harry FavershamBlockedWhen you’re lerning to be a proper artist type drawing person you’re told to sharpen yer pencil with a Stanley knife then use a nail file to bring them to a point. I was 15 going on 16 and we were about to draw a nice young lady, I was at the Stanley knife bit of proceedings, when she clothed off. First time I’d seen a proper naked women…
so I sliced the top of mi’ thumb off.
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"I was with Harry... At The Bridge!"
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