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I was running for my train. After entering in the station airlock, for a reason i still can't explain, i turned right instead of continuing straight ahead and BAM, i hit a glass with my face. Now i have a little scar, fortunately hidden behind my eyebrow.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I have many stories how I either accidentally cut into my fingers or break the bones. But most of them was pretty logical (still stupid tho) why it happened but one time was I going to lift up my friend + the chair they sat on for the lols and my ring fingers bone broke... I don't know how... Your guess is as good as mine

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Scraped a huge chunk of skin off my foot while drunk in a pool. I was at an Airbnb in the desert with some friends.

One friend and I worked our way through 40 beers in about five hours but we didn’t realize that until later onβ€”something about the 110Β°F weather and swimming made drinking far too easy.

The pool had a very rough texture at the bottom and no part of it was especially deep, so I mainly bounced around on my toes while we were in the pool.

When we finally got out of the pool I saw blood everywhere coming from my foot, it had probably been bleeding for hours because I remembered pretty early on I’d stupidly jumped in and hurt my foot. I immediately went inside and ended up sleeping for 10 hours, missing all the fun everyone else had that evening. Because I was on my toes the entire time my ankles hurt for a few days.

It’s been seven months but I still have a mark on my foot, and it itches sometimes still.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Sliced two tendons in my hand when I tried to break a metal motorcycle gasket by pulling it apart

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

Got a concussion in a pillow fight. I was in the top bunk in a lean-to at summer camp when I was maybe 13 or 14. Forgetting the low ceiling above me, I jumped to my feet, planning on launching a pillow at someone poking around another bed. Promptly slammed my head into the ceiling, knocked myself out and wound up going to the doctor shortly after. Pretty sure I still have a disc somewhere with images of the small minor brain bleeding I got as a result.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

As a bored kid waiting for my turn on the family computer in the basement, while waiting for my older brother to finish, I once stapled a finger. Don't remember which, but it was just really dumb.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Alao stapled my finger. I believe it was my thumb ;)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Broke first bone as an adult playing PokΓ©mon Go on release night

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Broke my nail once because i had my finger where the door hinge was and kid me was the not the brightest tool in the shed

Also I have really bad scarring from when I used shaving cream and whatever I did fucked up my leg enough that I just have a bunch of dot scars now which is partially why I only wear long pants now

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Was attempting to walk over a short trailer ramp (maybe a foot above the ground), caught my flip flop on the ramp grate and fractured by tibia, fibula and ankle. Yea, from a foot off the ground. Never broke anything before and even when I did, I only have this lame story. Haha.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

When I was younger I learned a lot of things the hard way. For a decade of my childhood I went to the emergency room at least once a year due to accidents.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

I wanted a pineapple and put a cutting board on my lap to slice it up.

I thankfully only stabbed myself a little when the extremely slippery fruit did its thing.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's simple. I accidentally bump my head on something above me, whether it be the top of a bunk bed or a staircase handle where I'm sitting nearby.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I swear I do that more often then I should when getting in and out of my family's van.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

When i was a kid i walked down the stairs with 1 roller blade on to get the other one at the bottom and fell and broke my arm.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Accidentally sliced a layer of skin off when i shaved at the shower. Weirdly enough it didn't hurt, bleed or anything when it happened, and it was only after the shower when i was applying moisturizer when it actually did. I didn't know what was causing the pain until the next day, when i saw some scab-like texture forming and realized what had happened. Thankfully it healed fast and left no scars/marks.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Motorcycle training course had a section where you drive fast and when they drop their hand/blow a whistle you emergency brake. Then they check stopping distance. My old bike was front drum brake, the course bikes were modern with front disc. I clamped the front brake too hard and supermanned over the handle bars and broke my wrist. I did the rest of course (4hours) with a broken wrist because ending early would mean signing back up on the waiting list. At the end of day you sign your licensed. I could barely write.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Still better to learn that on the examination course than on the road.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Just now. I was reading this thread and grinning at other people's misfortune so my wife decided I should join them and bit me 😡

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Sitting in a rocking swivel patio chair while shaving the dog and I leaned forward to get his belly. The chair started to tip. I startled and i was able to stop it from tipping over, but then it felt like my back locked up and i couldn't move. Husband helped me into the house and i missed several days of work. I did the exact same things three years in a row. I still have the chairs. Dog died and that's likely the only reason it stopped after 3x.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (3 children)

No one? 'Airlock'. Is this 2160 or something?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

English is not my mother language, i used an automatic translator for this word. In french, this is called "sas d'entrΓ©e".

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Got cut with a spaghetti noodle.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I was making whipped cream with an electric hand mixer while talking to someone at the same time. While talking and looking at them, I wanted to turn off the machine, but as I didn't look at it, I put my hands right into the whisk instead of the switch I was trying to reach. Out of pain and shock, instead of turning it off with the other hand, I moved the switch in the wrong direction to its maximum and broke my finger.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

HEYEL NAW 😭, did your finger heal well afterwards?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Luckily, yes, my finger is in perfect condition again. But it took over a year to completely heal.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Unzipped my fly at the urinal, started my business, unconsciously learned forward towards the end - as one does - and smashed my face against the wall in slow-motion with 15 drunken dudes silently watching because I forgot I have no toes.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago

Fell asleep drunk. Knocked over a beer as I went to sleep. Thought, β€œI’ll worry about that in the morning.”

Must have woke up to go to the bathroom and slipped cause I smashed my head on the corner of a coffee table. Ambulance. Thirteen stitches. Scar covered by hair. Home looked like a murder scene from me steadying myself against the walls with blood on my hands.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Because of skateboarding

Not through actually skating, I was walking along carrying my board and tripped over, because I was carrying the board in my dominant hand I used my non-dominant one to try brace my fall, somehow fucked it up and fractured my wrist

I thought it was just strained until I tried to swim a few hours later

Got a scar on my finger from using a Stanley/craft knife to shave down a plastic Warhammer sprue into a 'spear'

Worst fight injury I ever had was breaking my orbital bone(you should've seen the other guy though! whoa)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I've lost teeth climbing a tree in a stupid way, required stitches after trying to cut myself a slice of pie, and nailed myself in the groin with a ski pole while skiing

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Played computer games for a few hours in a non-ergonomic position and instead of taking breaks or resetting my position I just powered through. So off and on for the last 6 years I've had chronic pain in my elbows.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Oh wow that is a punishment outweighing the crime if I've ever heard one.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Touched a car cigarette lighter that I'd heated up myself while bored with the intent of just slipping a nail between the coils without skin contact and gave myself a new thumbprint.

Then I did that again a few years later.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I was drunk and playing with a knife, my friend started tossing things for me to slash out of the air. When people see the scar I tell them I got stabbed, which is technically true!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Threading the needle between a bus and a parked car on my bike at night. The car door opened right after the bus cleared.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago

Broke my wrist by blocking a gigantic remote control car flying directly at me at 50 MPH and I was the person controlling it.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I was carrying a hoover downstairs and slipped. The hoover fell down the stairs faster than me and stopped at the bottom obviously. The wire had partially unspooled and the very British three prong plug was sitting on the ground, pointing straight towards the sky.

Guess where my arse landed once I had finished slipping down the carpeted stairs?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago

'Honest Doc, that's exactly how it got up there!'

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Touched an arm to the air fryer basket accidentally, now I've got a lovely horizontal scar on the side of my wrist

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago

Got my ponytail stuck in my armpit somehow, twisted my head rapidly to look at something and yanked on it. Not fun.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I was going to carry a 5 gallon jug of water on my bicycle. I was just going to let the bicycle handle the weight by balancing it on the top tube between my legs, as I had already done a number of times before.

But this time, as I lifted the jug to place it on the top tube, it came down just a little too far back and totally smashed my left testicle!

"Five gallons of water weighs approximately 41.65 pounds (or about 18.9 kilograms) at room temperature. This is based on the weight of one gallon being around 8.33 pounds." - DuckAssist

OUCH!!!

For the next few months, my left nut was misshaped, thank goodness it didn't outright rupture!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

You are supposed to wash your nuts with water, not squash your nuts.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

When I was about 4, I was jumping on the sofa, back and forth from one arm to the other (because the middle was lava, obviously)

Misjudged it and ended up going headfirst off the end into a china cabinet next to it, glass doors and all - I ended up missing the first month of school, 32 stitches and basically half a Glasgow smile to show for it, I'm told it looks very cool

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Cooking. Took a tray out of the oven and put in on the top. Turned to grab a spatula and caught the edge of the tray with the loose end of the oven glove.

As it slid off the top my dumb ass quickly grabbed for it with my ungloved hand, missed, and just pressed the searing hot tray into my stomach and thighs.

Two pies on the floor, that while I was whimpering in the cold shower upstairs, the dog ate.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I was stuck at home for several weeks after a back injury. I was on Vicodin and could barely get out of bed, no tv. So I started beating it. Well, with Vicodin, it makes it very difficult to finish and I lost track of time. By the time I had finished, I realized I've been at it for 5 hours. My dick hurt for 4 days afterwards, and the Vicodin didn't really help with that pain.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I poured boiling noodle water over my foot, had a big blister there and couldn't walk in shoes for weeks. It's almost a year now but the skin is still itchy sometimes.

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