What's the most painful thing you have done to yourself recently?

[Rhythm Thief]

Mr BP was lying on the living room floor, doing some stretches with one of those rubber tube thingies with handles on the end (proper exercise kit, nothing kinky!).

He looped the end over his feet and pulled on the handles at the other end, reaching an impressive tension & stretch. Oh how we laughed when it pinged off his feet and thwacked him full in the face, I think our son actually wet himself laughing so hard!

I bet Mr BP wasn't laughing.

 

[Rhythm Thief]

Nothing recently (although that's about to change as I will shortly begin demolishing a small breeze block shed with a large hammer) ...

Well, that wen't surprisingly well. The shed is now a large pile of breeze blocks and my only 'injury' is slightly sore arms from wielding a 16lb sledgehammer. Frankly, I'm amazed.

 

[zacklaws]

Expecting a struggle to remove my cassette, I propped the wheel up against the wall, fitted my tools, gave it a good hard yuk and flew forward headbutting the wall. It came a bit easier than I planned on.

 

[Globalti]

As a casual worker in a factory I stupidly jumped backwards off the tailgate of a lorry I was unloading, not realising that the fork truck had come up behind me for the next pallet. The fork went right between my legs and I landed square on my coccyx, sending a shockwave right up my spine. I had pain there for several weeks afterwards, reckon I might have fractured something.

Worst pain ever though was when I dislocated an ankle jumping off the climbing wall at the Sobell Centre. Feck me that hurt; I nearly passed out with the pain.

 

[siadwell]

Not so recent, but the memory still makes me wince...

I bought some new handlebar grips for my mountain bike, cut the old ones off and fitted the new ones, enthusiastically pushing and wriggling to get them on. Was pleased with myself until I noticed a couple of square inches of skin hanging between my thumb and forefinger where the top layer of skin had become detached from the pink and tender underlying layers.

 

[yenrod]

Scraped the left of my little left finger...and its still hurting.

 

[buddha]

plucked a nose hair

 

[ianrauk]

Whose nose hair was it?

plucked a nose hair

 

[Fnaar]

Some years ago, I had a hernia op... brother and mate came to visit me the day after and made me laugh so much that the expressions "I was in stitches" and "my sides nearly split" were very apt.
It was painful, but ever so funny at the same time!

 

[tyred]

About a month ago, I was trying to remove a steering wheel from an old car which had rusted on the splines. It came off suddenly and thumped me in the face and left me with a bruise on my forehead. I have done the standing on the three pin plug thing in bare feet in the past. A few days ago, I gave myself an unbelieveably deep cut on my thumb on a piece of flaking chrome plate while cleaning the cranks on my roadster project. By the time I had got it to stop bleeding, there was so much blood on the floor, it looked like a mass murder had taken place in the garage.

 

[Ben774]

Nothing recently (although that's about to change as I will shortly begin demolishing a small breeze block shed with a large hammer), but there's nothing much worse than re - stringing a guitar and accidentally poking the end of one of the strings down between your fingernail and your finger.

I hear that one. Had a friend who burst his eardrum walking onto stage through a narrow coridoor whilst carrying his guitar. He never used to cut the ends after a restring and one went down his ear lug.

For me the most paintfull thing was in a game of rugby 2 seasons ago. Got tackled and fell facing the wrong way and dislocated my shoulder. Then on turning under myself to present the ball had the opposition pack drive over which caused a fracture of my tib/fib (leg). Ouchy.

 

[just jim]

I opened my mouth.

 

[Rhythm Thief]

I hear that one. Had a friend who burst his eardrum walking onto stage through a narrow coridoor whilst carrying his guitar. He never used to cut the ends after a restring and one went down his ear lug.

Ooooowwww ...

 

[Yellow Fang]

Tuesday evening I was running on the treadmill when I trod on the side (which was not moving) and ended up ejected off the back. It hurt. I've got quite a graze on my a bruise on my shoulder.

 

[mr Mag00]

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