Lazy and stupid = painful way to go through life.

"VincentMalamute-Kim" (VincentMalamute-Kim)
10/31/2020 at 16:21 • Filed to: None

I’m installing some weatherstrip around my garage door and the end of it needed some finessing to fit well. I free handed it with the jigsaw . I was too lazy to secure the weatherstrip. The blade grabbed, jumped and gave my thumb a nice ragged tear with the underlying dermal fat globules nicely glistening before a lot of blood obscured it.

I know better than that. I was thinking “ how dangerous can a jig saw be?”. Properly dressed with a wadded up piece of paper towel and tape.

DISCUSSION (37)

Svend > VincentMalamute-Kim
10/31/2020 at 16:40

Have you had a tetanus injection in the last few years, worth having it looked at.

I hope it’s okay and heals quickly.

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > VincentMalamute-Kim
10/31/2020 at 16:43

outch...... at least its just a thumb tho... not like you need those for anything

oh wait..

Chariotoflove > VincentMalamute-Kim
10/31/2020 at 16:45

Life is short. Don’t make your fingers that way too.

The Snowman > Svend
10/31/2020 at 16:48

Is it British to say injection? It makes perfect sense but since I'm in merica we normally say shot.

VincentMalamute-Kim > Svend
10/31/2020 at 16:53

That thought occurred to me. E ventually. And remembered that I am caught up.

VincentMalamute-Kim > Chariotoflove
10/31/2020 at 16:53

Nice one!

VincentMalamute-Kim > farscythe - makin da cawfee!
10/31/2020 at 16:53

One tends to take everything for granted until you don’t have it anymore.

Chariotoflove > VincentMalamute-Kim
10/31/2020 at 17:01

You are my muse.

Svend > The Snowman
10/31/2020 at 17:07

Injection is the most common word used, but some might use shot as in, ‘I’m going for my flu shot’, in Scotland some might say ‘jab’ or ‘jag’.

You may occ asionally come across, ‘ boost’ or ‘booster shot’ as in ‘I need a tetanus booster shot’.

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > VincentMalamute-Kim
10/31/2020 at 17:08

*nods*

i know...tho.. im getting used to not having use of (or at least it being pretty hurty to use) my digits

sheet metal is stupidly sharp....my hands are a mess...lol

Svend > VincentMalamute-Kim
10/31/2020 at 17:09

Good lad. While in the U.K. it’s rare to get tetanus/lockjaw (only four people the other year), it’s best to be safe than sorry.

I'm glad you didn't post a picture of your work, because if I were to of given it a thumbs-up, that would of been awkward.

The Snowman > Svend
10/31/2020 at 17:14

Thanks, I am learning Italian and some of these are the most fun. When it's a cognate but for a word you wouldn't have used in the situation.

VincentMalamute-Kim > Chariotoflove
10/31/2020 at 17:19

Yike! Please don’t say that. I have circular saws, table saws, chainsaws that I use!

Chariotoflove > VincentMalamute-Kim
10/31/2020 at 17:20

There is a creepy Halloween movie plot in there somewhere. Worse than Death Note.

VincentMalamute-Kim > farscythe - makin da cawfee!
10/31/2020 at 17:22

You haven’t learned from your sheet metal interactions?

You just reminded me I don’t seem to learn either. A few years back, I was trimming a fence 4x4 wrestling with a circular saw way over my head. That bound, jumped, and sliced open my jacket. Neurons didn’t fire fast enough to release my finger from the saw trigger. That one could ’ve been so much worse.

VincentMalamute-Kim > Chariotoflove
10/31/2020 at 17:36

Reminds me - still have to watch that show.

Svend > The Snowman
10/31/2020 at 17:39

British English is full of words that have historical reference/origins to another word that’s still used today, some have lost the meaning why it is, but still accepted as being so.

Take the words fall and Autumn, they were both used almost equally here in the U.K. as they were in the U.S., but the U.S later favoured ‘fall’, we adopted Autumn so as not to sound American. Awkward, but true.

Other words get changed like ‘titbits’, at some point people thought the word ‘tit’ inside a word was vulgar or crass so it got changed through common-usage to ‘tidbits’.

I love words, words like

‘lalocheezia’, which is to swear and curious to relieve stress or frustration.

‘Hypnopompic’, whi ch is the state of consciousness coming out of sleep.

‘Defenestration ’, the act of throwing something out of a window.

Some words don’t travel though, such as ‘fag’, this is a colloquial term here in the U.K. for a cigarette (look up the song, pack up your troubles. It has the lines, ‘pack up your troubles in an old kit bag and smile, smile, smile, while you’ve a Lucifer (match) to light your fag (cigarette), smile boys that’s the style, what’s the use of worrying, it never was worthwhile, so pack up your troubles in an old kit bag and smile, smile, smile’).

While in the U.S. it’s a derogatory term for a homosexual. As is the word ‘faggot’, which in the U.K. is a type of meatball that has some offal in.

Kinja'd!!!

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > VincentMalamute-Kim
10/31/2020 at 17:51

tbh...the last bad cut ive actually had was the idiot cut i posted about a whiles back

mostly my hands are covered in papercut like lesions...i work without gloves..

its making disinfecting before i enter a shop...uhh...fun?

also holy shit yes that could have been worse....dayum

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > VincentMalamute-Kim
10/31/2020 at 18:27

Damn, glad it wasn’t worse! Make sure you keep an eye on it in case it needs stitches...

Urambo Tauro > VincentMalamute-Kim
10/31/2020 at 18:44

“how dangerous can a jig saw be?”

Want to play a game?

wafflesnfalafel > VincentMalamute-Kim
10/31/2020 at 18:44

instant halloween costume!

(My wife and I have an ongoing joke as to when I am going to start bleeding when we are on vacation, hiking, etc... Last weekend it was barbed wire around my leg while hiking...)

BaconSandwich is tasty. > Svend
10/31/2020 at 19:33

Huh. I've never heard of faggot meatballs. Almost makes me wonder what they taste like.

BaconSandwich is tasty. > VincentMalamute-Kim
10/31/2020 at 19:34

Reminds me of the saying: "If you're gonna be dumb, you'd better be tough." :P

Chariotoflove > VincentMalamute-Kim
10/31/2020 at 20:12

Do a double feature with The Babysitter.

Svend > BaconSandwich is tasty.
10/31/2020 at 21:48

Lol. They aren’t bad.

When I say offal, it’s just that it has pork liver in as well and pork.

It's simply pork, pork liver, onions and some spices.

VincentMalamute-Kim > Svend
10/31/2020 at 22:16

Those are good words. I know hypnogogic, didn’t know about it’s opposite.

I know fenestration, didn’t know defenestration which is not it’s opposite although related.

VincentMalamute-Kim > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
10/31/2020 at 22:17

I hate needles and going to the doctor. Plan is to keep it taped up and have it heal - hopefully.

Svend > VincentMalamute-Kim
10/31/2020 at 22:38

There’s so many fantastic words.

Another of my favourites is, antidisestablishmentarianism. Which is the opposition of the disestablishment of the Church of England.

Suzie Dent from dictionary corner on Countdown, a TV programme here in the U.K., you may of heard of ‘8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown’, which is the comedy version of it.

She always has some amazing words and has just released a book.

She did some videos on YouTube about the origin of swear words, etc...

Another is Qi, often some fantastic words on there.

RacinBob > VincentMalamute-Kim
10/31/2020 at 23:08

Soak it with neosporin

VincentMalamute-Kim > Svend
10/31/2020 at 23:47

Trypophobia - I have that. Not a fear for me but a severe disgust. It prevents me from posting an example photo.

“you may of heard of ‘8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown’” - heh, not a chance of having heard of it.

The ‘antidis’ word - I’ve known that for a long time, since college but only to make fun of. N ever actually knew what it meant till I just googled.

VincentMalamute-Kim > RacinBob
10/31/2020 at 23:49

I ran it under the tap for a bit. It also bled like stink. Both should help flush bacteria. Hopefully, since it’s too late for the N eosporin now - starting to heal up.

pip bip - choose Corrour > VincentMalamute-Kim
11/01/2020 at 02:53

ouch

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > VincentMalamute-Kim
11/01/2020 at 07:27

Hopefully!

VincentMalamute-Kim > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
11/01/2020 at 10:44

I just took off the paper towel and tape - it could’ve used one or two stitches. oh well, no more hand modeling .

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > VincentMalamute-Kim
11/01/2020 at 13:10

Careful though, if it could’ ve used stitches, it might re-open again for awhile. :(

VincentMalamute-Kim > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
11/01/2020 at 13:40

Good point. I’ll keep it supported with tape until it’s clearly healed up.

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > VincentMalamute-Kim
11/01/2020 at 16:41

Yup, b etter safe than sorry!