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Actually my big finger. It's called a thumb.
I was surprised to think that losing that little meat and blood could put anyone into shock. The owner's son was a med student and I was just a dumb kid. What would I know?
But you and miss rene can make this quote into a personal "vendetta" if you want to. It will hurt about as much as the thumb still hurts today. Did you sh it your diaper?
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Funny story...
When i worked offshore, young roughneck smashed his finger.
Didn’t take long, his finger nail was throbbing.
Called me, Can you help me?
Shoot yeah!
Come around to my welding shop.
I kept some small drill bits....
Before i started, I TOLD HIM, DONT PANIC. 😂😂
I’m gonna heat this up, and push it through the nail. Easy peasy.
I grabbed his hand, Laid it flat on the work table. Kinda blocked it some he couldn’t see.....
Here we go......
The hot bit went righty thru.... but he snatched his hand outta my hand.....
Yelling like a lil b!tch... 😂🤣😂.
Flailing around with the bit still in his finger.
I done got to laughing, trying to get him stopped before he hurt himself...
Asked him why he panicked? He didn’t know.
Instant relief once you get the pressure off....
Dave
�The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it.� Lou Holtz
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As a teenager I helped a family member put a corrugated, framed roof
on a trailer. They had bought short (1/2"?) roofing nails.
By the pound, you get more!
Pounding them through a single layer was bad enough, they would pop through and about evrry 3rd one youd get finger. Trying to go through
multiple layers, while flinching from them being so sore, was worse.
The second day I showed up with needle nose pliers.
I know an old guy who mashed his thumb.
Lotta guys will take a small drill bit and twist it by hand to drill the nail. Only takes a second.
Well, he had heard of that, but thought he would use the drill press.
Set it up real good, support for the thumb, quill stop to keep from
going into the good stuff.
You know how a burr of steel grabs the bit and pulls it?
The nail grabbed the bit and pulled his thumb right up the drill bit.
Suddenly his thumb was sore from top to bottom!
Parents who say they have good kids..Usually don't!
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Throughout life I have discovered numerous, more creative ways to blacken a finger, to include having a steel aircraft hangar door slam on miltiple fingers and bending them backwards over themselves and fracturing them.
Or... having a seventy-pound steel plate drop on them. Makes one religous and a sinner all at one time. 😁
Of course, the ol' hammer with a good blow to the thumb
must be realized by all good men at least once or twice in a lifetime.
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Hammers?...... nail guns are where it's at..... ![[Linked Image from hosting.photobucket.com]](https://hosting.photobucket.com/albums/c124/huntsman22/IMG_1820.jpg) 4 times, only took a pic the last time. One through the knee landed me in surgery. ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/FFBvCY85/20160510-204406-zpslgtihcm3.jpg) One of many things I share in common with Jesus. LOL
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My first job helping build a high end energy efficient home was a memorable hit. No expense spared. I was the youngest worker, so I was the one given the task of driving nails into oak. I couldn't get the nails started with little taps. I had to swing hard. After a few nails went buzzing off the hardwood, I finally took off the end of my thumb. Lol! I just remember that I was given a rag, told to apply pressure and hold it up. I was surprised that I was going into shock according to the owners son. It wasn't a major wound. He just said to force myself to stay awake because I kept about passing out. He said if I pass out, then I would die. Lol! As a kid I bought it. The smart thing to do when nailing into seasoned oak, especially in "high end energy efficient homes" is to DRILL A FREAKIN' STARTER HOLE. so you don't split that "high end wood" Sheesh The rest of your story is pretty unbelievable too.
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men.
In it is contentment
In it is death and all you seek
(Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
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My first job helping build a high end energy efficient home was a memorable hit. No expense spared. I was the youngest worker, so I was the one given the task of driving nails into oak. I couldn't get the nails started with little taps. I had to swing hard. After a few nails went buzzing off the hardwood, I finally took off the end of my thumb. Lol! I just remember that I was given a rag, told to apply pressure and hold it up. I was surprised that I was going into shock according to the owners son. It wasn't a major wound. He just said to force myself to stay awake because I kept about passing out. He said if I pass out, then I would die. Lol! As a kid I bought it. ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/rxsOzcK.gif)
Whatever you said...everyone knows you are a lying jerk. That's a bold assertion. Point out where you think I lied. Well?
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Actually my big finger. It's called a thumb.
I was surprised to think that losing that little meat and blood could put anyone into shock. The owner's son was a med student and I was just a dumb kid. What would I know?
But you and miss rene can make this quote into a personal "vendetta" if you want to. It will hurt about as much as the thumb still hurts today. ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/nqbsrRM.gif)
Whatever you said...everyone knows you are a lying jerk. That's a bold assertion. Point out where you think I lied. Well?
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the 2nd time I hit my thumb with that damn hammer, I picked it up and threw it as hard and far as I could ,them I went and picked it up and threw it again .I guess it's still where it landed. damn that hurt @#$^/*>&^=
there is no man more free than he who has nothing left to lose --unknown--
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As a teenager I helped a family member put a corrugated, framed roof
on a trailer. They had bought short (1/2"?) roofing nails.
By the pound, you get more!
Pounding them through a single layer was bad enough, they would pop through and about evrry 3rd one youd get finger. Trying to go through
multiple layers, while flinching from them being so sore, was worse.
The second day I showed up with needle nose pliers.
I know an old guy who mashed his thumb.
Lotta guys will take a small drill bit and twist it by hand to drill the nail. Only takes a second.
Well, he had heard of that, but thought he would use the drill press.
Set it up real good, support for the thumb, quill stop to keep from
going into the good stuff.
You know how a burr of steel grabs the bit and pulls it?
The nail grabbed the bit and pulled his thumb right up the drill bit.
Suddenly his thumb was sore from top to bottom! I use a lot of 1/2 and 5/8 inch concrete nails nailing tack strip. try to keep my thumb and index nails to hold them.
God bless Texas-----------------------
Old 300
I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull
Its not how you pick the booger..
but where you put it !!
Roger V Hunter
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Well let's just go with "a finger" was hit..
-OMotS
"If memory serves fails me..."
Quote: ( unnamed) "been prtty deep in the cooler todaay "
Television and radio are most effective when people question little and think even less.
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Where I've worked, it means your pecker is still growing.
I'm here to increase my social credit score and rub elbows with some of the highest rollers on the internet.
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Why would anyone want to hit their thumb with a hammer? 😳 Chicks love that.
Don't be the darkness.
America will perish while those who should be standing guard are satisfying their lusts.
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Jesus was a carpenter. How he kept from cussin I’ll never know.
“When Tyranny becomes Law, Rebellion becomes Duty”
Colossians 3:17 (New King James Version)
"And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him."
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It tickles compared to this ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/prdXZpYk/IMG-20200924-195524870.jpg) Although now I'm twice as careful using a hammer and nails
You've got to hand it to a blind prostitute
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That's because you're running outta fingers to hold the nail.....
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And now I have to swing left handed
You've got to hand it to a blind prostitute
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It tickles compared to this Although now I'm twice as careful using a hammer and nails WTF did you do?
"There's more to optics than meets the eye."--anon
"...most of us would be better off losing half a pound around the waist than half a pound on our rifle."--dhg
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Always used a pocket knife to drill a hole in the fingernail. There is also another technique to punch your finger with phillips bit in a cordless or motorized drill. 
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