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Post by: Stryke 9 on May 08, 2003, 10:51:35 pm
Ever have one of those times when there's nothing left to do but feel really, really stupid? Yeah. Never use (read: play with) a machete at 4 AM. If you do, don't sharpen it to a razor edge the week before. And if you really wanna do that, don't have little fingers. Agh, it's still bleeding, and it's been almost a day...
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Post by: Turnsky on May 08, 2003, 10:54:22 pm
at least you still have your fingers..
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Post by: Starks on May 08, 2003, 10:56:23 pm
We hope...
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Post by: Stryke 9 on May 08, 2003, 10:56:32 pm
Well, I didn't hit it, I'm not that bad, even when I haven't slept for about 22 hours. It was actually more of a brushed it on a pullsweep. Like I said, I think I oversharpened it. This sorta thing's why I went for that double-handed samurai sword, 'cept that turned out to be crap...
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Post by: Starks on May 08, 2003, 11:00:05 pm
How bad is it? Stitches-wise...
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Post by: Knight Templar on May 08, 2003, 11:00:48 pm
... I love band-aids cuz band-aids are stuck on me ...
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Post by: Stryke 9 on May 08, 2003, 11:04:14 pm
Not even. I tend to just tie these things up and go on with a stiff hand for a bit, and since this one's just a little finger, not even that. Take forever to heal all the way, and I'll have a bit of a scar, but it's the option when you're not rich enough to run to the surgeon's whenever you scrape your knee. I've gotten worse from scavenging in the junkyard, really, but the machete ones don't seem to close up so fast...

I had one that was about a quarter inch deep in my palm last year (from, ah, dropping and then for some reason attempting to catch it in midair- when it was a bit duller, of course. Damn, I was stupid then.) that just closed up fine, everyone kept *****ing about how I should get it looked into but all it needed was a little antibacterial and some kleenex to get rid of the blood.
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Post by: Starks on May 08, 2003, 11:06:14 pm
Dude, you could get Tetanus...
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Post by: Knight Templar on May 08, 2003, 11:07:05 pm
I have the ever increasing urge to ask why I need to know about your carelessness...


meh. :blah:
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Post by: Stryke 9 on May 08, 2003, 11:07:36 pm
Statistically unlikely, or I would have gotten it already. Besides, that's what the vaccination's for.

KT: Scratch that itch, and you'll have to justify your posts from now on.;)
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Post by: Knight Templar on May 08, 2003, 11:09:32 pm
Don't make me pull out the kettle pic again. It's ironic enough as it is.
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Post by: Stryke 9 on May 08, 2003, 11:10:20 pm
Exactly.
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Post by: Knight Templar on May 08, 2003, 11:12:32 pm
So the moral of the story is that we are all black and racism is totally pointless. Dawg.
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Post by: Starks on May 08, 2003, 11:16:18 pm
Kettle? Someone please enlighten me.
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Post by: Kamikaze on May 08, 2003, 11:23:27 pm
knowing the two, it's probably in your best interest... to not know :)
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Post by: Starks on May 08, 2003, 11:27:27 pm
I can handle it...
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Post by: Stryke 9 on May 08, 2003, 11:28:47 pm
Ah, it's this cookware fetish porn novel KT wrote and keeps sending me. I didn't get too far past the first word, which was "The" and was spelled wrong, but still he thinks I share all his dirty little obsessions now because I wrote him back a virus-free response the first time.
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Post by: neo_hermes on May 08, 2003, 11:29:47 pm
:lol:
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Post by: Kamikaze on May 08, 2003, 11:34:58 pm
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Originally posted by Stryke 9
Ah, it's this cookware fetish porn novel KT wrote and keeps sending me. I didn't get too far past the first word, which was "The" and was spelled wrong, but still he thinks I share all his dirty little obsessions now because I wrote him back a virus-free response the first time.


Couldn't you consider that a sign of affection coming from you? :drevil:
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Post by: Knight Templar on May 08, 2003, 11:38:35 pm
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Originally posted by Stryke 9
Ah, it's this cookware fetish porn novel KT wrote and keeps sending me. I didn't get too far past the first word, which was "The" and was spelled wrong, but still he thinks I share all his dirty little obsessions now because I wrote him back a virus-free response the first time.


:blah: You promised you wouldn't tell anyone...

ya know i'll have to tell everyone about the lopsided pectoral implants you insited on getting last christmas. That and those erotic man cookies... god that was sooo gay.


bah never mind.. :sigh:
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Post by: neo_hermes on May 08, 2003, 11:38:44 pm
:blah:
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Post by: Stryke 9 on May 08, 2003, 11:40:56 pm
They weren't for me, they were for Santa! I mean, admit it, Santa dancing around with his shirt off in that hat with lopsided pecs would make just about anyone haaaaard...
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Post by: Starks on May 08, 2003, 11:41:04 pm
Not cool... :eek:
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Post by: neo_hermes on May 08, 2003, 11:45:26 pm
:blah: :ick :shaking: :ick :wtf: :ick
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Post by: Kamikaze on May 08, 2003, 11:45:28 pm
you were warned :lol: ;)
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Post by: Galemp on May 09, 2003, 12:08:59 am
:lol: I love you guys...
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Post by: Kamikaze on May 09, 2003, 12:17:13 am
this, kids, is what happens when you have net communities almost entirely of males. (note: see an0n's recent posts)

Quick, bring some gals! ;)
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Post by: 01010 on May 09, 2003, 01:25:37 am
I got this strange feeling after reading this thread. Kinda uncomfortable. Stryke, try holding the two sides of the wound together and supergluing it, works for me when I chisel my hand at work.
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Post by: Kamikaze on May 09, 2003, 02:18:26 am
hmm.. maybe it's just me, but I wouldn't fancy superglue in my bloodstream. couldn't you get a stroke from that :shaking:
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Post by: vyper on May 09, 2003, 09:48:00 am
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Originally posted by Kamikaze
hmm.. maybe it's just me, but I wouldn't fancy superglue in my bloodstream. couldn't you get a stroke from that :shaking:
Superglue was invented for use on the battle field for medics, was it not?
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Post by: Nico on May 09, 2003, 10:04:20 am
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Originally posted by 01010
I got this strange feeling after reading this thread. Kinda uncomfortable. Stryke, try holding the two sides of the wound together and supergluing it, works for me when I chisel my hand at work.


oh, I tried that, when I was younger. it's stupid, after that, you get to remove a big chunk of dried glue, which will make you bleed again :p
well I really bleed a lot, I just put my hand under cold water for a long time. that works for me, at least. and that way, blood doesn't gather on the wound and you can look at your own bone :D ( call me weird, but that's not something you don't see that often, your own bones :D )
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Post by: Tiara on May 09, 2003, 10:12:15 am
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Originally posted by Turnsky
at least you still have your fingers..
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Originally posted by LLivingLarge
We hope...

Do we? Really? ow.
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Post by: 01010 on May 09, 2003, 10:30:52 am
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Originally posted by Venom


oh, I tried that, when I was younger. it's stupid, after that, you get to remove a big chunk of dried glue, which will make you bleed again :p
well I really bleed a lot, I just put my hand under cold water for a long time. that works for me, at least. and that way, blood doesn't gather on the wound and you can look at your own bone :D ( call me weird, but that's not something you don't see that often, your own bones :D )


I wasn't saying put it INTO the wound, christ knows I've made that mistake before now. You hold it together as tight as you can and glue the top of the skin together. Like a plaster only translucent.
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Post by: Nico on May 09, 2003, 10:34:58 am
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Originally posted by 01010


I wasn't saying put it INTO the wound, christ knows I've made that mistake before now. You hold it together as tight as you can and glue the top of the skin together. Like a plaster only translucent.


lol, call me dumb :lol:
I know you don't put it IN :D but glue is liquid, it will always slip inside...
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Post by: Darkage on May 09, 2003, 10:42:31 am
This is getting weird:nervous:
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Post by: Tiara on May 09, 2003, 11:06:09 am
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Originally posted by Darkage
This is getting weird:nervous:


"Getting"? :p
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Post by: 01010 on May 09, 2003, 11:17:32 am
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Originally posted by Venom


lol, call me dumb :lol:
I know you don't put it IN :D but glue is liquid, it will always slip inside...


It depends really, where I work we use two different kinds of glue, one is really thick and you could easily lay that on top and it wouldn't seep in. I wouldn't recommend snorting it, it burns.
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Post by: Galemp on May 09, 2003, 11:31:20 am
Nah, REAL men use those 1-inch industrial staples. :D
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Post by: 01010 on May 09, 2003, 11:50:51 am
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Originally posted by GalacticEmperor
Nah, REAL men use those 1-inch industrial staples. :D


I can see how that would work but i'm not really into piercings.
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Post by: Zeronet on May 09, 2003, 12:27:00 pm
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Originally posted by vyper
Superglue was invented for use on the battle field for medics, was it not?


Yes, in Vietnam(if thats not articulate enough, i'll elabourate further, in that im refering to the Vietnam war) i think.
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Post by: tEAbAG on May 09, 2003, 12:40:30 pm
I've got a sneaking suspicion that this topic couldn't pass a drug test.
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Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on May 09, 2003, 01:40:30 pm
I dowt it wud pas a speling test.
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Post by: Darkage on May 09, 2003, 02:09:28 pm
Your right Tiara, it IS weird:D
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Post by: Tiara on May 09, 2003, 02:12:06 pm
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Originally posted by Darkage
Your right Tiara, it IS weird:D

:wink:

Psssst... FL + IRC :D
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Post by: Stryke 9 on May 09, 2003, 03:05:57 pm
Superglue was never considered a proper medical treatment; it was there as a frontline first aid thing to kinda just hold the guy together until you could evac and get him to a military hospital for proper treatment. A superglued wound won't really heal, the bond is vulnerable to breakage with lots of movement, and generally in wartime if something's hit you close enough to leave a wound that won't take care of itself there's more than your skin gonna be ****ed up.

In this case, mine closed right back up after I, ah, dealt with it. sorta a half tourniquet with a band-aid, so some blood could get in but at a rate slow enough that it had time to coagulate. Besides, ain't no ****in' way I'm supergluing anything that didn't leave an exit wound, that ****'s nasty and a fair amount probably would poison you.
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Post by: Sandwich on May 09, 2003, 03:52:02 pm
Ok, you guys are lucky you veered off onto the informative superglue tangent, cause round about the end of the first page I was gearing to lock this.
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Post by: Unknown Target on May 09, 2003, 05:42:15 pm
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Originally posted by Stryke 9
Ever have one of those times when there's nothing left to do but feel really, really stupid? Yeah. Never use (read: play with) a machete at 4 AM. If you do, don't sharpen it to a razor edge the week before. And if you really wanna do that, don't have little fingers. Agh, it's still bleeding, and it's been almost a day...



Umm...ow?
WTF were you doing with a machete? I assume you live in the states or at least some sub-urban place? What were you doing with one of those? We use 'em here, but only to cut down Casha and small trees.
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Post by: Stryke 9 on May 09, 2003, 05:45:50 pm
I have an old 3-foot machete I keep around for, well, everything. Largely because most of the other weapons I'm any good with are more or less illegal (long-range rifles and such, particularly since they've cracked down after the whole sniper thing), and out here you never know when one might come in handy. Plus, it's fun and occasionally comes in handy when an axe or chainsaw won't for some reason do the trick on brush.
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Post by: 01010 on May 09, 2003, 07:21:45 pm
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Originally posted by Stryke 9
I have an old 3-foot machete I keep around for, well, everything. Largely because most of the other weapons I'm any good with are more or less illegal (long-range rifles and such, particularly since they've cracked down after the whole sniper thing), and out here you never know when one might come in handy. Plus, it's fun and occasionally comes in handy when an axe or chainsaw won't for some reason do the trick on brush.


I should think a machete would be a damn sight more handy than an axe or a chainsaw. I used to have a fairly decent knife but I'm not really sure what happened to it.
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Post by: Stryke 9 on May 09, 2003, 08:32:47 pm
You would, but you'd be wrong. Machetes are for clearing out light brush like you'd get inside a forest- tree cover limits the amount and density of the low stuff. Stuff that, at least, gives you a little elbow room to swing away. What I've got to deal with 90% of the time is heavy open-terrain or edge forest stuff, grows in so dense it's like it's all one big plant. Grows faster, too, so by the time I get to it it's usually halfway to being a tree.
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Post by: Turnsky on May 09, 2003, 08:44:05 pm
i always liked the 'predator' method of clearing a forest..:p

but yeah chainsaws may be handy for trees but not brush...
they just can't cut though them efficiently enough to be useful and they are bloody noisy as well....


axes well, trees and necks. that's all i can say about that
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Post by: Stryke 9 on May 09, 2003, 09:02:49 pm
Not if you're using the type with the big teeth.


And yeah, but nobody ever lets me use can grenades or anything out here, so I can't even get close. And miniguns are a bit pricey. Sucks...:D
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Post by: Turnsky on May 09, 2003, 09:04:59 pm
anommium(sp?) nitrate and some fuel-oil make a nice big bang... but that's another story:p
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Post by: Stryke 9 on May 09, 2003, 09:20:05 pm
Compressed methane gas is better. The trick is to get a proper pilot light without it going off in your hand or losing pressurization and making a rather unfortunately directed flamethrower- again in your hand.
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Post by: Turnsky on May 09, 2003, 09:23:59 pm
australian methods of clearing out bushland/forests:

Detonate 50,000 tons of dynomite..(true story):drevil:
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Post by: Stryke 9 on May 09, 2003, 10:54:59 pm
Bit messy.
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Post by: Unknown Target on May 09, 2003, 11:13:10 pm
Ja, but machetes give you that macho factor :D
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Post by: Stryke 9 on May 10, 2003, 12:46:10 am
A chainsaw doesn't?
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Post by: Turnsky on May 10, 2003, 12:58:34 am
Groovy:p

(http://www.the-isz.com/ash/pics1/aod19.JPG)
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Post by: neo_hermes on May 10, 2003, 01:05:57 am
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Originally posted by Turnsky
Groovy:p

(http://www.the-isz.com/ash/pics1/aod19.JPG)


:lol:i love that movie
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Post by: Stryke 9 on May 10, 2003, 01:05:58 am
Needless to say, chainsaw-arms are doubly so.:D
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Post by: Turnsky on May 10, 2003, 01:08:30 am
i dunno whether THIS (http://thebookcase.org/ed/fedosep1.html) is either fanfic or real but it's a rather good read...
i found it whilst i was looking for that image..
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Post by: J.F.K. on May 10, 2003, 02:39:56 am
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Originally posted by Turnsky
australian methods of clearing out bushland/forests:

Detonate 50,000 tons of dynomite..(true story):drevil:


The Aborigines were far more elegant; they just set fire to the whole damn thing in the dry season. The history of attitudes to Aboriginal agricultural practices is actually kinda interesting; the prevailing opinion is that they weren't nearly as much of a noble savage as we thought they were, nor were any other natives in countries... they were just as destructive as we were, just slower.
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Post by: Turnsky on May 10, 2003, 02:41:54 am
yes, forest regeneration.
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Post by: Stryke 9 on May 10, 2003, 03:19:22 am
Fanfic. One, I don't recall a mechanical hand. There mighta been one in AoD, but it was so awful in the unfunny sense I never got through it...
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Post by: 01010 on May 10, 2003, 04:58:26 am
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Originally posted by Stryke 9
Fanfic. One, I don't recall a mechanical hand. There mighta been one in AoD, but it was so awful in the unfunny sense I never got through it...


Army of Darkness was pretty good, definitely not one to be taken seriously. Yes they did make him a mechanical hand too. Odd film.