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Post by slushpup on Jul 16, 2003 2:37:33 GMT -5
this is completely irrelevant but hey... i once got battery acid on my eye when i was little...and it really hurt. ok..so it wasnt THAT much battery acid...but when you take a torch apart (as kids do..) and old up the inside glass bit to your eye, pretending it's a monacle, thats what happens.  |
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Post by captain heinemann on Jul 16, 2003 3:04:09 GMT -5
Pain stories, i got lots.
This kid in my science class in year seven dropped a pen into a jar of acid and put his hand into grab it. It was soft acid, of course, but he still has this little scar thing along the side of his hand.
I once picked up a cup of just boiled water thinking the cup was empty. He poured ALL over the top of mky hand and it hurt like fucking hell. The next day I was going home on the tram (like twenty hours later) and i'd neglected to take a wet towel or ice or anything. I'm 200 metres away from my front door almost screaming from the burning sensation... it was horrible.
A friend when she was like seven tipped once of those perculators full to the brim of coffee on herself. Ten years on, she isn't a big coffee drinker.
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Post by slushpup on Jul 17, 2003 1:42:39 GMT -5
when i was in primary school, i was on those metal bar things and i let go one hand, so that i swung into the pole headfirst. my head got cut open, there was blood all over my jumper. but the cool part was that instead of getting stitches, i got my cut head glued back together. honestly. ahh technology these days.
also, my sister slammed the car boot door on my nose when i was getting something out
this was a few days before my year 12 ball, so i still had a small lump on my nose. im still plotting my revenge for that one.
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Post by TLCM on Jul 17, 2003 2:31:12 GMT -5
Nothing like that has ever happened to me. I've fallen off two different horses (both of which have since died) but I didn't hurt myself at all, I just rolled.
However in year 2 I made my brother walk into a tree, he would have been about five and he spent the day getting head x-rays for fractures in his skull.
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Post by slushpup on Jul 17, 2003 6:01:26 GMT -5
However in year 2 I made my brother walk into a tree, he would have been about five and he spent the day getting head x-rays for fractures in his skull. i always kinda thought you were evil..now i have proof!  |
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Post by Lauzza on Jul 17, 2003 21:18:24 GMT -5
i am VERY un-co and i've done plenty of stupid things like falling out of trees, falling up stairs etc...here's a few highlights:
i live on a hill and i can't ride a bike, so anyway one day i was attemoting to ride down my hill, ended up scraping all the skin off my little finger.
in year six we were sitting on the top of the monkey bars with the boys down below looking up our skirts, as you do, when the bell went and in all my enthusiasm i fell and fractured the joint between my thumb and hand, i had to be anaesthetised and have it put back in place and wear a cast on year six camp.
in year eight gymnastics i did a 'backflip' onto the trampoline, except my cocix reached the metal part of the tramp before the rest of me, extreme pain followed.
as you can tell i'm having a boring day today...
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Post by captain heinemann on Jul 18, 2003 3:15:42 GMT -5
ow. awesome pain ow-age.
you know that kid who jumped from the moving train? the inspectors took like 20 minutes to report it and have all been fired. YES! even though deep pain has been suffered by him. i can ride a bike very well cos i dont have one and then i rode my friends bike and nearly crashed into the side of a tream and then i saw a tram coming and it was like two metres away so i leaped off the bike and fell over and almost lost the bike AND my legs.
but didnt
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Post by Jaysus on Jul 18, 2003 9:06:40 GMT -5
you know that kid who jumped from the moving train? the inspectors took like 20 minutes to report it and have all been fired. YES! even though deep pain has been suffered by him. he's fucking dead. That goes beyond "deep pain". And it's really not too hard to spend a couple of dollars and just by a fucking ticket, furthermore if he was stupid enough to jump from a moving train then you should damn well know the possible consequences. With that being said, go jump off a moving train you fucking idiot. |
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Post by bossman on Jul 19, 2003 2:21:40 GMT -5
That kid didn't die, there was another kid who tried to jump onto a moving goods train but slipped and died. I used to live next door to that train line. we used to put rocks and shit on the tracks and watch them explode as the train hit it. tyabb wasn't the most exciting place to grow up in, now its the antique capital of victoria
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Post by TLCM on Jul 19, 2003 3:56:26 GMT -5
This doesn't really relate to Tyabb or people jumping onto/off moving trains but my dad derailed a train when he was working on the railroads in Brisbane.
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Post by captain heinemann on Jul 20, 2003 5:13:42 GMT -5
yes he could have bought a ticket but the fact that he felt he needed to jump from a train just shows how bad the inspectors are to 'young people'. the way they act is despicable and the way they beat up on ethnic minorities and young people is wrong. ive seen them bully asian women on trams because the women dont really understand what they're asking. on a train once there was this woman who i think was somalian and she had a ticket and they just stood there and asked her all these questions and bullshit and wouldnt leave her alone. there were only like two other people on the train otherwise i think some one would have done something*. its really bad the way they treat people and yes, it was a bit silly to jump from the train but the fact the inspectors didnt report it for at least 20 minutes or stop the train or anything is a little bit more of a concern to me than the kids intelligence.
the kid who jumped on the freight train was a fucking idiot. ive known people who have died from train surfing and its just one of the stupidest things you could possibly fucking do. i feel bad for his family that theyve lost their son/family member but i dont feel for him. its sad that hes dead but how fucking stupid can you be. im sorry if you know him, you seem pretty annoyed. btw - guests post suck. if you're going to criticise me don't be a coward and hide behind a guest name.
*okay this made me think..i didnt do anything that time on the trian because there was about five of them and they were all men and i dint weant to really get involved. i guess i was kind of scared of them. but this brings up the question of whether i should have. or is it none of my business? its like someone said about that picture taking of the child burning to death in vietnam "why didnt he put out the fire rather than taking a picture". in cases like that where you are there as a phtographer or journalist should they not get involved? should they hold a creative objectivity or should they find a line where they can plow in and 'interfere.' when people go to small mountain villages and the people have what we term as cruel customs should we get involved and say no dont do that or should we just stand back as its not our culturre. and how can we decided what is wrong?
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Post by TLCM on Jul 20, 2003 5:45:00 GMT -5
That kid in Vietnam, she didn't die, she's still alive but badly scarred. The reason why they didn't put her out is because it was napalm and everyone was running from it. They couldn't throwwater on her, Naplam doesn't work that way, it just keeps burning.
There was a photo taken in Africa a while ago of a starving orphaned child, the picture was anouther emotive piece and received world wide attention. However the child was left to die. Of course the photographer felt like shit (became depressed as a result and committed suicide), but he didn't feel it was his position to do anything, this was only one child in a whole village. One man can't look after everyone.
Fun fact, I've never seem a train inspector (other than interstate trips), but then again, I haven't caught many trains. That guy that tried to jump on the train probably got the idea off tv. I've also only heard of people train surfing.
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Post by captain heinemann on Jul 20, 2003 6:06:56 GMT -5
they are pretty evil. there was this case where they got off a tram with this guy who dint have a ticket and apparently didnt like the look of him and basically struggled him to the ground and pinned his hands behind his back. m tram got sued for that. i think. most of them are just old security guards or cops that cant handle their lack of power. i didnt know about the napalm but it was just somethng someone said and ive heard before and the only example i could think of. but yes with the whole interferiing thing. its just all very sad  |
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Post by bossman on Jul 21, 2003 1:09:20 GMT -5
Naplam is basically petroleum jelly so when it is released, it smears over a wide area. Very effective for close air support but it burns the fuck out of anything it touches. I don't think Australia uses napalm cannisters, I know we don't use cluster munitions but I'm not sure if we use rockets with the flechete warheads (basically a rocket filled with steel darts)
anyway enough of weapons foe now, ticket inspector issue is a hard one. So many ppl catch Public transport deliberately without a valid ticket so I don't have any sympathy for them but when you can't buy a ticket (The metcard system is so fucked), there's no leeway given. And trams are the worse, trying to but a ticket in peak hour, you can't get near the machine
Sometimes the media piss me off. Its seems nothing gets in the way of s good story, especially the kind of emotive reporting that the current affairs programs do. Its sickening
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Post by Dudley on Jul 22, 2003 6:28:32 GMT -5
mmm pain stories, like that time i pretended my hand was an aeroplane on the handrail of an escalator and got my nails ripped off at the age of 3. The stupid David Jones lady just put salt on my little hands and put a band aid on it.
And with the bloody ticket inspectors, they just don't understand tickets are overpriced for kids these days...
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