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Title: knives are dangerous
Post by: Gina on August 07, 2011, 07:49:12 AM
opening Jeep's bday present with my leatherman

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one hour later at er and they glued me back together and gave me a tetanus shot

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Title: Re: knives are dangerous
Post by: DumbAss Tanker on August 07, 2011, 08:16:50 AM
I didn't think you were allowed to have sharp objects anymore, wasn't that one of the conditions for your release from Happy Acres?
Title: Re: knives are dangerous
Post by: FreeBorn on August 07, 2011, 08:17:25 AM
Oh yummy, Gina. Thanks for sharing!  :p
Title: Re: knives are dangerous
Post by: JohnnyReb on August 07, 2011, 08:24:31 AM
I've carried a pocket knife all my life. I feel naked without one in my pocket. The only problem with that is, it was never 'sharp'. I was always scraping or cutting stuff that kept it dull. The wife bought me two nice little knives for fathers day. Good ones that were razor sharp....she shouldn't have done that... :rotf:...the first thing I did with one was cut half a pants leg off my pants.... with the leg still in 'em. :rotf: Oh what a bloody mess I made.

Hope it heals well and your fine soon.
Title: Re: knives are dangerous
Post by: Gina on August 07, 2011, 08:44:03 AM
Oh yummy, Gina. Thanks for sharing!  :p
Ain't I a turn on?
Title: Re: knives are dangerous
Post by: CG6468 on August 07, 2011, 09:39:15 AM
Ain't I a turn on?

You are a bloody turn on!  :-*
Title: Re: knives are dangerous
Post by: Chris_ on August 07, 2011, 10:23:53 AM
Whoops!

We had a rotating mandolin slicer at a place I worked at.  My idiot GM got another one of her useless ideas and bought a big serrated knife with an offset fence/guide thing for slicing vegetables for salads as an idea to "replace" the mandolin slicer.  I would either do them freehand with a chef's knife or with the rotating slicer, but she thought this giant serrated knife would be "more efficient".  I ended up dragging that thing through my finger the first day.

That woman was a moron.
Title: Re: knives are dangerous
Post by: SaintLouieWoman on August 07, 2011, 08:37:11 PM
Whoops!

We had a rotating mandolin slicer at a place I worked at.  My idiot GM got another one of her useless ideas and bought a big serrated knife with an offset fence/guide thing for slicing vegetables for salads as an idea to "replace" the mandolin slicer.  I would either do them freehand with a chef's knife or with the rotating slicer, but she thought this giant serrated knife would be "more efficient".  I ended up dragging that thing through my finger the first day.

That woman was a moron.
I got a simple madolin on sale at Marshall's. It's just a board with the slicer. It's super for slicing zucchinis, onions, peppers and fingers. I cut the tip of my index finger off. It kept bleeding and bleeding. I did my own first aid on it and it eventually healed. For the longest time I had a difficult time typing, but finally it's healed. SR said he should take it away from me.  :-)
Title: Re: knives are dangerous
Post by: Wineslob on August 08, 2011, 09:57:53 AM
Very nice job. Not quite as good as the six stiches I had put into my left palm* 4 weeks ago, but not bad.  :clap:















*don't sharpen a Kershaw Shun chef's knife after a glass of wine, kiddies*
Title: Re: knives are dangerous
Post by: debk on August 08, 2011, 10:58:41 AM
Dang, Gina!!!!!  Hope it's feeling a bit better by now.




I got a simple madolin on sale at Marshall's. It's just a board with the slicer. It's super for slicing zucchinis, onions, peppers and fingers. I cut the tip of my index finger off. It kept bleeding and bleeding. I did my own first aid on it and it eventually healed. For the longest time I had a difficult time typing, but finally it's healed. SR said he should take it away from me.  :-)


I'm on my 3rd mandolin. This one is great, it has a really nice piece that not only stabs into whatever I'm slicing, but has "wings" on it to prevent the inevitable finger slice too.  :yahoo:  The first two were too hazardous to my fingers. Found this one at Ross for about $10.

Amazing how well those suckers slice through your thumb or finger and you don't realize it until the blood gushes. Then about 15 minutes, every nerve ending in the area is screaming - "YOU BITCH!!"  :bawl:
Title: Re: knives are dangerous
Post by: CG6468 on August 08, 2011, 01:32:19 PM
Maybe Gina could have used some of those vibrating gloves.  :wink:
Title: Re: knives are dangerous
Post by: Eupher on August 08, 2011, 04:11:18 PM
Nice job, Gina!

If you're lucky, like I wasn't when I grabbed a falling 6" inch recently-sharpened Zwilling chef's knife, you wouldn't have cut through your nerve endings in your fingertip.

The first inch or so of the middle finger on my left hand is still functionally dead after about 18 months -- people who know about such things tell me it'll be that way as long as I'm breathing.

I guess that means I won't be able to tell when I'm doing this  :bigbird: to somebody.  :rotf:
Title: Re: knives are dangerous
Post by: BEG on August 08, 2011, 04:56:07 PM
That made my stomach hurt. Poor Gina.  :(
Title: Re: knives are dangerous
Post by: vesta111 on August 10, 2011, 06:46:07 AM
My complaint is the Titan vegetable peelers advertised on TV.   Hubby found a 2 pack at Wallgreens and brought them home.

Wonderful a small peeler and a large one, these things things can dehide a skunk in 2 minutes.

Problem is there are no finger guards,  a professional Chief can use these peelers but for every day people, with distractions . kids or pets, just some one talking to them------- It is Amazing how bad a finger can bleed.

Never had a problem with the age old paring knife to peel, except that more of the flesh was wasted, Come to think about I seldom see a cooking show that uses perhaps any more then a mandolin and a knife. 

All these infomercials with all the high price gizmo's are seldom shown on the cooking Chanel, so why the heck do we spend a fortune to buy them????

I have a few gadgets in the pantry that I have used maybe once, anyone else bought a high end item that was seldom used again ????
Title: Re: knives are dangerous
Post by: rustybayonet on August 10, 2011, 07:00:01 AM
Gee thanks - just figured out one more way - how to keep the wife happy!  EAT OUT alot   :whistling:  Might be expensive, but so are ER visits  :yahoo:
Title: Re: knives are dangerous
Post by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on August 11, 2011, 11:56:28 AM
Apparently the knife is sharper than its user.
Title: Re: knives are dangerous
Post by: Eupher on August 11, 2011, 12:02:22 PM
Apparently the knife is sharper than its user.

 :rimshot:
Title: Re: knives are dangerous
Post by: Gina on August 12, 2011, 06:46:25 AM
Apparently the knife is sharper than its user.

 :bird:  but not colder  :bird:
Title: Re: knives are dangerous
Post by: Bodadh on August 12, 2011, 06:51:42 AM
OMG! :o

Turn in your Tote n chip card and hand over the Leatherman....on second thought, wait there. I will get the Leatherman.