DIY disastersI just can't do power tools. They always fly out of control and end up embedded somewhere they shouldn't. I've no idea how I've still got all the appendages I was born with.
Add to that the fact that nothing ends up square, able to support weight or free of sticking-out sharp bits and you can see why I try to avoid DIY.
Tell us of your own DIY disasters.
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chthonic, Thu 3 Apr 2008, 17:19)
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I know the feelingI had a nasty one a few years ago, when I was still living with my parents. I did the "levering it up" part, but sadly it got infected, and swelled up all red and filled with pus. Walking in anything other than flipflops was an impossibility. So I showed my Father (works in jungle a lot of the time, very good at sorting out ailments without going to hospital).
Bad. Idea.
He made me put my foot in a bowl of recently-boiled water, with a load of TCP thrown in, and soak it for 20 mins. Then he picked my foot up, and squeezed on either side of the toe. It was the most painful moment of my life (and I've been run over by a large van). I tried pulling my foot away, but he'd predicted this, and simply held on, still squeezing away. After about 20 seconds (but it felt like hours) the side of my toe seemed to burst out a never-ending torrent of smelly pus. He got out as much gunk as he could, then made me put my toe back in the hot TCP water (closely the second most painful moment of my life), squeezing it every so often to get the TCP into the hole left by the pus. Argh argh argh. I was walking funny for days, and not in a good way.
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