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Author Topic: Doofus Phil... Gracia L. Babbidge Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 709 From: Bowdoin, Maine Registered: Aug 2000 posted 10-28-2003 11:25 PM                        Well Phil, it's nice to know that you didn't burn yourself up! Speaking of accidents... Sunday night I was helping my brother by drying & putting away the dishes he was washing. I was attempting to put a big ol' visionware pot away, something that normally had another pot sitting in it. In the process of setting one pot in another, the glass one broke, and sliced into my right thumb. As I'm not a moron, I made fast tracks to the bathroom, and ran cold water over my thumb, and wrestled my watch off my wrist, when my mom had me turn my hand so she could see the damage, my adopted sister was nauseated by catching a glimpse of bone! So one trip to the ER, and four stitches later... On the bright side, considering the size and depth of the cut, I managed to not do nerve or tendon damage.  |  IP: Logged Adam Martin I'm not even gonna point out the irony. Posts: 3686 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Nov 2000 posted 10-28-2003 11:38 PM                     Clifford! At any rate, I was taken quite aback at first glance of that photo. I immediately thought it was a photo of Phil half naked and wrapped in gauze and lost my appetite. I will never be able to eat Taco Cabana again.  |  IP: Logged Gracia L. Babbidge Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 709 From: Bowdoin, Maine Registered: Aug 2000 posted 10-28-2003 11:42 PM                        Very astute. That is Clifford. I have little siblings, and they insisted on a Clifford mousepad. (Never mind that the mouse is a track ball type.)  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 10-28-2003 11:52 PM                  To quote Adam's favorite saying... "Whatever!" Or Jason's/Josh's... "Sweet Jesus!" Gracia, glad it wasn't too serious! OBTW: Adam, YOU will STILL get a xmas card this year... >>> Phil  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 10-29-2003 08:43 AM                        Gracia: Hope your hand heals completely, without any after-effects. Glad that you didn't damage any nerves or tendons.  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 10-29-2003 09:02 AM                        Same here. I broke my left thumb in this rail accident. I was thrown forward out of my seat in the impact, with the result that my hand was caught between my torso and the (metal) edge of the table in front of me. The thumb took 2-3 months to heal to the point at which it could take any weight. During that time, the splint it was strapped to was a real nuisance: it got in the way when I was typing, and I was half-way through writing up my PhD thesis at the time! But that is a very trivial complaint, I guess. Several people died in the carriage in front of me, but even with the broken thumb I was able to climb out unaided. I've always sat facing backwards where possible in every train journey since, because in this scenario I would have been pushed backwards into my seat rather than against the table and therefore would have got out totally unhurt. The coroner noted in the inquest that almost all those who were killed or seriously injured were either standing or sitting facing forwards at the moment of impact.  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-29-2003 09:45 AM                     Glad you were not seriously hurt and on the mend  |  IP: Logged Carl Martin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1424 From: Oakland, CA, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 10-29-2003 05:19 PM                        i tend to sit forwards in trains whenever possible, but not for any safety reason. i generally prefer an approaching view over a receding one. if i see something of interest in the distance, i can examine it ever more closely as i near it until it disappears in passing. it's a feeling of embracing what's coming towards me, rather than grasping in futility at what's disappearing. gain vs. loss. living for tomorrow vs. wallowing in yesterday. don't trains ever get rear-ended? why is it that in airplanes (except air force one in movies) all the seats face forwards? wouldn't it be safer in a crash at takeoff or landing if they faced backwards? mirrors could be used to redirect the view. carl  |  IP: Logged Gracia L. Babbidge Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 709 From: Bowdoin, Maine Registered: Aug 2000 posted 10-29-2003 11:52 PM                        I guess I should also count myself lucky in the fact that I am left handed!  |  IP: Logged Josh Jones Redhat Posts: 1207 From: Plano, TX Registered: Apr 2000 posted 11-03-2003 07:54 PM                        Yes being a lefty has its advantages, I usually screw up my right hand much more often than my left. On the other hand, all guitars are right handed, lefty versions being harder to find. Oh well, such is life. Phil, what kind of cart machines did you have? Josh  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 11-04-2003 01:59 AM                        quote: don't trains ever get rear-ended? I suppose if a stationary train were rear-ended, then you'd be better off facing forward because it would, in effect, accelerate, thereby pressing you into your seat. But if it were rear-ended while in motion (e.g. by another train baring down on it, only faster) then presumably damage from the impact would cause a rapid deceleration (especially if your train came off the rails), so again you'd be better off facing back. An safety expert told the inquest after the accident I was in that fitting seat belts on train seats would have saved many more lives than the electronic safety system preferred by the government and rail safety activists, at about a quarter of the cost. Yet four years and several major train crashes later, still no seat belts. You couldn't force people to wear them, but I wouldn't mind having the option.  |  IP: Logged Bernard Tonks Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 619 From: Cranleigh, Surrey, England Registered: Apr 2001 posted 11-04-2003 04:39 AM                     Leo, Sorry to read that you were on that dreadful Paddington disaster train. My brother was in a Western region train crash and survived uninjured, tragically three of his working colleagues near him lost their lives. Hope Gracia is on the mend. Not doing so well myself, have recently fallen and broken my wrist, and cracked a bone in the other one. Also badly bruised my cheek bone and had a real shiner black eye.  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 11-04-2003 12:05 PM                        Film-Tech: Home of the "Walking Wounded".  |  IP: Logged Gracia L. Babbidge Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 709 From: Bowdoin, Maine Registered: Aug 2000 posted 11-04-2003 10:25 PM                        Zoinks! Take it easy there Bernard! Yup, I'm on the mend, my stitches are out.  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 11-05-2003 02:24 PM                  Josh, only some carts were damaged...I still have the machine. BE model 900 I think. It's been a good reliable machine. >>> Phil  |  IP: Logged

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