Ego => Reinvent Yourself => Topic started by: MoaningLisa on May 29, 2014, 04:51:59 pm
Title: Scar thread
Post by: MoaningLisa on May 29, 2014, 04:51:59 pm
post your scars and the stories of how you got them!
was using a 1960's era oxy/acetylene torch. I was trying to light it, and was only getting acetylene out, so I set the torch off to the side and turned the acetylene off at the regulator to fiddle with the oxy regulator. once I got it open, I picked the torch back up, turned the oxy off at the torch, and hit the striker...much to my surprise, it had been spewing acetylene the whole time it had been set down, which made quite the fireball when I hit the striker.
about a day after. the black is soot that melted into the skin. (http://i.imgur.com/R3Jx4pP.jpg)
once it started peeling (http://i.imgur.com/IQrPlfp.jpg)
about 3 weeks after the explosion (http://i.imgur.com/FeQFvN0.jpg)
no pics, but I almost lost my eye last semester. we were using starter fluid to start an early '90s toyota pick up, I was spraying starter fluid into the airbox, which went through a hard plastic pipe from the MAF to the throttle body. the engine backfired, and all the ether that was in this hard plastic pipe, exploded. 6 inches from the side of my face. the safety glasses got launched off my face, and I had to go to the ER. the doctor said it was probably the oil in the starter fluid, superheated, that got in my eye.
Title: Re: Scar thread
Post by: Rocklin on May 29, 2014, 04:59:52 pm
I did the same thing with a cutting torch in high school.....i lit a pefect neutral flame with a zippo and blew the skin off my right thumb.
cause i was in high school and thought i was invincible i decided to be cool and not go get it checked, it got infected and i spent 1 week at the hospital. fuck lol
Title: Re: Scar thread
Post by: Infinityshock on May 29, 2014, 09:07:44 pm
if this were a few months ago i had a good one. the hood of a commercial truck closed on my hand fucking it up nicely. would have made for a very interesting anatomy lesson. what amazed me is the tip of my finger...and nail...grew back after falling off.
Title: Re: Scar thread
Post by: Molosh on September 12, 2014, 01:07:54 am
Anyone got tips for reducing appearance of scars?
Title: Re: Scar thread
Post by: Infinityshock on September 12, 2014, 01:14:27 am
it depends on where its located. if its on a moving part, thin skin, or if its big...dont get your hopes up. ive found that keeping perforations covered with an ointment of some sort so it doesnt scab over reduces or eliminates scars
i kept a blow-out in a certain location that i preferred to not be scared covered with gauze and some kind of cocoabutter shit for about 4 months and there is no scar. altho...a similar location where i didnt do anything had a similar blow-out but didnt scar badly either. so essentially...i dont know
now i dont give a shit...chicks dont care about scars if you have money
Title: Re: Scar thread
Post by: equanimity on September 12, 2014, 01:16:52 am
Yeah if you're not doing something immediately after the injury and end up letting it heal, you're pretty much scarred for life. Time makes them fade, but only to a point.
Title: Re: Scar thread
Post by: equanimity on September 12, 2014, 01:19:42 am
(http://i.imgur.com/NhcertZ.jpg)
One section of mine. I'm better now, but it's sometimes embarrassing walking around like this.
Title: Re: Scar thread
Post by: Nigger Nostrils on September 12, 2014, 01:29:12 am
Title: Re: Scar thread
Post by: Ninja on September 13, 2014, 05:40:48 am
Honestly, the OP looked like he had Freddy Kreuger hands, which was cool. The rest was a big let down. I can't talk though, because I don't have any cool scars. I do crazy shit, I just don't get hurt. I don't get sick, I never broke a bone... I'm Unbreakable bitches!