Is this something only a Man would do!

Ken N Tx said:
This would be hard to pass!!!! o_Oo_O
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Uh, yeah

but

if your forge is just right, you can fashion a pretty good crude knife, pommel and all

Jus' don't put it in yer mouth 'til it cools a bit
 

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I can remember my grandfather doing just that. I an also remember my grandmother telling him, "get those nails out of your mouth what if you swallow one?" Hearing that as a very young child, I think it become deeply imbedded (sorry), and I have never done it... but tempted.
 
Now correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't a wife, whose husband has swallowed a nail, keep a regular look-see at her spouses backside, occasionally having a poke about in there with a magnetic screwdriver............phillips head of course? 😊
 
I’m just speechless. My father was a civil engineer with a hobby of metalworking & carpentry and he never put anything in his mouth & told me not to. Your DH is so lucky it didn’t make anything bleed or “tear him a new one.”
 
Sassycakes said:
About 6 days ago my husband decided to hang 2 pictures on the wall. He put the nail he was going to use in his mouth. Then he came into the room I was in and told me he had swallowed the nail. We immediately went to Urgent care and they did an x-ray and told him where it was at. Then the next day we went back and they x-rayed it again and it hadn't moved. They said that he should pass it soon. Well the next 3 days we returned and they did more x-rays. During this time I didn't get one minute of sleep. Finally, on the 5th day, he passed it. Now tell me do you think a woman would ever do anything like that, or is it a man thing?

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My husband used to do the same thing and I was always worried the same thing would happen!! MEN...
 
Ok, if you want to talk about men doing stupid things, here goes:

Wednesday morning, (I wasn't back home yet) the Spousal Equivalent is cleaning his shotgun. This is a man who has owned guns for 60 years, is well educated on guns and is an absolute stickler about gun safety. He's the last person in the world who would be expected to do this.

He manages to shoot through the ceiling, the attic and through the shingles. Yep, right through the roof. The roof that's less than 2 years old.

We had a roofer out yesterday and it's going to cost about $1500 to fix (Well, we're getting a couple of other small things done while they're up there, as the squirrels have already almost chewed through a vent pipe). We haven't even addressed the hole in the ceiling yet.....

Once i got over the hysteria of the fact that he could have blown a body part off, I guarantee you, this event is going to be "useful" the next time he rags me about leaving a light on, etc.

Men......they really ARE from Mars.
 
I don't think men cornered the market in stupidity. We seem to have an unfathomable supply for both sexes. As for the women, I recall camping way out in the woods with friends.,. It was a beautiful , pristine forest site, not another human for a hundred miles. The sun came up, and one of my friends came out of her tent. In one hand she had a hair dryer, and the plug in her other hand. She was searching around for an outlet.
 
my late-great MIL did a lot of sewing... for herself and other people. it was the norm for her to have 15-20 straight pins in her mouth at one time. i guess like "smokeless tobacco"... between teeth/gums. i don't know if she ever swallowed one, but if she did, she never told anybody about it.

i do remember that she sewed faster than anyone i knew. we'd joke that she's get pulled over. she DID end up running right over a finger nail one time. she said the worst part was that the thread DIDN'T break! she had to snip/pull those little stitches out. at that time my FIL was a real SOB. he would have been SO MAD if she had gone to the ER... how dare she inconvenience him. she was a nurse, so "doctored" herself!

MY dad once accidentally shot himself in the finger with a staple gun. us 3 kids were all asleep. we were getting ready to do one of those "acoustical" tile ceilings and he got playing with staple gun. staple went in on either side of the bone... and neatly poked out the other side. he told us late but said he never had anything hurt that bad. actually the shooting himself was not as bad as REMOVING the staple. and he didn't wake us up with screaming!
 
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wcwbf said:
my late-great MIL did a lot of sewing... for herself and other people. it was the norm for her to have 15-20 straight pins in her mouth at one time. i guess like "smokeless tobacco"... between teeth/gums. i don't know if she ever swallowed one, but if she did, she never told anybody about it.

i do remember that she sewed faster than anyone i knew. we'd joke that she's get pulled over. she DID end up running right over a finger nail one time. she said the worst part was that the thread DIDN'T break! she had to snip/pull those little stitches out. at that time my FIL was a real SOB. he would have been SO MAD if she had gone to the ER... how dare she inconvenience him. she was a nurse, so "doctored" herself!

MY dad once accidentally shot himself in the finger with a staple gun. us 3 kids were all asleep. we were getting ready to do one of those "acoustical" tile ceilings and he got playing with staple gun. staple went in on either side of the bone... and neatly poked out the other side. he told us late but said he never had anything hurt that bad. actually the shooting himself was not as bad as REMOVING the staple. and he didn't wake us up with screaming!
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I did the same thing on my sewing machine when my toddler crawled under the table and pushed down on the foot pedal just as I was positioning some material under the raised presser foot. Stitched right along the edge of my finger....ouch.

I was also fooling around with a surgical staple gun at my office at the hospital and managed to staple myself in the palm of my hand. I had to get my boss (a doctor, thank goodness) to take the staple out. Ouch, again.
 
Ken N Tx said:
This would be hard to pass!!!! o_Oo_O
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I was going to suggest hanging pictures on the wall using six inch nails is the solution, as I'd guess no one other than a sword swallower ever got one of them down their throats!
In any event I blame the missus in this case, as she obviously said something, or did something to cause a sharp intake of breath. :)
 
grahamg said:
I was going to suggest hanging pictures on the wall using six inch nails is the solution, as I'd guess no one other than a sword swallower ever got one of them down their throats!
In any event I blame the missus in this case, as she obviously said something, or did something to cause a sharp intake of breath. :)
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i've been working on the rail road all the live long day, i've been working on the railroad just to "pass" the time away.
 

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