OW OW OW BANGED MY FUCKING BABY TOE

OW FUCK.

what good is this thing besides causing me pain??

Balance, as I am sure recent events will confirm.

ELAINE: Sure, the pinky toe is cute! But, I mean, what is it? It's useless! It does nothing. It's got that little nail that is just impossible to cut. What do we need it for?

JERRY: Because Elaine, that's the one that goes 'wee-wee-wee all the home.'

mine is so weird. i mean mine ARE. they're curled up like little macaronis. i don't even think they touch the ground when i'm standing.

what does the queen say when she does this?

She asks Prince Philip to swear for her.

i don't think the queen's allowed to ask people, it sets a bad precedent.

I've been stubbing my toes so goddamn much lately. Probably because it's summer and I'm walking around the apartment barefoot more often.

TMI

My boss broke her toe walking into the handle on a garage door. And this weekend her mom dropped a knife on her toes. (Not pointy side down though).

this sucks. i stubbed my toe 2 weeks ago and it turned purple. now it is not purple anymore but it is still painful and bigger than my other pinky toe. fuck this shit.

This is the main reason I wear shoes all day, even in the house and even in the summer.

my apartment is all carpeted so i try to make a habit of taking shoes off and putting them on the shoe rack at the door :(

i really prefer to be barefoot... except when this happens

yeah :( actually now it is more painful to wear shoes than not!

OW OW OW BANGED MY FUCKING BABY TOE

Isn't this what Twitter was invented for?

or ire
i hate stubbing my toe:(

I'm mad that I can't make my labored toe-fucking joke work.

bird in the hand worth toe in the bush?

slocki got a sad little sausage

i bet y'all are a bunch of pisceans

The other day I got a SPLINTER UNDER MY FUCKING INDEX-TOE NAIL GAHHH I HATE THINKING ABOUT IT, IS SO ICKY

Also, last time I banged my toe, it hurt to walk on it for days, and for the next month if anyone stepped on it it felt like I was being stabbed. Part of the nail turned black and grew out.

I just remembered, I have pictures of it!! Would anyone like to see them?

uh, no?

btw how did you manage to get a splinter under yr toenail????

a desk.

OW OW OW BANGED MY FUCKING BABY SITTER

I think perhaps I need glasses because "sitter" and "sister" are not the same word

http://www.jusonline.nl/smokers/sigmund_freud.jpg

Hmmmmmmmm

fortunately I do not have a baby sister

I stubbed mine a few years ago and it ended up looking like this:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/68/225516695_4a37a9b923_m.jpg

if thine own toe offend thee cut it off

My dad and my mom bought broke their baby toes TWICE. Apparently my dad's baby toe just stood straight up. Put it back in place and then went for a very long walk.

was he in shock?

there's a big purple schmear right ABOVE (or below) my toe... on the foot part.

fwiw, I put on a pair of shoes that I had previously decided were a little too tight after doing that to my toe so that it'd hold it in place against my foot, then ended up standing for a pretty long outdoor concert on it the whole evening. By the next day, I was limping like crazy and my friends made me prop my foot up on the dashboard for the two hours drive home.

xxpost No, I don't think so. Or rather he was, but he decided to go for a walk as this seems to be the best thing to do. Apparently you can't get a cast - too small hahah

you can get rice calligraphers to sign it

Normal human feet for the past 3.5 million years (1905 photograph of a shoeless tribe):

http://img.skitch.com/20090505-k3pfpa6c7exbg14dk2xa9813q9.jpg

Human feet subsequent to European fashion of the last few hundred years (the above photographer's feet):

http://img.skitch.com/20090505-pccgu9n3ijyhpribgu8h4b92j2.jpg

I'd guess that going barefoot is a danger mostly to those who do don't do so most of the time, hence not developing the proprioception of where little piggy is.

sure blame the victim

Fuck the European shoe hegemony

shoegemony

one time when i was a kid i was trying to bike in flip flops and got my pinky toenail ripped off by a bike chain

if you break your pinky toe the doctor is going to tell you sorry bout your luck

that's all i need... some sweet sympathy

yeah mine was probably fractured or badly sprained but i read that they can't really do anything. just tape it when you are doing anything strenuous (i find that this also makes wearing shoes be less painful).

protip: put a piece of cotton between the two toes you are taping so they do not rub together inside the tape and cause a blister/further discomfort.

Bumping yr toes against something in the dark on the way to or back from the bathroom at night: dud and again just now. :-(

light a candle rather than curse your toes

Hah! Stan, I did that too. Only it was in my kid's room. I had just comforted her after she had a cryfest at 2 am. So I tiptoe out the room... and bang my toe/foot against some damn chair.
My kid's looking at me all sleepy eyed. I try to say that it's alright while hopping out the room. lol

Am I the only one who has a real slow reaction time when it comes to toe injuries? Like I bang my toe and have to endure a horrible 1-2 second delay thinking "oh shit, this is really gonna hurt in a second" while the pain travels up the spinal cord. Or is it just that sudden pain in general seems to make time itself slow right down?

No, I did the OW thing about 36hours later.

Wonder what we were doing in the meantime. lol

it's because it takes longer for the nerve sensation to travel from your toe to your brain than, say, your finger to your brain. it's not 1-2 second delay, but there IS a microsecond delay between recognition that you've done something and actually feeling it
xpost

if u don't believe me, ask robert krulwich.

But you always have a delay,right? Don't you produce some "tranquilizing" hormone right after an accident?

adrenaline, maybe.

Lol u guys are t-rexes

xpost - Endorphins?

xxxxp - yeah, it's logical to expect toe pain to require a longer delay before kicking in...I just found it strange that a delay would seem measurable at all. It's like plugging in a lamp with an extra-long cord and expecting a delay before it lights up.

Ow ow ow I stubbed the same toe from last year (permanantly weird looking bone after that btw) and 3 hrs later it is still throbbing!

hey can you guys move yr little toes? i have been working on wiggling just my little pinky toe and fuck it is hard to do

Can't do it w/o moving other toes at the same time.

so you know what i mean then

Man I wouldn't mind the extra balance and stability that pre european shoes feet offer.