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Thanks to this week's Radiolab podcast on pain scales, I've learned about the Schmidt Sting Pain Index. Let's see if I've mastered ILX poll entry:
Poll Results
| Option | Votes |
| Hot and smoky, almost irreverent. Imagine W. C. Fields extinguishing a cigar on your tongue. | 6 |
| Bold and unrelenting. Somebody is using a drill to excavate your ingrown toenail. | 4 |
| Pure, intense, brilliant pain. Like fire-walking over flaming charcoal with a 3-inch rusty nail grinding into your heel. | 1 |
| Sharp, sudden, mildly alarming. Like walking across a shag carpet and reaching for the light switch. | 1 |
| A rare, piercing, elevated sort of pain. Someone has fired a staple into your cheek. | 1 |
| Rich, hearty, slightly crunchy. Similar to getting your hand mashed in a revolving door. | 1 |
| Blinding, fierce, shockingly electric. A running hair drier has been dropped into your bubble bath. | 1 |
| Caustic and burning. Distinctly bitter aftertaste. Like spilling a beaker of hydrochloric acid on a paper cut. | 0 |
| Like a matchhead that flips off and burns on your skin. | 0 |
| Light, ephemeral, almost fruity. A tiny spark has singed a single hair on your arm. | 0 |
― The Painter of Blight™ (Sanpaku), Friday, 31 August 2012 17:27 (thirteen years ago)
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