Yes I have cut myself many times over the years, but that's not the same as being stabbed. Hence my experiment. I haven't even accidentally stabbed myself- you must be more accident prone than I used to be.Well, of course poking a knife into yourself and not drawing blood doesn't hurt!
Plunging the whole 8" blade into your body might give you a more accurate experience, but of course I don't recommend that course of action. Severed flesh, nerves and organs might feel slightly more painful than a light prodding that doesn't break the skin, no?
Also, I have to ask, Have you never cut yourself accidentally on anything, that you really can't imagine what it feels like?
I've (accidentally) stabbed or slashed myself enough to know that it usually doesn't hurt much... at first. And those times, there was blood. Especially when I (accidentally) stabbed myself in the thigh and hit my femoral artery.
Yes, being stabbed hurts. I shouldn't have to tell you that.
The American phrase that doesn't half not make no sense is ''I could care less'', where as we say ''I couldn't care less''.
Yes, it's British understatement again.
Not necessarily. As this riddle proves.
Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall.
Tell that to the United Utilities foreman when the crew clears off after tea break.
Discarded plastic strapping can make a similar sound when stepped on sometimes.
"Doesn't half not make no sense"??? Where the $#%@!! does that come from?
Take my word, a good steel hammer will do the trick.
Ah yes the bubble wrap thing. A dog I had would go into some sort of frenzy when he saw this stuff. Would bounce up and down on it and then run away and hide when it popped. Still he would do it though.
I was taking the p**s. Taking the Mick. Extracting the Michael. (It was a referrence to my ''It doesn't half hurt'' quote.)
Yes.
Reckon that's more than likely it.
Strange you should mention it. (Goes upstairs to retrieve old box found in bedroom clean-up last month).
Indeed. Survivors of a stabbing have even been known to say 'He/she hit me with the knife!' as if they can hardly believe what really happened.
I can remember these from my school days (also 'flick combs'). I've not come across them since...until the wife bought about a dozen boxes for our two boys' stockings this Christmas. Now she's blaming Santa every time a poor member of the public gets the fright of their lives! I've thrown one or two myself though
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Really? That's weird.
I think it has to do with when the air hits the damaged tissue - that's when it starts to hurt. If a stab wound is small this might take a while.
If the knife is sharp and the nerves have gone into shock, then pain often doesn't start for a while. Likewise, I broke both arms simultaneously once, and I could see they were broken but they were both completely numb for about twenty minutes. It gave me time to get home and get help before the pain kicked in - I think any kind of trauma can send the body into shock that means the pain takes a while to get through.
Yup, can remember several times seeing some injury I'd just incurred and thinking 'Well any minute now that's REALLY gonna hurt!'
And yet an invisible papercut incurs writhing agony...
You are Superwoman!
Nope, I screamed like a wee one for about an hour afterwards...
