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Megaton Cat
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Posted: 27th Feb 2006 17:08 Edited at: 27th Feb 2006 17:11
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Hi

Had an evil sking wipeout yesterday, smashed my collar bone in 2. Lovely x-ray for you guys to see:



So no training for me for the next 6 weeks. I'm in for a boring stretch in front of the PC for hours everyday .

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Chris Franklin
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Posted: 27th Feb 2006 17:09
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ouch that must kill get well soon

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Mikey P
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My brother did a similar thing playing hockey. Nasty.

Hope you get well soon though, enjoy the time programming!

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Unlucky.

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Posted: 27th Feb 2006 17:25
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Owie!!!

Feel better Megaton, that looks damn nasty.


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dont take this the wrong way - but bear in mind, humans were never designed to ski... Otherwise we would have evolved with big smooth planks intead of feet I find it quite hard to find sympathy for people that get hurt doing extreeme sports. It could also have something to do with the fact I've never ski'ed before and cant quite see the attraction in hurtling down a very slipperly slope with very little control and lots of obstacles Then again - i do have the control of a breeze block!

That does look painfulll though! How exactly did it happen?


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Ouch! Hell of an injury. Hope you heal ASAP, man.


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Posted: 27th Feb 2006 17:51 Edited at: 27th Feb 2006 17:51
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Mate, you've been useless all your life. I dont see how 6 weeks is gonna make any difference to anyone. Shut up and be a man.



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OW! I think I may vomit.

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Posted: 27th Feb 2006 18:30 Edited at: 27th Feb 2006 18:31
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sorry Megaton cat brother - feel better.
that xray would make a cool album cover or poster

nice vertabre (sp) by the way

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yeah my dad went skiing last year and fractured his collar bone wasnt quite in 2 peices tho.

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ouch, thats completely snapped!


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I knew that myth about cats always landing on their feet was wrong. You can always program with one hand.


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Program yourself a skiing simulator, job done.

What's it look like from the outside? All banged, bruised and lumpy or just normal?

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Posted: 27th Feb 2006 20:51 Edited at: 27th Feb 2006 20:55
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Quote: " I find it quite hard to find sympathy for people that get hurt doing extreeme sports."


I would hardly count sking an extreme sport. I fell on my shoulder because I got caught in a hole on the hill, not because I tried to jump the wall of china.
(Skis caught in hole, body flying 20 feet forward.)

On the outside? Bumpy and squishy. The bad thing is, there's a muscle connected to the left peice that's pulling up, a muscle connected to the right peice that's pulling down. So the full collar bone(s) is in a tug of war with itself, and will heal crooked because the bones arn't resting on each other.

The 14-year-old sucker sharing my room at the hospital? Jumped of the ski-lift with his friends for fun. Two broken legs.

THAT'S my pain-killer.

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[quote]I'm usless for 6 weeks[quote]
You know Megaton...I'm not sure when you have been usefull, if ever. Though I guess you're fantasy model pack somewhat counts. Get better though. You'll probably be more boring with a broken collarbone.

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Oooh..I feel that. had a few broken bones myself. Looks clean, thats good. Does make a nice pic. Take care, let it heal properly, don't push to hard...and all the other stuff docs and mums will tell ya.

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Quote: "The 14-year-old sucker sharing my room at the hospital? Jumped of the ski-lift with his friends for fun. Two broken legs.

THAT'S my pain-killer. "

Are you entirely retarded?

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What?

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Ouch. That looks painful!

I'd just been skiing last week too... wan't too bad. Bear in mind I was on the nursery slope!

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what, you cant heal instantly?? re-faze eats another piece of philosopher stone, and floats back into the distance.

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Pussy Of course I mean pussy-cat and meant nothing insulting or vulgar by that comment. Hope you get better!

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Now if you were wolverine, you could instantly heal. But you aren't.
Get well soon.

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my brother fell on the skateboard once, because some ahole was knocking him over when he was in full speed. his arm was bent like a banana

im glad i\'ve never broken a bone, it looks like it hurts.

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youch! that looks like it didn't feel very good

Quote: "that xray would make a cool album cover or poster"

^what he said^

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Damn! I hate when that happens


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Christ on a bike, that xray is not helping my fear of breaking a bone. I'm almost 25 and I've never broken a bone. Closest I've come is fracturing my cheekbone (a cricket playing mishap - tip: don't stand to close to the guy's backswing).

But the thought of actually snapping a bone scares me.

Ow.

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I broke my big toe's toenail in half once on a skateboard... that was probably the most painful experience of my life, shy of being in a car accident and (on a separate occasion) having a building fall on my head (well, it didn't really fall on me, but debris nicked my forehead pretty good). In any case, that looks way more painful.

How long will it take to heal? I forgot to ask that in my last post. Anyway, as I said before, get well soon

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Whoa!! Hold up, dude i was just looking at that ex ray. I think one of your bones may be out of place. You probably shouldnt walk on that.



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what you cant do this?
(re faze takes sword, chops off head and whole tgc community watches in awe as it just grows right back).
what cant everybody?

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Odd... either you rule or your friend rules, or whoever's house that is, they rule... to have the pictures from the White Album framed and up on the wall is awesome. I've been trying to get my younger cousins (who are in their teens) to listen to the Beatles but I've been met thus far with hostility

Sorry, that was off topic.

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Quote: "I find it quite hard to find sympathy for people that get hurt doing extreeme sports"


Oh, go back to your golf game on xbox, Mr. Safety!


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Matt: Those are from the White Album? Paul looks very Abbey Road / Let It Beish there, although with less hair below his nose.

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that looks really painful, but you have got to remember that the colar bones are designed to snap under little load as a form of protection for the rest of the bones, but i guess that isn't making it hurt less


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Yes they're from the white album vinyl. When I was a teen I did the same thing--- put up those pictures on my wall.


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Yeppers, Jeku is right yet again. If you get the White Album on Vinyl (those are "records"... those big black disks that you might see in old 1980's movies, for those of you that are too young to recall), there was a series of record-sized images of all four Beatles. I wanted to hang them on my wall, but my mom SCREAMED at me when I asked her for a pair of scissors and I was holding the sacred White Album. In my house, The Beatles and Sly & The Family Stone were GODS and you weren't allowed to deface their stuff, hehe. Cutting up the White Album was, in my house, the equivilent of shooting a cow in india and eating it in front of everyone, hehe.

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That is my girlfreinds room but i do have those same poster in my room , plus the led zeppelin one. Soon im geting a jimi hendrix from live at the filmore east, and possibly the cure. Kinda gettin off topic so i wont post the pic of my wall

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did it hurt?


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I should sell all of my old posters from the 80's on e-bay or something. I have a funky velvet Clash poster that could probably fetch some cash, and a Jeff Buckley poster that I bought a few months before he went for his famous swim in the Mississippi (sorry for the nasty innuendo, Buckley fans).

btw, how hardcore was this ski place? Like, how steep was it and whatnot?


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Quote: " did it hurt?"


Why do people keep asking this one?
Solid bone was crunched loudly in two with various muscles and nerves being torn clean out. There would be something seriously wrong with your nervous system if it didn't hurt.

Quote: "btw, how hardcore was this ski place? Like, how steep was it and whatnot?"


It's a place called Blue Mountain, the biggest mountain in my province! (Ontario)

The silly thing was that I broke it relatively at the start of the hill - had to ski all the way back down and drag myself around the lodge wondering where the first aid centre was.

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I have a shirt of The Cure. And two Gang of Four shirts, and two The Stills shirts, and The Fall, and Wire, and U2 (vintage baby, my dad's shirt from 1983), The Sound, Joy Division, Game Theory, two Beatles shirts and two McCartney shirts.

I like me bands

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A shame your bands don't like you.

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Quote: "The silly thing was that I broke it relatively at the start of the hill - had to ski all the way back down and drag myself around the lodge wondering where the first aid centre was."


Good god man! How did you even stay on your feet? The next time you go skiing, bring a cell phone hehe

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Quote: "The silly thing was that I broke it relatively at the start of the hill"


Right off the chairlift, eh? Hehehe. I almost broke my wrist getting off the charlift on my snowboard last year--- no fun.


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Oh man, somewhere on this computer I have an "owned" animation, like the one in my signature, where a snowboarder falls out of a chairlift near the start and smashes into an unsuspecting lady a few feet below... I'm trying desperately to find it


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lol that would be so cool

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Would it?

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yes

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That would be awsome indeed, but it was a few minutes after I got of the chairlift. The hill is a few miles long, I just happened to ski into a poorly maintained part of the hill.

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GRR, I can't find the one I'm looking for. But I have a funny one just for Megaton



For some reason that one never gets old, hehe


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