• Spaceinv8er@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    I was opening a sterilizing toothbrush cover and sliced the tip of my finger from the plastic.

    Normally that isnt something really to care about, but I play guitar and had a gig the next day.

    Playing an acoustic steel string guitar for 45 minutes with a cut on the top of your finger fuckin sucks.

      • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        5 months ago

        He’s talking about fretting, like when a guitar player presses some strings on the long neck part of the guitar, that makes strings ring out certain notes

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            5 months ago

            Yeah haha don’t worry I don’t think most people outside of the world of musicians understand that’s how it works.

            What particularly struck me when I picked it up was actually how physically literally painful it was, and the only way it really stops being so is if you develop calluses on your fingers from the repeated injury of pressing the tips into thin metal wires.

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    5 months ago

    10 minutes before this comment, I was washing a knife and it accidentally slipped from my hands. Obviously instincts take over first and I grabbed it. The tip of the knife placed itself perfectly on my pinky.

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      4 months ago

      Hope your finger has healed up well from that unfortunate stabbing incident, just did something similar with my middle finger and a utility knife. Tried snapping off the top segment so I could use the next blade but it slipped and, not being in the kitchen, I wasn’t thinking about its knife-like attributes so the grab impulse made a mess of things. To make it even dumber, I’d been gripping the used blade with some pliers with the idea that it’d be safer but if I’d done it the usual way (which I think of as somewhat dangerous), I probably would have been paying more attention and might not have dropped it in the first place.

      Good news is that the next blade is definitely sharp, bad news is that now it has a taste for flesh. Oh well, at least my tetanus is up to date and it’s not a poop knife like in that one story from the old place.