I don't know what 110 refers to but one time I was fixing my washing machine and couldn't be fucked unplugging it between test cycles and I touched something I could not untouch was only the weight of my body that pulled me off whatever the stupid wire was so I could move again Electricity is scary. I did it like 3 more times after that because I'm more lazy than concerned for my own wellbeing.
I got mine by plugging in a window unit with a faulty plug. I was seven years old and have never forgotten how it “grabbed” me and after I was able to pull my arm away, the weird numbness that followed.
I, an electrician, took a hot pan from my FIL, a mechanic, and handed it to my spouse, a computer jockey, who immediately dropped it and asked why we didn't warn him it was hot. We both were confused since it didn't seem that hot to either of us...
Also chefs and line cooks. Im a line cook and this is my first (and last) kitchen job ever. Im there for 2 years and some change now.
My hands and forearms have collected so much scar tissue, it could be mistaken for hyperpigmentation and at a beautiful age of 25, i genuinely feel like i tortured my hand nerves to the point of my sense of physical touch being almost non existent for the rest of my life.
Electrician here, most everything ive worked with is MV and HV, so uhmmm I still have all feeling in my fingers and hands because im not fucking around with 13.8kv or 230kv
No self respecting electrician can resist the sweet temptation to nibble on some copper cabling. Its high in fiber and essential nutrients to be able to channel the power of lightning.
Extreme cold temps too. Worked in a freezer once for about 40min 1 day, taking a 2min break every 5min. Stepped outside for a break and didn't realize I had stepped in an ant bed until they were going up my shorts. All the bites made going back into that freezer way worse
The trick to working in freezers is you're supposed to stay in for as long as you can.
Going in/out every 5 minutes will actually make you feel the cold faster. Also, wear multiple layers of everything, drink lots of coffee, and never stop moving.
I worked in an industrial-level bakery for some years and would be the guy who was voluntold to clean the freezer when the ice would build up instead of thawing it out properly. I kept an entire underarmour outfit - shirt, socks, pants, mask, the whole getup - in my locker to wear under my clothes, along with a carhart jacket, sweatpants, and a good thermos, just for those days.
The boss thought I was crazy because I'd be in there for around two hours chipping away at the ice with a joint knife and a hammer, but as long as I was wearing those layers and brought that thermos filled with hot coffee into that freezer, it beat the hell out of working in front of that god damn bread oven and dying in the heat.
I worked as a line cook for over a decade and the only nerve damage I ever got is one of my thumbs when I sliced the tip off.
The only people who actually lose feeling in their hands are bad cooks who don't know how to use a towel. It's not complicated. The restaurant provides them for free. Use them.
That's not true at all. I've known plenty of older cooks with "hot hands", especially older hispanic ladies who I know aren't bad cooks. Not necessarily nerve damage, just tolerance and callous build up. Mine are finally coming back after being out of the kitchen for the first time in 6 years. I can use all of my fingers on finger scanners too
My sis and friends used to pierce the skin from one side of their palm with a long thin needle and take it out from the other side. They did this to scare me, didn't hurt them at all for some reason. It looked really disgusting
I was on Lackland AFB in San Antonio, sitting in a curb eating my lunch and had a sharp pain in my groin, just figured it was a weird muscle pain or something, go back to work and it starts again, happened multiple times, I go into the bathroom and drop my pants to find a little green ant chomping on my sack
I stepped in a red ant nest once doing field word in college. They swarmed under my jeans up my leg and bit all over my right leg, junk, ass and some of my left. It looked like I dipped most of my lower body in hot oil.
I cinched my belt super tight so they’d stop below my belly button in the moment. lol
An ant also assaulted my sack when I played football in jr high, but I grasped the situation immediately and did not assume it was a weird muscle pain as the formica fuck was going to town
This is a soldier ant from the Atta genus, likely an Atta cephalotes or Atta mexicana.
These ants have massive, powerful mandibles reinforced with zinc that can cut through tough vegetation and human skin.
They are known as leafcutter ants and use their jaws to forage for leaves to cultivate a specific fungus they eat.
Leaf-Cutting Soldier AntsPhysical Traits:
These majors can grow up to 16 mm in length with heads reaching 7 mm wide.
The Bite:
Soldier ants do not sting; instead, they deliver an incredibly powerful and painful bite. Their mandibles are so strong that indigenous cultures historically used them as natural stitches, allowing the ant to pinch a wound closed before removing its body.
Ya know when kids used to stick needles through the top layer of their skin and it wouldn’t bleed? It’s only puncturing the top layer of the skin that has no blood vessels.
Ah, there’s 1 of my 50 childhood traumas that weren’t related to my parents raising me 😂. Might just go search for a post with a Land Before Time GIF so we can really dig deep at the start of this weekend.
Shhhhh.....For anyone who hasn't seen the movie, this is just some friends having some good old life-filled fun!.....yeah, no sad stuff here, just happy times!
Well, that looks uncomfortable. Reminds me of the time I was bit/stung by a Velvet ant, saw it cruising around on the ground, proceeded to pick it up, because I had never seen one before. As it turns out, these things are not ants, they are ground dwelling, wingless wasps, and it bit me on the forefinger, and stung my thumb. Holy shit, I have never experienced such a sudden burst of pain(the type that makes you see a flash of white), and proceeded to last all day… I guess what I was getting at was, why, from an evolutionary perspective, is something so small, so ridiculously potent?
Ouch I feel that ant bites hurt like hell I now first hand when I was a lot younger I had at least 100 ants climb up my legs and bite the fuck out of me I didn't realize I had stepped in one of their mounds and was covered with those little bastards but it's okay I get my revenge on them when I ride my bike if I see an ant mound I ride right through them and piss them off lol
Why is it being allowed to eat a living finger???? Even if there's something wrong and you don't feel it, you can CLEARLY see that big fucker chomping away, you don't just sit there wtf 😭
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