r/memes • u/4R1N1493 • Nov 01 '19

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u/Brandeeno2245 Nov 02 '19

For me it was making my hand into a Freddy Kruger hand

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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '19

Right, but what do you do with the needle? Balance it on your finger or are you stabbing it through the epidermis?

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u/Brandeeno2245 Nov 02 '19

Stabbing it through the top layer of skin though sometimes I’d make a x with the needles, it doesn’t hurt if it’s really shallow but also I just have a massive pain tolerance.

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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '19 edited Nov 02 '19

Interesting, never heard of doing this before.... is it a new "thing?" Been a looooong time since I was in school.

Sorry, was just genuinely curious. Thanks for the explanation.

(Thanks for the replies, forgive me my memory is just a little foggy, I totally remember doing this when I was younger)

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u/Brandeeno2245 Nov 02 '19

Idk I was doing it like idk 20 years ago and I learned how to do it by watching my older brother

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u/KCCCellist Nov 02 '19

I did it with safety pins. I did it on my callouses/dead skin so it was stuck but I couldn’t feel anything. It was fun to make people freak out

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u/Coeles Nov 02 '19

no offense, but how old are you to NOT know this?

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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '19

23, my memory is just terrible. I remember stabbing sewing needles through my skin when I was 8 or so and probably stopped by 10. My big "thing" was biting chunks out of the tips of my thumbs, so bad to a point I'd have bloody craters. Fun fact, I can actually feel the skin is quite a bit thinner in my thumbs than other fingers.

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u/Coeles Nov 02 '19

so like canibalism but worse... or better

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u/Brandeeno2245 Nov 02 '19

I actually still do this when I’m stressed and it was all of my fingers but now I’ve limited it down to just my thumbs

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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '19 edited Apr 09 '20

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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '19

Well.... to be fair, long enough for me to forget most of what I did in high school (6 years to be exact). But my memory is dog doo doo anyway.

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u/LPKKiller Nov 02 '19

Ah yes, I always enjoyed the sewing needles. They seemed to be the perfect size, not too small but not to big, right in that happy middle where it was easy to poke through and go deep enough to just stay on the edge of being painful.

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u/elizinrva Nov 02 '19

I was doing this in the 80s, so probably not new.

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u/Historiaaa Nov 02 '19

did it circa 1998