BS: Home & leisure accidents

Subject: Home & leisure accidents
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 07 Jun 01 - 08:05 AM

Read this and tremble! (With fright or laughter)
Steve

Subject: RE: BS: Home & leisure accidents
From: Billy the Bus
Date: 07 Jun 01 - 08:22 AM

Armchair accidents have gone up by one - just fell off mine laughing - thanks Steve

Subject: RE: BS: Home & leisure accidents
From: Arnie
Date: 07 Jun 01 - 09:06 AM

The same survey reports a rise last year in accidents involving tea-cosy's (or should that be tea-cosies) to 47!! What on are people doing with them?? I did hear that when no-one is looking, a third of men will put a tea-cosy on their head if one is available!! Maybe they're setting them alight at the same time?? What I wonder is who on earth does the research and can you get a grant for it!

Subject: RE: BS: Home & leisure accidents
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 07 Jun 01 - 09:56 AM

Arnie, it used to be the case that all normal men, when left alone in a room with a tea-cosy, would put the tea-cosy on their heads. Of course, with the decline in standards of recent years, the increase in instant and decaffeinated beverages, and (probably more than any other factor) the use of one-cup tea-bags, the tea-cosy is becoming a thing of the past, both as a tea-pot insulator and as a Cossack hat.

In the 1940s my great-uncle David (now long since gone to that great Lyons Corner House in the sky) came home a little merry one night. Seeing the tea-cosy on the hearth, he did the other normal thing, and with a cheery cry of "it's a goal!" he kicked the tea-cosy into the air. Having lost an arm in WWI, he was less inclined to pick things up; but, if he had, he'd have known about the freshly-brewed pot of tea underneath it. Ah well, there was a war on ...

Steve

Subject: RE: BS: Home & leisure accidents
From: Robby
Date: 07 Jun 01 - 02:11 PM

Are there any similar publications in the USA? It would abe interesting to how similar or differe accidents we have in this country as opposed to those in the UK.
In the meatime, I'll try to be careful with tea cosies and trousers. *bg*
Robby

Subject: RE: BS: Home & leisure accidents
From: SINSULL
Date: 08 Jun 01 - 02:03 PM

well, another article reported hundreds of fires and crashes resulting from out of control "Big Wheels" manufactured by Fisher Price. Problems with the electrical systems. And of course, someone hid the statistics so there is a small fine involved. Wonder how this compares to the rate of accidents as a result of tire failure on SUVs?

Subject: RE: BS: Home & leisure accidents
From: SINSULL
Date: 08 Jun 01 - 03:30 PM

I didn't see a category for injury from musical instruments. A few weeks ago, I nearly put out my eye, cut my face and hand while attempting to tune an autoharp. Previously, I impaled my middle finger on a guitar string. My brother had to remove the lancet while my finger turned black from internal bleeding. No sepsis. Am I alone in this stupidity?

Subject: RE: BS: Home & leisure accidents
From: Megan L
Date: 08 Jun 01 - 05:09 PM

Why cant i get anything with the blue clicky? keep getting cannot connect to server message

Subject: RE: BS: Home & leisure accidents
From: kendall
Date: 08 Jun 01 - 05:24 PM

I cant get into it either.

Subject: RE: BS: Home & leisure accidents
From: catspaw49
Date: 08 Jun 01 - 06:24 PM

They may be having a site problem, but I think I get the jist.............

A few years ago the number one cause of knife wounds at ER's in the US was accidentally slicing yourself when slicing a bagel. We have a friend who's a nurse and wound up there herself....not a bagel, but a frozen English muffin.

Where's El Swanno at? I'm sure he can tell you a few about people going to the ER because of "inserted objects which can't be removed."

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Home & leisure accidents
From: Sorcha
Date: 08 Jun 01 - 06:31 PM

Hmm. I got into it yesterday, but can't now. Strange. Sinsull, I have sliced my face open tuning a lap dulcimer into Mixolydian.........the string broke and went flying across my face.

Subject: RE: BS: Home & leisure accidents
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 08 Jun 01 - 06:36 PM

I dislocated a bone in my foot, by kicking a lampost in a fit of pique once. I've also put my other foot through the wheel of my own bicycle.... Tripping over the cat gave me 3 days in hospital with concussion and whiplash(subsequent headache meant I wasn't judging distance properly, and backed the car into a bollard, thus causing the whiplash injury)......

Just lucky I guess....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Home & leisure accidents
From: Tig
Date: 09 Jun 01 - 07:41 AM

I can't get into the blue clicky thing either but I would have thought that at the moment the record for the most accident prone family should go to the Ducks.

Since Geoff sprained his ankle at the Yorkshire Mudlarks (and he's still hobbling), Prew was involved in an accident on her motor scooter, Little Duckling fell off the monkeybars at the Jug and ended up with a visit to hospital and concussion and now Mrs Duck has visited the hospital with HER ankle. She claims she only stood up but it gave way under her! Since it was lunchtime at school she was sober!!!!!