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"Scars"

Everyone knows scars are big, clever and make you look cool. Like smoking and swearing and punching children. But I have some of the most retarded scars on any human.

I have one down the length of my right forearm, quite faint, from falling off a skateboard in one of those hilarious videos you've no doubt seen. Thing is, it didn't even hurt at the time, it was literally just a scrape, the top of the skin came off. Now I have a twatty looking scar the length of my arm for falling off a moving plank of wood.

On my bicep on the same arm, I have a nasty looking scar, but - here's the thing - I don't know where it came from. How spasticated is that? It happened while I was at uni, I just looked at my arm one day and found I had a scar there where there was no scar before. It kind of looks circular, like I fell on a glass or bottle or something, but the fact I'm scarred for life and don't know how I did it makes me feel stupid. It's not like I didn't remember cutting myself, it's that I don't remember the injury ever being there - how long does a cut take to scar? A week or more? I must have been drunk a long time.

I tell people my scars are from 'Nam.

Share your scar stories; it'll be like Jaws, only with nerds who fall off skateboards.

I've got a nice one from when I was about ten. I was riding my bike, the pedals were wet and I slipped. I came off and the pedal sliced across the back of my ankle.

It hurt like a bast and it made it difficult to walk for a while.

Had a hernia myself, so I have an 8 inch scar from it. Got a scar on my right hand by the little finger where I came off a bike. Another bike scar on my knee. Have slight reddening of the skin on my right hand where I got third degree burns but it isn't that noitceable now. Have a few scars in my scalp, one from barbed wire and one from a sharp wall corner. Think that's it.

Cutting carrots with a sharp knife at about four years old. I think my Mum was ill, and I volunteered. Scar on finger.

Also, slipping on the pebble-dashed concrete stairs to a waterslide on holiday, gashed my knee down to the gristle and gave myself a hernia. So there's a pale scar on my knee. The hernia I never bothered with, the pain went away after a while and comes back sporadically.

The kids must be dishing out a lot of haymakers to get lunch money these days.

:)

Actual scars, I have found some more appearing recently around the side of my rib-cage.

Maybe it's your intercostal muscles?

Or are they actual scars?

Timmargh wrote:
> OddToe wrote:
> I have scars all the way up my back, they line the position of my
> ribcage.
>
> What caused them?

I am unsure, I have had them about a year. I really should see a doctor about them.

That reminds me - on holiday when I was about 10 I was running along the beach at night. Someone shouted and I turned to see what about when - boom.

Suddenly I was catapulted back. Someone had shouted to warn me that I was about to run into a rusty wire fence.

I had one line across my forehead, one across my cheeks and nose, one across my chin - all the way my arms and across my legs (I think I was wearing shorts, but either way it still hurt through my clothes)

I looked like I'd been grilled, and they stayed for a day or so.

I have several small ones on the palm of my left hand from falling on a concrete playgound and pebbles getting stuck under my skin. On the back of the same hand I have several more in a jaw shape where my brother bit me as a youngster. Moving to the left wrist I have a few longer scars which came from wounds that just appeared one morning. I dont self-harm honest. I have a small circle like scar on my neck where I had a lump removed. I also have a scar on my forehead where my bro smashed my head into a TV (when we were young). I also have sveral on the back of the thumb on my right hand, which came from a sharp letter box on my paper-round. I drew blood on it almost every week. Now I think thats them all apart from the obligatiory ones on my knees that everyone has...

Edit: Since someone mentioned Acne, I was lucky only having the mild type, no scars just feckload of 'tard spots. They're almost gone now tho, just a couple of patches round my shoulders/back...

Edit2: Something just reminded me. I left a pretty heafy scar in someones forehead. The person was a shortarse and ran into me during football, knocked my tooth square out (only milk so it didnt matter) and I cut open their forehead, go me!

I ran into a rusty hinge when i was three. I've also got some small scars around my mouth, where, after a appointment at the dentist, i was checking the numbness of my chin.

Oh, and one on my leg from ice skating. I slipped and somehow the back end of my skate dug into my thigh.