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[–] [email protected] 170 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Ends with him getting nailed in the ass, the fake and gay just writes itself

[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No it's true. I was the nail.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It was the whole point. Badum-tss!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Man gets nailed 3 times while trying to work. More at 11

[–] [email protected] 72 points 2 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago

And a trash can for the nail

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Oh that unlocked a memory.

I used to work on a construction site and everyone wore steel toed boots, anyway one time it was very cold and some guy decided to lick the toe of his boot to see if it would stick to his tongue. It did.

They were always a pain for being cold I remember. In a hot country they'd probably burn your toes. There's a reason most people don't wear metal shoes.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 months ago (3 children)

the steel toe is usually underneath the leather/fabric... what kind of cartoon-ass boots you guys wearing?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Come to think of it, they may have just been so worn out the steel was showing.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This was back in the '90s so I don't really remember the details and I wasn't actually there to witness it, just the aftermath. I assume the boot leather just wore down.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

that would make sense yeah

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

You can get ones that have exposed steel caps, but most of them have rubber over the cap.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Around here temperature varies from under -30c to over +30c depending on what season it is and construction workers still wear them every work day.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Holy hell thats a huge temp range where the hell is that?!?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I'm guessing Canada. We get similar temp range in north central and north eastern US.

I'm in the Rocky Mountains, and our range is -15C to 40C (5F to 105F), and I wear my steel toe boots to shovel snow in the winter and garden in the summer. Oh, and I wear the same wool socks in both seasons, which keep my feet warm in the winter and dry in the summer.

Parts of the US (and probably Canada) get to -40.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Many boots now use composite fibres for toe and shank protection simply because of the problems with metal and cold.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Welcome to Quebec, if you're unlucky you also live in a region with high humidity so the temperature felt ranges from over 40c to under -45c...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

ISO 20345 boots for your specific job or bust. What Americans call work boots are only good for leisure not protecting feet.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I think that entirely depends on what you are diing for a living. Not every job needs as much toe protection

[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Did that shit exactly once. Nail went between my toes, barely knicked me. Yeah, never fucking around again.

And then there was the time I went Looney Tunes with a rake. Stumbling around, stunned and bleeding, hit it again. Yeah, had me in stitches.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why would you link that gif and not the Sideshow Bob one?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Nyughohoirihu.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I did this once as a kid just to see if it works. Yes, it works.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I did this once as an adult because I'm an idiot, and yes, it hurts.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I hate that they ran this joke into the ground in later seasons.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Stepped on a nail as a kid. Wasn't fun.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Probably the closest I've ever come to dying that I know of happened after I developed a severe, systemic infection from stepping on a nail. So yeah, I concur, it's not fun.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Maybe I have some internalized aussiephobia or something, but this read as an Australian to me.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Now you get it on repeat.