Participatory Shin Experiment
 

Here's a fun experiment I'd like everyone to try.

Go bang your shin against something solid, like the edge of a wrought iron coffee table or your desk or the corner of your garage. Alternatively, whack it with a baseball bat or lead pipe.

Give it a few good smacks and report back on the experience.

Just a sec, I'm pushing a sharpened pencil into my cornea at the moment. I'll do the shin thing after.

I have a 1976 vintage aluminum bat divot in my left shin. I'm going to opt out of future research.

It sounds like you borrowed money from the wrong guys.

i'll see your shin experiment and raise you 28 kicking feet for a couple hours each week.

You know what?
Just seeing the title of this thread made me wince. I opened it hoping that my fears would be allayed. I forgot. This is the Cellar.

I have to say, shin injuries are nasty, but nothing clouds the vision like a good old whang on the knee. The temporary pain from even a minor collision is completely out of proportion to the actual injury and literally blinding. The whole body shrieks in sympathy.

I've stopped a car with my lower leg (still have numb spots on the calf) so I decline to participate in your experiment in case I wreck the curve.

wince?

I have a heavy desk I could crunch my knee into for a while.

That's next Friday's experiment. Try not to get ahead of the lessons.

I think just seeing the still image was sufficient.

Is this what you do for several hours each week?

Did that last fall. Only I hit it with a missed axe swing while chopping wood in the back yard for our out door fireplace.

I play soccer for several hours each week. well, when not prevented by injury anyway. That was an especially gruesome injury that could have been prevented. It actually whipped the soccer/football community into a bit of a frenzy.

And now they call you Stumpy?

That sounds painful. Did you post pictures?

I don't think I was on the cellar at the time, anyway, in my early days on the cellar I don't anyone here would have settled for anything less than total amputation.

:D

In the early days of the Cellar, they had to push their mice two miles uphill in the snow to post a reply.