OK, I know I shouldn't laugh at this, but I did. Poor guy.... :(Quote:
Originally Posted by limewave
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OK, I know I shouldn't laugh at this, but I did. Poor guy.... :(Quote:
Originally Posted by limewave
Always make sure to take everything off the stove when cooking or you might end up melting a bottle of Goo-Gone because you turned on the wrong burner.
It will require having the fire trucks, police cars and an ambulance showing up at your house and you go to the hospital for smoke inhalation.
No, there wasn't a fire as I managed to get the bottle off the stove and tossed it outside, but the smell was terrible and I coughed for two days.
Always have an animal carrier close by so you can grab your kids, cat and get out of the house safely.
Next rule..make sure you have working smoke detectors as I didn't.
Yikes, that would be embarrassing... but what is the problem with doing this? What happened? Not that I would find a hot bath attractive after a hot ride, that is what lukewarm showers are for :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Kiwi Stoker
+10,000! I am coming to learn this myself....Quote:
Originally Posted by tulip
Do not dice 3 cups worth of hot peppers for salsa without gloves.
My hands are STILL hurting, and I did this 20 hours ago.
By the way, no, nothing works to stop the burn once it starts. The capsiacin oil has already traveled through all the outer layers of skin into the subdermis - so it's like closing the barn after the horse is out. It didn't keep me from trying though: vinegar, rubbing alcohol, benadryl gel, citrus, soap and water, bleach, aloe vera, burn spray, baking soda, milk.... NOTHING. I went to sleep clutching an ice pack.
Yikes! :eek: I wonder if you don't have a sensitivity??? (Or if what's burning your hands now is things like bleach, or the combination of chemicals you used??) Anyway I hope you feel better pronto!
In terms of washing the oils off so that at least I'm safe to remove my contacts or - ahem - more intimate things, I learned that it's best to treat capsaicin as though it were 90wt gear oil (without the smell). Scrubbing with a hand cleaner designed for the garage does the trick for me every time.
This one happened years ago, but here it is: If the doctor tells you you're dehydrated and need to go to the ER to get IV fluids, do NOT guzzle three tall glasses of water in an effort to fix the problem and avoid going to the hospital. It will come back up...rather violently. And you'll still have to go to the ER.
OUCH. I did this with one jalapeno and my hands burned for most of the rest of the evening. I spent a lot of time running cold water over my hands.Quote:
Originally Posted by grey
Here's another one:
Bagel guillotines: Totally worth it if you're a klutz. Also, medical-grade superglue is really expensive.
Lavender oil works wonders on burns. Taught to me by a successful professional chef who has lots of burn experience. Not sure it would work for hot pepper burns, though.
[QUOTE=Catrin;589387]Yikes, that would be embarrassing... but what is the problem with doing this? What happened? Not that I would find a hot bath attractive after a hot ride, that is what lukewarm showers are for :)
A fellow rider told him a bath would help is muscles recover. I assume the rider meant a "cold or lukewarm" bath. Poor friend ended up with cramp in his legs.
Here's one from today:
Some people have a knack for making candy. I am not one of them.
If you are used to braking with BOTH hands - don't keep your left hand on the front brake while you grab the lever of the adjustable seatpost under your saddle. At least if you don't like to perform a very embarrassing version of a superman seatgrab while going over your handlebars.
I really love my wide bottomed pants. I do not love my wide bottomed pants when I ride my bike. They get caught in the chain and try to kill me. :rolleyes:
When a guy tells you he's a jerk, he's a jerk.
When a guy insists he's the nice guy that girls overlook, that's because he's also a jerk, but refuses to admit it.
Oh so true! :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Jen12
This reminded me of a story from my first date with DH :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Jen12
We went mountain biking, and I didn't know the trails very well. He got pretty far ahead of me in a tight twisty section, leaving me to wonder where the heck I was and if I'd missed a turn. A few minutes later, he came sprinting back to find me, saying, "I'm such a jerk, I'm so sorry! I'm such a jerk....I'll slow down!"
I figured that any guy who was that willing to apologize and admit his mistakes was worth a second date....the rest is history :)
Don't 'loan' anything to a friend unless you are prepared to consider it a gift.
Your beautiful, cuddly, butter wouldn't melt in its mouth kitty cat that you thought would never hurt you turns into a raging tiger with very sharp claws when having to be bathed when covered in oil from lurking under a car
When it is over 95 degrees, don't take home-made trail mix that has chocolate chips in it for a snack in your Camelbak. Even if you are in the woods it WILL melt :o I guess I can freeze the baggie it is in and then break it into pieces...
Always be nice, because if you a snotty, and the other person is nice and polite, you are the idiot and everyone will know it.
Oh dear. Now you have some kind of granola bar?Quote:
Originally Posted by Catrin
Yeah, of course it was too messy to eat...you would think that I should have realized that when I put it in my bag for the trip :rolleyes: Oh well, it can be a bike-ride recovery snack with chocolate milk instead of chips.Quote:
Originally Posted by Owlie
Maybe you should start bringing a spork with you on rides, just in case. They make nice lightweight titanium ones. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Catrin
Machete's should only be used if you are wearing protective clothing. So next time your husband says "going to do trail work" And grabs the machete, take it away from him! That way you aren't rushing him to urgent care to get his leg stitched up! (that happend wed of this week).
Oh that is the truth!Quote:
Originally Posted by ridingfiend
:eek: Oh man Brandi, hope your DH is healing up!
Don't stick your arm out the car window to catch the breeze when you're passing blackberry brambles.
And with two thorns still in my fingers from the LAST thing I learned the hard way, so deep I can't dig them out ...
Don't check the batteries on your PlanetBike SuperFlash by turning it on while looking directly into the lens.
Anybody here have any common sense they're not using? Because I've apparently misplaced mine.
Nope, sorry OakLeaf. I need all I can get and more! :)
of all things I've lost, I miss my mind the most.
Always pick up your feet is my big bette noir.
Yeah...I've done that by accident with my light (a Cateye tail-light thing) and my retinas haven't forgiven me.:oQuote:
Originally Posted by OakLeaf
Today's lesson: 12-year-old rusted bolts are really difficult to remove...
Did you get them off?Quote:
Originally Posted by Owlie
If you have enough clearance behind the bumper to pull the bolt out from the back, the easiest thing to do is drill off the heads.
Hahaha..right...ever been at a table full of people when somebody says something really nasty and there's complete silence?Quote:
Originally Posted by TsPoet
Yes! WD-40 left overnight did the trick for all but one of them. The remaining one had a nut on it, and they had rusted to each other and to the little Y-shaped metal thing that holds the lower two bolts. We somehow pulled the plate off without undoing that bolt. My car is legal once again!Quote:
Originally Posted by OakLeaf
Always wear gloves when shelling black walnuts. If you can't find any around the house, run out to the store and get some.
BTW, does anyone have any suggestions for getting rid of the stains on my hands? I've been trying to get rid of them for 3 days now...:o
:p
I don't know, I had a friend in high school who was a fiber artist, worked a lot with natural dyes, and you just never knew what color her hands would be on any given day...
Maybe try a pumice scrub and just take off the stained outer layer(s) of skin???
Hopefully you won't need a surgeon the way I wound up needing for that thorn. :rolleyes: (Just a local anaesthetic and a couple of little scalpel cuts, but too small for my PCP to deal with in her office.)
Vegetable dyed shoes stain. My cats will have furballs onto those shoes just to make sure I remember.
Heh. Back in my racing days when I rode rain or shine, I had this pair of Duegi shoes that never stopped turning my feet and socks black every time they got wet.
I kept expecting that sooner or later they would run out of dye, but I burned out on cycling before that happened, and by the time I came back to riding, my feet are three sizes bigger, perfect excuse for new shoes. :rolleyes:
speaking of stains... the gilles berthoud saddle I had to abandon due to wrong size for my sits was stained black, so was fine with my black biking shorts but if I rode in street clothes I ended up with an unflattering saddle mark stain that was really hard to wash out. Why they chose that dye is beyond me.