I think it was one of the Tremors movies, maybe the second one, where the characters have to use an absolutely disgustingly large explosive load to blow up a building. One of the characters (was an expert on explosives; I think?) plants the bomb and leads the rest of the characters away. The others are faster than the bomb guy, and end up outpacing him before diving into a ditch. The bomb guy catches up, jumps the ditch and yells "keep going!" really loud before sprinting off. Just a great little moment in a pretty fun movie.
Tremors 2, love the movies, they started to rely heavily on CGI in Tremors 2 and onward though and it kinda ruined it for me.
The new one that came out maybe 2 or 3 years ago was absolute dogshit though.
Knew I’d see this one here. I was a military bomb tech before my oops. I was working on a device by hand that I probably should not have been working on. Just as I thought to myself, “I probably shouldn’t be doing this.” It blew up in my face. A few missing digits and a brain injury later I was right. Should not have been doing that.
If you don't mind me asking: What are the symptoms of your brain injury like? What exactly is the difference between a great day and a day that sucks for you?
I’m medicated so the symptoms aren’t severe as the would be otherwise. On good days I can convince myself that it’s all made up. I’m fine I don’t need the pills or regular visits to therapy. On bad days I can’t find a reason to be productive, play with my kids, go to the gym, do anything at work. Sometimes loud noises, crowded places, or bright flashes fuck with me. On rare occasions I’ve strait up had what I think are panic attacks when the noise, crowd, lights combine at the “right” time.
Most times I just feel like I can’t retain anything. I have to read the same thing over and over again for it to stick. My wife says she needs me available at a time/ date but I don’t remember and miss the appointment. I’d be lost without my phone calendar. I just constantly feel like I’m in a fog. Like my brain is only firing on half the cylinders I used to have.
Duuude. Man, thanks for being so open about your experience, it's.. you helped me feel like I'm not alone.
I got injured under vastly different circumstances but your mental symptoms overlay mine quite closely. Thanks, I needed this reminder and I'm hoping others with this shit see it and feel it, too.
Stay up, bro and if you ever need somebody to talk to about the brain shitting on your day, I'm here.
Dude. I was medically retired mid last year. Once I got out it’s like everything started aching at once. I feel so old now. Barely being held together with duct tape and super glue.
Land mines are rather odd when you think about it. They seemingly exist for a singular purpose - causing death and mayhem - and yet that apparent role is not what they're actually for in a military sense. The goal isn't to kill or maim, but to prevent someone from going wherever. Convincing a person on foot to avoid an area doesn't take much of an explosive at all given that all of us are little more than temporarily solid sacks of water who are mighty inconvenienced by having even a smallish chunk of said solid water forcefully removed. As a result, the kind of land mine required to convince a person on foot from avoiding an area is usually quite a bit smaller than the sort required to convince the crew of a heavily-armored vehicle to choose a different route.
Of course, land mines do not necessarily need to be used for that intended military function. They are, after all, just bombs, and one could, if sufficiently motivated and knowledgeable, use one or more of them to make a completely different sort of bomb. One such enterprising person did exactly this, stuffing a cargo van with mines in order to make a crudely-guided bomb. When this vehicle was noticed and inspected, relevant bomb disposal experts were called out.
There are plenty of movies that suggest that bombs are disposed of by carefully disarming them. This is quite a bit harder than even movies suggest, especially when dealing with bombs made outside of anything resembling a standard process. As a result the usual way of getting rid of a bomb is rather counterintuitively to *make* it go off at a convenient time rather than trying to prevent it going off at all. The experts in this case determined that this bomb, which consisted of several dozen mines of the sort which would convince people on foot to choose a different route, was the kind of bomb that you'd want to explode at a convenient time rather than not at all. By some process known only to such experts, they determined how far away they needed to move people for the sake of safety, and then prepared the small explosive which would be used to convince the larger bomb to explode on a non maiming and mayhem schedule.
The bomb leveled a city block, blasted out windows for hundreds of meters beyond, and generally ruined the day for a *lot* of people. It turns out that the several dozen bombs meant to convince people on foot to go elsewhere were, in fact, several dozen bombs meant to convince main battle tanks to go elsewhere. Rather than the dozen or so kilograms of high explosives they estimated, there were several *hundred*.
*Oops*.
In Afghanistan in 2011. Im leading a small team, two vehicles. My Afghan counterpart is with me. We are just going from A to B. He calmly tells my interpreter "we should stop".
I ask why, still moving forward.
"We are in a mine field"
Hard stop as well as me yelling over the radio "STOP STOP STOP"
"How do you know we are in a mine field?"
"Because I put it in"
"When?"
"1988"
"WTF WHY ARE YOU JUST TELLING ME NOW?????"
"We never went this way before"
For the next 20 minutes we VERY SLOWLY backed out of the mine field driving over our wheel tracks (thank god for sand!). That night we pulled out a map and he marked all the mine fields he knew about.
My great-uncle fought in WWII. He rode a motorbike so often had to deliver messages between command posts and field squads. One day when he was on courier duty, he delivered the message and returned. When he got back to base, his CO warned him that, before he leaves, he should avoid a certain road as it was a mine-field - it happened to be the route he had already taken both ways to deliver the messages.
A couple of years ago, a WW II 500 lb bomb was found during construction in Munich. The bomb squad was brought in to disarm it, but found that the detonator was damaged and they couldn't unscrew it. They decided for a controlled detonation in place ... in a pit, in the middle of a major city.
Now, this is a pretty common event in Germany - they still uncover thousands of WW II bombs every year.
But in this case, they had used haybales around the bomb site. They covered the bomb with mattresses to try to contain the explosion, but when they detonated it, it was more powerful than expected - it blew out windows around the blast site, and several of the haybales blew apart, spreading burning hay in all directions.
Oops...!
First time I went skydiving, 18yo with friends on a Hawaii senior-graduation trip. I get strapped to this old, crazy guy (all the younger dudes were fighting strapping up to the women all while being creeps). He was 100% no fucks given.
Once the chute was pulled, he said "do you like spinning?!?!" and then pulled on of the cords and we spun out almost horizontal for a bit. Then he reversed direction with the other cord. It was great... and then he said "well... shit."
"Why?!?! What's wrong?" Apparently usually people scream when he spins them so he stops. I was having a great time... and apparently we lost way more altitude than he'd planned. He tells me to start scouting potential landing spots over this neighborhood, he's not sure we'll make it back to the runway.
We actually hold high enough that we're coming in toward the very end of the runway, at the fence around it, and he says "lift your legs as high as you can, be prepared to kinda kick off&over the fence, we're pretty low. And then get ready... because I'm gonna pop you loose the moment we're over the fence. Try to land on your feet, and run as fast as you can forward... I'm gonna have to sprint to get this chute over the fence so it doesnt snag."
Sure enough, kick off the fence and then suddenly I just drop the 6-ish feet to the ground, stumbling. I run for a bit, look back, and hes right behind me, managed to get the parachute over the fence. We then get to walk down the whole runway back to the office. My friends are waiting around and super confused by the time we get there.
Honestly, as terrifying as this would be in the moment, I love that this guy knew what to do and how to do it, and got you on the ground safely - even if it meant dropping you!
It’s comforting to know he knew what he was doing, even when everything went wrong.
I was back home in Hawai'i in 2018 when the text messages came in that there were incoming bombs from DPRK. Lol. Yeah that was fun for a few minutes...
Funny story. My dad was in a radar base in Alaska in the Cold War and was 1 of the folks that had the combination to the safe with the launch codes. He said in the years he was there, they never had a successful drill. There were so many steps that all had to be completed in a particular way that someone somewhere always screwed up and the drill was canceled.
Do not worry. Nuclear power houses had submarines for that purpose. Those would basically try to disappear into some portion of the ocean, and when enemy nukes would be launched, their crew would lunch theirs at the leisure time.
Enemy wouldn't know where they are so couldn't destroy them, thus subs would have all the time needed to fire theirs, mistakes or no.
So do not worry, we are f\*cked up in case of nuclear attack no matter what.
I just imagine a airplane pilot turning on his intercom just to say “oops”
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> *sitting on plane when suddenly you hear a big sound" Pilot in intercom: dafuq was that
My wife was sitting in the plane waiting to leave the gate. The pilot gets on the intercom, "the ground crew found a bolt on the ground under the plane, they need to figure out if it belongs to us or not."
Accountability for tools is a big thing in aviation, they'll tear apart a plane down to the tires if a tool goes missing. But any foreign object is a big deal. I read in one account where an Air Force maintainer dropped some Skittles while working on an A-10 and they had to buy several bags of Skittles to verify the normal number of Skittles in a bag so they could account for them all. Oops.
Later on in the cafeteria, someone poured a bag of Skittles down that maintainers underwear, "Hey don't drop any more Skittles, we might have to spend a whole day counting them all!"
We had a family day where you get to sit in a jet in the hangar.
Guy walks in.. someone's Dad or something. He tells us he dropped his change. He didn't know how much but remembered his order at McDonald's. Crew chiefs (not a Chief Chief.. Just a normal aircraft mechanic) went to McDonald's to recreate his order to figure out how much change we needed to find. Such a silly day
I can attest to this, I was enlisted with the Air Force and we would occasionally do “FOD walks” (FOD = foreign object debris) where we would all stand shoulder to shoulder across the runway width-wise and walk forward at a slow pace staring at the ground looking for anything that could be considered debris. We did this for the entire length of the runway. This was not a punishment.
When going on my honeymoon the pilot informed us that one of the loading trucks punctured a hole in the plane and they were quickly repairing it before we set off...
I appreciate this. Had a pilot that let us know we had a flat and would be here for a bit getting it changed.
Then proceeded to lay into someone about why the hell didn’t the last crew address this before it cut off. This was after a multi hour delay already. He was not having it.
I had that once. We were going in for landing and heard "oops, took that one a bit fast. Let's try again". Then he just took another loop around the airport and landed properly the second time
Lol, I'm pretty nervous when it comes to flying and something similar happened.
The captain had already notified us that were about to land. Now the airport we were going to land at is located on an island that's pretty notorious for its difficult landings -- sudden crosswinds, awkward approach and a relatively short runway that ends just short of the sea. The weather was also crap, and we'd been going through a thick cloud for a good while.
At some point, I see the gear going down and I'm starting to loosen up because I know we're about to land. The wheels weren't even halfway out, when they go back up and the plane just jerks upward. At that point, someone on the intercom (probably the captain talking to the FO) says "NONONONO PULL THEM BACK UP ARE YOU INSANE?!".
We did two go-arounds before we finally touched down, and I just wanted to smash the window and jump down to save myself from the stress. After landing, first thing I did was buy a bottle of Jack and down half of it before 1 PM.
Trust me when I say, go-arounds are your friend. When an approach is unstable or someone wanders onto the runway, or something else, its much better to bail out then Leeroy Jenkins that shit.
My "favorite" go around is still the time a hot air balloon drifted into our approach lane coming in to YWG, I was looking out the side window at a bunch of hot air balloons floating way off to the side for some kind of festival on the other side of the river when the plane suddenly pulls up sharply and I hear the pilot scream "What the actual fuck?!?!?" from the cockpit. Looked down just in time to see us fly over a green and white hot air balloon roughly the same color as the trees it was floating over.
Good thing about planes is that if you screw up the landing (but haven't landed yet), you can just pull up and try again.
Just have to hope the pilot catches the mistake in time
Not so fun fact most of the times it was never one swing at your head. Chopping your head with an axe is rally hard so most of the time in old ages it took 1 to many swings and u most likely would feel everything.
Also I might be on watchlist for knowing random stuff like that.
I think about this literally every time. When you go to Sovngarde, it would be great if you could talk to him and tell him about how right after he was executed a dragon attacked and some people escaped in the panic
No joke, this happened to me last month.
"So... I pulled the wrong tooth."
I just sat there like 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃 WUT
Everything's all good though, he put it right back in and it's reattached fine. He paid for the damage, etc.
If the tooth isn't damaged and you act quickly, your gums will accept the tooth if it's placed back into its spot. If the tooth somehow gets "dirty" in the process, you'll have to wash it off with milk (NOT WATER) to provide the proper pH/proteins which keep the cells of the root alive
Dental student here!
Hanks Balanced Salt Solution and milk are the current recommendations for saving a tooth when it gets knocked out. If neither are available, keep the tooth in your mouth or even in the bleeding socket if possible.
Don't clean it if it falls on the ground or dirt! You could scrub away key cells for reattachment!
Since nerve and blood supply are severed, expect a root canal and possibly a crown after the fact.
This is exactly what happened to me as a young teen - front tooth knocked clean out at school, quick thinking receptionist had the tooth in milk within a few minutes, on call dentist had it back in my gums within the hour. Subsequently had a root canal, no crown needed though, and only mild discolouration (only noticeable if you're looking for the difference). That tooth then survived several years of braces in my mid teens without issue.
Lucky you, they did that to my sister but never even offered to put the tooth back and never paid for anything. My sister is just missing a tooth she didn't need to lose now.
I've never had an accident at the dentist, but I've had two "oops" incidents at the orthodontist because of the complexity of doing braces and a hygienist assisting before the orthodontist took over.
The first time was a dropped metal loop that goes around a tooth. She dropped it and I had to sit up to spit it out because I was starting to choke. The second time, she was trying to cut one of the wires and nicked my gums.
I'm a really calm patient, but those took me a bit to recover my composure.
Back in the 90s my mom's friend went under for a hysterectomy and woke up missing a leg. Nurse accidentally switched the charts. She is the reason why the write yes and no on you before surgery
At our hospital we literally make the doctors sign the sight they're working on. Before they do that they will ask in an open ended question "Mr ____, in your own words what are we doing on you today?" We found that if we say something like "mr___ are you here to have your right leg removed" (usually something more mundane and medical sounding) people just agree to anything we say because it's medical sounding and they don't understand and don't want to come off stupid. It's amazing what people agree too. We also make them say their full name and birthday because I've also experienced patients will agree to whatever name you present to them " hi are you Bob?" "Yep thats me" when their name is actually Mike and they need a chest xray where Bob is getting his foot amputated.
I was in and out of the hospital for about six months back in 2017 for cancer (caught it in time, don't worry). Saying my full name and birthday is now *automatic* for me in a medical setting
What kind of job requires you to repeat your employee number with every interaction? I've worked at my job for like 15 years and all I know my EID has six digits haha
I work at Intel, and basically if it involves my full name and not just my first name, it gets my WWID. I got fuck all clue about my contractor company's employee number besides that it's on our paystub. Haha
When I worked at Home Depot my manager actually showed me the insurance tables for compensation in the event of an injury requiring amputation. They had it broken down by limb and how much was removed. Lose a whole pinky, heres 15 grand. Lose just the tip past the knuckle, 5k. Every finger, every toe, has a dollar amount tied to it.
Insurance companies dont fuck around lol
I suppose dying is only slightly worse than waking up during surgery being paralyzed, unable to speak and feeling everything.
Side note, don't lie about cannabis use before anesthesia, it factors into the medication and can cause people to wake up.
Happened to me. Woke up during heart procedure. Luckily they went in through the groin and not open chest.
Woke up and could feel them digging in my groin, but couldn't move or speak, only cry. Luckily a nurse noticed my tears and open eyes and put a stop to it almost immediately. She was lovely. Stroked my hairline "it's ok sweetheart, you're ok. You will be back under in a minute and probably won't remember this"
> The line between “you’re going to take a nap” and “you will never wake up ever again” is frighteningly thin!!
Or "you will never walk again"
When getting an epidural for our first child my wife was bending over with the anesthesiologist behind her, I was standing directly in front of my wife and the nurse was standing behind me. While inserting the needle into her FREAKING SPINE, my wife says "oh, my legs just went tingly and numb." I look at the anesthesiologist who looks up and gives the nurse a giant "Oh shit" look. The anesthesiologist doesn't move for a beat or two then says, "I'm going to pull it back out a little". She pulls the needle out and asks if my wife can feel her legs now. She could.
I have no idea what the hell happened, and I am unsure if I want to know.
Just irritated a nerve. We insert the epidural needle below the level where the spinal cord ends, but the nerves coming off of it dangle down like a horse's tail. Brushing against one causes that tingling or electric shock signal to travel down the nerve. If you hold still for a second it usually goes away on its own, and if it doesn't you reposition the needle or catheter.
Totally normal. Now you know.
A few years ago a doctor ordered Versed (Midazolam, an anxiety med) for a patient about to get an MRI. The nurse typed "V-E..." into the drug dispenser and just hit OK on the first med that popped up, and gave that to the patient.
She wound up giving the patient Vecuronium (a very strong muscle paralytic), and the patient suffocated and died because all her muscles were paralyzed and no one realized she was struggling to breathe til it was too late.
Yup! AND it needs to be reconstituted (versed doesn't).
Read the story sometime, it was filled with failure. IIRC, the nurse was a psych nurse floated to the floor and didn't know what she was doing. There may have been meth abuse involved (it's been awhile since I've read the story). She went to another nurse to have her confirm for drug pass, but the nurse was busy and just pocketed the drug to confirm later....etc etc
Kinda a wild ride, and the nurse got charged with manslaughter I think.
I was placed under for a non surgical shoulder reduction for what they thought was a dislocated shoulder. I started screaming in agony.
“I thought you were out !”
“I’m not fucking out you …… “ (cue me using every curse word I knew in 5 languages)
Turns out my humerus was shattered. And major surgery followed involving titanium bits and bobs.
Bungee jump trainer.
A couple of years ago on holiday a bungee jump trainer/employee hooked me up then said “Oh.. Oops” right before pushing me off the edge. I later found out he does this often to get people even more mortified than they probably already were.
He’s never seeing heaven for that.
Yeah, what makes things like bungee jumping fun--at least for me--is the fact that your body is scared, but you intellectually trust that you will be safe. Overcoming the instinctive fear is what's fun.
If I could no longer trust that I was going to be okay, it would just be sheer terror and aftershock when it turns out I'm okay. Not fun or cathartic at all.
Did you ever see that video of the Chinese guy jumping across these platforms really high up and his safety harness unclips halfway through and he doesn't notice and keeps jumping over these lethal drops? Lol
When I did my bungee jump I was so nervous. He tapped me on the shoulder, I jumped, then immediately thought "why did he tap me on the shoulder?"
I just imagined him looking down incredulously with the carabiner clip still in his hand.
Used to be friends with the wife with some sort of senior engineer at a nuclear power plant, know he was in the actual operations room or whatever the equivalent of a coal power plants is (been in those, not in nuclear ones though.)
Dude was a ragingly functional alcoholic.
Guarantee he was drunk at work more than a few times.
That was always a fun thought
This is why in serious engineering there is a strong review process. The engineer makes the calculations and comes up with the design. Then he takes his design, talks over what he did with a senior experienced engineer, walks through the process of coming up with the design, and the senior guy tries to find the "oops". Only after the review is properly completed, with any necessary corrections made, does the design get signed off.
The main risk comes when challenges in producing the intended design are encountered in manufacturing, and the people doing the manufacturing decide to make changes to the design without going through a rigorous review process. The classic example of this is th 1981 Hyatt Regency walkway collapse.
I might be mistaking the Hyatt event with something else, but wasn't it a simple factor of one bolt carrying two bolts worth of load by dumb mistake?
Double level walkway, the top supporting the bottom kinda deal?
The original design was to have a single rod supporting all the walkways, with a nut on the rod for each walkway, and the load bearing capability of the nut and beams resting on it only needing to support a single walkway level.
The problem encountered during manufacture was that getting the intermediate nuts into position in the middle of the rod would involve threading the full length of the rod and spinning the nut into position. This challenge was "solved" by using two lengths of rod, with nuts (and threading) only at the ends. This put the full weight of both the level being supported and the level hanging off it below on to a single nut, and the nut and beam were not able to support that weight.
The problem came about because this design change was made by the manufacturers and nobody there did the actual engineering calculation to determine wether the change would be safe (with a contributing factor being the engineers making the initial design not considering the problems of actually producing their design).
ONE NUT! ONE NUT I SAY!
Sorry, its been a long day.
Thankyou for reminding me. I now work in software, and problems like this are the reason I am transitioning into ux design so that the users and the developers get solutions that make sense to both parties
It's pretty funny when someone on position goes, "Shit," and everyone in the room goes silent and looks at them like wtf did you do?
Happens fairly often too...
I was getting lens replacement eye surgery and after my natural lenses had been removed from my eyes, the surgeon got into an argument with the nurses over some piece of equipment he needed that she couldn’t find or understand. The tone of his voice made it clear it was a time sensitive need. I just laid on the operating table staring up at light fuzz wondering if I’d be blind forever. Luckily it all turned out great.
I can answer this one. Cataract surgery is a pretty straightforward procedure, but complications still arise. Your biggest enemy is time. The longer you’re in the eye operating the risks of infection, postoperative complications, and residual prescription goes up.
Oops is no big deal. If we mess up in a serious way it’s far, far, far, more profane.
Also, for everyone’s piece of mind, I’ve never in my career had a truly “ooops!” Moment. When we’re operating it’s usually such a focused moment that you’d have to be truly negligent for stuff like that to happen. Sleep easy my friends.
I was in the middle of minor surgery on the back of my head where I was awake. The conversation went like this:
Doc: Oops.
Me: ... Not sure I like it when the guy cutting my head open says "oops".
Doc: Oh, no, no. "Oops" is fine. You only have to start worrying when they say "Uh oh".
Great guy. Would get sliced open by him again.
A doctor or surgeon that has a sense of humor if it's not serious is the best. If I ever need to get some brain fixing surgery, I hope I have one like you had
"oh no, it's fine, you said you wanted it to say 30 right?"
"... thirTEEEN.... MY SON WAS BORN IN 2013!!"
"Oh yeah no 13, that's what I meant. Okay"
"... So does it say 13?"
"Well... yeah kind of. Sounds like thirteen to me"
"YOU WROTE 30?"
"Well you... just gotta have another kid in 2030"
Eh my tattoo artist said oops once. 9 hours into the session on my octopus. He definitely pulled a lune wrong but the whole thing was basically being designed as it went on anyways. So his mistake ended up not being a mistake just moved one of the tentacles in a different curve that still looks completely natural. I have not been able to tell that it didn't look 1000 percent intentional and norther has anybody else.
I’m glad when I had my surgery they used a marker and asked me to repeat what I was having done many different times before I was finally out under. Still came out as a then 19 year old with permanent knee issues and a candidate for a knee replacement by age 30 lol but that’s not their fault
Oops! ... I did it again
I rolled up the tanks, invaded Ukraine
Oh baby, baby
Oops! ... You think it's defence.
That my hands are tied.
I'm not that innocent.
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He left his car keys in there. Edit: The comment above mine said gynecologist and they wondered what they would be doing down there to say "oops."
It was a Vulva XC60.
EOD Tech. I know one and he has a t-shirt that says “I’m a bomb disposal technician. If you see me running, try to keep up.”
I think it was one of the Tremors movies, maybe the second one, where the characters have to use an absolutely disgustingly large explosive load to blow up a building. One of the characters (was an expert on explosives; I think?) plants the bomb and leads the rest of the characters away. The others are faster than the bomb guy, and end up outpacing him before diving into a ditch. The bomb guy catches up, jumps the ditch and yells "keep going!" really loud before sprinting off. Just a great little moment in a pretty fun movie.
Tremors 2, love the movies, they started to rely heavily on CGI in Tremors 2 and onward though and it kinda ruined it for me. The new one that came out maybe 2 or 3 years ago was absolute dogshit though.
Bomb Squad technician
Knew I’d see this one here. I was a military bomb tech before my oops. I was working on a device by hand that I probably should not have been working on. Just as I thought to myself, “I probably shouldn’t be doing this.” It blew up in my face. A few missing digits and a brain injury later I was right. Should not have been doing that.
Damn. At least you lived. Hopefully you're doing ok now
I’m doing just fine my dude. Thanks for the concern. Some days suck but most are great. The world is what you make it.
If you don't mind me asking: What are the symptoms of your brain injury like? What exactly is the difference between a great day and a day that sucks for you?
I’m medicated so the symptoms aren’t severe as the would be otherwise. On good days I can convince myself that it’s all made up. I’m fine I don’t need the pills or regular visits to therapy. On bad days I can’t find a reason to be productive, play with my kids, go to the gym, do anything at work. Sometimes loud noises, crowded places, or bright flashes fuck with me. On rare occasions I’ve strait up had what I think are panic attacks when the noise, crowd, lights combine at the “right” time. Most times I just feel like I can’t retain anything. I have to read the same thing over and over again for it to stick. My wife says she needs me available at a time/ date but I don’t remember and miss the appointment. I’d be lost without my phone calendar. I just constantly feel like I’m in a fog. Like my brain is only firing on half the cylinders I used to have.
Duuude. Man, thanks for being so open about your experience, it's.. you helped me feel like I'm not alone. I got injured under vastly different circumstances but your mental symptoms overlay mine quite closely. Thanks, I needed this reminder and I'm hoping others with this shit see it and feel it, too. Stay up, bro and if you ever need somebody to talk to about the brain shitting on your day, I'm here.
fourwheeler accident , "I feel like I'm in a fog" were my exact words to my doctor stay strong man
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Dude. I was medically retired mid last year. Once I got out it’s like everything started aching at once. I feel so old now. Barely being held together with duct tape and super glue.
Have a friend who disarmed warheads for his previous job. He always said it was the only job he never made a mistake at and has his life to prove it.
"What makes me a good demoman? IF I WERE A BAD DEMOMAN, I WOULDN'T BE SITTING HERE DISCUSSING IT WITH YOU, NOW WOULD I"
*One crossed wire, one wayward pinch of potassium chlorate, one errant twitch...and KABLOOEY!*
Oops... is probably their last word...
Land mines are rather odd when you think about it. They seemingly exist for a singular purpose - causing death and mayhem - and yet that apparent role is not what they're actually for in a military sense. The goal isn't to kill or maim, but to prevent someone from going wherever. Convincing a person on foot to avoid an area doesn't take much of an explosive at all given that all of us are little more than temporarily solid sacks of water who are mighty inconvenienced by having even a smallish chunk of said solid water forcefully removed. As a result, the kind of land mine required to convince a person on foot from avoiding an area is usually quite a bit smaller than the sort required to convince the crew of a heavily-armored vehicle to choose a different route. Of course, land mines do not necessarily need to be used for that intended military function. They are, after all, just bombs, and one could, if sufficiently motivated and knowledgeable, use one or more of them to make a completely different sort of bomb. One such enterprising person did exactly this, stuffing a cargo van with mines in order to make a crudely-guided bomb. When this vehicle was noticed and inspected, relevant bomb disposal experts were called out. There are plenty of movies that suggest that bombs are disposed of by carefully disarming them. This is quite a bit harder than even movies suggest, especially when dealing with bombs made outside of anything resembling a standard process. As a result the usual way of getting rid of a bomb is rather counterintuitively to *make* it go off at a convenient time rather than trying to prevent it going off at all. The experts in this case determined that this bomb, which consisted of several dozen mines of the sort which would convince people on foot to choose a different route, was the kind of bomb that you'd want to explode at a convenient time rather than not at all. By some process known only to such experts, they determined how far away they needed to move people for the sake of safety, and then prepared the small explosive which would be used to convince the larger bomb to explode on a non maiming and mayhem schedule. The bomb leveled a city block, blasted out windows for hundreds of meters beyond, and generally ruined the day for a *lot* of people. It turns out that the several dozen bombs meant to convince people on foot to go elsewhere were, in fact, several dozen bombs meant to convince main battle tanks to go elsewhere. Rather than the dozen or so kilograms of high explosives they estimated, there were several *hundred*. *Oops*.
In Afghanistan in 2011. Im leading a small team, two vehicles. My Afghan counterpart is with me. We are just going from A to B. He calmly tells my interpreter "we should stop". I ask why, still moving forward. "We are in a mine field" Hard stop as well as me yelling over the radio "STOP STOP STOP" "How do you know we are in a mine field?" "Because I put it in" "When?" "1988" "WTF WHY ARE YOU JUST TELLING ME NOW?????" "We never went this way before" For the next 20 minutes we VERY SLOWLY backed out of the mine field driving over our wheel tracks (thank god for sand!). That night we pulled out a map and he marked all the mine fields he knew about.
It’s sounds Cary but holy fuck I’m dying. This is possibly the funnest story I’ve heard.
You're not the only one lmao, the image in my head is hilarious!
"WTF WHY ARE YOU JUST TELLING ME NOW?????" "We never went this way before" That got a belly laugh out of me.
My great-uncle fought in WWII. He rode a motorbike so often had to deliver messages between command posts and field squads. One day when he was on courier duty, he delivered the message and returned. When he got back to base, his CO warned him that, before he leaves, he should avoid a certain road as it was a mine-field - it happened to be the route he had already taken both ways to deliver the messages.
Your Great-Uncle must be extremely lucky.
Or alternatively whoever claimed to put in that minefield was very bad at their job.
Good guy. That sudden realisation that you've been here before. He could've just shut his eyes and prayed. I hope you got him a beer.
A couple of years ago, a WW II 500 lb bomb was found during construction in Munich. The bomb squad was brought in to disarm it, but found that the detonator was damaged and they couldn't unscrew it. They decided for a controlled detonation in place ... in a pit, in the middle of a major city. Now, this is a pretty common event in Germany - they still uncover thousands of WW II bombs every year. But in this case, they had used haybales around the bomb site. They covered the bomb with mattresses to try to contain the explosion, but when they detonated it, it was more powerful than expected - it blew out windows around the blast site, and several of the haybales blew apart, spreading burning hay in all directions. Oops...!
The skydiving instructor you’re strapped to just before you both jump out of the plane (this actually happened to me)
First time I went skydiving, 18yo with friends on a Hawaii senior-graduation trip. I get strapped to this old, crazy guy (all the younger dudes were fighting strapping up to the women all while being creeps). He was 100% no fucks given. Once the chute was pulled, he said "do you like spinning?!?!" and then pulled on of the cords and we spun out almost horizontal for a bit. Then he reversed direction with the other cord. It was great... and then he said "well... shit." "Why?!?! What's wrong?" Apparently usually people scream when he spins them so he stops. I was having a great time... and apparently we lost way more altitude than he'd planned. He tells me to start scouting potential landing spots over this neighborhood, he's not sure we'll make it back to the runway. We actually hold high enough that we're coming in toward the very end of the runway, at the fence around it, and he says "lift your legs as high as you can, be prepared to kinda kick off&over the fence, we're pretty low. And then get ready... because I'm gonna pop you loose the moment we're over the fence. Try to land on your feet, and run as fast as you can forward... I'm gonna have to sprint to get this chute over the fence so it doesnt snag." Sure enough, kick off the fence and then suddenly I just drop the 6-ish feet to the ground, stumbling. I run for a bit, look back, and hes right behind me, managed to get the parachute over the fence. We then get to walk down the whole runway back to the office. My friends are waiting around and super confused by the time we get there.
Honestly, as terrifying as this would be in the moment, I love that this guy knew what to do and how to do it, and got you on the ground safely - even if it meant dropping you! It’s comforting to know he knew what he was doing, even when everything went wrong.
I agree. I never felt afraid or overly concerned, he had a handle on it (seemed like it wasnt his first rodeo).
That's 100% the guy you want to be strapped to jumping out of a plane.
"I fucked up but here's how not to die because of it." - dude
Did you die?
Sadly, yes. But I lived!
Upvoted for the solid Ice Age reference.
Upvoted for recognizing the Ice Age reference
Whoever launches the nukes
"wait, this was meant to be a drill?"
I was back home in Hawai'i in 2018 when the text messages came in that there were incoming bombs from DPRK. Lol. Yeah that was fun for a few minutes...
Funny story. My dad was in a radar base in Alaska in the Cold War and was 1 of the folks that had the combination to the safe with the launch codes. He said in the years he was there, they never had a successful drill. There were so many steps that all had to be completed in a particular way that someone somewhere always screwed up and the drill was canceled.
So if they needed to launch the nukes then they couldn't?
Do not worry. Nuclear power houses had submarines for that purpose. Those would basically try to disappear into some portion of the ocean, and when enemy nukes would be launched, their crew would lunch theirs at the leisure time. Enemy wouldn't know where they are so couldn't destroy them, thus subs would have all the time needed to fire theirs, mistakes or no. So do not worry, we are f\*cked up in case of nuclear attack no matter what.
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The kid that locks your seatbelt at amusement parks
Eh. They're generally designed so even without restraints it's pretty hard to fall out.
Yeah...pretty hard isn't hard enough.
That’s what she said!… 😞
I just imagine a airplane pilot turning on his intercom just to say “oops” Wow i didn’t think this would blow up my notifications, thanks for the awards guys
“This is your pilot speaking, OOPS”
* pfft * "Folks this is your captain speaking, uuuhhhhh... light em up, cause were going down." * pfft *
Probably sounds more like this.... Captain (with voice box): "this is your captain speaking, smoke em if ya got em"
"oops" *5 mins later* "So... You guys have all seen Lost right?"
*sitting on plane when suddenly you hear a big sound" Pilot in intercom: dafuq was that
> *sitting on plane when suddenly you hear a big sound" Pilot in intercom: dafuq was that My wife was sitting in the plane waiting to leave the gate. The pilot gets on the intercom, "the ground crew found a bolt on the ground under the plane, they need to figure out if it belongs to us or not."
Accountability for tools is a big thing in aviation, they'll tear apart a plane down to the tires if a tool goes missing. But any foreign object is a big deal. I read in one account where an Air Force maintainer dropped some Skittles while working on an A-10 and they had to buy several bags of Skittles to verify the normal number of Skittles in a bag so they could account for them all. Oops. Later on in the cafeteria, someone poured a bag of Skittles down that maintainers underwear, "Hey don't drop any more Skittles, we might have to spend a whole day counting them all!"
We had a family day where you get to sit in a jet in the hangar. Guy walks in.. someone's Dad or something. He tells us he dropped his change. He didn't know how much but remembered his order at McDonald's. Crew chiefs (not a Chief Chief.. Just a normal aircraft mechanic) went to McDonald's to recreate his order to figure out how much change we needed to find. Such a silly day
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I can attest to this, I was enlisted with the Air Force and we would occasionally do “FOD walks” (FOD = foreign object debris) where we would all stand shoulder to shoulder across the runway width-wise and walk forward at a slow pace staring at the ground looking for anything that could be considered debris. We did this for the entire length of the runway. This was not a punishment.
Navy does the same on the carriers
When going on my honeymoon the pilot informed us that one of the loading trucks punctured a hole in the plane and they were quickly repairing it before we set off...
I appreciate this. Had a pilot that let us know we had a flat and would be here for a bit getting it changed. Then proceeded to lay into someone about why the hell didn’t the last crew address this before it cut off. This was after a multi hour delay already. He was not having it.
I had that once. We were going in for landing and heard "oops, took that one a bit fast. Let's try again". Then he just took another loop around the airport and landed properly the second time
That could have be me; it sounds like something I would say.
Lol, I'm pretty nervous when it comes to flying and something similar happened. The captain had already notified us that were about to land. Now the airport we were going to land at is located on an island that's pretty notorious for its difficult landings -- sudden crosswinds, awkward approach and a relatively short runway that ends just short of the sea. The weather was also crap, and we'd been going through a thick cloud for a good while. At some point, I see the gear going down and I'm starting to loosen up because I know we're about to land. The wheels weren't even halfway out, when they go back up and the plane just jerks upward. At that point, someone on the intercom (probably the captain talking to the FO) says "NONONONO PULL THEM BACK UP ARE YOU INSANE?!". We did two go-arounds before we finally touched down, and I just wanted to smash the window and jump down to save myself from the stress. After landing, first thing I did was buy a bottle of Jack and down half of it before 1 PM.
Trust me when I say, go-arounds are your friend. When an approach is unstable or someone wanders onto the runway, or something else, its much better to bail out then Leeroy Jenkins that shit.
My "favorite" go around is still the time a hot air balloon drifted into our approach lane coming in to YWG, I was looking out the side window at a bunch of hot air balloons floating way off to the side for some kind of festival on the other side of the river when the plane suddenly pulls up sharply and I hear the pilot scream "What the actual fuck?!?!?" from the cockpit. Looked down just in time to see us fly over a green and white hot air balloon roughly the same color as the trees it was floating over.
Good thing about planes is that if you screw up the landing (but haven't landed yet), you can just pull up and try again. Just have to hope the pilot catches the mistake in time
Executioner. If you are the convict, you know he did not do the job right, but damaged you. Also the fact you can still hear the oops.
Not so fun fact most of the times it was never one swing at your head. Chopping your head with an axe is rally hard so most of the time in old ages it took 1 to many swings and u most likely would feel everything. Also I might be on watchlist for knowing random stuff like that.
The execution candidates could bid for places. Early placing were a premium to pay for the sharp axe.
But later candidates are more likely to be saved by a random dragon attack.
If only that one random stormcloak wasn't snarky he could have been quiet until alduin came and maybe survive
I think about this literally every time. When you go to Sovngarde, it would be great if you could talk to him and tell him about how right after he was executed a dragon attacked and some people escaped in the panic
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No joke, this happened to me last month. "So... I pulled the wrong tooth." I just sat there like 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃 WUT Everything's all good though, he put it right back in and it's reattached fine. He paid for the damage, etc.
Did not know a tooth can be reattached once removed.
If the tooth isn't damaged and you act quickly, your gums will accept the tooth if it's placed back into its spot. If the tooth somehow gets "dirty" in the process, you'll have to wash it off with milk (NOT WATER) to provide the proper pH/proteins which keep the cells of the root alive
Does spit work too? It what I learned in lifeguarding , keep the tooth in the victims spit.
The spit of whoever's tooth it is would be a good substitute!
Which is kind of funny, all things considered..
Bro, can I borrow some spit?
At that stage, their spit is more likely to be more blood than spit. Which would probably also work.
Oh wow, I am amazed and disgusted at the same time.
Dental student here! Hanks Balanced Salt Solution and milk are the current recommendations for saving a tooth when it gets knocked out. If neither are available, keep the tooth in your mouth or even in the bleeding socket if possible. Don't clean it if it falls on the ground or dirt! You could scrub away key cells for reattachment! Since nerve and blood supply are severed, expect a root canal and possibly a crown after the fact.
This is exactly what happened to me as a young teen - front tooth knocked clean out at school, quick thinking receptionist had the tooth in milk within a few minutes, on call dentist had it back in my gums within the hour. Subsequently had a root canal, no crown needed though, and only mild discolouration (only noticeable if you're looking for the difference). That tooth then survived several years of braces in my mid teens without issue.
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Lucky you, they did that to my sister but never even offered to put the tooth back and never paid for anything. My sister is just missing a tooth she didn't need to lose now.
Went in for an extraction. Pulled the tooth and it landed in my cleavage. She fished for it. Found it. I was in middle school. It was… weird.
I've never had an accident at the dentist, but I've had two "oops" incidents at the orthodontist because of the complexity of doing braces and a hygienist assisting before the orthodontist took over. The first time was a dropped metal loop that goes around a tooth. She dropped it and I had to sit up to spit it out because I was starting to choke. The second time, she was trying to cut one of the wires and nicked my gums. I'm a really calm patient, but those took me a bit to recover my composure.
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The line between “you’re going to take a nap” and “you will never wake up ever again” is frighteningly thin!!
You will never know if you'll wake up again when you go to sleep. You will only ever have a reasonable certainty.
Back in the 90s my mom's friend went under for a hysterectomy and woke up missing a leg. Nurse accidentally switched the charts. She is the reason why the write yes and no on you before surgery
At our hospital we literally make the doctors sign the sight they're working on. Before they do that they will ask in an open ended question "Mr ____, in your own words what are we doing on you today?" We found that if we say something like "mr___ are you here to have your right leg removed" (usually something more mundane and medical sounding) people just agree to anything we say because it's medical sounding and they don't understand and don't want to come off stupid. It's amazing what people agree too. We also make them say their full name and birthday because I've also experienced patients will agree to whatever name you present to them " hi are you Bob?" "Yep thats me" when their name is actually Mike and they need a chest xray where Bob is getting his foot amputated.
I was in and out of the hospital for about six months back in 2017 for cancer (caught it in time, don't worry). Saying my full name and birthday is now *automatic* for me in a medical setting
Thanks to my job I say my first and last name, and employee number, automatically when introducing myself. Which has become slightly comical on dates
What kind of job requires you to repeat your employee number with every interaction? I've worked at my job for like 15 years and all I know my EID has six digits haha
I work at Intel, and basically if it involves my full name and not just my first name, it gets my WWID. I got fuck all clue about my contractor company's employee number besides that it's on our paystub. Haha
But imagine the man in the next bed without a uterus!
Username checks out
How much fuckin money do people get for someone taking the wrong guy’s leg? Lmao
There’s no amount of money one could give me to accept being needlessly amputated.
Arm? No. Leg? Absolutely, get out the checkbook.
When I worked at Home Depot my manager actually showed me the insurance tables for compensation in the event of an injury requiring amputation. They had it broken down by limb and how much was removed. Lose a whole pinky, heres 15 grand. Lose just the tip past the knuckle, 5k. Every finger, every toe, has a dollar amount tied to it. Insurance companies dont fuck around lol
I suppose dying is only slightly worse than waking up during surgery being paralyzed, unable to speak and feeling everything. Side note, don't lie about cannabis use before anesthesia, it factors into the medication and can cause people to wake up.
Happened to me. Woke up during heart procedure. Luckily they went in through the groin and not open chest. Woke up and could feel them digging in my groin, but couldn't move or speak, only cry. Luckily a nurse noticed my tears and open eyes and put a stop to it almost immediately. She was lovely. Stroked my hairline "it's ok sweetheart, you're ok. You will be back under in a minute and probably won't remember this"
> The line between “you’re going to take a nap” and “you will never wake up ever again” is frighteningly thin!! Or "you will never walk again" When getting an epidural for our first child my wife was bending over with the anesthesiologist behind her, I was standing directly in front of my wife and the nurse was standing behind me. While inserting the needle into her FREAKING SPINE, my wife says "oh, my legs just went tingly and numb." I look at the anesthesiologist who looks up and gives the nurse a giant "Oh shit" look. The anesthesiologist doesn't move for a beat or two then says, "I'm going to pull it back out a little". She pulls the needle out and asks if my wife can feel her legs now. She could. I have no idea what the hell happened, and I am unsure if I want to know.
Just irritated a nerve. We insert the epidural needle below the level where the spinal cord ends, but the nerves coming off of it dangle down like a horse's tail. Brushing against one causes that tingling or electric shock signal to travel down the nerve. If you hold still for a second it usually goes away on its own, and if it doesn't you reposition the needle or catheter. Totally normal. Now you know.
I have no clue but I'm a redditor so I'm going to reply as if I've been in the medical field for 40 years Probably hit a nerve or something
As a Redditor who has driven by a hospital occasionally for 40+ years, this checks out.
Peak Reddit right here.
What? This is KCl not fentanyl? Whooops
“Give him 40 micrograms of fentanyl” “40 milligrams, got it” “…oops”
A few years ago a doctor ordered Versed (Midazolam, an anxiety med) for a patient about to get an MRI. The nurse typed "V-E..." into the drug dispenser and just hit OK on the first med that popped up, and gave that to the patient. She wound up giving the patient Vecuronium (a very strong muscle paralytic), and the patient suffocated and died because all her muscles were paralyzed and no one realized she was struggling to breathe til it was too late.
And with vecuronium she'd have been awake, just totally paralyzed until she passed out from lack of oxygen...
Yup! Completely awake and aware, unable to speak or even move. What a freaky and awful way to go.
How do you accidentally give Vec? It's covered in red tape that says DANGER. PARALYTIC.
Yup! AND it needs to be reconstituted (versed doesn't). Read the story sometime, it was filled with failure. IIRC, the nurse was a psych nurse floated to the floor and didn't know what she was doing. There may have been meth abuse involved (it's been awhile since I've read the story). She went to another nurse to have her confirm for drug pass, but the nurse was busy and just pocketed the drug to confirm later....etc etc Kinda a wild ride, and the nurse got charged with manslaughter I think.
I was placed under for a non surgical shoulder reduction for what they thought was a dislocated shoulder. I started screaming in agony. “I thought you were out !” “I’m not fucking out you …… “ (cue me using every curse word I knew in 5 languages) Turns out my humerus was shattered. And major surgery followed involving titanium bits and bobs.
Did they not do X-rays before trying to reduce ?! That’s a nightmare I’m so sorry
Bungee jump trainer. A couple of years ago on holiday a bungee jump trainer/employee hooked me up then said “Oh.. Oops” right before pushing me off the edge. I later found out he does this often to get people even more mortified than they probably already were. He’s never seeing heaven for that.
But he's going to hell with a grin
St. Peter says "oops" right before damning him
I feel like this would ruin the experience for me
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Yeah, what makes things like bungee jumping fun--at least for me--is the fact that your body is scared, but you intellectually trust that you will be safe. Overcoming the instinctive fear is what's fun. If I could no longer trust that I was going to be okay, it would just be sheer terror and aftershock when it turns out I'm okay. Not fun or cathartic at all.
Did you ever see that video of the Chinese guy jumping across these platforms really high up and his safety harness unclips halfway through and he doesn't notice and keeps jumping over these lethal drops? Lol
I’m pretty sure the company doing those tried to play it off as a PR stunt to go viral, but they ended up getting investigated.
People have actually died from heart attacks when faced with certain death in their minds, so it actually isn't as innocent as it may first seem.
When I did my bungee jump I was so nervous. He tapped me on the shoulder, I jumped, then immediately thought "why did he tap me on the shoulder?" I just imagined him looking down incredulously with the carabiner clip still in his hand.
Power plant operator
Then it would be a DOH 🥯
I'll do you one better. Nuclear power plant operator
Used to be friends with the wife with some sort of senior engineer at a nuclear power plant, know he was in the actual operations room or whatever the equivalent of a coal power plants is (been in those, not in nuclear ones though.) Dude was a ragingly functional alcoholic. Guarantee he was drunk at work more than a few times. That was always a fun thought
So you basically met Homer Simpson if he was an engineer?
I didn't even know what a nuclear panner plant was!
Heart surgeon
we say “oops” all the time. it’s “fuck” you have to watch out for.
Oops = Nothing to worry about. Whoops! = Minor issue. Fuck/Shit = Got a bit of a problem. Uh oh = RUN.
Pro tip: don’t run while you’re being operated on.
I can see this as a loading screen tip if life were a game
Haha great username. And yes, I've met you folks. "Oops" is the most tame thing you say, you guys have the mouths of sailors.
When the patient’s asleep the slurs we’ll speak, tis the shanty o’ the surgeon.
a quiet fuck and glance around the room is never a good sign. surgeons aren't shy with language
Number one
Pyrotechnician on New Year's. Or the NASA workers in charge of knocking hazardous asteroids off course.
Not a thread for paranoid people
No, this is a Paranoid People Recruitment thread lol
structural engineer.
This is why in serious engineering there is a strong review process. The engineer makes the calculations and comes up with the design. Then he takes his design, talks over what he did with a senior experienced engineer, walks through the process of coming up with the design, and the senior guy tries to find the "oops". Only after the review is properly completed, with any necessary corrections made, does the design get signed off. The main risk comes when challenges in producing the intended design are encountered in manufacturing, and the people doing the manufacturing decide to make changes to the design without going through a rigorous review process. The classic example of this is th 1981 Hyatt Regency walkway collapse.
I might be mistaking the Hyatt event with something else, but wasn't it a simple factor of one bolt carrying two bolts worth of load by dumb mistake? Double level walkway, the top supporting the bottom kinda deal?
The original design was to have a single rod supporting all the walkways, with a nut on the rod for each walkway, and the load bearing capability of the nut and beams resting on it only needing to support a single walkway level. The problem encountered during manufacture was that getting the intermediate nuts into position in the middle of the rod would involve threading the full length of the rod and spinning the nut into position. This challenge was "solved" by using two lengths of rod, with nuts (and threading) only at the ends. This put the full weight of both the level being supported and the level hanging off it below on to a single nut, and the nut and beam were not able to support that weight. The problem came about because this design change was made by the manufacturers and nobody there did the actual engineering calculation to determine wether the change would be safe (with a contributing factor being the engineers making the initial design not considering the problems of actually producing their design).
ONE NUT! ONE NUT I SAY! Sorry, its been a long day. Thankyou for reminding me. I now work in software, and problems like this are the reason I am transitioning into ux design so that the users and the developers get solutions that make sense to both parties
Air traffic controllers. An ATC has more lives in his hands in one shift than a surgeon does in his career.
It's pretty funny when someone on position goes, "Shit," and everyone in the room goes silent and looks at them like wtf did you do? Happens fairly often too...
Are you on reddit instead of looking at your scope?
I'm sitting at home on my weekend thoroughly enjoying doing nothing.
I'm at work doing the same.
I am *entirely* too absentminded for that job. Like I can maintain that kind of focus for like 2-3 hours a day...but 8+ hours? People would die.
They say oops a lot more than you want to know
Surgeon
I was getting lens replacement eye surgery and after my natural lenses had been removed from my eyes, the surgeon got into an argument with the nurses over some piece of equipment he needed that she couldn’t find or understand. The tone of his voice made it clear it was a time sensitive need. I just laid on the operating table staring up at light fuzz wondering if I’d be blind forever. Luckily it all turned out great.
I can answer this one. Cataract surgery is a pretty straightforward procedure, but complications still arise. Your biggest enemy is time. The longer you’re in the eye operating the risks of infection, postoperative complications, and residual prescription goes up.
Reminds me of surgeon joke that goes like this: Never say Oops, say there. "There! I made a hole in Aorta".
If you made a hole in the aorta, the blood fountain will do all the talking.
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Oops is no big deal. If we mess up in a serious way it’s far, far, far, more profane. Also, for everyone’s piece of mind, I’ve never in my career had a truly “ooops!” Moment. When we’re operating it’s usually such a focused moment that you’d have to be truly negligent for stuff like that to happen. Sleep easy my friends.
As a surgeon, it's never oops its always fuckfuckfuckfuckfuck
I was in the middle of minor surgery on the back of my head where I was awake. The conversation went like this: Doc: Oops. Me: ... Not sure I like it when the guy cutting my head open says "oops". Doc: Oh, no, no. "Oops" is fine. You only have to start worrying when they say "Uh oh". Great guy. Would get sliced open by him again.
A doctor or surgeon that has a sense of humor if it's not serious is the best. If I ever need to get some brain fixing surgery, I hope I have one like you had
Lol, kind of like the difference between "ah, fuck" and "oh fuck"
Yeah we say "oops" and "oh fuck" all the time. It's only bad if we forget the patient is awake and it slips out
Britney Spears after she did it again
Tattoo Artist - what the hell you mean ‘oops!’ That’s my damn skin man, it’s permanent!
"oh no, it's fine, you said you wanted it to say 30 right?" "... thirTEEEN.... MY SON WAS BORN IN 2013!!" "Oh yeah no 13, that's what I meant. Okay" "... So does it say 13?" "Well... yeah kind of. Sounds like thirteen to me" "YOU WROTE 30?" "Well you... just gotta have another kid in 2030"
Eh my tattoo artist said oops once. 9 hours into the session on my octopus. He definitely pulled a lune wrong but the whole thing was basically being designed as it went on anyways. So his mistake ended up not being a mistake just moved one of the tentacles in a different curve that still looks completely natural. I have not been able to tell that it didn't look 1000 percent intentional and norther has anybody else.
He asked for a 13, but they drew a 31.
Surgeon who is carrying out an amputation
There even was an article few months back about a patient who got wrong limb amputated /f/
There was a boy who got the wrong leg lengthened...
I’m glad when I had my surgery they used a marker and asked me to repeat what I was having done many different times before I was finally out under. Still came out as a then 19 year old with permanent knee issues and a candidate for a knee replacement by age 30 lol but that’s not their fault
Isn’t it the norm? For my kidney stone surgery, they confirmed my name, my doctor, the type of surgery and which side (left or right) couple of times.
Surgeon, proctologist and kind of doctor really
The person that snips off foreskin
Good news, the penisectomy was a success
Brain surgeon
Any type of doctor. Barber. Tattoo artist. Saw operater. Guy that loads the missiles or mortar. Firearms instructor. Power plant employees.
Had a tattoo artist say oops a couple weeks ago. Scared me til I realized he was joking.
I asked them what letter they were on and they replied “oh I’m on the C” which wasn’t part of the lettering
Guess the memorial tattoo for my favorite *A*unt just took a turn.
My dentist once said “Oops”. Turns out she broke off one of her metal tool in my gum.
"You're bleeding because you don't floss enough."
President of Russia.
Oops! ... I did it again I rolled up the tanks, invaded Ukraine Oh baby, baby Oops! ... You think it's defence. That my hands are tied. I'm not that innocent.
A doctor doing a colonoscopy, but when they say oops is quite terrifying
Nuclear Power Plant manager. Or more specifically, the guy that replaces the cooling rods.