Today, I sliced a deep gash into my thumb while carving up bagels. After putting a plaster on, I returned to my room to relax, where I lit a candle. The flame from my new lighter shot up, and set fire to the plaster on my thumb. Now I have a cut AND several burns. FML
I agree, your life sucks (16770) - you totally deserved it (4290)
On 10/27/2009 at 2:46pm - health - by opposableouch (woman) - United Kingdom (Sheffield)
Would any day be a good day to take up juggling chainsaws and bottles of acid?
#7 - On 10/27/2009 at 6:17pm by DefyingGravity
A day that you are showing a bit of dexterity and want to get on "America's Got Talent."
How come that show is judged by two Brits and a guy who is a has-been here but an idol in Germany?
That is true. We do steal a lot of game shows from you guys. But we invented Jeopardy, which is the best, so God bless America!
Did you at least cauterize the wound? Or did absolutely no good come of this?
#9 - On 10/27/2009 at 6:23pm by brainfreeze215
It's just not your day huh OP. tell you what go back to bed and sleep it off you'll be fine when ya wake up.
Given the luck we've heard about, she'd probably die in her sleep.
#46 - On 10/28/2009 at 2:29am by AndelleRae
You crazy Brits and your using different words for stuff. So if you put plaster on cuts what do you use on walls? Bacitracin?
You crazy Americans copying our language but changing certain words to make it even weirder and spelling things differently just to piss us off
Oh and yes we put plasters on cuts, doesn't it basically do the same thing? It seals things
We didn't copy your language. You guys brought it with you when you colonized this country. Plaster as we know it is a chemical compound meant to seal holes in walls and such so it can be painted over. I would hope you guys don't put shit like that on your cuts. It can't be good putting whatever the hell is in that stuff in your blood stream.
The World Wide Web was invented by an English physicist.
Just saying. I'm not American nor British though.
#42 - On 10/27/2009 at 11:27pm by iFellytone
The Internet (TCP/IP) was created at Stanford. The World Wide Web was developed by CERN. At least according to Wikipedia, anyway.
#48 - On 10/28/2009 at 4:01am by RyeBreadBoy
This is a repsonse to every1 above me about the internet.
the internet was developed by the military, for the military and boomed into what it is today - not by CERN. Just because you read it on Wikipedia, doesn't make it right. FUCK! Also, what correlation does a physicist and the world wide web, have in common.. it just doesn't make sense! internet != physics. (!= means; does not equal, for those less informed)
reading the fml makes my leg feel very weird and that's not a good thing. it reminds the time i made a gash in my right arm when I was 6 or 7 Years old. OP that must hurt a lot. I feel bad for you.
#16 - On 10/27/2009 at 7:08pm by blackberry1993
how do you burn your thumb lighting a candle with a lighter..
#18 - On 10/27/2009 at 7:13pm by commentator10101
A gash means deep... And you can't even get a gash on your thumb. What is it, quarter inch at most to the bone? Unless you have some freakish balloons for thumbs you are a bloody pansy.
#22 - On 10/27/2009 at 7:26pm by nokillnobeepbeep
Be sure not to suffocate yourself with your pillows tonight...And in the morning(if you make it to the morning that is..)Make sure that when you shower,you don't drown...I'm not sure how,but I wouldn't put it past you...Posting an FML because you burnt your hand and got a cut...You should try working construction,you'd be on here everyday crying,if you hadn't quit after you got a boo-boo that is...
#25 - On 10/27/2009 at 7:49pm by The_Advice_Guy
dont feel bad for him, he's a complete loser! quit whining about your boo-boos! Nobody cares!
#28 - On 10/27/2009 at 8:16pm by ohbamitsnonen
For those who don't know -- "plaster" is what they call a Band-Aid in the UK. I was mystified when I tried to buy band-aids at a drug store and the clerk had no idea what I was talking about. So yeah, she put a band-aid on it, not actual plaster.
I seriously can't see why this is bad enough to be an FML. I mean yeah it sucks that you burned yourself and got cut but seriously not even close to an FML level.
#30 - On 10/27/2009 at 8:27pm by PassionateFruit
I don't know any plasters that would catch on fire from a lighter unless you held the flame against it for a good amount of time. Even then I'm not convinced...
#32 - On 10/27/2009 at 8:37pm by pointerdog
You need to find a protective bubble to spend the rest of your day in.
#35 - On 10/27/2009 at 9:19pm by FerrariCake
You just got burned! Lol, anyway FYL for buning a cut on your thumb
#38 - On 10/27/2009 at 10:08pm by Houndourpup
I'm really sorry for you, but this is really funny.
(The sort of funny that "it's so funny because it didn't happen to me")
#39 - On 10/27/2009 at 10:48pm by Lady_Lakura
Inspector Cluseau your vanted in the matters concerning Mr. Evil
Lol
I LOVE Peter Sellers!
#43 - On 10/28/2009 at 12:24am by Cristaderzi
In the Yiddish language they have a word for someone that is inept or clumsy - Klutz!!!
#47 - On 10/28/2009 at 3:07am by yourkiddingright
lol wow that sucks.. I cut my thumb open cutting bagels last year. I got 8 stitches and lost partial feeling in my left thumb =[
Did you bleed on the bagels? Mmm bagels. Well, if you're not going to eat them ...
What? Oh, get well soon.
#52 - On 10/28/2009 at 8:46am by wellinever
#55, are you really going to sit there and pretend you have no idea what a homonym is?
What about bank? When someone says "I was down by the river bank," does an image of sea otters giving out loans pop into your head?
@yourkiddingright
Klutz is not from Yiddish (I'm pretty sure). Yiddish has the following two words for such a person:
Shlemiel— the one who spills his soup.
Shlemazel— the one he spills it on.
So you decided to use to the same thumb you cut to light the candle. Unfortunately, you didnt set yourself on fire.
