scars

I only have minor finger scars from cuts opening cans, etc. I think I have a weird seam behind one ear from grommet ear ops as a kid but I might be wrong, as I have no idea how they performed that surgery (I was only a wee nipper).

Lots of burn marks on my hands and arms.

I have another at the top-left of my head where I had nine stitches after jumping for a header and connecting with the player not the ball.

Those are my best.

i have a scar running the lenght of my right leg, on the side, from below the knee just about to the hip (bone tumor surgery #1)

and a tiny needly biopsy scar just above the knee.

i will soon have more.

Scars under my chin where surgeons reconctructed my lower jaw (15 pieces!) after a spectacular crash in the '87 Manx Grand Prix. Plus scar on little finger of left hand from compound dislocation in same accident.

Reminder on right elbow of overturning a sled on a dry toboggan run in the Pyrennees in summer '93. My daughter, who was riding with me, bears a matching scar on her right knee.

but: surgery at age 10 = 12" cut running between my ribs on my right side, from a couple inches beneath my nipple around underneath my shoulderblade. + some tube insertion holes here and there, and another one in the side of my neck.

I also have a little one on my shoulder from a cat scratch.

Lots of burn marks on my hands and arms

had more to say but the whole subject embarasses me

I have a scar on my leg from when I fell through the floor of the Usher Hall pogoing to Belle and Sebastian

ok now it looks like i'm making these up...

Horrible scar on right knee from drunken fall after leaving a pub in Glasgow (a pattern begins to emerge). (Was so drunk that I tried to stop the bleeding with a five pound note!)

Various scars in chestal region and ribcage from collapsed lung surgery.

Is it really true that CHICKS DIG SCARS?

i hate scars

i do. esp. prominent ones. those rBAD.

Norman had it bad. My cat Sooty scratched my hand to smithereens between the ages of 4-14 (when she started liking me for some reason). I'm surprised some people don't think I'm into self-harm by the state of my hands.

I also have a scar on one of my knuckles from when I sliced through my finger trying to clean the kitchen while drunk. Can't blame that one on the cat.

ooh that's tough. drunk slicing is just a bad idea...

I think that Ramzi would look real tough if he had a big ol' pirate slash scar across his face and tons of acne pocks. Nobody would mess with ya then, eh?

my worst nightmare!! geez you just gave me the shivers

I have a big one on my right elbow from coming off my skateboard when I was 14. I was a pretty rubbish skater, tbh.

i have a scar on my elbow from ROLLERBLADING. so shameful.

i am a big ol' scar-fest.

smashed face-first through the rear windscreen of a car when i was 15 and that caused quite a mess (as well as nearly killing me. woops). these are far less visible now and make a could pain and suffering story with girls.

two bullet-hole sized ones on my right elbow from - again while on my bike but far more recently - hopping off the curb onto a wet road. it all went very wrong at that point.

wow! hot ; ) glad you're still here

Only two I think - one from repaired cleft lip, one on inner left arm from bone protruding when I broke it.

i have a huge scar on my right forearm from when i worked at fedex unloading trucks
i have no idea how it happened, it was one of those, 'how the hell am i bleeding?' things

i have a scar on my left shin from when i flipped over a decorative wooden wishing well playing baseball in my friend's yard when i was about 8
got a big chunk of wood stuck in my leg
from then on i thought 'keep your eye on the ball' was total bullshit

xx-post. aww, fanks! i am too.

don't necessarily think girls have ever found them especially alluring to look at but they do tend to like the texture.

love love love a girl stroking a scar. always makes me feel far more manly than i am.

Know a fella who's got a long fencing-style scar on his face from falling out of his pram as a baby. Tells people he got it in a knife fight.

one of those, 'how the hell am i bleeding?' things

I have loads of those all over my hands from working inside computers. There's a scar on the back of my hand from a falling plastic box full of floppies. There's a one inch surgical scar on my lower back from having a mole removed - it actually looks like a stab wound! There's a big ten inch scar on my left leg from an operation I had when I was a kid. Also, when I was four I fell out of a window and got a scar underneath my bottom lip, just like Harrison Ford. And a couple of weeks ago a rather clumsy soldering iron burn on the back of my left hand.

I've got a big scar on my left thumb that I only like to explain if I'm trying to impress someone.

Tell me of your scars!

The soldering iron burn was on my right hand, not my left. Duh me... Luckily it was on the knuckle so it's practically invisible now.
And tiny pinhole burn marks from solder spitting.
Also, from a few years ago but I forgot to mention, a scar on the outside of my left wrist near the knuckle where I was taking a folder out of a filing cabinet and someone had left the key in the lock.
And from when I was six or seven, a scar on my left ring finger, first joint below the fingernail. I don't have any idea what happened, but it looks like it needed a couple of stitches.
Scars on my legs as a child from running through some bushes while wearing shorts - didn't realise they were thorn bushes.
And in the last few months, a scar on the second knuckle of my left middle finger, accidentally took off a bit of skin while using a wood rasp.

Oh yeah, I forgot:
Scar on left knee, don't remember how it happened.
Small sickle shaped scar on right cheek, probably from some misguided Zorro bullshit in childhood.
Horizontal scars mid-back, probably from some bicycle accident.

Got frustrated about something, karate chopped a doorframe. There'll probably be a small quarter inch scar next to the first knuckle on the little finger of my left hand.

So your right hand was otherwise occupied? I'm beginning to see what happened...

I'm left handed

How could you place your dominant hand in jeopardy! Aren't you a musician?

Some people.

Admittedly it was a stupid thing to do. But most non-operation scars are collected in a moment of stupidity anyway.

^^^this dude ain't 4 REAL

I took this picture of this cute kitten friend I made out the front of my place the other day on my phone and realised it also kind of demonstrates the scar on/permanent weirdness of my big toenail. I hit it with an axe when I was about 12 cutting wood w/no shoes on.

http://i50.tinypic.com/nl4kg4.jpg

and here's another foto of the kitten

http://i46.tinypic.com/2jd58ol.jpg

You are lucky you still have your big toe. I lost mine to a lawn mower accident when I was 4. I I was running on my grandmother's back porch, whiloe my aunt was cutting the grass on a riding lawnmower. I'm not clear on what happened but I think I wanted to surprised my aunt and jumped off the back porch. My left foot slide underneath the mower,severing my foot in 3 places and my toe. After months in the hospital, my foot was reattached, but they never found my toe. Now I have a scar that winds around the side of my footdown the back of my ankle and under my foot.

I have two big ones on my back from kidney surgery as a kid.

my friend had some free passes to the 2003 san diego comic con, and we decided to check it out on a saturday night when there was supposed to be this lol masquerade ball going on. instead of wearing a costume, i drank a fifth of beam. then i pushed my way through all the assorted larpers, trekkies, furries etc. into the middle of the dancefloor, and tried some breakdancing moves. i did pretty good for never having breakdanced before, attempting one of those 360-degree backspins just like i'd seen done by professionals in those music videos where they breakdance. i got about three-quarters through the spin before trying to stand back up, but faceplanted instead. got up again and stumbled into the bathroom to find blood pouring out of a brand new gash just outside my left eye socket. i would later realize that i snapped my left collarbone in half too, but that didn't leave a scar.

haha that's awful.

Jacob jeeez, that sounds horrible. iiiijjjj: lolllll

I have a couple of scars on my knee from a footballing (soccering) incident, playing on a gravel field, me as the goalkeeper, long ball leaves me one on one with a tall and pretty fat guy. I succeeded in stopping him from scoring, but not from falling on my leg and grinding it into the field. Lorra lorra blood, kind of disappointing that the scars aren't more impressive. My opponent there later went on to murder someone by dropping a slab of concrete on their head. I guess I got off lucky.

I also have a nice shiny scar on the knuckle of my right ring finger, which I got after a little careless cheese-grating. My expression when I saw the large lump of flesh I'd taken out of myself was "JESUS FUCK", which as thought-free exclamations of shock go I think is pretty good.

I said the same thing when a carelessly wielded Surform (like a cheese grater but for shaping wood) took a chunk out of the second knuckle of my left middle ring finger.

Know a fella who's got a long fencing-style scar on his face from falling out of his pram as a baby. Tells people he got it in a knife fight.

One of my best mates has a scar like this - its a total mafiosa scar on his cheek under one eye - but he got it falling out of his cot as a babby holding a glass baby's bottle which smashed into his face and cut it open.

Small sickle shaped scar on right cheek, probably from some misguided Zorro bullshit in childhood.

I was thinking about this last night and I remember a bit more about it now. The old b/w Zorro serial was shown on TV, and for a couple of weeks everybody at school bought in telescopic radio aerials to have sword fights. We were six years old and this was 1980 so elf'n'safety concerns were years away. It's a stretch, but maybe I could claim it as a genuine fencing injury?

I have four scars on the top of my wrist from where I keep burning myself on the racks in the oven when taking things out. It sorta looks like I self harm.

I also have a small dot in the middle of my palm from where I stabbed myself with a pencil in grade school and a piece of the "lead" got wedged in there.

Small scar/no feeling in the tip of my pinky from where I walked into a while while holding a glass. I was about 11 so completely sober. Sometimes I'm not v graceful.

One chicken pox scar on one of my cheeks though can never remember which.

I have two major scars on my eyes. lol People always freak out when they see it. Funnily enough piece of it hangs off a thread. I sometimes wonder what would happen if it breaks off and *dangles* there. lolol

(Honestly, I don't try to think about it, cause, if I do, I do feel sad about it. But in a way this *connects* me to my husband who has a major visual handicap.)