h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

...and it really, really hurts. It hurts out of all proportion to the damage done, especially when it bashes against something. When it bashes against something I swear lots. It's been like this for a week and I'm not happy: it stops me play guitar.

Roy has also been reading 'The God Deception', chatting on the Richard Dawkins forum and becoming less tolerant of deific fantasists, not that you'd have noticed.

Roy went to a gig with RF on Tuesday. It was good. More London researchers should get off their fat arses and come out to see new bands with us. RF has a good track record when it comes to random gigs!

Thumb on spacebar. Ouch.

get it checked out mate..... thumbs can be funny things..... lots of bones to go wrong in there...... *sniggers*


RJR

have you broken it?

your thumb not the spacebar

SWL notices that Roy is writing in the third person. SWL wonders if the pain in Roy's thumb has driven him out of his body?

Yes, that's weird. And SWL is imitating this behaviour.
Do you think it's contagious?

It's not broken. I seem to have managed to get a bit that should be under the nail out of the side of the nail, and there seems to be some over-exposed nervage going on. I as a tad concerned about infection but it seems to be healing OK, it just hurts a lot when I bash it!

All together now:

'DON'T BASH IT THEN!'

The third person thing seems to have faded a bit now the JD's worn off.

Chuck a plaster on it and give it a couple of days

Immerse it in a glass of JD

It's already plastered! And I don't think there's any JD left.

There is some cider somewhere...

Maybe my writing your epitaph last night was quite prescient

>>Roy has also been reading 'The God Deception', chatting on the Richard Dawkins forum and becoming less tolerant of deific fantasists, not that you'd have noticed.<<

But the Lord has. A sore thumb is always a sign of divine retribution.

The only Divine Retribution I care about is the one my paladin in World of Warcraft does when ganking monsters

I'd offer to kiss it better if I thought you'd get any satisfaction out of it

I should have guessed it would be divine retribution - until the thumb went funny I was trying to work out XTC's 'Dear God'! Andy Partridge is a right old filthy chord pervert you know. It all sounds so simple...

Thanks for the offer fords but I doubt even the silken lips of The Deppster could help!

Having said that, I've been hitting the spacebar quite regularly this afternoon with nought but a vague soreness. It's possible I was being a bit of a whimp last night.

my god!

Is it catching?

Have these thumbs been getting together without wearing condoms?

I have a similar problem with a big toe! Ouch!!

Sounds like De Quervains disease to me. Usually caused by prolonged strenuous grasping movements of large tools & the like. Lots of stuff involving lubricated sheaths & things sliding back & forth.

http://www.clevelandclinic.org/health/health-info/docs/1700/1709.asp?index=7080&src=newsp

You could try sucking it to see if that helps....

zdt

well it seems that winking is out of the question for the time being....

Well quite Roy - I bet it stings if you get liquids spilling onto the sore part! so wear a condom! (or a glove I guess?)

I thought that post was a joke too, but it says: "Trigger finger frequently affects farmers, industrial workers, and musicians who rely on their fingers or thumbs".. Is that YOU?

Doesn't explain my toe though does it...

Doctor Zendevil to the rescue once more. The problem with your toe is due to clubbing. If you will insist on allowing your toe to frequent loud noisy places (where, it must be said, persons of Ill Repute may be found, plus all manner of Illicit Substances) then what can you expect?

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/003282.htm

I suggest you bind your feet tightly. may be the only answer. Ask 2legs advice on this one.

zdt

So what exactly DID you do to your thumb?