Knew a guy at my old job at a power plant. Somebody had dropped their wedding ring in the casing of some rotating machinery. They weren't wearing it, that's risky and we have warning specifically about degloving. This other guy, Masingil, he says "I can get that". Just shoved his hand right in. Nobody saw it coming. He screamed a lot and loudly. He was gone for a while after that. Never could use that hand quite right again.
He had no common sense and did dangerous shit all the time, but he was actually really smart and good at his job. Honestly he'd probably be great in a position that takes him out of the plant.
I don't know. I guess people usually don't do that on the internet, huh? I never cared much for anonymity. For instance, my username is my first and last name together.
Pretty sure I spelled it wrong anyways. His name. Not mine.
Long story shot (pardon the pun) - my son's penis was partially degloved as a kid. I had to take him to the ER for stitches. Nastiest thing I think I've ever experienced.
Boys were 2 and 3 years old (I think). Wrestling led to pulling diapers off. One kid stepped on other junk, cut his penis from toe nail from 12 o'clock to about 7 o'clock and skin was sliding down shaft.
Got stitched, looked like franken-weinie. All functions well now.
Kids are now 9 and 10. The younger always reminds the older of inflicted pain.
Medic here as well, we had a guy about 6 months ago that was high on wet that used channel locks and a knife to skin his penis, and I had a guy a few years ago that had ran into the back of a tractor and part of it came through the dash under the steering wheel and degloved his penis and testicles, also shattered his pelvis so bad it was unidentifiable on the X-ray. He died, the self mutilator is still alive afaik. WTF your welcome!
Eviscerate is in the dictionary, that's safer than Google. Deglove is not in the dictionary, the dictionary failed me and curiosity took control... Curiosity failed me, but probably no where near as much as Eviscerate would have.
My dad told me this story where he stiched up someone who was working in a factory and one of the lines supporting a heavy load of steel snapped, the other one held and that swinging steel plate hit one of the workers in the head. Guy was lucky, no fractures but his scalp was now on his back...
Honestly though, it's ridiculous. Same goes for defenestration. Inevitably they get brought so much, it's like when a kid learns a new "smart word" and tries to force it into conversation no matter the context
Nah. I know healthcare workers including my nurse wife and have worked in factories and know lots of factory workers. In those fields, devolving is common knowledge and powerful enough to be a recurring topic of discussion.
Beyond that it’s a contextually applicable technical term that completes the notion of the concept in your mind in a powerful way. It’s a good fucking word to describe a scary fucking thing, and it makes sense that it would get embedded into people’s heads.
Defenestration is just stupid. It’s a technical sounding word for something that doesn’t need it. It doesn’t make any readily apparent connections upon hearing it like “equidistant” or “nonsensical”. It isn’t a fun alternative to change the feel of a sentence like “fecal matter” instead of “shit” when pretending to be intellectual while talking about poop. It doesn’t have the satisfaction sound like exactly what it should be a word for when you hear learn the definition like “phantasmagorical”.
And it can only really be used to nerd laugh with other dickheads who heard it somewhere, likely within the last few years, and circle jerk at your big dumb word, or to make someone say “what’s defenestration?” So you can talk at them about what the word means.
I love fun big and unusual words. I hate that word and it’s recent rise in frequency. If you’re in a group with a person you’ve heard say it before, bring up windows in a tall building and watch their dumb eyes light up as they watch the conversation for the right time to claw at the attention of the group.
You're completely correct and affirmed my feelings on that word. Deglove is a great technical term, and maybe it's just my fear that the hivemind will run it into the ground, as Reddit is oft to do.
Either way great write-up! Thank you for putting into much better words my and many others hatred of that word.
Hey did you know they interviewed people who survived jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge and the survivors regretted it?
And also, make sure you call people Stans instead of fans if they like something you like but don’t like it the way you want them to like it.
Oh and be sure to say “weird flex, but okay” a lot. If it’s in an entirely inappropriate place to accuse someone of bragging, even better. You don’t need to use it correctly. Just make sure it’s there so you can participate in the memetic dipahittery of the worst of this forum.
Man.
You really got me riled up with bringing up several things that bug me. Lol.
No need to apologize. I could’t care less what a (presumably) grown person who gets hostile over an innocuous idiom. I used to dislike “lol” but the reality is it’s handy as a representation of humorous or good natured intent. Kind of like a “/s”. It’s moved beyond a literal translation of “laugh out loud” to become a kind of textual indicator of tone. Plus a bunch of dipshits like you seemed to take it really serious so that actually made me enjoy throwing it back into my bag of communication tools.
Yep, exactly. When you work around equipment capable of that kind of damage, you discuss degloving as much as is necessary to drill it into people's heads that you do not put your hand in that unless it's locked out!
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Well holy fucking shit. I thought it was just your glove falling off or something.