I had no idea - the dangers of plastic modeling....

[LDO]

That’s a funny site. Also look for Awesome Ways To Quit Your Job and Awesome Ways To Break Bad News. They had a few videos in a “This had to have happened” series. The one about last names is funny. 

[johnyrotten]

36 minutes ago, THarrison351 said:

Hey, we used to throw pocket knives at each others feet and shoot BB guns at each other too!

Yup, been there. 

[bobss396]

Funny.. I dropped an xacto knife last week. I was wearing flip flops. I didn't even look, picked up the knife and went back to work. 

Then I noticed that my foot was sliding in the flip flop, and I'm on a blood thinner.

The flip flop was full of blood, I had nicked my middle toe. I left a trail of blood across my kitchen floor on the way to the sink. Washed it all off... wrap the foot in a paper towel... back to work.

[NOBLNG]

21 minutes ago, bobss396 said:

Funny.. I dropped an xacto knife last week. I was wearing flip flops. I didn't even look, picked up the knife and went back to work. 

Then I noticed that my foot was sliding in the flip flop, and I'm on a blood thinner.

The flip flop was full of blood, I had nicked my middle toe. I left a trail of blood across my kitchen floor on the way to the sink. Washed it all off... wrap the foot in a paper towel... back to work.

You’re a survivor Bob!🙂

[magicmustang]

[oldnslow]

I live in the state of Denial , so I'm safe . 😎

[Brudda]

I’m surprised that there is no follow-up after the build. My ship and tank models saw firecrackers and m-80’s boy I’m glad they did not see that. None of us would be alive. 

[OldSkool81]

About the original post: did you ever notice that a lot of people from the 70's, 80's and 90's that ended up in technical domains, and furthermore pretty good in those domains, built model kits as kids? Wanna talk about modern hazardous things? What about energy drinks that kids consume as if they were the juiceboxes we used to drink... Or constantly having a phone or tablet in their hands that have been proven to be harmful... Seems like everything is harmful for you nowadays; I'll take my chances with model building. At least, it'll work my noggin, help me keep my dexterity, work my patience and maintain my spacial (3-D) viewing skills, all of which looking at a screen can't give you.

[johnyrotten]

5 hours ago, OldSkool81 said:

About the original post: did you ever notice that a lot of people from the 70's, 80's and 90's that ended up in technical domains, and furthermore pretty good in those domains, built model kits as kids? Wanna talk about modern hazardous things? What about energy drinks that kids consume as if they were the juiceboxes we used to drink... Or constantly having a phone or tablet in their hands that have been proven to be harmful... Seems like everything is harmful for you nowadays; I'll take my chances with model building. At least, it'll work my noggin, help me keep my dexterity, work my patience and maintain my spacial (3-D) viewing skills, all of which looking at a screen can't give you.

100% agree with you on this. I've found since I've started building again, my creativity and problem solving on the fly skills have improved. I've always had patience to spare, anymore of those and I'd be a monk. 

[Falcon Ranchero]

10 hours ago, OldSkool81 said:

About the original post: did you ever notice that a lot of people from the 70's, 80's and 90's that ended up in technical domains, and furthermore pretty good in those domains, built model kits as kids? Wanna talk about modern hazardous things? What about energy drinks that kids consume as if they were the juiceboxes we used to drink... Or constantly having a phone or tablet in their hands that have been proven to be harmful... Seems like everything is harmful for you nowadays; I'll take my chances with model building. At least, it'll work my noggin, help me keep my dexterity, work my patience and maintain my spacial (3-D) viewing skills, all of which looking at a screen can't give you.

I'm pickin' up whatch you're layin' down; me being of the now generation I see a lot more of the energy drink consuption and high phone usage; never touched one of those drinks in my life thus far, and never had a phone until this past September. I'd definitley choose model building anyday.

[Brudda]

Oh my god….. call OSHA

[Tim W. SoCal]

2 hours ago, Brudda said:

Oh my god….. call OSHA

They'll send out the Occupational Safety and Health Inspection Team

[Bugatti Fan]

Health an Safety Regulations, don't you just love them.

i'm sure that they were devised to guide the stupid!

As for over protective parenting, a sure fire way to produce risk averse snowflakes. Are we not in danger of convincing ourselves that the risks to our kids is more perceived than real?  It's ok for kids to run around and get a few grazes to their knees every now and again believe it or not. They are in more danger surfing the net unsupervised than running around outside.

[Ace-Garageguy]

36 minutes ago, Bugatti Fan said:

...As for over protective parenting, a sure fire way to produce risk averse snowflakes. Are we not in danger of convincing ourselves that the risks to our kids is more perceived than real?  It's ok for kids to run around and get a few grazes to their knees every now and again believe it or not. They are in more danger surfing the net unsupervised than running around outside.

I'm pretty sure that one big reason I still have both eyes and all my digits after 5+ decades in a business that can be unforgivingly "dangerous" is that I learned at a right young age that being careless or not paying attention can have painful consequences, and I have scars to prove it.

Fear-based parenting produces young people who are not only risk-averse, but also incapable of recognizing potential risk in the physical world and behaving in a way that would minimize it.

Watching "fail" vids on yootoob pretty much proves what happens when people who don't learn to think about how things can go wrong are released into reality.

 

[rattle can man]

The Surgeon General needs to put out this message:  Warning: Life can cause death.

Breathing means you can inhale things from the air, natural or manmade that can kill you; eating and drinking means you can ingest things that can kill you (natural or manmade); existing means you are constantly exposed to radiation that can kill you.

Life is short. Enjoy it.