Peter Vieira
Wow, you're reading this? Thanks! If you're into RC cars and I seem vaguely familiar, it's because I spent over 25 years writing and editing RC car news, reviews, and tech articles in print and online. What else, what else ... I have a degree in Film Studies (useless), most of a degree in Graphic Design (useful), and I'm married to a wonderful woman with horrible taste in men. Thanks to her, we have a terrific daughter who just earned her Journalism degree and is way, waaay more together that I was at her age. Or right now.
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Anytime JT schools us on bugs, buses, and/or taillights is perfectly fine w/ me even if he…gives us the finger. Ha ha
Have you ever thought about doing polling to get feedback from members on why they didn’t click on a particular article?
Also, getting an appointment for urgent care feels like an oxymoron.
For that finger, I would have soaked it in hydrogen peroxide… especially after it got all pussed up.
In that puss-filled pic, I would have popped it, got out as much as I could and then soaked it in peroxide.
Then rinse it, dry it thoroughly and put on a bandage.
this made the leftover 13yo I still am inside giggle.
“So, I may have jinxed Torch into getting his pee-pee crushed. I bet that would get him to urgent care.
Thanks for being a Member!”
Imagine now, that Peter swapped out a couple of words.
Into THIS:
“So, I may have jinxed Torch into getting his member crushed. I bet that would get him to urgent care.
Thanks for being a pee-pee!”
My inner-12-year-old-self is snickering uncontrollably now.
Finger goo like that is likely the result of puncture. Were we using a wire wheel without gloves recently? Did you stick yourself with a burr in the yard?
I think his only tool is chainsaw.
Goddamn, Peter and Torch together in TFTS is like chocolate and peanut butter… so so good.
“You could slam your dick in a drawer” will be my new Outlook signature. Should make those email chains… lively.
Especially so for the dickless ones who read it and can’t even participate.
“Hmmmmm I’m listening”
Now, that’s effin’ funny! 😀
Have had the finger goo thing several times over the years. Found that applying some solid pressure with the thumb or a non-swole finger tip from the first knuckle and sliding firmly along the bone towards the finger tip is effective at expelling the pus in a satisfying ribbon from the nail/finger intersection. Hit it with some dollar store triple antibiotic gel, wrap it with whatever’s handy and you’ve saved yourself the Urgent Care copay (and inevitable insurance dispute when they code your care wrong and you get an EOB saying you owe $700).
You may have to do this a couple of times if it refills, and it is important to get on it when it looks like Jason Finger Picture #1, but you get the satisfaction of doing the job yourself along with the rush of waiting to see whether you’ve managed to self-sepsis.
On a pus-related matter, a shady local night club called “Opus” recently lost power to the “O” on their sign. The family were making jokes about the implications of the lost letter until I pedantically pointed out that the “O”-less “Opus” actually spelt pus, the infection byproduct, and not the slang term they were referencing. All agreed that pus was the more likely result of a hookup with a patron of the establishment and family harmony was restored.
Man american health care is a nightmare of billing and denials. If I went to an urgent care my cost would be the parking and the bill for any sort of medication I got at a pharmacy. Or medical device, when I broke my ankle I had to pay for the walking boot.
It’s such a weird and arbitrary system. I live in the states and have really good insurance (like regularly get staff at doctor’s offices comment on it good). You have some people who have experiences like Dave, but then you have people like me who go to urgent care for a persistent cough, get like 10 things checked (including a chest x-ray) walk out with 3 prescriptions and my total cost is like $40 between the copay and the meds. Or my insurance company saying “oh never mind, you don’t owe anything, not even your copay, on that ultrasound” that we thought we were going to pay $300 for.
My theory is that my employer has a self-funded policy where instead of paying a premium they pay the insurance company to manage the claims, but my employer is ultimately paying for them, so the insurance company DGAF and just approves everything.
The parking at my local hospitals is bloody expensive though. Park for more than an hour and it’ll cost more than a prescription.(which is £9.90)
I am appalled that you put up with some of the charges I hear about.
You guys put me right off eating breakfast.
I think a picture of something and a couple of random words is enough as long as the article is attributed to Torch, that’s a mouse click magnet.
Other people may require more like “I made brake lights for my Jeep and my head almost blew off.”, and some flashing brake light GIF as a topshot.
The Torchinsky Diet.
Jason can join Life of Brian now as DIGITUS INFECTUS. Or maybe this is his Harry Potter spell, for those who think Python is just a language.
BTW, is it getting any better after the second treatment?
Also, will Jason share more pictures of his stigmata? Asking for a friend.
He has a wife you know.
Thanks for being a member!
Had me dying after that final exchange.
Yea, Pete’s really crushing it there!
Crushing it, in drawers.
I’m just glad I’m not Jason’s Member
Hope Torch is recovering – that looks unpleasant.
I had a weird one like that. When I was in Jr High I got stung by a bee at the base of my throat. For 40 years I had a less than pea-sized lump there. That over the course of about 3-4 days randomly turned into a golf ball sized and very angry looking lump! Did a teledoc appointment with my doc (he being in Maine, me being in Florida), who said “get thee to urgent care right damned now”. Which I did, they lanced it and drained an astonishing amount of gunk out of it. The theory is that the bee left it’s stinger behind, which after all those decades got infected. Weird crap happens to bodies now and again.
I was able to skip the gross picture in CS, but you got me here. Thanks. I’ve got 48 more minutes on the train before I can barf.
Oh, and there is some wife joke that would get me kicked out of here buried in all this somewhere.
All the punning aside, how did that gnarly infection even happen???
Gah!
I just hope it didn’t involve taking a chainsaw to the Changli, again.
Twrench foot, finger pus, battery saws….
Can I get a job here, since your healthcare seems to be quite good?
Don’t forget Mercedes’ knee issues with the dirt bike and the impalings.
On second thought, maybe this workplace is cursed.
The gastrointestinal gas supply may be compromised but the bacterial infection gas supply is ready to take up the slack.
That finger looks like something Stan Winston would put together. Lance, soak, repeat.
… or Chris Walas, he did Jeff Goldblum’s goopy fingers for The Fly
“You could slam your dick in a drawer” “Hmmm I’m listening”
That made me snort laugh.
I put my dick in my drawers every day 🙂
Yes, but do you slam it into them? lolol
After a stressful day, that line absolutely broke me and I laughed much harder than I probably should have at the thought.
The problem with your headline was it referenced the 912E. Nobody but car guys know what that is, while everyone knows what defroster, HVAC controls, etc. mean, even if that might not be how they refer to them.
Man, everything’s digital these days.
What forking icehole designed the Porches’s defroster controls? Sun on the beaches! Let ’em complain about that!
I believe you meant bowdlerized. 🙂
And I suspect Jason can undergo a relatively new procedure to connect his pyloric valve to one of his other digits. There is hope!
Y’know I thought it looked wrong
You really let urgent care have all the fun. Get a little diabetes blood poke needle and jam it right in the tensest, hottest, goopiest part. Bite down on a hank of rope, squeeze the rest out. Revel in the filth your body can produce for a moment then hose it down with bactine, let it air dry right quick, cover with band aid and Neosporin.
That does sound a bit like Jason. A DYI repair. He could even use a little duct tape.
Every time I see the DYI typo, I read it as, “Do Yourself In.” Might be a little bit of an overreaction in this case but certainly fits the spirit.
Or he uses batteries and chainsaws
The little spring-loaded needles ones may not poke deeply enough.
Push pin works for larger infections.
Treating or giving?
Yes