Oops, looks like the hill slipped.

[Morty]

If you ever learn anything from your visits to this website, let it be this.

Do not use your bare hands to mix concrete.

Literally your bare hands. Use a tool of some sort. Hell, maybe use some gloves too!

I bought the bags of concrete and everything else I needed for the various tasks I had to do today at work. What I forgot to buy was some tools to mix the concrete and gloves to go with it. I knew my hands would be beat up a bit, but I didn't expect them to be a rosy red and all my knuckles to be ground to the bone. I did mix about 4 100lb bags of concrete though. Had to get it done though. Tile guys show up on site Monday and we had a few holes that needed to be filled.

Ya, I'm stupid. But I'm also young and I know my hands will heal up in a day or so. Main thing to keep doing is keep hand lotion on them. Not a problem since I'm single now. hahaha But the acid in the concrete really takes the moisture right the fuck out of your hands.

Hear about those mudslides up in our mountains here in Southern California? For those of you that believe in God, can you explain to me why he just buried a cabin full of his followers in 20 feet of mud?

Call me an but why the fuck were those stupid fuckers hanging out on a mountain that doesn't have any vegetation on it during a rain storm? Seriously, why the fuck would you do such a stupid thing? I have such little compassion for victims of stupidity. I know I've got the Express Pass charged up and ready to go for my trip to Hell talking like this, but WTF?!?! I'm going to Hell anyways. Why should I start hiding my opinion now?

Trips me out though. Bunch of Bible Thumpers praying inside their little cabins during a rainstorm and here comes a couple 1000 tons of mud toppling the cabin, the people, the Bibles, and of course the little white dove that they were going to release when the rain stopped. Now how many of them do you think were screaming "HOLY FUCK" as the mud buried them? Or maybe a few "God Damnit"s. You know someone had to be yelling out "JESUS CHRIST." And it was more than just the teenagers a few cabins over humping their brains out screaming "Oh God, Oh God."

Brings a whole new meaning to "Damnit, you're tracking mud in the house!"

Now its bad enough being buried in all that mud, but how about the poor bastards walking around in it watching the front of the bull dozers to see if they are turning over any bodies as they scrape the mud out of the camp. Every once in awhile doing the universal "cut-it" symbol with the hand slicing sideways infront of the throat. Pulling out the "poking stick" and the spray bottle and squirting things and poking them to see if its a body. "Nope, go ahead. Was just a sleeping bag." Continuing onward. "Oh wait, think I found a penis!" "Never mind, this must be Sister Nelly's ClittyBruiser 2000 Dildo. Guess that explains the funny walk." And back to pushing the mud around the hill looking for more of "God's Children" under the mud.

People, let's make it 2 things you learn here on MTW.

1. Don't use your bare hands to mix concrete.

2. NEVER fucking be on a hill/mountain during a fucking huge rainstorm that has been recently burnt down so that there is ZERO vegetation.


Class dismissed. You'll be tested on this next week.

[WillRiker]

I used to work for a firm that sold concrete, cement, and various other chemicals to the building industry and I know first hand (pun intended), just how much that shit can burn and dry out your skin.

It really would take a special kind of stupid to mix it with bare hands...sorry Morty! However, you can be safe in the knowledge that you will never, ever be as stupid as those morons in the hut, now that is seriously soft in the head!

[BunnyMan]

An entire post making fun of bible humpers... I like.


Does kind of make you wonder though, here we are, sitting in the pool of blastfamy (C. Monkey feel free to correct the spelling) and sin we call a life, and they are the ones who drown to death in a pool of mud.

Can I get an amen?

[BunnyMan]

Or how about that earthquake in Iran. Lower magnitude than the one that hit Cali. the other day, but killed a good 4,998 more people. At least. And we, as a country, are "the devil in the flesh."

Tis good to be evil.

[CableMonkey]

Do not use your bare hands to mix concrete...

I have such little compassion for victims of stupidity.

I agree...

I have such little compassion for victims of stupidity.

[CableMonkey]

blastfamy

Blasphemy

[Morty]

Wasn't looking for compassion on my hands. Just venting on my stupidity.

[Boozer]

My brother works with concrete for a living. He got a couple of blisters on his hands from finishing the floors, and some concrete got into one of the blisters. Once he got the concrete out of his hand, he basically had this dime sized hole in his hand. It was pretty sick looking because of the concrete burn.

[evl0ne]

Don't ever grout a ceramic tile floor with out gloves either. The grout has lye in it, that'll take your skin off also.

[steveyermate]

I was on a safety training course when photos were passed around of an idiots legs and feet with very serious burns, he had helped lay a concrete floor and because he had no wellington boots he worked in bare feet. The lime in conrete mix is more dangerous then people realize as you found out he hard way.