delicious cactus needles

[zombi]

the other morning I was barely awake and accidentally knocked a potted cactus over, catching it with my right hand which was instantly covered with dozens of razor sharp, nearly invisible, poison-feeling cactus barbs. In the surprise of pain I then somehow managed to get one of the barbs ON MY TONGUE.

You can't wash em off, you got to dig em out.

Ultimately I had to get my wife to hold a flashlight on me in the mirror while I stuck out my tongue and dried it off so I could find the barb and pull it out.

I was so relieved when it was all over, that I started in on some chores and immediately smashed my thumb, tearing the nail halfway off. In case anybody ever asks, tearing your nail off like that is more painful than getting cactus barbs in your tongue

 

[cat_in_sf]

LOL!

This is why I don't have dangerous things in my house - it would just be waiting to kill me when my clumsy self runs into it.

 

[Godsdarling]

jeeze! Time for a cold pepsi and some tlc. you poor thing. Blame it on the full moon.

 

[Sharky]

Damn man, you better take a break before you rip your nuts off or something.

 

[Factor5]

Ouch. Don't leave the house!

 

[westie]

Done the cactus thing. Now all you gotta do is make taco's. Cut up some jalepeno's, go take a leak and, rub your eye. No flashlight and mirrors gonna help that pain in the... The thumb? Well, good luck getting your gloves on!!

 

[gogounited]

 

[Valgar]

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[Obscura]

I once dropped a Cactus on a chair a long time ago, cleaned up the mess. . . then sat down on said chair. Man did I miss a lot of those thin needles.

 

[gogounited]

My clumsy ass was walking in the country with a few friends, when I stumbled on some rubble and wound up on the ground. Given this was around Austin, TX it was only natural that my head landed about 6 inches from a huge cactus plant. I must have jostled it somehow with my limbs while falling cuz I was pulling needles out of my arms, legs, torso for about three days.

Not pleasant, kinda funny at the time.

Remember Pineapple Express,...he used a cactus plant to interrogate a guy.

 

[Hooli]

I'm still trying to figure out just how in God's name catus needles went from your hand, to your mouth...

 

[Xenophonii]

Go pick some cactus fruit! It's good but damn, I'm always picking those damn microscopic needles out and swear I won't do it again...

 

[MtnRacer]

I was so relieved when it was all over, that I started in on some chores and immediately smashed my thumb, tearing the nail halfway off. In case anybody ever asks, tearing your nail off like that is more painful than getting cactus barbs in your tongue

THANK YOU. I had been wondering about this ALL morning today.

Steve

 

[Charmed]

WTF do you have CACTI perched next to your bed?? In the same area as your nekkid penor?? I mean, you do get naked there...right? REMOVE THE CACTI before a more vital member becomes involved. That is all

 

[Factor5]

WTF do you have CACTI perched next to your bed?? In the same area as your nekkid penor?? I mean, you do get naked there...right? REMOVE THE CACTI before a more vital member becomes involved. That is all

What if there was an earthquake?

 

[zombi]

yeah I need to get rid of some cactus. That's why I knocked it over I had moved it as precursor to fully moving it out. I need to move some around to save to containers. I picked off this tiny piece of flowering cactus from giant one at a pals house in OAKLAND few years back and I swear I have grown thirty feet of cactus from it since, chopping em and transplanting em. You can't kill it. I was putting some out front as (drought/fire resistant) bum deterrent but now my kids getting bigger I guess I might needta move that too. Even the dirt on these cactus seems filled with microscopic barbs.

 

[Ree]

Just think of it as free Acupuncture.

 

[Hooli]

Just think of it as free Acupuncture.

Free piercings.