passing the time at a kids party today someone uttered just these immortal words..

as i was passing time in conversation with a yummy mummy who was also a GP I felt i had to ask.. have you ever heard of/or seen someones eye on the end of a bit of stick..

the answer was a solid ..no. she believed in fact it’d be quite difficult to achieve.. opinioned that gouging would be required to remove eye and that merely poking it with a stick would probably not surfice..

any other urban myths been debunked..

Seen 3 and know 2 people who have lost one from a stick.

any other urban myths been debunked..

I dont think ”You’ll have someones eye out with that stick” is an urban myth.

whats on the end of your stick Vic?

There’s a former English king would beg to differ… 😀

Has anyone ever had their arm broken by a swan ?

my face has never stuck in a scowl when the wind changed either 🙁

I very, very nearly had someone’s eye out with a sword last week.

(Martial arts practice, wooden swords, he blocked and scooped the sword up into his eye)

Never caught my death of cold, though.

When I was a lad at scouts, we were taught to make those throwing sticks, piece of string, spear attached. One of the lads chucked one and took someone’s eye out. They stopped teaching that skill.

as i was passing time in conversation with a yummy mummy who was also a GP I felt i had to ask.. have you ever heard of/or seen someones eye on the end of a bit of stick.

in the circumstances the first port of call probably isn’t a GP.

nealglover – Member
Has anyone ever had their arm broken by a swan?

No but had a moody one have me off my bike!

We had a wooden-sword-into-brothers-eye incident today, and that’s pretty much a stick. Happens.

in the circumstances the first port of call probably isn’t a GP.

might notice when they next see them though and get some notes

I went to school with a guy that got a thorn in his eye when a branch sprang back on him. (he had an enlarged/ misshaped pupil)

I went to school with a guy that had a cake in his hand every time you saw him . (he was an enlarged/ misshaped pupil)

might notice when they next see them though and get some notes

but their parish is a little bit smaller than the emergency services

I think the saying means that you could cause someone to lose the sight in an eye, rather than actually removing it from its socket. Which seems entirely plausible.

An ex-gf managed to puncture her eye with a safety pin, she told me. I would have expected it to burst and deflate, but she suffered no ill effects.

any other urban myths been debunked..

Well i’m 32 and i’ve not gone blind yet ….

but their parish is a little bit smaller than the emergency services

Fair point

Fair point

Ahhhhh!

know a guy who ‘injured hiself ‘ with a stanley knife when he was 7, in the eye, his mam told him to man up– got infected, and has a glass one ever since–

“Masturbation causes blindness”. I had double cataracts by my mid 20s.
You may draw your own conclusions….

There was a lad I knew who was horsing about with his mate on way back from the pub pushing each other into hedges in peoples front gardens. A thorn or a spikey bit went into his eye and he ended up dead! Always felt sorry for his mate that pushed him, he’ll have to live with that for the rest of his life.

Its running with scissors that’s the real problem!

Its running with scissors that’s the real problem!

no longer an olympic event either. Health and safety gone mad