Prize winners announcement thread!

[Bootiewootsy]

Congrats again to everyone.

 

[Phassat]

Love giveaways!!! Congrats all winner....

 

[Bootiewootsy]

To appease both me and poor @beckdg I suggest we have an extra special contest. The two of us open a thread where for one hour we post as many naked pics as we can, and the most prolific of us wins.

Oh no.... Can you really imagine an old lady puffing on her device...lol It would break most monitors...

 

[VapingTurtle]

To appease both me and poor @beckdg I suggest we have an extra special contest. The two of us open a thread where for one hour we post as many naked pics as we can, and the most prolific of us wins.

OK, I'm up for that.

You go first.



And second.

 

[caramel]

 

[AndriaD]

hehheh...yep..this old body can't do ALOT of things it used to ...smart keeping plenty of cold packs on hand and swapping them out. Last bad burn I had I had to sleep with the cold pack ON or there was no sleepin'...As u mentioned..cold pack, not ice pack..so there's no worry of cold injury while I slept. Who'd a thought a relatively "small" burn could cause such misery..it's all those nerve endings the skin is loaded with 'em!! Insult to injury..burn on top of too little sleep the night before

I had to do that once, when I had a dime-sized 2nd-degree burn right on the pad of my thumb -- though I think it was an icepack that time, and it was needed; I just let the pad of my thumb rest on it as i lay down to sleep.

I once had a 2nd-degree burn about the size of a half dollar on the "bottom" of my arm, just below the elbow, an unfortunate encounter with a 100-watt lightbulb; I guess there's a lot fewer nerves there, because just using aloe was sufficient to calm the pain. Definitely not though, with any burns on any part of your fingers.

Andria

 

[caramel]

 

[Robino1]

To appease both me and poor @beckdg I suggest we have an extra special contest. The two of us open a thread where for one hour we post as many naked pics as we can, and the most prolific of us wins.

OK, I'm up for that.

You go first.



And second.

No

 

[USMCotaku]

No

Straight to the point

 

[AndriaD]

Hey Andria, I'm probably going to get people calling me a gullible idiot for this and I'm a bit embarrassed/apprehensive about sharing it because of the stigma around it, but hear me out. Try taking some regular flour and putting a decent amount on the burn (assuming the skin isn't broken) then cover with a bandage that keeps the flour in and maintains a little amount of pressure.

I have been using this as my go-to burn remedy for several years now and I am being completely honest when I say, for me personally, it works magnitudes better than ANY other burn remedy I've tried, and I've tried neosporin, ice, burn gel, those sticky pads that cool the wound, all in conjunction with acetaminophen, ibuprofen, stronger stuff, pretty much every major one out there. From extreme pain to almost completely pain-free, with bad burns blisters do not form at all. It's completely magical.

There is supposedly no scientific reason why it works, snopes "debunked" it, but I absolutely promise that I have tested this method thoroughly and have always had amazing results. That's why I mentioned being embarrassed to mention it, since I'm usually the type to avoid "folk" remedies and am generally a pretty logical and scientifically minded person, but I use this every single time I get a burn and I've had no blisters and almost no pain since I've started using flour.

I heard this first from a glassblower back in 2004 or 2005 who swore by it. I passed it off as hippie ramblings until I randomly tried it after severely burning my hand about 4 years ago on a high-powered soldering iron while soldering some motors on my R/C cars. I thought the iron was off and grabbed it by the front and made a half-inch wide burn down most of my thumb and about half of my index finger. It was bad enough that there was smoke, burning skin smell, but the skin wasn't broken.

I covered in flour and then wrapped with gauze and the pain was gone within about 5 minutes without any pain medication. I was amazed and thought maybe the burn wasn't as bad as it looked/felt at first. After about 20 minutes I took the gauze off my thumb and wiped away the flour, the skin was discolored but there was no blister, within about 10 seconds the searing horrible pain came back and in a panic I put more flour on and wrapped it back up, and the pain was gone very shortly after.

I left the bandages on for a little over 3 days then took them off, the skin was thicker feeling, had a little loss of sensation, and discolored where the burn was, but there was no blister, no broken skin and no pain. After another few days with nothing on the burn a blister did eventually form, but it was smaller and didn't fill up enough that it needed to be drained, it just reabsorbed back into the skin and eventually faded away. It did seem like the blister on the thumb was worse than the index finger, maybe from taking off the bandage for that short period of time, or maybe it was just burned less.

I've done a ton of soldering, dabbled in glassblowing, have several hobbies that require use of torches or otherwise extremely hot things so I've been burned more times than I can even remember, and ever since that time I've used flour and seriously haven't had a single blister since. If you take the bandage off too soon a blister will form like it did that first time, but it's far less severe than normal.

Like I said, plenty of people call BS on it, and I can't provide you with any scientific evidence that it works, or why it does, but I have zero reason to make anything up and have consistently had this work wonders for me. I have a theory that the flour absorbs the moisture that would normally form the blister, and when a blister forms it's basically tearing your skin apart, kind of de-laminating it, which causes a great deal of pain. There may be something else going on with the flour, maybe some chemical interaction or something else but for me personally all I can say is that it works.

I only suggest it because it's so easy to try there is really nothing to loose, but if it does work for you, then you'll have an amazing tool to put in your toolbox for the future. My fear of getting burned has seriously diminished greatly since it's now so easily treatable for me.

Only problem is, I would have to wash off the ointment, and I DO NOT want to touch it at all! Figured I'd just leave the current bandage on it till tomorrow, roughly 24 hrs after applying it, then change it and put on some new ointment. But even if i waited till tomorrow, I'd still have to wash away the greasy ointment I applied today, and greasy stuff doesn't wash off well in cold water -- because I'm not bringing it near anything even remotely warm for probably about a week! 3-4 days at the VERY least.

Andria

 

[caramel]

Naked Ice for Andria's burnt finger:

 

[VapingTurtle]

No

 

[USMCotaku]

No no no, ice is horrible for a burn, and that was horrible for my eyes
Sent with one hand, the other is busy vaping.

 

[redrebel821]

I go and have dinner...come back to naked man on ice...gives a whole new meaning to "shrimp cocktail"

 

[USMCotaku]

I go and have dinner...come back to naked man on ice...gives a whole new meaning to "shrimp cocktail"

 

[sonicdsl]

To appease both me and poor @beckdg I suggest we have an extra special contest. The two of us open a thread where for one hour we post as many naked pics as we can, and the most prolific of us wins.

OK, I'm up for that.

You go first.



And second.

 

[kathi17]

I didn't even know there was a time contest. With hundreds of posts per minute it seemed daunting to even exist in those moments lol

I didn't see it either. I thought I had read all the posts, but I missed that one. I was wondering why everyone was guessing the time!

 

[AndriaD]

Well... now it's time to go and see if my husband really is feeling helpful, to get these dishes done. Normally if I have a bandaid on some finger, I just put on a latex glove, but even that wouldn't protect it from the warmth of the hot water. Just the thought of it makes me cringe.

Andria

 

[UncleChuck]

Only problem is, I would have to wash off the ointment, and I DO NOT want to touch it at all! Figured I'd just leave the current bandage on it till tomorrow, roughly 24 hrs after applying it, then change it and put on some new ointment. But even if i waited till tomorrow, I'd still have to wash away the greasy ointment I applied today, and greasy stuff doesn't wash off well in cold water -- because I'm not bringing it near anything even remotely warm for probably about a week! 3-4 days at the VERY least.

Andria

Oh yeah definitely! I should have mentioned this was for future reference, it only seems to work if you do it immediately after a burn. Hopefully it heals up quick for you, good luck!

 

[caramel]

No

C'mon you know us better than that. It's all about vaping.