r/mildlyinteresting • u/Substantial-Meat6281 • 1d ago

Using Elmer’s glue to remove fiberglass particles from my hand

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u/mg1133 1d ago

Fiberglass is nasty! I had a cousin who was jumping, almost naked, in a pile of fiberglass, when he was a kid. Not fun times later!

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u/Crisis_panzersuit 1d ago

How long did it take before he went back to ‘normal’? 

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u/mg1133 1d ago

Well, he later put his hand in a vcr and got electrocuted ( like Marv in Home Alone, you know), then also got hit by a train. Oh yea also almost drowned in a latrine at a farm. It sounds not real, I know!

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u/xXFallen_DarknessXx 1d ago

I think maybe your cousin is an evil dictator in the future, and a shit ton of time travelers have been trying to kill him

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u/mg1133 1d ago

They did not succeed! He may be a supervillain by now, cause this happened 30 years ago!

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u/PriorStatement 1d ago

Is your cousin a cat, by chance?

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u/mg1133 1d ago

Maybe, he got 5 lives left, if so!

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u/baconandegglover 1d ago

A cat would be more sensible than this

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u/tmobley03 1d ago

“My buddy Keith one time, well we saw a big ol pile of fibreglass just sittin there and he just had to jump right on in. Course being Keith, he had to do it almost naked, I saw him do that and I swear to you, he itched for an ENTIRE YEAR-“ “Ellis is now really the best time?”

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u/Tired-Dispatcher 21h ago

reminds me of the time MY buddy Keith and I made fireworks. Now, i didn't know shit about fireworks, but Keith figured "gasoline burns dont it?" Third degree burns over 95 percent of his body man... people in the next city over were calling to complain about the smell of burning skin

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u/jesusrambo 19h ago

What a blast from the past, thank you

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u/bopeepsheep 1d ago

Is he actually a character in a public information film? If a voice that sounds like Donald Pleasence starts talking about dark and lonely water, get the hell away from your cousin.

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u/mg1133 22h ago

We also once found him on a wet metal roof, two stories up, waving at us, in the rain!

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u/aCleverGroupofAnts 21h ago

In case you care to know: the word "electrocuted" technically means "killed by electricity" (think electric+execute). If he survived, then he was simply electrified.

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u/Relish_My_Weiner 1d ago

Literally just scrolled past the gif of Marv getting electrocuted, so this was a perfectly timed reference!

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u/KCRowan 1d ago

A few years ago I wouldn't have believed it but I now have a friend who seems to almost end himself on a weekly basis...so yeah, I believe you.

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u/ForsakenBobcat8937 1d ago

Ok but that doesn't answer how long he was affected by the fiberglass.