SWP finger

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 4:08 pm

localised, subcutaneous bruising around the tip of the right hand's index finger.

please somebody tell me that i'm not the only one who gets this. poor old peter pointer is sore.

MTrevitt · Post by **MTrevitt** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 4:41 pm

2 years ago I broke my index finger playing cricket.
It is now peculiarly shaped and I found it a hindrance to my machining.

Fortunately, I trained my middle finger to take its place.

kidgloves · Post by **kidgloves** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 5:30 pm

I imagine the following are two likely contenders for the old quiz finger syndrome :

Mouse trap - splat the mice when on fast mode

Crystal Maze when hoovering up those gold tokens

Although, to be fair anybody who played Daley Thompson's Decathlon back in the day will be immune to todays puny physical effort required.

Oh, and if you had the pleasure of the same game on the old Atari 2600 with it's indestructible rubber joystick you must be able to wank quicker than a monkey on heat.

Matt Vinyl · Post by **Matt Vinyl** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 6:05 pm

Heh, my SBB colleague has frequent bruises on the tip of his index finger - a hazard of the profession...

cool · Post by **cool** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 6:27 pm

you can get by by using one finger particularly handy for dodgy publicans.

donttellhimpike · Post by **donttellhimpike** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 8:02 pm

keeps the weekend finger warmed up though......

they like it up 'em!!

pike

donttellhimpike · Post by **donttellhimpike** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 8:04 pm

seriously though, next time we meet istenem, remind me to show you what 20+ years of quizzing has done to my middle and index fingers!!

pikeletsss

Nixxy · Post by **Nixxy** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 10:47 pm

kidgloves wrote:Although, to be fair anybody who played Daley Thompson's Decathlon back in the day will be immune to todays puny physical effort required.

Oh, and if you had the pleasure of the same game on the old Atari 2600 with it's indestructible rubber joystick you must be able to wank quicker than a monkey on heat.

Hehe! Those were the days .. (games I mean, not the other..)

Track'n'Field as an arcade machine (as opposed to a Speccy game) was a similar bastard, with the long jump being a particular finger-killer on those solid buttons.

Nowadays you wave a remote control in the air and settle for backache, or so it seems.

cool · Post by **cool** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 11:02 pm

I liked the pigeon killing javelin!

WaterGate · Post by **WaterGate** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 9:15 am

am i being censored? It's wicked. How tremendously childish mittens!

elcondor · Post by **elcondor** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 8:25 pm

I don't know about SWP finger, but back in the day of playing the old trackball based machines (Marble Madness, etc), I used to get my hand trapped between the ball and the control panel, which usually cost me some skin off my palm. Perhaps it was just bad technique, since it seemd to happen to me on most of the games I've played that have a 'lip' around the trackball.

Northern Monkey · Post by **Northern Monkey** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 7:57 am

There were many such injuries when I used to play a lot of Golden Tee. My most common (before I perfected the shot) was absolutely twatting the front of the machine going for the hammer shot. Many a Friday evening spent with hand in glass of ice, bag of peas etc.

Other people used to cacth their rings on the edge of the machine causing broken fingers etc and I think there was one bloke got his tie stuck oin the tracker ball

although cant remmber what injury that gave rise to.

rogerthymes · Post by **rogerthymes** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 10:44 pm

Currently on holiday and enjoying three weeks of finger-rest!
i've had plenty of aches, especially back in the days of continuous jackpots and six/eight hours quizzing shifts. I would often try to play left handed to cary things!
I'm ok now but dread to consider arthritic problem when old age creeps in. Especially as I play the guitar a lot.

wires74 · Post by **wires74** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 11:21 pm

lucky devil roger where u holidaying at ?

Cardinal Sin · Post by **Cardinal Sin** » Thu Feb 14, 2008 11:23 pm

My problem doesn't lie with the stabbing, more the dragging. I've had some pretty bad friction burns from playing stuff like Countdown and the Crystal Maze.

Bless.