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Now that the snows been here for a couple of days and we've got over the honeymoon of how pretty it is and are now coming to realise it's a bit of a nuisance can we please get on to the more serious subject of the funniest scene of someone falling over wether you know them or not. I'm still trying to figure out if the old lady falling down the stairs at the top of Crystal palace park was funnier than the monumental drop our site manager suffered on the scaffold this morning. Over to you.
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Well, bigbadwolf, I've spent the last two days at work in an Emergency Department.


Since I came on duty four hours ago we've seen three broken hips, four broken wrists, one broken ankle and a dislocated shoulder. None of them were laughing.


The thing is that old people falling over, particualrly down stairs, often leads to serious, even life limiting, injury.

And that's not really funny, is it?

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Steady on chaps, I agree an elderly person falling is definitely not a laughing matter, but I always remember a teacher dropping at school, and make no apologies for still smiling to myself about it. Our very own lovely saffa Brendan has said on another thread that he laughed at a guy in a suit taking a tumble. There is not always something wrong about laughing at others' misfortune! (old ladies are am exception though).
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I fell over twice on Monday whilst walking home from the pub. The first time was when I decided to get involved in one of the many pitched snowball battles that were breaking out on Lordship Lane. The second time was when I was rolling a giant snowball up the path to my house and I tripped forward and landed on my face in the snow. I?m not sure whether it was the first or second tumble that broke the eggs I was carrying but they were both pretty funny.
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When I say old lady she wasn't that old and laughed it off but when I think about it Annaj you do have a point as the elderly do come off alot worse than younger folk concerning broken bones and the like. i'm afraid the enviroment I work in isn't as sensetive as a hospital so I suppose it's not surprising when my gallows/barrackroom humour hits a raw nerve with some other forumites.

Yeah, sorry about the homophobic stuff I posted last night which was a bit out of order considering it was unsolicited. I personally don't have anything against gays as if you don't find members of the opposite sex attractive then it's not exactly your fault so if you want to weigh anchor in poo harbour and have your shite shoved back a fortnight them thats fine by me........Oh shit I've done it again. I'll be on the naughty step if you want to hit me.

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I managed to fall over before the snow even made an appearance - I was running round Peckham Rye and tripped over my own big feet! I'd been to spin class the day before so my excuse is that my knees were wobbly - didn't stop me looking like a complete t*sser as I went arse over tit in the middle of the street! ::o


I totally grazed my right knee and the heels of my hands and still look like I've been fighting in the playground almost 2 weeks later :-$

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Respect to the Bigbadwolf - if he gets shouted down, he does net get all grovelly and beg for apologies but like a real wolf, he comes out fighting.

Seems to work on a building site though - probably not trained/brainwashed by overzealous HR departments to "say nothing interesting or you lose your job" like the rest of us get emailed in new company policy updates every year/month/week.

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Oh! No!


I fell over walking to my carparking space whilst I was carrying one of my favorite guitars, and it's totaly f*cked. boohoo what a b**tard. it's split the body in half. it's fit for the bin. I will post a picture of it later, but at the moment I cant bear to look at it.....

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