Birthmarks and Scars..

[NoMercy]

Hey guys...

Do you have any birthmarks?

Or do you have any scars or war wounds you've acquired since or during your childhood. I have a beauty spot on the back of my neck and a scar on my right lower leg. The scar on my leg happened when I was sitting outside as a child, and a young lad rode past me on his bike. He had a piece of wire sticking out of his foot pedal, and as he rode past, it sliced through my leg.

What about you?

[suzie1]

i have slit/cut scars in my left arm, i self harmed 13 years ago, tried to kill myself

[pericat]

Hi NoM - Just a slight scar on my right hand where i was scratched with a nail - it ruined my chances of becoming a hand model and turned my life in a completely different direction - lol

[sara3]

ouch, that sounds painful!

I have a small birthmark on the top of my right arm, like a thumb print. I have a few scars from various ops.. the last one going across my eyelid :o/

[Bobbisox]

a scar on my right knee where I fell down playing hockey at school

[Bobbisox]

oh and the hysterectomy one too..lol

[MOUCHA]

Too many to go through NoM. Look a bit like an AA map. Have been called accident prone in the past but that is unjust. I do an inordinate amount of diy so I think my battle scars are fairly in proportion to the efforts made. As a school kid I used to have a Raleigh speed bike and that didn't help either!

[karenmac60]

No birthmarks, but loads of wee scars on hands, legs and feet (I'm very clumsy), and some on my forehead from putting my head through a windscreen.

[NoMercy]

Hi Suzie, Sara and Peri ! x

Were you hoping to make a living out of hand modelling, Peri?

Sara.... is it anything like the thumb print of St. Peter on a John Dory? ;-)

[pericat]

NoM - I would have made my fortune - but hey ho !

[NoMercy]

So you've acquired a few war wounds over the years, Moucha? !

Bobbi... you too?

Karen... Wow ! How did you come to put your head through a windscreen? Ouch !

[joggerjayne]

Doc ...

"Guys" includes girls ...

In the same way that

"Mankind" includes women

"Human" can also be women

Chairman can also be a woman (despite all the weirdos who insist on being called the "Chairwoman" or, even worse, the "Chair")

I generally greet my girlfriends as "Hi guys"

[slinkycat]

I have a large birthmark on my knee, I forget its there until someone who has never seen it before says something like "that looks sore, how did you do that?" !

[MOUCHA]

Oh yes, however I have never had to have a stitch, anti tetanus nor plaster of paris applied, despite several trips to A & E! Mind you I haven't won the lottery either

[karenmac60]

I got knocked down by a drunk driver a few years back. I have a big dent in my leg where he made impact too - very fetching it is :)

[joggerjayne]

Well, no, Doc.

But I'd like to think that the hymn "The Family Of Man"

... includes women, otherwise we miss out a bit.

[benny3008]

I have a very faint scar under my eye where my sister hit me with a swingball bat when i was younger (it was my own fault, i got in the way) and i have a banging headache which i am starting to think will last forever, i feel down the stairs at my sisters earlier this evening! I also have a scar in my arm where my sisters dog scratched me, hmmm funny how everything seems to link to my sister in some way. lol

[joggerjayne]

"Man" as a collective noun obviously includes women.

Bronowski's "The Ascent Of Man" for instance.

I think the fiminists who whinge on about words like "chairman" just give women a bad name, and make us look petty.

[benny3008]

^ that was meant to say fell, ooops