OT: Is this where they get new Neocons?

[Richard the Dreaded Liber]

This is one of the entrance tests to join the NeoCons, right?
http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20050116/NEWS/101160001

If you go six days without figuring out that you have a 4" construction
nail embedded in your frontal lobe, you qualify, I presume.

;^j
Rich

 

Richard the Dreaded Libertarian wrote:

This is one of the entrance tests to join the NeoCons, right?
http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20050116/NEWS/101160001

If you go six days without figuring out that you have a 4"
construction
nail embedded in your frontal lobe, you qualify, I presume.

Only six days? A true neocon never uses his or her frontal lobes, so
they'd never notice.

-------
Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

 

[Fred Bloggs]

bill.sloman@ieee.org wrote:

Richard the Dreaded Libertarian wrote:

This is one of the entrance tests to join the NeoCons, right?
http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20050116/NEWS/101160001

If you go six days without figuring out that you have a 4"

construction

nail embedded in your frontal lobe, you qualify, I presume.


Only six days? A true neocon never uses his or her frontal lobes, so
they'd never notice.

-------
Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

Don't forget to add that they are ignorant, delusional, and opinionated
p.o.s.'s who forever start OT threads on NG.

 

[John Fields]

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 10:56:20 GMT, Fred Bloggs <nospam@nospam.com>
wrote:

bill.sloman@ieee.org wrote:
Richard the Dreaded Libertarian wrote:

This is one of the entrance tests to join the NeoCons, right?
http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20050116/NEWS/101160001

If you go six days without figuring out that you have a 4"

construction

nail embedded in your frontal lobe, you qualify, I presume.


Only six days? A true neocon never uses his or her frontal lobes, so
they'd never notice.

-------
Bill Sloman, Nijmegen


Don't forget to add that they are ignorant, delusional, and opinionated
p.o.s.'s who forever start OT threads on NG.

---
<G>

--
John Fields

 

[John Larkin]

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 07:35:17 GMT, Richard the Dreaded Libertarian
<eatmyshorts@doubleclick.net> wrote:

This is one of the entrance tests to join the NeoCons, right?
http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20050116/NEWS/101160001

If you go six days without figuring out that you have a 4" construction
nail embedded in your frontal lobe, you qualify, I presume.

;^j
Rich

1. How can you infer this guy's politics from this article?

2. Do you imagine your reasoning would be unimpaired if you had a nail
in your brain?

3. Why has the American Left acquired such contempt for working
people?

4. How come you can post this drivel here but never post on-topic?

John

 

[Richard the Dreaded Liber]

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 09:03:16 -0800, John Larkin wrote:

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 07:35:17 GMT, Richard the Dreaded Libertarian
eatmyshorts@doubleclick.net> wrote:

This is one of the entrance tests to join the NeoCons, right?
http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20050116/NEWS/101160001

If you go six days without figuring out that you have a 4" construction
nail embedded in your frontal lobe, you qualify, I presume.

;^j
Rich


1. How can you infer this guy's politics from this article?

By making an inference.

2. Do you imagine your reasoning would be unimpaired if you had a nail
in your brain?

Probably not - that's kind of the point.

3. Why has the American Left acquired such contempt for working
people?

This doesn't even mean anything. I don't even know what "The American
Left" is, and I don't consider neocons to be "working people".

4. How come you can post this drivel here but never post on-topic?

A. Because it's USENET. B. Because I'm not the tech - I'm the dissident.

Cheers!
Rich

 

[gwhite]

Richard the Dreaded Libertarian wrote:

now I'm
calling this persona "The Dreaded Libertarian".
^^^^^^^^^^^

Given that you are certainly not a libertarian, you've misspelled Idiot.

 

[Richard the Dreaded Liber]

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 01:48:34 -0700, Mark Fergerson wrote:

Richard the Dreaded Libertarian wrote:
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 09:02:31 -0700, Mark Fergerson wrote:

Richard the Dreaded Libertarian wrote:

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 09:03:16 -0800, John Larkin wrote:

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 07:35:17 GMT, Richard the Dreaded Libertarian

This is one of the entrance tests to join the NeoCons, right?
http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20050116/NEWS/101160001
If you go six days without figuring out that you have a 4" construction
nail embedded in your frontal lobe, you qualify, I presume.

You have your own x-ray machine?

Better! I have a sensory system! My body itself would tell me there's
something in it that isn't supposed to be there. Or, more accurately, I'd
waste no time informing my stupid mind if there were a 4" nail stuck in me.

Wrong. Your body would tell you the same things his did, that you had
a cut on your lip and a "minor toothache and blurry vision". It simply
isn't equipped to tell you stereognostically that there's any foreign
object within your body. There are no sensory nerves within the brain.

You probably have a point here - I have read the the brain itself doesn't

have any pain sensors, which is why they can get away with lobotomies and
stuff. ;-)

No, you misunderstand me:

No, I don't. You make several assumptions and link them together. You
mistakenly associate his lack of medical diagnostic skill to a lack of
will, which characteristic you erroneously assign solely to the
Conservative end of the political spectrum.

Well, all an inference really is is a string of assumptions. I was just
needling here, and gosh! I've been caught! ;-)

snip tedious quoting; I have several dictionaries to hand
as should we all

No, I wasn't assuming anything. Neocons have no will,

You fail to note that this also applies to rank and file Liberals.

This is, sadly, just as true. They're all following their dogma. One of
the major problems is that Will on Earth has been deprived of
Consciousness, and has produced Rappers, which gives the Spirit people yet
another excuse to deny and hate Will. But Rappers and Gangstas and the
like are merely the result of Will being given unloving light, rather than
loving acceptance. Think, "The little match girl", who is fed up and just
doesn't want to take it any more. Add to that, the fact that she just
recently realized that she holds all the cards. If Mother wants to close
space, and put everything back into nonexistence, she can. She doesn't
want to - she'd much rather have Spirit clue up. This is why I'm so
fucking annoying - I'm an envoy. I'm on a mission from Mother.

and the frontal lobe
is the part of the brain that's closest to communicating with will,
except for the cerebellum, medulla, and so on down the line, it only
makes sense that losing the part of one's brain that's most closely
connected to Free Will would lead to neoconism, or any kind of
obedience, for that matter.

See? You almost made the association explicitly.

Become a Neocon! Lobotomize Yourself!

Or Liberal...

Yeah - either one is pretty much a statist. There's statism like
feudalism, or oligarchy, and there's statism like communism, which needs
an absolute dictator to suppress the will of the slaves. Either way,
there's rulers and the ruled. And us wackos slipping through the cracks,
living in the gap, trying to manifest Love.

2. Do you imagine your reasoning would be unimpaired if you had a
nail in your brain?

Probably not - that's kind of the point.

Apparently his wasn't; what was your point?

That he had physical, observable, mechanical brain damage, and it
didn't seem to make much difference. Ergo, he must have been at least a
republican before the injury, if not already a neocon. Or maybe only a
redneck. Same difference, except for the price of their suits.

He _perceived_ a cut on his lip and a "minor toothache and blurry
vision" which he "deduced" were the result of the recoiling nailgun
striking his face. Nobody can "observe" brain damage through the skin;
there must be other indications, like a visible entry wound penetrating
the skull, certain behavioral changes and/or rather severe deformation
of the skull to warrant that inference. Besides which, even gross brain
damage may cause no observable mentational or behavioral changes if it
manages to miss certain key tissues. Also, from the description and the
X-ray I suspect he couldn't see the actual entry wound within his mouth
by looking in a mirror.

Well, if I had an entry hole INSIDE OF MY MOUTH (which they didn't
explicitly say) I can't believe I wouldn't know about it. Maybe I couldn't
see it in a mirror, but I would certainly feel _something_. Like a hole in
the roof of my mouth.

I would expect better from a "Dreaded Liberal". Or maybe not.

You're simply not paying attention. I have already stated that I'm not
a "Liberal", and have changed my alias to reflect that change - now I'm
calling this persona "The Dreaded Libertarian". Quite a difference.

Actually, you still talk like a Liberal; you have a raging hardon for
Conservatives to the point of ignoring the rest of the political
spectrum's idiocies.

OK, point taken, the liberals are as stupid as the conservatives. I'm
ranting about the neocons because they're the ones in the driver's seat
this term.

BTW, did you catch the coronation?

Liberals, when the word is spat by a neocon as some kind of insult,

As you spit "neocon" in the same apparent tone of voice that you spit
"nazi"?

Pretty much, yeah. ;-)

believe in taxation for "the greater good", i.e., collectivism.

IOW, deferring their individual wills to the State's. That would be
"The American Left".

Well, I think we've already established that both sides are equally stupid
and obedient.

Neocons
are just baby nazis, who want nothing more than to serve their lord and
master and wipe out all manner of wrong thinking.

Exactly as Liberals do. I'll remind you that Progressives
(camouflaged Communists), not Conservatives, gave us the term "Political
Correctness".

A Libertarian believes in self-determination and self-responsibility.

Libertarians are wannabe Anarchists. You nearly have it right, but
still think somebody else can make up better rules than you can.

Actually, what I want to see is no rules at all. Free Will doesn't _need_
rules, because she knows what's true because she can feel the
feeling-sense behind what might look good.

It is neither possible, nor desirable, to make up enough rules to cover
every possible circumstance. This is Original Error, and the cause of all
of the pain and suffering that there is.

Oops. That's Philosophizer there. ;-)

....
on who gets to be the elite.

Then stop promulgating their dogma.

OK. Actually, I'm trying to promulgate my _own_ dogma, which is brand new,
and doesn't fit inside of _any_ dogma that any human has come up with yet.
It's a whole new paradigm.

Imagine trying to describe magnetism to a flatlander. ;-)

Thanks!
Rich

 

[Richard the Dreaded Liber]

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 10:24:13 -0800, Richard Henry wrote:

"Richard the Dreaded Libertarian" <eatmyshorts@doubleclick.net> wrote in
message newsan.2005.01.19.05.36.48.622254@doubleclick.net...
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 09:02:31 -0700, Mark Fergerson wrote:
Richard the Dreaded Libertarian wrote:
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 09:03:16 -0800, John Larkin wrote:
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 07:35:17 GMT, Richard the Dreaded Libertarian
This is one of the entrance tests to join the NeoCons, right?
http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20050116/NEWS/101160001
If you go six days without figuring out that you have a 4"
construction
nail embedded in your frontal lobe, you qualify, I presume.

You have your own x-ray machine?

Better! I have a sensory system! My body itself would tell me there's
something in it that isn't supposed to be there. Or, more accurately, I'd
waste no time informing my stupid mind if there were a 4" nail stuck in
me.

I have two 3" screws in my leg that I don't notice at all. They looked like
drywall screws in the X-rays.

I bet you'd notice them if they got inserted by explosive, without
anaesthesia. ;-)

Cheers!
Rich

 

[Richard the Dreaded Liber]

On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 20:04:48 +0000, gwhite wrote:

Richard the Dreaded Libertarian wrote:


now I'm
calling this persona "The Dreaded Libertarian".
^^^^^^^^^^^

Given that you are certainly not a libertarian, you've misspelled Idiot.

And upon what do you base this wild-ass lunacy of yours?

Tell me, precisely, why you think you can claim that I'm "not a
libertarian", if you're man enough. I think you're not.

Thanks,
Rich

 

[Richard Henry]

"Richard the Dreaded Libertarian" <eatmyshorts@doubleclick.net> wrote in
message newsan.2005.01.21.04.18.55.876855@doubleclick.net...

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 10:24:13 -0800, Richard Henry wrote:


"Richard the Dreaded Libertarian" <eatmyshorts@doubleclick.net> wrote in
message newsan.2005.01.19.05.36.48.622254@doubleclick.net...
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 09:02:31 -0700, Mark Fergerson wrote:
Richard the Dreaded Libertarian wrote:
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 09:03:16 -0800, John Larkin wrote:
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 07:35:17 GMT, Richard the Dreaded Libertarian
This is one of the entrance tests to join the NeoCons, right?
http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20050116/NEWS/101160001
If you go six days without figuring out that you have a 4"
construction
nail embedded in your frontal lobe, you qualify, I presume.

You have your own x-ray machine?

Better! I have a sensory system! My body itself would tell me there's
something in it that isn't supposed to be there. Or, more accurately,
I'd
waste no time informing my stupid mind if there were a 4" nail stuck in
me.

I have two 3" screws in my leg that I don't notice at all. They looked
like
drywall screws in the X-rays.

I bet you'd notice them if they got inserted by explosive, without
anaesthesia. ;-)

Scene: recovery room after surgery to put my leg back together, as I wake
up.

Nurse: How do you feel?
Me: My leg hurts.
N: How badly on a scale of 1 to 10.
M: About an 8.
N: OK, I'll put a little morphine in your IV.

Scene: same place, some time later, as I wake up again.

N: How do you feel now?
M: 8! 8! 8!

 

[Mark Fergerson]

Richard the Dreaded Libertarian wrote:

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 01:48:34 -0700, Mark Fergerson wrote:

<snippage to prevent newsreader puking>

This is one of the entrance tests to join the NeoCons, right?
http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20050116/NEWS/101160001
If you go six days without figuring out that you have a 4" construction
nail embedded in your frontal lobe, you qualify, I presume.

You have your own x-ray machine?

Better! I have a sensory system! My body itself would tell me there's
something in it that isn't supposed to be there. Or, more accurately, I'd
waste no time informing my stupid mind if there were a 4" nail stuck in me.

Wrong. Your body would tell you the same things his did, that you had
a cut on your lip and a "minor toothache and blurry vision". It simply
isn't equipped to tell you stereognostically that there's any foreign
object within your body. There are no sensory nerves within the brain.

You probably have a point here - I have read the the brain itself doesn't
have any pain sensors, which is why they can get away with lobotomies and
stuff. ;-)

Precisely.

No, you misunderstand me:

No, I don't. You make several assumptions and link them together. You
mistakenly associate his lack of medical diagnostic skill to a lack of
will, which characteristic you erroneously assign solely to the
Conservative end of the political spectrum.

Well, all an inference really is is a string of assumptions. I was just
needling here, and gosh! I've been caught! ;-)

How very seldom I run across someone who voluntarily stops defending
an indefensible position.

snip tedious quoting; I have several dictionaries to hand

as should we all

No, I wasn't assuming anything. Neocons have no will,

You fail to note that this also applies to rank and file Liberals.

This is, sadly, just as true. They're all following their dogma. One of
the major problems is that Will on Earth has been deprived of
Consciousness, and has produced Rappers, which gives the Spirit people yet
another excuse to deny and hate Will. But Rappers and Gangstas and the
like are merely the result of Will being given unloving light, rather than
loving acceptance. Think, "The little match girl", who is fed up and just
doesn't want to take it any more. Add to that, the fact that she just
recently realized that she holds all the cards. If Mother wants to close
space, and put everything back into nonexistence, she can. She doesn't
want to - she'd much rather have Spirit clue up. This is why I'm so
fucking annoying - I'm an envoy. I'm on a mission from Mother.

Just chucking it all has a sneaky appeal, but would be a horrible waste.

and the frontal lobe
is the part of the brain that's closest to communicating with will,
except for the cerebellum, medulla, and so on down the line, it only
makes sense that losing the part of one's brain that's most closely
connected to Free Will would lead to neoconism, or any kind of
obedience, for that matter.

See? You almost made the association explicitly.

Become a Neocon! Lobotomize Yourself!

Or Liberal...

Yeah - either one is pretty much a statist. There's statism like
feudalism, or oligarchy, and there's statism like communism, which needs
an absolute dictator to suppress the will of the slaves. Either way,
there's rulers and the ruled. And us wackos slipping through the cracks,
living in the gap, trying to manifest Love.

Yup. At some point, with any luck at all, _we'll_ be the majority
with the task of suppressing Statists.

2. Do you imagine your reasoning would be unimpaired if you had a
nail in your brain?

Probably not - that's kind of the point.

Apparently his wasn't; what was your point?

That he had physical, observable, mechanical brain damage, and it
didn't seem to make much difference. Ergo, he must have been at least a
republican before the injury, if not already a neocon. Or maybe only a
redneck. Same difference, except for the price of their suits.

He _perceived_ a cut on his lip and a "minor toothache and blurry
vision" which he "deduced" were the result of the recoiling nailgun
striking his face. Nobody can "observe" brain damage through the skin;
there must be other indications, like a visible entry wound penetrating
the skull, certain behavioral changes and/or rather severe deformation
of the skull to warrant that inference. Besides which, even gross brain
damage may cause no observable mentational or behavioral changes if it
manages to miss certain key tissues. Also, from the description and the
X-ray I suspect he couldn't see the actual entry wound within his mouth
by looking in a mirror.

Well, if I had an entry hole INSIDE OF MY MOUTH (which they didn't
explicitly say) I can't believe I wouldn't know about it. Maybe I couldn't
see it in a mirror, but I would certainly feel _something_. Like a hole in
the roof of my mouth.

Well, you wouldn't be able to tell if it was a surface wound or an
actual hole without poking, right? Do you have an above-average pain
tolerance? I do, but the guy in the article either didn't or isn't
sufficiently curious to investigate.

I would expect better from a "Dreaded Liberal". Or maybe not.

You're simply not paying attention. I have already stated that I'm not
a "Liberal", and have changed my alias to reflect that change - now I'm
calling this persona "The Dreaded Libertarian". Quite a difference.

Actually, you still talk like a Liberal; you have a raging hardon for
Conservatives to the point of ignoring the rest of the political
spectrum's idiocies.

OK, point taken, the liberals are as stupid as the conservatives. I'm
ranting about the neocons because they're the ones in the driver's seat
this term.

I'll wait and see how you treat the Neolibs (after they "redefine"
themselves so they can get elected).

BTW, did you catch the coronation?

Nah. I don't attend religious gatherings either. Ahem.

Liberals, when the word is spat by a neocon as some kind of insult,

As you spit "neocon" in the same apparent tone of voice that you spit
"nazi"?

Pretty much, yeah. ;-)

Just checking...

believe in taxation for "the greater good", i.e., collectivism.

IOW, deferring their individual wills to the State's. That would be
"The American Left".

Well, I think we've already established that both sides are equally stupid
and obedient.

I'm slightly astonished that some of our local Libs haven't tried to
claim otherwise.

Neocons
are just baby nazis, who want nothing more than to serve their lord and
master and wipe out all manner of wrong thinking.

Exactly as Liberals do. I'll remind you that Progressives
(camouflaged Communists), not Conservatives, gave us the term "Political
Correctness".

A Libertarian believes in self-determination and self-responsibility.

Libertarians are wannabe Anarchists. You nearly have it right, but
still think somebody else can make up better rules than you can.

Actually, what I want to see is no rules at all. Free Will doesn't _need_
rules, because she knows what's true because she can feel the
feeling-sense behind what might look good.

YES! HE SEES IT!

<insert emoticon of Buddha doing Snoopy's "happy dance", pumping both
fists in the air, smiling beatifically>

Still gotta work on your ailurophobia. Maybe once you realize that
they live the way _you_ want to...

It is neither possible, nor desirable, to make up enough rules to cover
every possible circumstance. This is Original Error, and the cause of all
of the pain and suffering that there is.

Oops. That's Philosophizer there. ;-)

Glad he could visit...

on who gets to be the elite.

Then stop promulgating their dogma.

OK. Actually, I'm trying to promulgate my _own_ dogma, which is brand new,
and doesn't fit inside of _any_ dogma that any human has come up with yet.
It's a whole new paradigm.

Not really. It just requires that we give up the idea that we're
superior to animals and humbly take social lessons from them. Not to
imply that humans ought to live like ants, or even social "lower"
mammals, but figure out how to create a society based on actual human
psychology rather than on power sharing through delegated brutality.

Mark L. Fergerson

 

[John Woodgate]

I read in sci.electronics.design that Mark Fergerson <nunya@biz.ness>
wrote (in <3fdId.7968$0B.1556@fed1read02&gt about 'OT: Is this where they
get new Neocons?', on Fri, 21 Jan 2005:

power sharing through delegated brutality.

Isn't that exactly how all social mammals live? And birds; see 'pecking
order'.
--
Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only.
The good news is that nothing is compulsory.
The bad news is that everything is prohibited.
http://www.jmwa.demon.co.uk Also see http://www.isce.org.uk

 

[Rich Grise]

On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 07:33:23 -0800, Richard Henry wrote:

"Richard the Dreaded Libertarian" <eatmyshorts@doubleclick.net> wrote in
....
I bet you'd notice them if they got inserted by explosive, without
anaesthesia. ;-)

Scene: recovery room after surgery to put my leg back together, as I
wake up.

Nurse: How do you feel?
Me: My leg hurts.
N: How badly on a scale of 1 to 10.
M: About an 8.
N: OK, I'll put a little morphine in your IV.

Scene: same place, some time later, as I wake up again.

N: How do you feel now?
M: 8! 8! 8!

ROFLMAO!

Thanks!
Rich

 

[Mark Fergerson]

John Woodgate wrote:

I read in sci.electronics.design that Mark Fergerson <nunya@biz.ness
wrote (in <3fdId.7968$0B.1556@fed1read02&gt about 'OT: Is this where they
get new Neocons?', on Fri, 21 Jan 2005:

power sharing through delegated brutality.

Isn't that exactly how all social mammals live? And birds; see 'pecking
order'.

"_Delegated_ brutality", as exemplified by say the Nazis. One is
given a position of power by demonstrating that one is willing to be
brutal to those the power-giver wants brutalized. If not, not. AFAIK
this is unique to humans.

Mark L. Fergerson

 

[Richard Henry]

"Richard the Dreaded Libertarian" <eatmyshorts@doubleclick.net> wrote in
message newsan.2005.01.19.05.36.48.622254@doubleclick.net...

On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 09:02:31 -0700, Mark Fergerson wrote:
Richard the Dreaded Libertarian wrote:
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 09:03:16 -0800, John Larkin wrote:
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 07:35:17 GMT, Richard the Dreaded Libertarian
This is one of the entrance tests to join the NeoCons, right?
http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20050116/NEWS/101160001
If you go six days without figuring out that you have a 4"
construction
nail embedded in your frontal lobe, you qualify, I presume.

You have your own x-ray machine?

Better! I have a sensory system! My body itself would tell me there's
something in it that isn't supposed to be there. Or, more accurately, I'd
waste no time informing my stupid mind if there were a 4" nail stuck in
me.

I have two 3" screws in my leg that I don't notice at all. They looked like
drywall screws in the X-rays.

 

[Mark Fergerson]

Mark Jones wrote:

Mark Fergerson wrote:

Richard the Dreaded Libertarian wrote:


On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 09:02:31 -0700, Mark Fergerson wrote:


Richard the Dreaded Libertarian wrote:


On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 09:03:16 -0800, John Larkin wrote:


On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 07:35:17 GMT, Richard the Dreaded Libertarian


This is one of the entrance tests to join the NeoCons, right?
http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20050116/NEWS/101160001
If you go six days without figuring out that you have a 4"
construction
nail embedded in your frontal lobe, you qualify, I presume.


You have your own x-ray machine?


Better! I have a sensory system! My body itself would tell me there's
something in it that isn't supposed to be there. Or, more accurately, I'd
waste no time informing my stupid mind if there were a 4" nail stuck
in me.


Wrong. Your body would tell you the same things his did, that you had
a cut on your lip and a "minor toothache and blurry vision". It simply
isn't equipped to tell you stereognostically that there's any foreign
object within your body. There are no sensory nerves within the brain.

I seem to think that a 4" nail stuck through one's lip and into the
roof of their mouth ought to hurt like hell... were his teeth so bad
that that this felt common?

Don't know about his teeth. Ever have a power tool kick back and
whack you? Hurts like hell for a while, subsides to a dull ache (if you
didn't break anything important, sometimes even if you do).

Couldn't he feel around there and touch the metal head of the nail?

Seems to have imbedded itself below the gum tissue. As I mentioned,
likely hard to see in a mirror. And, why would he look for an entry
wound if he didn't suspect one, especially as it means prying around
very tender places?

For that matter, didn't he think to examine the damage caused to his
lip while operating a pneumatic nailer? A hole through your lip ought
to get you thinking, or at least looking very closely.

Not too closely; remember the "hurts like hell" part? Do _you_ poke
around recent wounds? Ever have a nurse debride a small cut with a
toothbrush and no anaesthetic?

Didn't his mouth bleed? Didn't he taste rusty metal?

Mouth wounds tend to clot and close quickly. Why would a new nail
taste rusty?

And did it go through the nasal cavity? Any nosebleeds? Constant pain?

Apparently not.

Very unlucky dude. Still, it could have been worse.

Easily, on both counts.

BTW I say many of these ameliorating things from experience. Don't ask.

Mark L. Fergerson