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By afraidofcans - 23/10/2012 16:01 - United States - Stafford

Today, after years of being terrified of those biscuit cans that pop when you unwrap them, I finally decided I'd open one myself. I'm sitting in the hospital with a sliced hand from the lid and can feel therapy in my future. FML
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slick5880 22

Sounds like a much more rational fear now.

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vElectrixx 4

Has anyone ever told you not to touch the edge of the metal lid?

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cryptic1985 4

I'm curious as to how this person cut themselves on the lid. I've open plenty of those containers and I've grabbed the metal lid and what not. And I have never cut myself. The edges are rounded hence my confusion.

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amandarrr 3

It takes a special kind of person to accomplish this..

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oceanbeauty 17

I have never cut myself on the lid but I did cut myself once while opening biscuits. I was holding it with my hand over the seam on the bottom and when it popped it split the skin between my thumb and finger. Now I am extra careful of my hand placement.

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doodlecloud 26

Am I the only one who doesn't know what OP is on about? Biscuits in a can? And when you unwrap it it 'pops'? Huh? :S

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SaintPeasy 3

The biscuits you buy at the grocery store that come in a cardboard-like can with a metal circle for the lid and base. When you open them, the air escapes and "pops" audibly.

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BellaBelle_fml 23

They are all over the U.S. They can be biscuits, cookies, cinnamon rolls, etc…But I'm not sure if you guys have them in the U.K.

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Mauskau 35

So biscuits in a Pringles can? Got it. I thought op was on about the cans where those spring snake things pop out when you open them at first.

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nogood9 4

Not really a pringles can. You actually unroll the can itself.

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CptZoe 10

If I am not wrong biscuits are scones to us. It is all very confusing!

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doodlecloud 26

Oh, I thought I knew what you meant until said you actually unwrap the can...ah well. I guess I'll try and google it...

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ShyAnn29 14

107, you peel the label off, and it pops open at the seem, then you unroll it.

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hellproof023 6

Therapy. Over biscuit cans. How the hell would people survive 100 years ago? Society has grown soft..

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cristy91 33

Bring one of those folks a biscuit can, I'm pretty sure you'll be set on fire for witchcraft

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Psych101 9

33- "What?! Bread that was not harvested from the grain fields? How much did you sell your soul to the devil for, you Satanic monster?!"

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RedPillSucks 31

I'm thinking he means physical therapy for his hand and not psycho therapy for his mind, but I could be wrong. Both seem appropriate at this point.

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Psych101 9

52- Unless the lid sliced straight through muscle or something, OP should not need physical therapy. Mental therapy seems more appropriate because OP said he was already scared of them.

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unknown_user5566 26

There are phobias for everything these days. If your fear extends beyond those specific cans, your phobia would be deemed Metallophobia. It's strange to think such a random fear would be so common, that it would actually have a phobia classification.

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maosquare 18

There are so many human beings in this world, there's really nothing as an uncommon fear, I suppose. Some fears are just more common than others. I think it would be really myopic to say that a certain fear is random because it discounts the plethora of factors which may have caused it to crystallise.

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DocBastard 38

I hope when you cut yourself you yelled, "D'oh!"

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gc327072 30

Or "son of a biscuit!"

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perdix 29

I've got a great gift for you on the day you get released from the looney bin: That can of "peanuts" that really holds springy snakes.

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gc327072 30

I love those! Gets 'em every time

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lovepandorasaver 11

Should put a pillsbury doughboy in there holding a knife haha

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LDsWife519 2

Where's a like button when you need it hahaha this made me laugh

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BellaBelle_fml 23

'Like buttons' are for Facebook, this is FML. We have 'Add to favorites' here.

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neurodoc 1

Dude. Just get over it. Pop a few cans open and you'll be fine. These days everyone wants to blame something else and not take responsibility for anything that they can't handle. If I were to tell my parents that I can't open a can because I'm scared of the pop sound, they would have just whooped my a$$. Now thumb me down for tough love.

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loveingit 7

It is not tough love. It is being uncaring! If you had a kid scared of the dark you would beat them till they no longer scared of the dark. That is batshit. Try understanding someone different than yourself

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DomDomxoxo 16

I did, because you asked for it (: By the way, you sound like my mother.

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neurodoc 1

56- I am not talking about beating anyone. But you have to face your fears and take the bull by its horns or forever be afraid. Just so you know - It is called systematic desensitization. And btw whooping a$$ was a figure of speech 59- lol. I guess we all turn into our parents as we grow old. You'll sooner or later say something and then say "damn I sound like my mom/dad". It's an inevitable consequence of having more grey hair. ;)

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