I’m female, 16, and I went to a party recently where a load of us ended up bundling each other at one point. In one particular bundle, someone hit my left tibia, and I didn’t look at it but felt that there was a proper dimple there in my tibia about 7cm below the knee. I’m pretty sure the dent isn’t supposed to be there, if I run my fingers along the left tibia, you can definitely feel a dip in the bone whereas my right tibia is smooth. I’m not gonna get osteoporosis or anything? Or will the dent be there for EVEEEEER…
What is bundling and why is it so violent?
Although I can’t answer your question, I will ask one. What happens in a bundle?
I have no idea what a bundle is, but dents in bones can and do happen.
I am a professional wrestler and got a dent in the upper part of the eye socket due to a stupid mistake i made in the ring. I’ve had that for about 5 years now, and as far as I can tell it hasn’t filled in any and hasn’t given me any problems. So really i don’t think it matters.
Aaah, well bundling is where you kinda jump on a person, tackling them to the ground and then more people join in so a pile is created. Just don’t be the bottom person in the writhing pile, it’s probably a British-only term then I suppose…
I believe we call that a doggy-pile.
Everything old is new again?
So hard that it dents bone? No wonder it died out.
Oh…my… well I wasn’t expecting THAT…
My hubby has dents in his temples from where the arms of his eyeglasses press against his head. You can feel the little grooves if you press against the skin.
I imagine 10,000 years from now, archaeologists will find his bones and speculate that there was some sort of ritual banding of skulls which indicated high status. 
I’ve got a pair of dents in my tibia (on the left, even!) from walking into immobile objects. Strangely, the incidents were about 40 feet apart from each other, but separated by about a year in time. I never would have thought walking into the end of a picnic table bench would dent me, but it did.
I do suspect they’re mine forever.
‘Bundle’ is a British colloquial term for an energetic, usually fairly good-natured, human pile-up/wrestling session.
It sounds like dogpile will be a fairly equivalent term.
There’s no diagnosable harm?
If so, thank Og.
Every time I go for my medical tests I worry that they’re going to notice the dip in my thigh muscle (table), the extreme negative curvature just above my kneecap (chainlink fence) and the…eh…what can only be termed a chip…out of one of the bones of my lower left leg (stairs).
And then once they notice, they’re going to run some additional tests, discover I have some horrible disease, and run me out of the country.
Only harm is to the otherwise smooth skin on my leg. :rolleyes: Two roughly 3/8" divots on the front - one from that picnic table bench, and the other from an irrigation valve. Naturally, no damage was done to the valve or bench.
If anything, this probably results in a slightly stronger spot of bone as the body generally leaves a little extra material behind when if fixes damaged bones.
Are you sure it’s a dent? Once, I walked into a marble curb and got a big hematoma on my shin bone. There was a raised area about the size and shape of a half dollar sticking out. It didn’t color up badly but the raised area didn’t go away after several months. I had to get it broken up with this vibrating sonic therapy thing. Also, it hurt.
Eh, you’re 16, you’ll probably be fine. I was much springier then.
When I first read this, not knowing what bundling was, I thought it involved wrapping each other in saran wrap or duct tape. Crazy kids these days, I thought.
I’ve never heard of a party here in the states where there were events which would license a description beginning with the phrase “and in one particular dogpile we…”
That sounds like a wild party.
Or maybe Brits are just weirder than I thought.
What am I talking about? If they’re serial dogpiling over there today, we’ll be doing it here next year.
-FrL-