# What kind of an Asshole are you if you manage to hurt yourself cleaning the lint trap? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 17, 2016, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-an-asshole-are-you-if-you-manage-to-hurt-yourself-cleaning-the-lint-trap/752507 "2016-04-17T21:59:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2016, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-an-asshole-are-you-if-you-manage-to-hurt-yourself-cleaning-the-lint-trap/752507/1 "2016-04-17T21:59:27Z")
I pull out the lint trap, and in the slot is a big hunk of lint that escaped. I jam my finger in to get it. Well, that little slot is smaller than it looks, and the edges are sharp as hell! Sliced my finger right open. So there I am, in the bathroom, getting a Band-Aid from cleaning the lint trap. Reminds me of the classic B. Kliban cartoon, _“Humiliation and Bandage”_, where a nurse is wrapping up a dude’s head while berating him for being a stupid fuck. Couldn’t find it online, but to paraphrase, _“You’ve got to be a real Asshole to fall on your head from the toilet. In fact, in all my years of nursing, I’ve never seen a bigger Asshole!”_ ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2016, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-an-asshole-are-you-if-you-manage-to-hurt-yourself-cleaning-the-lint-trap/752507/2 "2016-04-17T22:34:35Z")
Yesterday I sliced open my [thenar eminence](http://america.pink/images/4/4/1/8/9/9/8/en/2-thenar-eminence.jpg) transplanting Campanula seedlings\*, so I commiserate with your lint trap injury. \*then my Labrador decided that the white frost cloth with which I covered the seedlings was a new kind of dog bed, and, well, the seedlings are a bit worse for wear. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2016, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-an-asshole-are-you-if-you-manage-to-hurt-yourself-cleaning-the-lint-trap/752507/3 "2016-04-17T23:36:03Z")
Come joins us. [What's your latest dumb injury? - In My Humble Opinion - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=790247) I’d offer you cake but I’d probably lop off a finger cutting you a slice. :o ---
**Author:** ![PoppaSan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/poppasan/32/189_2.png) [@PoppaSan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoppaSan)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2016, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-an-asshole-are-you-if-you-manage-to-hurt-yourself-cleaning-the-lint-trap/752507/4 "2016-04-17T23:39:08Z")
Most people I know would call you a moron, fool or idiot not an asshole. To achieve asshole status typically requires someone or some other living thing to be involve. ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2016, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-an-asshole-are-you-if-you-manage-to-hurt-yourself-cleaning-the-lint-trap/752507/5 "2016-04-18T00:02:36Z")
> [@PoppaSan](#): > > Most people I know would call you a moron, fool or idiot not an asshole. To achieve asshole status typically requires someone or some other living thing to be involve. How about “fuckwit”? ---
**Author:** ![leftfield6](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leftfield6/32/18780_2.png) [@leftfield6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leftfield6)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2016, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-an-asshole-are-you-if-you-manage-to-hurt-yourself-cleaning-the-lint-trap/752507/6 "2016-04-18T02:02:03Z")
Yeah, not an asshole at all. Actually seem like a decent person overall. Cleaning the lint trap, and not leaving it for someone else to do. Now, on the other hand, “clumsy fuck” may be appropriate. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![spamforbrains](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@spamforbrains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spamforbrains)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2016, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-an-asshole-are-you-if-you-manage-to-hurt-yourself-cleaning-the-lint-trap/752507/7 "2016-04-18T02:06:39Z")
Getting hurt while cleaning stuff means you are a Murphy’s Law victim, the complete opposite of an asshole. If your dryer catches fire and inflicts injuries on your innocent cat, niece, or neighbor because you never cleaned out the lint trap, then you qualify as an asshole. ---
**Author:** ![excavating\_for\_a\_mind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e8c25b/32.png) [@excavating\_for\_a\_mind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/excavating_for_a_mind)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2016, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-an-asshole-are-you-if-you-manage-to-hurt-yourself-cleaning-the-lint-trap/752507/8 "2016-04-18T02:23:01Z")
If you hurt your asshole with the lint trap, I suspect you are using it wrong. At least, that’s not how I use a lint trap. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2016, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-an-asshole-are-you-if-you-manage-to-hurt-yourself-cleaning-the-lint-trap/752507/9 "2016-04-18T03:43:03Z")
You people make me feel much better, Thank You! And I think this is the best thread title I’ve ever made, if I do say so myself. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2016, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-an-asshole-are-you-if-you-manage-to-hurt-yourself-cleaning-the-lint-trap/752507/10 "2016-04-18T09:45:46Z")
A band-aid? You know, lint is very absorbent. Just sayin’… ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2016, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-an-asshole-are-you-if-you-manage-to-hurt-yourself-cleaning-the-lint-trap/752507/11 "2016-04-18T13:09:38Z")
Just last month, I put my fingers in a ceiling ventilating fan, trying to drape my bathtowel over the shower partition wall, in a hotel in Thailand… ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2016, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-an-asshole-are-you-if-you-manage-to-hurt-yourself-cleaning-the-lint-trap/752507/12 "2016-04-18T13:20:55Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Yesterday I sliced open my [thenar eminence](http://america.pink/images/4/4/1/8/9/9/8/en/2-thenar-eminence.jpg) transplanting Campanula seedlings\*, so I commiserate with your lint trap injury. “Thenar eminence” sounds like a rank John Carter would have obtained after marrying Dejah Thoris on Barsoom. ---
**Author:** ![edwards\_beard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@edwards\_beard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwards_beard)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2016, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-an-asshole-are-you-if-you-manage-to-hurt-yourself-cleaning-the-lint-trap/752507/13 "2016-04-18T18:58:43Z")
Don’t feel bad…I threw my back out grabbing a Kleenex. Out of commission for a week ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2016, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-an-asshole-are-you-if-you-manage-to-hurt-yourself-cleaning-the-lint-trap/752507/14 "2016-04-19T15:21:30Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > Just last month, I put my fingers in a ceiling ventilating fan, trying to drape my bathtowel over the shower partition wall, in a hotel in Thailand… Somewhere **Siam Siam** is snickering. ---
**Author:** ![Mikkel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikkel/32/13151_2.png) [@Mikkel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mikkel)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2016, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-an-asshole-are-you-if-you-manage-to-hurt-yourself-cleaning-the-lint-trap/752507/15 "2016-04-19T16:36:46Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > _“You’ve got to be a real Asshole to fall on your head from the toilet. In fact, in all my years of nursing, I’ve never seen a bigger Asshole!”_ I did just that a few months ago. To make the story short. Bad stomach pains, fainted while on the toilet, woke up and wondered how I had gotten into bed, found that I was on the bathroom floor, ass up and bleeding where I hit the door frame. The stomach ache had almost gone, though. I cleaned up and went to bed, no nurse, no ridicule, thank god. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-an-asshole-are-you-if-you-manage-to-hurt-yourself-cleaning-the-lint-trap/752507/16 "2016-04-20T09:53:13Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > Just last month, I put my fingers in a ceiling ventilating fan, trying to drape my bathtowel over the shower partition wall, in a hotel in Thailand… > [@Leo\_Bloom](#): > > Somewhere **Siam Siam** is snickering. I’ve actually done something similar a couple of times. Scary as all get out until you realize your fingers are still attached after all. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-an-asshole-are-you-if-you-manage-to-hurt-yourself-cleaning-the-lint-trap/752507/17 "2016-04-20T11:01:24Z")
I dropped a chopping board on my foot. Oww! :smack: I lost a toenail - but it grew back. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-an-asshole-are-you-if-you-manage-to-hurt-yourself-cleaning-the-lint-trap/752507/18 "2016-04-20T15:29:36Z")
_You’re_ not the asshole; it’s a lint TRAP, right? It trapped the wrong thing. IT’S the a-hole. I rest my case. What? Oh no, I thought that was just a figure of speech. Case closed. ---
**Author:** ![leftfield6](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leftfield6/32/18780_2.png) [@leftfield6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leftfield6)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2016, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-an-asshole-are-you-if-you-manage-to-hurt-yourself-cleaning-the-lint-trap/752507/19 "2016-04-20T15:33:27Z")
Admiral Ackbar would not have fallen for this.