POP VOX - SCAR TIME!

Two of the best things about summer are seeing all the embarrassing tattoos people try to cover up during the colder months and seeing all the weird scars and knobby limbs and deformities people try to cover up during the colder months. Scars trump all though because they’re like tattoos that GOD gave you. God or you being stupid. Whichever way you want to look at it. Plus scars always come with a story. I mean, a better story than “I was going through this time in my life and the scales the monkey is holding are meant to show how everything had fallen out of balance and the sunglasses blah blah blah…”

Vice: Hi there, what’s your scar situation?
Jim: Hello.  I have a scar on my chin because I got a guy real good on the basketball court and he tripped me from behind.  I landed chin first on the hardwood floor.

Ouch. Did you get him back for it? No, I just kept scorin’ on him.

Hi, I know you’re only like six, but do you have any scars?
Ashley: Yes, one on my knee.

What happened to your knee?
I was riding my bicycle and I fell in a ditch.

Hi, any scars?
Robert: I gave my scar to myself.  I was living with a man whom I loved but I cheated on him with a woman who I had been in love with for four years.  I felt really bad about it and I felt like I had no way to show him that I was feeling as much pain as he was so I carved his name on my arm.

That is one tawdry tale of love and betrayal and arm-cutting.  Are you still with the guy?
No.

Hello, do you have any good scars?
Clennel: I used to ride BMX bikes and my legs are destroyed.  When I was first learning to do a wheelie on my cousin’s motorcycle down south, I went too hard on the throttle and the bike completely flew away from me, flipped upside down and dragged totally down my shin.

Do you have any good scars?
Rebecca: Right here. I went to this party where I was supposed to meet up with a guy I just met. The party ended up getting crazy and it turned into a kind of violent, mosh-pitty thing, and I got tackled into a pile of people. I got cut above my lip and left the party immediately without talking to the guy, because I was really bleeding.  As I was walking, I turned around and the guy was behind me. We started talking; he got on the train with me, and ended up kissing me goodnight. Long story short, we got married and we’ve been together for 4 years.

Awww, that story just scarred my heart with warmth.

So… you got any scars?
Corey: [lifts up pant leg]

Whoa, that’s a doozy. What happened?
It’s a cicatrix.

What’s that?
It means hollowed out skin—it’s where the skin is really thin. I was living in Austin in a shack in my friend’s yard.  My hygiene wasn’t too good during that period and I got what I thought was a zit on my leg but it turned out to be a staph infection.  It continued to get worse until my entire leg was swollen and I couldn’t walk.  I had to spend three days in the hospital but they shot me full of morphine so it wasn’t the worst thing in the world. It was pretty gnarly.

What happened to your face?
Leah: When I was about two years old I fell asleep under a glass table and I woke up with a chunk of glass protruding out of my forehead. I never got stitches.

Did your parents take you to the hospital or anything?
No, they were hippies.

That’s a nice looking hole in your arm.  What happened?
Tyler: I jumped off a building.

On purpose?
No, I was jumping from one building to another.  It seemed like a good idea at the time,  but I ended up breaking my hip in half, both arms, and my knee. Fourteen bones total.

Comments

[the wire]

OH MY GOD THAT IS OMAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!

fag

this article makes me want to start cutting again.

and by cutting i mean eating a burrito

and by eating a burrito i mean a taco, or three

[FUCKtheguythatwrotethisentry]

I hope that the guy that wrote this entry loses a limb or gets a giant-ass scar across his face. The entry was beyond childish.

[zzutroy]

What's childish about scars? Scars are awesome. I've got a little white crescent right in the crook of my thumb and index finger from where a rusty fishook snagged me when I was little. If the Muslims ever take over I'm going to try and use it to convince them I'm the 8th Imam or whatever.

[dingleberry]

wow vice wow. . .those were the fucking wankest fucking scars and stories ever you lame ass lazy vegan fuckers. Try like. . looking for cool tatoos instead of shopping for homoerotic "hipster" clothing all the time! ASDFOUIHoiudhf FUCK MY LIFEE

[22]

i love scar stories- i have an awesome scar on the very corner of my eye and i almost lost it.
my brother and i were playing american gladiators when i was young and i was doing his obstacle course blindfolded. part of it was me standing on a pillow case and he thought (brilliantly) that he could pull it out from under me-like the trick with the tablecloth. well it didn't work and i flipped and fell on the corner of the bed. blood EVERYWHERE- i didn't even notice i was bleeding though until i saw my face in the mirror at which point all hell broke loose.

[davedingleberry]

i enjoyed that. don't understand why some people are moaning.
i want to know how the black dude at the top got his scar.
i have a kelloid scar on my back from wrestling drunk and being stabbed by a pointy table.
nice.

[dini]

wel I GOT SOME!!!!

[longshanks]

omars being about the best of the bunch. proof that pub fights are all they're cracked up to be, the man carved (ooh) a career out of that scar

[discount gucci]

Eleanor: I agree that English people are lame, but they have a right to Saint Patrick, what with him being British and all. And "slaying a dragon" is far superior to "chasing snakes".

I think Austrailians are the lamest, because they are a weak ex-colony of Brits. Sorry, mates. 2945abc45 0423