According to scientists, up to 70K nerve endings are concentrated in the human foot - and about all of them are activated when we step on a Lego brick. This is really damn painful, and humanity should only be grateful to the Danish businessmen that they established their toy brand about the time the Inquisition stopped using torture.
Moreover, we are almost sure that if the International Chamber of Weights and Measures wanted to establish a special unit for painful sensations, then it could well be "one Lego". And yet, according to some people, there are feelings and things that are way more unpleasant.
There is a popular thread in the AskReddit community whose author - apparently "inspired" by a bad stepping - once asked "What's worse than stepping on a Lego?" As of today, the thread has nearly 4K upvotes and over 7.2K comments listing both funny and really tragic stuff.
Bored Panda has put together a list of the most popular opinions from this thread for you. Laughter and tears, comedy and tragedy - feel free to scroll to the very end, and even better - tell us in the comments what else, in your opinion, feels more unpleasant than stepping on a Lego?
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Stepping on your pet's paw/tail
...and always "I'm so so sorry! I'm sorry!" and hoping they understand you didn't mean it.
Accidentally biting a chunk off the inside of your cheek whilst eating.
...and then doing again in the exact same spot it 10 minutes later because that's what happens!
When you have socks on, go into your kitchen area, and step into 'wet.'
Both sides of the pillow being warm.
And moist, warm and moist...... ( We have 80% humidity here sometimes )
The only thing in existence that hurts more than stepping on a lego is getting hit in the ankle with the side of a scooter.
Squishing One of your NUTS between your leg and the side wall of your car's bucket seat os INFINITLY worst.
Stepping on two legos
when you want to sneeze but can't
Accidentally plunging a q-tip way too far into your ear!
Finding half a caterpillar inside the apple you are eating.
Finding a roach in your " bacalhau á Brás" ( its food Google it ) its, well i was gonna say worst, but its the same c**p.
Stepping on a Monopoly house.
No but I did have to get one of the little green ones out of my sons nostril once, does that count?
feeling your partner drifting away from you even tho they won’t admit it
Stepping on a sea urchin
Or stepping on a street urchin. But if they’re plucky, you take them in and they save the day from nefarious stock manipulators.
Watching your older sister have a brain aneurysm at 20 and die in 10 minutes. And now you're turning 22, living longer than she did
Stepping on a hard dog chew that has the ability to roll at 3 a.m on the way fo the bathroom
Hard chews are fine.. stepping on their squeaky ball whilst headbutting a kitchen cupboard and having a chonky house hippo thinking your playing ... is a whole new kind of pain
Stepping on a dropped pin that’s lurking in the carpet next to my daughter’s sewing machine.
I had something like this happen to me, only I didn't step ON it so much as it got jammed into my big toe so hard that it was stuck in the bone. It literally required pliers to get it out. 😬😬😬
The secret to this is a microwave magnet on a broom stick. Sweep it over the place after using sewing pins. Works great.
I’ve got the magnet from an old cyclotron to collect my sewing needles! Although you can’t let it near anything electrical…
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My great niece just did that. The pin broke off in her foot, and she had to have surgery to get it out.
My grandma quilts and when I was little (I was the first grandchild so her house wasn’t proofed since my mom and her siblings were all grown up) she left a quilt in progress on the floor and I stepped on a pin. Hurt like heck. Then a few years later I walked past the bulliten board in my room and stepped on a upturned thumb tac
My dad used to tie his own fishing flies, for days afterwards we had avoid the exclusion zone, but there was always that one blooming outlier
Oh lordie, that reminds me... Once, a long long time ago, I stepped into a big size staple... they have barbs, I had to go to the hospital to have them removed under anaesthetic. Since then I never walk barefoot again.
Done that as a child. It HURTS. Then I had to pull said pin out of my foot. *shudders*
I was a kid in the 70s and my bedroom had a deep shaggy carpet. My sister had gone into my room to get some tin tacks and in doing so had dropped the box and scattered them all over the place. She didn't bother to tell me. Unsuspecting me walks into my room in bare feet. Utter agony, each step worse than the first. I ended up throwing myself onto my bed and spent ages pulling the things out of my feet. The memory is still strong 40+ years later.
As a kid, I jumped off a table onto a needle stuck in the carpet. It broke and got stuck and I needed to be rushed into hospital and get my foot cut (it was between my toes) and the needle taken out. Daily visits to the hospital for a week after that (changing bandages and taking care of the wound). The doctors were amused.
Oh my God, my sister had a needle imbedded completely in her foot, when she was little. It pushed so far in, it was almost a week before anyone knew it was still in her foot (when my parents originally checked her foot, they didn't think it penetrated too far in because they couldn't see it). Ever since then, I've feared that happening to me. If I lose a pin or needle on the floor, I'll panic until I find it.
Dropped needles are worse - no head, so hard to pull out. I once stepped on one and it went almost through my foot, you could see the dark spot under the skin on top of my foot, and broke off inside. The urgent care doc cut down to reach the tip of the needle, then pulled it out through the top of my foot. Never drop needles on carpet. They can land standing upright, and be almost invisible.
A small thin shard of glass that breaks apart when tweezers pull on it.
Stepping on an upturned electrical power plug, australian version (check out our plugs), with barefeet and in the cold.
F**k that.
Oh, also when I woke up and thought I was blind but it turned out it was a Huntsman on my face.
Stepping on a d4
Speaking from experience, stepping on those things that hold the corncob. Went right through my foot.
sleeping naked with cats in your room
If your a guy, you deserved it..... I mean WTF where you expecting??? Its a cat, it attacks anything that dangles in front of it.
A broken heart?
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Why is there always some depressing, unrelated personal event in a list of otherwise funny responses? "Losing Your Entire Family In A Car Accident"? "Watching Your Older Sister Have A Brain Aneurysm At 20 And Die In 10 Minutes"? Oddly specific and, also, in an entirely different category than "Stepping on a Lego." Not trying to be completely rude, but - seriously - just go get a therapist and stop mucking up the light-hearted posts with all the sympathy-seeking, heavy BS. Some people just need a fun distraction from their own s**t.
couldn't have said it better myself. although i feel sympathy for these people & wish they didn’t have to experience the heartache they've gone through, they seriously need to grasp the definition of context & learn when it's appropriate to share these sorts of things. no s**t, of course losing a loved one is more painful than stepping on a lego! nobody is doubting your pain! but people aren't here to read about your deepest darkest traumas, they're here to have a funny discussion about minor inconveniences. these people need therapy not only as an outlet for them to vent about the struggles they've faced, but also to deal with their inappropriate & obnoxious desire for others to approve of & validate their experiences.
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Working in a call centre and someone comes on the phone, regardless if it's outbound or inbound and now you know you have to talk to someone who's likely not happy. That hits you in the gut pretty hard. I'm glad I'm leaving this job in a week and a half. I swear I'm gonna get an ulcer or something. See? The feeling is mutual.
Does BoredPanda edit their listicles anymore? Some of these took a really dark turn and were pretty damn disturbing....stepping on a Lego is very different than stepping on a landmine. The tone of this article was all over the place and kind of creepy at times.
Stepping on a big metal nail is much worse, it went right through my foot 😬 sewing needles hurt as well
Getting banned from BP for having an opinion more than 9 people disagree with.
I think you might have won. Though you probably wish you hadn't
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Trying to zap a mosquito on your chair with a high-power electric bug racket... and accidently zapping yourself in the a*s. Even worse... Didn't even manage to kill the damn mosquito!
Touching one of those caterpillars who leave teeny little hairs stuck in your skin which itch and hurt like crazy and are almost impossible to remove.
Getting up in the middle of the night for a bathroom trip and stepping in fresh cat puke. Second only to stepping in dog poop in the yard barefoot.
Boy these posts really couldn't decide if they wanted to be funny or depressing.
Every now and then somewhere under my feet starts to hurt. And almost every times it's a short but thick black hair that's begun to squeeze itself through the skin under my foot and I have to pull out that hair and it is so painful and I do not like it one bit. Once, it was a longer hair, perhaps 2cm long, and it had gotten into the skin so far that I could almost not get a grip on it. It was awful! I wonder if other ppl also has experiences with hair that sqeezes itself into your feet? It's not ingrown hair... I think they might be eyelashes???? I don't know. But they hurt af.
That is stupidly painful! And you think but how? You couldn't stick a hair into your heel if you tried.
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How come "sneezing while on your period" is second place and nobody mentions "getting kicked in the nuts"? How can the first EVER approach the agony experienced by the second?
Having hair remover gel sprayed directly in you eye, resulting in a chemical burn and hours of being hooked up to an IV flushing my eye out by a suction cup attached to my eye!
And I thought I had it bad when I accidentally got 48-hour waterproof deodorant in my eye! Yep. I'm pretty sure "long-lasting dry eyeball" pales in comparison to "chemical burn" and IV eyeball suction cup. You definitely win... and not in the congratulatory kind of way 🤣 (I hope your eye has healed!)
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getting a thorn stuck in your finger while hiking, deciding to pull it out at home because you forgot to bring tweezers in your backpack, & realizing a couple days later that you never removed the thorn... & now a layer of skin has grown over it! i tried holding a hot wet cloth over it to soften the skin & let the thorn work its way out, but it didn't budge. next i tried to dig it out with tweezers, but i only managed to push it in deeper. for the next two years i went around with a thorn stuck under the skin of my finger, deep enough to be a pain to remove, but shallow enough to cause a bump that hurt like hell whenever i knocked it against something (like reaching into a bag & brushing the finger against something). finally it came out on its own during a hot shower a couple years later, but while it was there it felt like stepping on a lego every time the thorn brushed against something!
My friend sews and had a plush Luigi he had stuck a needle in like a pincushion. The Luigi was on the floor and he got mad and stomped as hard as he could on it barefoot. The needle was facing upward 😬 I feel bad but I was laughing because he's done stuff like this before.
Ffs. You can't "step on a Lego". Lego is the system, not the blocks. Saying you stepped on a Lego is like saying you're listening to a music.
Scraping knee on concrete. Ooouuucccchhhh! A week later, I actually went to the doc to see if I had broken something. Nope. Just skin damaged. It's been many years, but I still cringe when I think about it - or see someone fall on concrete. 😬
Riding my bike barefoot at 8 years old and falling off and the bike chain went straight through my foot between my 2nd and 3rd toes. I’ll never know how exactly I did that but I have an inch long scar between my toes now.
Having a disease, thinking you're finally healing, and then, it come back, surprise.
once again, that isn't even close to the topic of this thread. this is a lighthearted list about minor inconveniences that hurt at the time but obviously don't affect someone for long. what you're talking about is a different category entirely & is obviously worse than stepping on a lego. save it for another time, like a therapy session. people are here for stress relief & a bit of fun, not to read about people's trauma & heartache. context is key.
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Finding that missing shard of glass from the mirror that broke months prior that was laying in wait in the really thick carpet for your knee to find. I thought I got all the shards but no; it waited for the right moment of me being on my knees looking for something. Still have the scar 20 years later because "I don't need stitches. All the blood makes it look worse than it is"
The numbered comments came straight from the original Reddit posts. The link is in the intro. The BP OPs warned us that it would contain "both funny and really tragic stuff." So I guess it all belongs, though the emotionally painful can be uncomfortable to read.
How do you step on a company? Lego is the name of the company. The pieces are called bricks. Gives me an anneurism every time I read such moronicity.
So you have been hospitalised for reading posts? My advice is dont read them.
Load More Replies... Why is there always some depressing, unrelated personal event in a list of otherwise funny responses? "Losing Your Entire Family In A Car Accident"? "Watching Your Older Sister Have A Brain Aneurysm At 20 And Die In 10 Minutes"? Oddly specific and, also, in an entirely different category than "Stepping on a Lego." Not trying to be completely rude, but - seriously - just go get a therapist and stop mucking up the light-hearted posts with all the sympathy-seeking, heavy BS. Some people just need a fun distraction from their own s**t.
couldn't have said it better myself. although i feel sympathy for these people & wish they didn’t have to experience the heartache they've gone through, they seriously need to grasp the definition of context & learn when it's appropriate to share these sorts of things. no s**t, of course losing a loved one is more painful than stepping on a lego! nobody is doubting your pain! but people aren't here to read about your deepest darkest traumas, they're here to have a funny discussion about minor inconveniences. these people need therapy not only as an outlet for them to vent about the struggles they've faced, but also to deal with their inappropriate & obnoxious desire for others to approve of & validate their experiences.
Load More Replies... Working in a call centre and someone comes on the phone, regardless if it's outbound or inbound and now you know you have to talk to someone who's likely not happy. That hits you in the gut pretty hard. I'm glad I'm leaving this job in a week and a half. I swear I'm gonna get an ulcer or something. See? The feeling is mutual.
Does BoredPanda edit their listicles anymore? Some of these took a really dark turn and were pretty damn disturbing....stepping on a Lego is very different than stepping on a landmine. The tone of this article was all over the place and kind of creepy at times.
Stepping on a big metal nail is much worse, it went right through my foot 😬 sewing needles hurt as well
Getting banned from BP for having an opinion more than 9 people disagree with.
I think you might have won. Though you probably wish you hadn't
Load More Replies... Trying to zap a mosquito on your chair with a high-power electric bug racket... and accidently zapping yourself in the a*s. Even worse... Didn't even manage to kill the damn mosquito!
Touching one of those caterpillars who leave teeny little hairs stuck in your skin which itch and hurt like crazy and are almost impossible to remove.
Getting up in the middle of the night for a bathroom trip and stepping in fresh cat puke. Second only to stepping in dog poop in the yard barefoot.
Boy these posts really couldn't decide if they wanted to be funny or depressing.
Every now and then somewhere under my feet starts to hurt. And almost every times it's a short but thick black hair that's begun to squeeze itself through the skin under my foot and I have to pull out that hair and it is so painful and I do not like it one bit. Once, it was a longer hair, perhaps 2cm long, and it had gotten into the skin so far that I could almost not get a grip on it. It was awful! I wonder if other ppl also has experiences with hair that sqeezes itself into your feet? It's not ingrown hair... I think they might be eyelashes???? I don't know. But they hurt af.
That is stupidly painful! And you think but how? You couldn't stick a hair into your heel if you tried.
Load More Replies... How come "sneezing while on your period" is second place and nobody mentions "getting kicked in the nuts"? How can the first EVER approach the agony experienced by the second?
Having hair remover gel sprayed directly in you eye, resulting in a chemical burn and hours of being hooked up to an IV flushing my eye out by a suction cup attached to my eye!
And I thought I had it bad when I accidentally got 48-hour waterproof deodorant in my eye! Yep. I'm pretty sure "long-lasting dry eyeball" pales in comparison to "chemical burn" and IV eyeball suction cup. You definitely win... and not in the congratulatory kind of way 🤣 (I hope your eye has healed!)
Load More Replies... getting a thorn stuck in your finger while hiking, deciding to pull it out at home because you forgot to bring tweezers in your backpack, & realizing a couple days later that you never removed the thorn... & now a layer of skin has grown over it! i tried holding a hot wet cloth over it to soften the skin & let the thorn work its way out, but it didn't budge. next i tried to dig it out with tweezers, but i only managed to push it in deeper. for the next two years i went around with a thorn stuck under the skin of my finger, deep enough to be a pain to remove, but shallow enough to cause a bump that hurt like hell whenever i knocked it against something (like reaching into a bag & brushing the finger against something). finally it came out on its own during a hot shower a couple years later, but while it was there it felt like stepping on a lego every time the thorn brushed against something!
My friend sews and had a plush Luigi he had stuck a needle in like a pincushion. The Luigi was on the floor and he got mad and stomped as hard as he could on it barefoot. The needle was facing upward 😬 I feel bad but I was laughing because he's done stuff like this before.
Ffs. You can't "step on a Lego". Lego is the system, not the blocks. Saying you stepped on a Lego is like saying you're listening to a music.
Scraping knee on concrete. Ooouuucccchhhh! A week later, I actually went to the doc to see if I had broken something. Nope. Just skin damaged. It's been many years, but I still cringe when I think about it - or see someone fall on concrete. 😬
Riding my bike barefoot at 8 years old and falling off and the bike chain went straight through my foot between my 2nd and 3rd toes. I’ll never know how exactly I did that but I have an inch long scar between my toes now.
Having a disease, thinking you're finally healing, and then, it come back, surprise.
once again, that isn't even close to the topic of this thread. this is a lighthearted list about minor inconveniences that hurt at the time but obviously don't affect someone for long. what you're talking about is a different category entirely & is obviously worse than stepping on a lego. save it for another time, like a therapy session. people are here for stress relief & a bit of fun, not to read about people's trauma & heartache. context is key.
Load More Replies... Finding that missing shard of glass from the mirror that broke months prior that was laying in wait in the really thick carpet for your knee to find. I thought I got all the shards but no; it waited for the right moment of me being on my knees looking for something. Still have the scar 20 years later because "I don't need stitches. All the blood makes it look worse than it is"
The numbered comments came straight from the original Reddit posts. The link is in the intro. The BP OPs warned us that it would contain "both funny and really tragic stuff." So I guess it all belongs, though the emotionally painful can be uncomfortable to read.
How do you step on a company? Lego is the name of the company. The pieces are called bricks. Gives me an anneurism every time I read such moronicity.
So you have been hospitalised for reading posts? My advice is dont read them.
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