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Science: Health: Bandage
Tightenable Plaster   (0)  [vote for, against]
Pull the cord for instant tightness

A plaster (band-aid for you americans out there) only for finger wrappage, with a thin cord running through the middle (or maybe one through each side) that can be tightened so that your plaster will not constantly need to be undone/redone tighter every time it comes a bit loose. And that's my idea. Roll on the fishbones!

No seriously, give me a croissant.
-- modular, Sep 08 2003

Yeah, i think this is an excellent idea. Well done, stranger.
Hehehe...
-- modular, Sep 08 2003


give you a + for that piece of silliness even though I loathe plasters and all I keep thinking about are tourniquets.
-- po, Sep 08 2003


Put a piece of shrink tubing over the offending plaster. Then hold finger over a candle until the tubing shrinks. Band aid will never loosen again. (Keep glass with icewater at hand.)
-- kbecker, Sep 08 2003


Around here, we use drywall.
-- RayfordSteele, Sep 10 2003


No, not *maybe* one through each side, *definitely*! Through the middle is bad.

Never heard "plaster" before though. Nooo, I've been ignorantly using an americanism all these years!
-- RoboBust, Sep 11 2003


band-aids for scrapes an' such, duct tape for open cuts.
-- Freefall, Sep 11 2003


So if the injury starts jetting blood, just yank on the cord and you’ve got an instant tourniquet.
-- pluterday, Sep 11 2003


Plaster is an Irishism, [Robobust], so if you aren't Irish, maybe you are using the acceptable term.
-- modular, Sep 14 2003


Oh! That's a relief.
-- RoboBust, Sep 14 2003


And earlier "...from Old English, medical dressing, and from Old French plastre, cementing material...", therefore the name plaster of Paris.
-- FarmerJohn, Sep 14 2003



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