Grounding and lightning.

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So, you can turn off your reflexes?

If that's what you call running from imminent danger, sure.

I saw motion in my peripherial
vision, and caught it without knowing what it was.

I wouldn't have, knowing I was in a work area. I don't play mumblety-peg,
either.

 

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Cooling the burn within roughly a minute does that. I slipped and
burned a serious trench in a fingertip working on a delta Vbe
thermometer. Dunked it instantly in the icebath, and it never even
really hurt, just healed up like it never happened.

Yup. I burned my arm on the upper rack of the oven once. I immediately put
ice on the offending spot. No blisters at all, except about 2" lower down
where I also scraped the rack, but didn't feel it because of the bigger spot.
The lower spot hurt like hell for a couple of days. The larger spot didn't
even blister.

Apparently it takes time for the heat to penetrate, and to cook your
meat dead. Quick cooling minimizes the damage.

Works for sunburn, too.

I've used the same trick several times since. Handy. Just yesterday,
in fact.

Water is good. Ice is much better.

 

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Cooling the burn within roughly a minute does that. I slipped and
burned a serious trench in a fingertip working on a delta Vbe
thermometer. Dunked it instantly in the icebath, and it never even
really hurt, just healed up like it never happened.

Apparently it takes time for the heat to penetrate, and to cook your
meat dead. Quick cooling minimizes the damage.

I've used the same trick several times since. Handy. Just yesterday,
in fact.

Oh, I was going to add, *never* use butter or grease. That makes it 10x
worse. Neo-Sporin, or such, can be used *after* it's cooled down.

 

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Oh, I was going to add, *never* use butter or grease. That makes it 10x
worse. Neo-Sporin, or such, can be used *after* it's cooled down.

Unflavored meat tenderizer is the best dressing for a 2nd degree burn.

 

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Not everyone runs away from danger.

Some are suicidal, yes, and not everyone is stupid enough to catch a falling
soldering iron (of knife).

I didn't know they had a soldering iron. The place sold CB radios to
truckers and i had never seen anything but a screw driver & drill on
their makeshift bench.

And if it were a knife?

 

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Sigh. Some people are stupid enough to post trolling shit like you
just did.

You said you caught it, I certainly wouldn't have. If that's a troll, it's
yours.

How would I have known it was a knife, when all I saw was a blur of
something falling in my perherprial vison?

....and you lunge for it. Nope, *not* a good plan.

 

[Peter Huebner]

What lunge? I was standing near the bench and only had to reach for
an unknown object. I didn't know what it was. A man's normal refex is
to catch things, but a woman's is to pull away.

I haven't read any of the rest of this thread - but I dare say your assumption
is wrong that that is gender based. Most of the time something falls off a
bench in my house it's a knife, or in the wood-shop something that will
otherwise cause injury because of sharp edges. When I note something falling
off a bench I skip the other way so's not to get hit or cut or punctured.

It's entirely a question of how you have trained/programmed your reflexes.

f.w.i.w. -P.

 

[Spehro Pefhany]

Like I asked before: You can turn off your reflexes?




What lunge? I was standing near the bench and only had to reach for
an unknown object. I didn't know what it was. A man's normal refex is
to catch things, but a woman's is to pull away.

As Huck Finn found.. "mind you, when a girl tries to catch anything in
her lap she throws her knees apart; she don't clap them together the
way you did when you catched the lump of lead".

At least back then dey dids.


Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany

 

[Neanderthal]

As Huck Finn found.. "mind you, when a girl tries to catch anything in
her lap she throws her knees apart; she don't clap them together the
way you did when you catched the lump of lead".

At least back then dey dids.


Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany

OK, so that was funny. So, the girls used their dress as a trampoline.

Thanks, Mr. Twain.

 

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Sigh....it's because of people like you that Usenet is dying. Why do you
have to make a 'one-up-man-ship' of everything. You have a reputation of
doing this on any news group you're involved in.

By the way, if I was interviewing the two of you for a job I'd be hiring
the other guy. He at least takes action and tries to help when something
happens instead of standing back doing nothing and criticizing others.

You're obviously not an employer.

 

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Like I asked before: You can turn off your reflexes?

Self preservation *is* a reflex. Jumping at everything that moves is dumb.

What lunge?

You went for an unknown something that was falling. Bad move.

I was standing near the bench and only had to reach for
an unknown object. I didn't know what it was.

Bad move.

A man's normal refex is to catch things, but a woman's is to pull away.

You're sounding like DimBulb, today.

 

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I haven't read any of the rest of this thread - but I dare say your assumption
is wrong that that is gender based. Most of the time something falls off a
bench in my house it's a knife, or in the wood-shop something that will
otherwise cause injury because of sharp edges. When I note something falling
off a bench I skip the other way so's not to get hit or cut or punctured.

Absolutely. It can be picked up once the situation can be analyzed.

It's entirely a question of how you have trained/programmed your reflexes.

Yup!

 

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OK, so that was funny. So, the girls used their dress as a trampoline.

A catcher's mitt, as it were. ;-)

 

[Don Klipstein]

What lunge? I was standing near the bench and only had to reach for
an unknown object. I didn't know what it was. A man's normal refex is
to catch things, but a woman's is to pull away.

My grandmother did not pull away, but caught falling things when
possible. I never saw my mother drop or knock down many things where I
saw time to give much reaction, but she seems to lean to catch things.
Exception: Things falling from the stove, which was thankfully
infrequent.