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I... Genuinely only realizing this now
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For real. Everytime I get in the shower I end up having to point the showerhead away and cower from the cold water and I could have just turned it on first?
I can understand the shower one, but who tf is insane enough to not use oven mitts or a rag? I'd imagine you'd take a moment to think about the possible solutions before doing something that painful
These are /thathappened.
There is no way anyone is pulling 350°F+ items out of an oven with their bare hands.
There is no way someone grew up without a parent both demonstrating and explaining to let the water warm up first. Might as well fill a tub with cold water and sit in it, then say just add hot water until it’s comfortable. Even if the household was abusive or something and kids were told to shower cold while the water warmed up they still would have figured out on their own that running hot water first would get hot water faster.
I've seen video of someone pulling stuff out of frying oil with his bare hands. This was made easy for him because all his nerve endings in his hands were dead because he had been putting them into frying oil, but still, I never would have believed anyone to do something that ... I don't know what to call it, callous maybe.
...that seems like it must have been faked. Even if the nerves had been burned off, that's serious damage. Nerves are in the dermis, and if that gets burned seriously enough to make all the nerve endings dead, you're going to have a bad time. Just because the pain isn't being felt also doesn't prevent further damage.
I tried looking for it and I found a YouTube video of some Indian street vendor doing it, but iirc my old video had been of some British guy. There's more than one apparently.
The loss of sensitivity doesn't happen all at once, plenty of cooks and serving staff have much higher tolerances than non-cooks/waiters. I'd expect that this is at least partly from damaged nerves, but while they have reduced sensitivity, iirc then the British guy said that he had lost all sensation in his hands.