totm nov 2023 Thread to discuss negative things in a very general way, just see where it goes y'know?

[AlamoVampire]

As im about to go to bed i check my phone. 7 new spam calls. Total now at 368.

368…  101402112025 new page 101502112025

368…  (spacing for after sleep)

Edited 4 hours ago by AlamoVampire

[Nuke]

14 hours ago, Grenartia said:

Yesterday, I was cooking something for the superb owl. Didn't realize I accidentally left a burner on my stove on unnecessarily until I had finished cooking entirely. But it was low enough that it didn't look warm at all. Good thing I generally tend to avoid touching burners at all, or I'd be left with weird burn marks and a funny not funny story.

i did that once, after some idiot forgot to turn the burner off. spiral burn marks look kind of cool, but it hurts a lot.

actually i think that's when i finally banned mom from the kitchen.

Edited 2 hours ago by Nuke

[TheSaint]

13 hours ago, tater said:

We joke about this all the time (before PhD and Med school my wife was a chemist)—"Hot glass looks like cold glass" from back when we both did chem labs with glass blowing. Then I pull a pork tenderloin from oven, put it on stovetop... and forget the scrub towel I just used as a potholder and grab handle to rotate it. Fully grab.

At one point when I first got on board the boat I was nominated to go down between the turbine generators and clean during a field day. Very hot (we were underway, so the engine room had steam in it), very nasty with leaked lube oil. The access was a very narrow panel in the deck, maybe 10 inches by 18 inches. You really had to squeeze through, and it had steam piping on either side of it. So I finished cleaning down there and was squeezing out of the hole, when one of the belt loops on my overalls caught on something, a pipe hanger or some other protrusion below the deck. My arms are above the deck, the hangup is below the deck. So I'm sitting there wiggling and squirming in this little hole, trying to get free. And suddenly I realize that the front of my overalls, just below the beltline, is pressed up against a steam trap, which is an uninsulated steam line. And it's starting to get warm. VERY warm. In a very sensitive area of the anatomy. I bolted up out of that access like a rocket. Tore the loop right out of my overalls, put about a six-inch rip in them. Everyone up top was laughing their asses off. Didn't care.