What a patently SILLY comment!
Do you really mean to say that it doesn't matter how hot an object is, that it bears no relation to the burn? Do you have ZERO common sense?
If you read the article I posted, it even says - right in the article -- that the difference between the temp of McDonalds' coffee and a reasonably hot cup meant that the woman was burned MUCH FASTER and much more severely as a result.
That accords with the common sense that I happened to acquire when I was, say, oh, about three years old.
What happened to you?
As little tots seem to love to try new things and are curious - they often can get burned on stove-tops, pots, burner surfaces
I was cured quickly by my mother by having my hand carefully placed for a brief second on a stove
I was told that electrical outlets were the same except even worse
It cure me forever
We used the same trick on our two kids when tiny tots
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No burns, no playing with matches, no sticking forks in electrical outlets
Showing tiny tots what happens when toast is "over-toasted" and turns black and smokes and crumbles also gives tiny tots a good object lesson
Granny should have been taught long ago
When I make coffee I expect it to be piping hot - I also recall my parents telling us a tiny tots that perculators with hot coffee grounds will get hot sticky coffee grounds on your skin as well as scalding hot coffee
Yet I know the coffee cup itself will act as a heatsink and adding cream will also cool the coffee to nearly lukewarm
I don't know about Cool Hand Luke, but I love my coffee hot
Victimization has become an industry for scum
It appears we have lots of "victims" here on FR also
I suggest they tattoo reversed warning labels on their foreheads
But be careful on the mirror - it might break if you are an idiot and you'll have to sue somebody who made the glass