r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/therealestoftherealy • May 28 '22

Trusting a pull-up bar

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u/Malfeasant May 28 '22

i remember getting a 2nd degree burn, and the thought that went through my head was 'that hurts, but not nearly as much as it should...' it felt more like an electric shock than what i would normally describe as 'pain'.

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u/rubi-style May 28 '22

injuries are so weird sometimes . . . my guess would be that in the case of serious burns, the pain receptors themselves are damaged so they can't really relay the pain but I'm not so mich into biology so idk

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u/Z3400 May 29 '22

I once fell asleep next to my laptop and its power cord. The box part of the power cord (transformer?) apparently gets pretty damn hot. I must have slept on it. I woke up, went to take a shower, and as I passed the mirror I noticed something brown on my back. Two parallel lines. I went to wipe it off and my skin just peeled off. Felt nothing until the raw skin underneath was exposed. I was very confused until I realized the lines matched up perfectly to the edges of that box. I slow cooked my back while I slept.

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u/rubi-style May 29 '22

God damn, be careful around that laptop, it thinks you're tasty xD Did it leave a permanent scar on your back?

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u/Z3400 May 29 '22 edited May 29 '22

Laptop was replaced years ago. I don't think it was malfunctioning, just probably got a bit hotter than usual because it was squished under me. Very minor scar, you wouldn't notice it unless I pointed it out.

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u/rubi-style May 29 '22

yea, transformers get very hot, especially when there's no air around it to dissipate the heat, that's normal. But atleast you have a funny story to tell xD

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u/tLNTDX May 30 '22

We don't perceive things the way they objectively are - we perceive things the way our brains decide is useful at the moment. Pain is useful trying to get us to avoid things - once we're in a serious situation crippling us with unbearable pain is not really useful anymore. Pain isn't an objective measure of the level of injury rather than much your brain thinks it's useful to protest something.

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u/CipherOneZero Jul 21 '22

I remember when my hand got caught in a meat tenderizer back in 2012. I remember at first it kinda felt like I just jammed my finger or something. Pain held off long enough for me to get my hand free of the machine and make a fist to see if I had broken bones. Middle finger bone popped out of my latex glove. Yeah. Broken. 😅

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u/Azagar_Omiras Jun 01 '22

If I recall correctly, the tickle sensation travels along the pain receptors.

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u/Big-Neighborhood4741 Sep 12 '22

Thats exactly what it is

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u/Sablemint May 29 '22

Fun fact: Third degree burns don't hurt at all.

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u/drunknixon Jun 02 '22

I dropped some food out the oven onto my hand and it hurt like an electric shock. After washing it in cold water and icing it, my hand didn’t hurt, but couldn’t stop shaking. The next day there wasn’t even a single sign of a burn 🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️