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burntcopperI seriously think cooking has given me as many scars as bikes and braces and bus windows and old warzones combined. The amount of fricking burns I accumulate is ridiculous. Fortunately they tend to fade after a few years, but *still*.
Burn mark #15 : cooking with wok. Drop chicken into hot oil, hot oil spits out, hits point revealed by short t-shirt and low jeans. See Heather scrape built-up ice from freezer sides with cloth and cook with one hand, periodically renewing ice for the next hour and a half. Still painful. :grumble:
Other burns, mostly faded, are variously from hot fat fryers at previous jobs and the all-time classic, pulling a baking tray out of the oven and getting banged into from behind so tray shoots forward and produces matching scars on inner elbows.
On the other hand, parents being away allows me to watch BSG on a *tv*, wonders of wonders, as opposed to a couple of days later from download. And ohhhh, the happiness. Ricard Hatch and a poltics ep. With lots of little Starbuck/Apollo moments, both in friendship and puppy-dog cuteness and in 'let's menace civilians' mode. This show makes me so very happy.
Mind you, am wondering about something they presented on the show. Zarak (Richard Hatch's character) is a terrorist/freedom fighter, depending on who you ask. If they'd been negatively affected by Zarak - people who'd previously been affected by him pre-fleeing the Colonies, the soldiers who'd dealt with his prison insurrection and his way of doing things - it was 'terrorist', but if you hadn't been, and hadn't been directly infulenced by his actions, it was 'freedom fighter'.
I'm just wondering if this is what drives the division in how people view similar in this world. In the UK, the IRA and its offshoots and their Protestant opponents (name currently escapes me) were terrorists. Okay, so, yes, united/Brits booted out Ireland is a thing to want, but as far as we were concerned, they were terrorists. We'd seen too many bombs go off and we still live with the little things that are holdovers even now from bombing - you can't leave luggage alone in a station or airport, no bins near such places or in the City of London (that is, the old City, mostly financial now), and the call for Inspector White on London Transport. And we used to get terribly angry with Americans who naively believed they were funding freedom fighters, when it'd long ago devolved into money, revenge and power over the little people. All I know is that you're a terrorist as soon as that first bomb goes off with the intent to kill people.
Burn mark #15 : cooking with wok. Drop chicken into hot oil, hot oil spits out, hits point revealed by short t-shirt and low jeans. See Heather scrape built-up ice from freezer sides with cloth and cook with one hand, periodically renewing ice for the next hour and a half. Still painful. :grumble:
Other burns, mostly faded, are variously from hot fat fryers at previous jobs and the all-time classic, pulling a baking tray out of the oven and getting banged into from behind so tray shoots forward and produces matching scars on inner elbows.
On the other hand, parents being away allows me to watch BSG on a *tv*, wonders of wonders, as opposed to a couple of days later from download. And ohhhh, the happiness. Ricard Hatch and a poltics ep. With lots of little Starbuck/Apollo moments, both in friendship and puppy-dog cuteness and in 'let's menace civilians' mode. This show makes me so very happy.
Mind you, am wondering about something they presented on the show. Zarak (Richard Hatch's character) is a terrorist/freedom fighter, depending on who you ask. If they'd been negatively affected by Zarak - people who'd previously been affected by him pre-fleeing the Colonies, the soldiers who'd dealt with his prison insurrection and his way of doing things - it was 'terrorist', but if you hadn't been, and hadn't been directly infulenced by his actions, it was 'freedom fighter'.
I'm just wondering if this is what drives the division in how people view similar in this world. In the UK, the IRA and its offshoots and their Protestant opponents (name currently escapes me) were terrorists. Okay, so, yes, united/Brits booted out Ireland is a thing to want, but as far as we were concerned, they were terrorists. We'd seen too many bombs go off and we still live with the little things that are holdovers even now from bombing - you can't leave luggage alone in a station or airport, no bins near such places or in the City of London (that is, the old City, mostly financial now), and the call for Inspector White on London Transport. And we used to get terribly angry with Americans who naively believed they were funding freedom fighters, when it'd long ago devolved into money, revenge and power over the little people. All I know is that you're a terrorist as soon as that first bomb goes off with the intent to kill people.
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Date: 2005-01-10 09:49 pm (UTC)See, that's... pretty much what I was taught, the part about their being freedom fighters, and it wasn't really until fairly late in high school that I began to say "um, hang on a minute... " And now... I guess it's simply one more way that I have completely different values from the people around me, because... yeah. I mean, most of my Dad's family are Irish, and some of my Mom's, and like you said, of course I'm like "yes, getting the British out was a good goal, owing to the way the Irish were treated for most of the time that Britain was running things there".
But for all this stupid American shit dating back to the Monroe Doctrine about supporting freedom overseas (and, wow, I initially wrote "terrorism" rather than "freedom"; now there's an interesting Freudian slip), and the fact that that is, originally, where a great deal of my family are from, I'm still just like "er, no. They're terrorists."
Huh.
Various things ...
Date: 2005-01-10 10:21 pm (UTC)Thing 2 : Also saw BSG tonight. Nice to see Gaius having a few moments of sanity. I agree that it was a good episode, they're mixing up the drama and humour better now than in the first episodes, which were generally pretty grim (not that that's neccessarily a bad thing, but the variety is nice too).
Thing 3 : In Australia, the IRA are almost always presented as terrorists, rather than freedom fighters. Legacy of the whole colony thing, I guess. Meanwhile, I've noticed the bin thing - at a couple of train stations in Edinburgh, they worked out a solution that stops the place getting littered too much - metal rings attached to the wall, into which they place clear plastic rubbish bags.
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Date: 2005-01-10 10:48 pm (UTC)My brother doesn't get burns anymore. He's a cook, and says after a while, your body stops reacting (most of what you think of as burn damage is your body reacting, rather than *actual* damage).
The weirdest thing is his girlfriend-- she has this condition, "Blacksmith's hands" where the skin on her palms is about twice as thick as usual, so she doesn't feel the heat.
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Date: 2005-01-11 01:04 pm (UTC)The second one I did a few montsh ago whilst cooking for my sister in my new house. I'd heated up the oven and left a baking tray in there by accident. When i realised i took it out of the oven and put it on the side as far away from my sister as possible so she wouldn't get hurt. Two minutes later while reaching for the pasta out of the cupboard my stomach rested against the baking tray and left me with a two inch burn mark right through my heart shaped tattoo. It looked so trashy for weeks as it looked like a cupids arrow from a distance. Thankfully that one's faded so you can only see the scar when you're up close.
Anyway.. thats was a long winded way of saying I sympathise with the cooking burn pain!