I was canning tomatoes last week. To make it easier to peel them, you dip them in boiling water until the skin splits, then you put the tomato into cold water to cool it down enough so you can handle it. The skin will slip right off.
But if you don’t let it sit long enough, the tomato will be cool to the touch on the outside but still have hot juice inside, and when you go to core it, you’ll get burned.
I was really surprised that the inside of the tomato was still hot. Who knew tomatoes had such great insulating value.
Goddamnit, I’m trying to keep up my board facade of being a semi-kindhearted person. But not a one of you could have come up with it first, thereby sparing me the responsibility of making a “Now that’s what I call an Atomic Fireball!” joke?
** Try living in a college town. Those doctors are most certainly taught to assume their patients are lying, particularly when they suspect drugs are involved.
I know of only one man who has these kinds of resources. One man with the far-reaching and deep knowledge of chemistry necessary to solve this riddle. One man with the will, nay, the COURAGE to perform such a dangerous experiment.
Bosca, you’re an idiot. Which would be funny, if your ignorance weren’t so bloody dangerous.
Here’s a clue: not EVERY bad thing that happens to a child is child abuse. When you see a kid with a black eye, do you automatically assume that his parents beat him, and report them to Child Protective Services, despite the kid’s excuse that he fell of the jungle gym? (Yes, it happens!)
Imagine, if some do-gooder saw marks on your kids and reported YOU for child abuse. Imagine, having a CPS worker come into your home, ask you & your kids embarrasing and humiliating questions about your sexual activity, as they strip your kids to their underwear right in front of everyone, to check for bruises & scars. And if he really did fall off the swing, you’d better pray you have witnesses, or they might just assume your guilty & take your kids away to foster care. Oh yeah, whether you’re proven innocent or not, your name will likely wind up on a “list” of potential child abusers, no matter how specious the accusations are.
Don’t get me wrong, child abuse is no joke. Which means we all need to be DAMN careful about levelling accusations, especially ones as baseless as yours.
Thomas Kinkade??
I don’t think a research microwave will be safe enough. We need a poster who works with a major metropolitan bomb disposal unit, and maybe one of those candy-explosive-sniffing dogs. I have a Labrador who’d like to volunteer.
Maybe she has an extendible alien-style internal jaw.
Seriously, though, the link by troub says the girl did, in fact, microwave the jawbreaker. Whether or not the inevitable lawsuit succeeds, this is yet another bit of fine print to add to the side of the box.
Bosda: Accusations should be based on evidence. What evidence do you have that the parents/relatives inflicted these injuries? You are suggesting a specific explination for the girls injuries. What evidence do you have to support it?
Bradford County Telegraph has a more complete story than the TV version (big surprise, there) including such details as:
In contrast to the OP’s claim that the policeman simply took the word of the family, the police are reported to be waiting for actual evidence from the fragments and residue removed from the girl’s face and multiple agencies are involved in the investigation.
Alright. Now, assuming that the news story cited in the OP had all the details straight, I would’ve sided with Bosda. Yeah, a terrorist could’ve made an exploding gumball for no reason whatsoever. Or a family could’ve abused their child, something that happens with frightening frequency.
