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It's surprisingly easy to give my left calf a first degree burn without noticing it.

Think I will move the space heater a titch.

Date: 2010-11-18 06:04 pm (UTC)
ann1962: (Canadian cheer)
From: [personal profile] ann1962
Titch! I haven't heard that word spoken since we moved from Canada.

Date: 2010-11-18 06:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] viktor-haag.livejournal.com
Nicolled by a space heater? Is that a first?

Date: 2010-11-18 06:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] james-nicoll.livejournal.com
No, happens every year I use the radiant space heater.

Date: 2010-11-18 07:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] viktor-haag.livejournal.com
Thus the textured semantic depth of the verb -- there definitely is a component of "happens more often than you think it probably should"... 8/

Date: 2010-11-18 08:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/krin_o_o_/
Um... You sound almost ... Well... This happens every year? Hmm...
Is it possible to be in a co-dependent relationship with a space heater?

Date: 2010-11-18 07:20 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
I used to have a nice grid pattern on the back of one calf, from a space heater we were using at a cottage (in June, of course). Over the years it faded.

I did actually feel it, to such an extent that I haven't had such close personal contact with a space heater in 45 years.

William Hyde

Date: 2010-11-18 08:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] roseembolism.livejournal.com
Given that James' pants weren't actually on fire, does this really count as a Nicoll Event?

FWIW, I haven't managed to burn myself on a heater yet, but I did manage to melt some sneakers by propping my feet up on the side of a pot belly stove that really didn't seem that hot.

Date: 2010-11-19 12:09 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] liabrown
I once melted the zipper on my winter coat that way.

Date: 2010-11-19 01:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bastets-place.livejournal.com
My father warmed .. umm... himself up by a woodstove, not realizing that the backside of his jeans had metal buttons on it. He subsequently sat down VERY BRIEFLY and never did that again.

Date: 2010-11-19 05:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] death4breakfast.livejournal.com
According to the story I've heard, Levis jeans once had a metal reinforcing button at the stress point between the legs. That is, until one of the founders spent the evening sitting on the ground facing a camp fire, and then stood up. After that, that particular button went away.

Date: 2010-11-19 05:52 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] death4breakfast.livejournal.com
Have you considered switching to a non-radiant heater? They make a variety of them these days, quite nice, and very reasonably priced.

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