YEOWCH!
<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/11/22/health.laptop.reut/index.html"; target="_blank">Hot laptop burns scientist's penis</a>
"LONDON, England (Reuters) -- Laptops have always been a hot item but a 50-year-old scientist did not realise to what extent until he burned his penis.
The previously healthy father of two remembered feeling a burning sensation after he had been writing a report at home for about an hour with the computer on his lap.
He noticed a redness and irritation the following day but it was not until he was examined by a doctor that he realised how much damage had been done.
"The ventral part of his scrotal skin had turned red, and there was a blister with a diameter of about two centimetres (0.8 inches)," Claes-Gorn Ostenson, of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, wrote in a letter published in The Lancet medical journal on Friday.
Two days later, the blisters broke and the wounds became infected and then crusted but after about a week the unidentified scientist was "healing quite rapidly."
Ostenson noted that the computer manual did warn against operating it directly on exposed skin but said the patient had lap burns even though he had been wearing trousers and underpants.
"This...story should be taken as a serious warning against use of a laptop in a literal sense," he added."
I'd really would like to knowtwo things:
1. Didn't he uh, smell something burning?
2. What brand laptop that was...I have been considering getting one...now I have doubts... <img src="graemlins/smokin.gif" border="0" alt="[Chilling]" />
"LONDON, England (Reuters) -- Laptops have always been a hot item but a 50-year-old scientist did not realise to what extent until he burned his penis.
The previously healthy father of two remembered feeling a burning sensation after he had been writing a report at home for about an hour with the computer on his lap.
He noticed a redness and irritation the following day but it was not until he was examined by a doctor that he realised how much damage had been done.
"The ventral part of his scrotal skin had turned red, and there was a blister with a diameter of about two centimetres (0.8 inches)," Claes-Gorn Ostenson, of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, wrote in a letter published in The Lancet medical journal on Friday.
Two days later, the blisters broke and the wounds became infected and then crusted but after about a week the unidentified scientist was "healing quite rapidly."
Ostenson noted that the computer manual did warn against operating it directly on exposed skin but said the patient had lap burns even though he had been wearing trousers and underpants.
"This...story should be taken as a serious warning against use of a laptop in a literal sense," he added."
I'd really would like to knowtwo things:
1. Didn't he uh, smell something burning?
2. What brand laptop that was...I have been considering getting one...now I have doubts... <img src="graemlins/smokin.gif" border="0" alt="[Chilling]" />
Comments
<strong>Hmm. Was he naked at the time?</strong><hr></blockquote>
The report seems to indicate that he was fully clothed. That's one hot portable! :eek:
<strong>I don't trust the story. I mean, would you admit to using your laptop naked?
This, from Ms. Burny Burny Hot Hot?
And another lame excuse is born.
<strong>This, from Ms. Burny Burny Hot Hot?</strong><hr></blockquote>
I was wearing shorts. He "had been wearing trousers and underpants."
And I was using a notoriously hot laptop. Things just don't add up. <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" />
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I was wearing shorts. He "had been wearing trousers and underpants."
And I was using a notoriously hot laptop. Things just don't add up. <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" /> </strong><hr></blockquote>
Did we miss something? Or are you and Amorph revealing too much about your relationship??
<strong>"Dear, I know I have these oozing blisters on my wedding tackle, but it was because of... uh... my *laptop* burned me! Yeah, my *laptop*! I *SWEAR*!"
And another lame excuse is born.</strong><hr></blockquote>
He's trying to explain the friction burns the babysitter gave him.
<strong>Another disadvantage of circumcision!. that extra layer of skin would have saved him.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Hell yeah.
Foreskins rule..... <img src="graemlins/smokin.gif" border="0" alt="[Chilling]" />
Try this experience men, put your laptop on your knees naked and see if there is a contact possible between the scrotal skin and the laptop, sure they will be a contact with your penis, but with the scrotum ?
Perhpas the guy as a small penis that did not fully recover his scrotum. here is the advice of the day : people with a small penis should not take their laptop on their knees.
<img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />
If I can borrow someone's PowerBook, I'll do some experiments...
<strong>Regarding fireants22's "Ti G4 burns man's penis?" dupe thread. Since when was it a PowerBook G4...or any sort of Mac at all? Am i missing something?</strong><hr></blockquote>
Yes, you're missing the question mark. He was asking a question.