[Gllug] ``Confidential`` .sigs

[David Damerell]

On Monday, 6 Dec 2004, t.clarke wrote:
>It is a well known fact that Coffee needs to be ideally brewed at sub-boiling
>temperature, but still well above scald-temperature.

Yes (although brew temperature != serving temperature), but;

The highest temperature at which you can safely take baths in the
stuff is lower than the highest temperature at which you could drink
the coffee; but _that_ is lower than a temperature at which it will
easily inflict hideous burns.

Of course people should recognise that hot coffee is dangerous, but
there's an expectation of _how_ dangerous it is. This case is
generally portrayed as being like that of someone who bought a knife
and cut themselves; but in fact it is more like buying an object
represented to you as a breadknife which turns out to be razor-sharp
and poisoned, demanding more caution than is reasonable for a
breadknife.

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