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call me a killjoy but if my "friends" drew swastikas on each other as funny jokes in a "social setting" they wouldn't be my friends anymore 🫠 wild.

the thread this was on in r/television was taken down, but all of the comments like this were equally disturbing and talking about how it’s just “drunk teenage fun” and social bonding behavior and only “zios” get offended by it.

the one empathetic, intelligent comment pushing back against that idea and saying we shouldn’t normalize this, and that it’s appropriate to apologize for a situation where hate symbols are involved, and that we should be more careful not to model this as a joke or as laudable, was downvoted to oblivion, and had nasty responses.

admittedly I don’t watch HR, and I’m not shaming Hudson Williams (it’s whoever drew that on him that made the bad choice anyway), but as the tags above say, this isn’t about him. it is, however, about how far too many people dismiss or diminish concerns about hate if that hatred is antisemitism. it is about how the Holocaust is so commodified, universalized, and even at times denied or justified, that people have no reaction to it other than an “lol boys will be boys.”

then the media pretends to wonder why these issues have gotten so bad, why extremism and white supremacy are on the rise, and why Jews are being targeted by hate crimes every day.

And these weren’t smart lads or sensible lads. None of us were growing up to be future social justice activists. The lot of us used to sit in the woods drinking stolen beer and trying to turn Coke bottles into makeshift bongs. One of them got sick by trying to roll up his homework and smoke it as a joke. One of them got suspended on day one of year 11 for turning up covered in anti-climb paint. My favourite lad got done for stealing a Mercedes Sprinter van (he was very adamant we always mentioned it was a Mercedes and not a Ford Transit) and trying to drift it around a roundabout, all while blasting Goldie Looking Chain out the windows.

This is an industrial stand mixer (often it has a grating attachment to that round top port sticking out like a pipe end on the top left of the pic) and Hobart is a very popular brand for these machines, which are often nearly as tall as a person

the thing hanging from the mixing arm into the bowl part is a dough hook

it looks like this and spins around mixing the dough

Here is a smaller one, but you can see what it looks like when it goes

So one of my first kitchens, everyone who got shown how to use the enormous 5ft tall Hobart we had, they got some variation of this speech:

"DO NOT reach into the mixer while it's on. I know, you think that now, but you're going to get comfortable around it, it's going to seem like it's moving slow, and you're going to feel like reaching in there to check the dough or something without turning it off. DON'T. DO THAT. One guy a couple years ago went to the hospital with every bone in his arm broken and a dislocated shoulder and it was from reaching into this exact machine we're using today. You're going to feel like you can reach in real quick without stopping the machine, and I'm telling you, turn it off first."

I got that speech too, and sure enough, there came a day when I felt the urge. Which i resisted. But then. Then there started to be reasons to reach in there.

Like maybe the person using the grating attachment hadn't cleaned the port good enough and a couple of strips of grated carrot fell onto the dough, where it would stay sort of oscillating on the top of the dough ball for a little bit before getting sucked down to be kneaded deep into the dough. It's a single button to stop the machine, but, for some reason it just seems like such a hassle, and you've always wanted to do it, c'mon, look how slow it's moving...

So i did. And it was fine! Altho i could see why people get it wrong, what seemed like about a 3 second window actually turned out to be less than a full second once you got your hand down there, and there really wasn't as much space as it seemed like there was, and the angle you had to go at did slow you down just a little... But now that i knew all that, i should be fine to do it as long as i was careful, right?

Then one day it happened. I must of brushed ever so slightly against the metal of the dough hook. It is shaped and moving in a way designed to draw material in toward the center and down and it tugged my hand ever so slightly in and down.

Which would have been fine but I was already touching the dough, so it tugged my fingers into the dough just enough for it to get the slightest grip on them, which tugged my hand in just enough to get caught between the hook and the dough which gripped it surprisingly hard and yanked my hand down and in a circle like having someone hold your hand tightly and spin in a circle and all my joints locked up against each other painfully so fast!

Luckily I was able to get my arm out before I suffered more than a sore shoulder, hurt elbow, and sprained wrist and sprained finger... but things went from totally fine to sheer panic faster than anything i've ever experienced.

Even so, only a week later and barely recovered, I caught myself just before i reached my hand into the dough bowl while it was on, the siren call of the Hobart singing strongly still.

So many people felt it. I heard so many close call stories. Some models like the Hobart 660 comes with this wire cage safety guard now, and I guarentee it is 100% because no matter how you warn people, they can't resist reaching in while it's running

tags: #hobart is perfect size for arm of person perfect safe for to put arm in

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PLEASE DO NOT THE MACHINE, IT WILL BITE

Also have a few guillotine cuts, can tell you that a paper cut from a 200g paper corner is way worse than a 70g one and that it does happen way more than you'd want or expect it to, and that you should never, ever, disable the safety stoppers.

See this?

This is what happens when your employer decides it's cool to make you ignore safety protocols and reach into a moving conveyor belt guard to clear a jam.

It took three months to close and another year for the scars to heal to the point I got full range of motion back.

Another two cm to the right and I would have lost a finger.

It was up against the side of the loading dock and the button to start it was round the other side of the machine. So you had to go down the stairs and back around the loading dock and the machine itself to start it.

Important to note the emergency stop button was also on the side with the start button.