Umm what the?
IainDS is not the Belgian, I am.
And I'm not stupid and you, my dear Dutchman, are not getting the Flemish part of my country!!!
Anyways, you can get burns without noticing it.
There have been accounts of people who had their laptop on their lap, who burned their .. well, lap, without noticing. It is possible, just might take a while to sink in.