1. Yes that is me in oyster cooking attire.
2. Photoshop cropping...my thumb is fine.
3. That's a pretty well-known symbol, even for Europeans. You can find it yourself. That was my Grandfathers ring though I can rightly wear it.

And yes, similar incidents doing similar things but with different hands. The first incident was a steam burn while I poured off a kettle of water from a "Low-Country Boil" into the sink. Steam burns are sneaky in that by the time you feel them it's way too late.

This one was because I'd been handling all kinds of hot things with the rubberized gloves all night and didn't consider that the back of the fingers weren't protected all the way up. I reached for a vacuum-sealed bag of chili that was thawing in boiling water and bobbing just at the surface and when it went under I went in after it. So yeah, I gotta be more careful but they weren't totally boneheaded mistakes.