You gotta be sure, you know? Does it actually shock you? How bad does it hurt? Cant be too dangerous, right? Maybe you'll even like it, you won't know for sure unless you hit the button.
Bored people give themselves a bunch of painful shocks and when that isn't enough to feel alive they increase the amperage of the shocks. Really the perfect metaphor of all of us using doomscrolling on social media.
Yeah, totally right.
Although I would like to know, whether the instructor giving them the 'this button is for shocking yourself' was a woman or a men. Just ensuring not for any Interviewer bias.
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Anyway, I am recruiting some people for a unique experiment to test something out.
I licked a 9 volt from the beeping smoke detector the other day to see if it was dead. Nobody was around to impress and it wasn't for fun, just wanted a quick result.
Would probably shock myself if stuck alone for 15 mins too. Heck, I find those shocking handle games to be hilarious fun.
Note: have ADHD which may or may not be related since I keep forgetting how much getting shocked hurts. Burns leave a mark and are more memorable so I wouldn't touch anything hot for fun.
I'm really surprised no one here said they would pull down their pants and start violently jerking off while intently staring at the researchers through the one-way window thing.
Just use the old one hand in the back pocket trick if in doubt.
And poke with a dry finger, don't dip your hand in seawater then grab on to the electrode, you'll be fine ;
basic mains elec safety precautions.
I wonder if most sparkies are men - I'm not sure i've ever met a woman electrician.
It's to prevent the person from completing a circuit across their chest if accidentally touching a ground or the like with their other arm. Hearts don't like that.
Just a way to reduce risk when working with electricity.
Absolutely no way I'd shock myself in boredom willingly. I have way too much respect for myself... says the man who has on multiple occasions twisted a pencil multiple times in my hair to the point it starts to get the smallest pain reaction when I've been bored at home in the middle of the night.