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Re: Men would rather give themselves an electric shock than sit alone in a room with nothing to do

Jörgen Andersson4-Jul-14 5:22

Jörgen Andersson

4-Jul-14 5:22

So you wouldn't stand on top of the train bridge peeing on the power lines then?

Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello[^]

Re: Men would rather give themselves an electric shock than sit alone in a room with nothing to do

OriginalGriff4-Jul-14 5:27

OriginalGriff

4-Jul-14 5:27

From the bridge, I'd be perfectly safe[^]

Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)

Re: Men would rather give themselves an electric shock than sit alone in a room with nothing to do

Jörgen Andersson4-Jul-14 7:53

Jörgen Andersson

4-Jul-14 7:53

But would you do it? Smile | :)

Then you should consider the possibility that the train line you stand above has overhead lines with 25kv.
(650V third rail sounds more like the underground to me.)
Still probably safe actually. But would you do it?

Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello[^]

Re: Men would rather give themselves an electric shock than sit alone in a room with nothing to do

OriginalGriff4-Jul-14 8:02

OriginalGriff

4-Jul-14 8:02

Not really - not just because of the risk, but because I don't consider it acceptable to pee in public. It's bad enough having to clean dog pee off car and motorcycle tyres - human pee I don't want to have to clean up, so why should I make someone else do it?

Re: Men would rather give themselves an electric shock than sit alone in a room with nothing to do

Manfred Rudolf Bihy4-Jul-14 9:07

Manfred Rudolf Bihy

4-Jul-14 9:07

OriginalGriff wrote:
human pee I don't want to have to clean up,

Wow I stand I awe for this level of ignorance.
So what can I gather from this statement of yours?
1. You've obviously never had any children to look after.
2. You've been also spared from caring for disabled elderly persons (like uhmmm your parents or grand paremts maybe)
3. Urine is one of those bodily secretions with the least amount of bacterial contamination compared to what other orifices have to offer. So what's the deal with that? (This may not be true for some cases where uretheral infections are involved.)
4. I'm a hiker, a biker (bicycles) and a fisherman and pretty please dispatch of my accumulated liquid wastes however fits the purpose. (OK, I try not to do that in populated areas, especially when other, more discrete, means of disposal are available)

Cheers! Poke tongue | ;-P

"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"

Ron White, Comedian

Re: Men would rather give themselves an electric shock than sit alone in a room with nothing to do

OriginalGriff4-Jul-14 9:15

OriginalGriff

4-Jul-14 9:15

You'd take wrong as well - I've changed my share of nappies and wiped my mother's bottom when she had her brain tumour. Doesn't mean I want to clean up after strangers, any more than I want to go round with a pocket full of pooper scooper bags and clean up after other people's dogs! Laugh | :laugh:

Re: Men would rather give themselves an electric shock than sit alone in a room with nothing to do

pkfox6-Jul-14 20:05

pkfox

6-Jul-14 20:05

Thread drift but what bike have you got Griff ?

We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP

Re: Men would rather give themselves an electric shock than sit alone in a room with nothing to do

OriginalGriff6-Jul-14 22:57

OriginalGriff

6-Jul-14 22:57

None, at the moment Sigh | :sigh:

Herself has arthritis in her hips, and can't cope any more, so I had to get a car. And with no garage of off-road parking...

But my last was one of these: Moto Guzzi California EV 1100[^] because I like big V Twins, and going round corners, and Ducatis are too easy to lose your licence on! Laugh | :laugh:

(And the bike shop would always lend me a Ducati for the day)

Re: Men would rather give themselves an electric shock than sit alone in a room with nothing to do

pkfox6-Jul-14 23:11

pkfox

6-Jul-14 23:11

I've always liked Guzzis but never had one, I've had an MV F4750 for years but never ride it these days - still got my trusty VFR750 ( 1990 immaculate ) which I've done many a mile on and a 1961 600 Norton Dominator which I also never ride but can't bear to part with. Happy days.

We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP

Re: Men would rather give themselves an electric shock than sit alone in a room with nothing to do

OriginalGriff6-Jul-14 23:29

OriginalGriff

6-Jul-14 23:29

A 600 Dommy? Good you - I got through a couple of MkIII Come-and-gos but the pre-ioslastic Norton twins were a bit too vibrato for me!

I'm not surprised you don't ride it much these days - modern traffic plus old fashioned brakes is not a marriage made in heaven!

Re: Men would rather give themselves an electric shock than sit alone in a room with nothing to do

pkfox7-Jul-14 1:36

pkfox

7-Jul-14 1:36

The dommy has a Commando tls on it which is better than their disk brakes imo - will try and get it running soon ( I say it every year )

We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP

Re: Men would rather give themselves an electric shock than sit alone in a room with nothing to do

PIEBALDconsult4-Jul-14 5:28

PIEBALDconsult

4-Jul-14 5:28

Once is enough.

You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.

Re: Men would rather give themselves an electric shock than sit alone in a room with nothing to do

harold aptroot4-Jul-14 5:50

harold aptroot

4-Jul-14 5:50

So do I, but it might be of a different strength or duration. I'm only familiar with the 230V from the grid (not fun), static shocks of varying intensity (a bit fun?) and electric fences (would touch for a bet but not for entertainment).

Re: Men would rather give themselves an electric shock than sit alone in a room with nothing to do

johannesnestler4-Jul-14 9:09

johannesnestler

4-Jul-14 9:09

read the article again - all experienced the shock already before the axperiment! OMG | :OMG:

Re: Men would rather give themselves an electric shock than sit alone in a room with nothing to do

harold aptroot4-Jul-14 9:20

harold aptroot

4-Jul-14 9:20

Would still do it.

Re: Men would rather give themselves an electric shock than sit alone in a room with nothing to do

Stefan_Lang6-Jul-14 20:15

Stefan_Lang

6-Jul-14 20:15

So I thought as well - I mean it couldn't be that bad. I actually wondered about that aspect of curiosity so much I actually read the article, and - lo and behold! - it goes on to state

wired wrote:
that every participant had already received the shock before the trial. And every one had said they would pay to not experience it again. Hard cash.

GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)

Re: Men would rather give themselves an electric shock than sit alone in a room with nothing to do

PIEBALDconsult4-Jul-14 5:30

PIEBALDconsult

4-Jul-14 5:30

ZAP. Ooh yes. ZAP ZAP. Oh oh oh yes! ZAP ZAP ZAP. Oooohh daddy likes...

Etc. just to mess with their heads.

You can't prove intent.

You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.

Re: Men would rather give themselves an electric shock than sit alone in a room with nothing to do

User 48350474-Jul-14 6:02

User 4835047

4-Jul-14 6:02

Who would have thought?

modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.

Re: Men would rather give themselves an electric shock than sit alone in a room with nothing to do

Sander Rossel4-Jul-14 6:35

Sander Rossel

4-Jul-14 6:35

I can't believe no one said this yet, but...
Those are some shocking results! Cool | :cool:

It's an OO world.

public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
   public void DoWork()
   {
      throw new NotSupportedException();
   }
}

Re: Men would rather give themselves an electric shock than sit alone in a room with nothing to do

SortaCore6-Jul-14 22:15

SortaCore

6-Jul-14 22:15

Sander Rossel wrote:
Those are some shocking results!

They are quite electrifying - they made my hair stand up.

Re: Men would rather give themselves an electric shock than sit alone in a room with nothing to do

Mark_Wallace4-Jul-14 6:49

Mark_Wallace

4-Jul-14 6:49

It's a well-known fact that the vast majority of people can't stand being alone, and need to be in some kind of communication with other people at all times -- hence the overwhelming popularity of mobile phones and social media, and even fora like this one (although I think people come here when they don't want to work, rather than to not be alone).

People generally are a pack of bluddy idiots who don't have enough ideas in their heads to keep them busy for five minutes.

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

Re: Men would rather give themselves an electric shock than sit alone in a room with nothing to do

dandy724-Jul-14 7:17

dandy72

4-Jul-14 7:17

Mark_Wallace wrote:
It's a well-known fact that the vast majority of people can't stand being alone, and need to be in some kind of communication with other people at all times -- hence the overwhelming popularity of mobile phones and social media

Indeed. I don't own a cell phone, I don't have a twitter or facebook account, and I actually prefer being left the f*ck alone for extended periods of time.

Re: Men would rather give themselves an electric shock than sit alone in a room with nothing to do

Paul M Watt4-Jul-14 8:53

Paul M Watt

4-Jul-14 8:53

Now the real question is:

What would it look like if more than one person was in the room, and pushing the button would shock at least one of them.

Now is it going to be boredom to drive those people to push the button?!

... probably not!

Re: Men would rather give themselves an electric shock than sit alone in a room with nothing to do

harold aptroot4-Jul-14 9:05

harold aptroot

4-Jul-14 9:05

That seems like a fun experiment Smile | :)

Re: Men would rather give themselves an electric shock than sit alone in a room with nothing to do

Sander Rossel4-Jul-14 10:10

Sander Rossel

4-Jul-14 10:10

They should have one of those epic trailer soundtracks playing too.

Dundundundun... Two buttons... Dundundundun... Two people... Dundundundun... Will they do the unthinkable?... DUNDUNDUNDUNDUN... Will they survive!? DUUUUUUUUN...

And all the while these people will be staring at each other, sweating like pigs, keeping one eye on the other's button, hands above their own... Big Grin | :-D

It's an OO world.

public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
   public void DoWork()
   {
      throw new NotSupportedException();
   }
}

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