When I was in grad school, some of us were over at the house of a guy with an invisible fence for his dog. Someone wondered if it was cruel and that led to each of the grad students there except me putting on the dog’s collar and then crossing the fence. (Apparently it really hurts, but it isn’t agonizing.) At the time I knew that not shocking myself was, in some sense, the smart thing to do, but in retrospect I regret being a boring dork.
Shocking
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ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Anticorp@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I once voluntarily shocked myself with a dog collar at a party. It was kind of fun, so I did it about 20 more times and shocked other people with it too. In my defense, I was drunk.
cadekat@pawb.social 3 months ago
There’s a whole sexual kink associated with those collars. I’m just sayin’
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
If you ever find a regular electric fence, it hurts way worse if you aren’t wearing shoes. Just FYI.
Zoot@reddthat.com 3 months ago
Yeah but it also puts you one step closer to death.
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I once stepped too close to an electric fence, barefoot, right after it rained. OW.
smort@lemmy.world 3 months ago
We would sit around the fire pit taking turns zapping ourselves with the electric fly swatter
tinyVoltron@lemmy.world 3 months ago
You chose unwisely.
Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
It allegedly hurts you much more than them due to differences in skin thickness and moisture as well as them having a load of hair in the way
frickineh@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I’d love to be judgemental about this, but I’d absolutely be in that 25% of women who did it too.
snooggums@midwest.social 3 months ago
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.
Shanedino@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The best part is “at least one”. What’s the breakdown of more than one shock?
Shanedino@lemmy.world 3 months ago
thessnake03@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I’m going to need the graph above that. How many shocked themselves to get aroused?
barsquid@lemmy.world 3 months ago
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.
Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee 3 months ago
If I’m reading this right, the average bored person shocked themselves every 2 minutes?
Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 3 months ago
I haven’t even started any 15 minute waiting period and I already want to try the electric shock
Then again I’m also the guy who stuck the car cigarette lighter in, and then pulled it out and touched it with my thumb; I’ve literally done that twice too
lemmy_nightmare@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Twice? But…why…?
linucs@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Remove outliers
kubica@fedia.io 3 months ago
If I know that I'm in an experiment then I must gather information about the experiment.
Zahtu@feddit.org 3 months ago
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. … Anyway, I am recruiting some people for a unique experiment to test something out.
rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 3 months ago
I want to see the percentage who gave themselves more than one. They’re the real heroes of this study.
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 3 months ago
scratchee@feddit.uk 3 months ago
That guy was running his own study. “How many times can I shock myself before I breach the ethical limits of the study and they cut the session short”.
He underestimated their resolve though, clearly.
Wilzax@lemmy.world 3 months ago
That’s more than one every 5 seconds lmao
He probably spammed the button at some point, just to see what that would feel like
SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
When you minmax your masochism stat.
SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
All of these participants had received a sample of the shock and reported that they would pay to avoid being shocked again.
From: news.virginia.edu/…/doing-something-better-doing-… , so the chart is actually measuring the second shock.
emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Oh, those are the scientists. And yes, they’re the heroes of this study!
ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 4 months ago
Don’t forget the one guy who shocked himself 190 times in the 15 minute period.
Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Don’t kink shame.
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
13 shocks per minute on average xd literally spamming the button
Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Literally every 4-5 seconds.
Gork@lemm.ee 3 months ago
“Ow, that was painful. What would happen if I press the button again?”
Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website 3 months ago
snooggums@midwest.social 3 months ago
“Not so bad now that I’m expecting it! Wonder if the third time is even less.”
MrPibb@lemmynsfw.com 3 months ago
“Still hurts but not as bad as the first or second time… I wonder how long they’re going to be gone… I wonder if it would hurt more or less if I strapped it to a… different location…”
Mango@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I’d zap my dick and give them a whole new category for their charts!
olafurp@lemmy.world 3 months ago
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Trying to figure out what that is.
(In a bad millennial. My mind went to some sort of weird sex toy.)
cheesymoonshadow@lemmings.world 3 months ago
Gen X here and I didn’t know it wasn’t a sex toy until I saw your comment.
Valmond@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Looks a bit like some 4-way old fix telephone hub.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It’s basically an electric version of hot potato, The item in my Amazon wishlist is called lightning reaction.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 3 months ago
We just want to feel OK?
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 3 months ago
That toy has been in my Amazon cart for like a decade lol
JoseALerma@lemmy.world 3 months ago
'Cause when a guy does something stupid once, well, that’s because he’s a guy,
— Once-ler, 2012
HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 3 months ago
While I know that’s not how stats work, I find it completely correct to belive that one women gave herself a shock from 4 participants, and 70 men did.
Tiocfaidhcaisarla@hexbear.net 3 months ago
Some buddies and I once spent an evening passing around a bug zapper and having a go at it, to the concern of the one girl present. We were like 22 tbf
Dudes shock
ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
I would like to see a study done with several groups:
- People who read multiple books each year
- People who watch lots of video essays
- People who listen to podcasts
- People who prefer short-form content such as TikTok
- Veterans
- Educators, such as teachers or professors
- Librarians
- A control group composed of people who either do not fit into the other categories
randint@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 3 months ago
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.
dumbass@leminal.space 3 months ago
How do you think we got the job?
Pyro@programming.dev 4 months ago
I would honestly do it in the first 5 minutes.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 3 months ago
I’d wait until they’re out of the room just to be polite, but that’s it
tinyVoltron@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Screw that. I’d shock myself while they explained it just to make sure they weren’t lying.
Coasting0942@reddthat.com 3 months ago
Girls not curious or just used their knowledge base?
BlueMagma@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Every participant experience the pain once before being put in the room alone with the device, they all know.
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 3 months ago
That actually knocks out knowledge AND curiosity. It’s just what the paper says-- boredom.
TerminalEncounter@hexbear.net 3 months ago
They were told what it would do in the study.
NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Ah, there’s the issue.
It’s like telling a man a knifes sharp, he’s still going to cut his thumb on the edge, because now he needs to know how sharp.
BossDj@lemm.ee 3 months ago
An article linked here said they associated the results with men’s “higher sensation seeking behavior”. I read that as men are needier.
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 3 months ago
That’s… just not what that means? At least for the normal definitions of those words.
robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 3 months ago
where’s the 2 or more chart?
TerminalEncounter@hexbear.net 4 months ago
Boys rule
fossphi@lemm.ee 3 months ago
!196@lemmy.blahaj.zone
booty@hexbear.net 3 months ago
Ick. Liberal.chaser.zone
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Gurls drool
alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
I need to see a chart of how many times they shocked themselves
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 months ago
Where is the shock happening? I might be pressing the button a lot if it’s to the prostate.
muzzle@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Do you know how many times I’ve tested the cattle electrified fence just to see what would happen?
Hule@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Two times?
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 3 months ago
That isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice.
booty@hexbear.net 3 months ago
Checks out. I’m a man and I would definitely administer at least one shock to myself. Probably upwards of ten.
MonkderDritte@feddit.de 3 months ago
Boooring.
Hey…
ZAP.
7bicycles@hexbear.net 3 months ago
The fact that 25% of women did do it and 25% of men didn’t is fascinating to me. What are your favorite explanations here?
I’m going with 25% of people of either gender are just sort of contrarians to their own gender and thus did what they think the opposite one would do. I feel like I would do that.
MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 3 months ago
25% of all people are trans but haven’t realized it yet.
barsoap@lemm.ee 3 months ago
That’s definitely tomboy erasure. And whatever the other direction is called twink sounds kinda gay they’re not necessarily gay they just like interior design.
sirico@feddit.uk 3 months ago
Experiment, progress, possibly die
ID411@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
There is a funny sub at the other place /r/whywomenlivelonger. Or something similar.
OopsAllTwix@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
I just thought of the time machine ordered in Napoleon Dynamite and got a laugh.
AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Oh yeah I definitely would have been curious.
Technus@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
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.
InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Also: does it only work once?
thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Then, a few minutes later, you start to wonder again.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
Remember that reaction game where you got shocked if you weren’t first to hit the buzzer? We all played that for funsies.
conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
It’s not like they were going to apply a shock that would do damage. Fuck it.
barsquid@lemmy.world 3 months ago
100% what went through my head when I asked myself if I would also do it.
redisdead@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Right? People who are like ‘lol men r dumb’ are the dumb ones. It’s a social experiment, now a Saw puzzle.