• @[email protected]
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    2 months ago

    When I was in grad school, a bunch of us were 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. (The consensus was that 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.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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      372 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      122 months ago

      If you ever find a regular electric fence, it hurts way worse if you aren’t wearing shoes. Just FYI.

      • Zoot
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        62 months ago

        Yeah but it also puts you one step closer to death.

      • @Feathercrown
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        32 months ago

        I once stepped too close to an electric fence, barefoot, right after it rained. OW.

    • @smort
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      2 months ago

      We would sit around the fire pit taking turns zapping ourselves with the electric fly swatter. Good times!

    • @[email protected]
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      42 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