How electric are you?

I oftern get static shocks when touching things, i didnt realise how much until last night, taking off my dressing gown in the dark i always get a few blasts but last night it looked like a huge lightimg storms hahaha

  • Zapped all the time
  • Occasionally get a blast
  • Never, fully grounded
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:rofl: I suggest, if it is a problem, you change your dressing gown to a cotton one, walk around bare foot more or discharge yourself first by touching metal to metal.

In terms of how electric I am… I am profoundly electrical! Every thought, movement and sensation is driven by bioelectricity. While I am not an electric eel, at rest, I produce about 100W of power… enough to light a 100W lightbulb… so significantly more electrically charged than the potato we (hopefully) all experimented with at school.

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Last year during the coldest part of the year, it was around minus 5 Fahrenheit. I went to check the thermostat to the furnace and when I touched it I shocked it and it blew out the electronics and made the furnace shut down. It was a Sunday evening and stores were about to close. I had to scramble and buy any thermostat I could so we wouldn’t freeze at night.

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When I was slim, I was constantly being zapped by everything. Cars and elevators gave the worst shocks. Since I became morbidly obese, it’s been years.

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I was in my birthday suit bar the dressing gown so i dont scare the kids.(21+) lol

You sound perfect … i better eat more to.fill.out my chicken legs and.no bum.

Getting out of cars often get a static shock! Anyone remember nylon bedsheets in the 70’s? You only had to turn over and it was as if you had been tasered!

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I patted my husband on the head yesterday and got shocked. I am always getting shocked by static. Usually it’s the supermarket trolley handle that gets me. I noticed something super cool though. I store my toys in satin bags, and sometimes when I take a solid silicone one out in the dark the static from the bag makes the whole toy light up from the inside for a moment, like a flash of lightning!

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Satin and fleece are the worst for shocks lol

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I tend to get shocks from car doors.

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Those nylon sheets were the worst invention ever! Along with the horrendous static you stuck to them with sweat in the summer and they were icy cold in winter :rofl:

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I got a nice one the other day, I was tidying the bedroom after putting the laundry away and got a nice bolt from me to the radiator. I instinctively went “hey! That was spicy!”, much to my husband’s amusement :joy:

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Too true! I remember Alan “Fluff” Freeman advertising Brentford Nylons on tv!

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I got chills and they’re multiplying!

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