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Ground fault interrupters are fine and good. But under their protection, a whole generation has grown to stupid manhood without ever experiencing the lasting wonders of a fork in the electrical outlet. Can they really be considered men?
The grizzled elders at BUNGCO pity these callow and unelectrified
males. We want to help them. The Fork in Plug game is a game for bars where manly men pay with a small coin for the privilege of testing their manhood against the fork in plug. BUNGCO actually recommends that a hand be used on the fork, although variations are possible. Now grip the fork! Can you let go? Do you want to? How much is enough? Does it matter if you have your shoes on? Can you make the lights flicker in the bar? After your friend sees your gurning voltage-animated face, is he man enough to try? Drink up, and man up!
BUNGCO recommends that the Fork in Plug game be played responsibly.
Fork-and-Electric-Outlet Man
http://www.youtube....watch?v=X6DrQ2WHfMI
[21 Quest, May 05 2009]
Like this?
http://www.youtube....watch?v=TOME01_pEy0
[21 Quest, May 05 2009]
On a Dare
http://www.youtube....watch?v=OJILHbl7368
[21 Quest, May 05 2009]
This one wussed out
http://www.youtube....watch?v=lLyiLybIaIc
[21 Quest, May 05 2009]
Wii_20Reckless_20Danger
[hippo, May 06 2009]
Pen in electrical appliance
http://www.youtube....watch?v=-pSw3xMIIVU
Reminds me of that chalk cartoon, La Linea. [shudderprose, May 06 2009]
Uncyclopedia: Why Stick Things in the Electrical Outlet
http://uncyclopedia...e_Electrical_Outlet
"Yearning to find out what electricity tastes like?" [jutta, May 06 2009]
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Sold with a six pack of electrolytes. |
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Forks can't be so easily forced into UK sockets, which is just as well as it would be 5 times as deadly than the pansy US variant (the electrocution power is proportional to the voltage squared). |
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Then use a screwdriver. Get a 4-in-1 with a metal handle for different variations and for easily fitting into different types of outlets. I'm pretty sure this idea has been baked to a certain extent using electrified fences, but this sounds more fun, more portable, and more easily monitored. [+] |
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It's interesting that after an extensive online search I only found one video of someone actually sticking a metal object into an electrical outlet, and you can't tell for sure if he's faking it or not because it only shows the guy from the shoulders up. I don't think anyone would actually have the balls to try this, dude. But I'll cheer ya along if you want to give it a go... |
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"...testing their manhood against the fork in plug."
Yeouch! |
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<pedant>You can't (easily) stick a fork in a plug - you might be able to stick one in a socket, however</pedant>
I would prefer "Wii Forker", the hit new game from Nintendo in which, holding your Wii controller like a fork, you attempt to stick it into various virtual things: an electrical socket, a cake, Paris Hilton, etc. (see link) |
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Are there enough idea for an Education: Game: Self-Torture section now? |
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This isn't that far fetched. A fair number of children's games on the market consist in competitively torturing yourself or your co-players with (painful, but non-dangerous unless you have epilepsy or a pacemaker) electricity. They are inevitably sold with slogans that equate pain endurance or pain seeking with manliness. |
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Two stories from my youth:
i) "I wonder what would happen if i sucked the end of this radio lead while it was plugged in and turned on..."
ii) "This huge electric heater with the grating bent off contains some interesting gubbins. Hmm. Those two bits of metal look like electrodes. I wonder if there's a current going through them..."
I'm not sure what happened immediately after the dots, but i do remember landing after the second one. |
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I know someone who, as a child, touched a red-hot car cigarette lighter against his tongue to see if it was hot... |
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//I know someone who, as a child, touched a red-hot car cigarette lighter against his tongue to see if it was hot...// |
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Hmm...you actually know two people that did that. Or know one and know *of* one. |
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+ when I lived in my first apartment at age 19, I stuck a butter knife on a broken screw in the outlet!! I saw stars and I'm woman enough! |
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My loving dad once tricked me into touching a spark plug on a go-
cart engine when I was about 5 or 6. He said "son, hold your finger
on this for me while I try to get it started." I said "No way, what do
you take me for?" Then he said "I'm your father, you can trust
me...." |
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//"Yearning to find out what electricity tastes like?"// |
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It's blue, fizzy and flashy with undertones of burnt hair. |
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I know a group of guys who spend a lot of the time in the
workshop daring each other to put a metal ruler across the
terminals of a car battery. Its pathetic, really... |
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... but its an unspoken law of learning electronics that given a new component it should be tested with car battery or mains voltages to see what it looks like on the inside and how it degrades. Some glow, some explode, some just issue a jet of brown toxic gas. And come on, don't tell me you haven't created a pencil lead arc light with a car battery ? |
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/This isn't that far fetched./ |
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Perhaps there could be a big Bakelite dial on the front with various flags, to simulate the plugs in those various countries. Alternatively the plugs could just be there on the front of the game, and you bring you own fork or what have you. |
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<maybe aside>It maybe a subtle interpretation whether this idea is for a 'safe' game product, or just an idea for a game.</ma> |
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Eek. [jutta], sometimes modern culture is even crueler than can easily imagine. |
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