Licking Batteries

[snooze]

...what does it do? I need to know but I'm too chickenshit to find out for myself.

[Elski]

Kinda tingles and tastes metallicky.

I think. I'm pretty sure I've done this. Because I was that kind of kid.

[MichaelB]

I wouldn;t advise it. Not because it's all that dangerous, unless it's a car battery (but whose tongue is long enough tfit on a car bettery, anyway?), but because it's stupid.

[Elski]

^Yup. As said: I was that kind of kid. *grin*

I am made to feel slightly better about my childhood by the fact that my sister once poked a mouse-trap because she wanted to know what would happen.

[MichaelB]

*sporfle* nice. How old was she when she did that? And how much of her finger was left?

[mcnicks]

Licking a 9V battery will make your tongue feel like its been rotated through a hidden dimension. Its a bit like your tongue doing that thing Bruce Lee does with this muscles.

[Elski]

*sporfle* nice. How old was she when she did that? And how much of her finger was left?

She was... oh, goodness. Relatively young. Six or seven-ish? She retained all of her finger, but it very nicely drove home the point that 'you can do anything' means "don't let society's expectations hold you back" not "you can do anything you want to do, even if your elder sister warns you it's a stupid idea". :D

[MichaelB]

haha! I haven't actually seen mousetraps be used to trap mice for a long time. One of mum's boyfriends from years and years back (he's married now) used to trap mice with a roll of flypaper on the floor. I rememer stepping on a piece once and I had to throw my socks in the bin because that stuff was industrial strength *dramatic echo*. I should have figured out by then that he didn't plan on letting the mice go.

[Hippie]

Awww. :( That's sad.

[lethallylovely]

My brother swallowed a AA battery when we were little

[Tundra]

Heh I poked a mousetrap once. Ended up with a nice bruise. :P

Sorry, I don't know about the licking batteries thing.

[Einna]

Liked a battery. Most of the little ones (pen-torch style) won't do much, although a bigger one will give you a staticy feeling. Licking anything bigger than your hand is STRONGLY UNADVISABLE...my dad can attest to this.

[Elski]

^I sense a story there. 0.o

[AXJ]

I wholeheartedly endorse McNicks's description. :D I haven't done that since I was a kid (like him, with a 9V) but from what I can remember, that sounds about right.
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[mcnicks]

Did you hear about the two boys who broke into a newsagents and made off with batteries and fireworks?

The police caught them. They charged one and let the other off.

[Elski]

*groan*

[vindemiatrix]

McNicks, I swear I am going to take you out for a pint and make you tell me all the jokes you know. That was excellent. :D

Licking a 9V battery will make your tongue feel like its been rotated through a hidden dimension. Its a bit like your tongue doing that thing Bruce Lee does with this muscles.

I couldn't have described it better. It also makes you want very strongly to NOT DO THAT AGAIN.

[Shona]

I can't say I have ever thought of trying this. Ever. This thread only confirms my suspicions that if the thought ever entered my brain, I shouldn't entertain it.

[vindemiatrix]

Haven't you ever done things just to make absolutely SURE you don't want to do them?

[Gene]

Now I want to go and root around for a 9V battery. Maybe I'll take the one out of the cat-flap . . .

And Vindie, if you do ever take McNicks out for a pint, give me a buzz, could you? I want to be there.

[vindemiatrix]

You can get a pretty good buzz from licking a battery...

[Gene]

I meant a phone call >_>

If I wanted a buzz, I'd just kiss my neurotic classmate and wait for her to shock me with her tazer.

[Shona]

*sporflelaughchoke*

Vindie: No, I've seriously never thought about licking a battery. What on earth would be the point?

[vindemiatrix]

'Cause you don't know what it feels like. ^__^

[Elski]

To find out what happens! Does your inner child not have a sense of adventure? And a lack of self-preservation instinct?

[vindemiatrix]

*high-fives Elski*

[Elski]

*high-fives back* See, now somehow I never doubted that Vindie's inner child made up for what it in lacked self-preservation instinct with a strong sense of adventure. :) Something about the wanton love of destruction.

[Gene]

And she tries to deny she's an overly-destructive anarchist . . .

[Shona]

I just never *thought* of doing it. @_@


And I don't think I won't. *beats down inner child* :P

[Ariella]

I always was too scared to try! Man, I was a boring kid. My brother was so much better at being gleefully mischievous; there's a story he likes to tell, of the time he got a science kid as a wee lad. He took out one of the wires, stripped it, and, all very purposely, stuck it into an electric socket.

This made all of the lights in the house go out, but he had gained Scientific Knowledge +1. (Thankfully this was after my family'd moved out of Israel; the sockets there are of a higher voltage!)

[vindemiatrix]

And she tries to deny she's an overly-destructive anarchist . . .

No, I don't. I deny that I'm a violent anarchist. Violence against living beings is wrong. Violence against the artifices of State and Government? Awesome.

"We are going to inherit the earth . There is not the slightest doubt about that. The bourgeoisie may blast and burn its own world before it finally leaves the stage of history. We are not afraid of ruins. We who ploughed the prairies and built the cities can build again, only better next time. We carry a new world, here in our hearts. That world is growing this minute."
----Durruti

[vindemiatrix]

Funnily enough, Durruti also said this:

"No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges."

Which, considering he died in... *wikis* 1936, was very astute of him, I think.

One day, I want a Wikipedia entry that lists my occupation as Anarchist Revolutionary. If there is a heaven, Durruti is looking down at that entry and going "that is fucking BADASS. Hey, Franco, up yours!"

[Gene]

You could make it yourself, you know. I'm on Wikipedia somewhere, named in passing; I forget where. I'm not an anarchist person, because I prefer to use words; you're more likely to have me on the steps of the town hall belting out a furious and brilliantly eloquent speech towards the anarchists. In my head they always give up and go home; whether that'll work in reality, well . . . I'd like to try it out.

Problem with anarchy? It's entirely destructive. It's not creative in the slightest. It might be fun, but it leads nowhere.

[vindemiatrix]

" Problem with anarchy? It's entirely destructive. It's not creative in the slightest. It might be fun, but it leads nowhere."

You... um, know nothing about anarchy. Very obviously you know nothing. Sorry to put it so bluntly, but that was a great steaming hunk of pure ignorance right there.

This is why I don't argue my beliefs any more. People make assumptions and they do not allow those assumptions to be corrected. You've all been brainwashed so very well. *shrugs*

[vindemiatrix]

...and now I would also like to apologise for being a) incredibly rude and b) incredibly off-topic.

Yeah, anopther reason I don't talk about my beliefs is that I still tend to be unreasonably aggressive about them.

Sorry, Gene. :(

[Gene]

Don't worry about it. I was going through a few old posts in the archive and came across one where you said you didn't like stating your beliefs because everyone else attacked them out of ignorance. When I read that I though, '. . . Shit.'

To be fair, I'm not making blind assumptions. If all I have to by is what's written in the Times, then, well, I'll go by that. If the columnist in there dismisses anarchy as self-indulgence, I can't argue because I don't know anything else. Feel free to PM me and bring me up to speed about anarchy if you would like to reverse my brainwashing.

No hard feelings. :)

[vindemiatrix]

Self-indulgence?? That IS ignorant. Anarchy is born from a love of your fellow man and a desire to free him. One of the core tenets that I don't think any anarchist would disagree with is that you can only be free amongst other free men. Doesn't sound self-indulgent to me. >__< Stupid fucking columnists.

Gah. I may shoot you off a brief PM, just because you were so nice about accepting my apology.

[Gene]

You do realise that humans aren't designed to live in feedom, don't you? If we were truly free, we'd all be dead within a few years. Humans are designed to be subservient; it's in our biology. Otherwise, we'd never have come up with the idea of authority in the first place.

[vindemiatrix]

Humans weren't designed at all. Evolution is as close to a scientific fact as an unobservable phenomenom can be.

Of course, carry on believing that if you like. That's what authority would like you to believe. That is the great invention of the State; making people believe that they need it. Ditto religion, really.

[Gene]

Well, there I'm naturally against you. I believe in authority, I believe in God and divine design, and I believe that true freedom would be counter-productive to the point of ending civilization. But that's just me.

Glad we're cool.

Btw, have you played BioShock? I think you'd be interested in some of the philosophies raised in that.

[vindemiatrix]

Yep. Ayn Rand can suck it. I hate objectivism.

I knew God would be the part we disagree on. ^_^ Never mind.

[Gene]

BioShock fucking ruled. I loved it; that was a next-gen title. So-o much more than bloody Halo 3. It was interesting, well-scripted and the final showdown against Ryan stayed with me for days.

"A man chooses, a slave obeys. Kill!"

[vindemiatrix]

Oh, the game was INCREDIBLE. Did you do that thing after the initial cut scene ends where you don't actually realise that the cut scene has ended and you stand there looking at the water thinking it's frozen or something? Then HOLY SHIT THIS IS THE ACTUAL GAME! Blew my mind.

The setting was just incredible as well. It was so inventive and well-executed and atmospheric. I would honestly say that the game was a work of art in videogame form, and lent validity to videogames AS an art form.

But I find Ayn Rand's philosophies loathsome. ^_^

[Gene]

Franly, I don't know much about Ayn Rand. I didn't bother making the links between her and BioShock, I just enjoyed the game and the whole "Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow? 'No!' says the man in Washington, 'It belongs to the poor.' 'No!' says the man in the Vatican, 'It belongs to God.' 'No!' says the man in Moscow, 'It belongs to everyone.' I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something different." That actually made an impact on me in the same way Fight Club did: it really got me thinking. Who'd've though a videogame could do that?

[vindemiatrix]

The underlying philosophy that Ryan is speaking of is Objectivism, which was invented, pretty much, by Ayn Rand, who has no heart at all. Seriously. It's just a rock in there.

[Gene]

Odd, isn't it. I was almost swayed by Ryan in the game, but when I check out objectivism on Wikipedia I think it's a load of crap, because the entire point about life is that living things aren't objects, and if you try to view them as such you're going wildly off the rails.

There's also loads of abstract stuff that I really can't be bothered to trawl through. God, the Bible is so much clearer. This is this. That is that. This is correct, this isn't. There you go. I love it.

[Shona]

What this has to do with licking batteries I'll never know.

Did Ayn Rand lick batteries as a toddler?



(this is your cue to create a thread on anarchy and all that good stuff. :D)

[vindemiatrix]

Ayn Rand should have licked batteries and died. I will agree with Gene here: the Bible does make more sense. Mostly because Objectivism is a pile of crap.

[Shona]

...*snickers evilly* Who wants to use battery licking as a murder device now?

*raises hand*

[vindemiatrix]

I wonder could you trick someone into licking a car battery?

[Shona]

Only if they were really really STUPID.

*pause*

*thinks of the girls at school*

*cue evil grin*

[Gene]

If you told them it was a new design for a wedding cake, possibly . . .

[cat_lover_4113]

Ha. That would be funny to see :D

PS. Yes, I can be evil. I sometimes feel evil enough to stick a Sim in a room, make it light a fire, fill the room with boxes, and watch it go up.
/evil

I have licked a battery once. Got a tingly feeling. Don't want to do it again, because I get a feeling of hmm, should I shouldn't I, and end up standing there debating with myself for five minutes.

[Kcore]

lol I used to lick 9v batteries all the time when I was younger, there is something about it that makes it hard to resist, even to this day sometimes.

[MichaelB]

Woah, talk about threadmancy. More than a year old. Bit late to the party, Kcore!

[KeinesV]

Wow, this never even occurred to me as a kid, and now that I'm mostly an adult and hear about.. well I'm not interested in the slightest. Why lick a battery?

[Kcore]

Yeah, sorry, I was poking around and saw this thread, had to chime in on that.

I don't know KeinesV, it only really works with a 9 volt, your tongue has to touch both terminals, so it's easier on the 9v. There is something strangely fun about it lol. My uncle was struck by lightning twice, so maybe it's something in my genes.

[brisorad]

actually when I was little I used to take the unopened packages of hearing aid batteries off my granny's counter and put them in my mouth. Now that I think of it, it was really stupid, but at the time the tingly feeling in my mouth was about as far as my thought process went. eventually the battery managed it's way down my esophagus and off to the doc's office we went. long story short, thank god for the digestive process =D

Kcore brought this to my attention so i invited myself to your guys's party *I brought chicken!*

[futureactress2010]

Actually, I was thinking about this topic the other day. Imagine my suprise when I found this thread. I kinda want to, but at the same time everything I've been taught goes against that. My friends do, however, have an unusual attraction for sniffing pixie sticks.

Idiots.

[brisorad]

I used to hang round with a kid who sniffed crushed up mints >.< He got a bloody nose once doing it, i loled =D Cause that's what he gets! *laughs sadistically*

[Tundra]

... it does that?

[Jacqui]

I would strongly advise against snorting pixie sticks, or crystal light for that matter. The burning sensation is so not fun. Not that I would know first hand or anything...

I suppose I shouldn't admit to licking batteries either, eh?

[Dwiesel McAllister]

^Hey, new person!! Why don't you make an intro thread so we can find out more about you? :)

I had a friend in middle school that used to snort pixie sticks. The first time he did it, he came to me crying for a tissue. Then, once we got to college, he got busted for cocaine... :|

As for licking batteries, I've never done it, but at one of our family reunions, my juvenile delinquent cousin went around with a 9V battery trying to get everyone to lick it.

[Jacqui]

I was hoping to slide in unnoticed :p Since I've been found out, I will go make an introduction post as requested lol.

I may have not been very bright when I was younger, I've gotten better with age.

[brisorad]

well I wasn't TOO much of a friend, he just happened to hang around from time to time... I'm sure he was sniffing mints often... among other things. and yeah, he though it was funny.. jokes on him.