#21

sometimes overreact to them before I realise it is just a static shock

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#22

yeah i hate things that make me jump and way overreact to them, think it’s even worse when i know they’re gonna happen. shouldn’t really reveal this to the banter lads on here but things make me jump really easily. a pigeon flew up in front of me the other day and i threw coffee all over myself.

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#23

Literally just had my first one for a very, very long time whilst entering our sixth floor meeting room.

#24

how long would you estimate? ballpark is fine.

#25

The last one I can remember was whilst in the tv studio at the university course I dropped out of so that would have been late April of 2006 at the absolute latest.

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#26

since the weather turned (don’t know if this is related, but I’m guessing drier air?) I’ve had double figures every day. WAT

#27

At least three or four a week. Six yesterday, not sure why, perhaps the weather?

#28

Purposefully got one at the science museum the other day but only to show my godson’s that you could send the current through people so the 3 of us held hands and they found a mild electric shock hilarious.

Edit: this heartwarming story has nothing to do with static shocks.

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#29

every single time I touched my rental car I got a shock

don’t really get them back home. no idea why.

#30

my pal put his dick on an electric fence when we were about 15

yeah my “pal” etc

#31

He sounds fun!

#32

You should have developed the hand slam method.

#33

Same.

I can’t be around prosecco/champagne being opened and get that fucking balloon away from my face kiddo

#34

i had a colleague like this! i was being a bit of a twat and tried to throw a plastic bottle across the office into the bin and it ricocheted off and he near dived under his desk

was pure miserable on fireworks night as well

#35

i get them from the taps at work - but only if I’m wearing particular shoes

we used top get them loads from the metal door handles on my mum’s ford cortina - then she got one of those rubber sticks that earths the car an I stopped being scared to get in the car

#36

You prat. I’d have lamped you one.

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#37

i didn’t know! that was how i found out, obviously didn’t do it after that

#39

always need to be leaning on something, can’t stand just standing

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#40

At my old uni library the silent study section was up the top of the library, up three flights of stairs, the last of which was a sort of floating staircase with a high drop on either side. Being scared of heights I found walking across it pretty hard going and to make it worse I would get shocks from the metal banister every time I clung on to it for dear life. So that’s being terrified of heights whilst simultaneously being electrocuted!! Ughhhh

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#41

I very rarely get them.

The woman I work with gets them constantly - if she doesn’t earth herself first she seems to get one literally every time she touches a door handle or picks up a set of keys.