Electrickery
You can't see it, or smell it. But you can feel it when one end of two wires you are splicing is connected to the mains. The resulting involuntary backward jarring of the elbow into a wall was enough to fracture the elbow bone. And that is very not nice.
( Piper Alpha is being a grumpy northerm bastard on:, Fri 29 Nov 2013, 16:20, 3 replies)

Now imagine your elbow is your entire body, and the wall is about 3m behind you

...that's what a shock across the heart is like. I don't recommend it.

Takes ages to stop vibrating at 50Hz, too.
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Fri 29 Nov 2013, 17:12, closed)

I've been in love, too

( cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sat 30 Nov 2013, 14:18, closed)

Love? That bitch burned me up.

Fucking toaster*


Clarification: no, I wasn't fucking a toaster. Fucking around with it, perhaps. If I was fucking it, the shock would have been across my nads, not my heart. Although I have heard that electro-shocking ones genitals is quite popular in the shallower end of the gene pool.
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Mon 2 Dec 2013, 11:06, closed)