You know its good satire when you gotta think for a minute about whether this was serious or not.
Well if it was real they would have realized the mistake the moment they plugged it in. Since it’s plugged in for the picture, we know they are doing satire
Honestly, if it was plastic & around the block instead of the outlet, then that’ll be a pretty good idea. Plus, we have 3-D printers, so it should be easy
Shocking if true
goddammit heres an upvote
Oh hey it’s a felony tube.
Seems more like a fash light shape
While it will make a flash of light, it can only do it once.
What if a flash light was all at once?
I don’t get it
pipe bomb
“Harry I’ve found the source of ticking sound”
Toothbrush
Hand warmer.
Notice how this pic was taken with flash
The perfect dorm-warming gift:
My friend worked in a hardware store for a couple years and he said that around Christmas time you get about a dozen people asking for these.
My wife was stringing up lights on the garage wreath and had one strand turned around and wanted me to make one of these to “fix” it so it could plug in. It took a second to explain to her the other end was just going to be an exposed line voltage plug.
There’s a type of power cord
You’ll touch the end and see the Lord
And you wouldn’t want that current going through ya
While male on male is usually great
You’ll find yourself in a sorry state
You’ll learn volts jolt but milliamps will kill you
hallelujah etc
You’ll learn volts jolt but milliamps will kill you
The whole volts safe amps kill thing is so stupid though, you can’t have any serious amps without serious volts, unless you have near-zero resistance, which a human body does not.
In fairness the sort of person who needs a song to remind them why male-male mains leads are an idiotic idea probably isn’t going to appreciate Ohm’s Law in any sensible capacity.
I find it similar to “the fall doesn’t hurt, it’s the sudden stop at the end”.
But it’s not entirely accurate, because we can be exposed to thousands of volts. For instant, most ESD are between 2k and 10k volts. Van de Graaff generators can generate up to 1,000,000 volts, yet they are regularly used in school classrooms.
Made one of these on accident.
Threw one end of the cord out in the yard and put a new male plug on the other end. Went to plug my saw in and found a male end. Silly me! So I swapped the cord around the threw the other end in the yard. Went to plug my saw in and found a male end. Stood there a minute trying to figure out what the hell was going on.
I’m sure Freud would have something to say about that “mistake”.
OK, that got a literal LOL over here. And that fact I tried to make it work twice!
I did this with sausages on plates once. I’d laid out 2 for me, 2 for my wife. She said she only wanted one, I swapped one of hers for one of mine, but I couldn’t work out why there were still two on each plate. I tried again, same result. Had to take a pause for a sec and and work out what exactly was going wrong 😂
I just recently did the same with a set of patio lights. Was shortening a set of lights which hang over my porch. Measured out the length I needed, cut the cord, attached a new female end. Went to plug the other end in… also female!
Female-female is OK. It’s male-male that’s hot. Know what I mean? Nudge, nudge, wink, wink.
Hillbilly generator hookup. Backfeed hazard.
You see, if the device from the meme was ever plugged in, it’d blow the breaker immediately. This male to male cord, if plugged into two outlets would do nothing.
That’s not always true. If the two outlets are on the same electrical phase, you may be okay. If they are on different phases, it would be dangerous.
Also after plugging one side in, the other side is a fun little cattle prod.
Define fun
Fun for your nipples.
Know anyone withholding information?
you can just cut a normal power cord and have that.
If I’m not mistaken plugging this in to the same outlet won’t do anything. And as far as back feed problems couldn’t you just shut off the the main breaker, i.e. where the power comes into the house?
People usually want them so they can run Christmas lights the wrong way, either because theyve already strung them up backwards or they’re too dumb to figure out a better solution, but the end result if one end is left unplugged is an enormous amount of power just running loose at the exposed end. Even if you just wanted to plug it into the same outlet as a joke, if you plugged one end and touched the prongs on the other end while in the process of plugging the other side in, you’re pretty fucked.
It will either instantly trip the breaker or do absolutely nothing, depending on how it’s wired internally.
The real danger comes from when only one end is plugged in, though. With only one end plugged in, the other end becomes a 120V cattle prod.
They’re illegal and it’s only safe IF the home owner remembers to turn off Mains.
There are legal ones for generators (especially small scale solar stuff) that turn off automatically when they detect no main power on the line, so grid workers can’t get zapped. They are pretty common around here.
Those are called Interconnects, use “Inlets” to hook them up and are not illegal. The suicide cable with two male ends can electrocute the owner and the line workers.
I have to know whether this is a joke or not
It is a joke
Thank you, I’m choosing to believe you for my sanity
The left picture would’ve burned down the house otherwise
Hahaha not funny
Every time I see US sockets, I get the heebie jeebies. Or any non-recessed socket really, but at least most add insulation to the base of the prongs. No such luck here.
Meh, that’s only going to “coulda killed you”. The one piece metal wire will create a dead short across the circuit and trip it out instantly. He IS going to need new underwear and possibly pants also. He’ll have some scorched fingers with maybe a bit of temporary tingling in them after pissing off the angry pixies. But as far as death goes, god would need to be looking down directly at him and go “Fuck this guy, right now”. Not impossible, but it would require an exceptional amount of bad luck.
US outlets are safe. Not only does this out show a bit of recess at the surface, but the metal contacts that are carrying the current are also recessed inside about 1/8"/3mm where you can’t see them.
I dropped a penny into the gap between the plug and the socket when I was a toddler. The sparks were FANTASTIC, and long lasting, like a sparkler shooting up the wall.
My dad tried to remove the penny with his metal pliers, my mom stopped him before he killed himself. She yanked the cord and it stopped.
We saved the penny for awhile, might still be somewhere. It burned two trenches in the penny, it almost made it all the way through.
Lessons were learned.
What are you comparing this to? Same in Japan.
Probably European Schuko and British outlets, they are WAY better.
I think schuko is much more likely the British ones are not recessed
Yeah, I forgot, thanks for the correction.
Same in Switzerland, the non-recessed ones mustn’t be installed anymore. But just in case devices are plugged into flat ones you also get isolation on the non-earth pins on the new cables
Failed fleshlight experiment #13
The DIY Hot Dog Fleshlight.
At least this actually turns all those electricity into heat, it’s basically just an electronic kettle without the case
Just be careful when you grip the handle
Don’t stick your dick in that….
Don’t yuck someone else’s yum
That’s what they want you to believe.
It’d be alright if made from plastic.
And yes, I’ve chosen to disregard that something between the connector and the socket theoretically makes it more unsafe; US sockets are an awful design to begin with, so it doesn’t make much of a difference.
What if it was plastic and on top of the charger block?
Then it just wouldn’t be very secure. What would be holding it in place?
Love for its existence and purpose 💖 or maybe gorilla glue
I mean at that point why not just put the whole loop of cable over the charger block?
Might slide off/away. The holder has a “catch” yk
I was hoping for an unusual cause of demise on that plaque. Sometimes old gravestones list a cause of death with wry humor.
I imagine there could be a lot of gravestones that just read “engineering”
Boy are they gonna be shocked when he doesn’t make it.
That household is a hotspot of geniuses.
They have a bright future ahead of them.
What a genius! Has he sent his CV to Elon Musk already?
A sparkling future indeed.
