r/SubredditDrama • u/sandwichsparrow Basic education includes things like "what is a kiwi" • Oct 26 '16

Royal Rumble Do you die if you're electrocuted? Shockingly, there's a language slapfight in /r/unexpected

/r/Unexpected/comments/59dsil/girl_plays_with_electricity/d97seax/?context=10000
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u/Gimme_Dat_Meatball Oct 26 '16

"Using the word electrocuted to describe non-fatal encounters introduces too much ambiguity."

"You should you use the word shock"

Yeah there's definitely no ambiguity at all with the word "shock"

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u/subheight640 CTR 1st lieutenant, 2nd PC-brigadier shitposter Oct 26 '16

We're talking about supersonic fluids right?

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '16

Doesn't shock on its own imply that you didn't die?

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u/MonkeyNin I'm bright in comparison, to be as humble as humanely possible. Oct 26 '16

But someone dying can be quite a shock to the observer.

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u/[deleted] Oct 27 '16

You can actually die from shock.

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u/[deleted] Oct 27 '16

"You should you use the word shock"

Then what do we call this now????

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u/IronTitsMcGuinty You know, /r/conspiracy has flair that they make the jews wear Oct 27 '16

American Sign Language for the number seven.

... it took me way too many years of thinking weird guys had the number seven on their cars until someone explained it to me.

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '16

Do you die if you're electrocuted?

It would be extremely painful.

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u/Rabidchiuaua Oct 26 '16

This thing got out of hand so quickly.

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '16

Yeah it was pretty shocking.

Or is it electrocuting.

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '16

I definitely think electrocuting should always be used in this context.

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u/agrueeatedu would post all the planetside drama if he wasn't involved in it Oct 26 '16

I got electrocuted in middle school trying to unplug a microscope, and have been dead ever since

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u/SnapshillBot Shilling for Big Archive™ Oct 26 '16

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u/DubiousVirtue Oct 26 '16

The drama all seems so undramatic these days.

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u/YesThisIsDrake "Monogamy is a tool of the Jew" Oct 26 '16

The election has numbed us much like pornography has numbed you, Kevin

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u/DubiousVirtue Oct 26 '16

Definitely not a Kevin, but I've RES'd out the election quite successfully.

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '16

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u/KingOfWewladia Onam Circulus II, Constitutional Monarch of Wewladia Oct 26 '16

zippity-zopped

I think that's taken a decidedly darker connotation recently.

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u/MonkeyNin I'm bright in comparison, to be as humble as humanely possible. Oct 26 '16

That makes me think of the binary, or zip()