This just cracked me up!!

[mdbucks]

Don't tell her, but 25 years from now when you grandaughter says strawberry milk comes from pink cows, dont say thats just silly, because her reply is gonna be "Well mommy said you taught her that!"

 

[Royicus]

Just to play on the other side of the fence...

A lot of people simply aren't educated about stuff like this. They never taught me in school. Everything I know about chickens I learned from silkiechicken. I didn't know hens went broody, that different chickens laid different colored eggs, or how hens were kept in commercial farms. I certainly didn't know that chickens had personality!

Someone could say the same thing about almost everything, especially when they aren't familiar with it. For example, when you get shocked by static electricity, that can be over 15,000V! But why don't you die? Well, it is because it is low amperage. If you grab a wire in your house that is only a "measly" 120V, you can get seriously shocked, or even killed. To me, common knowledge, to most, it isn't. There is also a difference between DC and AC, with DC being safer than AC.

It is funny to hear people say these things, but, educate instead, else we would all still be ignorant! I do know, however, that it isn't always practical to educate. I hear a lot of misinformation in the firearms world.

I will admit that these stories are funny, but that was me 26 months ago...

 

[mdbucks]

on the electricity subject (you at home can play along) you can stick a wire in one side of a socket and nothing, now stick the same wire in the other side again nothing. now stick a wire in bothe sides Zap quick lesson in electrcity, Do this ONCE and you will never forget

Just trying to educate those that want to learn.


NOW THATS FUNNY

 

[Gracefulspice]

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I have to agree with you wife.....but I have to admit if I was there I would've

 

[Royicus]

I don't recommend any of that. On plug is neutral, one is hot, and the third at the bottom (the round looking one) is ground. Connecting yourself from the hot plug to ground is not safe.

 

[mdbucks]

sorry I forgot about the third whole(ground) , should I fix first post so no one has to go without learning, hate to hear of someone touching two wires and not learning properly

 

[Royicus]

Well, connecting yourself from hot to neutral or hot to ground isn't safe, and perhaps to a certain extent neutral to ground. The resistance of the wires can cause voltage to accumulate away from the transformer...

Just in general, don't go sticking things into the wall socket

Electricity can do really nasty things to you. But, it isn't that predictable, which is why the electric chair was so bad... Who came up with that idea?




Ok, I think I'm taking this thread off topic. *runs away*

shameless edit: By just sticking a wire into the hot plug, you have some resistance to ground by just standing on your feet. I believe it is commonly assumed to be about 10K ohms. The fact of the matter is, it really is unpredictable to a certain degree, so be safe and keep all metal objects out of the plugs unless you know what you are doing

For the record, I'm an electrical engineer, and I won't do the wiring in my house. I'll leave that to an electrician

Unless of course it is really basic. Electricity scares me.

 

[Southern28Chick]

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My BIL and his wife wanted to argue with me about that very same thing. I didn't argue I just told them to look it up. I did say the same you said but they just don't get it. They have 4 kids and I'm not even sure they know how babies are made.

 

[Mac in Wisco]

There was this fellow at my house today. My son says "Want to see our new birds?" and shows him the chicks in the brooder. My son tells him we also have some full grown chickens in the backyard. This fellow looks in the brooder and says "Are they chickens or are they birds?". My son tells him "Chickens are birds".

My wife then starts talking about eggs. He wants to know if we eat the eggs. "Of course we do..." He wants to know what they're like. I give him this puzzled look and tell him they're just like the eggs you buy in the store, they're chicken eggs. He says "Well what do you have to do to them? Don't you have to heat them or burn them or something before you can use them?" I tell him again they are just regular eggs, we take them straight from the coop and crack them straight into the frying pan. He tells me he figured there was some sort of special process the eggs were put through to keep them from hatching into chicks and turned them into the eggs you buy from the store.

I shook my head and told him no and then changed the subject...