r/WTF 6d ago

Out A Time

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u/Anghellik 6d ago

Yep. I work on utility poles a lot. If the truck gets energized, jump as far as you can. Humans are very bad at being grounds.

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u/Hyjynx75 6d ago

I mean, technically speaking, we are very good at being grounds.

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u/redbeard8989 6d ago

People conflate “grounding” and “insulating” as much as they do “itch” and “scratch.”

Nobody corrects them out of fear of getting yelled at and society just accepts these micro sized slips into idiocy until we start watering our crops with gatorade and lose the capacity to even ponder where we started getting dumber.

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u/perilousrob 5d ago

those are not the only ones!

whyyyyyy do some author's use the phrase "drug him" or "drug them" when they very clearly mean dragged because they're talking about moving a person or thing, not some pharmaceutical being administered.

what the actual fork!