Shock?

posted by [identity profile] darkforge.livejournal.com at 02:36pm on 05/05/2008
I presume you're talking about static electricity here? The best thing IME is to find a way to contact the probable object with a non-sensitive part of your body, e.g. a fingernail.

Also, I presume the problem is really Mac's mostly-synthetic-fiber clothing rubbing up against the plastic. Washing the clothing with a static sheet may help.

Blacking out for a second or two seems quite strong/bad.
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posted by [identity profile] orichalcum.livejournal.com at 02:45pm on 05/05/2008
The static sheet idea is a good one, and yeah, that seems likely to be the problem. But yeah - these are pretty big shocks - and I can't imagine they're good for Mac either.
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posted by [identity profile] orichalcum.livejournal.com at 03:51pm on 05/05/2008
Alternatively, Chicago is currently the locus of a sadistic playground experiment designed to promote child abandonment.

Hey, I only realized last month that not everyone was being massively encouraged to put their fingerprints into an electronic database so they could pay for groceries. That was only here in Chicago - until the company went bankrupt, leaving the question of what happened to all the fingerprint/bank account data up in the air. (Not that I subscribed; it unnerved me a bit.)
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posted by [identity profile] feir-fireb.livejournal.com at 05:13pm on 05/05/2008
It's true. When I was a kid, playground equipment all over the Chicago area was metal and wood, neither of which had these problems with static. Then, ostensibly in the name of "safety", they replaced them all with plastic, which is also far less awesome fun. So not only is it an experiment rooted in sadism but the sadism itself is multi-layered in its nefariousness.
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posted by [identity profile] orichalcum.livejournal.com at 05:39pm on 05/05/2008
To be fair, I remember mild burns from hot metal slides in summer. I take it you get shocked too?
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posted by [identity profile] cerridwynn.livejournal.com at 06:56pm on 05/05/2008
And i once slid down a wooden slide on my stomach while wearing sandals, and got a giant wooden splinter wedged deep under the nail on my big toe.

I was very young but it was memorably painful. I don't really object to the switch to plastic.
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