So, it looks like my child-rearing philosophy was correct...

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Thing is, between the ages of 8 and 45, I've had some several dozen shocks from the mains power we tend to have around here, which is around 220 V at 10 or sometimes 16 Amps maximum. And lived to tell the tale. I realise that others are more sensitive. I certainly wish to protect my kids from accidental electric shocks. I'm just not convinced that spanking them is the only way to go. Or even that it is a way to go. Or to make them pay attention. Not to mention that minor little point about teaching compassion. But never mind.

Obviously, you are from Krypton and physics doesn't apply to you.

And that shocks are not always fatal, but all shocks at that current and voltage have a very high likelihood of being dangerous or even fatal.  So you should OBVIOUSLY EXPOSE YOUR KID TO THEM.

UNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNG!

Get off my fucking planet.

[Dildo Argentino]

and they don't seem to be overly traumatized by my primitive and tyrannical methods.

Well okay, but they may just be being kind to their dear old da.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

So what has the spank thread taught us?

Electricity isn't actually dangerous, because it being dangerous doesn't fit Holist's worldview, and that physics has no power in the face of linguists, and that these guys:

http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~p616/safety/fatal_current.html

Should all quit, due to gross incompetence.

[Dildo Argentino]

Yes, it's called a ground fault interrupt, and it has a very good chance of saving your life in such a case.  Now all you have to do is MAKE SURE THAT EVERY OUTLET THE KID GOES NEAR FOR THE FIRST COUPLE OF YEARS HAS A GFCI ATTACHED TO IT.

Which is a brilliant and infallible strategy for which I commend you.

Well, technology does seem to have advanced. I only had to fit one of these boxes to the main cicruitboard of the house and, as if by magic, it works on all the outlets in the house! Ha?

[The Good Reverend Roger]

and they don't seem to be overly traumatized by my primitive and tyrannical methods.

Well okay, but they may just be being kind to their dear old da.

They are my genetic offspring.  How kind do you think they are?

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Yes, it's called a ground fault interrupt, and it has a very good chance of saving your life in such a case.  Now all you have to do is MAKE SURE THAT EVERY OUTLET THE KID GOES NEAR FOR THE FIRST COUPLE OF YEARS HAS A GFCI ATTACHED TO IT.

Which is a brilliant and infallible strategy for which I commend you.

Well, technology does seem to have advanced. I only had to fit one of these boxes to the main cicruitboard of the house and, as if by magic, it works on all the outlets in the house! Ha?

This post is utterly perfect.  I do not wish to break its crystalline purity with a factual response.

[Dildo Argentino]

So what has the spank thread taught us?

Electricity isn't actually dangerous, because it being dangerous doesn't fit Holist's worldview, and that physics has no power in the face of linguists, and that these guys:

http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~p616/safety/fatal_current.html

Should all quit, due to gross incompetence.

Sorry, but that's not what it taught me! It just confirmed my long-standing belief that you are a lying, shameless, manipulative bastard.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

So what has the spank thread taught us?

Electricity isn't actually dangerous, because it being dangerous doesn't fit Holist's worldview, and that physics has no power in the face of linguists, and that these guys:

http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~p616/safety/fatal_current.html

Should all quit, due to gross incompetence.

Sorry, but that's not what it taught me! It just confirmed my long-standing belief that you are a lying, shameless, manipulative bastard.

Yes, I am totally lying about electricity.  Go lick the socket.  It's TASTY, and I am ashamed that I was trying to hog up all the delicious electricity for myself.

[Dildo Argentino]

http://lee65.hubpages.com/hub/Electric-Shock-Protection

Those things. They works.

Also on Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residual-current_device

[The Good Reverend Roger]

http://lee65.hubpages.com/hub/Electric-Shock-Protection

Those things. They works.

Also on Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residual-current_device

Yeah, pretty sure I mentioned GFCIs when you brought them up.

And all sockets have them everywhere you go.  EVERYWHERE.

Now go lick the socket.  Lick it.  It's tasty and nutritious.

[Dildo Argentino]

I am ashamed that I was trying to hog up all the delicious electricity for myself.

And ashamed you should be, because that was very incorrect of you.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

So we have learned here that a GFCI, the last line of defense, now makes it perfectly reasonable to allow children to play with power outlets.  Because everyone everywhere has them, and they are completely infallible.

This thread makes me squee in my pants a little bit.  No, a lot.

Now, how to make it safe for children to run out from between parked cars?  Perhaps if we made them a large padded suit, perhaps pressurized?

[Dildo Argentino]

Not in the least, you terrible man.

It is certainly the case that we need to stop children from doing certain things, even before it is truly possible to reason with them. Question is, is spanking the only way, or the best way to do this. I don't think it is. A combination of adequate attention, preventive measures and luck is better. No amount of spanking, by the way, will eliminate the requirement for luck. It may reduce it slightly, at a cost I am not willing to pay.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

So what has the spank thread taught us?

Electricity isn't actually dangerous, because it being dangerous doesn't fit Holist's worldview, and that physics has no power in the face of linguists, and that these guys:

http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~p616/safety/fatal_current.html

Should all quit, due to gross incompetence.

And don't forget!!!!!: It's hard to get a fork into an electric socket without bending the tines, ERGO (duhrgo?) the kids are safe, because it's only FORKS that they stick in things.

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

So what has the spank thread taught us?

Electricity isn't actually dangerous, because it being dangerous doesn't fit Holist's worldview, and that physics has no power in the face of linguists, and that these guys:

http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~p616/safety/fatal_current.html

Should all quit, due to gross incompetence.

And don't forget!!!!!: It's hard to get a fork into an electric socket without bending the tines, ERGO (duhrgo?) the kids are safe, because it's only FORKS that they stick in things.

Yeah, forget nails and hairpins and nail files and wire hanger bits and pieces of paper and part of a sandwich and folded foil and chicken wire and twisty-ties from bread loaves and garbage bags and those little tiny spoons that come with some salt cellar things . . . and forget taking the socket plugs out for doll furniture or robot houses or to put tines up on the bathroom floor beside the tub . . .