Can I Earth Myself

Lando Griffin

How on earth can I earth myself.
Its shocking the amount of static electricity Im giving off.
Everytime I get out of the car Snap.
Im not even safe in my Hohm.
Everytime I touch the TV Snap.
Im sick of it, absolulty sick of it.

cynder

Im the same shopping trolleys and cars are very bad and i even get zapped when i touch people.


http://www.electrostatics.net/articles/static_shocks.htm

IvyTheTerrible

Lando Griffin wrote: »

How on earth can I earth myself.
Its shocking the amount of static electricity Im giving off.
Everytime I get out of the car Snap.
Im not even safe in my Hohm.
Everytime I touch the TV Snap.
Im sick of it, absolulty sick of it.

Wear different shoes. I think it's if you have plastic/rubber soles on your shoes you get more shocks.

Sanjuro

There's an easy way of fixing this. First of all, half-fill a bath with water. Then, take a toaster, plug it into the wall, and take it into the bathroom with you. Take off your shoes and socks, roll up your trouser cuffs, and step into the water. Pick up the toaster. Push down the plunger... make sure there's no bread in the toaster. You're not making toast. Drop toaster into water. Voila! After a quick shock, your problem will be no more! In fact, all your problems will be no more!





Just in case you decide to try this, don't.

Danbo!

I think you need to ask yourself watt you are doing differently to others. I would just try to deal with it unless it really hertz.

Menengroth™

Stee wrote: »

I think you need to ask yourself watt you are doing differently to others. I would just try to deal with it unless it really hertz.

get your coat.

Hank_Jones

For a start, I'd advise you to step away from the computer.

I'd say to wear clothes that don't cause much friction.
Like none at all.

Fratton Fred

Stop wearing nylon jocks.

biko

Carry a metal waistband that touches the ground.

stovelid

My office is brutal for it.

I think it's that industrial-type carpet that is the culprit.

Banned Account

I never have a problem with static - I think that this may be due to the fact that my mickey drags on the ground, thus allowing the charge to run directly to earth.



No, I don not have short legs

WindSock

It's been happening to me a lot lately getting out if my car. I now touch anything metal first with the back of my hand to get it out of the way.

Standard Toaster

I see what you did there........

Clover

IvyTheTerrible wrote: »

Wear different shoes.

+1 to that.

I was having the same trouble a few years ago and it was down to the shoes that I was wearing.

mathie

IvyTheTerrible wrote: »

Wear different shoes. I think it's if you have plastic/rubber soles on your shoes you get more shocks.

I'd rather be frazzled by a lightning bolt than wear crocs.

NothingMan

Ohm my god, that can really impede your life.

Bolag_the_2nd

WindSock wrote: »

It's been happening to me a lot lately getting out if my car. I now touch anything metal first with the back of my hand to get it out of the way.

ive been zapping people all over the place, really annoying, so yeah i too just get it out of the way :mad:

junior_apollo

I call it the "light show" when i take off a soccer top...

Turn off all the lights in your room... take on and off the top really quickly 3/4 times... then slowly remove it... and watch the light show!... :P

positron

Wear an anklet and hang another chain from it so that it touches the ground all times.

cynder

Static electricity in Petrol Stations



With the generalisation of self-service facilities in petrol stations people should be warned about the outbreak of fires resulting from static electricity while they are pouring in petrol.

150 cases of this type of fire have been investigated and the results were very surprising.

1- Of the 150 cases, more happened to women than men, due to their habit of getting in and out of the vehicle while the petrol is being poured in.

2- In the majority of cases the people had re-entered their cars when the hose was still pouring petrol out (the danger of the triggers on the nosepieces). When they finished refuelling and got out to remove the hose pistol the fire began, as a result of the static electricity.

3- The majority of those affected used rubber-soled footwear and clothes of synthetic fibres.



Read more: http://www.bukisa.com/articles/64298_beware-of-static-electricity-during-filling-gas#ixzz0quOuo2TW



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYFrXY5izYk

watch the you tube video of a woman starting a fire in the petrol tank of her car from her static electricity

Raiser

You need to start wearing a heel anti-static strap such as the one in this pic

- It permanently channels your electro-tasticness directly from your supercharged frame directly into the ground.......

Have ye ever gotten a bad static shock from kissing someone? Not nice and must be hilarious for anyone watching as one Person jumps back in horror on kissing!!!

Bolag_the_2nd

grindelwald wrote: »

Static electricity in Petrol Stations



With the generalisation of self-service facilities in petrol stations people should be warned about the outbreak of fires resulting from static electricity while they are pouring in petrol.

150 cases of this type of fire have been investigated and the results were very surprising.

1- Of the 150 cases, more happened to women than men, due to their habit of getting in and out of the vehicle while the petrol is being poured in.

2- In the majority of cases the people had re-entered their cars when the hose was still pouring petrol out (the danger of the triggers on the nosepieces). When they finished refuelling and got out to remove the hose pistol the fire began, as a result of the static electricity.

3- The majority of those affected used rubber-soled footwear and clothes of synthetic fibres.



Read more: http://www.bukisa.com/articles/64298_beware-of-static-electricity-during-filling-gas#ixzz0quOuo2TW



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYFrXY5izYk

watch the you tube video of a woman starting a fire in the petrol tank of her car from her static electricity

:eek::eek::eek: OMG.

CreepingDeath

If it's just happening in the car, you can get one of those anti-static rubber strips with a metal strip that earths the car as it drags along the ground.

Anti-static car strap

Lando Griffin

Stee wrote: »

I think you need to ask yourself watt you are doing differently to others. I would just try to deal with it unless it really hertz.

I dont want to pylon the pressurse too much you see.

CrazyRabbit

Stop masturbating 10 times a day. It's obviously generating a large build-up of static electricity.

dr.bollocko

Lando Griffin wrote: »

How on earth can I earth myself.
Its shocking the amount of static electricity Im giving off.
Everytime I get out of the car Snap.
Im not even safe in my Hohm.
Everytime I touch the TV Snap.
Im sick of it, absolulty sick of it.

Those lady gaga lyrics don't rhyme yo.

phill106

Lando Griffin wrote: »

How on earth can I earth myself.
Its shocking the amount of static electricity Im giving off.
Everytime I get out of the car Snap.
Im not even safe in my Hohm.
Everytime I touch the TV Snap.
Im sick of it, absolulty sick of it.

Electrical humour?

Skinfull

I get shocks off my car, my WOODEN desk at work, my chair (plastic rim), other people, the canteen tray, my PC mouse, my phone and pretty much everything else in life that I touch. I have an antistatic wrist strap and it has reduced the frequency some what but I'm still shocked all the time :mad:

But...meh. What ya gonna do.

jessiejam

I find its worse when the sun shines
Petrol cap
door of the car
seat in canteen in work
to name but a few!

Kissed my baby son last night going to bed and zapped him with my mouth. The look of horror on his face he thought I was trying to kill him.
When grocery shopping i have to hit the tins of beans with the back of my hand first before i pick them up, as for the trolley!
Other shoppers think i have OCD/Germ phobia!, as sometimes i pull the sleeve of my top down to cover my hands so I don't get a shock.

Raiser

I had a pair of Converse runners I really liked - Had to stop wearing them though cause whatever way they manufactured the rubber soles in those shoes I swear to fcuk I was a walking Van De Graaff Generator.........

Gilligan.Mark

The electrical humour here is shockingly bad.

A cheap solution would be to get a paper clip, straighten it out, pierce your shoe and bend the clip into the underlay of the shoe and also on the sole, so it's flat on the ground.

dont pierce your shoe with your foot in it at the time though

zerohamster

I was living over in Milan for a few months 2 years ago and for some reason when ever I went there I would get shocked by everything, it wasnt my clothes or shoes as I would wear the same in Ireland but still it happened for the 5-6 times I went over.

as silly as it sounds I started to wonder did the geographical location of a person somehow have a charge associated with it or something.
I never found out the cause :S

Gilligan.Mark

zerohamster wrote: »

I was living over in Milan for a few months 2 years ago and for some reason when ever I went there I would get shocked by everything, it wasnt my clothes or shoes as I would wear the same in Ireland but still it happened for the 5-6 times I went over.

as silly as it sounds I started to wonder did the geographical location of a person somehow have a charge associated with it or something.
I never found out the cause :S

I'd say it prob to do with the humidity, Milan would be hotter and have dryer air then Ireland, so the build up would be more. just a guess

nibtrix

Gilligan.Mark wrote: »

I'd say it prob to do with the humidity, Milan would be hotter and have dryer air then Ireland, so the build up would be more. just a guess

This. I spent a winter in Canada and it was so dry that I was getting shocks from everything I touched.

zerohamster

Gilligan.Mark wrote: »

I'd say it prob to do with the humidity, Milan would be hotter and have dryer air then Ireland, so the build up would be more. just a guess

That could be it. although the funny thing was that I was the only one that it was happening to, thats what made me wonder.
but odd all the same

Pace2008

Fitzcaraldo wrote: »

I never have a problem with static - I think that this may be due to the fact that my mickey drags on the ground, thus allowing the charge to run directly to earth.



No, I don not have short legs

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