Talk about an electric personality! One Redditor — a self-described “hairy cub” — is tired of getting static shocks, and he’s desperately seeking solutions.
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“Question for northern bros,” he wrote recently in the r/askgaybros subreddit. “If there’s such a thing, how do you develop LESS static electricity?! Hairy cub here, I’m getting shocked every time I touch metal, and it’s driving me insane.”
“Doesn’t really happen in the south, where I live,” he added.
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Luckily, fellow Redditors had ideas.
- “Get a humidifier for your house. [It’s] always more common in very dry homes during the winter.”
- “Try not to ‘scuff’ your feet as you walk, rather pick up each food deliberately as you walk. Consider different soles shoes?”
- “If it’s mainly happening when you get out of your car, spray your seats with static guard. Can use on your clothes too.”
- “If I’m at the gym and have been walking on carpet, I have trained myself to touch a painted part of the door frame before touching a metal handle. Just to dissipate.”
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In an AccuWeather article on this very topic — well, minus the hairy cub part, sadly — experts vouch for some of these tips and offer other suggestions.
“[Raising] the humidity levels by deploying a humidifier can help mitigate prolonged buildup of static charges on our bodies,” Sai Sunil Mallineni, a research assistant at Clemson University’s Nanomaterials Center, told the site. “Another simple way [to prevent static shock] is to keep touching a metal object as often as possible to continuously ground built-up charges.”
Strangely, there’s no mention of doing the Electric Slide…
justgeo
Try pennies copper in your shoes! Shave!
Max
let’s play…i’m into electroshock kink…
BuddyinCA
Shave.
SPDuffy
Electrocuted means you’re dead. It’s like executed. So maybe just say shocked? Just sayin’.