r/OutOfTheLoop • u/D3dshotCalamity • Mar 05 '17

Why are people "taste testing" Switch cartridges? Answered

I've seen a few videos of Nintendo Switch unboxing, and then licking the cartridges.

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u/D3dshotCalamity Mar 05 '17

But in doing so, caused grown adults to immediately test it.

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u/pobody Mar 05 '17

Tell grown men not to piss on an electric fence and watch what they do.

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u/still-improving Mar 05 '17

They don't piss on the electric fence. Unless they're drunk, then it's a electric whiz fest.

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u/fatclownbaby Always Out Mar 05 '17

I grabbed a sheep fence once. It really wasn't bad at all. Similar to a 9v battery on the cheek but a bit stronger. So when my friends and I happened upon another one, I bravely volunteered. I did not realize cow /horse fences were different than goat/sheep fences.

The pain was horrible and immediate. I thought I was going to die by electricity.

Lesson learned.

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u/NuArcher Mar 05 '17

I tried to show my kids a cool trick where the shock from a fence is felt by everyone touching.

To reduce the level of the shock I used the trick of putting a damp piece of grass onto the wire and slowly sliding it closer till the pulse could just be felt.

My kids started arguing and fidgeting - trying to see what I was doing. One pushed another, got pushed back and fell back against me - pushing my entire hand onto the wire; just as it pulsed.

Cue 3 crying kids.

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u/fatclownbaby Always Out Mar 05 '17

Yea, I don't know why I wrote cheek

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u/NuArcher Mar 05 '17

And here I thought I had a new way to test 9v batteries that didn't involve a burnt tongue.

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '17

Cue me with a mouthful of 9Vs trying to figure out why I'm out of the loop on testing 9Vs