I absolutely love how you can insult your entire audience and still be factually correct

"Relentless onanist" 😂

"Temu level Thor" 😭 Love it, my guy.

Also remember, all circuits are live until proven otherwise.

As an Englishman I approve of your ability to say wanker 👌😂

I'll never forget the time my tester ran out of battery while replacing a pair of electric water heaters under a customer's house and I just figured "eh, the breaker marked water heater is off and my boots are EH rated, I'll just be really careful with the live wire." My boots didn't protect my eyes from the arc when I shorted that circuit 6 inches from my face. Boy did I learn my lesson.

The absolute balance of profanity and politeness on this channel is legendary.

"No, stretchnuts" 😂😂 I love this channel

‘One flash and you’re ash’ - Some random linesman

"...or, a relentless onanist...who... works with their hands all day long." LOL

Back in a "previous life" in the 1990's I was an auto mechanic at a small shop. We had this ancient 480v/3p air compressor that was on its last legs, so the owner decided to buy a modern single phase 240v unit. At the back of the shop we had two panels a 480/3 panel and 240/1 panel. When the shop owner had this old compressor installed a few years prior, he wanted to save money. Conveniently, his father (who we called "Pops") was a retired commercial electrician and when they first moved in, they had plenty of materials left over from previous construction. (You can see where this is going...) Somewhat inconveniently, they didn't have the correct color wire during that original install, so they used what they had: 6ga black/white/green, where the white and green were black-taped on the end to indicate they were hot. So on the day of the new compressor install, we let Pops do his thing. We thought maybe someone should supervise him, since he was in his 80's after all. But the shop was busy and the guys were already behind since they had to use non-powered hand tools, so we just let him have at it. He disassembles the wiring to the current compressor, we move it out of the way and put the new one in place, and we all go to lunch. We come back from lunch and Pops goes back over to the compressor. He looks at what's in front of him: a compressor with a 240v single phase motor, and a set of white/black/green wires coming out of the junction box. We hear him wonder aloud, "Did I shut off this breaker?" Then a second later, BOOM! THUD... holy shit, Pops is down and his hand is SEVERELY burned! So we call the squad, they're there in about 5 minutes and they load him up to take him to the hospital. But I asked him... what happened? The plan all along had been to simply move the existing wiring from the 480/3 panel to the 240/1 panel, then wire up the new motor. Now Pops was an *old school* guy- one of those guys who, when he wanted to make sure a 120v circuit was off, would tap the back of his hands real quick against the hot and neutral. Pops had completely forgotten that day, that he a) never killed the 480/3 breaker and b) never moved the wiring to the other panel. So when he wanted to test this circuit, he looks down and sees a black and white (where the black tape had fallen off the white) and he thinks it's 120. But it wasn't... instead of hitting the back of his hand with a "merely tingly" 120v hot/neutral pair, he hit it with a full two hots of 480v. Sadly Pops lost the use of his hand that day, permanently... and the shop owner, who felt guilty as hell, ended up paying full price for a commercial electrician to come out and re-do the entire wiring run. WE all felt like crap that day but learned several important lessons...

Locomotive electrician here. The DC low voltage (64 nominal) circuit is not grounded, which makes finding grounded circuits easy. There are some circuits that are direct to battery, so even with the knife switch opened, they'll still bite you. It's really fun finding a low voltage ground by accident.

Its often best to avoid testing whether or not the electricity agrees with your definition of a circuit

I'm starting an industrial maintenance position soon and I think I'm going to hear this guy's voice in my head before doing something stupid.

Ah! I am a relentless onanist and a capacitor .

I got called many things before, but 'Capacitor' caught me off guard😅😂😂

I did not expect to hear a reference to "Onanism" in this century but I'm kinda here for it, ngl.

Was using a dc motor drive set at 5 volts for nickel plating. I have no idea why I was so stupid not to realize it was not an isolated supply. After a few hours of use, all was good. Until that moment, I was still holding the electrode when I grabbed the metal toggle switch on the grounded box. Took 60v from hand to hand. After sitting down, trying to figure out what happened, smoking a cigarette, and thinking about life choices. I got my meter out and discovered what happened. Learned my lesson pretty damn quickly. I was using 5 volts dc from positive to negative, which was also 60 volts ac from positive to earth ground, and 55 from negative to ground.

"So i am positively charged"- me after getting shocked

My favorite electrical engineer! I never swipe when i hear "you wanna see something cool!"

"Temu level Thor." I love it 😂

Test before touching, rules for dating rules for life.

Test before touching! The first thing i teach anyone coming in. Understand where there could be stored or potential energy in a system before diving in. A rule you develop after getting hit with some 480v off caps

Room temperature IQ is not a good insult in Australia or Arizona

There is also one mech engineer who now does elec and wants to learn not just from EE's. Love your content

I'm an electrician and I still test before touching. Treat all circuits as if they were live

only reason i have calluses is because of drumsticks, what am i doing here

Chris Boden the best source of quips on the interwebs.

As someone who has been tossed across a room by electricity, this. And yes, I can bare hand 120 because of my calloused fingers. But I don't. One slip on a sharp edge and all of a sudden my heart is 6 ohms away from 120V, not 600k ohms.

I always have to listen real close to work out whether I’ve been both educated & insulted or only the former 🤣.

They should turn this into a public service announcement. I took an electrical class with a Stretchnut (using this) boasting about how many times he's been shocked.

I wish more people were as direct as you. the world would be a better place. Keeping it real.

Your humour is topnotch!

I remember first year of uni, I wired in a new outlet (only one in my dorm room), live, bc the old one had worn contacts and my plugs would constantly fall out. They said it'd take 2 weeks for maintenance to get to it. The breaker was behind a locked maintenance door. Sketchy but I got it done, and the maintenance guy was confused and impressed when he finally showed up lol

This is a Gordon Ramsey version of a safety talk. Respectful and a kick right in the nuts.

I just love your sense of humor. The best teachers are just like this guy

Yeahhhhh! Stretchnuts!

I'm assuming this is why we get shocked when touching an electric fence even if we had rain boots on.

This man is one of the few creators I've seen genuinely and casually grow my vocabulary

If Deadpool had a Dad...

I had no idea what a onanist is. But 😮now i know what a owner-operator is. Fun and ed-u-cational

This has to be one of my favorite videos so far. Love it.

As a person who prods at live circuits for a living a whole heatedly agree! i see too many hotshots from other industries thinking they are invulnerable getting hurt because they think 100v and 1000v behave the same....

I just love this guy! His sense of humor is exactly the same as mine!

Great advice with a comical twist. Love it. And I really appreciate your videos.

"Stretch nuts" had me in stitches

Dude ... "Stretch nuts" ... Did you just quote "the neddin game" by icp? Core memory unlocked

"Temu level Thor" is an excellent line

Having inadvertantly closed _far_ too many circuits with various body parts: spot on! I learned the hard way - from grabbing someone else's old work - to offset the individual splices in a spliced cord. That palm's still a bit stiff sometimes. I also learned to envy people whose breakers always fail _open_ . . ..

That Old Testament reference was some highbrow humor.

Wow. You called my blue collar out in the most forward way. 😂

I drive a truck all day, I watch your videos because I enjoy them and you’re very informative with a variety of content.

Crazy how people just forget that capacitors act like high pass filters

“Wait now, what did they say About the human body and proportions of things? Blood is an energy conductor I am full of that all I need is an outlet.” -Dethklok

"Room temperature IQ's" 😂😂 I'm going to use this at the next safety meeting.

You got me at stretchnuts! Thank God, I’m an electrician!

That roast was sanitizing.

“Relentless onanist” & “wanker” in the same short! I’m impressed!😂

I can't get over how well your doing on here making these awesome shorts! You're getting lots of subs! Keep it up captain!

I love the "strechnuts" 😂😂😂

"Your IQ is below room temperature, and I’m European."

I remember a demonstration my dad did just to prove a point to me: I sat on a wooden stool, put one hand behind my back, and hold onto a piece of electrified metal. As long as only had 1 hand on the metal, and touched nothing else, I was fine. He then got one of those non contact tester pens and got it near me and it was going off 6 inches from me. I felt nothing. Just because you feel nothing doesn’t mean you are safe. One wrong move, one slip up, one moment of contact with something and you’d be dead. I must stress my father knew exactly what he was doing and I was never in any danger as long as I followed directions.

Had a job in a chain coffee store in Canada. Unplugging a plug in a tight space. A chain from the donation box fell across the prongs and sent out a molten piece of metal. Also received a few mild electric shocks from a machine that made frozen beverage bases when I accidentally touched metal and the machine while using a step stool to fill the machine.

Flashback Time. A decade ago I was doing diagnostics on a miller XMT welder/ inverter. As I was testing the last 2 test points to verify the board was correct (it was) my Co worker turned off the mains breaker feeding my machine. I asked him why he did that and he asked me why was I alive. My forearm was across 3 of the 6 main capacitors touching both terminals. I just chock that one up to miracle.

This is also why your keyless entry fob works from a further distance pressed against your neck than if you hold it over head.

So honest. This man is awesome. 💯

I love this channel 😂

“ room temperature IQ” genius😂

I have simultaneously learned a new word and felt called out 😂

‘Room temperature IQ’ is hilarious lolol

The temu jab 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 that caught me off guard

"A relentless onanist who... Works with his hands all day" is an absolutely hilarious line 😂

Temu level Thor caught me flat footed

My dad said that people who say they dont mind being shocked haven't been properly shocked

Man, I love these videos. I learn new things every day. Okay, mostly new insults, but still.

Birds can easily perch on a single hot wire, since there is no path back to the transformer neutral pole. It's not about calloused feet.

My grandfather has a story when he was an electrician, went ankle deep water in the basement, threw a rubber mat down and grabbed both live wires and started working. They definitely don't teach that anymore

One of my states power companies used to have tv commercials that would say "No line is safe to touch ever."

You nailed me down on this one

I worked for Isp's for over a decade. Sometimes in the early days we'd do some connections with live wires because turning off the circuit meant shutting down the entire datacenter. No, we didn't have battery backup at the time 😂

"Or, you are a relentless Onanist, who...works with their hands all day..." You are a demented, brilliant genius .

I’ll tell you something that’s not cool for roofers, when electricians or the buddy who is an electrician decides it’s a good idea to mount electrical within an inch of the roof sheeting. A few guys I know have been sobered up by low amp 120 through a nail that they were planning on pulling. Unfortunately, there’s no good way to put a rubber handle on a bluebar.

As a commercial electrician/foreskin. If your ungrounded and grab onto a hot wire you won’t get shocked. The “shock” is when electricity flows through you to a grounded source. I can hold onto a 120v line and not feel anything as long as I’m ungrounded.

I'm a capacitor!!

I work for the local utility company and sometimes in the hot summer when I'm wet and touch over head power lines you can feel a tingle going up your arms and across your back while wearing rubber gloves and sleeves it's crazy feeling.

Stretch nuts, that's a new one and I'm going to use it😂😂

Room temperature IQs is such a smooth insult

I used to work on a system that used very large capacitors, can't remember what their rating was, but the system was capable of dumping something like 3000 volts at 900 AMPs in a fraction of a second, and would do this in regular cycles. Needless to say, we took metering and lockout tagout seriously when working on the power supply.

I work as a heavy duty diesel mechanic I love it

"Test before touching" 🤣😉

Potential difference is a big winner in the crispy ones

"a relentless onanist" 😂😂😂😂

I don't know a god damned thing about any of these trades. I love this content.

I’ve got one for you! When LED bulbs were getting pretty common, I decided to get some nicer ones for the house. When I removed the old one it TURNED ON in my hand! I’ve tried to recreate that moment, and wondered how it happened for over a decade now. My Mother was there and saw it happened, no one else really believes me because they didn’t see it happen but if I had to guess it had to do with our natural charge and what was left in the bulb as this happened within second of unscrewing the old LED bulb. I’d like to see you try and recreate what happened to me as it’s something most people joke about, turning a light bulb on in their hand and in my case sadly, I’m not Temu Thor so, I’ve always wondered the actual physics behind it as it’s make a pretty rad party trick at the very least!

I fuckin lost it when you told me i was a capacitor. Almost sounded motivational until it motivates you right into the forever box

And for the same capacitance, you get a lite buzz when you touch live yet being isolated

As a Navy Electronics Technician I was shocked by 30 vdc during a north Atlantic cruise west of Germany. I typically used the one hand rule but I could not attach my test leads to either side + or-, so when the ship lurched my hand slid past the rings and directly on the positive tip. Was shocked a total of 3 times while stationed there. First 3 months aboard and twice on the other deployment. My current test leads have shrink tube slid on them when I'm not using alligator clips or other attachments.

I love the subtle and hidden funny insults! Especially since most of the world uses Celsius to measure room temperature.

No one ever called me a capacitor onanist before.

' stretch-nuts' im dying XD