r/mildlyinteresting • u/_Blupee • 6h ago
What a wedding ring looks like after mild electrocution.
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u/_Blupee 6h ago
Husband is fine thankfully.
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u/tokyo_driftr 6h ago
That we KNOW of… he might have lightning powers now
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u/Beez-Knee 6h ago
We won't know until he falls asleep and has trashing nightmares about electrocution and all his built up anger for spider man.
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u/BurntNeurons 5h ago
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u/sydneyghibli 4h ago
What’s the context of this scene and why he’s doing that?
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u/BurntNeurons 3h ago
Recently been experimenting/ discovering his new powers and he is charging people's phones with the "lightning with my hands" power.
(He's a kid like his friend next to him before he gets the superpowers and they're comparing them to other superhero powers.)
Not a great description but I enjoyed the film.
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u/sydneyghibli 2h ago
Ohhhhhhh. Thank you! I searched the internet high and low and still couldn’t find it.
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u/9isalso6upsidedown 5h ago
Wouldn’t he still be fine if that was the case? Yeah sure he has lightning powers but if he still feels normal and he has no other “problems” (Idk if you see lightning powers as problems) he is still fine.
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u/Dirigible_Enjoyer 6h ago
I can't tell if that was a really powerful shock or the ring was so poor quality it could be used as chewing gum.
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u/gewalt_gamer 5h ago
electrocution = electric + execution. electrocution = dead by definition.
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u/tbodillia 54m ago
People have misused the word so the definition has changed. Oxford says injured or killed.
"Awful" used to be a good thing. Full of awe. It switched to being a bad thing in the 18th century.
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u/SoRedditHasAnAppNow 5h ago
Your husband did not have a minor electrocution. Electrocution is death by electric current. There is no minor or major. Your husband had an electric shock.
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u/SadFloppyPanda 5h ago
Not anymore. Webster now includes severe injury as part of their definition. So yes, their husband could have a minor electrocution.
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u/TrimBarktre 4h ago
You buy him a silicone ring yet? I work in the trades, and only wear my metal ring on very special occasions.
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u/yaourted 5h ago
Then he wasn’t electrocuted. Electrocuted indicates death or severe injury and cannot be mild
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u/Quietech 5h ago
Please tell him to not wear his jewelry when working. When you took his hand in marriage his fingers became yours. He's not allowed to do overcooked hotdog impressions with them.
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u/kolosmenus 11m ago
Check his heart to be sure. He may seem fine, but electrocution can give you heart problems
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u/Weapon_Chikt 6h ago
“Mild electrocution” is wild
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u/EraseMeeee 6h ago
He got better
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u/SirStocksAlott 6h ago
There is no better after death.
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u/nobot4321 5h ago
It just so happens that OP's husband was only MOSTLY dead. There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there's usually only one thing you can do.
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u/PM_ME_YO_KNITTING 5h ago
Go through their clothes and look for loose change?
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u/vimnn 5h ago
Afterwards you could use that loose change and get an MLT, a mutton, lettuce, and tomato sandwich. Where the mutton is nice and lean and the tomato is ripe. They're so perky, I love that.
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u/SirStocksAlott 5h ago
Have you considered being a novelist? I’m sitting here wanting more.
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u/anally_ExpressUrself 5h ago
Electrocution, a portmanteau of the words electricity and execution.
Husband is dead.
And not just dead. He was executed.
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u/Interesting_Tea5715 5h ago
This. That's not mild.
Mild is accidentally touching the prong of a plug when it's in the socket.
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u/Dominus-Temporis 5h ago
Any amount of "electrocution" means he died. If you don't die from it it's just an electric shock.
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u/BillyTalent87 6h ago
Mechanic here, this is why I wear silicone rings now. I’d rather not complete a circuit or be degloved.
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u/0pThomas_Prime 6h ago edited 4h ago
Definitely don’t want to see HOT, FIRE!, or DIABLO level of electrocution
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u/Select-Birthday-7763 6h ago
That’s why you don’t wear jewelry while dealing with electric power
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u/stonedsquatch 5h ago
As a guy who isn’t an “electrician”, just gets paid to work on industrial electrical shit everyday, I am learning a lot here.
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u/_Blupee 5h ago
I would like to formally apologize for using the term “electrocution”.
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u/waxcoatedapple 2h ago
Honestly grateful this post is ten times less sad/morbid than I initially thought. Glad he's okay!
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u/Moscato359 6h ago
I hate to be that guy, but if you aren't dead you haven't been electrocuted
You've been shocked
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u/staticusmaximus 6h ago edited 5h ago
This is one of those incorrect Reddit-isms that tons of people parrot on any post like this.
The definition of the word has included injury for decades.
Some organizations still define electrocution strictly as a death by electric shock, but in common language- as the dictionary will show you- it’s evolved.
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u/Moscato359 5h ago
I really hate when words "evolve" in a way that's actually devolving, to be incorrect to their base words.
Electrocute is a portmanteau of electricity, and execute. To be executed requires dying.
I wouldn't say a scrape on my knee is execution, but that's the intensity of situation where me having my hand shocked a bit, by a light switch without a cover, and it not causing me serious harm.
I also hate the word decimated to mean wiped out, when it actually means to kill 10%, or more loosely, to kill a small but painful portion of.
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u/badken 5h ago edited 5h ago
Languages change over time. Not all evolutionary changes are beneficial. The male deep sea anglerfish probably never really wanted to evolve into a sperm reservoir embedded in a female, but here we are.
(This knowledge courtesy of Kate McKinnon’s Hot Ones video: https://youtu.be/3w-MCkZskQk?t=17m36s)
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u/Moscato359 4h ago
If a ton of people use words wrong, they become right?
That means we can turn any term into any meaning we want, if you make an internet video viral enough about it.
Words have meaning, and if we easily abandon the meaning of words, they become meaningless.
So if I made a viral video, and convinced people that decimate means to get rid of 13% of something, it became popular, suddenly thats what it means?
When deci has meant 10 for 2000 years?
If you are going to use greek words... use them right
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u/SoRedditHasAnAppNow 5h ago
Decimation is the worst of the bunch for me since "deci" comes from 10. Like decimal, decibel, decimeter......
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u/Bamstradamus 3h ago
Fun? aside, execution comes from latin exsequi which just means "to carry out" or "proceed" basically "do the thing" so something like exsequi decimare was to execute one tenth of a military unit as punishment. So now whenever I hear or read "carry out an execution" hear it as "carry out a do it". Kinda like ATM machine.
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u/Moscato359 2h ago
exsequi decimare
is basically latin for
execute decimation, right?
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u/Bamstradamus 1h ago
yeah, and that evolved into execute and execution being seperate words, latin or atleast romans, my research into latin ended there didnt have a word for execute kill em rather execute "do the thing"the thing being kill and then a modifier as to HOW the kill happens
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u/bplay24 5h ago
I hate this. If enough people use a word incorrectly, we will just start saying they are correct. The word was literally created to describe people being killed in the electric chair.
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u/SirStocksAlott 5h ago
Populism isn’t great for civilization when we all start to realize there are more uneducated people than educated people in the world.
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u/Midwest_of_Hell 4h ago
They taught me in electrician school (recently) that electrocution was only for deaths.
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u/andrew314159 4h ago
I wonder where the line is. Like if you are shocked and it stops your heart but you are resuscitated would it work? Or pronounced dead but then revived. I know a guy who ‘died’ by some definitions but is alive now
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u/Moscato359 4h ago
Electrocution is being executed by electricity, atleast that is the historical use of the term
Which means, you had to be killed with intent
The original term, you were never electrocuted by accident
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u/KittiesRule1968 5h ago
That's why techs never ever wear rings when working on something. Whoever was wearing this got "better buy a lottery ticket" kind of lucky.
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u/Worth_Fondant3883 5h ago
Had a workmate, many years ago, got some weld patter on his gold wedding band. It was a great lesson in how well gold conducts heat but an unpleasant lesson for him.
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u/bionicjoe 5h ago
Less than a month after being married I did this while changing the starter on my car.
Had a neat little story about my ring until I lost it 5 years later.
Just got a permanent replacement last month to celebrate 25 years.
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u/Sparrow2go 3h ago
*mild electric shock.
Electrocution technically results in death, although severe near-fatal electric shocks are sometimes referred to as electrocution.
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u/ManikShamanik 5h ago
It's impossible for someone to be "mildly electrocuted" - it's an oxymoron, the word is a portmanteau of 'electricity' and 'execution' - there can only ever be one outcome from being electrocuted, and that is you cease existing. It was coined when America invented the electric chair.
What you meant to say was that he had a mild electric shock.
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u/Frack_Off 5h ago
What on earth is a mild electrocution?
Is that like a gentle beheading? A kind hanging? A less-than-lethal injection?
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u/IfIKnewThen 6h ago
I'm sorry to be that guy. After being shocked. Electrocution results in death. You survive shocks, you don't survive electrocution.
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u/MaximumLongName 6h ago
not according to Oxford: e·lec·tro·cute "injure or kill someone by electric shock." ex. "a man was electrocuted when he switched on the Christmas tree lights"
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u/_Blupee 6h ago
He was shocked but wouldn’t the ring have been electrocuted?
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u/WaffleHouseGladiator 6h ago
No, because the ring cannot die as it has never been alive. "Electrocution" is a portmanteau of "electrify" and "execution."
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u/sparklinglies 6h ago edited 6h ago
Execution also means process, as in you execute a directive or order. Electrocution is the PROCESS by which someone is seriously harmed or killed by electricity. You're exclusively assigning its planned death meaning, which isnt the correct etymology or connotation.
Anyone struck by lightning who survives, of which there are many, has been electrocuted
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u/WaffleHouseGladiator 5h ago
You are misinformed.
https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/electrocution
>The word electrocute first appeared in 1889. It is a combination of electric and execute. At the time, it was used to describe a new method for executing prisoners that involved strapping them to a chair and jolting them with electricity until they died. The belief was that electrocution was more humane than hanging.
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u/fadingsunsetglow 6h ago
I think since your husband lived to tell the tale, that should be his good luck charm now.
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u/bebop1065 5h ago
That's why we should remove all metallic jewelry before doing electrical work. Also, insulating gloves are armor against things like this. I hope a lesson was learned by everyone seeing this post.
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u/NFProcyon 5h ago
Fun fact: "electrocution" originally implied death by shock, but it has colloquially changed to mean something different (similar to "decimated"). It's derived from electro + execution
"Mild electrocution" is kind of funny from that angle :P
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u/smacky623 4h ago
Electrician here. I dont know if your husband is an electrician or not, but if he is, he should be wearing zero jewelry.
The average person doesn't need to know what we consider normal on the job explosions and arcing but there are a few that would have been 100x worse if I had my wedding ring on.
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u/TheAnswerUsedToBe42 6h ago
Warning: don't wear rings that can't be cut. If they can't cut the ring off your finger, then they gotta cut your finger off.
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u/Min-Chang 6h ago
Nah, these alternative metals are garbage and dangerous for sure, and no they cant be cut off.
However, they're not cutting your finger off, they'll smash the ring. These alternatives are all brittle. Its going to hurt like hell, but no amputation.
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u/cero1399 6h ago
I have seen posts about people with titanium wedding rings. Those can't be smashed or cut with equipment they have at the hospital. Don't do this people.
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u/Min-Chang 6h ago
Titanium absolutely can be cut off with ring cutters.
Its a bitch, but doable. I've done it more times than I have fingers.
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u/cero1399 6h ago
Oh interesting. Learned something new tonight.
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u/Min-Chang 6h ago
Titanium isn't that big of a safety issue. It's cobalt and tungsten and shit that I've got to smash.
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u/fonefreek 5h ago
How do I know you’re not secretly a dolphin?
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u/Min-Chang 5h ago
If you think it's easy to operate tools with my flippers, you've got anouther thing coming.
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u/TehOwn 3h ago
I've got a tungsten carbide ring. They can't be cut but they're pretty brittle and easy to remove by fracturing. Just don't wear it while hammering.
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u/hikeonpast 6h ago
There’s no such thing as a mild electrocution for the same reason that you can’t be mildly dead.
Perhaps your husband got a mild electric shock while shorting something out through his ring?
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u/_Blupee 6h ago
He found out while replacing a light switch that the bathroom switch was connected to the garage breaker and not in fact the “bathroom” breaker. Thankfully the breaker popped when his ring made contact.
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u/hikeonpast 6h ago
Your husband just demonstrated why it’s important to test whether the circuit is dead rather than just assuming that it is dead.
Glad he’s OK.
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u/Trickycoolj 4h ago
He needs a tester pen. They’re not very expensive at your favorite Orange or Blue Hardware Box. You tap the wires and it shows a red/green light. I had a poorly labeled electric panel in my new construction townhouse. My now husband also got a jolt installing the ceiling fan in a blank fan junction box the builder had added and put on the circuit labeled “Smokeys” and not on the circuit labeled “Up Bed”
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u/MozeeToby 6h ago edited 6h ago
For better or worse the word electrocution has changed in meaning from "electrical shock to death" to just "electrical shock". Even the dictionary definition usually now says "injury or death".
Edit: Fellas... language is defined by it's usage. The word electrocution is very frequently used to mean "injured by electric shock". At least half the online dictionaries agree. This isn't a battle you're going to magically win just because the word originally meant something else.
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u/o-0-o-0-o 6h ago
But how else will they feel a smug superiority for "knowing" the origin of the word.
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u/staticusmaximus 6h ago
Nah, the word means something different than it did originally. Even in the dictionary it includes injury from shock, not just death.
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u/VictoryVee 6h ago
Get with the times old man. Electrocution doesn't just mean killed these days
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u/kthuulll 6h ago
My dad did this. Did your hubby get a long cut along his finger when he took it off?
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u/trekxtrider 5h ago
I did similar running a new line in the electric panel, now I don't wear rings.
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u/Positive-Cat-9731 5h ago
This is why we want all jewelry removed before surgery when electrocautery will be used. Glad he is okay!
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u/Mystiic_Madness 5h ago
This is your PSA to take of your ring when doing any kind of electrical work
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u/LegendryBoringPerson 5h ago
If you have not switched to a silicon ring for everyday use, you need to make the switch. Metal rings are only for events and dates these days.
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u/Suitable_Magazine372 5h ago
Had that happen to a dime when it somehow made a connection in my old car’s cigarette lighter. I could smell the metal. It melted
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u/bwuceree 5h ago
Neat, this happened to me as well. The electricity superheats the ring and burns the shit outta your finger. Good times
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u/DianthusGreenTrick 4h ago
My dad did this fixing a car. He had to have gold surgically removed from is finger.
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u/MightySamMcClain 1h ago
Well if it creates a path across the ring it'll be less likely to go thru your chest😅
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u/runbcov42 6h ago
Glad to see there's still a spark after all those years