Heh, I was going to try to make a joke about DavidNRockies’ wife being a resistor, like to him, amirite, but you beat me to it with a better joke than I probably would have come up with. Kudos
I recently saw a late-night style commercial in a very similar vein to the OP’s example-- this one was for some sort of compression sleeve that you can fit onto your knee or elbow, infused with copper-- copper threads woven in, or something. I guess it’s supposed to, like the OP product, reduce inflammation and / or pain.
Usually these types of ‘woo’ product advertisements only sort of hint at what they will do for you, to stay out of the lawsuit zone, but this one was coming right out and having supposed ‘real people’ endorsers say 'it cured the pain in my (body part), and now I can do (strenuous activity) again!". One of the ‘satisfied customers’ said “I don’t know how it works, but people have been using copper medicinally for thousands of years, and it works great for me!” Yeah, it does work, it’s called a placebo, and people have been making lots of money selling placebos for thousands of years.
Got me the very cutest shadow striped golden (colored) sheet set. High thread count. The label says linen-blend. (I doubt this…reasons).
At night I notice when move around I see sparks of light. I thought I was having seizures til I proved to myself, I could make it happen by rustling the sheets.
Static electricity. I’ll let you know if this woo works. First hand. Without spending the $$.
(These were cheap end, but they looked good. Another problem is they are snaggy…aaarrrghh)
When I was a teenager, I was a lodger, and my landlady bought some nylon fitted sheets for my bed. They sparked like crazy and were quite uncomfortable (clingy).
She refused to replace them so I had to find new logings.
Not to be a Debbie Downer, but there exists considerable, well-founded skepticism about “energy healing” and “grounding”.
*Intriguingly, Energy Medicine University has a Drug and Alcohol Policy covering students. How that works at an online school is a mystery wrapped in an enigma.
I’m confident that they did, in fact, blend in linen. At least, like, 3%. The other 97% is acryllic.
His problem is that medicine is taking him seriously. When you take this stuff seriously, you discover that it’s garbage. It’s only when you take it frivolously that you think it might mean something.
I think you are missing the obvious, here. Teachers don’t need to actually have the student present, they can detect drug use via simple ESP techiques taught by every 2 week online course qualifying people to educate the gullible.
The obvious question from us non-Sheeples, is whether this blanket can be used in my car’s engine compartment. According to the experts who run ads, I need some way to magnetically re-align the carbon clusters in my fuel, so that they are oriented correctly to better mix with oxygen. Obviously, big-oil stopped the sale of fuel aligning magnets, and my gas mileage went to hell. I watched Youtube, and I done my research!
Cars back in the early 1960s and before used to have ground straps as at least aftermarket accessories if not factory fit. I never understood why.
Story time …
As did fuel tankers.
As a kid back then I always thought it was funny to follow a fuel tanker trailing a piece of chain behind it that was throwing up sparks while the chain’s steel was slowly ground away as it was dragged along the pavement at [whatever] mph.
So as a fire prevention measure you’re deliberately making a continuous spray of sparks just downwind of a huge tank of volatile fuel? Riiight. Adults be crazy an’ shit.
Been a long time since I’ve seen a trailing ground chain on a fuel tanker.
Been a long lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely time?
JAQ.
Sometimes, the static problem was addressed from the vehicle side; other times, from the ground – eg, a flexible wire sticking up from the roadway as you’d enter a toll booth:
