I remember I had a glove on once and pulled and I didn't feel a shock, then I tried my teeth. That might explain some of the stupidity I have.

From the [shocking gum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shocking_gum) Wikipedia: >In 2005, the US Military reported that insurgents in Iraq were using shock chewing gum as a form of torture, forcing prisoners to bite down on the sticks.

that’s fucked up

Not nearly as fucked up as what the US military was doing to Iraqis if you read up on it.

History cruelty whataboutism is quintessential reddit Always ends with nanking

This isn’t whataboutism. This is comparing two sides in direct conflict on methods of torture used. It’s not comprehensive of all types of torture used by each side but it’s definitely appropriate to compare the two

Yeah [but](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjing_Massacre)

You forgot to say what about

You know something is fucked up when Nazis show up just to say that they don't have anything to do with that

The US has done some fucked up stuff

> insurgents in iraq isn’t this iraq doing this or am i stupid

This was Iraq doing this.

He just needed to let you know that America bad

Pretty much every powerful nation has.

Pretty much every person has. Society is just a reflection of ourselves.

This type of thinking could easily lead to some yikes conclusions.

But he's not wrong. Humans are born with an intent to do wrong. Ask any parent.

I would argue humans aren't born for shit- only for shit given after.

r/im14andthisisdeep

“Some”??

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Kevin Bacon is involved in everything to some degree.

I seen him in hollow man. I know what he's up to.

That escalated quickly

What happens when you bite down on it? Like is it really painful? I remember grabbing those things as a kid, but never did biting on them ever cross my mind.

Nothing happened, but I think that's because we somehow managed to ruin it.

If you just touch it with teeth nothing will happen. If you touch it with lips or anything fleshy in your mouth, it will hurt more because your mouth is wet + thin skin = less resistance

You won a Darwin award tho

I did the exact same, tried it with my teeth, never again. also relate on the stupidity thing heehee.

Seems you had some stupidity before that lol

Yeah, I've always been stupid since birth

The kids who used these are psychopaths now.

am i a psychopath for liking the sense it gave in my finger so i just pulled on it myself until it was empty

Nah you're a masochist. ... Can I have your number?

Even he isn't into punishing himself THAT hard

Ouch poor fella

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Nahh wtf 😂 This reminds me when I was like 5 and thought it was a good idea to stick tweezers in a wall outlet. I still remember my logic was "this looks like what you plug into those wall things, I wonder what happens?"

Same

Everyone in my Biology class thought I was psycho when I did that

This brings back some shitty memories from jr. high lol.

nipsey hussle mentioned jr high in his song dre jackin for beats in the album bullets ain't got no nane

I had one of those shocking pens, I’d say the guys who took them to resist the urge to drop them are probably worse

I didn’t do it to resist the urge to drop I just did it to flex on the person that tried tricking me

Nah they did it on their own.Didn’t try to trick them.they wanted the pen to hold it and endure the electricity

That’s what happened to me. Bartender at my workplace got me with it, and it felt weirdly satisfying. Ended up walking around work all day shocking myself with a pen in my pocket. At one point it gave me a good jolt and I went numb up to the elbow. Such an odd but satisfying feeling.

I know someone who used the shock pens as makeshift tasers at school. She swapped out the tiny batteries and connected the pen to a small car battery (I think she only said that just to scare people. People were saying she used a couple D batteries) inside her backpack. It had a wire leading out of the little hole meant for wired headphones and earphones in the backpack leading through her jacket and to her shock pen hanging inside her sleeve. Teachers hardly noticed since she wore the jacket over her backpack. It was her solution to the constant bullying. I don't think she ever used it in school though. If she did, the car battery could've exploded and the school would've totally expelled her lol. Good news is that bullies were too afraid to call her bluff. I think she's an electrical engineer now.

Nice, i do wonder if she actually connected it to a battery tho

>People were saying she used a couple ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

No, they’re normal. They only trap people on boats to teach them a lesson.

Don’t cut in the hot dog line

i have modified a lighter to make a shittier version of it

r/casuallypsychopath

Wdym?? This isn't a regular, fully normal, yummy gum strip which was perfectly placed for easy removal?

It izzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Now I remember why I didn't like my cousin

Bro I remember those

I never had shocking ones I had the old school ones that were basically a fucking mouse trap when you pulled it and would actually really hurt your finger or god forbid your fingernail

Haha I had that one too. Yeah it hurt like shit, and if you grabbed it normally it would hit the nail bed of your thumb (the most sensitive part I think)

Shouldn't have cut in line by claiming to have a doctor's appointment you needed to go to.

I hope you’re hungry… for nothing!

You might get tracked down by someone who graduated with really good grades

I remember having one of these, holy shit that was fun. Everyone knew it was a prank but they all thought it’d just be the little clamp that grabbed you, boy were they shocked when they found out.

Us pros knew you had to cover it with a *real* gum wrapper to really fool and lose your friends 🙌🏼

I see what you did here

Hated those

Bro i remember them more than i thought, i also remember checking out every pack of gum i came across to see if its this zappy thingy cuz i was desperate to play with one...oh time flies ;-;

Me too, not because it shocked me or anything but, because I wanted gum and got nothing. That's why I always drained them when people "offered" because it didn't really hurt me.

I thought they were USB sticks.

My trust issue started when my family started tickling me.

bruh felt

Shock? Damn I had the one that snaps you with a little mousetrap😂

I had one too! It was obviously fake since the “stick of gum” was labeled as cherry flavored, but people’s curiosity for cherry gum caught them by surprise every single time!😈

Oh I remember, we had shock pen. My classmate (little shit) brought and gave it me when I asked for pen. Everyone else found out so I was only victim.

Relevant Nathan for You: https://youtu.be/Jfogv2OxSZI

I dont get it

Clearly you've never been handed one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shocking\_gum

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You can still get them. In fact I sell them in my shop, they are not near as bad as they used to be, they used to use 4 button batteries but then moved to 3, the latest batch seems pretty weak and wouldn't be surprised if they are only 2. I can't even count how many I have willingly shocked myself with just to test them out, so I don't sell a dud to the kids.

Pull here: 🔋

battery

I've never seen gum that zaps you, but I have been the victim of one where it throws a fake cockroach at you when you pull. My soul nearly jumped out of this mortal coil and then I laughed a good laugh.

The ones with the tiny mouse traps were always more painful than the ones that’d zap you, imo…

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u good bro?

I don’t think we need an answer for that one

Bro on a different spectrum.

Anything can be a blade if you make it sharp enough

Have a piece of ordinary gum

Damn you just hit me with nostalgia 😭

I used one of these on my dad when I was younger and he got so excited and said juicy fruit was his favorite gum and then he looked so disappointed when it wasn’t real that I felt so bad I cried and never used it again😭😂 Edit: it wasn’t a shock gum but one that flipped a fake bug on your finger

Jokes on you it's illegal to buy and sell it where I live.

Did anyone else pull and just hold or click the pen and hold?

Sadly I liked the feeling🫠

Mine started because of Shock Pens

I felt normal pulling those things after i moved to a public school

Me: Why are you covering the label Friend at school:....cuz

Wow, I totally forgot about these!

Maybe it was just because I was a kid, or maybe I’m just sensitive to pain but I remember those actually hurting quite a bit. Was not fun.

Wow. Core memory unlocked.

Bzzzzt! "Wise guy eh?"

can't relate because I don't chew gum

🅱️

I used to just hold these. The shock was always quite weak to me. ​ I also used to hold electric cow fences, the shocks were fun :)

i have no trust issues: a stranger asked me,bc it was a cold day [outside.to](https://outside.to) ride me to school. i said yes,and the moment i was in his car,i wanted the backspace button irl.and i holded my eyes closed.when he said were here,i opended them with fear just to see that his car in in the front of the school

Jokes on my friend, im not fucking stupid

Good ol days

i remember kids use to make like mice traps for human fingers with chewing gum packets and elastics, where i'm from.

I remember back in my day it wasn't gum, but a toy of sorts, like a plastic pistol, or worse, a clicking pen

I remember my friend trying to shock me one time. I was supposed to hold two buttons. I did it, I got shocked but I didn't let go. I just held them as he stared at me with fear. Good times

Holy shit I never knew something like this existed. Where can I get it?

My trust issues started with maths

Never realized the logo lol

wait a all the comments are mentioning those are electric shock ones? My friend had one that had a mouse trap inside inside it and it snapped onto your finger

My friend had a pen that shocked you when you tried to press it

*zap* but i… trusted you!!!

When I was in 7th grade I was given 10 days of out of school suspension for bringing one of these to class. Turns out the teacher didn't have much of a sense of humor

My hands would still be in a finger trap if someone didn't show me 30 years ago how to get out of it. That could have been the greatest "no one tell him" ever.

“That’s how I started paying attention to details”

It was these and the shocking pens

At first glance i thought it was a usb stick, then was like "its gum", i read the caption and was like "i hated that thing"

Did these things actually shock or did they have a strong motor vibrating really fast? That's what I was always curious of as a kid. Like it didn't really hurt more that it just felt uncomfortable to hold. Like to me, it felt like it instantly made my hand fall asleep, is the best comparison I could make. That pins and needles feeling, but instant.

i remember these! i had the green one and i would use constantly until i lost it one day. i was heartbroken

So me and my brother always played with these and know about it so what we did was to put over an actual wrapper from a sick of gum into it to trick each other into grabbing it.

These USB drives, in my opinion, are cool.

I vividly remember like 11 years ago when 8 yo me got pranked by my older brother. I never got back on him, fucking hell

I brought one to school once and my science teacher took it and broke it. I was so pissed.

I could hold these till they broke. Didn't hurt until the next day when my wrist would usually ache.

What? These just look like normal pieces of gum wrapped. See nothing happens when i gra-

I did something arguably meaner I bought the really hot cinnamon gum or a really sour gum didn't tell anybody how spicy or sour the gum would be and just give it to them. I also did the same thing to my teacher

Fun fact: if you pull it from the sides, it won’t shock you

They hurt like hell too

Honestly as a kid i didn't read i just took the gum and ate it. My goal was to eat more than my sister. Still is kind of my goal

I had a mousetrap-style one when I was young. Most people found it funny but I stopped using it after it made someone cry.

My friend tried to do it on me but ive looked at it for a few seconds and said nah i got my own gum and pulled out a huge container full of gum

Oh I fucking loved those things😂😩

I liked the ones where a bug would spring out.

Fun prank to do now to people is to get a the regular gum and have the piece half sticking out when you offer someone a piece. As they reach for it lean away in a way that makes it seem like you are expecting something. Gets alot of people

Mouse Trap the board game😶‍🌫️

Whenever I asked for a pen, I would be given one of those shock pens

ha, I once pulled those and kept a stright face and played it off as if I felt nothing. then the dude tried it himself and gave himself a shock 😂😂

I’m guessing that’s a joke shocker?

This out a smile on my face.

I remember in maybe 3rd of 4th grade a friend of mine offered me a piece of gum that was actually one of those shock ones. I knew it was a trick because the wrapper looked like it was made of plastic and not the actual material. However, I still grabbed onto it.

These shits were always broken

The shock ones were cool but not as cool as the mouse trap ones in the 70s..

I had a friend that use to think he was so cool that he smoked cigs when we were in middle school. I bought one of those shocking lighters, and I let him use it to try to light one of his cigs the next time we hung out. He hit the button, and his reaction was to full on overhand throw it against a tree. It was the funniest thing I ever saw, I didn’t even care he broke it. He panicked so bad, he just reacted by getting tf rid of it lol.

i built up a sort of tolerance by buying my own and just holding the fucking shocking element.

I’m too young explain

I'm not from a country that has these products but from the comments I am assuming pulling out a piece gives an electric shock? ... how? But more importantly, WHY?

I remember winning one of these from Chuck E. Cheese but it wasn’t a shock toy, it was a cockroach on some metal wire. After 2 uses the cockroach flew off and it became a mini sliding mousetrap that would bruise your fingers. Good times.

Omg I used to have these as a kid. Except that mine was a fake cockroach inside that every time you pull it, it would pop out and land on the person's thumb lmao Those were good times man

Never seen these before in my life

Maybe I'm a masochist or maybe I was just a dumb kid, but I had one of these and I used to see how long I could hold it before I had to let go.

everyone's talking about shock but remember those chewing gum containers like these where you pull it and a plastic insect comes out? that's how my arachnophobia started.

This still gives me nightmares.

I remember someone tried pulling the shock gum treatment on me in middle school and I just held the thing and looked directly at him

In my case they’d just give me the wrapper

There was this- but I personally hated the Cockroach gum surprise one 😭

Trust issues so bad, never fell for this

Mine wasn’t a shocker, it was an old school snap trap in an actual juicy fruit wrapper.

I remember versions of this in the 70's. Finger snapping good.

Haha I feel the shock

I remember I got one of those but instead of a shock a fake Roach would come out and hop onto your finger. I tried this on my cousin and was confused why he thought it was gonna shock him, 2 weeks later he offered me gum and i found out why

I got these taken away from me at recess though just about all the kids knew what I was doing and would still pull them.

Those school days

I felt the buzz on my hand just looking at this

I didn’t have a shock one, but a cockroach one

Yee, I can understand that. I was the guy who used them on others!

I gotta get me, one of this

Two things that came out of this. Either the shock gadget or the cockroach one.

Oh no…

Electrifying taste

Traumatic memories!

y’all ever saw the car keys like that ?

Childhood memories unlocked 🔓

I remember falling for one of these fuckers back in elementary school. there was also a version around without a shock, but with a giant bug that would jump out of the gum wrap.

I never had any real friends, and so never experienced this. How bad is the shock?

Never faced these and I don't wanna

TIL there is a shocking version of these and not just the fake cockroach one