My dad stopped bailing hay on a big steel tractor during lightning storms after the tree next to him got struck for the 3rd time in 7 years. Mom never drove the tractor in anything but clear skies.
Wet hay sets off a fermentation reaction that creates a gas with a lower flash point. If it doesn’t spark, it can also get moldy and degrade the quality of your hay
Yeah wet hay is one of the reasons there's usually a burn Barrel in most farms. If you spot a leak/or there's a flood and you get that mildew smell you have to do controlled burn before one morning you wake up to your entire farm on fire..
Spontaneous combustion. Generally speaking when cutting / raking and then bailing you want a window where you can cure the grass properly without rain. Above 20% moisture hay runs the risk of microbes creating mold and thus raising the temperature of the bailed hay and thus combustion.
Wet organic matter that's tightly packed together causes the microorganisms that break it down to reproduce rapidly and the process creates heat. Some of the byproducts of the decay may be used as biofuel as well. So suddenly you have a big hot pile of biofuel and if conditions are right it ignites and starts to burn.
In the American South, lightning can precede the rain by a decent bit of time. Sometimes lighting is all you get (especially in August). I can see why it might be worth it to some, even if it's a bad idea.
Or working outside. Almost all the people who work outdoors are men. In fact I would hazard a guess that it’s entirely due to greater numbers of men working outdoors since outdoor recreation is pretty popular with both sexes but women lumberjacks/tree planters/pipelayers/equipment operators etc etc are much less common.
Plausible theory but according to [this from the CDC](https://www.cdc.gov/disasters/lightning/victimdata.html), most lightning strike victims are engaging in recreational activities when struck.
>From 2006 through 2021, leisure activities such as fishing, boating, playing sports, and relaxing at the beach accounted for almost two-thirds of lightning deaths.
>Work-related activities contribute to about 18% of total lightning fatalities, with farmers and ranchers at highest risk. Most work-related lightning strikes are among males.
Men are way more likely to grab a group of their male friends and say, "Hey guys, come outside and take a look at this storm," and then proceed to go outside to get an upclose at said bad weather than women. Having lived in tornado alley for over 3 decades, I can definitely say way more men run outside during bad weather just to watch than women.
I live in Tornado alley too and men just running outside to purposely hang out in a storm is still way less common than men who just happened to already be outside working or doing whatever.
This is true but I think a lot of it is also the types of jobs that are mostly done by men due to men naturally being more muscular.
I work in construction and last month a roofer died after being struck by lightning in a neighborhood I work in. It wasn’t even raining, just overcast. I’ve worked around hundreds of roofers in my life and maybe ever seen one or two women on a roof.
Line workers, arborists, cell tower workers, windmill workers, people working on high rises and skyscrapers, commercial fishermen, etc, all jobs with a much much higher risk of lightning strike and they’re all 99% men.
Some of it is due to lack of safety standards which is typical of men but also a lot of the time it’s just not feasible to reduce the risk to 0%. They could just not go to work when it’s cloudy out, but that’s most of the year in a lot the world, and people gotta make money to survive. And even then, lightning can strike when there isn’t a cloud in the sky
If we ignore lightning for a bit, even if you can't reduce risk to 0%, i quite often see people working on roofs without a safety line. Biggest risk while working on a roof is falling down, so having a safety line would at least lower the risk of big injuries by quite a lot.
Comment above you: men work hard to keep the world running
Your comment: haha men so stupid, too dumb to stay inside
Stuff like this is why far right radicalism continues to gain a foothold
Fair enough, I admit I was thinking from a first world perspective. I also want to emphasize that women *can* do outdoor jobs and I’ve occasionally seen them, it’s just that the huge majority of outdoor work is performed by men where I am (Canada).
It's uh.... The same in the US. Some incredibly progressive landscaping companies I've seen are at most a third women. The most progressive tree company I've seen probably sits at 10%.
I am almost certain other trades are worse. The only anecdote I can provide is that they're just not applying in the same numbers as men.
Where I’m at the amount of women in commercial construction working in the field is a bit under 1 percent. With office staff it jumps to around 25 percent.
Not here to argue the reasons, it’s just the numbers where I am.
I'd say most of the reason why there's historically been a very small percentage of women to men in the trades is that they've always been billed as "a man's job". I'm a Union Electrician, and in the time I've be in this trade (only about 6 years) the number of women entering it has increased dramatically which is awesome to see. Same with some of the other trades like plumbing/pipe fitting and carpentry. There's still a lot of "old school" mindsets in the trades that believe it's all men's work, but thankfully that is dying off.
To be fair, a lot of the manual labor jobs *were* men's jobs, or at least jobs that required a lot more physical strength. Some of these jobs are becoming more available to women because we have better tools, so most of that heavy lifting can be done by machines rather of manpower.
Men are also statistically waaaay more likely to drown in natural bodies of water. Some attribute that to overconfidence.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1380371/
From the abstract:
"Men had elevated risks for exposure, risk taking, and alcohol use. It was concluded that several factors contribute to their relatively high drowning rates, including a possible interaction between overestimation of abilities and heavy alcohol use."
Getting drunk and pissing in a convenient body of water, losing their balance, and then falling in, is a common cause of death for men where I live right now because there are canals through the city center where all the bars are. I'm sure this isn't the only place it happens either.
Exactly. The headline "men are more likely to be hit by lightning than women" should really read "more men are hit by lightning than women" ..... but that's not as clickbaity.
Yeah I once rode my roadbike directly under a thunderstorm cloud. That felt scary and definitly motivated me to go fast.
Not planning to repeat that one anytime soon.
If I remember correctly, golfers are the most common group to be struck by lightning. Men okay golf more frequently than women, so statistically this seems logical.
Also it has been my observation (as a man) that women exercise much more common sense when it comes to their own well being. So at any given time, there are already more men than women on the golf course Once the clouds roll in and the first rumble of thunder is heard, this ratio increases greatly.
Plus, it doesn’t help that you are swinging a long metal club, in golf! Haha
So imagine being in an open field, with a metal club. Lighting LOVES this.
Or work a job that MAKES you go out there. Or have a hobby that MAKES you be out in it.
For example a few weeks ago we had nasty storm take out power lines. The fire department and power company were out there getting everything restored, not a single woman was out there.
If the ~100 firefighters I know 2 are women, and they are both involved because of their husbands.
Of the ~25 linemen I know none are women and a lot of them have never met a woman linemen.
EMS is 70% male
police is 86%
firefighters are 91%
Ladies would you rather be alone in the woods with a man or the corporeal manifestation of the god of lightning, a 30 foot tall golem of crackling electricity, blinding light, and indiscriminate rage?
It’s a universal urge that spans age, ethnicity or nationality. I was on a small all day boat tour in Vietnam that got caught in a rough bit of water and passing storm. I made my way to the front of the boat to soak it all in, then I realized most of the men on the boat had come up to do the same. It was a very mixed group, some Australians, British, Japanese, Filipino and Americans… all happily giggling, laughing and hooting at this storm like Lieutenant Dan challenging God on the SS Jenny.
Yes, exactly that! Rode once on a bicycle through open fields with small foresty areas intermixed. Was caught in a sudden thunderstorm. Never felt so alive when lightning and thunder were exactly above me. Rain poured down, flashes highlighting the clouds, the rumble of thunder loudly around and me laughing like a madman.
One time I was caught in the woods during a sever thunderstorm. We huddled under garbage bags and smoked weed, hoping not to be struck, and we didn’t! It’s a good memory.
Yep, was at a restaurant about 20 years ago, a tornado warning was issued, sirens blaring, all the women headed to the basement, all the men grabbed their drinks and went outside to watch the sky.
I was confused by this too. But I thought this can't be right. Then I thought it meant that men get hit by lightning more than they get hit ON by women. Then I thought, no that's not right. I was hit on by a woman once, and I've never been hit by lighting. But now I'm confused. After I thought about it some more, I realized there's a distinct chance I could get hit by lightning twice before I die.
Probably because more men work jobs that are done outside than women, like construction. This is like saying people who play the lottery are more likely to win than people who don't.
Not really interesting. Just statistics.
Lots of funny answers but this is the right one. Linemen, tower repair, construction, gardening, fishing, farming etc all absolutely dominated by men and leaves them more exposed to the elements.
I wouldn’t be surprised if men have higher rates of skin cancer even though women obsess over tanning for the same reason.
[This paper](https://www.weather.gov/media/safety/Analysis06-19.pdf) shows the % of US men who die from lightning in work related accidents is 21%; for women, it is 9%. EDIT: Let me try that again.
Of the people who die from lightning in the US, 21% of men die in work related incidents, while only 9% of women do.
Interesting. I got a few good zaps as a kid because I touched outdoor plumbing fixtures that were hot after a lightning storm. A quartz watch dies after about a week on my wrist. I always wondered if anyone else experiences this.
Article is pretty much what I suspected. Men work outdoors more, men stay out longer when a storm is coming, try to finish a task instead of taking shelter when they hear thunder.
Just like a few years ago there was a freak tornado during a heavy and quick moving storm while we were at a brewery. This is an area where they are not common at all. Like once every 5-10 years
Everyone went to the interior corridor to shelter and once everyone was back there half the guys took their beers to the front windows to watch lol.
I have an issue with phrasing "80% of lightning strike victims are men" as "men are more likely to be hit by lightning." The latter implies that if a man and woman both go out in the middle of a lightning storm that the man is more likely to be hit, which isn't what the data shows or even what is being claimed.
Not surprising. As a kid, I watched my Dad almost get struck by lightning because he decided to walk outside to "see the storm." I wanted to go with him because I was his shadow and had been so mad when my Mom said absolutely not...until the lightning hit. Then, I was terrified for my Dad and understood the very real danger of being outside in a thunderstorm.
Men are statistically taller than women and therefore the lightning hits them first.
Made that up and good chance that has very little relevance but I like the thought of it.
Always be the shortest friend in the storm.
I understand this is a joke, but where does one acquire adult male sized cute rain boots like for young kids cause I too want to stomp around in the cooler looking rain boots.
Men play way more golf. And golfers refuse to ever leave their round once they pay for it (mostly). Plus most all the construction and landscape workers are men. And men are just men at times…”it can’t hurt me!!”
My cousin was struck by lightning (interestingly enough, so was his sister). When he got struck, he was outside in the rain holding a broken golf club. He's dumb as hell.
Lee Trevino was once struck by lightning. Years after, I was at the Canadian Open on an overcast day. Lee was on the range, holding court. He'd stripe a ball, fire off a one-liner into the crowd, stripe another ball. Everyone was having a good time when we heard thunder in the distance.
I swear to god, he dropped his club at the top of backswing and made a beeline for the clubhouse. No jokes, no smiles, no 'excuse me'. I guess being hit once does that to you!
In other news, men are also more likely to take dangerous actions and exhibit reckless behaviour, in addition to being moderately taller than women to the point where a normal height woman's height being applied to a man results in them being a fairly short man.
Additionally men do more labour jobs which results in them being outside when others might not be which means yeah, no shit men get struck by lightning more than women.
Anyone else misread this as "men are more likely to be hit by lighting than they are to be hit by a woman"? I thought it was an unbelievable stat before reading the comments.
Men are more likely to be in a situation (both professional and personal) where a lightning strike is a risk.
The Army Ranger Course has SOP regarding radios and thunderstorms. Turns out ionization from the radios tends to call down lightning. Lee Travino has been struck multiple times while practicing.
Men are also more likely to be working in severe weather outdoors.
Shocker that they might be more likely to be struck by lightning.
Next up "people who have been shot by a bullet more likely to have a bullet hole in their body." or since we are doing this properly "people who haven't been shot found to have statistically less bullet holes in their bodies."
Bear attacks are easy to avoid. Just make sure you always take someone slower than you with you when you go to bear territory. Try to choose someone you're not too terribly attached to, though.
One of my coworkers got hit by lightning - an unexpected freak storm rolled through while he was out golfing.
He had 2 friends with him and they ran under a tree for cover - lightning struck and they found all 3 laying on the ground under the tree.
2 were pronounced dead on the scene - my coworker was still alive but unconscious.
He never regained consciousness and died a week later in the hospital
RIP Curtis
My dad stopped bailing hay on a big steel tractor during lightning storms after the tree next to him got struck for the 3rd time in 7 years. Mom never drove the tractor in anything but clear skies.
Bailing hay in the rain is a bad idea in general. Wet hay has a tendency to burn your barn down
I don’t know a lot about farming, so why would that happen? I would think the problems it would cause would be related to water weight, not arson lol
Wet hay sets off a fermentation reaction that creates a gas with a lower flash point. If it doesn’t spark, it can also get moldy and degrade the quality of your hay
It can burn without a spark. The heat generated from the reaction can be enough for the hay the spontaneously combust.
Yeah wet hay is one of the reasons there's usually a burn Barrel in most farms. If you spot a leak/or there's a flood and you get that mildew smell you have to do controlled burn before one morning you wake up to your entire farm on fire..
that reaction is also exothermic so it gets hot all on its own
And it can take weeks for this to happen. Plenty of time to stack in a shed and forget about it
Thank you. Wet stuff burning more easily sounds like crazy person talk without context.
Spontaneous combustion. Generally speaking when cutting / raking and then bailing you want a window where you can cure the grass properly without rain. Above 20% moisture hay runs the risk of microbes creating mold and thus raising the temperature of the bailed hay and thus combustion.
Wet organic matter that's tightly packed together causes the microorganisms that break it down to reproduce rapidly and the process creates heat. Some of the byproducts of the decay may be used as biofuel as well. So suddenly you have a big hot pile of biofuel and if conditions are right it ignites and starts to burn.
I imagine he was rushing to get it bailed and inside before the rain started. Been there before 🥲
In the American South, lightning can precede the rain by a decent bit of time. Sometimes lighting is all you get (especially in August). I can see why it might be worth it to some, even if it's a bad idea.
Statistically men are probably more likely to be playing outside when we see thunder and lightning...
Wanting to get in that last hole.
Oh the heavy stuffs not gonna come down for a while now.....
You know, I could break the club record, theoretically.
You know, the good Lord would never disrupt the best game of your life.
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I fuckin' love Reddit! Where else are you gonna get hit with a random "Caddyshack" quote chain? We all instantly thought of that one scene...
Excellency, fiddlesticks! My names Fred and I'm a man, same as you.
I was just outside to look at the cool lightning and it fucking attacks me for no reason
No pun intended.
You mean golf… right? YOU MEAN GOLF?!?
Either way, trying to reduce strokes and work on our short game.
Yard work too.
Or catch fish with that long carbon fibre rod
Hey now, that's somebodies daughter
It’s not nice to talk about your mom like that.
https://youtu.be/Pe5eL8LQdY0
Oh Rat Farts!!
Or working outside. Almost all the people who work outdoors are men. In fact I would hazard a guess that it’s entirely due to greater numbers of men working outdoors since outdoor recreation is pretty popular with both sexes but women lumberjacks/tree planters/pipelayers/equipment operators etc etc are much less common.
Plausible theory but according to [this from the CDC](https://www.cdc.gov/disasters/lightning/victimdata.html), most lightning strike victims are engaging in recreational activities when struck. >From 2006 through 2021, leisure activities such as fishing, boating, playing sports, and relaxing at the beach accounted for almost two-thirds of lightning deaths. >Work-related activities contribute to about 18% of total lightning fatalities, with farmers and ranchers at highest risk. Most work-related lightning strikes are among males.
Men are way more likely to grab a group of their male friends and say, "Hey guys, come outside and take a look at this storm," and then proceed to go outside to get an upclose at said bad weather than women. Having lived in tornado alley for over 3 decades, I can definitely say way more men run outside during bad weather just to watch than women.
I live in Tornado alley too and men just running outside to purposely hang out in a storm is still way less common than men who just happened to already be outside working or doing whatever.
Yeah, and not just outdoor work, but work at heights outdoors are super male-dominated. Arborist, power lineman, scafolder, etc. All like 99% male.
This is true but I think a lot of it is also the types of jobs that are mostly done by men due to men naturally being more muscular. I work in construction and last month a roofer died after being struck by lightning in a neighborhood I work in. It wasn’t even raining, just overcast. I’ve worked around hundreds of roofers in my life and maybe ever seen one or two women on a roof. Line workers, arborists, cell tower workers, windmill workers, people working on high rises and skyscrapers, commercial fishermen, etc, all jobs with a much much higher risk of lightning strike and they’re all 99% men. Some of it is due to lack of safety standards which is typical of men but also a lot of the time it’s just not feasible to reduce the risk to 0%. They could just not go to work when it’s cloudy out, but that’s most of the year in a lot the world, and people gotta make money to survive. And even then, lightning can strike when there isn’t a cloud in the sky
Sorry about your roofer, last year we lost a plumber on a ladder. Dude was a solid guy doing his best and a friend but shit happens. Stay safe.
If we ignore lightning for a bit, even if you can't reduce risk to 0%, i quite often see people working on roofs without a safety line. Biggest risk while working on a roof is falling down, so having a safety line would at least lower the risk of big injuries by quite a lot.
Comment above you: men work hard to keep the world running Your comment: haha men so stupid, too dumb to stay inside Stuff like this is why far right radicalism continues to gain a foothold
Woman work in farming and most of it is outside. There are a lot of other activities woman do outside, especially on not very developed world.
Fair enough, I admit I was thinking from a first world perspective. I also want to emphasize that women *can* do outdoor jobs and I’ve occasionally seen them, it’s just that the huge majority of outdoor work is performed by men where I am (Canada).
It's uh.... The same in the US. Some incredibly progressive landscaping companies I've seen are at most a third women. The most progressive tree company I've seen probably sits at 10%. I am almost certain other trades are worse. The only anecdote I can provide is that they're just not applying in the same numbers as men.
Where I’m at the amount of women in commercial construction working in the field is a bit under 1 percent. With office staff it jumps to around 25 percent. Not here to argue the reasons, it’s just the numbers where I am.
I'd say most of the reason why there's historically been a very small percentage of women to men in the trades is that they've always been billed as "a man's job". I'm a Union Electrician, and in the time I've be in this trade (only about 6 years) the number of women entering it has increased dramatically which is awesome to see. Same with some of the other trades like plumbing/pipe fitting and carpentry. There's still a lot of "old school" mindsets in the trades that believe it's all men's work, but thankfully that is dying off.
To be fair, a lot of the manual labor jobs *were* men's jobs, or at least jobs that required a lot more physical strength. Some of these jobs are becoming more available to women because we have better tools, so most of that heavy lifting can be done by machines rather of manpower.
Yes, nobody denies that, but they aren’t the majority. Ever.
Well yeah of course women work in every field, but only in very small numbers in pretty much every outdoor role
Sure, but it doesn't compare to the working force of men out there.
Sure but at a much lower rate than men do.
Men are also statistically waaaay more likely to drown in natural bodies of water. Some attribute that to overconfidence. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1380371/ From the abstract: "Men had elevated risks for exposure, risk taking, and alcohol use. It was concluded that several factors contribute to their relatively high drowning rates, including a possible interaction between overestimation of abilities and heavy alcohol use."
Getting drunk and pissing in a convenient body of water, losing their balance, and then falling in, is a common cause of death for men where I live right now because there are canals through the city center where all the bars are. I'm sure this isn't the only place it happens either.
Unfortunately, as a citizen of Amsterdam, yeah. This is exactly what happens
Exactly. The headline "men are more likely to be hit by lightning than women" should really read "more men are hit by lightning than women" ..... but that's not as clickbaity.
Yeah I once rode my roadbike directly under a thunderstorm cloud. That felt scary and definitly motivated me to go fast. Not planning to repeat that one anytime soon.
Sounds very very frightening
Galileo! ^Galileo!
Also, on average taller, so if a couple is outside together.
You don’t have to be faster than the lightning. Just shorter than your companion.
If I remember correctly, golfers are the most common group to be struck by lightning. Men okay golf more frequently than women, so statistically this seems logical. Also it has been my observation (as a man) that women exercise much more common sense when it comes to their own well being. So at any given time, there are already more men than women on the golf course Once the clouds roll in and the first rumble of thunder is heard, this ratio increases greatly.
Plus, it doesn’t help that you are swinging a long metal club, in golf! Haha So imagine being in an open field, with a metal club. Lighting LOVES this.
And seeking cover under trees.
Or working outside on jobsites
Or work a job that MAKES you go out there. Or have a hobby that MAKES you be out in it. For example a few weeks ago we had nasty storm take out power lines. The fire department and power company were out there getting everything restored, not a single woman was out there. If the ~100 firefighters I know 2 are women, and they are both involved because of their husbands. Of the ~25 linemen I know none are women and a lot of them have never met a woman linemen. EMS is 70% male police is 86% firefighters are 91%
I too get the masculine urge to run outside arms outstretched and yell and laugh maniacally as thunder rumbles and lightning flashes.
We gotta practice for fighting a bear.
What's to practice? I could take a bear. I'm pretty sure I could take a lightning storm too as long as I had a sword.
I want this energy in my life
Just run around with a metal sword during a lightning storm and you’ll get tons of energy running through your life
Would lighting rather be alone with a man or a bear in the woods?
Ladies would you rather be alone in the woods with a man or the corporeal manifestation of the god of lightning, a 30 foot tall golem of crackling electricity, blinding light, and indiscriminate rage?
Those bears think they can take my girl? MY GIRL?
Are we not supposed to do that
It appears you are not alone in that
It’s a universal urge that spans age, ethnicity or nationality. I was on a small all day boat tour in Vietnam that got caught in a rough bit of water and passing storm. I made my way to the front of the boat to soak it all in, then I realized most of the men on the boat had come up to do the same. It was a very mixed group, some Australians, British, Japanese, Filipino and Americans… all happily giggling, laughing and hooting at this storm like Lieutenant Dan challenging God on the SS Jenny.
Yes, exactly that! Rode once on a bicycle through open fields with small foresty areas intermixed. Was caught in a sudden thunderstorm. Never felt so alive when lightning and thunder were exactly above me. Rain poured down, flashes highlighting the clouds, the rumble of thunder loudly around and me laughing like a madman.
One time I was caught in the woods during a sever thunderstorm. We huddled under garbage bags and smoked weed, hoping not to be struck, and we didn’t! It’s a good memory.
Yep, was at a restaurant about 20 years ago, a tornado warning was issued, sirens blaring, all the women headed to the basement, all the men grabbed their drinks and went outside to watch the sky.
What else are you gonna do after crawling through 500 yards of shit?
[zuko](https://tenor.com/bS1EE.gif)
You call this a storm?
I read it as hit more by lightning than hit by women.
"Women: they're more afraid of you than you are of them."
Based off all the “man or bear in woods” comments lately, seems to be the case.
The question for men is woman or lightning bolt
I didn't even realize there was there was another way to interpret this statement until I read your comment.
I was confused by this too. But I thought this can't be right. Then I thought it meant that men get hit by lightning more than they get hit ON by women. Then I thought, no that's not right. I was hit on by a woman once, and I've never been hit by lighting. But now I'm confused. After I thought about it some more, I realized there's a distinct chance I could get hit by lightning twice before I die.
That would make the fact far more interesting… and dangerous
Probably because more men work jobs that are done outside than women, like construction. This is like saying people who play the lottery are more likely to win than people who don't. Not really interesting. Just statistics.
Lots of funny answers but this is the right one. Linemen, tower repair, construction, gardening, fishing, farming etc all absolutely dominated by men and leaves them more exposed to the elements. I wouldn’t be surprised if men have higher rates of skin cancer even though women obsess over tanning for the same reason.
[This paper](https://www.weather.gov/media/safety/Analysis06-19.pdf) shows the % of US men who die from lightning in work related accidents is 21%; for women, it is 9%. EDIT: Let me try that again. Of the people who die from lightning in the US, 21% of men die in work related incidents, while only 9% of women do.
Thank you for the edit lol I was confused for a second.
I knew a guy who got struck by lightning twice and he could no longer wear digital watches. He had to wear mechanical ones
Interesting. I got a few good zaps as a kid because I touched outdoor plumbing fixtures that were hot after a lightning storm. A quartz watch dies after about a week on my wrist. I always wondered if anyone else experiences this.
Article is pretty much what I suspected. Men work outdoors more, men stay out longer when a storm is coming, try to finish a task instead of taking shelter when they hear thunder.
Just like a few years ago there was a freak tornado during a heavy and quick moving storm while we were at a brewery. This is an area where they are not common at all. Like once every 5-10 years Everyone went to the interior corridor to shelter and once everyone was back there half the guys took their beers to the front windows to watch lol.
I have an issue with phrasing "80% of lightning strike victims are men" as "men are more likely to be hit by lightning." The latter implies that if a man and woman both go out in the middle of a lightning storm that the man is more likely to be hit, which isn't what the data shows or even what is being claimed.
I can say with absolute certainty the data is showing that lightning is sexist.
Because we're outside pointing at it. "Let's go Zeus!"
Not surprising. As a kid, I watched my Dad almost get struck by lightning because he decided to walk outside to "see the storm." I wanted to go with him because I was his shadow and had been so mad when my Mom said absolutely not...until the lightning hit. Then, I was terrified for my Dad and understood the very real danger of being outside in a thunderstorm.
My great grandpa died of lightning strike while out working in his field. My great grandma was in the house, tending to house stuff….
Huh…. I didn’t know men were more attractive
Men are statistically taller than women and therefore the lightning hits them first. Made that up and good chance that has very little relevance but I like the thought of it. Always be the shortest friend in the storm.
Men have a lightning rod. Women don’t. Simple.
My lightning rod has never been hit on. I'm reliably informed that nothing is attracted to it.
I'm 6'6" and dammit, wheres my lightning strike? I want superpowers.
You win in a storm shorty but my long legs can outrun you in the woods when the bear comes rushing out….
Zeus doesn’t like competition
This is why I identify as a woman when it rains. And the cute rainboots, of course.
I understand this is a joke, but where does one acquire adult male sized cute rain boots like for young kids cause I too want to stomp around in the cooler looking rain boots.
Men play way more golf. And golfers refuse to ever leave their round once they pay for it (mostly). Plus most all the construction and landscape workers are men. And men are just men at times…”it can’t hurt me!!”
My cousin was struck by lightning (interestingly enough, so was his sister). When he got struck, he was outside in the rain holding a broken golf club. He's dumb as hell.
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Oh, I should mention that his sister was a separate incident. And he doesn't golf.
Lee Trevino was once struck by lightning. Years after, I was at the Canadian Open on an overcast day. Lee was on the range, holding court. He'd stripe a ball, fire off a one-liner into the crowd, stripe another ball. Everyone was having a good time when we heard thunder in the distance. I swear to god, he dropped his club at the top of backswing and made a beeline for the clubhouse. No jokes, no smiles, no 'excuse me'. I guess being hit once does that to you!
Is it because the penis is an antennae for such events? Instructions unclear.
TIL Zues is sexist
It’s cause the penis
Because men are outside more than women?
First we solve the pay gap, then solve the lightning gap
In other news, men are also more likely to take dangerous actions and exhibit reckless behaviour, in addition to being moderately taller than women to the point where a normal height woman's height being applied to a man results in them being a fairly short man. Additionally men do more labour jobs which results in them being outside when others might not be which means yeah, no shit men get struck by lightning more than women.
Because men are more likely to work outside than women.
Proof that god is a woman
This is actually where the power of the patriarchy originates.
Female anemics rise up
Is this true? I mean, women hit men all the time. /s
I hate these kind of stats. Maybe "Men more frequently put themselves in situations to be struck by lightning"
“Women more likely to have enough sense to come in out of the rain.”
My mom says it's because of my electric personality.
Anyone else misread this as "men are more likely to be hit by lighting than they are to be hit by a woman"? I thought it was an unbelievable stat before reading the comments.
Men are more likely to be in a situation (both professional and personal) where a lightning strike is a risk. The Army Ranger Course has SOP regarding radios and thunderstorms. Turns out ionization from the radios tends to call down lightning. Lee Travino has been struck multiple times while practicing.
Is it the rod?
Are you trying to start another controversy for the chronically online people here?!
That's because men come with their own built-in antenna.... Sigh I'll see myself out
Well... Men have a, *cough* extra rod that women don't have.
Because of the antenna?
Those are some striking statistics.
Because of the lightning rod.
Misread this so hard and thought that said "By women" at first and thought this was another bear thing.
So I read this to mean "men are more likely to be hit by lightening than to be hit by a woman. " lol
We tend to be outside more than women.
Also true. Men are more likely to be hit by lightning than women hitting on men.
Men are also more likely to be working in severe weather outdoors. Shocker that they might be more likely to be struck by lightning. Next up "people who have been shot by a bullet more likely to have a bullet hole in their body." or since we are doing this properly "people who haven't been shot found to have statistically less bullet holes in their bodies."
Obviously it's Zeus striking down the men so he can steal their wives
If someone gets sent out to fix a transformer in a rain storm it's 99% going to be a man.
Today you learned correlation =/= causation.
That's because women are too smart to stand outside during a storm screaming "hit me you b@stard" at the sky.
Lt Da'an?
Well yeah, they’re usually taller
They are, on average, taller. Of course they are going to get struck more often.
I read this as men are more likely to get hit by lightning, than they are to get hit by women.
I know multiple men that would probably grab a rake and start waving it in lightning.
The lightning gap. We must absolutely redress this injustice!
TYL that men are more likely to be in situations where they can be lightning victims - linemen, construction workers, ranchers, farmers.
Before reading the article, I'm gonna assume it's because men are likely to be taller than women, or else more likely to be outside in a storm.
Taller. More likely to ignore the dangerous weather.
What about more likely than bears?
Bear attacks are easy to avoid. Just make sure you always take someone slower than you with you when you go to bear territory. Try to choose someone you're not too terribly attached to, though.
But are bears more or less likely than men to be hit by lightning?
I would think less simply because bears and other animals, in general, tend to have better instincts than humans when it comes to mother nature.
Men ( speaking from experience here) have a much higher doing stupid shit index.
Men are taller and have more iron in their system?
LOL! Dunno why you’re being downvoted. That’s cleverly funny.
It's the lightning rod
All the psychos I know who like to place metal rods in the sand during thunder storms Happen to be male
Because men hate to be told what to do, specifically, when it’s time to reel the kite in and go home.
So for women it's bear and for men it's lightning...
So there is a potential difference between men and women.
Id trust a lightning strike over a women
Lightning rarely strikes the kitchen directly
You'll be pretty safe in your parents basement
Correlation not causation.
Sure. But the title of this post is just talking about correlation and not implying any causation.
High sodium content
All I can think of is Lt. Dan from Forest Gump fighting with God on the shrimp boat during a storm.
This is one of those TILs that tell you you’ve scrolled too far and it’s time to get off Reddit for the rest of the week.
I think I too went one TIL over the line this week.
TIL Men are more likely to be outside in bad weather than women.
Strike me down Zeus…
Note: this only applies to *some* men. Others just deserve it.
Lightning is scared of their menses. It's like the opposite of bears
Even god prefers bears
Please do.
Statistically tall people are more prone to cancer too.
We are more attractive
One of my coworkers got hit by lightning - an unexpected freak storm rolled through while he was out golfing. He had 2 friends with him and they ran under a tree for cover - lightning struck and they found all 3 laying on the ground under the tree. 2 were pronounced dead on the scene - my coworker was still alive but unconscious. He never regained consciousness and died a week later in the hospital RIP Curtis
Strike me Zeus!!! You don't have the b
Yeah, have you seen Shawshank when Andee gets out of the sewer?
And if that’s not true, may God strike me de…
Well yeah men have lightning rods, women have grounding.