[General] "drop the head dryer and kill ouselves"

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maiabulela

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Dear all,

A boyfriend and a girlfriend were so annoyed beacause of a certain situation:

The girlfriend: What do you wanna do?
The boyfriend: We can go stand in a puddle and drop your hair dryer in it. Kill ourselves.

What is the meaning of that? What any "puddle" has anything to do with killing one's self with the hairdryer (which I think here that they are gonna kill themselves by it's wire)

Can you kindly explaiin this image?

Thanks a lot.
 

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Dear all,

A boyfriend and a girlfriend were so annoyed beacause of a certain situation:

The girlfriend: What do you wanna do?
The boyfriend: We can go stand in a puddle and drop your hair dryer in it. Kill ourselves.

What is the meaning of that? What any "puddle" has anything to do with killing one's self with the hairdryer (which I think here that they are gonna kill themselves by it's wire)

Can you kindly explaiin this image?

Thanks a lot.
If you stand in water and put a live electrical appliance in the water, there is a strong possibility that you will receive a fatal electric shock.
 

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maiabulela;654770 What any "puddle" has anything to do with killing one's self with the hairdryer (which I think here that they are gonna kill themselves by it's wire) >[/QUOTE said:
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Well, actually you can kill somebody with a hairdryer if it's plugged and the person is in the water. I know it's always better to see once than to hear many times, but if I were you I wouldn't experiment with it.
 

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Dear all,

A boyfriend and a girlfriend were so annoyed beacause of a certain situation:

The girlfriend: What do you wanna do?
The boyfriend: We can go stand in a puddle and drop your hair dryer in it. Kill ourselves.

What is the meaning of that? What any "puddle" has anything to do with killing one's self with the hairdryer (which I think here that they are gonna kill themselves by it's wire)

Can you kindly explaiin this image?

Thanks a lot.
I imagine the boy was joking. If you dropped a hair-dryer in a puddle it might short out and let fly a few sparks, but I doubt very much if the current would arc up to their naked flesh. Perhaps he's referring to a recurrent issue he has with her - always telling her not to use the hair-dryer while she's in the bath.

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