Jack Elfrink Dot Com

I find Damsel in Distress play a heck of a lot of fun. But I find myself at a bit of a loss on how to pull off any kind of threat. The hardboild detective, after he has tied the haughty heiress to a chair, cant exactly groul ‘Looks toots, ya tell us where you hid the diamonds or else I am going to …. er ….. going to …. or else I am going to ask you again where you hid the diamonds’

In my quest to come up with a good menacing threat to use doing play (that is still safe) I have been exploring some with electrical play. Clasic vilian movies has the intergeration involve getting zaped by jumper cables or whatnot. But in exploring electrical play, the experts havent been very helpful to me.

Electiral play is freakin expensive. Either violet wands are tens units cost several hundred bucks at least. And theres all kinds of stuff you have to know about volts and amps and ohms that I just get mixed up with each other. The people who love electrical play are more than willing to talk my ear off about the subject. But I realy dont want to do electrical play full force. I want to do detective play with electricity being a tool to go about it.

People who are experts in their field frequently get a bad wrap. Their knoledge is too specilized. T D Lee would have a hard time explaining what he except to a small handfull of his coluges. But get Bill Nye the Science Guy and he can explain it in a way that a lot more people could grasp. But this dosent meen that a nobel laureate is less of an expert on quantum phisics than some tv hack.

There is also a distrust of experts because of their background. This is what drives me up the wall abotu consparicy theorists. Who is going to know more about the behavior of the metal in the suport structures of the WTC colapse? A guy with a docterial degree in meturligical engenering? Or a fastfood worker livign in his parents basement who has watched hours upon hours of footage on the net? Well, as the guy with the meturigila engenering degree once recived money from a government grant, consparicy theorists say he has been ‘bought off’ and cant be trusted. The fast food worker, as he dosent have anything vested in the issue, can offer a more netural and honest opinion that the consparicy theorists say is ‘fair’.

I would still take the opinion of the expert.

So lets take that same thought and apply it to electrical play. Now an amazing little toy I found a while ago is the TAZapper.  Fits the bill perfectly for the kind of electrical play Im wanting. Its relitivly inexpensive. Easy to use. No complext knoledge abotu volts aor amps to understand. Just push the button and poke with it. It provides the nessasary amount of fear and dread for a good damsel in distress scene withotu going full out into electrical play.

Now also know that the owner of the website that sells these is someone who I have vended at events with. Iv talked business oportunities with them abotu a difrent product they make. That never quite got off the ground, but I do have a business linkage to them even if it is kind of murky.

So does this meen the TAZapper isnt a good solution to the damsel in distress play question I had to begin with? Well, I dont think so. The relationship to the person, or the neturalityand transparicy any relationship we have together, dosent impact the fact that I still think its a great toy.

I have got advice from people who are my major competotos business wise. I have had major competetors of mine ask for my advice. Information, if its through and compleet information, is independent of the mesenger.

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