Haha! It DOES seem so 80’s! I wonder why. It must have been the clothing materials and the type of hair products people were wearing and using back them. I remember having static cling in my clothes and my hair back in the 80’s, but now it’s very rare if I encounter it at all! I just love how you’ve put it in its place: “Static cling is SO 80’s”! What a hoot!
laura k.
17 years ago
i think it was INVENTED in the 80s. that’s when it became a problem, according to the marketing people, who decided to create it and then create products to eliminate it. i am no scientist, but i believe that static is somehow related to winter [dry air, electrons, stuff like that”>. i only get shocks in the winter in my apartment and other places. static pretty much doesn’t exist in summer.
yes its is the dry air. my car door shocks me sometime in the winter. my old acura never shocked me like my volkswagen does. i wonder why. prolly b.c japanese cars are better AND nicer.
I saw a billboard yesterday for a shampoo that helps eliminate static. I guess the problem still exists! Who knew!?
donna
17 years ago
i totally remember that commercial with the lady in the beige pumps getting all pissed off about her skirt being staticky. what a bother! but thanks to beef tallow, no more static! http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/may98/892692114.Ch.r.html yay for cows! i still think it’s cool to see static electricity in the dark though!
Haha! It DOES seem so 80’s! I wonder why. It must have been the clothing materials and the type of hair products people were wearing and using back them. I remember having static cling in my clothes and my hair back in the 80’s, but now it’s very rare if I encounter it at all! I just love how you’ve put it in its place: “Static cling is SO 80’s”! What a hoot!
i think it was INVENTED in the 80s. that’s when it became a problem, according to the marketing people, who decided to create it and then create products to eliminate it. i am no scientist, but i believe that static is somehow related to winter [dry air, electrons, stuff like that”>. i only get shocks in the winter in my apartment and other places. static pretty much doesn’t exist in summer.
yes its is the dry air. my car door shocks me sometime in the winter. my old acura never shocked me like my volkswagen does. i wonder why. prolly b.c japanese cars are better AND nicer.
just one more mark against winter…
I saw a billboard yesterday for a shampoo that helps eliminate static. I guess the problem still exists! Who knew!?
i totally remember that commercial with the lady in the beige pumps getting all pissed off about her skirt being staticky. what a bother! but thanks to beef tallow, no more static! http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/may98/892692114.Ch.r.html yay for cows! i still think it’s cool to see static electricity in the dark though!
i’m stupid for saying this, but i think less people have wall-to-wall carpeting in their homes, so there’s less instances of static cling
i have wall-to-wall carpeting.
i don’t
if i touch my computer or mouse before de-shocking myself [touching the file cabinet first”>, one of my external drive unmounts itself. it’s weird.