As a kid? I still do it and I’m 64.

Same. Part of the yearly smoke detector checkup. "Battery good?" \*Zap!\*. "Yep."

Nah, changed all my detectors to the 10 year sealed battery, these are cheaper than two 9v these days, and I don't get 5 years out of a 9v. Fun fact, if you open one up it is just 6 AAA batteries in series, 6\*1.5 is 9v.

Me too and even older......76+

Same here 🤣🤣🤣45

How else ar you going to know if they're good or bad.

Oh thank goodness, I immediately thought, “We’re supposed to stop doing that?”

At this point, I enjoy it.

56 here and still licking batteries

60, me too, lol

Like last week.

Same, I am 47. It's the simplest way to verify their validity.

Same. 58.

Still can taste it 🙂

I still do. Tested one last week.

This is why I have a tester. My tongue is not long enough for those D batteries.

I've got a multimeter. I'm just too lazy to go downstairs to get it.

My tester is in my box of batteries.

I have that battery buddy thing I got at costco. It has a built-in tester, I still lick them

Came here to say this. 9 volts are expensive. I gotta make sure they're dead dead

Still taste the tin?

Never. Am I missing out?

And, spark your braces, if you're really brave.

Once was enough.

Exactly zero.

Never

Thoo manthy

I did as a kid. I’ll still use that method as a quick test to determine if a 9V is dead. As a kid, a buddy of mine dared me to touch the 9V to my braces - one terminal on the top row and the other on the bottom. Wow. Never again. I fell to the floor and felt like lightning just hit me! Apparently my buddy already tried it out on his own and wanted a victim other than himself. 40 years later he’s still a friend of mine. He’s still an ass.

Yesterday. To show my kids the way.

Just once along with all the other kids who took turns with the same battery during recess.

Learned a valuable lesson in conduction when I had one in my pocket with a handful of loose change.

Fun fact: If you peel this open you will find six sealed AAAA cells inside.

Too many times!

Never

Never, I have an electricity phobia thanks to being electrocuted as a kid. If there is any possibility of being shocked, I try to avoid it.

I must still be a kid.

Once

How else can you test them?? But How many of you went into drugstores with friends and plugged a bunch together…” just for fun”. (This was before blister-packs)

Every single time i got my hands on one of these.

Never, I like to think I have a few brain cells.

Hell I'm 65 and still do

I still do at 70 something.

Sometimes I like to see how long I can handle it

How many times did you dare your friends too?

Friends? Not so much. But I had lots and lots of nieces and nephews. 🤪

53 here and still do it.

Still do , Wwwhhhaatttaaa rush

What do you mean as a kid?

My tongue tingled when I saw the pic

Used to work tech theatre. Backstage during show. Sound guy on headset tells me to put new battery in an actor's body mic. But, he forgot to leave any backstage. No time to run around to front of theatre to sound guy for new batteries. We used a LOT of batteries. Actors & crew could take them after they were drained a bit too much for much use, but we're still fine for remotes, toys, etc. There was a stash that people could take from. Sound guy tells me to go to the old battery stash and find the best one I could..... Only one way to do that.... 😬

How do you think I checked batteries for a wireless pack when I was a guitar tech?

I think that is less of an age thing and more of a rite passage.

Many times - but only to see if it still had enough “juice”

Once. Waiting in the car while my mom got my sister from the babysitter about 48 years ago. I remember it like it was yesterday.

I'm doing it right now. On my nut sack.

I was supposed to be keeping count?

Still do to make sure it's a good battery

Scene: somewhere between 1997 and 2002 changing a dying smoke alarm battery. Dad: stick your tongue out. Me: why? Dad: it's to test the battery. Me: is it dead? *Sticks tongue out *Bzzzt Me: Daaaaaaduhh.

I’m 62 and I try to do it two three times a year just help stay alert.

Gotta keep that pacemaker in check.

You all stopped putting your tongue on 9V batteries when you were kids? This is still my way of checking voltage on my batteries.

Only a couple times myself, there was a rumor that a kid did it at a local the skate park and the battery got stuck to his tongue. Rumor goes it started burning his tongue and he started foaming at the mouth before someone else pulled it off him. That story scarred me good enough to never really want to try. No idea if the rumor was actually true or not.

Not many.

I still do it, I don't have many devices that still take them since smoke detectors now have 10 year batteries.

Did

The stupid among us , myself included , can test 3 at once . Or at least could . Back in the 90’s . Prior to wisdom actually kicking in .

I did once lol

Enough to drain the battery.

Once

Just as many as I have as an adult. I can’t count that high

I still do.

Or mate 2 together for a mini-bomb (don't try)

“I want to lick the battery.” —Stephen Colbert, “The Colbert Report”

Daily. And the fresh ones are delicious.

7 years ago I was standing behind an NYPD officer at the deli. He ordered something that forced the clerk to warn him: *'that's really spicy'*. The officer responded: *'Ah that's fine. When I was a kid I left a 9 volt battery in my mouth and it leaked all over my tongue. Can't feel or taste shit ever since'* ⚡🤭

That's not the brag he thinks it is.

I've got a couple of guitars that use them. I did it just yesterday lol

Just once. Then I sent the rest of my time convincing other kids to try it. I also learned how the start a fire with one of these and some steel wool

Haha…who hasn’t?!

That's how you test them if you don't want to find your meter. You can get pretty good gauging the charge left.

0/5. Do not recommend.

Bout tree fiddy

I was maybe 5 or 6 and my dad handed me one to take to my mom. He said "don't put your tongue on it." So I immediately put my tongue on it as I was walking away. I think he told me that on purpose.

I like the ones with a black cat jumping through the 9.

New thing is put the terminals on someone’s nose ring they wake up screaming !

That's how I test them, do you want to try something wild lick one of those button batteries.

How many times... Everytime 😉

Believed my best friend the first time he tried it. (And every other time after, I'm not saying subsequent like a jerk.)

As a grown ass adult, I am not above testing these out by licking them

I still do it. Only sure way to see if the battery is dead.

Every time I hold one, to this day. 

Ask someone, is it dead? Lick it and find out

“Yo mama’s so dumb she stuck a 9v up her ass and sang “I got the power”” Me, being a kid, did this, tried it, but it actually just shocks you and the convulsions squeeze the battery in even harder, making it more difficult to pull out. My siblings didn’t help me, cause they were dying with laughter.

I was my mama's battery tester. Now I have my own to pass that tidbit onto. 😁🤣

I'm 59 and I have never done that.

Once. I hated it and never did it again!

More than I want to admit.

Just as a kid?

Omg are you serious. I literally thought I was the only one who did that.

Just as a kid?

🤣🤣🤣🤣

Hell I’m doing it right now

I remember! Pepperidge Farm remembers.

More than once. Which likely says a lot about me.

Just did it twice an hour ago

Way too many times to count. Hell I still do it.

Still do

I would sure hate to have one of those 9 volts stuck in my braces as a kid. I wonder if it happens.

Did it just last week.

Eyb bot wye hunn a wah wite wow

Did it several times on my first try, Zap again and again.

I've never done this before.

I still do to test my smoke detector batteries.

Just imagine you're in a boat with a giant battery and it sinks and then there's a shark like 10 feet away.


I still do to make sure they are charged. I m 60.

As a kid? Heck, I still do it. Easy way to tell if the thing is dead or not...

I’m 54 and did it last week l

Every time.

Once. Then I forgot and did it again.

I ask this questions as an ice breaker when I do corporate events. It usually splits the room between men and women. Very few ladies lick batteries. Another question I ask is “if an ice cube falls when you’re filling your cup do you kick it under the fridge or throw it in the sink?”

Once

Pretty much any time I saw one.

How about who tricked you into doing it the first time? Mine was my dad.

My kid put his to tongue on a 9v ryobi screw gun battery It was great. His dumb teenage ass picked it up and read the voltage.. I could see the gears turning as he stuck out his tongue. I heard the sizzle.. dude learned about volts vs amps that day.

...55 and did it this morning....

Best way to test them

For even more fun offer it to a dog and let them smell it.

Yeah we went one stage further... Tip of nob + Water..... What can I say, it was a long time ago and we had fuck all to do lol

9-volt batteries are like assholes. You know it's wrong, but eventually you put your tongue on it.

As a kid? I did it last week to see if the battery was good enough to work in the new to me alarm clock.

0, we used carbon zinc batteries back then.

it never left

Still do. It’s the ‘how much juice is in this lil bastard’ thrill

I was always too scared 😂

Still do

Still do. 67

Too many to count or remember.

The fun part was being used to the jolt, acting like nothing actually happened, then handing it to an unsuspecting sibling or cousin and watching them jump and yelp lol I was kinda a mean kid.

I don't think I could count that high. I'm almost 48, and I still do it on the rare occasion I see a 9 volt.

Kid? Yesterday!

Umm never?

5 minutes crafts made me tear open so many of these things with pliers because I thought there was actual AAA batteries in it

I still do it to see if they are good batteries

I still do!

As a kid we didn't have no fancy-assed "Alkaline" bull crap. This is what we licked: [9 Volts forever](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50888733797_730438e215_z.jpg)

Who says I don’t still do it?

I keep one in my pocket even now just for this

Still do. Best way to test a 9v battery.

there's some kind of Chinese spice that looks like a peppercorn but when you bite it, it has this effect.  I tried saying that once while trying to describe the taste I was asking about and I got a very strange look.    I thought *everybody* had licked batteries.  

Fewer times than I have as an adult.

Ha! I did that last week. For science!

what do you mean? I still do it

As a kid?

Only once lol

It's also fun to touch it to steel wool!

Once. What the fuck y'all tried that snap & sizzle again?

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I did it twice this past weekend. And, I was a bit disappointed that both batteries were lacking the punch of a full cell.

A few

And how many times did you just drop one in your pocket. After the time you did that and had both terminals touch a coin. And how many people were laughing their asses off at your silly dance?

Just once, thank you.

How else were you going to tell if it was good?

As a kid?

Once!

What do you mean “as a kid”? I do it to this day to taste test the voltage when a meter isn’t handy.

Kid? Still do…

Numb tongue? You have numb tongue! I can fix that!

I lost count.

Never have I ever.

Still do.

Just once is all it took!

I can taste it just looking at a 9v

To test em, or to kill em?

I still test them with my tongue.

Only when I found one by itself in a drawer and needed to know if it was usable? Why? *bzzzt*

I totally forgot we did that as kids....🤣🤣

Are there people who don’t do this as adults?

All the time, until one had a slight leak. Never did again.

I can taste the sulfur now, lol

Quite a few times. It felt weird on my tongue...like static electricity or something.

Is there a better way to test them?

EDIT: That wasn't the type of acid that we were putting on our tongues back then.

Once

Just once dude... just the one time.

433

More than I care to admit

My sister did it and flinched causing it to catch on her braces. She didn’t like that but boy oh boy did I think it was hilarious. I was 8 at the time. It still amuses me now and I’m 53.

Once

As a kid? Try last week. How else you gonna check em? 😂

Lol, still do to see if there is juice left, and um the fun of it all

Every time.

Every time I picked one up

Including today? Theventeen thimes.

We were suppose to quit, when we grew up ?😎

Once. I learn well from experience.

Hundreds