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Tens
Tens by Aidan Brooks June 7, 2005
Tens
What listeners of the Seattle-based podcast Too Beautiful to Live (TBTL) are called and what they call themselves. Stemming from the early days of TBTL as a radio show on Seattle's KIRO when the host, Luke Burbank, would refer to the "literally tens of listeners," instead of hundreds or thousands. This title has since been adopted by the listeners and is now often prefaced with a town, region, or neighborhood or integrated into the name of a town, state, etc.
TENS
This stands for Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation. It is used by sending an electrical current through particular parts of the body to block pain in chronic pain situations. Some people use this as a fetish object, where they use the TENS machine to shock various parts of themselves for pleasure (see electrophilia)
Ex1:
Football player: My back hurts.
Doctor: I'm going to put you on this TENS machine for a while, so that it will block the pain.
Ex2:
Sally: I like shocking myself.
Guy: WTF? Well, how do you do it?
Sally: I hook myself up to this TENS machine. It feels stronger than a violet wand, and I like it!
Football player: My back hurts.
Doctor: I'm going to put you on this TENS machine for a while, so that it will block the pain.
Ex2:
Sally: I like shocking myself.
Guy: WTF? Well, how do you do it?
Sally: I hook myself up to this TENS machine. It feels stronger than a violet wand, and I like it!
TENS by Fractal-Pterodactyl July 22, 2012