Saw this a while back on YouTube - plenty of professional electricians in the comments there who say they got so many callbacks on Wago, but never for wire-nut.

Personally I've had one fail (I didn't install it though) - my bathroom which was partially remodeled < 2 years prior, the light above the sink started flickering randomly. I checked each bulb, they were fine, so I opened up the switch box - and there were some of those Wago-style (a cheaper knock-off I suspect) that were quite loose when tugged. So I removed them, used wire-nuts, and it's been totally stable since.
The other benefit to wire-nuts is that twisting the copper wires around each other greatly increases the contacting surface area. (the surface of a wire is where the electrons/holes flow)

from this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jqImhd8Ggc you can see that he's coiling copper wire around a pipe (using a lathe to save time).

Now explain copper wire finger stabbings!

My name is Ray. I was born in Vancouver, BC (not the little one in Washington). I've lived in Vancouver, Victoria, Abbotsford, Calgary, Barrie, Angus, Wasaga Beach, Borden, Annapolis Royal, and Halifax. Oops, I forgot Denver. I currently live in Fort Langley, BC. I'm not nearly as interesting as everyone else on the sift. The most interesting things I've done are to get arrested a couple of times and I once threw a piece of copper wire across the trolley lines at Fourth and Trimble and shorted out all the buses from Main Street to UBC. And I think I may be the oldest person on here but I'm not saying how old.

Oh and my avatar, clearly inspired by "The Big Lebowski". I chose it one night after, on a whim, I became an ordained minister of The Church of the Latter Day Dude

It is NOT impervious you stupid fucks. Learn some physics. First of all, EM frequencies over a few (tens?) of kHz can go right through this faraday cage.

Also this high voltage might also easily penetrate the chicken wire. The thing is that the path to ground is less resistance to follow the chicken wire then to go past it. If you had a huge grounded copper wire on the other side of the chicken wire it would go right "through" it to the wire in your hand.

In fact it appears the chicken wire doesn't even need to be there, all the arc'ing is to the large metal rods that support the cage. The chicken wire probably isn't doing jack shit.

Finally, it isn't even a faraday cage, because I see hige gaps between the two horizontal support rods.

Stupidest title ever.

"Interesting anecdote about her is that she once stole a piece of perfect maple from a university phonebooth, replacing it with a replica. Cool lady."

schmawy

I stole some copper phone wire from the town and replaced it with cheepo standerd wire , so i could use the copper wire in my headphones dose this make me a cool man ? or a selfish robber ?

Darcus Howe's a bit of a tool. I couldn't find a clip of his appearance on Brass Eye, but here's a transcript:

Chris Morris: I’m sitting opposite a man, he knows nothing, he talks all the time, the result is he’s a trenchant buffoon, he had no idea how to present television shows, he looks ridiculous in that fashion wear. He swans around all the time hoping that people will recognise him, when infact nobody’s even remotely interested. He’s taken up enough time on this show already and he hasn’t even opened his mouth. God knows why he’s here, I’ve nothing to ask the guy. And for all I know he may be a coco shunter too. Darcus Howe.
DH: What’s a coco shunter?
CM: Coco Shunter? That’s just what I’ve got, er, oh, sorry, that’s the introduction to Robert Elms.

btw,

Who invented copper wire?
Two jews fighting over a penny.

A nigger and a spic in a car; who's driving?
The cop.

What's the difference between the pile of dead niggers in my garage and the pile of dead babies in my garage?
I didn't fuck the pile of dead niggers.

"We've gotten too interested in the way we deliver content and not what we deliver."

I understand he's just pointing out perceived psuedo-journalism of blogs, but I disagree with this point. I've got an ipod BECAUSE it delivers content in a better way, not because I'm particularly interested in the 'copper wire' underneath. People read blogs BECAUSE they present info quickly and with interactability in individualized ways, and sacrifice some of the checks and balances of traditional journalism mostly because they feel they are capable of relying on their own continually adjusted 'bullshit' meter.

TV channels are like rides at a theme park, while the internet is a like having a car with nearly limitless fuel... you can go and do what you want when you want to, but you sacrifice having a team checking and maintaining the safety and reliability of your ride.

Mixing the metaphor up a bit, you can find sources of info online that utilize 'theme park' teams to check and maintain best practices, like newspaper blogs, which this old-timer may not have had pointed out to him yet.

So anyhow, long story short, I disagree with his analysis, and would like to note that he is literally about 10 years behind the curve in his "predictions".

I think the era of the fake how to video may have passed. its an induction bulb, you can see the coil of copper wire inside the neck, it can be lit by exposing it to an external emf.

solid copper wire is pretty expensive these days. I'd say a US dollar per foot at 10 gauge, and you might have trouble finding less than 15 feet.

....great concept, this will get those kids off their lille asses, and out the door for some fresh air, eh/??..

....110 voltage, with resistance in-line, is a great party favor, too....take a lamp cord, separate and strip the sheilding, off the inner copper wire....put a light bulb in-line, then take the bare ends, one in each hand, and squeeze....the harder you squeeze, the brighter the light will become, and the more your muscles will contract from the voltage,....this may be the only resistance some may ever experience.......

and no, that is not how I got this way, either!...