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I think my grandpa once told me you could first touch ground, then load (or whatever it's called in English) with the same hand and would be fine. Just make sure to let go of load first or you'll ground it through your body and that would be no fun.
I never did try it. His confidence in some things bordered on recklessness, much to his wife's horror at times. He was fairly healthy up until a stroke at 85, so maybe he knew what he was doing. Or maybe he just got lucky so often it becomes indistinguishable from skill.
I think in theory he was correct, but you had better be confident in that ground wire's actual connection to ground.
Well, with his house, he will have been very confident. With my current apartment, I'm glad at least three of the four light switches correspond to actual lights. No clue what the fourth one is supposed to toggle. No way in hell am I trusting the ground wire.