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People who joke about legos haven't stepped on this bad boy
UK sockets usually have switches on them. There's no need to unplug things when you're not using them.
Also, Lego is a collective noun. Saying legos is exactly like saying sheeps.
But what about when you need to plug your hair dryer in and need to remove a lamps plug and it ends up on the floor and then you get a knock at the door and its your friend and you go out and forget all about it until you get home and completely fuck your own feet
Why not drop the plug at the wall instead of in the middle of the floor where you walk, or get a multisocket? £3.99 at Argos for a little one.
All these questions and more will be asked on the floor, clutching ones foot
What a weird sex toy, what shapes are British anuses?!
Boris Johnson is practically leftist compared to Trump.
Not sure why that's relevant. Good political position Vs Trump isn't exclusively what makes him an abyss, but Boris managed to achieve Brexit levels of damage to the UK.
30,000 or so unnecessary deaths because he delayed lockdown.
Partied breaking his own rules while the Queen mourned her husband in isolation, not allowed to have anyone sat next to her at the funeral.
Like trump, a born liar and bulshitter.
Best plug+receptor design in the world for electrical safety.
Worst plug design in the world for bottom of foot safety.
Australia's is way better lmao
Best plug+receptor design in the world for electrical safety.
That’s debatable. The plug safety features only exist because of the UK’s uniquely substandard wiring.
No it isn't. It's debatable if the safety features are still necessary with modern wiring and electric code imporovments, but the features are objectively there, and they objectively make the plugs safer.
And the design of these features wasn't because of "substandard" wiring. It is because the UK used to use ring circuits in old houses, which are unsuitable to be protected by central breaker boards with breakers for each room, necessitating fuses in the plugs. That doesn't make the system any less safe. As long as a fuse is present, and the circuits are adequately sized, where precisely on the circuit a fuse is located is irrelevant.
Also, the fuse inside the plug provides an utterly unique advantage that no other country has: The fuse can be used to protect the external wire from over current. Centralised fuses are exclusively designed to prevent over current on the main, internal circuit, they don't give a crap what happens on the other side of an outlet. A central fuse protecting a 16A circuit will do nothing to stop you from pulling 15Amps through a 3 amp cable. A fuse inside the plug, appropriately sized for those 3 Amps, will in fact protect the cable itself. This is particularly useful for extension cords. Other countries without fused plugs need to either just flat out mandate ALL extension and multiplug cords be capable of safely handling the maximum current of a household circuit (e.g. Germany) OR just ignore that rather major safety hazard entirely and just kinda hope that nothing bad happens (e.g. USA) (if you've ever wondered, that's specifically why chaining extension cords together in the US is considered dangerous)
So you’re not saying it’s because the wiring is substandard, but because it’s ring circuits, which are not up to the same standard as if they used a breaker panel.
Isn’t that the same thing?
No, because the rest of the world isn't America.
Those ring circuits WERE up to UK standard, and perfectly safe when they were constructed, and nowadays are either still covered by the standard, or grandfathered in, meaning at minimum in existing buildings, they still in fact are up to UK standard.
The reason other counties don't use ring circuits isn't because they're less safe or inherently worse in any way, which the term "substandard" clearly implies. It's because they're less convenient. It's easier and more convenient to make and use, and easier in terms of individual steps, to make safe seperate fused circuits instead of a ring circuit.
The reason the UK used ring circuits was because they use much less copper conduit, and given the massive ~~copper~~ everything shortage in the UK during and after WWII, the convenience of modern circuits simply wasn't worth it.
UK’s uniquely substandard wiring.
Care to elaborate on this? Imo it does sounds like a win if that's the case.
Sounds like the problem is people leaving plugs lying on the ground? Otherwise known as user error.
Or what they called it: Skill Issue.
in the UK we don't need conceal carry, those plugs are easily available everywhere and can be used as a Morningstar
I see you have never encountered a goat head.
i have lost two tires to goatsheads in the last month and i hate it
Yo, what’s wrong with your goats?
The caltrop family? Really?
Chicken or egg?!
I don't really fancy standing on either.
Oh look that's something ninjas spread on the road when they run.