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
Comment on British plugs
davidagain@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
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.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
davidagain@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Why not drop the plug at the wall, not in the middle of the floor, or get a multisocket? £3.99 at Argos for a little one.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
All these questions and more will be asked on the floor, clutching ones foot
Seka_Boi@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
this is something I’ve heard a lot from people in the UK, do UK electronics not have switches on them or something? all electronics I’ve ever seen living in the US have a power switch on them, do you think we unplug our stuff to turn them off?
ulterno@programming.dev 2 hours ago
I didn’t know you people had only one of them.
I have:
- A switch on my appliance
- A switch on each socket of my extension board
- A switch on the wall
- An MCB connected to groups of sockets
- An MCB for the whole house
- A circuit breaker on the nearby distribution station
- A circuit breaker in the power plant
- A generator start/stop system in the power plant
devedeset@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
I think the switches are nice but in the modern world you really don’t need to unplug a vast majority of things. Even my $30 120V USA space heater shuts itself off if it tips over or gets too hot. My cell phone charger pulls functionally 0W while idling.