Comment on British plugs

davidagain@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Dorkyd68@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Boy I bet youre fun at parties

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  • davidagain@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The ladies flock to me for my witty pedantic corrections.

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• devedeset@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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• Fedizen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They do some things right in the UK. But does every toilet need to be hidden in a basement labyrinth?

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  • davidagain@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Oh yes, definitely. Otherwise the Minotaur might escape and frighten the other railway station users when he should be enforcing the unwritten rules of the urinal.

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• Devial@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There’s also no real reason to unplug something, even if the plug isn’t switched. Modern electrical appliances have idle power draws of less than a watt.

  Rule of thumb: If a small electronic appliance (e.g. phone charger, power brick etc…) isn’t warm to the touch, it’s using less than 1 Watt of power, which at UK electric prices, is less than half a penny per 24 hours.

  If you value your own time at UK minimum wage, and it takes you 5 seconds to unplug, and 5 seconds to replug, you won’t break even unless you keep it unplugged for at least 7 days.

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  • davidagain@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Oh and quick PSA: Regardless of it’s whole house protection, or individual socket protection, you should test the function of your RCDs every now and again. Officially at least once a month. Every RCD breaker has a little button somewhere labeled “test”, that connects L to GND across a resistor, to check if the breaker actually does it’s job. If you’ve never done this (and haven’t recently had the RCD trip for an actual fault) GO DO IT NOW. THOSE THINGS ARE LITERALLY LIFE SAVERS AND IT’S IMPORTANT TO MAKE SURE THEY’RE ACTUALLY WORKING.

    Such good advice.

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• yermaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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

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  • davidagain@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • yermaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      All these questions and more will be asked on the floor, clutching ones foot

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      • davidagain@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Thanks for the chuckle.

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• bricklove@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This appears to be another North America vs The rest of the English speaking world thing. A collective noun feels weird to my American ears since they are individual pieces that are countable. It’s not a big deal though. I enjoy having different ways of talking.

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  • davidagain@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    they are individual pieces that are countable

    So are sheep.

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    • poopkins@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The word “lego” doesn’t originate from before the 15th century—in fact Legos themselves don’t go nearly that far back—so the common rules for modern English grammar apply.

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      • davidagain@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Lego is Danish. They are lego bricks or lego blocks or lego pieces or just lego. Not legos.

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    • soul@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I think you mean sheeps.

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      • davidagain@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Are you my older sister? She does this to me too.

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• SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  it’s sheeple.

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• ulterno@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If you look at the picture, that’s clearly the front part of a plug without the back cover, disconnected from all wiring and kept on the ground, with the pins facing upwards, to pierce some fascia.

  If someone were to insert that plug into a socket as-is, it would still be a death trap as long as the power switch is on.

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• kieron115@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Which makes it extra amusing to me that they coat the pins or whatever with plastic so you cant accidentally touch live while inserting it.

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• Seka_Boi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?

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  • ulterno@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I didn’t know you people had only one of them.

    I have:

    1. A switch on my appliance
    2. A switch on each socket of my extension board
    3. A switch on the wall
    4. An MCB connected to groups of sockets
    5. An MCB for the whole house
    6. A circuit breaker on the nearby distribution station
    7. A circuit breaker in the power plant
    8. A generator start/stop system in the power plant

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    • davidagain@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      All the switches. All the joy. No need for plugs left on the floor.

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  • davidagain@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No, but my point was that there’s no need to unplug something and leave the plug on the floor if there’s a switch.

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