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People hanging Christmas lights do the whole house and when they go to plug it in, they realize they have the female end by the outlet, not the male end. “Fuck, I’m not gonna redo the entire process” the idiot thinks to himself, I’ll just get a male/male adapter.

It’s not sold because as soon as you plug in the side to the house, the other ends become live, and touching them means “big ouch”.

“That’s okay, I’ll just plug the end into the lights, and then into the house, problem solved” the idiot thinks.

Except the far end of the lights has a male adapter and that end is still live. Plus, anyone who doesn’t know about your deadly modification is in danger of hurting themselves because they don’t realize the hazard.

There are exceedingly niche applications where these cords are used, but those applications only come up for trained electricians who know how to make one of these cords, and use them responsibly. If you’re asking the minimum wage guy in the blue vest, this sign is for you.

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TheCrawlingKingSnake@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I’d be tempted to just cut the ends off , strip the wires, and connect them. Then again, I will never put up Xmas lights on my house like that.

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stebo02@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
why would Christmas lights have a female end in the first place?

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- ANewUser@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  On one end it’s male, on the other end of the string of lights is a female. Made like that so you can daisy chain lights together.
  
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  - stebo02@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    ah i see, i didn’t know such lights existed
    
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commanderbalok@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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- User_4272894@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Though many wear red, Ace I managed for a few years had black vests. With the exception of a few large groups (like Westlake), each Ace is independently owned and part of the Ace co-op, but get to make their own choices about things like uniform, sales, and stock.
  
  I intentionally said blue vest because while an Ace employee (in whatever color vest/apron their store chooses) would take the time to explain why you can’t have the thing you think you need, a guy in a blue vest (if you can even find one) is likely to say “oh, I guess we’re out. Maybe we can order it for you online…” before wandering off.
  
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