all hail the superior UK plug.
overengineered safety connector, that you can use as a meteor hammer if need be
The superior plug is clearly having no standard and having like four different types all over your house. French plugs at the kitchen counter, German plugs in the living room, Italian plugs everywhere else, combo Italian/American (German/French compatible) plugs wherever the panel has been changed in the past ten years. I even fucking have one of these and I don’t know the fuck why. Never seen it used. Didn’t know what it was until I saw it on Wikipedia 20 years after noticing it as a curious child. Let’s not get started on the abhorrent copper phone lines or the coaxial TV connection that fried multiple TVs with lightning (we just unplug them during storms now).
Also, I bring half of my small appliances/electronics from the Gulf which uses UK plugs, so I also need a fuckload of adapters.
All ungrounded and haphazardly breakered for maximum flavor. Imagine having electrical standards laws in your country. This isn’t a nightmare at all. What are they gonna do, throw my adapter in jail? Subpoena the contacts for being at the wrong angle? /s
good comment 10/10
Shuko is very good. While the UK plug is objectively better, it is too clunky, and the worst thing you can step on at night. Something like the psycho serial killer older brother of Lego blocks.
wait where do u plug things where u can step
Unplugged, laying on the floor.
oh… yea that makes sense
only thing UK got right
What kind of
animalnon-uniform hemorrhaging stalactite plugs that in the top outlet? It will clearly block the bottom one with the cord positioning.Just use a 180 plug instead of a 90.
lets not use animal as an insult
Is that better?
ye
You daft?
He’s just an animal.
But all the worst people are.
So is everyone else. We’re all just a bunch of dumb animals. The secret is to bang the rocks together, guys
That was the joke. I swear excessively earnest vegans make me want to eat meat again.
I don’t, because rfk usda, but i want to. I don’t even like meat!
yea they are animals. animals as we all know are stupid and bad and destructive only and the moment a human is an animal is when we think its no longer deserving of respect or nurture
Uh, also literally, in that they’re alive and apes and best viewed through an organismal rather than cellular lense. Wtf do you have against animals?
Schuko my beloved would never be abusive
If your plugs are falling out of the sockets you need new receptacles.
Also, all new installs are on AFCI breakers
And I can honestly say im not particularly scared of 120V, it doesn’t hurt. But I respect it. Because im an electrician.
It’ll let you know it’s there, like realizing a cicada just landed on your face. Doesn’t hurt, but you’ll jump out of your pants.
And ruin your strippers 😅
Correction:
Scary, like our men
Fragile, like our men
Abusive, like our men
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Through the magic of
buying twoelectrocutionD=
I mean…yeah?
Like, I’ve gotten my fingers caught in the socket a few times, it’s certainly not comfortable but it never felt life-threatening. It’s less intense than touching an electric fence, but more intense than lickin a 9v. I’d never be afraid of it.
isn’t the earth pin supposed to be on top on nema outlets?
Nowhere in the NEC is there a requirement to mount receptacles upside down (ground on top), but it is common practice in some locations/fields.
they certainly make a nice bang if something metal falls on top of the two conductors, if the earth is on the bottom.
I’m p sure you have to install it so the ground pin is on the bottom so the electric outlet looks like two shocked (electrical pun) lil fellas :o :o, it’s def in the NEC somewhere about the lil jokers having to look spooked
Not that I’ve ever seen. I see them installed in all orientations. I don’t think there’s a specific code behind it.
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120 Volts? You can’t kill anyone with that measly ass current.
Current is amps not volts
