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Sagebrush posted:See American houses have something called a circuit breaker that cuts the current off at the source in a situation like that. The entire line goes dead, not just the part protected by the fuse that you inexplicably cram directly into your plug bodies Uk houses don’t have circuit breakers???
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what? yes they do lmao
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Jul 15, 2023 03:56
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ur not gonna win this one haichebagge
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Cat Face Joe posted:ur not gonna win this one haichebagge
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Jul 15, 2023 04:00
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Cat Face Joe posted:ur not gonna win this one haichebagge
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Jul 15, 2023 04:02
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hbag posted:my point is your plugs are unsafe and your outlets are practically begging to start a fire i can see how you might believe that, since your nanny state doesn't trust its adult citizens with electricity or televisions or knives, so you might expect that these things are a lot more dangerous than they really are. but american houses don't burn down any more often than british ones ADINSX posted:Uk houses don’t have circuit breakers??? their circuit breakers don't work properly: quote:Part of the ring missing or disconnected can result in 2.5 mm2 cables running above rated current without this being obvious to the user. basically you have to have the fuses on the plugs in addition to the circuit breaker, because the ring main creates new and exciting fault conditions in which the circuit breaker will not trip
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Jul 15, 2023 04:02
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now i'm off to eat a dinner of curry, a food from india that the british hilariously claim is their national dish
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Jul 15, 2023 04:03
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Sagebrush posted:basically you have to have the fuses on the plugs in addition to the circuit breaker, because the ring main creates new and exciting fault conditions in which the circuit breaker will not trip lmfao what if we built the whole airplane out of split neutral circuits
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Jul 15, 2023 04:06
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hbag posted:leave it to an american to get mad that its not easy enough to deliver 230 volts directly to your heart american branch circuits are 120 volts and typically 15A, lower total wattage than than british circuits which is why electric kettles don't work as well in the US, but electric shocks are pretty unlikely to cause serious harm in the US and anything in a spot where it could be near water is gfci protected anything that could deliver 240 volts is gonna have a different shaped plug
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Jul 15, 2023 04:22
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i think what we can all agree upon is that electricity is the work of the devil and we should go back to the idyllic rural life of the pre-industrial era although idk if i could give up air conditioning tbh
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Jul 15, 2023 04:53
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Honestly the modern US kettles are good. i picked this one up a bit ago for tea and it boils up a liter and a half no problemo and the lights on that circuit don't dim at all. Not like i wouldn't prefer 230/240 for our circuits (if you die to 240v you would have died to 120v anyways) but it gets er done
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Jul 15, 2023 04:59
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Jonny 290 posted:Honestly the modern US kettles are good. i picked this one up a bit ago for tea and it boils up a liter and a half no problemo and the lights on that circuit don't dim at all. you practically live in space. for the rest of us, this 120v bullshit takes a few minutes
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Jul 15, 2023 05:13
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Jonny 290 posted:every outlet installed since 1992 is ground pin up so that's not a thing. go off tho in which states?
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Jul 15, 2023 05:15
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ol qwerty bastard posted:although idk if i could give up air conditioning tbh Not anymore you can't.
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hbag posted:the american mind cannot fathom the concept of a ground pin the ground pin is fine, the problem is that its not polarized
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infernal machines posted:you practically live in space. stop trying to boil a gallon at a time. i use a kettle every morning to add water to americanos and it doesn’t take more than a minute to heat up (admittedly i only add 80°C water because hotter makes the coffee taste worse but my so drinks tea every day with it so my point stands) sure it would be quicker with higher voltage but it’s honestly very quick i did know a french lady that demanded her husband out a high voltage outlet in the kitchen so she could make faster toast or something tho lol
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Jul 15, 2023 09:45
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Schuko or gtfo.
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Jul 15, 2023 12:01
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tag urself https://www.plugsocketmuseum.nl/Overview.html i'm denmark 
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Jul 15, 2023 12:12
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im "Chinese socket for flat blade plugs (220V), Europlugs and Australasian plugs*, the most commonly used plugs in China (PRC). * Chinese GB 2099-1 standard on plugs and socket-outlets for household and similar purposes." 
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im the australian sad ghost
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Sagebrush posted:i can see how you might believe that, since your nanny state doesn't trust its adult citizens with electricity or televisions or knives, so you might expect that these things are a lot more dangerous than they really are. but american houses don't burn down any more often than british ones they're real weird about electricity in the bathroom too, because apparently gfci/rcd is magic technology that hasn't reached knife crime island yet, which is why the lights have pull chains like the basement lights in your grandma's house, you can't plug in a full-power hair dryer or curling iron, and if you want to install a modern bidet, you have to drill a giant glory hole in the wall (because every plug looks like the kind you find on a dryer) and run the wire into the adjacent hallway or room i guess they're worried that you might splash and short something as you rapidly flip your hands between the separate freezing cold and scalding hot taps on the bathroom sink The_Franz fucked around with this message at 15:36 on Jul 15, 2023 |
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hahaha oh right, a single gfci would jack up the whole ring i guess, right? i know how gfci works but have no idea how ring circuits work so maybe that's not true
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Jul 15, 2023 15:45
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modern UK ring circuits generally have a gfci at the breaker panel level which is honestly the only thing they probably do right. The reason they dont allow AC power sockets or proper switches in the bathroom is nanny state tradition because they dont trust you not to dunk the hair dryer in the water At the same time they still require you to have 2 faucets in the bathroom because the cold is potable and the hot comes from a cistern in the attic filled with disease
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The_Franz posted:knife crime island violent brutes aren't they, those br*tish savages. anyway time to go drink my morning coffee out of a high-capacity magazine while i read today's mass shooting reports, a thing that happens literally every day in my enlightened and civilized country
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Jul 15, 2023 16:23
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grass is always greener
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you dont READ about the mass shootings you watch them live on tv.
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Jul 15, 2023 16:31
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shame on forums poster The_Franz for calling the UK "knife crime island" instead of the more accurate "terf crime island"
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i wonder if two places can be messed up in different ways nah, there can only be one bad thing
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The building regs changed a few years ago and now real sockets in a UK bathroom are now just effectively banned, rather than actually banned You can have them but they have to be ≥3m from the edge of a bath or shower, which if you're aware of the size of the average British home is loving hilarious
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Iirc, the USA has more knife crime per capita than the UK as well. But as we all know, the USA has more people per capita. You have to account for that. 
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Antigravitas posted:Iirc, the USA has more knife crime per capita than the UK as well. as discussed, it's not a well grounded place
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jammyozzy posted:The building regs changed a few years ago and now real sockets in a UK bathroom are now just effectively banned, rather than actually banned lmao that puts them on the outside of your neighbor's house.
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schafft neue Dimensionen? buddy, they won't even let me schafft!
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didn't realize this was two pics at first and was way confused
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Pile Of Garbage posted:shame on forums poster The_Franz for calling the UK "knife crime island" instead of the more accurate "terf crime island" I was going to say that the preferred nomenclature is "airstrip one" but terf island no longer has any utility to the rest of oceania now that they left the EU
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pseudorandom name posted:I was going to say that the preferred nomenclature is "airstrip one" but terf island no longer has any utility to the rest of oceania now that they left the EU nah its still valid. all the terfs round here were imported from there.
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