Boris gets the check book out.

[jamesbrown]

We've seen your record, you're a bloody xenophobe

How many times have you been banned for racism?

Cretin.

[darmstadt]

Yes.

Go have a look at a UK plug, whilst paying close attention to the bottom two holes - now stick a fork in the top hole and watch as magic happens before your eyes.

The top hole is a safety device, that when the top prong is inserted, elevates the safety barriers in the bottom 2 holes, to allow the bottom 2 prongs to make a circuit.

So yes, the UK plug is objectively safer than the 2 hole equivalent.

Perhaps on the continent, they're using it as a form of Darwinian selection for children?

I just stuck a fork in the plug here, all it does is trip a circuit breaker for the room.

Mind you, I look like Don King now

[BlasterBates]

Yes.

Go have a look at a UK plug, whilst paying close attention to the bottom two holes - now stick a fork in the top hole and watch as magic happens before your eyes.

The top hole is a safety device, that when the top prong is inserted, elevates the safety barriers in the bottom 2 holes, to allow the bottom 2 prongs to make a circuit.

So yes, the UK plug is objectively safer than the 2 hole equivalent.

Perhaps on the continent, they're using it as a form of Darwinian selection for children?

No it isn't. Two pronged plug has a metal clip that does exactly the same thing as a three pronged plug. In other words it also has an extra ground connection, it just isn't a prong.

[BlasterBates]

For people who don't understand two pronged plugs here is an explanation.

European sockets

[Bean]

For people who don't understand two pronged plugs here is an explanation.

European sockets

Perhaps our continental cousins finally realised a safety feature was a good thing, as the old continental plugs were more like this;
Power plug & outlet Type C - World Standards

[NotAllThere]

Perhaps our continental cousins finally realised a safety feature was a good thing, as the old continental plugs were more like this;
Power plug & outlet Type C - World Standards

Two prong plugs are fine. It was the sockets that were problematical, and eventually made illegal to fit.

[Eirikur]

How can I still post?

[SimonMac]

How can I still post?

Have you not met NAT before?

[WTFH]

Perhaps our continental cousins finally realised a safety feature was a good thing, as the old continental plugs were more like this;
Power plug & outlet Type C - World Standards

Looks like a UK shaver plug.

[Mordac]

How can I still post?

A question science may never be able to explain...