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Our cousins across the pond in SepticLand have a rather relaxed attitude to earthing grounding stuff.
Even stooping to cutting the ground pin off if it prevents you putting the plug into a non grounded socket.
I'll be interested to see if it makes any contact at all once it arrives.
Though back in the days when you had to put your own plugs on things, I remember finding that many appliances didn't have a green-and-yellow wire in the flex anyway
I'll be interested to see if it makes any contact at all once it arrives.
Though back in the days when you had to put your own plugs on things, I remember finding that many appliances didn't have a green-and-yellow wire in the flex anyway
Black, red and green, wasn't it?
I was chatting to an old friend from my first job the other day - I was reminiscing that I'd got the job because I knew what a Venn diagram was. He'd got it on the basis of knowing how to wire a plug.
I was chatting to an old friend from my first job the other day - I was reminiscing that I'd got the job because I knew what a Venn diagram was. He'd got it on the basis of knowing how to wire a plug.
Blue, brown, green-and-yellow has been the standard for many decades - those are the even older colours
The green-and-yellow spiral on the earth lead is there so that colourblind people can tell which it is
I didn't realise we're the only country in the world whose national energy distribution system had to be designed to cope with the TV pickup effect caused by millions of kettles being boiled simultaneously at the end of popular TV programmes
There's an American woman who's visiting England soon, and is worried that if she needs to ask a stranger for directions she'll just be told to **** off because she's an American tourist
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