On Tuesday 17 March 2020 20:25:30 Gene Heskett wrote:

> On Tuesday 17 March 2020 16:55:56 Gregg Eshelman via Emc-users wrote:
> > As big as the UK plugs are, with the beefy prongs, I'm surprised
> > they haven't been classified as weapons and banned. ;) One could
> > bean another person real good with one of your extension cords...
> >
> >     On Tuesday, March 17, 2020, 10:34:44 AM MDT, andy pugh
> > <bodge...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >  On Tue, 17 Mar 2020 at 16:18, Rafael Skodlar <ra...@linwin.com> 
wrote:
> > > American standard for power plugs is way better but I don't
> > > recommend to use N for an antenna
> >
> > There are unpolarised olugs in the US.
>
> Yes, and the quicker they go away, the better off we'd be. But we've
> been stuck with the SOB's since the REA came thru in late '45. But I
> expect it will take at least 200 years since that is the plug most
> lamps come with yet.
>
> > If you want to be super careful use the UK BS1363 plug. You can't
> > put them in the wrong way round. Even if you remove the earth pin
> > from the plug (as the shutters are opened by the earth pin).
> >
> > Of course the UK plug introduces a different danger, they hurt like
> > hell to stand on in the dark.
> >
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEfP1OKKz_Q
>
> Not available on this side of the pond.
>
Not quite true. plays ok in firefox, but not in konqueror.
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> Cheers, Gene Heskett


Cheers, Gene Heskett
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