British Plugs and Outlets Are On Another Level
Added 2025-04-13 20:07:43 +0000 UTCComments
You only step on a plug once. It's a - that's never happening again - moment. The UK is one of the few 'developed' countries that changed the plug and just said, we're doing it now. Countries like Australia did it over decades, albeit they're much larger, but smaller population. Places like India decided to stick with the type D (old British plug) and it's been modified a bit. Then you've got countries like Italy and Japan that support more than 1 type. The ring circuit, as he mentions uses less copper, but the desire was there as post WWII, there was a shortage. Even to the point some new towns decided to use aluminium for their POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service), which was deemed suitable to carry a basic voice signal. But then the WWW boom, meant these houses/towns were fairly screwed until fibre became the norm or relied on now dated technologies like WiMax, as it wasn't suitable for data. The channel tunnel had to deal with this, that's the underwater/ground tunnel linking England and France. It uses both the French radial circuits on their end and on England's end uses our system. Some real pub quiz knowledge there.
Andy
2025-04-14 10:14:24 +0000 UTCHaha I ran off at the end. Saw the baby crawling out of the bed on the baby monitor.
Killermcknight
2025-04-14 05:26:21 +0000 UTCI had to scroll around to see what youβre talking about. I never remember anything by the time the video gets posted. When we record, we do as many as we can at one time (which sometimes is 1, sometimes is 10) but everything blends together lol. Was he asking about what color our lights should be?
Killermcknight
2025-04-14 05:25:50 +0000 UTCThe fuses can pop quite often; less often if you have a surge protected extension (although you may sometimes need to replace the fuse in that if you're overloaded or have a faulty appliance plugged in) Its proper easy to replace a fuse though, literally takes a few minutes abd you can buy like, 100 fuses for a few Β£, not expensive. Would also say its actually quite rare to 'overload' your electrics unless you are either really trying to or if youve got quite old wiring in your house
Daz Parker
2025-04-14 04:53:16 +0000 UTCYeah definitely think you guys are plug spoiled! Constantly checking all of ours to make sure they havenβt come unplugged. In fact, just today I walked too far with the vacuum and the cord yanked out of the wall.
Killermcknight
2025-04-14 04:51:00 +0000 UTCI genuinely thought you were learning another language hence the subtitles π Obviously the plugs over here are completely normalised to us here so I dont think i've ever met anyone complain about the size of them because to us its just 'the plug size' The safety benefits of the type G is cool but for me the best thing is it not coming loose; when I first went to America I was oblivious to the plug differences other than the obvious prongs, and most times I went to charge my phone i'd have to keep checking that the cable hadnt weighed down and disconnected from the socket. Just assumed I had bought a cheap converter (which may have been partly the case too)
Daz Parker
2025-04-14 04:49:21 +0000 UTC
