Why do circuit breakers go up for on and down for off?

WTF is life insurance?

Saying math without an s is bad enough, but "mathed out"? Come on.

I've never heard of either of those extremes. I doubt anyone would spend billions to save one life.

This, for instance:

But actually, they do.

I can not type numbers in the number keypad with my left hand: it is too far.

Much faster than talking with the operator, and waiting an hour to to get the call.

It is 112 here.

Here you do that, and the electricity company refuses to provide you with electricity.

And someone gave you a perfect explanation of why that is dangerous as hell.

Yes, I'm not saying that Japanese grass and veg is blue, just they (apparently) used the same word to describe both green and blue. I'm not sure whether that explains why their traffic lights are red, amber/yellow and *blue* in colour (as opposed to the words they use to describe those colours).

not the ones in our garden

No, houses here have two wires. It's most obvious where the feed is from overhead wires: you typically see three wires (the three phases) going fro pole to pole along the street, with two branching off from two of those three phase wires, going to a house. The next house may have two wires connected to different phases. Sometimes there are four wires along the street, with one wire to every house connected to the same neutral wire and the other house wire connected to one of the three phase wires.

Earth is provided locally: in older houses with metal water pipes, the green/yellow earth wire is connected to a strap around the rising main water pipe; in newer houses it connects to a big spike in the ground outside.

Two friends of mine took part in a driving challenge, part of which involved driving a course blindfolded, with the passenger giving directions. They had to resort to "your side" and "my side".

In an emergency, there was a very great temptation to force the dial to return more quickly than the spring-and-governor mechanism returns it, so you dial the 999 more quickly. I'm not sure what the upper limit of the acceptable pulse rate was for a typical exchange.

That's odd. Mine (horizontal) are like this: ==> <== ==> <== ==> <== etc (42 breakers total) With the arrows pointing in the on direction.

Ed

I carry no life insurance on myself or the wife.. Waste of money. We are both over 70 and have enough in the IRA and SS to lve like we wsnt even if one of us die. Maybe more if one dies as no more medicine to buy.

Sounds unlikely given that they must have noticed that the sky and grass arent the same color

I'm not

Really? These pictures suggest varying shades of orange:

My company has "key man" life insurance on me. In case I lose the keys, I suppose.

English is great fun. One word can mean many things. I wonder what the record is.

I guess you speak differently in some tiny places with ancient dielects.

Here's a really good book about the history and decline of the British empire.

$3000 was estimated relative to a guard rail on a road in Louisiana.

One chemical was banned in the US, at a cost of about a billion dollars, the ban expected to save about 0.001 lives.

That feature eliminates incompetent newbies. It's particularly effective when the newbie decided a Hayabusa is a good learner's bike.

There is something to be said for the tiered permit system.

I'm not an accountant so I rarely have the need to enter a lot of numbers. The row on top is good enough. I don't know if I would use it even if it were on the left.

Long guns, right handed. Hand guns, left handed. Bows either. I've got right handed recurves and a left handed compound. Musical instruments, right handed. Knives, I'll let you guess. Or maybe there's one in each hand.

Mouse, definitely left handed if nothing more that to screw with people trying to use my computer.