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

Back in the '70s, a guy in the UK had a problem with his car. He went to the dealer, who advised that it was a gearbox problem, but there were no spares in the UK. He contacted the manufacturer, who stated that they were not intending sending any, unless the minimum quantity of 10,000 were ordered. He fought this with the dealer and the manufacturer for some time, but eventually gave in and ordered 10,000 of them.

Some time later, the parts were flown in, but disaster struck, when the plane disintegrated in mid-air.

The evening news carried a report of it raining Datsun cogs.

That's a shame. My mother's plan may have screwed up my handwriting, but not the rest of me.

Not LOL because I've heard it before, but I'm happy to hear it again.

Except that manufacturers like to use the same systems throughout all their markets and here (and possibly in some other countries), there can be reason to put them on while moving.

Here, it was was illegal to do so, but people sometimes did and government recognised that it was actually a good idea and changed the law.

It is now a legal and recognised sign to following drivers, on a fast road, such as a motorway or dual-carriageway, that you are approaching standing traffic and slowing quickly to a stop. As such it needs to be activated quickly and without having to take your eyes off the road.

Then call it "American". Why do you continue to refer to it as "English"?

You haven't changed anything, what you've done is keep our old version from when you fled from the UK billions of years ago. We used to write sulfur, you still do. We have evolved, you have not.

An RCD does not prevent fire or shorting the power source. It is only there to protect someone in your own house from a shock. Please learn what the different devices actually do before making such a stupid statement.

There's f*ck all friction, which is why they want the cars to wait for the train at a level crossing, and not the other way round. And why the new tunnel the Germans are building couldn't go right underground and had to be installed on the bottom of the ocean, because the pathetic toy trains couldn't handle the incline. This is the 21st century, we have cars. Public transport is for chavs.

Please learn the difference between law, rule, and code.

Each car I have had (10 including my wife's), has had up for faster on the wiper stalk (or a rotating ring on the stalk, where the front of the ring goes upwards).

In my last car, braking hard (emergency breaking) brought on the flashers.

Depends on the electrician. With suitable gauge wire, a 20 A switch, and a 20 A breaker, you can plug most household loads (like a vacuum cleaner or toaster) into such a circuit.

I searched for that series yesterday night, out of curiosity, but Amazon Prime here doesn't carry it. :-(

Of course, same here, people use it. But the law has not changed.

I think that the legal way to do it here is touch the brake lightly several times to make the red lights blink.

Freezing the balls off a brass monkey - the story I've heard is that cannon balls were kept on a brass rack called a monkey which would contract in very cold weather and cause the cannon balls to be ejected from it.

Sweet Fanny Adams - a girl called Fanny Adams went missing and when her body was found, people likened it to a meat ration that had just started to be served in the Navy; originally the phrase was not used as a euphemism for "sweet f*ck all" (ie "an extremely small amount of something" - at least, no-one would admit to that meaning!

That's fine, but by the time you are braking that hard you are very close to the hazard. I put mine on long before that, as soon as I see the tail end of the queue, maybe before I've started to brake much, given that I brake gently at high speed and progressively increase the braking as I get slower: gentler on the passengers and less likely to provoke a high-speed skid.

I also use my hazard lights to supplement flashing my headlights at oncoming traffic if I've just passed a hazard (eg broken-down car) that is just behind me on the other side of the road, round the corner - to say "there is a hazard that you need to be aware of, just round the corner".

I've always called them that. They said stylus on the box.

TEN!?

They transmitted?!

Ouch, they look like they'd cut through the record if played enough times.

Last time I looked at Etsy it was just hand made stuff at 10 times the price I'd pay.

You mean "phono". Just an AUX input but lower voltage.

Some didn't think to turn off item A when using item B?!