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

I think it's too cold and wet to grow them in Scotland. A pity; I'd love to see Kinsey do the Watusi when he went out bare footing.

What is a goathead?

Pah! We have thistles.

Last time I looked thistles didn't form a mat on the ground where yuo might walk barefoot.

Me not wearing a seatbelt harms nobody else. The chances of my flying out of my car and happening to hit someone else, and having the velocity to harm them are zero.

Then they're not fit for their job.

Most people are not harmed by a shock. That's all it is, a shock. It gives you a fright and tenses up your muscles. Not even sore.

Why would children benefit from an earthed microwave? An extra path for current to flow through them if they happen to touch something live.

Yes, most pipes are plastic nowadays. It's quite funny to see earth cables attached to my taps, considering the incoming main is plastic.

Just because one muscle is tensed up doesn't mean you lose control of all of them.

Never seen a 100mA. They're 30 and 50 in the UK. The point was I changed the speed of the trip.

If you absolved yourself from any NHS treatment and subsequence care after an accident I might agree with you. Otherwise not wearing a seatbelt does have ramifications for others. As typical you deny the risk of consequential injury to someone else is not zero.

But we need to remember you are someone who is too lazy to work and doesn't care about your fellow citizen. Most people would call you a sociopath.

As long as they do it compassionately and without exuding pleasure to those being informed then I would prefer who enjoys doing that to someone who doesn't. Someone has got to do the job.

Seat belts make room in ambulances and emergency rooms for people who aren't idiots.

But on those grounds, we'd ban people from playing rugby, swimming in the sea, mountain climbing, motorcycling, mountain biking, etc.

If you drive a car on private property, you don't have to wear a seat belt, or obey a speed limit, or have a drivers' license.

Cars could be programmed to not go over 35 MPH if the driver isn't using his seat belt. Car makers should do that to avoid liability for injury and death.

From what I've heard, sex can lead to a heart attack. Ban that too.

For many people engaged in this thread, that would not materially change their behavior.

I don't have either. The earth is from the cable from the substation. (Combined neutral and earth).

We invented the f****ng language.

And your country hasn't done very well, considering the billion times extra land you can't be bothered using.

I can't stand the Liverpooooooooool accent. Where the ooooo is 4 octaves higher than any man should be able to achieve.

There are too many of these silly little words. Have a read through any text, and you'll find you can delete 90% of the instances of the word "that", without changing the meaning one bit. And it still sounds quite normal to read it.

But I meant too short for a noun.

I'm too young to know Oscar Wilde. I only know Gene Wilder.

"Qualifications? Rape, murder, arson, and rape. You said rape twice. I like rape."

It doesn't create bugs if done properly. My car learns how the engine changes as it ages. It modifies the timing etc accordingly. Runs a damn sight smoother than the old s*it.

Please take your hardware programmers and get them to write software. The world is full of f***ed up software. Half the bugs I've found weren't mistakes, they were gross stupidity. Programmers not anticipating things. Not expecting a number to go negative, so they use an unsigned integer and you get 4-7=42 billion. WTF?

Purple appears between red and blue, violet is different.

Yes we can. Stare at a UV bulb and it feels weird.