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Which works nicely (naturally, that's why they changed the standard colours so that colour-blind people could sort out the wires accurately) until he comes to an appliance with an old flex on it :-) (And not all old flexes are iffy -- it might be a nice butyl one)
This is scary. It assumes that the miscreants can read and write and spell their name - Knut.
Crikey. Wouldn't driver's side etc be easier? That's the way I know my right from my left. ;-)
when it comes to wiring plugs and appliances in general part p has nothing to do with it... (other than perhaps encouraging people who do care about remaining within the letter of the law, to stick with extension leads where remedial work on the fixed electrics would be preferable).
Wow, Inky ten already? Doesn't time fly :-)
Pete
Quite, the little (or not so little) beggers should get a good hiding an= d if they are on benifits those are stopped until the cost of the repairs =
has be recouped and passed to injured party. If they are in employment their wages are passed on. They are only allowed to keep enough to pay essential household bills (rates/rent, water & energy etc(*)) and =A32.50/day for food. You can get one hot meal for =A32.50 without much =
bother, might not be able to have anything else to eat but so what? Shouldn't go around causing criminal damage...
(*) TV is not essential neither is the telephone particulary a mobile on= e.
Surely Offside and Nearside (*) is the correct terminology but that opens up a whole new can of worms!!
Cheers
John
(*) for those that do not know, this refers to which side of the vehicle you mean in relation to 'your' kerb when a vehicle is pointing the correct way on a highway.
I'm not sure that it's that. According to the Archbishop of Canterbury (that ever reliable source), we will inevitably be having Sharia law. Extrapolating that, 'ring hand' and 'other hand' may mean something different entirely.
Probably too confusing, given that he has both left and right hand drive cars. He tends to collect old VWs and Porsches and has imported at least one unusual model from the USA.
Colin Bignell
I get SWMBO to say "your side" or "my side" - have done for 30 years.
I bet they could teach the instructor few things about car ignition wiring on a Ford or Vauxhall.
Adam
I would be worried to be employing someone that could only tell live and neutral in that sort of way, lets hope they don't employ a mild dyslexic who has problems telling left from right, or is holding the plug upside down.
And me, wired a plug upside down when it was a safelight in a darkroom the light was up high and the plug leade short.
It's hard to imagine reasonable people doing community service ;-) Or did they just forget to pay the library fines for late book returns.
It's hard to imagine people in prison for what they ate at Heathrow or for was found in the tread of their shoes.
Nice to know that I am not on my own with this problem.
My wife often tells me to turn left and points right :-(
Dave
BTDTGTTS!
Eleven in the summer. Aargh.
In message , Dave writes
When I lived in Indonesia, I needed my servant to navigate to somewhere
roughly translated ...
"Which way?" "turn" "Left or Right?" "turn" "Left or right?" "Doh - turn around"
... "Which way?" "turn ..."
You think you have problems
It could be even more difficult for thieves.
M.
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