Darwin Award

[ARW]

I could not give a shit.

[ARW]

2 Megs at 500V in a wet bath. ffs.

[Adrian Caspersz]

I have a travel iron that works on that electrode heater principle.

It killed me last year, I'm now a ghost.

urm, the friendly ghost, I'm kinda related :-)

[Dave Liquorice]

proficency,

Agree with that as well. Our kids learnt the (mostly controlled) hard way about hot, cold, sharp, etc. Saying "hot don't touch" and stopping kid touching the hot thing doesn't teach anything. "Hot, don't touch" "I told you it was hot" teaches an awful lot more than what hot is. It teaches that a warning is given for a reason, that parent isn't going to wrap 'em in cotton wool, so pay heed to what parent says. Obviously if the hot object was hot enough to cause more than minor injury they'd be stopped but there is nothing like a bit of pain or cut finger to teach ...

The hardest part of parenting is being consistent(*), not threating something that you can't carry through and never ever give in to a tantrum in fact a tantrum ought to be ignored as almost any attention is a "reward" as far as the kid is concerned.

(*) That's across both parents as the little beggers will play one against the other.

[dennis]

The few hundred *thousand* ohms I said is though.

[whisky-dave]

I've heard they don't earth the pipes in barthrooms in france so it's not a problem as deaths are caused when the curent goes through the water to earth.

probbly on wiki somewhere.

[Johnny B Good]

An honest, straight to the point response. Saves any further pointless discussion over the matter of VVS. :-)

[charles]

Just got back from Spain. Hotel bathroom had a power outlet very close to the hand basin (for electric shaver?) - but more interestingly, a network socket beside the WC.

[charles]

near us there's a sign before a bend saying "Max 50mph". The road itself has a 50mph limit.

[Mike Tomlinson]

En el artículo , charles escribió:

Same here, but at least it smells nice.

Yes, the hand dryer is plugged into that socket.

Taken by me last December.

:)