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Bruce Farquhar posted for all of us...

Let us get realistic; you are sick. Your brain has either suffered hypothermia or hypothermia, I do not know which but...

Bullshit. Humans are warm blooded and don't need a nice steady ambient temperature.

I hope that doesn't apply to kettles or they'd take longer to boil.

What's the point in having plugs and sockets designed for 13A if we can't use it all? They should be designed better in the first place.

Ah.

On closer inspection the live has almost pulled out of its terminal :(

(My dad evidently did what I do - make it up so if the cable is pulled the live disconnects first)

Thanks for the reminder.

Andy

Shirley none of this should be possible if the strain relief jobby is in the plug?

It's odd that Americans have so many regulations about electricity, yet have such a pitifully dangerous and useless system. Or maybe that's WHY they have all those regulations, er sorry "codes". I do detest them using the word "code" - a code is something you'd use for encrypted communications.

I've seen those come loose or even rot away.

And of course it depends how hard it's yanked. A lot of Americans actually just pull plugs out by the cable, since they have the flex coming out of the front. They claim this means they come out of the socket in case of a problem, like you trip over the flex, but then if it gets half knocked out you get resistance....

When the device goes off due to the neutral coming out first, you'd stop using it anyway.

Oh, you got codes too.

"Code of Practice" is perfectly good BrE

If you're a surgeon maybe. Most people say "regulation".

But most people say "regulation", not "code". A code is something used to encrypt data. Americans get confused about words all the time, they can't even tell the difference between these two devices: