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

There is only one correct answer here. Down for on. Think about it. Read a book. You start from the top of the page and go to the bottom as you read more. Down is always more. Right is always more (accelerator/brake).

On that topic, Mac and Linux are correct with their dialog boxes, and Windows is wrong. (Only time I prefer a Mac (kid's toy) or Linux (geek's toy) to Windows).

It's fairly common throughout *all* the north of England: in Yorkshire as well as Lancashire. When I moved back to near York about 15 years ago, after living in the south since my teens, before which I lived in Leeds, it came as a slight shock to be called "luv" by shopgirls (*), but I quickly became used to it again.

(*) Never by male shop assistants, though they may use it to female customers.

Where is it that the equivalent term, used by shop assistants etc, is "lover"? That is probably stretching things a bit *too* far ;-)

Other regions use "duck" (Derbyshire/Leicestershire) or "pet" (Newcastle area).

Then you've got London terms - the one that immediately springs to mind is Pete Beale (Peter Dean) in Eastenders, who called female customers on his market stall "Treacle" - pronounced Tweekew, with W in place of the R, maybe because he couldn't say R, and a W in place of the L as is common in East London - miwk bock-ews (milk bottles) etc.

I gather than BBC studios use the opposite convention to ITV for the direction of linear faders on mixing desks: one convention requires you to push the fader away from you to increase the volume or brightness and the other requires you to pull it towards you.

The one that I found counter-intuitive was the twist grip on handlebars for the speed of a motorbike or electric wheelbarrow. I expected to push the top of the grip away from me to increase speed, so as to bend your wrist palm-downwards. But it's the opposite way (bend your wrist back), because if you are thrown forwards over the handlebars on the bike, you want the throttle to close rather than to open. Bloody painful keeping your wrist bent *backwards*, even just for a few minutes when walking behind an electric wheelbarrow.

I'm not sure which I'd say was right or wrong with the OK / Cancel buttons. But having been brought up with Windows, I still catches me out that Linux is the opposite (not "wrong") way.

What about water taps? Most turn anticlockwise to unscrew the tap so as to increase the pressure, but a few go the opposite way. And there seems to be no consensus as to whether the cold or the hot tap should be on the left: doesn't matter as long its separate taps with coloured inserts, but some modern mixer taps, which rotate to vary temperature and rock back and forth to vary water flow, have no indication as to which way to rotate to get hot water - and sometimes you have to choose a rotation arbitrarily and wait: if the water remains cold and never runs warm after a while, try the other way :-)

The council (rightly) laughs at you, and fines you for speeding. :-DDD

Yes, it is.

It is not only about you, but any visitor, or anybody living in adjacent houses.

Oh, and the code may go back to a right wing dictator. He hated communists and killed them, by the many thousands.

In Spain there are conventions on that. Hot is left. But German taps (Grohe brand) assume hot is right. They all turn in the same direction, although modern ones do not have any screw thread.

So when we installed a Grohe on the kitchen, we reversed the tubes. Hot is left, but red colour.

Who defines a language, if not the people who use it?

They certainly are now, Including for the USA.

Here glass fuses like these are used in electronics. For AC they have big brown cartridge fuses, almost as big as a cigar.

YOu repeated the same link. Often in one, maybe all, of my computers, ctrl-c woldn't work, even though C worked ant ctrl worked. I'd use ctrl-c but it didnt' change what was in the clipboard.

Did I mention that I can read Spanish. Esp. technical and scientfific Spabish Those wires are the equivalent of putting a penny in the fusebox. And btw, another big advantage of Fustats is that you can't use a penny that way. The bottom has one connector, but the other one is under the lip of the fustat and it conacts the top of the adapter. The inside wall of the adapter is non-conductive.

No. I'm sure now these are the ones that never got sold when they were under production. The ones people bought were the same sizes as circuit breakers are now 15, 20, 30, 40, 50?. There are no home circuits that use 6.25. -- One page I saw still sold the adapters for 15, 20,30**. Those have to be left-overs too. guess those **But not the fustats that fit those adapters.

I think circuit breakers must have driven fustat out of business, although I don't see how that can happen and what will all the buildings that use them do. Not everyone is ready to put in breakers. Big expense. (And the adapters are designed with barbs so they can't be screwed out....

I panicked for nothing. When I googled Fustat I found very little but when I googled Type-s fuse there is more:

BTW, I've also seen for sale little circuit breakers that screw into the socket meant for a fuse. They have a little reset button in the middle. Because they seem uncommon, I've always assumed thay weren't that good.

I'll hve to learn about inverters some time.

Dawlin, comover here and I'll show you the crawfish.

Luv is nice too. Much better than Sir.

Youse.

It is, however, their business if the electrical problem causes a fire that burns down half the town, or takes out a condominium project or flats.

I grew up in New Orleans, which is not really a southern city, just an island of weirdness that happens to be in the south. The native accent sounds Brooklyn. I got the perfectly neutral midwest NBC News announcer accent.

But we did use y'all. Guys would sometimes address other males as 'cap', short for captain I guess.

Where y'at cap? is kind of a universal greeting, like aloha. The proper response is where y'at?

West of NOLA one hears the Cajun accent and occasionally the language. East of NOLA starts to sound Mississippi. I don't know how they talk in Baton Rouge; nobody goes to Baton Rouge.

We'd drive to Destin weekends, where there is a nice soft southern accent.

Think about sundials for just a moment.

The Dutch aren't the kindest people.

It was legal. It was _not_ acceptable to our insurance company. No idea what the POs did, but I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't have it properly insured.

"The wiring needs urgent attention" said our surveyor. He was actually surprised we bought it - on his advice we'd rejected a previous house. But that one had several items of the sort "Take that apart, and you'll be able to see what it will cost". This one had no unknown items. We did find a couple, but nothing major.

Andy

The summary I've heard is that it's quite easy to get to a level in English where you can be understood.

But really hard to get it correct.

Some other languages are harder to be understood in, but easier to get it right.

Then of course there's the Finno-Ugric group... (My wife is a linguist. I'm not)

Andy

Huh? The ones over the hill from use are clockwise.... Oh. Do you mean as seen from the front, or the back?

Andy

I once heard that expression followed by "and I stepped in a poodle".

Works though; provided there are no "leaves on the line".

(Something to with the friction between similar metals I think.)