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

Whatever happened to the idea that to improve road safety steering wheels should have a spike in the middle?

(This might be called "safety hazard", by analogy with "moral hazard".)

Are circuit breakers completely unnecessary? What's to limit current and wires getting hot inside walls?

I'm not sure if the screw thread is the same as a light bulb, but they sure looked the same. I can't try it here, as our house was built in

An incendescent light bulb would be a good current limiter for low current circuits; nicely nonlinear and self-resetting. Like a PTC thermistor, which we use on circuit boards. The disc kind, not surface-mount.

There never was any such idea unless you are expressing yourself very badly.

So you were a late developer then.

I'm surprised I can't find clocks on Ebay with fingers. You can get them with forks and knives ffs.

Their TV I like. But their website is just Ebay but more expensive and harder to use.

Then you're an idiot. We may even have had a green button like a mobile, I can't remember, it was a long time ago. Nobody complained anyway.

Then again, in the UK, an external number would always begin with 0. Internal ones were 2/3/4. No idea why they started at 2000, but it was already that way so I left the numbers the same when we went digital. So if you dialled 01234 567890 (a fictitious national number), and paused, 0123 would be invalid.

The law isn't funny it's a pest.

They don't understand the word "endorsement" either. It actually means to support something, yet they say the points on your driving license are endorsements. Bu they're disallowing you! Get too many and they take it away!

They're just lines drawn on the ground, it's absurd we can't just walk about.

Only if they're underage.

There's only one dogging place around here, and it's not the sort I like. Apparently there are no women.

How the f*ck is that wonderfull? It just promotes confusion.

Note I spelt wonderfull correctly, it's made of wonder and full, so there should be two Ls. High time we added logic to the language.

That fills your head up with more words, probably slowing down everybody's thought process.

Other than falling, how would down for on make it more likely to turn on by accident?

Just because you haven't heard of an idea doesn't mean that it doesn't exist.

It also means, "To write one's signature on the back of a cheque, or other negotiable instrument, when transferring it to a third party, or cashing it." So you are *approving* the payment.

Then that might be done with a rubber stamp if you are "endorsing" a lot of cheques. Haven't you heard of "endorsing ink" used to recharge rubber stamp pads?

When driving licences were little books with multiple pages, courts would stamp details of speeding convictions on the pages. That was called "endorsing" the licence. When you had more than three (I think) endorsements you lost your licence for a period, equivalent to the modern "totting up" of points. That's why the word "endorsement" is used when you get points.

I don't suppose you remember the old style licences; they were little hard bound books about 3" x 2.25". On the front page you stuck a licence sticker which you got from the Post Office when you renewed it: provisional licences lasted six months and full licences three years.

Then they introduced the "paper" licences in the mid 70s, initially green ink on white paper.

I think we've already decided that originally leaf switches were used, which clearly /could/ fall.

I used to go motor racing, spectator only. I saw a man killed in front ofme when he spun his vintage car and with no seat belts fitted was able to jump out and sprint to the edge of the track. The car behind him swerved and missed his car but killed him. In front of his family. I have seen cars in the most unbelievable crashed and the driver walk away uninjured, but shaken, Because they had full roll cages and four point harnesses.

Driving down the A10 towards Cambridge I saw some lights weave and flash and end up off the road. A Rover 3500 with 4 lads in it was upside down in a ditch., The front seat passengers crawled out and were OK, shaken, but not injured. The rear seat passengers without seat belts were covered in blood, and had I think a broken arm, and a dislocated collar bone and multiple lacerations from being thrown against a lot of broken glass and in fact contact with the ditch outside

The police said they were overtaking at an estimated 120mph and swerved to avoid an oncoming car.

A mother was killed in another incident when she rammed a car in front and her son, sitting behind her, without a seatbelt head butted her with his forehead and smashed her skull.

Only case of that was not a car but a motorbike, which being thrown clear of is somewhat of an advantage. Friend in Africa told me where the scars came from 'I was going along fast and I came to a corner unexpectedly, and there was a brick wall in front of me. I knew I couldn't make it, and decided to go out in a burst of glory, so I opened up the throttle. And my front wheel caught the kerb and catapulted me over the wall into a thorn tree and the ground, which smashed my collar bone, and put scratches down my face, but here I am...'

Indeed. In a car accident the safest place to be is inside the passenger compartment well strapped in. On a motorbike there is no passenger compartment, just a lump of metal with sharp edges.

Motorcyclists wear leather skin guards and a bone dome, not seatbelts

You can omit a seat belt if you like, but I wont. Not ever. And wont drive unless my passengers don't too. Not because it's a legal requirement, but because I have seen what happens in a crash if you don't.

Commander Wanker is just talking bollocks as usual.

"All you need is the power to stop if something shorts so you don't set fire to your house."

AKA a circuit breaker.

What?! If you're that sensitive to pain, many things around the house must hurt you every day. Are you ginger by any chance?

I've touched 240V AC across my hand. It just felt warm and tingly, I only knew it was an electric shock because of what I was touching.

Those things trip before you even feel it.

I couldn't feel anything unusual when I let go.

Maybe sweaty hands? Try doing the same with your hands soaking wet.

Try an electric fence, those are fun. When a teenager, I demonstrated a circuit must be completed. My friend touched the electric fence and said it was off. I touched the fence with one hand and the ground with the other, my arms did a mexican wave. No pain, all I felt was my muscles operating without my command.

Or you cheered up the tape recorder by giving it amusement.

Ask a woman to insert one.