| Posted by Jennibel |
7/28/2005 11:14 PM | remove |
Why are the hairdryers not located in the bathroom? The hotel I stayed in had a hairdryer also...but not in the bathroom.
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| Posted by TurboZutek |
7/29/2005 2:25 AM | remove |
Because that's against UK electrical regs.
Just the same as two pin prong plugs that can electrocute you as you plug them in are, along with 101 other lethal American designs.
:-P
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| Posted by SnakeCorp |
8/1/2005 4:00 PM | remove |
British electic regs own American electric regs.
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| Posted by TurboZutek |
8/1/2005 8:14 PM | remove |
Upside down and inside out, ours are better.
/In your face USA!!! :-P
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| Posted by Jennibel |
8/1/2005 10:17 PM | remove |
Whatever! If you're too stupid to know not to touch the prongs as you plug in something electrical then you deserve to be electocuted! I guess the UK has to have 3 prongs so to not confuse those trying to plug in electrics?
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| Posted by Slickis |
8/2/2005 3:48 AM | remove |
Our 2 prong plugs are very difficult to plug in wrong as one blade is a bit bigger. It will go if you force it but then your just being stooooopid. Older 2 prongs have the same size blades though.
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| Posted by TurboZutek |
8/2/2005 7:23 AM | remove |
No, we have three prongs because we have a safety earth. Anything with a metal chassis SHOULD ALWAYS be earthed.
Our plugs are bigger too, as they can carry upto 13Amps at 240V.
I mean, look at your plug: http://www.escience.ca/GFX/PRODS/MF-7.jpg
That's just fucking stupid, no fuse and thin exposed terminals ?? Bad, bad design.
Here's ours laid bare:
http://www.cybermarket.co.uk/ishop/images/923/429_801.jpg
http://www.ukradioamateur.org/foundation/gfx/dwg/plug.gif
/Plug snob.
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| Posted by rainman8889 |
8/2/2005 11:27 AM | remove |
But there is a purpose for our design, a half hearted attempt to clean up the gene pool! ;-) Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be working.
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| Posted by Jennibel |
8/2/2005 9:43 PM | remove |
Yes, I am a plug snob... I'm very picky as to what gets plugged in. Ha!
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| Posted by IIVQ |
8/2/2005 10:17 PM | remove |
Here it's very confusing. In the netherlands unearthed plugs are round with 2 prongs. Earthed devices are the same, but with earthed prongs along the side and with a thing so you can't put an unearthed plug in an earthed socket (the other way around can go) so you can't plug unearthed devices in in a kitchen. (every room which has a tap in it needs earthed plugs only). Exception is so-called "euro" plugs which are shaped a bit like american plugs which can plug in anywhere.
In belgium they have the same design but the earth prong is long and extends from the socket.
I was sold a belgian extension cord a few weeks back in a dutch store, which I had to work with a pair of pliers to make it work. It had a plastic earth prong so while it was unearthed, you could only put earthed devices in. Which is really unsafe imho.
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| Posted by IIVQ |
8/2/2005 10:28 PM | remove |
see http://users.pandora.be/worldstandards/electricity.htm
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| Posted by TurboZutek |
8/3/2005 7:44 AM | remove |
Wow... That's a cluster fuck.
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| Posted by greywolf45 |
8/8/2005 3:49 AM | remove |
Of the highest order.
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| Posted by rostit |
10/7/2005 3:00 AM | remove |
You wankers over in the UK have those silly plugs because you run 220ac mains. All US plugs are polarized for hot/neutral. All of our 220v plugs are 3prong so shut up and look at the pit-chers
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| Posted by TurboZutek |
10/7/2005 6:24 AM | remove |
Wow, you are really catching up!!! Three prong, eh??? Like we have had since 1953!
Also, we run 240v or 230v - 220v is for tossers. US plugs suck cock.
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| Posted by greywolf45 |
10/7/2005 8:55 AM | remove |
Rostit, i'd advise you to quit while you are behind.
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| Posted by atomx |
10/7/2005 3:15 PM | remove |
Actually I think he meant that most of our 220vAC systems are ussually only used for dryers and stoves, and those use 3 prongs with a forth for ground.
Most (aside from lights and other small crap (and those are now properly polarized so they won't fit in backwards)) use the three prong (Hot, Neutral, and Ground).
North American systems run on 110+-10% and 220+-10%, running most everything on 110 saves money in production of goods.
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| Posted by Slickis |
10/8/2005 7:13 PM | remove |
Anything I have such as antique shit where the blades are both the same it seems it doesn't really matter which way it's plugged in. Everything newer is polarized. What I mean to say is I never had a problem with polarity.
I have had a problem burning my ass when I backed into my 15000 volt jacobs ladder.
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| Posted by TurboZutek |
10/12/2005 1:19 AM | remove |
AC stuff generally doesn't give a monkeys cock about its 'polarity' from an operational standpoint, as it's changing its 'polarity' every .60 seconds (In the US).
It's important to get the polarity right though, as if there is a switch in the circuit, switching that switch isolates the whole of the equipment rather than just one small side - this is also important if there are any fuses involved - on the 'hot' side of the circuit.
Failure to do so can leave a 'switched off' piece of equipment still live!!
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| Posted by atomx |
10/12/2005 1:00 PM | remove |
actually the period for 60Hz, is 0.01666(rep) and 50Hz is 0.02 sec. If it were 0.60 sec, we'd see the light going off and on.
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| Posted by Slickis |
10/12/2005 8:21 PM | remove |
A little less than2 times a second @.6. Strobie freakie teakie.
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| Posted by atomx |
10/12/2005 8:43 PM | remove |
Aye it would be. for film we can only see motion at close to 15fps, so think about how bad 2 a second would look.
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| Posted by TurboZutek |
10/16/2005 6:39 AM | remove |
Aye that's right, except we wouldn't see the light going on and off as its a thermal concept and can't cool instantly.
Also worth noting (for facts and figures shits and giggles) is that I can pull my cock off at a rate of around 5 strokes a second - for around 3 (three) minutes.
This might vary in the US or Canada.
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| Posted by Slickis |
10/16/2005 7:53 AM | remove |
Is that a consistant 900 strokes everytime? What sort of counter or timing device are you using? Spunkomatic timing light?
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| Posted by TurboZutek |
10/16/2005 2:54 PM | remove |
I usually get a girl to count off the pulses.
Normally 900 cycles is sufficient - give or take 10% mean variance.
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| Posted by atomx |
10/18/2005 11:23 AM | remove |
"Aye that's right, except we wouldn't see the light going on and off as its a thermal concept and can't cool instantly."
It can in half a second. And especially if it's a florescent tube/bulb.
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| Posted by sleek |
10/20/2005 5:53 AM | remove |
Ah the old 5 hertz wank rate. this has been replaced by european directive with HDWR or high definition wank rate and should no longer be carried out by amateurs. professional tradepersons only
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| Posted by TurboZutek |
10/20/2005 2:56 PM | remove |
Yeah, that High Definition Wank Rate is the shit man!!! I had to upgrade my wrist slightly, but it was worth it!!
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| Posted by SnakeCorp |
11/14/2005 6:49 PM | remove |
Ha Ha! Rostit got PWNED!
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| Posted by Nate408 |
6/28/2006 8:23 PM | remove |
I like their word "earthed" instead of grounded, actually I don't like it but its interesting.
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| Posted by TurboZutek |
6/29/2006 4:06 AM | remove |
It's most interesting because we use it correctly;
Grounded = connected to shell or shielding (which may or may not actually be connected to the physical ground).
(Colour code: black)
Earthed = connected to the earth, normally by means of a huge steel rod.
(Colour code: yellow/green)
Two different things electrically.
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| Posted by boxingkibbles96 |
1/10/2018 5:24 PM | remove |
plugs turned into the one of the biggest argumentts ive seen
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