British Line and Netural Conventions?

[Spehro Pefhany]

Pardon ?

Graham

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BS_1363

1/4" x 5/32"! Talk about yer massive prongs...


Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany

 

[John Fields]

You prefer using rubbish ?



What new European ac plug ?

 

[Spehro Pefhany]

Sounds like Spehro's gone and got into the cookin' sherry. ;-P

Cheers!
Rich

Lowering the tone on Usenet since 1994 (sm).


Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany

 

[krw]

How would young children know that for example ?

You teach children at an early age that the stove is hot. Didn't you
ever learn these things, dumb donkey?

Why fit staircases with rails for example ? Surely by your example it would be
better if ppl could fall off them easily.

Rails are not to keep you from falling off the stairs, dumb donkey.
They're there to help you balance while climbing/decending them.
They are the last ditch in case you fall. Are you in the habit of
falling off stairs, dumb donkey?

 

[krw]

It's not useless. Electrical fires are essentially unknown here for example.

Because of the exposed metal on the plugs? You are one incredibly
*DUMB* donkey. <sheesh!>

 

[Eeyore]

[email protected] says...

You teach children at an early age that the stove is hot.

We all understand heat. No problem there and we naturally avoid excessive heat

We have no natural way of detecting electricity until we're in contact with it.
Electricity has to be felt to be understood. Are you suggesting electrocuting kids to
teach them not to poke things inside wall outlets ?

A shuttered outlet fixes the problem at source. Simple really but maybe too obvious
for thick Americans to understand.

Graahm

 

[Eeyore]

[email protected] says...

Because of the exposed metal on the plugs?

Absolutely. Something could fall on the partially exposed pins.

Graham

 

[krw]

Absolutely. Something could fall on the partially exposed pins.

Dumb donkey, show me *ONE* incidence of a house fire caused by
exposed metal on the plug. Frappin' idiot!

 

[krw]

We all understand heat. No problem there and we naturally avoid excessive heat

The second time. Children are never burned by stoves? You are a
bloody idiot!

We have no natural way of detecting electricity until we're in contact with it.
Electricity has to be felt to be understood. Are you suggesting electrocuting kids to
teach them not to poke things inside wall outlets ?

That's why we have parents.

A shuttered outlet fixes the problem at source. Simple really but maybe too obvious
for thick Americans to understand.

Not needed: too expensive. Teach your little brats better.

 

[Eeyore]

[email protected] says...

Dumb donkey, show me *ONE* incidence of a house fire caused by
exposed metal on the plug.

Theree are none here of course. The defect doesn't exist. That's the point !

Graham

 

[krw]

Theree are none here of course. The defect doesn't exist. That's the point !

The defect doesn't exist here either, dumbass donkey. You spend the
money on the stupid hardware for no gain. You aren't an engineer,
are you?

 

[Eeyore]

[email protected] says...

The defect doesn't exist here either, dumbass donkey.

I suppose you're going to tell me you don't get electrical fies in the USA too ? What
*does* cause them then ?

You spend the money on the stupid hardware for no gain. You aren't an engineer,
are you?

I'm a design engineer. A very good one too. Shrouded pins are hardly unique to the UK 13A
plug you know.

Graham

 

[krw]

I suppose you're going to tell me you don't get electrical fies in the USA too ? What
*does* cause them then ?

No, we have no electrical "fies" caused by unshuttered outlets. Oh,
there are electrical "fies", but they're mostly caused by overloaded
*old* wiring or poorly installed aluminum wiring. A silly over-
engineered outlet wouldn't save one.

I'm a design engineer. A very good one too. Shrouded pins are hardly unique to the UK 13A
plug you know.

If you're so stupid you need them...

Graham

....the dumbass ass.

 

[Richard The Dreaded Libertarian]

You're being particularly ridiculous.

Are you suggesting that dangerous electrical wiring is a good thing ?

No, I'm saying that using common sense when around dangerous electrical
wiring is a good thing.

The AC outlets
before the current variety had no shutters on the pins.

In the USA, we don't need "shutters on the pins", because Americans know
better than to stick their thumb between the prongs when plugging in the
plug.

It was common for kids to
get electrocuted playing with them. I did it myself in fact.

Oh, so you've cheated Darwin?

Cheers!
Rich

 

[Richard The Dreaded Libertarian]

How would young children know that for example ?

Why fit staircases with rails for example ? Surely by your example it would be
better if ppl could fall off them easily.

Only the ones that are too stupid to know that they're not supposed to
jump off of the top of a stairway.

Good Luck!
Rich

 

[Richard The Dreaded Libertarian]

We all understand heat. No problem there and we naturally avoid excessive heat

We have no natural way of detecting electricity until we're in contact with it.
Electricity has to be felt to be understood. Are you suggesting electrocuting kids to
teach them not to poke things inside wall outlets ?

That's pretty much how I learned, but it was only my thumb between the
prongs.

A shuttered outlet fixes the problem at source.

No, actually, the problem at the source is breeders who don't bother to
house-train their screaming poop machines.

Simple really but maybe too obvious
for thick Americans to understand.

No, we're Free. Most of us don't believe in cradle-to-grave "security".

Why not just shackle everyone to their bed? Then they'd be safe for sure.

Cheers!
Rich

 

[Michael A. Terrell]

Ooooh! You're such a man! I bet you've got a hairy chest and all.

Jim

Sorry, Jim. I only like girls.

--
Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida

 

[martin griffith]

No, I'm saying that using common sense when around dangerous electrical
wiring is a good thing.




In the USA, we don't need "shutters on the pins", because Americans know
better than to stick their thumb between the prongs when plugging in the
plug.

What about the Mexicans

Cheers!
Rich

martin

 

[Spehro Pefhany]

LOL !

I was perplexed about the reference to women though.

Graham

Not sure what Mike was on about. 'Connectors' is the subject, n'est-ce
pas?


Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany

 

[Eeyore]

No, I'm saying that using common sense when around dangerous electrical
wiring is a good thing.

Excellent advice in its own right but not as good as having a safer system.
Common sense is not as common as you might imagine either. Some of it isn't even
sensible.

In the USA, we don't need "shutters on the pins", because Americans

And only Americans ?

know better than to stick their thumb between the prongs when plugging in the
plug.

I'll bet plenty do just that by accident. It's so easy to remove the
possibility.

myself in >fact.

Oh, so you've cheated Darwin?

Twice. The second time it wasn't intentional. Someone forgot to screw the top of
the plug on and it came off ! That's one reason why most plugs now are moulded.

Graham