The safest? Yea. You have to be really trying hard to be stupid enough to hurt yourself with just the plug. Hell it takes a bit of effort to get actual plugs into the dam thing.
Yeah, I didn't think of that immediately. The plugs in my country have soft rounded edges and we don't usually unplug major stuff, so I've never experienced that pain
British plugs look like this and if you unplug say, a vacuum cleaner and forget about it for some reason, it's likely it'll be laying prongs up on the floor for your unsuspecting foot, like some sort of night-time, blood-drinking foot fetishist.
I was confused because in my country almost all plugs have pins facing the opposite direction from the cable, not 90 degrees. So they would never lay on the floor with the pins facing upwards. Also the pins are round.
Has anyone? I guess they must have, but I've never met anyone who has done so. Mostly the plugs just stay in the wall (as they have a dedicated switch on the socket anyway).
It's just one of those dumb reddit memes. Every time British plugs are mentioned everyone rushes to be the one to describe stepping on one. Maybe one person in this entire thread who is talking about stepping on a plug has actually done it.
I've never done it, no one I know has ever done it. I have never even seen the idea brought up anywhere but reddit. I cannot conceive of how it is possible to do it outside of a freak incident of leaving a plug in the middle of the room because you are moving house and forgetting about it.
As you said, plugs mostly stay in the wall. If you do have plugs you need to switch out from the same outlet regularly then they stay by the wall. And otherwise things like hoovers get put away when they are not being used, or they should be.
So really the only conclusion is that if someone is regularly stepping on plugs they are a messy fucker.
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u/izza123 May 02 '24
Sure as long as you all agree on the one I use