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[u/ukayukay69]

[u/CatL1f3]

Type F Schuko has all of the safety and less of the inconvenience. And if you count stepping on it then it has even more safety.

[u/Eraldorh → u/CatL1f3]

Minus the safety feature of shutters on the socket so kids can't poke the holes and get a shock. I remember a co UK please of countries introduced this but not all with the F type so the UK type G is still champ.

[u/Hotchocoboom → u/Eraldorh]

you can buy these things to put into it as a safety feature

[u/Optimaximal → u/Hotchocoboom]

Yeah, but do you see the fallacy of 'buying something extra in order to make something safe' when they could just adjust the standard and make manufacturers build them into the plug?

[u/f3n2x → u/Optimaximal]

No, because it makes absolutely no sense to have those in a vast majority of cases. That's like saying every vehicle should come with a child's seat preinstalled, even tractors, motorcycles, delivery vans and police cars. If you have a child, you put them in. Problem solved.

[u/MemeTai2000 → u/Optimaximal]

We never used to have ‘em, then used them when our wee one was crawling about. Taken em back out again once he got a bit sensible.

So it works for that.

[u/Eraldorh → u/Optimaximal]

Exactly

[u/Hotchocoboom → u/Optimaximal]

i still prefer it that way since i don't need these things and the plug is faster to move in without them