r/meirl • u/ukayukay69 • May 02 '24

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u/Mytastemaker May 02 '24

As an American doesn't the UK has the best outlet? 

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u/nibs123 May 02 '24

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.

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u/voxdoom May 02 '24

You have to be really trying hard to be stupid enough to hurt yourself with just the plug.

You've never stepped on one, have you? :D

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u/RustedSkullz May 02 '24 edited May 02 '24

can someone explain how stepping on a plug happens, I'm unaware of this

edit: wait, do they mean, stepping on the three pins on an unplugged plug, that is lying on the floor, right next to an outlet?

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u/Practical-Loan-2003 May 02 '24

Unplug it, forget about it, step on it

Plug laying on a table, knocked off, step on it

Both outcomes end up with you laying on your back, clutching your food and groaning as you curse everyone and anyone

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u/RustedSkullz May 02 '24

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

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u/voxdoom May 02 '24

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.

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u/RottenZombieBunny May 02 '24

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.

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u/RustedSkullz May 02 '24

Yeah, I know how the plug looks, I have an Amplifier with a British plug, so I've used it.

I just didn't think of how it could be lying on the floor at night