kat cosgrove @kat.lol · 14/12/2024A really fun way to wind up any sufficiently nerdy british person is to question or criticize the design of their electrical plugs. Tell one of em you think the prongs are too thick or something and watch em foam at the mouth to tell you why they're superior 261418
Tristam @trist.am · 05/07/2025Just don’t ask about the insane ring-style house wiring system that made those individually-fused plugs necessary in the first place… 160
Arri Blais @arri.tech · 14/12/2024I worked with a Scottish man who would endlessly complain about how much they hurt if you stepped on them. 241
Kristi Perreault @kristiperreault.bsky.social · 14/12/2024You know who you just described? @nideveloper.bsky.social 😂 120
what's for dinner @whatsfordinner.rip · 05/07/2025can't believe i missed out on this banger the first time round 000
Timon @timonsku.zip · 05/07/2025I never thought about electrical plugs in any deeper way before British people were weirdly horny online about their very dumb plugs 360
Ian Cooper @icooper.bsky.social · 14/12/2024I feel seen. I am struggling to resist the bait…must resist…have garden chores…resist…. 070
TheFallen @pinski1.bsky.social · 05/07/2025media.tenor.coma close up of a man 's face in a car with a woman behind him .ALT: a close up of a man 's face in a car with a woman behind him . 010
Lars Wikman @lawik.bsky.social · 14/12/2024Theirs are huuuge. US ones are terrifyingly flimsy. The good life is with european plugs. Clearly. =D 161
Andrew Feeney @andrewfeeney.au · 14/12/2024Sounds like the kind of thing @techconnectify.bsky.social does in his spare time. 010
ᴎɒmoɿ 🌈 @appleseedexm.bsky.social · 05/07/2025As a Swiss plug nerd I feel provoked enough to comment, but not yet enough to start an argument 020
Sy Brand @tartanllama.xyz · 05/07/2025You can also tell any Scottish person that our tap water is mid 170
Justin Cormack @justincormack.bsky.social · 14/12/2024these are the real British (and European) plugs for those serious electricity connoisseurs. 4272
bEA @vestigialhe.art · 14/12/2024Not everything needs a fuse! Just live a little and have a plug that’s smaller than the device you’re using. 000
Yorkshire Terrier @st3veb.bsky.social · 05/07/2025I've very sorry but I don't have time to get involved in this right now. I'm too busy boring some Americans in another thread whilst I explain why mixer taps aren't common in British homes. 020
Martin Woodward @martin.social · 14/12/2024One of the crowing post-war achievements of British feminist, Dame Caroline Haslett. She’s the reason we have 240v as well apparently. 381
CScotty 👨💻 @cscotty00.bsky.social · 05/07/2025We're just really proud of our amazing engineering. We're a country the size of Oregon that made VTOL jets when the US couldn't. 😌 000
Chaos @shed.gay · 14/12/2024If you really want to wind them up suggest that the shunko is better (it takes more current 16A not 13A, doesn't need a slow tripping fuse and you can't accidentally step on it) 120
Adrian Bowyer @adrianbowyer.bsky.social · 05/07/2025Dame Caroline Haslett's brilliance was not just to supervise a team of electrical engineers, but to include mechanical engineers too, so UK plugs have none of the mechanical shortcomings of the plugs of lesser nations. If only she'd included podiatrists as well... 030
Keri Kokke @keri.is · 14/12/2024did tom scott start this or have the british just always been unreasonably proud of their plugs? 3120