I’ll tell you a story:
One summer, I went on vacation in Europe. I rented a car and hopped from friend to friend, touring around.
When I came back, one of my workmates asked me:
“So you drove quite a few miles! How did you cope?”
“What do you mean ‘cope’” I replied
“Well, Europeans drive on the left. Wasn’t it confusing?”
“W…What?”Turned out, the dude was totally convinced only Americans drove on the right.
Americans are fucking clueless about everything going on outside of their country, and largely clueless about what goes on inside of it too. They’re honestly shamefully ignorant.
I mean for one this is by design, so that they don’t know how fucked our country is, but also our country is the size of several European countries so it’s not exactly apples to apples. Even state to state you can have wildly different traditions, house styles, etc.
I’ve been around a bit, but never west of the Rockies. California might as well be another country.
I bet this person rotates the square in tetris
Rotation buffering makes it fall just a bit slower so a good Tetris player would probably still do that.
Huh? I’m seeing those videos from the Tetris Gods and I see pieces falling down at a speed that my brain can’t even understand, this technique maybe is used by “entry level” Tetris professional players?
US electrical plugs are the worst.
I still regularly manage to electrocute myself on those death designed shit plugs that allow uounto touch love metal if you’re not very careful
Then the “Gravity will pull your plug out of the wall” design which is just amazing too.
Then the “bends by breathing at it” strength
I could go on, but you get it.
i know you meant live metal. But I love the concept of love metal. There’s a spark between us
UK plugs are the best and can double up as non destructive landmines.
Electrocute means to be killed by electric shock. Unless you’re being reincarnated again and again I think you mean to say that you’ve managed to shock yourself regularly.
Electrocute means neon green and attractive. I will not be taking questions.
Aiiiight french academy
And yet i haven’t had those problems. If your plugs fall out then the springs in your outlet are old, get a nee outlet.
That confirms the shitty design. Decent outlets don’t require springs to keep plugs from falling out.
I’m not able to find the link right now, but Technology Connections did a fantastic breakdown of the designs for U.S. plugs/outlets compared to those in (I think) the U.K.
Unsurprisingly, our outlets in the U.S. feature several braindead design choices that make them more dangerous.
We could just flip our outlet upside down and be sort of safer, but we don’t because the little face 😮
Funny thing is, the outlets in my house are installed with the ground prong up, unless they’re installed horizontally.
That’s probably because that’s the recommended way to install them for safety, and that’s why they’re installed that way in hospitals, but people install them upside down in houses because they like the face
Wel no fire code or even electrical safety standards mention the orientation of plug. Hospital codes are the one exception
Chicago–a city very paranoid about fire–has some relatively unique fire codes, like all electrical wiring in a structure must run through conduit, and outlets are either typically, or are required to be, installed horizontally.
I can see why Chicago might be.
The city that famously burned down that one time? There’s an outside chance that has something to do with it.
Tom Scott once upon a time made a video about why the UK plug is the superior overall design, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEfP1OKKz_Q
At this point you can get gfi plugs, abd chil proof plugs that block the live outlet. At this point all wr can add is plastic wrap at the base of the prongs
They’re right, it does sound really stupid, but it’s also actually really stupid.
It’s like accents. Did you know America is the only place that doesn’t have language accents? We just speak normal English here.
I like accents. There’s a nugget of truth to that though. Accent variation in the UK is greater than across the whole of the US. You can drive the length of Britain in America and still hear less variation than you’d get in just 15 miles across parts of the UK, thanks to its highly localized linguistic evolution over centuries. Interestingly, some American accents are actually closer to 17th century English than many found in the UK today, and (comparatively) lack strong markers like rhotic dropping, vowel shifts, or intonation patterns that give it a ‘vanilla’ vibe.
I have a buddy in London who swears he can almost tell what neighborhood someone grew up in based solely on their accent. I don’t think it’s quite that bad but last time I was there he did point out several that were solely in London.
Yep I can tell apart different accents from around Glasgow. Most cities will look like this so easier than it sounds.
I would imagine that this has similar root causes like Italian in South Tyrol. About 100 years ago in an attempt to forcefully italianize the german-speaking Tyroleans the fascists moved a lot of italians from all over Italy into South Tyrol, resulting in a very clean italian (somewhat “high-italian”) being spoken there, opposed to the various regional dialects all over Italy. The clean language is a more common ground between everyone, so it makes sense to default to that (and is a lot closer to the language foreigners learn)
That is because the size of an area has less importance to the development of dialects than time. Dialects developed in pre-industrial times in fairly small localised areas, when contact with other areas was sparse. European countries much smaller than the UK still have more dialects than the US because of this.
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Interestingly, English does have a “reference” accent. “Queens English”.
Back in the days of the British empire, the aristocracy had a serious problem. When they traveled, the local population were difficult to understand, they all had accents. To solve this, the hired help were taught not just English but a clear “accentless” English. This meant the rich could go anywhere in the empire and not have to decode the local’s butchering of English.
While it’s used a lot less now, it was only a few decades back that the BBC stopped requiring it for news broadcasts. It’s the “classic” British accent you see on TV shows.
Fun fact it’s also the Coruscanti accent in Star Wars
Is there still a lot lead in the air in america ? 🤔
I’d like to take this oppurtunity to point out that UK plugs are, by a long shot, the best plugs.
They have ground. They slot in and stay in. The structure of the plug means that the wire comes out the bottom and not the back, which is better for plugging stuff in behind furniture.
Basically every other plug-type is ass compared to UK plugs.
The structure of the plug means that the wire comes out the bottom and not the back
… What? I have lots of right angle cables. The way the wire “comes out” of the plug is not limited by the plug itself.
Their only real disadvantage is how comically large they can make normally small power bricks
And stepping on one makes Lego seem tame.
There are American plugs that also put the wire out the side rather than perpendicular to the wall. diagonally down is most normal so that it wouldn’t block the lower outlet when installed in the upper outlet. I also have some six-gang outlet extenders with the sockets on the sides rather than the front.
The sad thing is that this person is probably eligible to vote.
They are correct though. In the US, it doesn’t matter where you go, every state uses the same plug.
In Europe, different countries use different plugs, even though they are all in Europe.
Ireland plug:
France plug:
Switzerland plug:
Italian plugs:
States aren’t countries. The US isn’t a continent. If you go to a different state within a European country, it won’t have a different plug either.
Congratulations, you’re just as dumb as the person in the post.
Only a sith deals in reposts
That aside, isn’t the US the country were, supposedly, people will go into financial insecurity and ruin if an emergency of 500 USD or less happens to them?
Where, according to collectivists worldwide, the average person doesn’t even have savings to cover said 500 USD emergency?
How the hell then are you expecting the average us citizen to know and understand the realities others live by in other countries? Specially adapters? The thing that is sold so much in airports because even frequent travelers forget about it?
It will be probably strange for them to grasp why people have to adapt anything to a specific socket as the reason why they vary is not obvious at first glance, but that’s not something to mock or make fun about?
Like, haha you don’t have the privilege to be well travelled, what a poor dumbass?
Really
I assure you, this isn’t an issue of privilege, just stupidity.
