I just read that American electrical outlets don't have

>>72142863
>You guys aren't actually that primitive are you?

We still don't even use the fucking metric system. Come on.

>>72142863
We do. It's called unplugging. Pretty simple concept.

>>72142864
>reaching for a wall / baseboard to turn off your lamp
>advanced

>>72142865
this,
pretty dangerous to leave stuff plugged in OP

>>72142863
in USA outlets that are designed to be associated with a table lamp or something you would need a switch for (a corner outlet in a living room for ex) are often tethered to a switch in the room by the door

>>72142866
this.
useless inventions for useless peoples.

>>72142863

Yeah, we teach our children to stay away from electrical outlets. Why the fuck would I want to put a switch on one?

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>>72142863
u wot m8? you all get btfo by lieral street shitter! pic related

>>72142863
>needing on off switches
nigga just unplug it or turn off your TV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tKfop7j6x4

>>72142863
our outlets are a lot happier

Europe once again pretending to be an advanced Atlantean civilization

>>72142863
that's fucking dumb. lol i'm an electrician and why the fuck would you want a switch on a receptacle?
>sitting on couch
>laptop is plugged in
>laptop dies anyway
>because you didn't ask the outlet nicely

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>>72142863
whats this than?

Why?

>>72142877
breaker

>>72142863
there is zero reason for this
2/10 I replied anyways

>>72142863
lol what a useless addition

>>72142877
ground fault interrupter for short prevention

>>72142863
>he actually bought a kosher plug.
Just cut your dick off and call it a circumcision new shitskin.

>>72142863
Redundant switches are redundant, OP. Outlets should have breakers, not switches.

>>72142877
That's a fucking GFI you stupid moosefucker

2/10 made me reply

>>72142876
As an electrician you'd know the value of turning a circuit off before disconnecting parts of it

It avoids the spark many of you probably see when you rip cords out of the wall with power still a-flowing.

>>72142877
That is a GFCI outlet, not a switched outlet.

It will disconnect on surge. Much safer than OP's outlet.

>>72142863
REPORTED
NOT POLITICS

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>>72142883
Be honest now did you buy this? And why?

>>72142877
It says it right on it.

>>72142867
Not with an off switch

>>72142863
Americans are smarter than us, they don't need a switch at the outlet, they just turn off the circuitbreaker or RCD at the switchboard. It's more efficient that way.

Our dual outlets are commonly linked to a switch that is separate. Usually this is done for an outlet that will be used ie solely by a lamp. This is the superior way to do it, because then the switch can be placed where its convenient, instead of having to find a switch on an outlet behind a couch.

>>72142872
>gets spied on through off tv

>>72142889
>that do not change on sabbath note
>buying and installing switch and forgetting why you installed it

>>72142894
Getting spied on is the least of your worries m8 fix your fucking colony it's been over a few centuries now.

We don't have this faggotry in Brazil

>>72142889

weird how there is a whole industry for roleplaying like this shit matters or is real.

I hate to brag, but California's new energy code will get one over on OP's silly outlet.

A percentage of all outlets in new construction will be required to connect to a motion sensor. So if you are in the room and don't move around much for a while, the power goes out.

Saves energy and shuts down the TV or computer while your using them.

>>72142876

As the other guy mentioned, its not nice having sparks and shit as soon as contacts are made. Its best to actually plug something in, have it in the socket THEN turn on the circuit. The UK socket is objectively the best power socket (and plug) in the world, you're an idiot if you think otherwise.

>>72142876
think japan does it too

the switch turns off in case of an earthquake

>>72142899
Eat a dick commiefornia

>>72142897

>We don't have this faggotry in Brazil

You don't have anything in Brazil.

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>>72142903

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>>72142897

>>72142894
You only get spied on if you are stupid enough to use a (((smart TV)))

>>72142899

Guess we will have to use more power to run some movement device to keep shit on, like a fan?

We do, the switch is just usually placed on the wall around chest level, separate from the outlet.
Wait... don't tell me... do you mongoloids actually bend down to the ground and move your couch out of the way to access your outlet every time you want to turn on/off your end-lamp? Pffffttahahaha what fucking plebs.

>>72142877
A ground faugt. Meaning if there is a ground problem they trip and outlet shuts off. There a pain in the ass they trip all the time

>>72142899
that is the stupidest shit I've ever heard. homeowners will just replace them ASAP.

>>72142907
Just get a drinky bird

>>72142905
Don't tell me that's household generic insulation tape

>>72142896
Fix what m8? We put illegal refugees on prison islands and then trade them to obongo like tazos. You fix your colony and the colony to the north, god knows they cant fix themselves

>>72142867
Circuit breakers, what are they? GFCIs, what are they?

Fuck off and troll on /diy/.

>>72142863
>Needing a switch on my plug.
>When I can just go to my breaker and turn off my lamp on the breaker board.

>>72142899
What a terrible idea, I hope you're gently trolling

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>>72142913

>>72142914
youre the real troll here

>not having a kosher stitch


Lel stay pebl
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NdbkvJznmwU

>>72142905
That's what my shower looks like
DELETE THIS NOW

>>72142905

>tingle
>mild muscle spasm
>full body flex workout
>exit shower

Love the way it's adjustable.

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>Australia
>Paying 28 cents per kilowatt/hour
KeK

>>72142863
>plugs in lamp
>turns on lamp
>lamp doesn't turn on
>fuckchrist have to turn on the wall socket

>>72142905
That's illegal in the USA can't have power 24 inches from water I houses

>>72142900
>being scared of sparks

brits are pussies

>>72142917
Reeeeeeeee
Population size
Reeeee
Weetbix kids

>>72142867
Actually, you want to ground your electronics during a lightning storm. Unplugging them could actually cause damage.

>>72142866

There are obviously other off switches on the devices lad.
Do you have to pull out the plug to turn off your lamp?

God yanks are retarded.

>>72142899
If it was any other state, I'd know you're trolling. But I just don't know anymore with CA

>>72142863
Oi cunt there's really no need for the fucking extra switch, no one actually uses them anyway.

>>72142906
ever wonder what those C's are ding in your lcd tv?
checkmate asteroids

>>72142863
Why do your outlets look like sad faces?

>>72142866
>>72142893
>>72142908
what? don't your lamps have their own switches on them?

>>72142899

Lol, those sensors are shit. You're constantly waiving your arms around like a moron every time everything shuts off.

>>72142863
why would you wanna bend down to shut off the lamp when you can simply just use the switch at normal standing level, like a civilized person

next your going to ask us why we sit and don't squat like a fucking animal when we shit.

you fucking savage

>>72142886

You turn the electrical device off first, dumb shit.

>>72142863

>be european
>get home after long day at work
>open front door
>Its night time so the house is dark
>don't worry my lamp has a switch on the electrical jack
>I walk through the entire room in absolute darkness
>I step on the cat. It screems and in the commotion I knock my knee on the coffee table
>half way there strengthen my resolve.
>Im a little disoriented now. Im in pitch black
> Groping along the wall I find my couch
>I crawl to the end where the lamp stand is.
>I reach down behind it to flip the switch, injuring my back in the process, but I now have light.
>I sit and chuckle to myself thinking how dumb americans are.

Of course not, but our switches are on the inside of the outlet for aesthetic appeal.
I use a screwdriver to shut off mine.

>>72142905

The funny thing is that most of these arent even grounded. If you are tall and your head is too close to the shower head, you can feel the current start to tingle.

>>72142925

>hurr i big mens ugg

Electrical safety has nothing to do with test levels, brainlet.

>>72142871
>>72142917
>cricket

>>72142916
Nope. I work in construction. Just finished a project under the new code. The office workers in the building hate it.

Don't blame them.

>>72142930

I like the redundancy but in my house I would be the only one that would use them.

>>72142937

>new zealand
>european

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>>72142895
oy vey here's a switch for your switch goy i mean rabbi

>>72142927
This makes no sense please explain your bullshit

That is funny I've been reading about how dirty muslims invaded europe , not a single shot fired, just let in by your pussy leaders. Does not sound very advanced to me.

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>>72142935
>>72142937
I'm seriously confused, why would you have to turn a lamp on or off at the wall?

>>72142899

>leave kitchen to watch some TV while cooking
>oven turns off

>man goes to bed with important life support machine attached to him
>power shuts off and kills the man

Not only does this sound like something that will cause major problems for people trying to do simple shit like charging their phone but it also opens more possibilities for the CIA and NSA to fuck with you.

California needs that earthquake to fix their retardation.

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>>72142899

> be CA home builder

> offer "convenience" service

> min # of motion outlets all in a tight row in garage on separate circuit

> never used, but charge extra for the legal hack

> pay up or I put shit CA outlets in your house at random

You on 220 or 110 at the outlet?

>>72142927
Unless the lightning fucking hits the electronics directly this is horse shit.

>>72142937
You only turn the switch off when you need to. Obviously a lamp you'd leave the switch on. My PC I turn off at the socket when I leave the house because leaving sockets under load causes electrical fires. Your post just proves you lack critical thinking skills.

>>72142928
>having 2 power switches for one device

Why

>>72142899
That sounds about right for California. Shit like that is why we are all waiting with bated breath for 'the big one' to finally arrive and submerge that assfuck infested place.

>>72142937
Maybe if you ate more carrots instead of fries you wouldn't be such a pathetic sperg in the dark you fat burger

>>72142905

Is this you, Brazil? Be honest.

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>>72142932
inspired by the hit action gaem ofc

>>72142946
You want everything to be at the same potential, you can achieve this by connect all electronics together with the ground.

If you did not, the potential differential within the electronics could induce current and fry it.

>>72142951
230 here

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master race plug reporting in

>>72142943
Yes they're very useful. It's nice not having devices draining power on standby without unplugging them from the socket.

Some americans seem to think that the socket switches replace device switches which is fucking retarded. You could claim ours is objectively better as you could turn an Australian power outlet into an American one by just having them switched on all the time.

>>72142863
>Almost 30 years on Earth
>Never needed an on/off switch on my fucking wall outlet

Are you foreign retards sticking forks in the socket or something?

>>72142937
>"Oh, it's not American? It's gotta be European!"

>>72142905

it heats water or what?

>>72142927
You already have surge protection on your electronics unless you're retarded. The danger is a hot neutral killing diodes and transistors, not storm static in the air.

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GFIs, required by code for new installations, have a reset switch that can be used as one.

But we're blessed in America - we can afford to place on/off switches on every device that operates on AC power. I know - it's an embarrassment of riches.

>>72142961
Nobody cares Indonesia don't you have like a mudslide to get out of or something?

>>72142937
Anon why would you turn the lamp off at the wall before leaving for work?
Why wouldn't you have a lot get switch by the door?

>>72142952
read >>72142959

Plenty of people lost electronics that were completely unplugged, but the plugged in ones were fine.

>>72142932

Well, ours look like surprised faces

>>72142962
>devices draining power on standby
what devices do you have plugged into the wall that you aren't using at least once a day?

Why would anyone need an extra switch?

>>72142935
>he doesnt squat to shit

theres "savage" and then theres "inescapable facts of human biology" such as the fact we didnt evolve to shit on chairs but to squat with our knees ABOVE our stomachs so as to properly empty the intestines and fully engage the pelvic/pubic/digestive muscles without causing an aneuyrism.

Your "argument" is literally the same as "next youre going to ask us why we wear 6 inch heels and dont wear sensible foot coverings like a fucking animal when we walk, fucking savage"

>>72142863
Newfoundfags need training wheels on their outlets

>>72142937

>Be American
>Post this shit on /pol/
>Make Americans look like complete fucking idiots

Well done

>>72142863
WTF!!!!!!!! This makes me so fucking mad right now !!! I'm spitting chups!!!!!!
>>72142877
That's a breaker switch you fucking slanty eye cunt

>>72142971
They are always being shocked

deny the switch jew

>>72142946

as it is common knowledge ghosts take advantage of the EM band of electricity. This is how science detects them and helps them pass on through different planes and so forth

There is a reason most ghost activities are spotted during thunderstorms. It's been long suspected that the stored charges and violent bursts, aka lightening, causes ghosts to disturb their localized bands. If this apparition passes close to electronics that have not been properly grounded, they strip the copper wiring of their natural essences and may even damage the appliance. This happened to my Aunt's family not too long ago. I'm almost embarrassed to be related to them

>>72142863
Retarded forum sliding bullshit.

Circuit breakers, what are they for?

Also, it is common to have a switch next to the light switch on the wall for an outlet, instead of reaching over a couch or fucking around behind a bunch of stereo wires.

Retarded and forum slidey

>>72142959
>the potential differential within the electronics
Comes from where?
We're talking about storms, not catastrophic CME events, right?

>>72142965

Yes, it heats water right at the shower head. Look up "suicide shower"

>>72142909
youre pulling too much juice or have an interruption somewhere, the switch is doing its job

>>72142890

kek'd

>>72142972
TV, extra monitors, extra refrigerators, various stuff I use for homebrew.

It's very nice not having to plug in a bunch of cords every time i want to use these devices and instead just hit a switch.

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>>72142863
AUS PLUG BEST PLUG

>>72142955
>>72142949

Don't think the Big One will do it. The structural codes will keep things together.

Gonna need a meteor.

>>72142863
It's because we pushed the tech out faster than anyone sense we practically invented most of it, and now it's too hard to change. Having a very large state like the U.S. is both good and bad, one ways it's bad is it's hard to change to a new standard.

>>72142871
>>72142871
>croquet

>>72142863

We do, it's called disconnecting or reconnecting the plug.

>>72142902
So many retarded things get attributed to Communists by Americans. They got into space first, yet you'll claim they pushed an idea for motion sensing electrical sockets.

>>72142989

How are having switches right on the outlet even useful? There's nothing in our electrical code preventing such a device, its just stupid.

>>72142905

>Used this shower my whole life
>Never had a problem

Brit fags afraid of sparks coming out of outlets

>>72142982
Close lighting strike.

>>72142948

Those absolute mongoloids think that appliances in the nations with switches on outlets don't have switches on the devices themselves. Yes, they really are THAT dumb.

>>72142986
>extra refrigerators
so you have items in those refrigerators then, i assume? then technically you are using them

but if the item is used so infrequently, unplugging the cord vs flipping an outlet switch takes virtually no additional time

>>72142959
How are the unplugged electronics suppose to come into range with material with such a different potential? Unless you plug it into the fucking grid, that is.

>>72142974

Speaking of shitting with knees up, I recently tried it. The turd flew out of my poop chute so fast I felt like I cheated myself of the pooping experience.

Not sure if I'll try it again.

>>72142937
Do American homes not having celing lights or something?

>>72142886
>As an electrician you'd know the value of turning a circuit off before disconnecting parts of it

Turning off and disconnecting are identical in function. The only difference is the speed at which the connection is broken. Switches generally being faster, but it's not like it matters because the ground plug is made longer so it's always the last to break contact.

Why not just control a plug you want to turn off and on with a wall switch to save bending over all the time?

>>72142896
>Be Amerifat.
>See a sterotypical muscular bronze Aussie cracking on to his gf
>Decide to lose 600 pounds
>Eat some spinach from California
>Die from contracting TB

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>>72142866

>>72142863
Our outlets only put out 120volts instead of 230v like yours. So what do your expect?

>>72142961
What happens if you plug it in backwards?

>>72142996

My microwave has no switch. It uses power unless I unplug it.

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>>72142905

>>72142899
Good the CIA need to be able to monitor where you are.

>>72142988
Kek'd heartily at what is described in your posts. Just nuke california, and nuke me too. Nuke the entire world actually.

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>>72142927
what

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Our voltage is 110 unless it's a dryer or something. Isn't it 240 in the UK? What retarded country uses death voltage on a regular living room outlet?

Take your guns away but leave death electricity.

>>72143005
The full wave rectifier will correct. Moron.

>>72143005
We don't have a DC-grid so it doesn't matter.

>>72143012
Wow that's just rude

>>72143011
>death voltage
Edison really did a number on you guys huh?

>>72142996
It's so you don't have to keep your lamp by the door. You just flip the switch instead of walking through a dark room to turn the light on. Makes sense to me.

>>72142899

god forbid you plug your alarm into one of those outlets.

>>72142863
That's because American electricity is only about a quarter as powerful as British electricity, their Kerosene however will burn through any substance known to mankind.

>>72143015
I can stick a fork in my outlet and live. You need to start a "lick the outlet" campaign.

>>72143001
>Why not just control a plug you want to turn off and on with a wall switch to save bending over all the time?

Basically, cost efficiency. It's cheaper to make a power outlet with a built in switch than to have the switch and have to use extra cable to connect to the independent outlet. It's just a way of minimising cost.

>>72142863
We put the on/off switches on our appliances.

It's the white way to do things.

>>72142868
This guy. Our houses are so huge we can have multiple SOCKETS dedicated to lamps which have their own switches and other sockets tied into wall mounted switches so you don't have to bend down and can keep the lights or whatever on in the same fucking room or anywhere else in the house because America.

>>72142978
>>72142978
kekkles

>>72142993
Why is it stupid? you could just leave them all all the time if you don't like it.
It might be stupid because it's over engineered, but I could see some uses for it.

>>72142995
If a lightning strike is close enough to generate a destructive EM field in your TV then it's guaranteed to show up in the building's electrical system anyways.

>>72143022
meant to capitalize MULTIPLE.

>>72143013
>DC grid
Disgusting.

>>72142899
So what happens at the dead of night when it's 90 degrees in your room, and because the central A/C unit of your house is shit you use a simple window AC? does that shit go out too or just the lights? Sounds really gay. I'd rather not wake up at midnight soaking in my own sweat because commiefornia's gooberment thinks the outlet should go out.

>Americans have to buy a separate kike-made switch that plugs into their kike-regulated power outlets
>The extra devices increase demand for electricity generated by kikes

>>72142863
thats pretty sweet actually

>>72142863
this is political? O_o

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>>72142863
>>72142866

>>72142999
What youve been brainwashed to think is the "pooping experience" is what is known to healthy people as "constipation straining"

if your bathroom requires reading material, youre doing something fucking wrong

>>72143025
Yes it will show up in the wires, but as long as everything is at the same potential they will be fine.

If you disconnect the ground, they will be at different potential and your electronics will fry.

>>72143020
>$X00,000 house
>Worried about $0.25 of wire
wut

>>72143019
You can't just stick a fork in an outlet in the UK. There's a safety mechanism that stops contact unless the earth is plugged in. Same for licking. There's even a handy switch to turn the socket off.

Anyway, static shocks off carpet are several thousand volts typically. It isn't the voltage that kills you.

>>72142928
No shit you retarded fucking Kangaroo. Why the fuck would I need 2 switches for a device?

>>72143016
why not just use the light instead of the lamp?

>>72142863
This is so primitive. Don't you know about differential circuit breakers?

>>72142899
californian here. you are an idiot.

>>72143028

If you plug the window unit into the energy saving outlet, it will go out after you fall asleep.

To keep it on you will need to hire an electrician to wire it to a dedicated circuit, per new code.

>>72142922
>Live in a land where the sun shines 80% of the time
>Install $5,000 worth of solar panels
>Now the power company sends me a check
>Make Canacuckian so mad he storms into his bedroom a beats his wife.

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>Americans think have a clue about freedom

>>72143014
What's rude, faggot?

>>72143018

Pretty much.

Our large appliance sockets are the same as standard british sockets.

Really strange stuff.

>>72142863
This thread again?

>>72143035
It's not just more cable, it's also a whole another part to install, which in turns also means more labour on top of more materials used (which equals more money spent). It all adds up, and electrical components aren't exactly cheap here.

>>72142942
The fuck is this shit? What about server rooms/media corporations where shit needs to render and there isn't anyone constantly running around.

What a stupid fucking idea.

What good does a switch on your outlet serve?

>>72143046
It's called AC dickhead, learn it

Here in New Zealand we use 230v, fuck 110.

>Work for electrical company
>Get a new guy from America
>He gets a shock from our 230v circuits

He just about cried holy shit it was funny. We just called him a pussy for the rest of the day, kek.

>>72143029

What?

Generally things just have off buttons here.

Also you can manually pop a GFCI outlet if you want to turn an outlet off.

>>72142989
/thread

>>72143034
How will the electronics fry if you unplug them? Are your house made of copper and your electronics lay completely unshielded on the floor?

Most things in a normal house are extremely poor conductors of electricity.

>>72143037
In case a bird-eating spider chews through the cord, the hot line contacts the ungrounded sheet-aluminum wall of your house and you've crammed a penny in the fusebox.
Duh.

>>72143037
You mean like a light from your ceiling? Don't tell me that American house lights aren't two-way switched.

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>NZ talking shit

You basically us but even more retarded.

>>72143041
That's pretty shitty. I live in KY, and at night it's anywhere between 85-95 in the summer because of the insane humidity here. Waking up every few hours just to turn on the window AC sounds rough. Is it like this in CA? Are your night temperatures hot-humid?

>>72142863
> OP
> I just read
> Stopped reading

>>72143042
What did they have to check, m8? Nobody has had to check my panels.

>>72142876
They're from the early era in Britain when the house was all one one big circuit, instead of different legs. So if you plugged in too much, you could start a fire, so they turned the outlets off at the outlet. They just kept using them. They have smaller two prong, but they require fuses on the plugs, so they're the big ass ones.

>>72143052
We keep our GFCI at the circuit entry point, we can do this because we don't have to buy transformers for home use because not cucked by 110v

>>72143028
If it was 90 degrees in your room you'd probably be dead.

>>72143054

>be poor Scandinavian
>can't afford a home made of high end conductors and semiconductors.

Kek

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>>72143032
>he fell for the moonlanding meme

>>72142999
how did you do it with a modern toilet? whenever i have to shit innawoods it works well but cant figure out how to do it safely on a toilet.

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>not unplugging all of your shit so the CIA doesn't listen to you take a dump

>>72143064
90F you fucking fairy.

>>72143049
Saves money on installation and saves the amount of resources used in installing it. Cost and time efficiency, mainly, but it's also quite useful if you're quite safety conscious.

>>72143040

Well we're both idiots. Ref. ASHRAE 90.1-2010. Current code cycle applies to class B occupancy. Next code cycle to apply to class R occupancy.

>>72143029

To be fair, we have power strips that plug into wall outlets that have a built in switch for turning the whole strip off.

I mean,cmon. Our options have options.

I would like those outlets with on off switches for a few areas of my home though.

>>72143063
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>>72143043
step up nigga

>>72143063
We don't buy transformers either anon? We have 240v for the things we need, dryer, furnace, etc.

>>72142863
Breaker. Surge Protector. Off switch on the device itself.
I'm wondering why you would ever need such a thing to start with, how redundant redundant is that exactly?

>>72142871
country of 1.4 billion vs country of 4 million
really gets the noggin joggin

>>72142889
Would flipping the switch to sabbath mode count as doing work?

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The attention to detail is everything.

>>72142937
Not mention, the agony of stepping on a British plug in the dark.

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>>72143058
*except whiter

>>72143028
>Americans kike renewables policy can't produce the throughput required so they add a time-out feature
>Demand for electricity rises as people automate the supply of electricity to their own house

>>72143071
How does it save money on installation? What resources are saved?

>>72143077
seems weird to me not to have them, but whatever

>>72142952
Never heard of a power surge, have ya?

>>72143054
You are thinking too hard. Think of a lighting rod, how does it reduce damage? by providing a low impedance path to ground.

Without the ground, you'll get current showing up everything trying to reach ground.

>>72143068
>not making them listen to you take a dump and watch you masturbate, making them slowly lose their mental health and make them resent their life-career choices

>>72143075
why are your outlets so surprised?

>>72142863
I spend a lot of time in the UK and you fags have the worst fucking plug designs. So large and clunky and need a special adapter to use in a bathroom.

BTFO

>>72142863
Quit giving my government ideas to impose on us dingos. We have enough regulations.

>>72142863
>americans literally nerd to pull their tv out of the wall to avoid extra standby mode electricity charges

lmfaoooooo

>>72142863
Some do some don't some are connected to separate switches. But why do you need them anyway?

>>72143079
GOYIM STOP THINKING

>>72143084
Some cable that would be required to connect the independent outlet to the independent switch, also some amount of plastic and metal required to make the extra device.

>>72143062
Early era British sockets didn't have switches all that often.

As the other guy said we get mad sparks if you don't use the switch.

>>72143089
I've taken a habit of whispering.
>I know you're listening
into my phones microphone every so often

>>72142863
>You guys aren't actually that primitive are you?
Our lights have switches. Some of the more advanced homes built after 1940 have switches on the wall that control outlets.

So to answer you, no. We don't have something so retarded as a switch on outlets standard.

>>72143070
What do you mean F, you poof?

>>72143090
Why are your outlets Chinese?

>>72143067

I was riding my sons hoverboard in the house and had to take a crap, so I hovered to the toilet and used the hoverboard as a stool for my feet to raise my knees.

Kinda funny how decadence has finaly come full circle to accomodate natural biological function.

>>72143085
Does it come with your mandatory TV licence or do you have to install it yourself?

>>72143090

Why are your's so dismayed?

>>72143098
lel

desu I have so much shit that all the outlets use power strips anyway

those come with a switch on them so it wouldn't make a difference

>>72143059

No it's seldom hot or humid. Have no AC and only run the heat half-day for two months of the year.

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>>72143091
>and need a special adapter to use in a bathroom.
Uh, bro. Water. Electricity.

>>72143066
Wouldn't expect a hobbit to care much either way

>>72143094
when they enter the dream time they try to lick the sockets

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>this triggers the Amerifat

>>72143096
But wouldn't running a switch to somewhere more convenient rather than along the baseboard offer more flexibility in furniture layout and and the sheer convenience of having it at chest level be worth the extra materials and labor

US plgs controlled by wall switches or none at all.
No kneeling for switches like early hominid.

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>crawling underneath your bed to just turn your lights on or off

>>72143111
Multiple taps are fucking cancer, except maybe in a bath. We have these advanced devices known as mixers, they mix the water before leaving the tap. Amazing!

>>72143038
No overhead light, just a lamp. More comfy that way. This is mostly in older homes, in bedrooms.

>>72143112
Not for the electrician, no. Strictly speaking, furniture layout really isn't his problem.

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>>72142863
americans have a poor understanding of electricity so the jews make it simple for them by adding switches to their jewish devices

>>72143114
Are Americans so fucking stupid that they believe this is the case for everyone outside of their country?

>>72143111
I live in amerifries and I had one of these sinks until a few weeks ago when my landlord finally got caught up to the 1940s

>>72143117
But as electricians, we should always be thinking about customer satisfaction

>>72143103
>TV licence???

>>72143107
I guess that would make since on an A/C unit. Didn't know if all of CA is desert or just the southern half, I know the valley is sustainable for crops.

>>72143111
>want warm water
>only have ice fucking cold or scalding hot
>hot far apart you can't mix them together

>Americans ITT too stupid to realise you can leave the wall switch on and use the switch on the device itself, but also switch the wall switch off if you wish.

It's called having "Options". Unfortunately it requires having a memory capacity of 3 simultaneous bits or more

>>72143116
>No overhead light, just a lamp
What the hell is this third world shit? Even under my stars has a ceiling light.

>>72143088
I mean at that point your house is probably on fire at several places and all the people in it dead.

>>72143104
because >>72143101

>>72143121
True, but no one knows any different here, so they're satisfied if you simply just put the outlet+switch wherever they ask/wherever is on the drawing.

>>72142863
I honestly can't think of a reason why I would want a switch on my electrical outlet.

>>72142863
>have on/off switches
>this costs more money than the other ones due to the addition of an on and off switch
how fucking lazy are you to just unplug?

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>>72143119
>crawling through the spiders and snakes and emu poo to turn off your tea maker
hahahahah you guys can not be this stupid

>>72143123
Well, we are in mid-CA. SoCal is screwed.

>>72143122
>>72143103

tv licenses are not only mandatory, but the tv licensing COMPANY is a private org and they only get money out of scare tactics. Their "enforcement officers" have no legal power, theyre like vampires with the inviting inside etcetc , everything is based around trickery

don't get me wrong, britain is 1984 and shit but at least get the reasons accurate

>>72142863
what the fuck type of outlets or those? looks like a stick figure face of an asian

>>72143124
kek, this. wtf

>>72142871
>relevant sport

wewe

>>72142863
This thread received over 250 replies.

If anything in the entire blue world should make you think, it's that little tidbit of information right there.

>>72143124
You can mix them together, it's called a plug.

most outlets have a wall switch, it's just not on the goddamn outlet.

also you can use a power strip which has a switch or just unplug the damn device.

>>72143129
Well sure, at the end of the day I install what the print calls for and if that's the way it's done, then more power to you, I just don't think it's fair to call not having a switch on the outlet primitive.

>>72143115
>He doesn't have the skill to make use of two taps simultaneusly at once for different tasks

>>72143122
If you watch TV of live broadcasts you have to pay a small fee which in turn funds the BBC. Other Euro countries have similar shit without the BBC for some reason.

>>72143111
multi taps are for poor people anon.

I have only ever seen those in shitty old houses

>>72143111
why you need two faucets? REEE

>>72143138
EEs have a high amount of autists and vice versa.

>>72142863
Because we don't have a power grid that spontaneously starts itself on fire and uses shitty eastern European appliances.

ayylmaos please leave.

fuck off ayylmaos

MODS = FAGGOTS
ELECTRICAL SOCKETS ARE POLITICS.

the fuck is up with the flags?

The invasion of /int/land by /pol/
Glorious

>>72143141
I agree, it's not primitive and it's not fair to say so. Having a switch independent to the socket can actually be quite a good thing in many respects, as are mentioned in this thread.

>>72143127
Well, if you are still here, I'm not talking about a direct lightning strike, but a close one, say 50 feet away. You are not going to get induced current in wood, but you will in circuits.

>>72143147
The US has massive blackouts because of a shitty old power grid. You don't even get full powered sockets.

>>72142863
?: the country

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>australians literally SCOTCH FROM CROTCH

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fucking space niggers

JANNIES ARE SHITTING UP OUR BOARD.

>Mods move a thread about electrical socket outlets to /int/
>They leave up a thread which is a giant cut/uncut debate

I'd say they're as politically relevant as each other 2bh

basically its just a safety feature so if some faggot kid with a knife sticks it in he wont fucking die.

also even if you turn the devices themselves off they still have electricity and shit running through them so if they are malfunctioning and you touch them then you could get rekt (plus the money you have to pay for it even when you turned your actual device off), also unplugging and plugging back in all the time will wear down the plug.

>>72143182
oy vey we need to use more renewable energy to prevent this from happening.

>be amerishart
>try to make tea
>fill up 3.78541 litre jug of water
>put it in microwave
>only have 110v mains, so it doesn't actually heat the water
>put it in my mug with an ironic phrase on the front
>put shit tea bag in
>add chocolate milk because you never mentally matured and your black genes make you lactose intolerant
>add corn syrup as a sweetener because sugar is for communists
>try to throw it in the harbour but get intimidated by anti-fascist teenagers
>refuse to fight back because you think physical combat is "for niggers" and you don't want to get your knee length shorts dirty and mess up your unstyled hair

>>72143219
It wasn't racist enough for /pol/

We don't stick forks into electrical sockets like Yurosharias who suck Ahmed's cock so it's unnecessary.

>>72143222
Let the mod stick his dick in it.

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>>72143233
>be australian
>try to make tea
>drinky from willy instead

>>72143234
And not enough goatse pics for /r/

>>72143222
>basically its just a safety feature so if some faggot kid with a knife sticks it in he wont fucking die.
What are RCDs?

>>72143226
Be careful buddy, that sounds a lot like politics. Remember we're on /int/ now.
*posts shart meme*

Aylmaos are among us. And the first thing they do is shitpost on a Japanese Rice Farming forum. We aren't so different after all.

>>72143145
What the fuck is a faucet?

>>72143233
you listen to me, son. There is nothing wrong with knee length shorts fagboy. I wear knee length shorts at least three months out of the year and they are either made of denim (real man shit) or have cargo pockets (carrying tacticool necessities) and I will boot the throat of some antifaggot and cut their ear off and store it in the cargo pocket of my knee length shorts.

>>72143255
Hey m8 don't talk shit about bubbling or I'll dust you out the front of the pub

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>>72143233
Americans with electrical appliances

>>72143279
faucets are what the water comes out of you fucking abo

>>72143293
Now your cooking with gas.

>>72143233
There is nothing wrong with knee length shorts.
>wanting to show off thigh like a loose woman

>>72143300
You mean a tap?

>>72143290
SIP

>>72143319
taps are what you put on a keg to make the beer come out m80

>>72143317
>>72143285
If your shorts are at or below your knees you are either fat or autistic.

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>be me
>be amerifat
>110v
>tools dont have the same amount of torque as the countries that use 220/240
>mah voltage drop when using a extension
>no switches to easily turn on and off appliances
>need another 240v circuit just to run the washing machine
>need to have an RCD/GFI on every socket, not just one on the whole house
>sockets go in both ways, not knowing what is the active when diagnosing appliances

>>72143338
So, in the case of American beer, taps are what the water comes out of?

>>72142863
>not using remote controlled outlets
We can install whatever we want here, my outlets would probably be in violation of some housing code in your shithole country

>>72143342
That's a house panel!?!?

>>72143341
my shorts are either at or above the knee because i need to show off my superior calf muscles but if they are too short there isnt enough room to put more pockets.

>>72143341
If your shorts are at or above your knees your are either a loose woman or a poof.

>>72143352
baha that is good bantz roo