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@boomzilla said in Nope:
This Girl Went Viral After Getting Chlamydia...
Chlamydia are bacteria, so that's indeed a "nope".
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OH SHIT NO
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OH SHIT NO
"so there I was, trapped in a shit hole, and then some bloody ape comes to try shitting on me even more!"
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OH SHIT NO
Alaska. Just another day. (I was just watching a bunch of those 'Alaska Living' shows - the 1/2 hr house hunting ones. An outhouse when it's -30F - yeah, that's a big fat NOPE!)
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Alaska. Just another day. (I was just watching a bunch of those 'Alaska Living' shows - the 1/2 hr house hunting ones. An outhouse when it's -30F - yeah, that's a big fat NOPE!)
I used to watch Yukon Men. That was pretty fun. To watch. Most of the time. Except for the time one guy (probably) went through the river ice on his snow machine, never to be seen again. Still, impressive and good for some vicarious adventure and appreciation for what we have in more civilized parts.
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@boomzilla said in Nope:
Still, impressive and good for some vicarious adventure and appreciation for what we have in more civilized parts.
I know - it almost makes me think "that would be a nice place to retire to". Then I remember - they're not showing the multiple months of darkness and -40 temps.
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Thomas the Tank Engine is not a friend
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Doubt.
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I did something somewhat similar to the opposite of that...
I high-jacked a junction box (inset in the wall) to have an extension lead running out of it, because I wanted to add wall plugs there but putting actual wall plugs wasn't convenient because of a piece of furniture. In theory I should have put a wall plug and plugged the extension into it (so that if someone yanks the extension it gets unplugged rather than ripping out the junction box!) but to get a snuggier fit I just cut the cable and did the junction inside the box.
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@dcon TRWTF here is unswitched sockets
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@bobjanova It depends. Around here sockets don't have switches. Some extension chords do, but wall sockets never.
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@Bulb we have some sockets that are behind a switch, so you can plug in a lamp and control it that way but the switches are never on the socket. I think that's a UK thing, like exploding gas stations.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in Nope:
extension chords
That's called a fermata attached to a chord.
At least I'm not the only one to make that typo.
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@topspin I think everyone understood from context that you were talking about power chords.
Power coordinates are important to know when routing power with extension conduit.
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@boomzilla I think that's a UK thing
Maybe so but this is one area where the UK is right and you all are wrong
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@bobjanova said in Nope:
@boomzilla I think that's a UK thing
Maybe so but this is one area where the UK is right and you all are wrong
Well, you are free to believe that but I, for one, am happy to keep exploding gas stations an ocean away.
I can't imagine why I'd want the hassle of switches on outlets, either.
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@bobjanova said in Nope:
this is one area where the UK is right and you all are wrong
Confirmed by all these issues caused by electric fires everywhere else.
Oh, wait....
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@TimeBandit said in Nope:
@bobjanova said in Nope:
this is one area where the UK is right and you all are wrong
Confirmed by all these issues caused by electric fires everywhere else.
Oh, wait....
Is that what they're supposed to be preventing? Honestly, I have no idea.
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@boomzilla said in Nope:
Is that what they're supposed to be preventing? Honestly, I have no idea.
Me neither, but they use 220v so it probably arcs a lot more when you plug something in a live plug
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@TimeBandit said in Nope:
Me neither, but they use 220v so it probably arcs a lot more when you plug something in a live plug
still doesn't explain why it isn't an issue in other countries using this dangerously high voltage
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@TimeBandit said in Nope:
@boomzilla said in Nope:
Is that what they're supposed to be preventing? Honestly, I have no idea.
Me neither, but they use 220v so it probably arcs a lot more when you plug something in a live plug
Over here we use decent plugs that fit tightly so maybe that's less of an issue?
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@boomzilla The genuine good thing about a switched socket is you don't get sparking and on-off-on-off inconsistent contact when plugging the thing in or out. Plugging it in and then flicking the switch avoids that.
Our 3 pin sockets are also designed to be difficult to accidentally pull out of the wall, iirc.
I'm mostly just trolling but I do think switched sockets are better - it's good to be able to turn something off without having to leave a cable unplugged and trailing on the floor.
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@bobjanova said in Nope:
I'm mostly just trolling but I do think switched sockets are better - it's good to be able to turn something off without having to leave a cable unplugged and trailing on the floor.
We use an invention that we like to call, "The Off Switch."
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@bobjanova said in Nope:
it's good to be able to turn something off without having to leave a cable unplugged and trailing on the floor.
What modern day item doesn't have an off switch?
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What modern day item doesn't have an off switch?
Routers (no switch) and cable boxes (fake switch).
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@boomzilla But if the socket has a switch then you don't need to put a cable switch in every single device.
Off switches on a device itself are often actually just a 'sleep switch', it's nice to be able to turn it off at the wall to be sure.
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@bobjanova said in Nope:
it's nice to be able to turn it off at the wall to be sure.
As long as you don't mind waiting 10 minutes for the stupid cheap-ass piece of shit uVerse box to reboot itself.
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@bobjanova said in Nope:
@boomzilla But if the socket has a switch then you don't need to put a cable switch in every single device.
Off switches on a device itself are often actually just a 'sleep switch', it's nice to be able to turn it off at the wall to be sure.
Third world problems thread is .
Also, with that setup I need the outlets to be accessible, which is often not very practical. I'm thinking the exploding gas stations would be better actually, because fireballs are awesome.
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@boomzilla I'm not actually sure what you're referring to with the 'exploding gas station' (by which I think you mean petrol station ), I don't remember seeing anything about that in the news recently.
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@bobjanova it's an old joke at the expense of @RaceProUK who used to freak out about no switches on electrical outlets and that mechanisms to allow a gas pump to keep pumping without having to hold it was super dangerous.
I'm sure I didn't mean metric gas, which you call petrol. Our stations are all gallons.
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@boomzilla said in Nope:
I'm sure I didn't mean metric gas, which you call petrol. Our stations are all gallons.
I buy gas by the litre at the gas station
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@TimeBandit said in Nope:
@boomzilla said in Nope:
I'm sure I didn't mean metric gas, which you call petrol. Our stations are all gallons.
I buy gas by the litre at the gas station
Yes, but I understand the taxes are much higher on metric gas.
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@bobjanova said in Nope:
it's nice to be able to turn it off at the wall to be sure.
As long as you don't mind waiting 10 minutes for the stupid cheap-ass piece of shit uVerse box to reboot itself.
Hey, Spectrum/Centurylink has the same boxes, don't hate on just the one!
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Laptop and phone chargers don’t have switches. The sump pump that was playing up and needed controlled testing doesn’t have a readily-accessible power switch. Far easier to flick the switch than to pull the plug and drop it somewhere mostly-convenient.
I’ve spent a few consecutive weeks in countries without switches on the walls and I’m pretty sure I didn’t die. But I can’t comprehend why you’d rally against the potential convenience, besides the usual WHARRGARBL THIS RUNS CONTRARY TO MY USUAL EXPERIENCES AND MUST THEREFORE BE TERRIBLE. Reminds me of pie’s retarded case against blind-accessible banknotes.
You can always just not turn the switch off, you know.
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@boomzilla said in Nope:
Yes, but I understand the taxes are much higher on metric gas.
Yeah, metric benzine (petrol, gas, whatever) costs about the same per liter as weird gas per (US) gallon.
Although prices can vary wildly by country.
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Laptop and phone chargers don’t have switches. The sump pump that was playing up and needed controlled testing doesn’t have a readily-accessible power switch. Far easier to flick the switch than to pull the plug and drop it somewhere mostly-convenient.
I’ve spent a few consecutive weeks in countries without switches on the walls and I’m pretty sure I didn’t die. But I can’t comprehend why you’d rally against the potential convenience, besides the usual WHARRGARBL THIS RUNS CONTRARY TO MY USUAL EXPERIENCES AND MUST THEREFORE BE TERRIBLE. Reminds me of pie’s retarded case against blind-accessible banknotes.
You can always just not turn the switch off, you know.
Don't the UK wall outlets also have a built in fuse?
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@Carnage It's the plug for every device which contains a fuse.
It's there to protect the device from drawing so much current that the extension cord or device is set on fire:
The circuit behind the wall outlet actually serves 20 or 30 A protected by a breaker:
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@Carnage It's the plug for every device which contains a fuse.
It's there to protect the device from drawing so much current that the extension cord or device is set on fire:
The circuit behind the wall outlet actually serves 20 or 30 A protected by a breaker:
There are a few food ideas in there.
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@JBert Goddamn. The Brits used to command the high seas and dominate half the world, and now they need switches and fuses for literally every piece of electric equipment they use? Pussies.
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a few food ideas
I wouldn't trust the British cuisine like that ... otherwise the wouldn't use a French word to describe it.
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A lot of Nope! haircuts...
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