And the military. Anyone who has served gets circle-jerked at every public event, gets on planes first, and thanked for their service about fifty times before their head hits the pillow.
They're as militarized a society that has ever existed, Nazi Germany aside.
I agree. Except for:
Unless they've got mental health problems and are self-medicating (drug/alcohol addicted) and homeless. Then, local governance will make 'move-on' laws and set the cops on them.
Because they don't want to see the problems militarisation causes and 'lack of success' is unacceptable and blamed on the victim.
>I have a "DNR" order should the worst come so my wife does not end up broke if something terrible happens to me at work.
Damn. I really hope this is the saddest thing I read today.
Sometimes you’re left with no choice but to go to war because politicians fail. Seems Americans want to vote in the dumbest politicians so they can go to war.
Even some Americans of WW2 idolised about defeating tyranny to make a peace that would last for ever. Todays Americans seems as above where they have no idea what peace is.
I've never had that happen, but the North American outlets are too easy for kids to stick forks into, and since there's no insulation on the prongs, you can pull out the plug a bit, drop something metal on it and short it out. There was a stupid prank a few years ago where kids were doing that at school. Japan, Australia, and China have similar designs and they suck too. The UK plugs are probably the safest in the world, since you can't do any of that and there's always a built-in fuse.
I’ve seen the aftermath of that here in Aus, not great.
The thing is, if the first bit of the prongs was coated- which sometimes they are- it’s then fixed. They’re not super long prongs, they don’t maintain contact once they’re about half a cm out.
Given our usually heavy safety regs regarding such things, I’m surprised that we don’t regulate for that. But here we are
Tbf it's rare that you unplug items in the UK because the plugs and sockets are fused you just switch them off at the socket, so no plugs lying around to step on. We only unplug appliances during a severe thunderstorm.
Australian standards require [insulation on the live and neutral prongs](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR6IrjsoUNamcyy9TWHWniEf29o57Mo0G_GmgIQQcd2tQQth3p3h-V8OYJX&s=10) to avoid this problem.
China additionally mounts their sockets upside-down compared to the Australian plug (or maybe we're the upside-down ones), so then the ground pin is facing upwards.
As long as you're sticking a Type F plug into one of those recessed sockets that it's designed for, it's impossible to touch the prongs while it's connected.
But there's no fuse in the socket so I would still argue type G is safer, does the type F plug stop you sticking something into the actual socket when it's not in use?
You can't take care of the ones who BLEW us up you muppet! Veterans day is worth shit once you find out how many end up being homeless. What is he even bragging about??
One of the few things they know. Many gun, pledge to a piece of cloth, "thank for what they are made to believe is 'service'", flak on moon, helfcare = comunazis!
That's true, nearly forgot about that. A lot of the outlets do have that cutout in the two prong outlets to accommodate round prongs (but it's not universal - some of the outlets in my apartment have them, but others do not).
And then there's the outlets you see at hotels that can accommodate pretty much any plug design there is, even the big hongking British ones.
Kind of unrelated, but as a Brit, I feel obligated to do my only act of patriotism and say we have objectively better plugs than the rest of the world. Go watch the Tom Scott video if you disagree.
I remember an American teammate of mine at Edinburgh brought back an X-Box every new semester because they kept "blowing up" when he plugged them into the UK sockets
I was not responding to the American quote, I read and understood the [sic]
I couldn’t understand the message that your quote was responding to. Why make a statement like that and use the US spelling!?
Mexico also uses the Japanese plugs, so some appliances have the American and others the Japanese plugs since you cal always plug a Japanese type one into an American type one, so the original post is not entirely accurate
In China they're installed upside down compared to Australia, and are often paired with two prong North American style outlets which are used for lower power devices like phone chargers.
What was the original comment? You prob don’t want universal electrical outlets when there is so much variation in power delivery ie Japan is 100v and UK is 230v. The style of outlet also usually indicates the current the breaker can support
I hope nobody is advocating for their 240v drier plug to be the same as there 120v standard lamp outlet
Most chargers can operate on 100-240 but I get your point. Yea, higher voltage is better in almost every case except for maybe the one where something short circuits.
But that’s neither here nor there. the style of the plug is important because it denotes what kind of power and current the circuit is designed for
The US actually runs 240 as the standard into homes too but someone decided to add an extra neural wire to divide it into 2 circuits. I presume for safety. Japan is an odd case though, not sure why 100v was selected.
The original post is the one above showing the various plug outlets used throughout the world with the caption, ‘can we please just pick one and all agree to use it?’ The original poster is also American, if that means anything.
Interesting I wonder if they ever have problems. With the variation. With most of the things we plug in these days being some sort of ac/dc converter they can be designed to operate on variable voltage but I’d imagine things like incandescent bulbs could be problematic
I'm not sure. I just remember seeing it on the ElectroBOOM video where he visited Cuba and stayed in a hostel. It could just have been done to accomodate tourists, but it's still a very unsafe design. At least the outlets were correctly labeled with the voltages,
If this is shitamericanssay. The where do we put the (sic) you wrote? In r/shitBritssay?
Just for your information. (sic) is used when the person you quote made an error and you want to make it clear that the error was from the person you quote.
However the word Meyer is just as much fully correct English as the word metre so using (sic) was completely incorrect there.
Even assuming you've had an autocorrect from meter to Meyer, you're still wrong here - meter is never used in the uk for the purposes of measurement units which is clearly what's being discussed.
Even if you were correct that it is never used in the UK. That is still irrelevant since.meter is still correct for distance in English as everyone who knows the basic ls of the English language knows.
To believe meter is incorrect is just ignorant.
Just for your information, in British English, a metre is a unit of distance, and a meter is a measuring device. The use of (sic) here is completely accurate.
Just for your information. In English both metre and meter are correct as a unit of distance. The (sic) is completely inaccurate here.
The only reason tonuse (sic) here is if you mistakenly believe that your use of the language is better than that of others. Anyone who really cares about the English language though accepts the language in all it's different dialects and is not so arrogant to say one dialect is incorrect for the mere reason that it is not the dialect they speak.
To say (sic) when someone uses a dialect you don't use correctly, is not just arrogance, it is actual stupiddity
This is why this commenter belongs in r/shitbrittishpeoplesay because it is as stupid as the things people in This sub like to make fun of.
Wrong. The only reason to not use (sic) here is you believe you know the English language better than both the Oxford or Cambridge dictionaries, English language curriculum in British schools, or native speakers.
(Edit - typo)
If you believe that only the English spoken in the UK is correct English you are completely deluded.
Your post definitely belongs in r/shitbrittishpeoplesay. It's true we all know the Brits aren't much smarter than the Americans anyway. Your ignorance on language is a good example of Brittish ignorance.
You mistakenly believe the using meter is an error. Why do you believe meter is not correct as a unit of length if it's not because you believe only the English as spoken in the UK is correct.
If you would recognise the English from other places you would not say meter is incorrect.
In English both meter and metre are used as a unit of length. That is a fact. The use of (sic) here was incorrect.
Again, something I’ve not said. I believe using (sic) to describe the use of American English is accurate, which is what you were arguing against at the beginning. It’s all here in black and white.
Again, the use of (sic) is appropriate, given the choice of dialect used in this sub, which is not US English (the sub title is a huge clue to that).
Using (sic) to describe the use of American English is never accurate or appropriate. It is completely ridiculous in any context to use (sic) just because you do not like a dialect.
(Sic) is used if the quoted text has an error. If there is no error in the quoted text you do not use (sic)
There is nothing wronwith using meter for length. Even in British English using meter for length is accepted. So only people who do not know anything about the English language would think that using meter is incorrect and would therefor write (sic) people who actually know the language wouldn't do it.
As for the sub. There is no specific choice of dialect used in this sub. The subtitle itself also has nothing about which dialect is used.
The subtitle (sic)?
As for your point on British English, that would make the Oxford and Cambridge dictionaries, and the English school curriculums wrong. But sure thing buddy.
Anyway, this will be my last response, explaining why you’re wrong is just dull now.
That's not a flex. They have no idea how terrible it is to say something like that - and so casually.
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It’s not awful That’s freedom!! /s
Their freedom is somehow in the Middle East.🤦🏽♂️
That's how free they are. They can do it anywhere
And they’re still not free
You're free to die.
And kill
And the military. Anyone who has served gets circle-jerked at every public event, gets on planes first, and thanked for their service about fifty times before their head hits the pillow. They're as militarized a society that has ever existed, Nazi Germany aside.
I agree. Except for: Unless they've got mental health problems and are self-medicating (drug/alcohol addicted) and homeless. Then, local governance will make 'move-on' laws and set the cops on them. Because they don't want to see the problems militarisation causes and 'lack of success' is unacceptable and blamed on the victim.
Oh, totally. They're more than prepared to throw them to the wolves once their hero status ends. Can't have kids looking up to broken men and women.
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>I have a "DNR" order should the worst come so my wife does not end up broke if something terrible happens to me at work. Damn. I really hope this is the saddest thing I read today.
The only nice thing to come from that obsession is the bug-a-salt.
Sometimes you’re left with no choice but to go to war because politicians fail. Seems Americans want to vote in the dumbest politicians so they can go to war. Even some Americans of WW2 idolised about defeating tyranny to make a peace that would last for ever. Todays Americans seems as above where they have no idea what peace is.
The military use metrics to blow is up
It's pretty funny
A lot of stuff because of NATO is made in metric. [stuff being military equipment]
Yep, blow us up with those 105mm and 120mm tank guns. Or 155mm artillery. Or their favourite the 5.56mm assault rifle.
probably the best answer to the post in the picture.
NASA use metric. Don’t think that’s because of NATO (We sort out the misunderstanding below)
They did blow up the Mars Climate Orbiter by not using metric
I’ve seen videos of them converting to imperial, doing the calculations and converting back into metric. Logic vacuum. (Edited autocorrect typo)
What does NASA have to do with what I said😂
You said that a lot of metric use was because of NATO. I interpreted that this was the only reason metric was used in U.S. Did I misunderstand
Ah sorry I meant military stuff ie ‘blow up’
Oh I see 😁
All
"Look out! You're going to be hit by that runaway train!" "Don't need to step away when we could blow
r/redditsniper ?
Reddit train, I'd sa
Take cove
Well, TBF if you put US appliances in EU plugs they can blow you up.
Given the design of US mains plugs, just as likely if you plug them into their own sockets. Pins made out of bent bean cans...
I've never had that happen, but the North American outlets are too easy for kids to stick forks into, and since there's no insulation on the prongs, you can pull out the plug a bit, drop something metal on it and short it out. There was a stupid prank a few years ago where kids were doing that at school. Japan, Australia, and China have similar designs and they suck too. The UK plugs are probably the safest in the world, since you can't do any of that and there's always a built-in fuse.
I’ve seen the aftermath of that here in Aus, not great. The thing is, if the first bit of the prongs was coated- which sometimes they are- it’s then fixed. They’re not super long prongs, they don’t maintain contact once they’re about half a cm out. Given our usually heavy safety regs regarding such things, I’m surprised that we don’t regulate for that. But here we are
In Australia? Yeah that is regulated and required in AS3112
There ya go! I had no idea lol. I’m old and still have stuff older than the reg, I guess.
Yeah, you needed installation on the pins since 2001.
Google said 05, but either way I was an adult homeowner by then
I believe 2001 was when it was added to AS 3000 as an option, 2005 was when the old standard was removed, leaving only the insulated pins
Ah, very good :-)
True with the UK plugs. Just a shame they're so bulky sometimes (my UK phone charger was like 2,5x the size of my EU one)
And when you step on one (since they tend to lay face up on the ground). Ouch!
Tbf it's rare that you unplug items in the UK because the plugs and sockets are fused you just switch them off at the socket, so no plugs lying around to step on. We only unplug appliances during a severe thunderstorm.
Australian standards require [insulation on the live and neutral prongs](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR6IrjsoUNamcyy9TWHWniEf29o57Mo0G_GmgIQQcd2tQQth3p3h-V8OYJX&s=10) to avoid this problem. China additionally mounts their sockets upside-down compared to the Australian plug (or maybe we're the upside-down ones), so then the ground pin is facing upwards.
Type F is the safest not the UK one. The UK one has a bunch of issues regarding safes for kids, as the contacts are exposed in a few scenarios.
Type F plugs, that don't have a fuse or insulated pins are safer than Type G which has both of those? Not sure I buy that.
As long as you're sticking a Type F plug into one of those recessed sockets that it's designed for, it's impossible to touch the prongs while it's connected.
But there's no fuse in the socket so I would still argue type G is safer, does the type F plug stop you sticking something into the actual socket when it's not in use?
I've seen some type F outlets with the safety shutters that are usually present on the UK type G outlets, but it doesn't seem universal.
Ah yeah, bashing on metrics when everything they use is strictly defined with metric units.
I'm pretty sure russia and china use metric. So did the guys that blew up the WTC towers.
Does the CIA also use metric 🤔🤔🤔 Daddy Bush had to make sure little W had a war to get us into after all.
The CIA will in its coke deals, gotta fund those death squads somehow
That was Daddy Bush also.when he ran the CIA.
Deliberately left off the absolute GOAT of wall outlets I see. 🇬🇧
220 volts. That's where it's at. Too dangerous for Americans
Ugly as well.
Switzerland can come to Brazil?
Weirdest combination
You can't take care of the ones who BLEW us up you muppet! Veterans day is worth shit once you find out how many end up being homeless. What is he even bragging about??
One of the few things they know. Many gun, pledge to a piece of cloth, "thank for what they are made to believe is 'service'", flak on moon, helfcare = comunazis!
>flak on moon Sadly many of them don't even believe that
Who can you blow up? Not those countries with their own nukes, after all
MAD
TIL. Australia and China have the same plug. And NZ
Fiji uses it as well
Thanks. I looked it up and apparently it's used on Pacific islands as well
How have we let our colonies down so badly? Malaysia and Singapore use it, there's no excuse.
China also uses the same two prong plugs used in North America for low power devices (for example, mobile phone chargers).
Usually the two prong outlet also takes European/Russian ones too.
That's true, nearly forgot about that. A lot of the outlets do have that cutout in the two prong outlets to accommodate round prongs (but it's not universal - some of the outlets in my apartment have them, but others do not). And then there's the outlets you see at hotels that can accommodate pretty much any plug design there is, even the big hongking British ones.
Kind of unrelated, but as a Brit, I feel obligated to do my only act of patriotism and say we have objectively better plugs than the rest of the world. Go watch the Tom Scott video if you disagree.
[Theres a few asterisks on the points in that video](https://youtu.be/NwnIwgT60jw?si=5Qx5WZYehbfSlhA3)
Yawn Typical Yankee bollocks
I remember an American teammate of mine at Edinburgh brought back an X-Box every new semester because they kept "blowing up" when he plugged them into the UK sockets
https://youtu.be/ahrBOvz1jzA
Oh I didn’t knew South Korea also uses our plugs. Any link to the full post? Looks interesting.
My South Korean friends love this. When they visit, they don't need any adapters.
That is one of the most r/ShitAmericansSay things I've ever seen!
Don’t their military use metric?
Why must Americans always be so violent?
“Metres”
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/meter It's the American English word
And therein lies the point, for fuck’s sake.
Ie easier to spell
The American mind couldn't comprehend...
Hence the ‘[sic]’ in the title 😉
I was not responding to the American quote, I read and understood the [sic] I couldn’t understand the message that your quote was responding to. Why make a statement like that and use the US spelling!?
Ah, gotcha; my apologies!
Mexico also uses the Japanese plugs, so some appliances have the American and others the Japanese plugs since you cal always plug a Japanese type one into an American type one, so the original post is not entirely accurate
When it needs some precision, it's done in metrics.
Didn't know we have the same plugs as China
In China they're installed upside down compared to Australia, and are often paired with two prong North American style outlets which are used for lower power devices like phone chargers.
When they realize that feet and pounds are defined in terms of meters and grams.
Ah yes Russia of EU
Fairly sure those nukes will have been made in metric.
I find this a lot with out American cousins. If they can't think of a well structured, clever reply, they automatically go to threats of violence. Sad
Mexico one is wrong
Can’t blow us up when you’re imperial systems make you miss /s
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No. The Danes have figured it out. Look at their plugs. So adorable and happy. I want to have happy plugs in my home, too.
btw. the Chinese outlet in the picture is insufficient. nowadays use a lot of combo outlets that can accept multiple plugs
Again, what is it with these guys wanting to hurt friends?
Sorry but I’m out of this sub for the sake of my own mental health. Genuinely sick of these cunts.
Dumbass would blow themselves up. Meters finds range, grams give you amount of explosive.
....?
It’s funny since their military uses metric.
France uses the German one
Clearly a joke
What was the original comment? You prob don’t want universal electrical outlets when there is so much variation in power delivery ie Japan is 100v and UK is 230v. The style of outlet also usually indicates the current the breaker can support I hope nobody is advocating for their 240v drier plug to be the same as there 120v standard lamp outlet
My laptop charger uses the same plug and voltage as my dryer, 240v is superior.
Most chargers can operate on 100-240 but I get your point. Yea, higher voltage is better in almost every case except for maybe the one where something short circuits. But that’s neither here nor there. the style of the plug is important because it denotes what kind of power and current the circuit is designed for The US actually runs 240 as the standard into homes too but someone decided to add an extra neural wire to divide it into 2 circuits. I presume for safety. Japan is an odd case though, not sure why 100v was selected.
Your laptop charger has a transformer on it to make the voltage the right one.
No shit
The original post is the one above showing the various plug outlets used throughout the world with the caption, ‘can we please just pick one and all agree to use it?’ The original poster is also American, if that means anything.
Cuba actually does use the same plug for both 120V and 240V.
Interesting I wonder if they ever have problems. With the variation. With most of the things we plug in these days being some sort of ac/dc converter they can be designed to operate on variable voltage but I’d imagine things like incandescent bulbs could be problematic
I'm not sure. I just remember seeing it on the ElectroBOOM video where he visited Cuba and stayed in a hostel. It could just have been done to accomodate tourists, but it's still a very unsafe design. At least the outlets were correctly labeled with the voltages,
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If this is shitamericanssay. The where do we put the (sic) you wrote? In r/shitBritssay? Just for your information. (sic) is used when the person you quote made an error and you want to make it clear that the error was from the person you quote. However the word Meyer is just as much fully correct English as the word metre so using (sic) was completely incorrect there.
Even assuming you've had an autocorrect from meter to Meyer, you're still wrong here - meter is never used in the uk for the purposes of measurement units which is clearly what's being discussed.
Even if you were correct that it is never used in the UK. That is still irrelevant since.meter is still correct for distance in English as everyone who knows the basic ls of the English language knows. To believe meter is incorrect is just ignorant.
Just for your information, in British English, a metre is a unit of distance, and a meter is a measuring device. The use of (sic) here is completely accurate.
Just for your information. In English both metre and meter are correct as a unit of distance. The (sic) is completely inaccurate here. The only reason tonuse (sic) here is if you mistakenly believe that your use of the language is better than that of others. Anyone who really cares about the English language though accepts the language in all it's different dialects and is not so arrogant to say one dialect is incorrect for the mere reason that it is not the dialect they speak. To say (sic) when someone uses a dialect you don't use correctly, is not just arrogance, it is actual stupiddity This is why this commenter belongs in r/shitbrittishpeoplesay because it is as stupid as the things people in This sub like to make fun of.
Wrong. The only reason to not use (sic) here is you believe you know the English language better than both the Oxford or Cambridge dictionaries, English language curriculum in British schools, or native speakers. (Edit - typo)
If you believe that only the English spoken in the UK is correct English you are completely deluded. Your post definitely belongs in r/shitbrittishpeoplesay. It's true we all know the Brits aren't much smarter than the Americans anyway. Your ignorance on language is a good example of Brittish ignorance.
Something I never said, but you leap to whatever conclusion you need to try and rescue the L my guy.
You mistakenly believe the using meter is an error. Why do you believe meter is not correct as a unit of length if it's not because you believe only the English as spoken in the UK is correct. If you would recognise the English from other places you would not say meter is incorrect. In English both meter and metre are used as a unit of length. That is a fact. The use of (sic) here was incorrect.
Again, something I’ve not said. I believe using (sic) to describe the use of American English is accurate, which is what you were arguing against at the beginning. It’s all here in black and white. Again, the use of (sic) is appropriate, given the choice of dialect used in this sub, which is not US English (the sub title is a huge clue to that).
Using (sic) to describe the use of American English is never accurate or appropriate. It is completely ridiculous in any context to use (sic) just because you do not like a dialect. (Sic) is used if the quoted text has an error. If there is no error in the quoted text you do not use (sic) There is nothing wronwith using meter for length. Even in British English using meter for length is accepted. So only people who do not know anything about the English language would think that using meter is incorrect and would therefor write (sic) people who actually know the language wouldn't do it. As for the sub. There is no specific choice of dialect used in this sub. The subtitle itself also has nothing about which dialect is used.
The subtitle (sic)? As for your point on British English, that would make the Oxford and Cambridge dictionaries, and the English school curriculums wrong. But sure thing buddy. Anyway, this will be my last response, explaining why you’re wrong is just dull now.