fellow British people: you don't have to pretend to love our plug sockets, you're allowed to dislike every aspect of this cursed island, it's okay 🧡

[erinrose@chaos.social]

@emily I will fucking get you

[erinrose@chaos.social]

@kabel42 I love the silly Trefoil arrangement the Swiss ones can do.. but they're a little loose / wobbly for my liking (or at least the ones I've interacted with have been)

[emily@fedi.uni.horse]

for onlookers, some important context here is that I once mailed @ErinRose some wire nuts to troll her, and she held onto them for like a year because she didn't know what to do with them

[erinrose@chaos.social]

@emily I didn't want to make the wire nuts sad by throwing them away! they couldn't help how they were designed! :c

(I may be autistic)

[erinrose@chaos.social]

@cymplecy they're okay, maybe they're better than all the other terrible plug sockets.. maybe they're just better than most

their continued idolisation makes me hate them.. also I just stepped on one before posting this

[la@chaos.social]

@ErinRose @emily put them in the drawer with the wagos, hope they'll learn from them.

Should be safe to use after aprox. 10 years of indoctrination

[th@social.v.st]

@ErinRose I love that UK sockets are compatible with Euro type F plugs!

[groupnebula563@mastodon.social]

@th @ErinRose this post would kill an electrician

[dps910@social.freedombits.org]

@ErinRose I like our plug sockets they are safer than american ones

[zuthal@floofy.tech]

@GroupNebula563 @th @ErinRose it'll be fine, anything that's a europlug doesn't need PE anyways

[kawaiipunk@sunbeam.city]

@ErinRose is it actually possible to tread on an EU plug? I've never done it.

[erinrose@chaos.social]

@dps910 unbelievably low bar, though

[dysfun@social.treehouse.systems]

@th @ErinRose lol, i've never seen it done with a key before. i use a screwdriver.

[snoozyrests@infosec.exchange]

@ErinRose no, everyone can badmouth everything on this island EXCEPT our dear little three pinned chonkers

[ripper@chaos.social]

@th @ErinRose usually I use scissors for this purpose, just to make it look more cursed

[wolframzell@mastodon.social]

@th @ErinRose "When did your son's house burn down?"

[jochenlingelba1@h-net.social]

@th @ErinRose
I usually take a pen for this. Btw. I met these sockets in Uganda for the first time and learned the trick there.

[dc4dd@sueden.social]

@th @ErinRose It is technically ok, the best kind of ok 🤪
But anyway I would use something made of plastics. Just for a safe feeling

[frank@f.reun.de]

@ripper @th @ErinRose Is there some kind of contact that needs to be closed in that top connector for the bottom two to work?

[gbrnt@masto.hackers.town]

@frank yeah the longer ground pin pushes on a plastic piece that opens the cover in front of the live and neutral