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Your phone charger can electrocute a toddler who pokes a fork into the socket. The British plug cannot. That difference comes from a 1947 engineering project that refused every shortcut and turned a household plug into one of the most deliberately safe objects ever mass-produced. Britain published BS 1363 in 1947, built for the post-war housing boom. The country was wiring millions of new homes at once and needed one standard that would work safely for everyone. They picked the most paranoid option available. The earth pin (the large top prong) is longer than the other two. When you push a British plug in, the earth pin goes in first. Inside the socket, it presses a lever that opens two metal shutters covering the live and neutral slots. A fork pushed into an empty British socket hits only shutters. The shutters block it. The two conducting pins are also coated in plastic for their lower half. A plug halfway out of the wall is still safe to touch. You would have to pull it completely clear before any live metal is exposed. Inside every plug is its own fuse. UK homes wire their sockets in a loop called a ring circuit, which runs at 32 amps, enough to melt a lamp's cord if the cord fails. So each plug carries a fuse matched to the appliance: 3 amps for a lamp, 13 for a kettle. When something goes wrong in your appliance's wiring, only that plug's fuse blows. The standard US plug (flat two-pin or three-pin) has none of the pin coating and no individual fuse. American building codes began requiring shuttered outlets in new construction in 2008, decades after Britain made shutters standard. Even those newer shuttered versions lack pin coating and plug-level fuses. Britain's plug is bulky because a fuse, a shutter mechanism, insulated pins, and three contact prongs all need room. The plug looks the way it does because safety engineers refused to sacrifice any of those features to make it smaller, and that decision is now 79 years old.

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@BaqiRakshanda @CraigMurrayOrg @Hatez_Zios56 Putin is never going to fuck you Ivan.

@CraigMurrayOrg @Hatez_Zios56 The British system is trying its best to blame Russia for this, but I'm sorry to say, no one is going to buy this crap.

The BBC report that the man who organised the arson of Starmer related property was "Russian speaking". They fail to report the evidence was he also spoke Ukrainian. Almost every Ukrainian can speak Russian. Very few Russians can speak Ukrainian.

Right, sure — they invented a time machine, sent a Terminator back in time some 700 years before “Russia” and “Russians” even existed, and had him force the ancient people of Kyiv to dig the caves by the Dnipro. That’s exactly how it happened 👌

@Deedy2201 @TomTugendhat @BBCNews

@TomTugendhat @BBCNews Wondered how long it would take you to jump on the ‘It was the Russians’ bandwagon. If big bad Putin wanted Starmer out of the way, he wouldn’t use bungling young rent boys to do it. You sure do take people for fools.

The @BBCNews has now confirmed what some of us warned for years. A Russian diplomat ran a sabotage campaign on British soil: arson against the Prime Minister’s own home, and fake far-right and Islamist groups built to turn us against each other. This is not crime. It is how war is fought by powers who don’t want to expose their hand. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

One of the reasons the Spectator was so intent in denigrating Carole Cadwalladr’s Cambridge Analytica stories is that its owners at the time, the Barclay Brothers, we invited to a briefing with CA and Arron Banks in 2015 in how they were going to work on the EU Referendum

@HowarthCharles @OperaSocialist It's projection.

@OperaSocialist Robinson is being paid, but the idiots who follow him are obsessed with homeosexuality. I keep seeing them claim that Starmer is gay and that he’s converted to Islam. That is how stupid these people are.

After it's now been revealed in court that the arson attacks on Starmer's property were Russian state sponsored terrorism, Tiny Tommy Ten Names Robinson continues to push the Russian line. Is he just a gullible, homophobic idiot or is someone paying him to say this? @TRobinsonNewEra

@EnochRootDreams @OperaSocialist He has a Grindr account. He's so far in the closet Mr Tumnus is slicing the cake and setting out the tea tray with a twinkle in his eye.

@OperaSocialist Two things can be true at once. In this case Tiny 2inch Tommeh is both a homophobic idiot & a grifter who would love a ride on Daddy Putin's dick...

@carolecadwalla I ask myself why the BBC is not curious about the Farage 5m or the Musk Robinson meeting in Moscow. Maybe they just take 5 or 10 years to get to a news story.

A) This a properly brilliant piece of investigative journalism by BBC & @hopenothate. Huge kudos to all involved. B) The Kremlin operative who BBC names as directing arson attacks against Keir Starmer was taught his tradecraft by…drumroll…Sergei Nalobin !!! Pictured here with Boris Johnson. Also: the star of our podcast series, Sergei & the Westminster Spy Ring! Wtaf

@DavidB80379 @JamesGrahamAuth Boris is for Boris. That's your answer.

@JamesGrahamAuth If he was a Russian asset why did he stand alone in Europe and help arrange the training of the UKR army? More importantly in 2022 he sent Nlaw anti-tank missiles which helped save UKR from fascist putin’s tank columns. He has no love of the Russian regime.

He is a Russian Asset

L'auteur des incendies criminels visant les domiciles du Premier ministre britannique Keir Starmer était un diplomate russe, fils d'un officier du SVR

⚡️ Britain will supply Ukraine with enriched uranium worth £280 million, - Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

Another one bites the dust ‘I couldn’t take it anymore’: Deputy Reform UK leader leaves ‘toxic’ party Cllr Robbie Lammas said disorganisation, in-fighting, and incompetence “at every level” has forced him to leave the party. kentonline.co.uk/medway/news/i-…

10 years ago my wife, the mum of our kids & the MP for Batley&Spen was killed by a far right extremist. At anniversaries I try to be optimistic about the future. But not this time. In the ten years since she was killed we have gone backwards & I fear our democracy is now at risk

Russian artist Semyon Skrepetsky was killed in Poland, three days after holding a solo anti-Putin protest featuring an icon-like caricature of Joseph Stalin and Vladimir Putin. Skrepetsky is known for his sharp criticism of Putin, the Kremlin, and Russia in general.

Reform UK object to foreign nationals living in social housing. But not to foreign nationals buying their leader a house for a million quid.