I wonder how hard it'd be to convince them to legislate putting fuses in extension cords. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_q-xnYRugQ
@onfy honestly the british way of putting fuses in plugs sounds pretty sensible at some point
@noiob Anyway, basically Broken Sword is an English game but the protagonist is American, and in one part of the game he visits the UK. A man there has a problem with his washing machine or something and the protagonist poses as an appliance repairman in order to get into his basement iirc. It turns out that the problem is that the fuse in his plug has blown, so the protagonist opens the plug and swaps the fuse out with a piece of metal. The joke is that this is really dangerous but as an American he doesn't know how the plug actually works.
@onfy pretty sure the joke is that people do that all the time even though it's unsafe
@onfy like, it's a classic "trick" to screw a blown fuse back in with a bit of tinfoil around it
@noiob I thought it was specifically because he was American and bumbled his way into doing that way, but maybe.
For me following a walkthrough I just wondered what the hell was going on.
@onfy it's interesting that post-war Germany didn't come up with sth like that but instead made the most overengineered plug possible… or it's newer, I don't care to look it up rn :D
@noiob I assumed it was newer...
@onfy oh, Schuko is pre-war, that makes sense
@noiob That's surprising...
@onfy how so?
@noiob I'm kind of amazed much of anything survived the war.
@onfy uhhh, most things did, post-war germany had better things to do than redesign their industrial standards
@onfy German industrial standards are actually a product of WWI
@noiob I just assumed not much of the country was left by then.
@onfy I mean, they didn't raze the country
@onfy sure, there was plenty of destruction, especially in cities and heavy industry, but the country didn't start from zero lol
@noiob I sure am ignorant...
@onfy 's not like I know much about Canadian history
@onfy well, I do know about the part with the boarding schools but I didn't learn that in school
@noiob Don't worry, they don't teach us that either...
@noiob I just find the whole ring circuit design awful and wish they could redo it by now, but yeah it was made to save resources. And really what hasn't been shaped by cutting corners?
And yeah Schuko is probably among the best plugs...