Why do circuit breakers go up for on and down for off?

Why rotate them just because you have more phases?

Then why turn it sideways? Have you done that with your TV too? Up and down are easier to remember than left and right.

I doubt glass bounces screws anymore than wood.

I'll tell you what really bounces, a memory foam mattress. I found that out when chucking my camera onto it. It bounced onto the wooden floor and busted the battery cover.

Are Americans very weak? It's 30-50mA here. You need 80mA to stop a human heart. 5 would be a stupidly sensitive breaker.

So much easier without an ELCB. No, I will not call it an RCD. Earth leakage circuit breaker, does what it says on the tin. It's nothing to do with a residual anything. Current doesn't hang about like a residue.

I bet they cost a fortune. Fusewire is a fraction of a penny.

Sure, but the Japs always had green grass and green vegys.

Uh.... why would you need to use the keypad with your dominant hand? Both hands are used to type.

Of course, being "right handed" I'm actually ambidextrous like the majority of the population. Maybe lefties are different.

Rotary took f****ng ages to dial long distance. And a very long time to dial the UK emergency 999. Should have been 111.

It does...

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Nothing is ever designed sensibly. Designers are arty farty people without brains.

That's a stupid idea, it's positive feedback, as acceleration causes you to lean back. SO easy to overdo it.

WTF is life insurance?

Saying math without an s is bad enough, but "mathed out"? Come on.

I've never heard of either of those extremes. I doubt anyone would spend billions to save one life.

This, for instance:

But actually, they do.

I can not type numbers in the number keypad with my left hand: it is too far.

Much faster than talking with the operator, and waiting an hour to to get the call.

It is 112 here.

Here you do that, and the electricity company refuses to provide you with electricity.

And someone gave you a perfect explanation of why that is dangerous as hell.

The usual high pressure gas cylinders get a CGA (Compressed Gas Association) special thread according to gas category. It's a mess, but the fluorine won't get confused with the medical oxygen...

Yes, I'm not saying that Japanese grass and veg is blue, just they (apparently) used the same word to describe both green and blue. I'm not sure whether that explains why their traffic lights are red, amber/yellow and *blue* in colour (as opposed to the words they use to describe those colours).

not the ones in our garden

No, houses here have two wires. It's most obvious where the feed is from overhead wires: you typically see three wires (the three phases) going fro pole to pole along the street, with two branching off from two of those three phase wires, going to a house. The next house may have two wires connected to different phases. Sometimes there are four wires along the street, with one wire to every house connected to the same neutral wire and the other house wire connected to one of the three phase wires.

Earth is provided locally: in older houses with metal water pipes, the green/yellow earth wire is connected to a strap around the rising main water pipe; in newer houses it connects to a big spike in the ground outside.