Does a parrot's foot conduct electricity?

If that's the sketch I think it is, I refuse to watch it, it's sick. Everything else from Monty Python is hilarious, but not that.

What a pussy. Awww were his buttocks sore? Hospital indeed....

If you have one to spare, you could have some fun passing current through it when in your garden, then you'd know if it's a fire hazard.

You say "plug fuses" like that's a bad thing. All UK plugs have fuses.

Grounds can be dangerous. Consider you touch something that you didn't know was live. Now you need to touch a ground aswell to get a shock. And if that ground is your knee against an appliance while the live is on your finger, your heart is in the middle.

Why are Americans obsessed with this "code" thing? In the UK we do whatever we like with our own homes.

I'm sure you could have done it for a lot less than $3000 unless it was a 10 bedroom mansion.

Never happened with me, I never got "munchies", just sleepy.

All gardening makes me tired. I'm way too lazy to make plants work. They're so fussy about everything.

This is most likely much more than 240V, but it shows not all Indians are immune:

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** Fuck all really.

** Absolutely none.

You clueless POS.

..... Phil

it looks like some sort of trick, there's possibly a triac somewhere in that setup that's taking most of the current.

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  Jasen.

Besides the "high" I'd occasionally have total memory recall. I would be able to remember some of my motorcycle bum days camped along the Snake River in Idaho for instance. But the memory was in color, the smell of the wood smoke, sound of the river, my GF, splinters, mosquito bites, quite literally everything, just like being there again.

I'm not much better. I do love to cook though, and there's no dried herb or spice that can sub for the real thing. I really just wanted basil in the winter... and I like to tinker with stuff and build things.

I doubt he had control. He started shaking, sat down, passed out and his extremities were getting cold. The building was cold- a twenty horse blower in the basement blew air up through the transmitters, 200 watts to 100 kw, in Alaska. The transmitters heated the building. (mostly 40kw SSB rigs fsk modulated)

No thanks.

Those edison-base, screw-in, fuses in a panel? Those turkeys are expensive if you can even find a source today.

The ground is there so metal parts of a device that you may normally touch won't be above ground potential. Better the fuse blows or the GFI trips, than the drill you're gripping in your sweaty hand goes live.

The electrical code is there for a reason. It is rare to find a code requirement that doesn't make sense. I do my own wiring. I don't take chances with things that can hurt other people.

Employed in industry, some of my work had to pass inspection by outside under-writers.

In the pharmaceutical industry it was always a war between engineering and product safety. They want lubricants that can't harm people - the machines need lubricants that actually work. We want safety valves and burst disks on our boilers, they are afraid the valves can harbor bacteria and take them off.

It is nice to be able to point to a requirement for these things... before it becomes a matter for the lawyers.

I doubt it. Every wire was changed, a new breaker panel installed, GFI outlets and breakers where needed. It was a two-person job fishing wires from a sweltering attic down to the rooms. I think they earned every penny of 3K. $300 went to the power company to provide an in-ground power delivery to the meter and panel.

I'd be doing it after driving for our bi-monthly visit. I donno about you, but I'd rather spend my time enjoying my wife's company. If I want something to do, there's always a door that needs fixing, a computer to fix, a shelf to install, a tree to trim, etc..

AFAIK that is 11KV in India Railworks

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Archer

Is that a variation of "ner ner ner ner ner I know you are"?

Why can't you accept some bodies are different?

The dreams I had while sleeping were much more realistic, like you're describing. But not while I was awake.

I can't cook for peanuts. I love the invention called the microwave oven.

I like to build things, but things that work, like computers. Or stuff made out of wood, like a house extension.

Is the UK like that? AFAIK the London underground for example is 400V DC. Still quite sore and dangerous, but not quite as likely to cause instant evaporation.

So here's a guy supposed to be passing a few amps through his tongue etc. without any sign of heating or steam, and you believe that. I imagine you also go along with the old "Cut the lady in half" trick as well :-)

You missed out the word "briefly".

Now listen here you cowardly shit for brains. You do not know what I am thinking. Take your crypto-racist crap (or whatever it is) elsewhere. I will have no part of it.

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  Jasen.

The nice thing was being able to revisit the parts of my life that were exceptionally rewarding. Like that first time with a new woman, catching a big fish, snorkeling and spear-fishing coral heads, docking the sailboat into a crowded marina under sail power alone, the majesty of mountain meadows...

I seldom remember dreams, and can't direct them. Most often if I am dreaming a lot it is a symptom of something wrong in my life.

I worked several low-paying jobs in a hospital kitchen and a couple of restaurants. Easy to find work that doesn't pay well, but I did learn to cook and like it.

I don't do much in the way of large carpentry. More furniture and things I need like a coil-winding lathe, kayak carrier, rotary mulch bin, etc.. I built several decks. I did build a six-sided gazebo with

20 foot span; and I can't calculate compound miters to save my life... I'm happy making fancy joints and using a chisel. I also made a couple of ranks of wood organ pipes - I was on a kick exploring resonance.

There's an awful lot of utter crap on Utoobe. Perpetual motion machines, gas engines that burn water, and other stuff that's totally unworkable (like winding a few turns of copper around a spark plug and doubling your internet speed)

not saying it can't happen, just that it pays to be skeptical

What the f*ck are you talking about?