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tfunk · Joined: 12 Aug 2006 Location: Dublin, Ireland

Am I the only one scared by the plugs/electricity set-up here? Back home we have three pins in our plugs and I thought the third pin was supposed to miraculously save you from electricity being evil. Here we have only two pins and I keep seeing sparks fly when I plug stuff in.

Thailands even worse on the scariness scale for electricity. Tripping over 'overhead' electricity cables is not a reassuring event. But I'm not in Thailand, so let's focus on the present.

Do they eat cats in France? My students say they do...God damn them and their knowledge. Sometimes I wish I had a special educational hoover that I could just suck all the knowledge out of their head with and then start teaching them the ABC's again so that I'd be employed everywhere in the world. Anyway, I'd normally google this stuff but my torrent program is making everything go way slow so I'm relying on your, dear reader, to enlighten me with you experiences and knowledge.

Thanks. Laughing

gsxr750r · Joined: 29 Jan 2007

The plugs don't scare me here. They are safer than the 110 volt plugs back home, IMHO. The shoddy wiring scares me, but at least it's through concrete, and not wood like back home.

tfunk · Joined: 12 Aug 2006 Location: Dublin, Ireland

What happens if the spark hit you?

gsxr750r · Joined: 29 Jan 2007

You die.

I no longer dry my hair while peeing, so I don't have to worry about it.

tfunk · Joined: 12 Aug 2006 Location: Dublin, Ireland

So the sparks only kill you if you dry your hair while peeing?

oneofthesarahs · Joined: 05 Nov 2006 Location: Sacheon City

It's the "Don't Whiz on the Electric Fence" effect.

tfunk · Joined: 12 Aug 2006 Location: Dublin, Ireland

So what's the third pin for? The sparks or somewhere to hold onto while your pssing?

EDIT: Never mind, I get the general picture. Sparks okay, sparks while pissing = bad.

chevro1et · Joined: 01 Feb 2007 Location: Busan, ROK

thebum · Joined: 09 Jan 2005 Location: North Korea

scary plugs??

ED209 · Joined: 17 Oct 2006

I assume the Korean plugs are earthed through the neutral.
In Britain you have the three pin. It's kinda unnecessary to have a separate earth pin. Two pins are enough. What scares me here is the shoddy wiring(firework display hen ever I pull the plug) and where to get a circuit breaker extension cable. Anyway the earth only protects your appliance not you. So even if your hair dryer is earthed it can still kill you. Some fuse boxes have circuit breaker installed. Not sure about Korea. Investing in a circuit breaker for you or your computer would be a good idea.

What you should be careful about is using appliances that don't pass 200v,
many North American appliances are only 110v so can easily blow when used here.

ED209 · Joined: 17 Oct 2006

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

I find the plugs here big ugly hunks of plastic. Why do they have to be that big and clunky?

Muffin · Joined: 01 Mar 2006 Location: Turkey

Don't know anything about plugs, but as for the cat question, can't speak for the French but some Koreans at a student party in my home town got some French Swiss students to admit that cats are eaten in parts of Switzerland.

I have heard other Swiss people deny this so perhaps it is just a rustic custom or even urban myth.

tfunk · Joined: 12 Aug 2006 Location: Dublin, Ireland

Are those smarties on your muffin? Smarties are bizarre. They look like fun times except when you put them in your mouth it's like muh...

You wait for the yum yum sensation but it never quite arrives.

If I was you I'd update your avatar to one with peanut M&Ms on top. Smarties are for kids, M&Ms are for real men. It does like nice though...

Is it yours? I'll PM you my address if you're feeling generous...

dogshed · Joined: 28 Apr 2006