How fucking stupid : rareinsults

[–] Limonene@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This is actually a serious problem in parts of China (Shenzhen, at least). You can never predict what kind of wall outlets will be in a building. Either the UK style (popular in nearby Hong Kong), American style (NEMA 5-15), or Europlug, and sometimes multiple types in one building. At the company I was mostly visiting, each conference room had universal power strips, which accepted all three styles of plugs as well as pinky fingers. I never figured out what the voltage/frequency was, and made sure to plug in only devices that could handle 120-240V.

[–] buttnugget@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

The frequency is always Kenneth.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Rotating the square in Tetris sounds like the start of a creepy pasta.

[–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I rotated the square in Tetris and then suddenly the bricks became hyper-realistic with hyper-realistic blood and then they jumped out of my TV and I hyper-realistically died! The end.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 6 days ago

And then something something something no clip backrooms.

Ooh ooh or,

Where do you think all those cleared lines in Tetris go? I twisted the square to the left enough that it loosened and popped out of my screen. What I saw inside was shocking...

[–] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 2 points 6 days ago

i remember my first (and last) tetris game too

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 days ago

Gotta rotate the square, it's like clicking the tongs.

[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 96 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I'll tell you a story:

One summer, I went on vacation in Europe. I rented a car and hopped from friend to friend, touring around.

When I came back, one of my workmates asked me:

"So you drove quite a few miles! How did you cope?"
"What do you mean 'cope'" I replied
"Well, Europeans drive on the left. Wasn't it confusing?"
"W...What?"

Turned out, the dude was totally convinced only Americans drove on the right.

Americans are fucking clueless about everything going on outside of their country, and largely clueless about what goes on inside of it too. They're honestly shamefully ignorant.

[–] candyman337@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I mean for one this is by design, so that they don't know how fucked our country is, but also our country is the size of several European countries so it's not exactly apples to apples. Even state to state you can have wildly different traditions, house styles, etc.

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[–] UnpopularCrow@lemmy.world 68 points 1 week ago (6 children)

It’s like accents. Did you know America is the only place that doesn’t have language accents? We just speak normal English here.

[–] Limonene@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Apparently Indonesian, Malay, Swahili, and Zulu also don't have accents (among languages that use the Latin alphabet).

[–] auraithx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (8 children)

I like accents. There’s a nugget of truth to that though. Accent variation in the UK is greater than across the whole of the US. You can drive the length of Britain in America and still hear less variation than you’d get in just 15 miles across parts of the UK, thanks to its highly localized linguistic evolution over centuries. Interestingly, some American accents are actually closer to 17th century English than many found in the UK today, and (comparatively) lack strong markers like rhotic dropping, vowel shifts, or intonation patterns that give it a ‘vanilla’ vibe.

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[–] ProfessorProteus@lemmy.world 44 points 1 week ago (10 children)

I'm not able to find the link right now, but Technology Connections did a fantastic breakdown of the designs for U.S. plugs/outlets compared to those in (I think) the U.K.

Unsurprisingly, our outlets in the U.S. feature several braindead design choices that make them more dangerous.

[–] Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

the fact that old sockets can't handle the weight of a plug means the design was brain-dead from the beginning

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The sockets were adequately designed for the plugs of the time. Then we started cramming transformers, capacitors and regulators into them to convert ~high voltage AC to low voltage DC.

The plugs changed, but the sockets took forever to barely catch up, if you can even say that much.

The more concerning thing is how they leave exposed live metal that you could touch while inserting/removing if you're not careful.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I really like where some countries have the prongs partly insulated so you can’t electrocute yourself as easily. It seems like it could be cheaply and easily done in the US as well, if we cared to do so

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 33 points 1 week ago (11 children)

US electrical plugs are the worst.

I still regularly manage to electrocute myself on those death designed shit plugs that allow uounto touch love metal if you're not very careful

Then the "Gravity will pull your plug out of the wall" design which is just amazing too.

Then the "bends by breathing at it" strength

I could go on, but you get it.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 14 points 1 week ago

UK plugs are the best and can double up as non destructive landmines.

[–] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 week ago (4 children)

i know you meant live metal. But I love the concept of love metal. There's a spark between us

[–] bstix 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

heartagram

[–] Nangijala 1 points 6 days ago

Immediately Wings of a Butterfly starts playing in my head.

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

That's electro-cute!

[–] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 days ago

https://youtu.be/8bSwPRz2itQ

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[–] Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 30 points 1 week ago (4 children)

i once talked to an American who asked me how they celebrate 4th of July in Scotland.

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 14 points 1 week ago

Surely there's a joke about drinking on it to celebrate, like the Scots do on the 5th and 6th of July as well

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 27 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I bet this person rotates the square in tetris

Rotation buffering makes it fall just a bit slower so a good Tetris player would probably still do that.

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[–] gwilikers@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I'd like to take this oppurtunity to point out that UK plugs are, by a long shot, the best plugs.

They have ground. They slot in and stay in. The structure of the plug means that the wire comes out the bottom and not the back, which is better for plugging stuff in behind furniture.

Basically every other plug-type is ass compared to UK plugs.

[–] Anomalocaris@lemm.ee 18 points 1 week ago (7 children)

there's so much more to UK plugs, they are on another league compared to other plugs.

All sockets are childproof, the holes have like doors that block the socket unless the earth pin is inserted.

the plug pins are only half exposed, so there's no live surfaces outside of the socket.

there's a fuse in the plug.

no need for 2A in the UK, the plugs can double as a flail.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

All sockets are childproof, the holes have like doors that block the socket unless the earth pin is inserted.

US outlets are required to be “tamper resistant” since 2008. Same little doors.

However just like anything else, old installations are grandfathered in - you’re not forced to replace all your outlets.

I actually started replacing all my house’s outlets in 2005, as part of child-proofing. Maybe that’s over-zealous but when I was growing up my younger brother kept shocking himself. Anyway, I quickly ran into misjudging just how big a task it was, how many outlets there are, so focussed on most risky outlets like the kids rooms. Now the kids are in college and I never completed the task - there’s really only a couple years when kids are that stupid

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

The only disadvantage to UK plugs is that they turn into caltrops when unplugged

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[–] wander1236@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Their only real disadvantage is how comically large they can make normally small power bricks

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 week ago

And stepping on one makes Lego seem tame.

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[–] Aliktren@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is there still a lot lead in the air in america ? 🤔

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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

They're right, it does sound really stupid, but it's also actually really stupid.

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