When I first saw the start of the second line, I was somehow expecting it to read "Have just bought a set of cycle mudguards. They are ok, but to make them good for purpose they need a bicycle which they don't come with."Purchases, that when you buy, you need to buy something else to make them work satisfactorily.
For example. Have just bought a set of cycle mudguards. They are ok, but to make them good for purpose they need a front mud flap which they don’t come with. That is an optional extra
Yes I understand but it's very annoying for me and many others and often the adverts are irrelevant etc and just go straight into recycling.
Indeed, I occasionally used to take out of my posties hand and dump it straight into our recycling wheelie bin, I suspect posties hate having to deliver it too,
Use one of the reply paid envelopes to send it all back to one of the originators.
I remember when electrical items didn't come with a plug.Purchases, that when you buy, you need to buy something else to make them work satisfactorily.
For example. Have just bought a set of cycle mudguards. They are ok, but to make them good for purpose they need a front mud flap which they don’t come with. That is an optional extra
Maily to save production costs but with the excuse that not every buyer would have a single type of socket to plug it into. In the '50s and '60s, there were plenty of 2A, 5A and 15A round pin sockets (BS546) as well as 'normal' rectangular pin 13A sockets (BS1363) which were introduced post war (WW2).
I don't doubt the safety improvement. My nana used to plug her iron into the overhead light socket.
And I'm sure plenty of people used 13A fuses in everything because they didn't have a clue other than that they always worked for everything.
Very common at one time. When UK homes started to be electrified on a large scale in the 1920s, the primary purpose was lighting, it was common for an entire house to only be fitted with a handful of plug sockets, or in some cases no sockets at all. You could but adaptors which allowed you to simultaneously power a lightbulb and an appliance from a light fitting.
Of course what some people don't realise is that the fuse required is to protect the cable and not the device itself and as such some devices need a larger fuse than the rating would suggest to allow for inrush currents.
I have heard "It is a thirteen amp plug so it needs a thirteen amp fuse" spoken seriously
Yes that 22" LED backlit LCD TV really needs a 13A fuse, we had a lot of Cello? ones that were powered by a small 12V 4A inline PSU that had 13A fuses fitted, I naturally downgraded them to 3A or 5A when I tested them.
At the power station where I worked for 40 years, every electrical appliance which came with a conventional pre-fitted plug was opened and inspected before use. If it had a moulded plug fitted, that was cut off and replaced with a conventional plug.
Really you upgraded them and the level of protection subsequently afforded!
The legal obligation wasn't until 1992, - it wasn't practical in the '60s when there was still a plethora of mains socket types in British domestic dwellings.
Somewhere in the house I have a redundant wire stripper.
Sometimes it was made even worse when a product has the outer sheath cut back and the three wires perfectly stripped and tinned. That meant that the consumer thougfht that they just needed to put them in their respective terminals in the plug. So not only was there the lottery of whether they got the three connections correct but also, unwilling to trim them correctly to the right lemgth, the cable clamp bar would often be holding the individual wires and it was pot luck as to which one pulled out first, (ref. @dgl 's post #7391).
Cyprus (Southern) does; well it did when I visited years ago. U.K. 13 amp at that. That felt most odd.
I agree with you, the majority of rubbish news (Reach in particular) reports “horror crash”, “young thug”, “beloved restaurant” and so on, we need to be told (by them) how to feel, it’s not enough just to report news. I hate it.
I think Malta and Gibraltar do too.
In a similar vein, ban use of “at pace” in news reports. As in “Police are working at pace to find the perpetrators of the murder”. Really. I thought they would be investigating slowly!
No one is “surprised” any more - we all apparently jump straight to “shocked”. And wouldn’t it be refreshing to hear that someone who has died in tragic circumstances was “really a bit thick and a right pain in the a*** but I’ll still miss them terribly” rather than the models of perfection people suddenly become when they die (not “pass”!). So much more meaningful and sincere…
