r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Warm_Web3768 • 18h ago

Ruined by Technology Plug got stuck at work

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u/Dorsal-fin-1986 17h ago

Only benefit of living in the UK is the plugs

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u/Timely_Football_4963 17h ago

Wdym?

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u/Aberry9036 16h ago

Each plug socket has its own isolating switch to make it safe to pull out, also most of our plugs have much thicker pins that would likely break the plug body in half before they broke away from the plug body.

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u/811545b2-4ff7-4041 13h ago

British plugs are built with so many failsafes in them it's crazy.

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u/MethylatedSpirit08 17h ago

Just move if you hate the place so much.

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u/Player_Slayer_7 16h ago

And miss out on the plugs? Fuck that.

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u/OliLombi 16h ago

Yeah, if only it wasn't for Brexit making that almost impossible for many of us.

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u/MethylatedSpirit08 14h ago

Not that hard twin.

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u/Snappy0 14h ago

If you have zero desirable skills, that's kind of on you.

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u/Dismal-Bathroom6142 12h ago

That might have been true a few years ago, but these days with LLMs your skills can go from highly desirable to worthless pretty quickly