I come from South Africa, I’ve driven at least 200,000km in my life, the first time I put Fuel in a car was at the age of 30 after temporarily moving to Europe.

‘Petrol Attendants’ often also wash your windscreen while you fuel up

I’m sorry you have to live this way

Not mine, but two collages of mine.

Over lunch we were discussing what we cook for dinner most nights etc.

The two of them live together and said that they don’t cook they have a food delivery service that delivers nutritious hot home cooked meals to their door every night at 7pm

They complained that on Wednesdays the food isn’t as good as other days.

I thought this was a joke and laughed at how ridiculous it is, but nope it’s true.

Anything but building new houses

If you’re a fellow South African, check out the South African sub

Why Tom Scott Is WRONG About The British Plug: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwnIwgT60jw

Once I have my own house in South Africa, I’m switching all the plugs over.

Let’s hope the movement catches on, I hope Brazil switches to the 16A specific standard.

After making this post, reading all the comments and doing even more research. I have to say I 100% agree with you.

Are you better than AI at coding though?

Yea it was hard to find something decent for the 2nd half, I spent too much time on this.

Blame/thank world of engineering for the 2nd half

That doesn’t ground a lot of plugs

I hope they cling on and make somewhat of a comeback, or carve out a niche market, but I don’t feel sorry for them at all. The are guilty of shade monopolistic tactics.

You have this and variants of it, with the plug being recessed you could probably have it take up less space in all dimensions over the UK plug

That’s a lamp in theory, but do you know of any actual lamps being sold where this matters?

Nice find, IMO the Type F plugs are near perfect. Type N might technically be better because it’s smaller, but it’s got poor adoption. Sadly the EU canceled their plans to adopt it.

No but I found this haha Why Tom Scott Is WRONG About The British Plug

I think that might be a combo of type D and M, https://www.worldstandards.eu/electricity/plugs-and-sockets/m/

In South Africa we use M, but I’ve never seen a socket like the one in the picture

South Africa used to use a Mixture of M and C, and still mostly do.

But since 2018 building regulations require new houses to have at least one Type N plug installed. Adoption is slow, but N being compatible with C will hopefully speed things along.

The only reason they have a fuse is because of a copper shortage in the UK after WW2.

This fuse is mostly redundant, and modern Type-F plugs are also resistant to having thigns stuck into it.

They might technically be slightly more safe than Type-F, but at the cost of being very chunky

Type-N is even better, it’s essentially a Type-J with some improvements