Hope PT doesn't mind me shopping a bit of his / her pic
From the Wrongstructions challenge. See all 253 entries (closed)
( , Thu 26 Mar 2009, 21:11, archived)
From the Wrongstructions challenge. See all 253 entries (closed)
( , Thu 26 Mar 2009, 21:11, archived)
Pfft, nice pic
but everyone knows earth is the yellow/green one.
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Thu 26 Mar 2009, 21:13,
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Whoever named them got it all wrong
earth should be brown because thats the colour of earth;
Neutral should be green and yellow because they are neutral colours (or something...)
and blue should be live, because thats the colour people turn when they get electric shocks in cartoons.
simple(s!)
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Thu 26 Mar 2009, 21:15,
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Neutral should be green and yellow because they are neutral colours (or something...)
and blue should be live, because thats the colour people turn when they get electric shocks in cartoons.
simple(s!)
Why does everyone keep saying simples :(
It's ruining a good advert.
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Thu 26 Mar 2009, 21:17,
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brown live
blue neutral!
hah
wire them up the other way round!
that's sticking it to the man!
:D
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Thu 26 Mar 2009, 21:20,
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hah
wire them up the other way round!
that's sticking it to the man!
:D
Bloody political correctness gone mad
A bit of electricity is good for your heart
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Thu 26 Mar 2009, 21:27,
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it's the liebarrels
they want to take away our freedom loving electricity and give it to the homeless terrorists!
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Thu 26 Mar 2009, 21:29,
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it's all very confusing.
it used to be red black and green. Blue was 3 phase live 3 and now it's neutral, black was neutral but is now live two and red isn't used at all.
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Thu 26 Mar 2009, 21:21,
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old plugs and wiring doesn't bother me too much
but when you have an old kettle, where it's disintegrated inside, and only the merest fleck of rust is stopping you being fried when you attach power, quaint enquiries of "will it still work or have you broken it" will result in anything other than mocking :D
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Thu 26 Mar 2009, 21:23,
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being in my trade
you tend to get a bit blasé about AC mains power and operate a 'touch it and see' policy to the question "is that live?".
I've had some cracking belts from colour CRTs when I've not discharged the tube or line output transformer before messing with them.
56000 yummy volts. That's fun.
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Thu 26 Mar 2009, 21:27,
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I've had some cracking belts from colour CRTs when I've not discharged the tube or line output transformer before messing with them.
56000 yummy volts. That's fun.
mate's an engineer
occasional shout of "yes, that was mains"
but fucking with crts, you've been lucky there
sometimes they give you a flying lesson :D
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Thu 26 Mar 2009, 21:28,
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but fucking with crts, you've been lucky there
sometimes they give you a flying lesson :D
Oh had plenty of flying lessons.
I used to have a nice pile of television box packaging piled behind my bench for a soft landing ;)
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Thu 26 Mar 2009, 21:33,
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ahh the soft cushioning effect of polystyrene and cardboard
:D
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Thu 26 Mar 2009, 21:35,
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Arf
I just saw (and clicked) your cat drawings/instructions.
100% of pure ACE.
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Thu 26 Mar 2009, 21:15,
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100% of pure ACE.
aha
100% improvement!
it was my intention to be more involved with tonight's gripping edition of b3ta. but somebody posted a link to new scientist, and i kinda got stuck there, reading about deja-vu and stuff. sorry.
edit: his /her
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Thu 26 Mar 2009, 21:29,
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it was my intention to be more involved with tonight's gripping edition of b3ta. but somebody posted a link to new scientist, and i kinda got stuck there, reading about deja-vu and stuff. sorry.
edit: his /
get your priorities right Sir !!!
Old Scientist is much more "Reg Sprescott"
:)
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Thu 26 Mar 2009, 21:42,
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:)