tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5375681131276548542.post4537377850912670321..comments2024-02-27T10:53:04.581+01:00Comments on paperpools: The Best of TimesHelen DeWitthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07619602559096610012noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5375681131276548542.post-8199626235379356852007-07-05T10:15:00.000+00:002007-07-05T10:15:00.000+00:00my father always spoke of the English fear of elec...my father always spoke of the English fear of electocution, but neither he nor anyone else really knew why... gracias for the clarification. <BR/>Working a bit for one#s appliances is indeed satisfying. In our fixer-upper apartment I have already learned how to install lights -amazing in the age of everything does everything automatically, really."Post-Google" by TAR ART RAThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06164248659631146885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5375681131276548542.post-53752472584121658852007-07-02T10:55:00.000+00:002007-07-02T10:55:00.000+00:00sounds like the iMicgriffen could have been a iMcG...sounds like the iMicgriffen could have been a iMcGuffin - it really is 'shocking' to not come with a cableAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17565557088022155584noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5375681131276548542.post-53501724805053639412007-07-01T19:47:00.000+00:002007-07-01T19:47:00.000+00:00I like the non-standardised plug explanation -- ex...I like the non-standardised plug explanation -- except that I don't remember more than one sort of plug (the three-pin square ones) being sold. What I was told at the time was that this was the result of the stranglehold of the unions on British manufacturing.Helen DeWitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07619602559096610012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5375681131276548542.post-9740011555238749462007-07-01T16:28:00.000+00:002007-07-01T16:28:00.000+00:00It was, I remember, the way things had always been...It was, I remember, the way things had always been done, since as recently thirty or forty years ago, they had not standardised on wall sockets -- there were three pin round ones and three pin square ones. <BR/><BR/>Also, if you came up to Oxford, you very probably did so at boarding school where _everyone_ learned to wire their record players into the wall with a couple of matchsticks wedging the bare wires in place.Andrew Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18142758246789852557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5375681131276548542.post-19483873871607467412007-07-01T12:49:00.000+00:002007-07-01T12:49:00.000+00:00In Britain, in those far-off days, electrical appl...<I>In Britain, in those far-off days, electrical appliances could not be sold with a prefitted plug. The buyer had to buy the plug separately (making sure it had the right number of amps)...</I><BR/><BR/>Great heavens! Was there some rationalization, however thin, for this, or was it simply the Way Things Had Always Been Done?Languagehathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13285708503881129380noreply@blogger.com