@envgen JAME

@Tom 𝘪𝘣𝘪𝘥.

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@Tom ah yeah pretty much packed and ready to go :)

@envgen @Tom what i love about this meme is that corner is where i put my desk with my computer on it, so i'm sitting in that corner right now looking at these posts

@jk @Tom i guess you got everything you need for your new apartment now :)

@envgen @Tom

@jk @Tom the sequel

@jk @Tom also i've never seen a 8 way multiplug thing* in a 4x2 arrangement

*ridiculous that in the year of our lord two thousand and eighteen there still isn't a word for this device

@jk @Tom in my family it was a "four bar", regardless of how many sockets were on it. "have you got a four bar" we'd say. and oh we'd laugh

@envgen @Tom this sounds like you're asking them to hand you a golf club

@jk @Tom and lots of the more common names for these things are better names for other things. like "extension plug" and "power adaptor" are really common names for it, but aren't very good names at all

@envgen @jk @tom power strip...

@er1n @envgen @Tom yeah i call them power strips. idk whats wrong with jame

@jk @er1n @envgen @tom

Ever seen one of these? Weird that we don't have a name for them. My family always called them "swingy open boys". "Can you grab the swingy open boy for me?"

@jordyd @tom @envgen @er1n @jk funny how "open boys" looks like "oh boy", the famous music instrument.

@jk @er1n @envgen @tom

4/6 way adaptor/extension lead is common term for these in, "correct" electrical engineers terminology is 4/6/8 gang extension socket (which is what they are sold as at places like CPC/farnell), because the sockets are grouped or "ganged" together.

At least there are no Europlugs or even worse, Schukos jammed into there by pushing down the shutter on the earth pin (a cursed and dangerous practice)..

@jk @er1n @envgen @tom here in north america we normally call it a "power bar". It helps that our plugs are smaller, so the thing is slightly more bar-shaped.

In official regulatory language, it's called a "relocatable power tap" so 😕

@kepstin @jk @er1n @envgen @tom it's what thirsty electronics crave

@kepstin @jk @er1n @envgen @tom i,i "i'd tap that.... and extract 12VAC @ 60Hz." 🤔

@gdkar @kepstin @er1n @envgen @Tom think you may have accidentally put your toot thru a 10:1 transformer

@jk @kepstin @er1n @envgen @tom ..... that would explain a lot, actually......... 😣

@jk @er1n @Tom @sickasfrick

@envgen @tom @er1n @jk hgfhgfdj

@jk @er1n @tom @envgen incredible, the perfect sequel

@envgen @jk @tom @sickasfrick what were you wearing that he asked where your clothes were

@er1n @tom @jk @envgen did you walk in on him with your dick out

@sickasfrick @jk @Tom @er1n ethan!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@envgen @er1n @tom @jk Don't shoot

@er1n @jk @Tom @sickasfrick ʀᴇᴅᴀᴄᴛᴇᴅ

@envgen @jk @er1n @Tom @sickasfrick JAME

@envgen @jk @er1n @Tom @sickasfrick also we have these things here and I think the form factor should probably change the terminology? though the base on ours is removable so they can also be used flat and aaaaaaa

@theoutrider @jk @er1n @Tom @sickasfrick please tag your lewd

@theoutrider ugh. Rough living @envgen @jk @er1n @Tom @sickasfrick

@envgen @jk @er1n @Tom @sickasfrick

@theoutrider @jk @er1n @Tom @sickasfrick aha!!!

@envgen @tom @er1n @jk @theoutrider currently confused cause if you google power strips there's an amazon link for power strips and the page it goes to says "surge protectors"

@sickasfrick @jk @er1n @Tom @envgen surge protectors are power strips with extra fuses rather than just wires with plugs

@theoutrider @sickasfrick @jk @er1n @tom @envgen

surge protectors are more often metal oxide varistors, avalanche diodes and thyristors that dump gross overvoltages (usually >3 times the normal incoming mains voltage) to protective earth.

Often these components "sacrifice themselves" to protect more costly equipment downstream so their action can be compared to that of fuses, but they act far quicker and in different methods.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surge_protector

@envgen @jk @er1n @Tom @sickasfrick friend of jameses is right - it's extension cable! (also I had one which was 4x2 with surge protection yeeeeeeah! and 2 of the sockets could rotate because I don't even know. wibbly sockets!)

@bentosmile @jk @er1n @Tom @sickasfrick henceforth it is called a "wibbly socket"

@envgen @bentosmile @jk @er1n @Tom @sickasfrick someone on Twitter recently talked about these things in the US which you just push plugs into and they just have solid copper strips along their entire body wired to the mains that the ends of the plugs make contact with and aaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAA

@theoutrider @bentosmile @jk @er1n @Tom @sickasfrick what the FUCK

@theoutrider @envgen @bentosmile @jk @tom @sickasfrick this was thankfully only a 70's thing

@er1n @envgen @bentosmile @jk @Tom @sickasfrick oh god that's good to know, rather less horrifying then

mind you electrical installations in the US are mindblowing to me anyway, vast swathes of Germany having been flattened in the early 20th century means that a lot of the country has nice modern installations for that kind of thing

@er1n @envgen @jk @Tom @sickasfrick when my dad found out that @bentosmile's old house had a fuse box with fuses you'd have to manually string a piece of bare wire through if they blew he demanded I send him a spare one because he couldn't believe those things are still in use here

@theoutrider @er1n @envgen @Tom @sickasfrick @bentosmile my mum's place has these, they're good imo. its really fun to get out the fuse wire in the dark when you cant see anything

@theoutrider @er1n @jk @Tom @sickasfrick @bentosmile i remember when we got our first circuit breaker put in. it was so excited. i couldn't wait for a bulb to blow just to see how fast we could run to the garage and flick the power back on. it was fast!! no fuses necessary

@theoutrider @er1n @envgen @jk @Tom @sickasfrick tbf it was a victorian house made for factory workers, and the landlady was cheap as hell. and the previous tenants had wound some of the fuses wrong, because yay let's not bother being safe with electricity!

@theoutrider @er1n @envgen @bentosmile @jk @Tom @sickasfrick Except for Schuko plugs because why design a safe plug when you can just hack an earth strip into an already grossly unsafe europlug.

@danielcassidy @er1n @envgen @bentosmile @jk @Tom @sickasfrick Schuko precedes Europlug by like 50 years

@donblanco @theoutrider @sickasfrick @Tom @er1n @jk @bentosmile i like how the preview makes it look like you're talking about ethan