Rare insults

I like accents. There’s a nugget of truth to that though. Accent variation in the UK is greater than across the whole of the US. You can drive the length of Britain in America and still hear less variation than you’d get in just 15 miles across parts of the UK, thanks to its highly localized linguistic evolution over centuries. Interestingly, some American accents are actually closer to 17th century English than many found in the UK today, and (comparatively) lack strong markers like rhotic dropping, vowel shifts, or intonation patterns that give it a ‘vanilla’ vibe.

Interestingly, English does have a "reference" accent. "Queens English".

Back in the days of the British empire, the aristocracy had a serious problem. When they traveled, the local population were difficult to understand, they all had accents. To solve this, the hired help were taught not just English but a clear "accentless" English. This meant the rich could go anywhere in the empire and not have to decode the local's butchering of English.

While it's used a lot less now, it was only a few decades back that the BBC stopped requiring it for news broadcasts. It's the "classic" British accent you see on TV shows.

the fact that old sockets can't handle the weight of a plug means the design was brain-dead from the beginning

We could just flip our outlet upside down and be sort of safer, but we don't because the little face 😮

Tom Scott once upon a time made a video about why the UK plug is the superior overall design, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEfP1OKKz_Q

Huh? I'm seeing those videos from the Tetris Gods and I see pieces falling down at a speed that my brain can't even understand, this technique maybe is used by "entry level" Tetris professional players?

UK plugs are the best and can double up as non destructive landmines.

i know you meant live metal. But I love the concept of love metal. There's a spark between us

Nah, we get it from the water now. And if you drink too much of the water as a kid, sometimes from snacking on old paint.

Surely there's a joke about drinking on it to celebrate, like the Scots do on the 5th and 6th of July as well

I had English people ask Irish people why they don't celebrate the 5th of November. These people are everywhere.

The frequency is always Kenneth.

there's so much more to UK plugs, they are on another league compared to other plugs.

All sockets are childproof, the holes have like doors that block the socket unless the earth pin is inserted.

the plug pins are only half exposed, so there's no live surfaces outside of the socket.

there's a fuse in the plug.

no need for 2A in the UK, the plugs can double as a flail.

Their only real disadvantage is how comically large they can make normally small power bricks

The structure of the plug means that the wire comes out the bottom and not the back

... What? I have lots of right angle cables. The way the wire "comes out" of the plug is not limited by the plug itself.

They have one fatal flaw, though: when lying on the ground, the prongs almost always face up, making it easier for you to stab yourself should you accidentally step on the plug.

Swiss plug with a grounding pin won’t fit into a Type-C or Type-F socket though unless it’s a multi type socket. And Italy has that weird Type-L socket that comes in two sizes. Though they also have Type-F (Schuko). Ireland uses the British standard so not Schuko or Type-C compatible.

I rotated the square in Tetris and then suddenly the bricks became hyper-realistic with hyper-realistic blood and then they jumped out of my TV and I hyper-realistically died! The end.