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I'd like to take this oppurtunity to point out that UK plugs are, by a long shot, the best plugs.
They have ground. They slot in and stay in. The structure of the plug means that the wire comes out the bottom and not the back, which is better for plugging stuff in behind furniture.
Basically every other plug-type is ass compared to UK plugs.
Their only real disadvantage is how comically large they can make normally small power bricks
And stepping on one makes Lego seem tame.
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.
The only disadvantage to UK plugs is that they turn into caltrops when unplugged
EU plugs designed in the past 50 years also have half-exposed pins and EU sockets from the past 30 years also have little rubber flaps that only open if they're pressed both at the same time (I've tried it, it works really well, I couldn't get a singular multimeter prong in my outlet until I used the second prong). There are no exposed live conductors anywhere in my house.
Nowadays the main practical difference between EU and UK plugs is the "lack" of a fuse, except any semi-modern appliance that could make use of a fuse should include one internally. In every other situation circuit breakers work fine, UK plugs have fuses because they historically couldn't rely on the circuit breaker existing.
Nowadays the regulatory focus is not on plugs, which are fine, but on GFCI. Gotta put one 30 mA differential per electrical circuit in kitchens/bathrooms and a whole house 300 mA differential. That's a much safer way to detect electrocution than wait until several amps have been going through the plug because all you're getting by the time the fuse trips is a fried person sandwich.
Yeah, I swear Brits love regurgitating that Tom Scott video, even though it is massively hyperbolic and exaggerated and completely ignores that specific British context which made the fuse necessary.
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.
That's when another neat feature comes in, every UK outlet have a switch so you don't have to unplug them and leave them a hazard on the floor.
There are American plugs that also put the wire out the side rather than perpendicular to the wall. diagonally down is most normal so that it wouldn't block the lower outlet when installed in the upper outlet. I also have some six-gang outlet extenders with the sockets on the sides rather than the front.
They're right, it does sound really stupid, but it's also actually really stupid.
The sad thing is that this person is probably eligible to vote.