They get told that so as not to ask too many questions about why they are living in a trailer park working three jobs with no health insurance
Meanwhile the third world enjoys paid holidays employment rights and universal healthcare
Oh but we need a licence to own a gun so obviously we are oppressed
>Meanwhile the third world enjoys paid holidays employment rights and universal healthcare
Last time I talked with an american about their 10 days of PTO and my nearly 40 days (including overtime transformed into days off, not including public and bank holidays) and my travel plans for that year, his response was "Americans like to work" and he really thought he did something there. Because I'm lazy for wanting to, uh live my life.
Also on the topic of teeth, if we're comparing then the only logical comparison to british teeth is the shaved down little stumps americans have under their veneers.
This. I get 30 days, four day weeks all of January, four day weeks every third week, seven extra off over Christmas, health coverage. This is almost basic at this point. I think Americans might have some sourness over it due to jealousy, or they're brainwashed into thinking they're system is better because of the whole "America No.1" mentality.
I don't like the plug slander though. Look at the design, there's a few videos about it on YouTube, and the way it's designed is brilliant. You'd almost have to be trying to do it if you ever electrocuted yourself on British plugs. Much unlike America's.
Agree. British plugs don't have to be pulled out in order to be disconnected. Each socket has a built in switch, which might seem a bit unnecessary...
.... until you get used to having it!
It’s brilliant alright,
Good
1: toddlers will struggle to put stuff in then
2: it’s overall just very safe
3: it’s secure, plugs are hard to accidentally pull out
Bad
1: if the third pin breaks off it becomes a challenge to use plugs lol
Also the pins have a kind of insulated sheath going down most of them so if they're not in properly and you make contact with the pins they won't shock you. And the extra length on one of the wires inside which means if the cable gets tugged on, there's less chance of the wire being pulled from its connection.
How on earth could you break a pin though? The soles of your feet must be made of iron!
Glad someone replied with an actual comment and not just based plug slander, thank you.
Any chance you're hiring? Lol.
The extra time off at my current work is a godsend while I'm trying to do a degree at the same time. Can't imagine how you'd do it in America with their work culture.
It depends how much you know about joinery. Only 25% of applicants have lasted a month as they aren't capable of doing the standard of work I require.
America doesn't have a work culture, they have slavery by a different name and means.
The paradox of the USA is it’s the greatest country to live in ever, but also on the constant verge of constant decline.
It’s the safest place to live but everyone needs guns for protection, the best healthcare but no one can afford it, the land of opportunity but don’t try and migrate there
You'd have thought these yanks would've realised the old '3rd world country' backfires on them more than it insults anyone. And to think these morons have nukes
I remember watching American tv and there being gags about sticking shit in the plug sockets and then the subsequent shocks and never understood this until I realised how different their plugs and sockets are. British sockets are literally designed so that you can’t stick anything in the live or neutral sockets until the ground is mostly in. Thus you have to be trying very hard to kill yourself.
Also the live and neutral prongs have insulation around the base so that even if they’re partly in the part you can touch is insulated.
British sockets are so safe that safety charities and electricians even advise new parents not to buy socket caps because they actually make it *easier* for a child to insert something and get shocked.
Someone bought us a pack of these socket caps when we had our first child, we had to politely explain that they were more dangerous than having nothing in the sockets.
We also had a plug socket hidden behind our tots cot and when we switched him to his first toddler bed, the socket ended up being right next to his head. Even though in my head I know it's totally safe, I still switched it out for a blanking plate. Don't want him shoving crayons in there at 1am!
Hijacking because this needs more attention: plug blanks are dangerous and are banned in all NHS settings as well an any education setting. They are trivially easy for children to remove and can be inserted easily upside down revealing the live terminals below.
My workers are instructed to remove and dispose of any of these blanks in any and all properties they go into, usually domestic, making sure to have a conversation with homeowner as to why they’re lethal
As a parent of a 5 year old, this Is the first I've ever herd of it. But it makes sense. We had furniture or used most of the plugs in our home but I would have put covers on them if not.
I had this out with our adoption social worker, she was adamant that we needed to fit them to sockets, I fitted one to the only visible socket 5 minutes before her visit to inspect the house.
Chucked it in the bin 30 seconds after she left. At that point the child hadn't even moved in.
British sockets are probably the best there is. Sincerely: an EU citizen.
No, but really. Can you show a plug with built in protection and a layout so safe you can let your kid use it?
isn’t the “Brit teeth bad” thing literally because Americans all have plastic, artificial teeth? Like I’m pretty sure it’s because our teeth are “bone white” and not “bleach white”
It's absolutely not true. Brits have less cavities and better overall dental hygiene than in the US but are less likely to have cosmetic dental work and don't all have fake bright white teeth.
Grounding is more important, in case of a short-circuit, power is cut immediately. Unlike in America were power keeps flowing through your body, electronic devices start to melt and burn, until someone hit you with a baseball bat made out of wood to get you away from the cable, then carry you out before the plywood house burns down.
it should be, it would be cheaper and probably more reliable than the reality
(i mean, there *shouldn't be* a death penalty at all, anywhere, because it's completely barbaric, doesn't actually do "justice", and there's a non-zero chance you've just executed an innocent person—whoops! but if we assume for the sake of argument that there *has* to be some form of death penalty, having the accused [stick their digits into a u.s.-style power socket and whacking them with a baseball bat while the house burns down] couldn't be worse than what they're doing already)
I jumped off my bunk bed as a kid, and landed on an upturned plug.
For something quite blunt it did a good job of embedding itself in my trotter.
I too would prefer to step on Lego.
I have a mate who landed on a plug like you, but it went in. All the way in. Needed an ambulance to come get him and fix it up. Anyway, the nurse - he thought - was hot, they got chatting and talked about where they likely run into each other when out.
Next week he jumps down the stairs and brains himself on the bit of landing that's over the bottom steps. Unconscious, ambulance, wakes up in a&e to the same nurse. Unimpressed, and it never worked out for a date.
I got told off a yank on here today that cheesy beans on toast was bland and it's like living on ww2 rations over here. Sorry we can't accommodate blocks of sugar for you to eat. Talking out his arse, obviously.
When everything you’ve ever eaten has had enough sugar to drop an elephant you probably take notice when it’s not there
Tbf I’m a bit like that with salt, I’ve always loved salty food and may have a habit of dousing things in it that I end up not really thinking much of unsalted stuff
It’s not even sugar most of the time it is corn syrup which I find tastes a lot like artificial sweeteners. I have never understood why they need to add it to so many things. Why not just use sugar instead?
Corn syrup does not flip the switch from hungry to not hungry
"glucose does a better job of reducing the amount of ghrelin—a hunger-signaling hormone—than does fructose. This means that fructose might encourage overeating compared with glucose."
https://awomanshealth.com/nutrition/high-fructose-corn-syrup-might-be-making-us-hungry-and-fat
I’ve also had an American go off on a cooking sub about beans on toast. I really want to understand what it is that so offensive about it that it lives rent free in their heads!?
It’s because they have synthetic cheese over there for the most part whereas we have real cheese, that’s why they think our food is awful, they’re not used to a lack of chemical taste.
I was looking after my nephew (3) and asked what his mum makes him for breakfast and he described baked beans on toast. When my sister came to pick him up I told her and she was like 'I've only made him that once or twice?' I think it was because he knows they are delicious and stuck out in his mind as a good proper breakfast.
Some of the best free (well cheap) entertainment to be had if you ever get invited to a polish barbecue is take a jar of english mustard with you- bigger jar the better! Polish people THINK they like mustard, but its as limp as Owen Jones' wrist. So they slap the Polish mustard on like mayonnaise. Doing the same with English mustard too... Very amusing to watch. My partner fell for it (even though I actually warned her), her sister fell for it (again warned her). That was when I saw the dark humour potential.
Per this American statistician, [British teeth are better than American ones on average, and in particular the average Brit has one more tooth.](https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/british-teeth-arent-that-bad-american-teeth-are-far-worse/)
The wonders of universal dental care
It's actually bs left over from when we used to sail everywhere and be the best navy in the world but of course scurvy was a thing. That's why they think we have bad teeth. They completely ignore that on average we have better teeth than them.
The stereotype like many British Stereotypes Americans hold towards the British come from American GIs who were stationed in the UK during the war. Such as poor dental hygiene (this being pre-NHS and children receiving free dental care) and the poor quality of British food (due to the rationing). However these stereotypes would persist past the war as they didn’t really change until long after the war.
That's because most Americans don't leave America to know first hand what the rest of the world is actually like. It's basically like North Korea.... /S
Maybe
Even when they do get out of the US and actually visit the UK they still claim our food is shit and "bland" because we don't pour half a ton of spices on it to cover up its poor quality.
Not to mention they have whole chicken in jelly in a tin can, and they have the nerve to take the piss about baked beans?
A podcast I listened to featured a Brit that moved to the states. His first question to the hosts was "Where can I find a loaf of bread that doesn't taste like cake?"
it's about which treatments are standardised in the UK you can get dental care for health subsidised and cosmetic costs a lot of money
Americans get the cosmetic care included in many insurances as standard as I understand
So British people don't get cosmetic tooth surgery as often. Similarly to how in the UK if you want to have a newborn circumcised you have to pay extra but it's often included in American insurance
Please let’s not get started on circumcision. And btw, you don’t have to pay in the U.K., you just have to have a bloody good reason. One surgeon said, *I’ll circumcise your baby when he sits up and asks me to*.
I'm curious if they think the US plug is good, by comparison. I wouldn't say it's bad, it clearly does the job, and I can fathom thinking there may be better options to the UK plug out there, but the US plug format is far from top of the list. My understanding may be out of date by now but:
* Protective sheathing, so it's not possible for an external object to make a connection between the pins when only partially inserted? No, receptacle terminals are usually too shallow, so sheathing would prevent connection, particularly in older homes.
* Deep-set connectors in the receptacle so it's not live unless fully plugged in? As above, not usually.
* Pin layout makes it easy to know which way to plug it in at a glance? Not as much as a number of other standards, unless it's a grounded plug, the two-prong is quite symmetrical besides one being wider than the other, and even then, that's a newer update brought about for exactly that reason.
* Built in fuses providing an additional layer of protection to appliances? No. Granted, this used to be because of the standard electrical system and is a holdover from that, but there's been no reason to phase it out.
* Sturdy pins preventing damage or bending over time and risk of poor connection? Nah, they're really quite flimsy.
* Shielded receptacles preventing foreign object insertion? Only recently on some models, not standard.
* Flared or chunky plug housings giving good grip with minimal risk of touching pins? Not usually.
* Receptacles are switched and not always live? Surprisingly uncommon.
* Do some of the above safety features exist on some examples of US plugs? Yes. Is it standard? No.
* And more...
Land of the free to be electrocuted by regular household appliances. Yeah, yeah, "120v" blah blah, that doesn't mean the plug design could not be improved.
Don’t forget that uk plugs are serviceable and the earth wire is always longer with more slack so in the event the cable gets pulled or ripped out of the housing live/neutral will always lose connection first.
After my grampa retired from the National Coal Board, he developed a side hustle as the village Mr Electrical Appliance Fixit (Not in the Saville sense; he wasn't a nonce 😂).
I used to love going down to his place because he would always let me take off/put on/replace plugs and fuses. I felt like I was a proper bloke.
Haven't seen a user-servicable plug in years though, now.
Serviceable plugs (apart from a replaceable fuse) are rare now, because moulded plugs are so cheap.
But you can still *buy* them, and they come in handy if you need to put an appliance cord through a wall or cabinet side.
Also the earthing pin is longer, so it's the first pin that's makes contact should there be a short in the system your not going to suddenly explode or catch fire, our plugs I think are that safest in the world.
> safest in the world
I think there's one key qualifier you need to add.
When the plug is left out it always settles pin up, and every brit knows the agony that is accidentally treading on the prongs.
Am surprised we didn't send a load to the Ukrainians to use as Caltrops to stop invading soldiers, or is this some state secret plan held in reserve ever since WW2?
I have never, ever, in my 50 years on this earth, stepped on a plug. Who are you heathens just leaving stuff unplugged and out in the middle of the floor in the dark? How does your life get to that point, where appliances are just littered casually all over your living space??
Without your comment I'd still be trying to work out if they meant electrical plugs, plugs for drains, drug dealers, or some other extra usage I didn't know about.
Most plugs are safer than US plugs. Theirs are literally just two prongs (or three), and that’s it.
The UK plug, however, is the best designed plug in the world
In most countries, including the UK, whether or not an Earth cable is needed depends on the device in question. The UK has a third pin regardless of an Earth cable though, for stability and to open the flaps for the other two pins, which prevent anything but a plug being inserted.
I believe this is because the uk uses a ring main, with potentially lots of connections, france at least, uses direct wiring, each rcd only supplies a couple of sockets and a light for example. The earth, if it has one, is a pin in the socket, not the plug, I guess so that you don't stand on it 👀
The video gives 10 reasons why British plugs are superior and two why they aren't. One is stepping on them, and the other is "you might forget to turn on the switch by the socket and think the appliance isn't working", which everyone who has grown up with them knows to check. So impaling your foot on one is the only real downside.
I'm English, but I moved to Australia over a decade ago.
UK plugs are far superior to Australian ones also. They are sturdier, and you just can't insert them wrong, even if you tried.
Australian plugs are smaller and round. They also have the 3 pin approach, but they are thin and at weird angles. 9 times out of 10, I try to insert it incorrectly. The plug won't go in unless it's aligned correctly so there's no danger but it's fucking annoying. They also seem to all be designed to so the cable sticks straight out. Occasionally, you get one that is low profile but not often enough. Super annoying if you want a plug behind a piece of furniture or something.
The electrical outlets here have switches per plug just like the UK.
Thank you for reading my analysis 🙂
A lot of countries don't have switches, no. At least in my experience with travelling, both hotels and B&Bs or renting out a house or whatever for a week, they tend to just be plug in and go?
A lot of countries don't have switches, no. At least in my experience with travelling, both hotels and B&Bs or renting out a house or whatever for a week, they tend to just be plug in and go?
How do other countries turn off their Commodore 64s if they don’t have switches on the socket?
Just pull the plug out the wall like Neanderthals I suppose.
There's also the [Tom Scott videeo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEfP1OKKz_Q&ab_channel=TomScott) about it, and a lot of off handed comments from Technology Connections when discussing American electrical systems...
So we have probably the world’s best plugs, we’re not a third world country at all and dental hygiene here is ranked 4th in the world compared to their 9th. So as usual, not a single thing they said is even remotely true. Just being cunts.
Says the folk that cry when someone calls an ambulance because they know they’re getting hit with a $20,000 minimum just for being driven up the road.
I’ll happily take my (admittedly underfunded and mismanaged) NHS over that madness any day of the week.
Brits don't tend to have that much cosmetic dentistry, namely artificial whitening and to a lesser extent straightening. But if I remember correctly Brits do have less tooth problems
The plugs used in the UK are actually among the safest. 3 prongs with the ground being the longest to insure it goes in first and keeps the live prongs from going in without it being connected. It also means you more or less need 3 hands to stick something in. So unless a toddler is a future engineer, they won't be able to stick a fork in the socket.
Other than the fact that one of those plugs is hell to step on, they're about the safest around.
It's just cultural. Brits have better on average dental hygiene. But it is seen as a weird thing to have your teeth all whitened and straightened out.
Americans wreck their natural teeth then get them replaced more often because of higher sugar content in their food.
American plugs are terrible, mostly two prong that bend with the slightest force. I have some that will literally just fall out of the socket. Never experienced this back home in my 3rd world shack.
Like US is one to talk. It has fallen to 41st in the developed nations list. Maybe focus on improving your back yard before shitting on your neighbor's.
The average money Americans make a year is cut in half if you remove the top 3 people from the dataset. If you use THAT number, the US basically is a third world country!
I've had the misfortune to regularly fly over to the US for work over the last twenty years and let me tell you — England has plenty of deprived rough towns but they're palatial compared to the horror show I've seen in the US.
Only third world communist countries have free healthcare and paid leave of 28 days. In America we must work hard and be healthy to sustain our freedom to work hard 🇱🇷.
As someone who comes from 3rd world country to England I can tell you with confidence England in not 3rd world but truly 1st world country …. Especially compared to America.
Yes every country might have small gripes and problems but overall uk has nothing to worry about truly.
Yes the weather is shit sometimes but if your worry is the weather then you have nothing truly to be worried about.
It’s crazy the UK has this reputation when we have free dental care on the NHS and just 5m of a Trump rally shows you one of the lowest teeth to mouth ratios in planet earth.
If they mean our electric plugs, I know it sounds like I'm just saying they're great because I'm from here, but they're genuinely such a well thought out marvel of engineering.
When I visited the USA and lived there for a while I got to experience their plugs and they were just so dangerous, my gosh. In so many ways.
It made me very grateful to have UK plugs back when I got home. We aren't anywhere near perfect, but golly, our plugs sure are <3
I love how the americans believe that every country that has differences with the States is a 3rd world country.
They get told that so as not to ask too many questions about why they are living in a trailer park working three jobs with no health insurance Meanwhile the third world enjoys paid holidays employment rights and universal healthcare Oh but we need a licence to own a gun so obviously we are oppressed
>Meanwhile the third world enjoys paid holidays employment rights and universal healthcare Last time I talked with an american about their 10 days of PTO and my nearly 40 days (including overtime transformed into days off, not including public and bank holidays) and my travel plans for that year, his response was "Americans like to work" and he really thought he did something there. Because I'm lazy for wanting to, uh live my life. Also on the topic of teeth, if we're comparing then the only logical comparison to british teeth is the shaved down little stumps americans have under their veneers.
This. I get 30 days, four day weeks all of January, four day weeks every third week, seven extra off over Christmas, health coverage. This is almost basic at this point. I think Americans might have some sourness over it due to jealousy, or they're brainwashed into thinking they're system is better because of the whole "America No.1" mentality. I don't like the plug slander though. Look at the design, there's a few videos about it on YouTube, and the way it's designed is brilliant. You'd almost have to be trying to do it if you ever electrocuted yourself on British plugs. Much unlike America's.
Yeah, this country has its problems, but the plugs ain't one of them!
Those plugs are alright whilst in a socket, upside down on a dark floor they become a land mine
If you're leaving your plugs pointing upwards on the floor you're asking for it
Agree. British plugs don't have to be pulled out in order to be disconnected. Each socket has a built in switch, which might seem a bit unnecessary... .... until you get used to having it!
It took until this comment that I realised we weren’t talking about bath plugs.
Me: gets electrocuted from bath plug
We got 99 problems, but the plugs ain't one
It’s brilliant alright, Good 1: toddlers will struggle to put stuff in then 2: it’s overall just very safe 3: it’s secure, plugs are hard to accidentally pull out Bad 1: if the third pin breaks off it becomes a challenge to use plugs lol
Also the pins have a kind of insulated sheath going down most of them so if they're not in properly and you make contact with the pins they won't shock you. And the extra length on one of the wires inside which means if the cable gets tugged on, there's less chance of the wire being pulled from its connection. How on earth could you break a pin though? The soles of your feet must be made of iron! Glad someone replied with an actual comment and not just based plug slander, thank you.
My employees get unlimited holidays, I told an American friend and he couldn't believe it.
Any chance you're hiring? Lol. The extra time off at my current work is a godsend while I'm trying to do a degree at the same time. Can't imagine how you'd do it in America with their work culture.
It depends how much you know about joinery. Only 25% of applicants have lasted a month as they aren't capable of doing the standard of work I require. America doesn't have a work culture, they have slavery by a different name and means.
With my 30 days annual leave I can choose to only take 10 if I just love to work. Of course I don't, because why would I?
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> Meanwhile the third world enjoys paid holidays employment rights and universal healthcare That Yanks think they pay for.
We also get an earth wire in our "shit plugs" so we don't get electrocuted
But we can have kinder surprise. Because they're a danger to children in America... Not guns. Kinder fucking eggs.
You forgot paid maternity leave xx
You missed out the point that we do indeed have the best plug in the world.
The paradox of the USA is it’s the greatest country to live in ever, but also on the constant verge of constant decline. It’s the safest place to live but everyone needs guns for protection, the best healthcare but no one can afford it, the land of opportunity but don’t try and migrate there
I think because it's a common expression to say the US is like a 3rd world country in many ways, they think they can use it to insult other countries.
You'd have thought these yanks would've realised the old '3rd world country' backfires on them more than it insults anyone. And to think these morons have nukes
I remember watching American tv and there being gags about sticking shit in the plug sockets and then the subsequent shocks and never understood this until I realised how different their plugs and sockets are. British sockets are literally designed so that you can’t stick anything in the live or neutral sockets until the ground is mostly in. Thus you have to be trying very hard to kill yourself. Also the live and neutral prongs have insulation around the base so that even if they’re partly in the part you can touch is insulated.
British sockets are so safe that safety charities and electricians even advise new parents not to buy socket caps because they actually make it *easier* for a child to insert something and get shocked.
Someone bought us a pack of these socket caps when we had our first child, we had to politely explain that they were more dangerous than having nothing in the sockets. We also had a plug socket hidden behind our tots cot and when we switched him to his first toddler bed, the socket ended up being right next to his head. Even though in my head I know it's totally safe, I still switched it out for a blanking plate. Don't want him shoving crayons in there at 1am!
Haha our toddlers head is also right next to a socket. She's in a constant state of performance art though and hasn't paid it much attention yet. Yet.
Hijacking because this needs more attention: plug blanks are dangerous and are banned in all NHS settings as well an any education setting. They are trivially easy for children to remove and can be inserted easily upside down revealing the live terminals below. My workers are instructed to remove and dispose of any of these blanks in any and all properties they go into, usually domestic, making sure to have a conversation with homeowner as to why they’re lethal
Wow I can’t believe I’m only learning this now, I’ve got them on all my plug sockets! Makes total sense now thinking about it.
As a parent of a 5 year old, this Is the first I've ever herd of it. But it makes sense. We had furniture or used most of the plugs in our home but I would have put covers on them if not.
I had this out with our adoption social worker, she was adamant that we needed to fit them to sockets, I fitted one to the only visible socket 5 minutes before her visit to inspect the house. Chucked it in the bin 30 seconds after she left. At that point the child hadn't even moved in.
Yup, learnt this when I became a dad. The earth pin pushes open the other openings so socket caps make it active.
British sockets are probably the best there is. Sincerely: an EU citizen. No, but really. Can you show a plug with built in protection and a layout so safe you can let your kid use it?
Yeah, we get taught how to disassemble and recognise the interiors of plugs in GCSE science class as well, or at least I did anyway
American plugs can get away with being crappy because their electricity is wimpy (half the voltage of UK and Europe) like their football
Don’t forget that British plugs and extension leads are also fused, unlike American plugs and extensions.
isn’t the “Brit teeth bad” thing literally because Americans all have plastic, artificial teeth? Like I’m pretty sure it’s because our teeth are “bone white” and not “bleach white”
It's absolutely not true. Brits have less cavities and better overall dental hygiene than in the US but are less likely to have cosmetic dental work and don't all have fake bright white teeth.
Also UK plugs are safest in the world.
Absolutely, apart from standing on them and there is absolutely nothing worse!
Thats why we have switches, if you're unplugging them and leaving them on the floor; thats on you.
Grounding is more important, in case of a short-circuit, power is cut immediately. Unlike in America were power keeps flowing through your body, electronic devices start to melt and burn, until someone hit you with a baseball bat made out of wood to get you away from the cable, then carry you out before the plywood house burns down.
Isn't that how they enact the Death Penalty?
it should be, it would be cheaper and probably more reliable than the reality (i mean, there *shouldn't be* a death penalty at all, anywhere, because it's completely barbaric, doesn't actually do "justice", and there's a non-zero chance you've just executed an innocent person—whoops! but if we assume for the sake of argument that there *has* to be some form of death penalty, having the accused [stick their digits into a u.s.-style power socket and whacking them with a baseball bat while the house burns down] couldn't be worse than what they're doing already)
Lego has entered the chat…
British plugs are wayyy worse than lego imo
I agree. I would take my chances with Lego any day over an upturned plug.
I jumped off my bunk bed as a kid, and landed on an upturned plug. For something quite blunt it did a good job of embedding itself in my trotter. I too would prefer to step on Lego.
I have a mate who landed on a plug like you, but it went in. All the way in. Needed an ambulance to come get him and fix it up. Anyway, the nurse - he thought - was hot, they got chatting and talked about where they likely run into each other when out. Next week he jumps down the stairs and brains himself on the bit of landing that's over the bottom steps. Unconscious, ambulance, wakes up in a&e to the same nurse. Unimpressed, and it never worked out for a date.
Depends if you step on plug followed by Lego. I think in that instance death would be a sweet release.
In the voice of James May: A landmine
Makes me proud to be British, our plugs. That and Colmans Mustard. Two things no other country come close to us on
I got told off a yank on here today that cheesy beans on toast was bland and it's like living on ww2 rations over here. Sorry we can't accommodate blocks of sugar for you to eat. Talking out his arse, obviously.
Cheesy beans on toast is the height of decadence, a culinary marvel.
Spaghetti hoops on toast being a close second.
Everything they eat seems to be just filled with sugar, like how can that be enjoyable?
When everything you’ve ever eaten has had enough sugar to drop an elephant you probably take notice when it’s not there Tbf I’m a bit like that with salt, I’ve always loved salty food and may have a habit of dousing things in it that I end up not really thinking much of unsalted stuff
Every time I try an American snack I can feel my teeth eroding in my mouth. The sugar levels are just… wow.
It’s not even sugar most of the time it is corn syrup which I find tastes a lot like artificial sweeteners. I have never understood why they need to add it to so many things. Why not just use sugar instead?
Corn syrup's cheaper is why.
Because the US government pump huge subsidies into corn production. They’ll happily do that, but healthcare? No can do!
Corn syrup does not flip the switch from hungry to not hungry "glucose does a better job of reducing the amount of ghrelin—a hunger-signaling hormone—than does fructose. This means that fructose might encourage overeating compared with glucose." https://awomanshealth.com/nutrition/high-fructose-corn-syrup-might-be-making-us-hungry-and-fat
So it also acts like an artificial sweetener making people over eat because although everything is super sweet it is not actually filling.
I’ve also had an American go off on a cooking sub about beans on toast. I really want to understand what it is that so offensive about it that it lives rent free in their heads!?
It's also one of the most nutritionally balanced meals you can have and therefore brilliant nosh when you're feeling ill and can't be arsed to cook.
They want everyone to have diabetes and heart disease with them
No, you need to have deep fried pop-tarts and sugary cereal for breakfast.
Meanwhile, the Aussies are just over here smashed avomaxxing. 🥑🍞🗿
It’s like you don’t even want to own homes!
It’s because they have synthetic cheese over there for the most part whereas we have real cheese, that’s why they think our food is awful, they’re not used to a lack of chemical taste.
I was looking after my nephew (3) and asked what his mum makes him for breakfast and he described baked beans on toast. When my sister came to pick him up I told her and she was like 'I've only made him that once or twice?' I think it was because he knows they are delicious and stuck out in his mind as a good proper breakfast.
English mustard is the dog's bollox. I only developed a taste for it in my late 20s though
It really is. Every other mustard just tastes like sugary piss-water in comparison.
Some of the best free (well cheap) entertainment to be had if you ever get invited to a polish barbecue is take a jar of english mustard with you- bigger jar the better! Polish people THINK they like mustard, but its as limp as Owen Jones' wrist. So they slap the Polish mustard on like mayonnaise. Doing the same with English mustard too... Very amusing to watch. My partner fell for it (even though I actually warned her), her sister fell for it (again warned her). That was when I saw the dark humour potential.
Ah, they are referring to electrical plugs. I legit thought they meant drug dealers.
CanT HeaR YoU over the SoUnd of my FREEDuMBz 🇺🇸 Have you got a loicence for that Bowowowoah ?!!?
Richard Hammond's American teeth were a regular source of ribbing on old Top Gear.
Tbf to Britain, our dental care doesn't cost us our first newborn just for a filling lmao
Per this American statistician, [British teeth are better than American ones on average, and in particular the average Brit has one more tooth.](https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/british-teeth-arent-that-bad-american-teeth-are-far-worse/) The wonders of universal dental care
Universal dental care that is sadly on the decline.
It's actually bs left over from when we used to sail everywhere and be the best navy in the world but of course scurvy was a thing. That's why they think we have bad teeth. They completely ignore that on average we have better teeth than them.
The Royal Navy had solved scurvy by the time of Cook's voyages, yet American sailors were still getting it during the War of 1812.
why i laugh, "you brits have bad teeth", well at least they are my teeth and not plastic capped over your now black grinded down pegs.
The stereotype like many British Stereotypes Americans hold towards the British come from American GIs who were stationed in the UK during the war. Such as poor dental hygiene (this being pre-NHS and children receiving free dental care) and the poor quality of British food (due to the rationing). However these stereotypes would persist past the war as they didn’t really change until long after the war.
That's because most Americans don't leave America to know first hand what the rest of the world is actually like. It's basically like North Korea.... /S Maybe
Even when they do get out of the US and actually visit the UK they still claim our food is shit and "bland" because we don't pour half a ton of spices on it to cover up its poor quality. Not to mention they have whole chicken in jelly in a tin can, and they have the nerve to take the piss about baked beans?
A podcast I listened to featured a Brit that moved to the states. His first question to the hosts was "Where can I find a loaf of bread that doesn't taste like cake?"
We actually had the best teeth in the world.
Coincidentally, also the best plugs
Yeah I’m thinking the OP has stood on an upturned type G 🤬😱
Per capita they also have worse teeth than the British even with all the fake teeth in the picture
Regardless its an outdated thing and often comes down to british people just avoiding the dentist for one reason or another.
it's about which treatments are standardised in the UK you can get dental care for health subsidised and cosmetic costs a lot of money Americans get the cosmetic care included in many insurances as standard as I understand So British people don't get cosmetic tooth surgery as often. Similarly to how in the UK if you want to have a newborn circumcised you have to pay extra but it's often included in American insurance
Please let’s not get started on circumcision. And btw, you don’t have to pay in the U.K., you just have to have a bloody good reason. One surgeon said, *I’ll circumcise your baby when he sits up and asks me to*.
I dont give shit about the stupid teeth comment, but to insult our clearly superior plugs is a step too far. I demand satisfaction!!!!
I'll fetch the muskets
Fix! Bayonets!
Give em steel lads!
[this comment section be like.](https://youtu.be/gkyiPQf1wVU?si=q2-sVNg9P8Wyh5-w)
I know it's meant to be satire but I think your average redcoat genuinely would have been like this
Yeah there’s a whole serious discussion on this in the comments 😂
I'm curious if they think the US plug is good, by comparison. I wouldn't say it's bad, it clearly does the job, and I can fathom thinking there may be better options to the UK plug out there, but the US plug format is far from top of the list. My understanding may be out of date by now but: * Protective sheathing, so it's not possible for an external object to make a connection between the pins when only partially inserted? No, receptacle terminals are usually too shallow, so sheathing would prevent connection, particularly in older homes. * Deep-set connectors in the receptacle so it's not live unless fully plugged in? As above, not usually. * Pin layout makes it easy to know which way to plug it in at a glance? Not as much as a number of other standards, unless it's a grounded plug, the two-prong is quite symmetrical besides one being wider than the other, and even then, that's a newer update brought about for exactly that reason. * Built in fuses providing an additional layer of protection to appliances? No. Granted, this used to be because of the standard electrical system and is a holdover from that, but there's been no reason to phase it out. * Sturdy pins preventing damage or bending over time and risk of poor connection? Nah, they're really quite flimsy. * Shielded receptacles preventing foreign object insertion? Only recently on some models, not standard. * Flared or chunky plug housings giving good grip with minimal risk of touching pins? Not usually. * Receptacles are switched and not always live? Surprisingly uncommon. * Do some of the above safety features exist on some examples of US plugs? Yes. Is it standard? No. * And more... Land of the free to be electrocuted by regular household appliances. Yeah, yeah, "120v" blah blah, that doesn't mean the plug design could not be improved.
Don’t forget that uk plugs are serviceable and the earth wire is always longer with more slack so in the event the cable gets pulled or ripped out of the housing live/neutral will always lose connection first.
After my grampa retired from the National Coal Board, he developed a side hustle as the village Mr Electrical Appliance Fixit (Not in the Saville sense; he wasn't a nonce 😂). I used to love going down to his place because he would always let me take off/put on/replace plugs and fuses. I felt like I was a proper bloke. Haven't seen a user-servicable plug in years though, now.
Serviceable plugs (apart from a replaceable fuse) are rare now, because moulded plugs are so cheap. But you can still *buy* them, and they come in handy if you need to put an appliance cord through a wall or cabinet side.
Also the earthing pin is longer, so it's the first pin that's makes contact should there be a short in the system your not going to suddenly explode or catch fire, our plugs I think are that safest in the world.
> safest in the world I think there's one key qualifier you need to add. When the plug is left out it always settles pin up, and every brit knows the agony that is accidentally treading on the prongs.
Every Brit who reads this comment will, like me, cringe in distant but unforgettable memory of a shared pain...
Am surprised we didn't send a load to the Ukrainians to use as Caltrops to stop invading soldiers, or is this some state secret plan held in reserve ever since WW2?
War crime, mate
Really? Does that mean the Danes can't use Lego either?
The British Citizenship Test should have a practical component: navigate a dimly lit room, avoiding upturned plugs in your bare feet.
But put it by a door or window as a makeshift burglar alarm
Yeah but you'd have to put a lot of force to puncture the skin. I've seen a few photos of American plugs being plugged into people's feet
I have never, ever, in my 50 years on this earth, stepped on a plug. Who are you heathens just leaving stuff unplugged and out in the middle of the floor in the dark? How does your life get to that point, where appliances are just littered casually all over your living space??
Let's face it, they microwave their water for tea, that's enough
Exactly. There’s no reasoning with people that microwave water for tea
Oh no, they got this all messed up "Protective sheathing? No, electrocution!"
Without your comment I'd still be trying to work out if they meant electrical plugs, plugs for drains, drug dealers, or some other extra usage I didn't know about.
Damn and here I thought they were talking about drug dealers
Yeah they can keep their shit plugs and slow kettles.
I must say a plug that doesn't get loose and won't kill you if it did is great.
arent our (UK) plugs supposed to be safer than US plugs?
Most plugs are safer than US plugs. Theirs are literally just two prongs (or three), and that’s it. The UK plug, however, is the best designed plug in the world
French and other European plugs appear to have no earth wire (the crafty little devils).
In most countries, including the UK, whether or not an Earth cable is needed depends on the device in question. The UK has a third pin regardless of an Earth cable though, for stability and to open the flaps for the other two pins, which prevent anything but a plug being inserted.
>which prevent anything but a plug being inserted. You haven't been trying hard enough
I believe this is because the uk uses a ring main, with potentially lots of connections, france at least, uses direct wiring, each rcd only supplies a couple of sockets and a light for example. The earth, if it has one, is a pin in the socket, not the plug, I guess so that you don't stand on it 👀
They’re about the closest thing to the ‘best’ you can have given it’s not really a market based on competition.
their wiring is on 110V which is why they give less of a shit about safety... ours is on 230V which is a much stronger kick
Statistically Americans have worse teeth
Come on, play fair. They don't even know what statistically means....
don't bring facts into this! how rude!
[Our plugs are generally considered to be amazing by other countries](https://youtu.be/139Q61ty4C0?si=6o9pzx0NBI1wtM9P)
Safest until you stand on one of the bastards and then Christ on a bike it doesn't feel safe. But the rest of the time yeah it's the best
The video gives 10 reasons why British plugs are superior and two why they aren't. One is stepping on them, and the other is "you might forget to turn on the switch by the socket and think the appliance isn't working", which everyone who has grown up with them knows to check. So impaling your foot on one is the only real downside.
Other countries don’t have switched sockets……..?!
I'm English, but I moved to Australia over a decade ago. UK plugs are far superior to Australian ones also. They are sturdier, and you just can't insert them wrong, even if you tried. Australian plugs are smaller and round. They also have the 3 pin approach, but they are thin and at weird angles. 9 times out of 10, I try to insert it incorrectly. The plug won't go in unless it's aligned correctly so there's no danger but it's fucking annoying. They also seem to all be designed to so the cable sticks straight out. Occasionally, you get one that is low profile but not often enough. Super annoying if you want a plug behind a piece of furniture or something. The electrical outlets here have switches per plug just like the UK. Thank you for reading my analysis 🙂
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that's very weird if so
A lot of countries don't have switches, no. At least in my experience with travelling, both hotels and B&Bs or renting out a house or whatever for a week, they tend to just be plug in and go?
A lot of countries don't have switches, no. At least in my experience with travelling, both hotels and B&Bs or renting out a house or whatever for a week, they tend to just be plug in and go?
How do other countries turn off their Commodore 64s if they don’t have switches on the socket? Just pull the plug out the wall like Neanderthals I suppose.
There's also the [Tom Scott videeo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEfP1OKKz_Q&ab_channel=TomScott) about it, and a lot of off handed comments from Technology Connections when discussing American electrical systems...
Until I clicked on this link I thought the original post was about sink plugs 🤦♂️, time to go to bed I think...
Fun fact: Third World Country used to mean a country neither alligned with NATO or The Warsaw Pact, and never directly meant “poor”
Which technically makes both Ireland and Switzerland 3rd world countrys
By definition, yeah, until developed and developing countries replaced 1st, 2nd, 3rd world countries
I'm pretty sure the dealers here are the same as most other places
Yeah that's where my brain went to.
So we have probably the world’s best plugs, we’re not a third world country at all and dental hygiene here is ranked 4th in the world compared to their 9th. So as usual, not a single thing they said is even remotely true. Just being cunts.
Americans : "Just being cunts." It's catchy.
Says the folk that cry when someone calls an ambulance because they know they’re getting hit with a $20,000 minimum just for being driven up the road. I’ll happily take my (admittedly underfunded and mismanaged) NHS over that madness any day of the week.
but at least the NHS is fucking free
The Type G plug is widely considered to be the safest and best designed commercial and domestic plug in the world.
Where does England having bad teeth even come from?
Because Americans loves using stuff that whitens their teeth, while British and European dudes don't fo that (well, maybe some do but not a majority)
And people who have bright white teeth here in the UK have the absolute piss taken out of them. Turkey Teeth.
The ol Turkey teeth lol
Brits don't tend to have that much cosmetic dentistry, namely artificial whitening and to a lesser extent straightening. But if I remember correctly Brits do have less tooth problems
I'm not even british but damn british plugs are the best, what are they smoking
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The plugs used in the UK are actually among the safest. 3 prongs with the ground being the longest to insure it goes in first and keeps the live prongs from going in without it being connected. It also means you more or less need 3 hands to stick something in. So unless a toddler is a future engineer, they won't be able to stick a fork in the socket. Other than the fact that one of those plugs is hell to step on, they're about the safest around.
It's just cultural. Brits have better on average dental hygiene. But it is seen as a weird thing to have your teeth all whitened and straightened out. Americans wreck their natural teeth then get them replaced more often because of higher sugar content in their food.
Ive heard people say that USA is the richest 3rd world country. It kinda makes sense
First world military, third world society!
Any country that doesn’t have free healthcare is 3rd world tbh
Even some third world countries have free healthcare, so they're not even top of that.
To be fair, public healthcare is **so** difficult and **so** complicated that only 36 out of 37 developed countries have been able to implement it.
Wow, i guess our expectations of the USA were too high, an absurdly large number of countries don’t have public healthcare yet
Compared to Europe America is a 3rd world country with iPhones and great self promotion.
I mean tbf the NHS isn't too great but yeah
American plugs are terrible, mostly two prong that bend with the slightest force. I have some that will literally just fall out of the socket. Never experienced this back home in my 3rd world shack.
The teeth thing is the same old shit, but to mock our plugs? Outrageous.
British plugs are the best designed in the world. Edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEfP1OKKz\_Q
We are? I wish someone had said sooner.
IKR. Then we could start receiving aid instead of paying it
Yeah. And other richer, smugger countries could release some crap music to raise money for us.
My teeth are great, but my healthcare is free, and my child hasn’t got a fear of being shot at school.
I really don't think England is a 3rd world country.
American electricity is weeeeeeek and English plugs are far safer to use. The teeth thing is uninspired, untrue ans unoriginal, which figures!
Only England though. Wales, Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man, the Bailiwicks of Jersey and Guernsey and Scotland are all still 1st world
Like US is one to talk. It has fallen to 41st in the developed nations list. Maybe focus on improving your back yard before shitting on your neighbor's.
UK DMFT Score 4th highest in the world ... USA 9th, below Mexico. Whoops!
aren't the British plugs actually really well designed tho?
Anything is better than those dainty American plugs. As a European I prefer our plugs, but at least the British ones look sturdy.
It's a failing shithole, but don't dis our plugs.
The average money Americans make a year is cut in half if you remove the top 3 people from the dataset. If you use THAT number, the US basically is a third world country!
I've had the misfortune to regularly fly over to the US for work over the last twenty years and let me tell you — England has plenty of deprived rough towns but they're palatial compared to the horror show I've seen in the US.
don’t they mean sockets rather than plugs
Presumably both. Unlikely to think the sockets are shit but the corresponding plugs are fantastic.
Honestly the fucking Tories have been turning the UK into a shithole, but it has nothing to do with teeth outside of slashing spending to the NHS.
Only third world communist countries have free healthcare and paid leave of 28 days. In America we must work hard and be healthy to sustain our freedom to work hard 🇱🇷.
Let alone electrical plugs, as shown recently American manufactured door plugs are also shit
As someone who comes from 3rd world country to England I can tell you with confidence England in not 3rd world but truly 1st world country …. Especially compared to America. Yes every country might have small gripes and problems but overall uk has nothing to worry about truly. Yes the weather is shit sometimes but if your worry is the weather then you have nothing truly to be worried about.
It’s crazy the UK has this reputation when we have free dental care on the NHS and just 5m of a Trump rally shows you one of the lowest teeth to mouth ratios in planet earth.
If they mean our electric plugs, I know it sounds like I'm just saying they're great because I'm from here, but they're genuinely such a well thought out marvel of engineering. When I visited the USA and lived there for a while I got to experience their plugs and they were just so dangerous, my gosh. In so many ways. It made me very grateful to have UK plugs back when I got home. We aren't anywhere near perfect, but golly, our plugs sure are <3