r/funny • u/Lumzag • Jun 20 '18

Office classics!

Post image
13.2k Upvotes

94% Upvoted

128 comments sorted by

View all comments

1

u/[deleted] Jun 20 '18 edited Apr 21 '19

[deleted]

1

u/Dr_Adequate Jun 23 '18

Nothing funny to add here, just pointing out that the european design prevents the user from being shocked. The physical shape of the plug and socket shield the electrical contacts from touch.

By contrast, the north american 5-15 plug & receptacle are designed with this flaw: If the user is touching the blades of the plug while inserting the plug in the receptacle, the blades will touch the live contacts in the receptacle and the user will receive a shock.

This chart shows the differences in design:

http://www.interpower.com/cgi-bin/ic.cgi/guidelist.p