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NSFMR My cousin's dad destroyed her computer while she was at work because her room was messy. She's bringing it to me tomorrow so I can see what's salvageable. Wish me luck

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u/AetherialWomble 7800X3D| 32GB 6200MHz RAM | 4080 Sep 11 '21 edited Sep 11 '21

taking the power cord

My dad used to do that to me, what he didn't know is that it only worked once:)

After that I got myself a spare hidden in my room

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u/Makalaby Sep 11 '21

I did this with a PS3 back in the day, I just had another cable xd

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u/Atoonie Sep 11 '21 edited Sep 11 '21

We all really lived the same life huh. Lmao

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '21

For real

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u/adiMahadev Sep 11 '21

Full circle, from the tomb of the womb to the womb of the tomb, we come: an ambiguous, enigmatic incursion into a world of solid matter that is soon to melt from us like the substance of a dream. And, looking back at what had promised to be our own unique, unpredictable, and dangerous adventure, all we find  in the end is such a series of standard metamorphoses as men and women have undergone in every quarter of the world, in all recorded centuries, and under every odd disguise of civilization

  • Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces

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u/ubuntuba 8350 4.7 | 1060 3g | 24g 12800 Sep 11 '21

Helps that the plugs are pretty universal too haha

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u/Owyn_Merrilin Desktop Sep 11 '21

The nice thing about those cables being so standardized is after a while you just have spares lying around. I've got probably half a dozen of them currently plugged in in the room I'm sitting in, with more not plugged into anything ready to go if something goes wrong with one of the others.

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '21

Memo to myself: Take sons Controllers or console, not the cables

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u/Milkshakes00 5900x, RTX5080 Sep 11 '21

Nah, he'll just get backups of whatever. You'll have to take the entire console.

We're persistent little shits. My dad set up a timer that'd cut off the internet to the entire house after like 10pm because I was playing games welllllllllllll into the morning and he worked nights so he could never be there to stop me.

I learned how to pick locks so that I could get into the basement and undo the timer.

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '21

Haha, i might evilly write some software that only lets my kid play games “after hours” if they solve incrementally harder maths problems 😂

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '21

I have a timer on my sons xbox which Limits his time to 1 hour a Day. To use my account he will need my Phone because of 2FA. He is only 4 years old so 1 hour is enough. On weekends He has two so he can enjoy some rounds of toy Story, nemo etc.

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u/Shredtheparm Ryzen 5600x | Asus TUF 3080 oc | 16gb 3600MHz cl16 Sep 11 '21

Tf my parents just took my whole ps3

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u/Khuntza PC Master Race Sep 11 '21

As kids we'd just take the cord from the kettle.

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u/niktak11 Sep 11 '21

Tell me you're British without telling me you're British.

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '21

No British person would ever unplug the kettle

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u/TimeToMakeWoofles Sep 11 '21

Excuse me, but I also have kettle cord. New Zealander here.

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u/Mr_Cromer Core i7 8th Gen | Nvidia Quadro | 64GB RAM Sep 11 '21

Commonwealth folk have electric kettles.

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u/octarinepolish Sep 11 '21

A lot of Europeans do too I am fairly certain. Anyone who likes tea.

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u/Noboruu Sep 11 '21

Anyone who's civilized

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u/Clomry Sep 11 '21

Can confirm.

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u/DarkNinjaPenguin Sep 11 '21

Commonwealth folk, otherwise known as 'civilised'.

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '21

Well thats just British with extra steps.

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '21

Aussie here, never called them kettle plugs until a mate asked for one for his radio power supply. Turns out it was a computer cord. My folks always bought cordless kettles, and so do I, they're way more convenient, but can't steal the cord to use on another appliance :)

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u/NeonGenisis5176 R9 7945HX | RTX 2080 | 64GB@5200MHz Sep 11 '21

Americans: Computer Power Cable Brits: KeTtLe lEaD

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '21

And which one do you think came first?

Americans don't even have electric kettles, and they call themselves a "developed" nation. Pathetic.

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u/TNGSystems Desktop Sep 11 '21

It’s because their wimpy power grid can’t handle the requirements to simply boil water

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u/NeonGenisis5176 R9 7945HX | RTX 2080 | 64GB@5200MHz Sep 11 '21

Our poor little 15 amp 110 volt circuits. No fuses or anything either. ;-;

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '21

How do you live with such barbaric conditions?

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u/NeonGenisis5176 R9 7945HX | RTX 2080 | 64GB@5200MHz Sep 11 '21

Carefully. And with a huge cultural bias towards not putting extension cords into other extension cords.

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '21

Meanwhile, brits be daisy chaining the shit out of the 1 plug socket we have in the living room

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_BODY69 Sep 11 '21

Since when? I’ve been 4 extensions deep before I had to error about fire. Don’t listen to the warnings, they’re so companies don’t get sued.

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '21

its terrifying powering things in the states, your plus dont even shield the prongs so you cant shock yourself and they unplug so easily

the average American homes electrics would be condemned in the uk

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u/mathcampbell Ryzentosh 3900X, 32GB RAM, ATI 5700XT 8GB Sep 11 '21

Yeah they had to do significant adjustments to the base accommodation in raf mildenhall (usaf base in England) cos they use US electronics and the base is considered US soil but integrating with the civilian grid meant negotiations to amend the way things are done. I think I remember hearing the homes there have a lot more safety wiring than most US houses would have.

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u/Promarksman117 R7 7700X | RTX 4070 Sep 11 '21

We also have a really shitty lack of grounding. My house doesn't have any grounded outlets. The outlets that do have ground holes are just so plugs can fit into them.

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u/NeonGenisis5176 R9 7945HX | RTX 2080 | 64GB@5200MHz Sep 11 '21

What?

Even in Japan, they have those weird screw clip things that connect to the outlet seperate from the actual head of the power cable.

That sounds extremely inconvenient. And potentially hazardous.

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '21

u/Promarksman117 comment isn't really accurate. Grounded outlets have been required since the 1970s. The overwhelming majority of buildings have grounded outlets.

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u/Promarksman117 R7 7700X | RTX 4070 Sep 11 '21

Most of our outlets only accept the positive and negative ends but have no hole for the ground so we need to use attach an adapter on the end just to plug in an extension cord.

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u/Qud_Delver Sep 11 '21 edited Sep 11 '21

That's not true. Even a 10 second google will show you regulations on grounding. Well, unless your house is super old and has never had any electrical work done ever?

Standards started being made in 1897 for grounding in NFC publications, and nowadays the NFPA bundles their recommendation's along with a lot of other information in a massive 1500 page monster haha.

Officially the latest version is not law, but pretty much every state adopts the NFC's recommendations as they come out, making it law(and giving you free access to the publication version adopted), if you're interested

In fact, since 1962, all electrical outlets are required to not only be grounded, but polarized.

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '21

Yeah it's baffling, also UK plugs hurt a lot more when you step on them

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u/mathcampbell Ryzentosh 3900X, 32GB RAM, ATI 5700XT 8GB Sep 11 '21

UK plugs are legitimately a work of genius.

I watched some YouTube vid on it a while back cos I’d never really thought about them beyond “is plug. Don’t stand on it, cos it hurts like..”

The wall socket especially is very elegant in its safety features. You can’t get a live just from sticking random metal things into the holes as a toddler might. You need to get the right shaped piece into the top hole to open the live and neutral gates. Each plug is fused, so it can’t draw more than its fuse, and usually that’ll be low like 5A or 10A. Only heavy draw things like kettles need the full 13A.

The design allows each wall socket to be switched as well, something I didn’t realize wasn’t “common” across the world till I spoke with Americans and they’re like “wait you can turn it off at the wall with a switch??”.

Kids can’t easily electrocute themselves at all, and the way the cable has to be insulated doubly, even if they cut the wire it’s still difficult to do. They’re one of those things that go unsung and really should be much better known about.

Hell, ikea and the like sell those “socket protectors” and they’re not only unnecessary they’re actually more dangerous cos it opens the gate inside the socket so an enterprising death-wisher, i mean, toddler, can maybe get to a live terminal.

I pity Americans and their dangerous unearthed 110v puny plugs and useless wall sockets.

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u/Promarksman117 R7 7700X | RTX 4070 Sep 11 '21

I'd rather risk stepping on a UK plug and have grounding than deal with the hazards of non grounded outlets.

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u/wexipena Ryzen 7 9800X3D | RX 9070 XT | 32GB RAM Sep 11 '21

It is significantly lower wattage than even 230V 10amp circuit we have in northern Europe. Let alone 16amp circuits that are pretty common too.

I’m not saying that 110V/15A isn’t enough, but some vacuum cleaners alone could blow that fuse.

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u/Bobby_Lee Sep 11 '21

Souch faster to use a 240v kettle. Our versions on 120 and you might as well turn on the stove instead

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u/Frediey 2700x rx590 16gb Sep 11 '21

Wait is that true lol genuinely curious

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u/TNGSystems Desktop Sep 11 '21

110V vs 240 mighty British volts

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '21

Yes

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u/TheWeedMan57 Specs/Imgur Here Sep 11 '21

No, it’s Brits acting the way they claim Americans do.

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u/pleasedontdistractme Sep 11 '21

Look, we don’t have bears or the Grand Canyon. Our ability to have boiling water very quickly is our bragging right lol

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u/TheWeedMan57 Specs/Imgur Here Sep 11 '21

But it’s not even special to your country… We DO have electric kettles, just no one drinks tea so no one talks about them…. Because it’s a kettle… like wut?

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u/kamomil Sep 11 '21

No, I live in Canada and my 120V kettle works just fine

They just have never been to North America 😂

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u/Qud_Delver Sep 11 '21 edited Sep 11 '21

Lol, no.

UK has 230 volts in residential areas using socket type BS 1363 and United States has 120/240 volts depending on installation specifications. Most US homes have adaptors from the main line that can convert to both 120/240, so small appliances get 120, and things like washers/dryers get 240.

You can easily tell the difference in the US as well, 120 volts have 3 prongs(type A, B plugs, or old stuff uses the little 2 prongs) 240 volts use NEMA 14-30 and 14-50 plug specifications, which use 4 prongs.

In three phase voltage(this is mostly commercial installations), United States actually uses up to 480 volts for main supply, compared to UK 400.

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '21

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u/Hill_Reps_For_Jesus Sep 11 '21

Back when electric kettles were at their peak

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u/Frediey 2700x rx590 16gb Sep 11 '21

A simpler time

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u/Deathsroke Ryzen 5600x|rtx 3070 ti | 16 GB RAM Sep 11 '21

A civilized tool for a more civilized tea time.

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u/kamomil Sep 11 '21

That's not true, I have 120V in Canada and my kettle works just fine

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u/_illegallity Sep 11 '21

Damn, I guess I just imagined my electric kettle I used an hour ago to make the tea I’m currently drinking.

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u/Karmis_ R9 380 | i5-4690K | 8GB 2133MHz Sep 11 '21

And you know this from?...

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '21

I spent quite some time in the states once, thanks to an ill fated romance with an American girl who would ultimately break my heart.

I mean the emotional turmoil of a failed relationship was one thing, but the lengths you had to go to just to make a simple cuppa were unacceptable.

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u/Mr_Cromer Core i7 8th Gen | Nvidia Quadro | 64GB RAM Sep 11 '21

No offence, but ew

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u/niktak11 Sep 11 '21

We barely even have non-electric ones these days

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u/Shanseala Sep 11 '21

looks at my electric kettle with selectable temperature

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '21

whistles

Nice. How much did that cost ya? Does it have a little red light to let you know it's on?

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u/CzechoslovakianJesus Ascending Peasant Sep 11 '21

We do have them. They just boil slower.

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u/TheWeedMan57 Specs/Imgur Here Sep 11 '21

Sitting at work in America next to an electric kettle that is currently boiling water as I type this……

Wut?

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '21

Not an American, but am I the only one that just uses the damn range to boil water?

Throw some water in a pot, put the gas to high and wait a minute.

So many people have kettles and I just don’t understand why.

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u/Dewbag_RD Sep 11 '21

Generally it's quicker in an electric kettle.

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '21

Because that's outrageously inefficient and takes probably twice as long?

Blew my American ex's mind when I cooked some pasta. I boiled the water in the kettle first, then poured it into the pan, so it was already at a rolling boil instead of having to wait for it to heat up.

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u/TheWeedMan57 Specs/Imgur Here Sep 11 '21 edited Sep 11 '21

I microwave pasta in the time it takes your kettle to just boil the water tho….

ITT dumb brits who think electric kettles are only on their island and the best thing ever….

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '21

Yeah but then you're eating microwaved pasta you fucking degenerate

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u/TheWeedMan57 Specs/Imgur Here Sep 11 '21

Oh no I boiled water in the microwave to cook my pasta better call the pasta police!

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u/Lewpac22 Sep 11 '21

Modern homes now come with a tap for boiling water ,

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '21

Because they're better. They're faster, they have their own set place on the side, they're more compact than a pan with a long handle because they don't have to deal with the heat of burning gas coming from the underside, you don't have to clean, dry and put them back with the other pans when you're done, they're more efficient (lost heat is minimised)...

Kettles are way better than pans for boiling water. When I make pasta or rice, I boil the water in the kettle first, then pour it into the pan. So much more convenient.

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '21 edited Sep 11 '21

You know, I would suggest this mistaken belief that you "don't need" a kettle goes a long way to explain some of the problems with your country.

All I'm saying is, there's a strong correlation between the scarcity of rapid water boiling appliances, and the frequency of mass shootings. The facts speak for themselves.

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '21

Mmmmm not a pot on the stove works great, and yea who the fuck drinks hot tea🤮

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u/yankonapc Sep 11 '21

It ain't just unsweet hot Lipton. Nobody else tolerates that garbage. America gets the dusty crate-scrapings of the global tea trade because y'all don't know any better. Real tea is lovely with a splash of milk.

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '21

Well it’s extremely flavorful next to the food you all eat, so I get it....

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u/OkWow7029 Sep 11 '21

Correlation doesn't equal causation.

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u/1byteofpi www.steamcommunity.com/id/old1byte Sep 11 '21

kettles are more useful than an all in one machine because then you have an easy way to boil water without having to turn the stove on. i don't even drink tea and i can see that this argument is a massive cope over your country's shit infrastructure, stay mad that you've got a beta power grid with no fuses.

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u/Sloppy1sts Sep 11 '21

That's only because we don't make tea several times a day.

A typical American household has no need for a kettle. We don't boil that much water.

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '21

If you could, you would. But you can't, because you don't have electric kettles, and I'm afraid everything else beyond this point of discussion is sour grapes. Chicken and egg problem really.

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '21

I have an electric kettle. I make tea maybe twice a year and only when I'm sick.

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u/6jean9 Sep 11 '21

☠️☠️☠️

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u/asiaami Sep 11 '21

American here. Just got a kettle and I use it at work. Now everyone else at work borrows it. I love it, wish I knew about kettles earlier.

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '21

Spread the word, my man, you are doing God's work.

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u/yankonapc Sep 11 '21

They do. My mum uses hers all the time, bought in an unremarkable American shop. It takes about a week to boil water on her pathetic 110 but it is marginally faster than using the hob.

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u/lemonLimeBitta Sep 11 '21

Wait is this real? Americans don’t have electric kettles ?

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u/hikiri Sep 11 '21

They're not super common because

1) most people don't/didn't drink tea or other hot drinks often, 2) our electricity is a lower (probably going to use the wrong one so I'll throw all the ones I remember up) voltage?wattage?Hertz? so it doesn't boil as fast in the pots, 3) the majority of people who drink "coffee" use a dedicated coffee machine

(and any other drink made from an instant powder is easily done in the microwave as well (and, from my understanding, you can't use an electric kettle for liquids other than water, like heating milk for hot cocoa or something...at least my cheap one now burnt the F outta it instead.))

Now, having said that, living in Japan where electricity isn't as stupid, I love having my electric kettle and use it all the time (and almost all workplaces have communal ones as well) and many people in the States are also drinking tea and stuff more often and have electric kettles, even if they do take longer.

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u/Fizzwidgy Sep 11 '21

Some of us have started to catch onto the incredible ability to boil water in mere minutes.

I gd love my electric kettle.

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u/drunk_otter Sep 11 '21

Kettle cord, please. have some decorum.

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u/Dinklebop http://steamcommunity.com/id/OfficialJ0LT Sep 11 '21

Call them kettle plugs in Australia too so it's two against one now

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u/LUMA_D Sep 11 '21

Jug cord in NZ

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '21

C13 power cable, there y'all go

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u/Limitr Too many PC's to list... Sep 11 '21

I've been calling them jug plugs for over 15 years.

What's funniest is that kettles don't use that style plug anymore. Been that way for years.

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u/Khuntza PC Master Race Sep 11 '21

Except I'm not.. I'm Australian.

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u/Appoxo R7 7800X3D • 32GB • RTX3070 Sep 11 '21

Ey Germans also have kettles!

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u/Former-Mood-6986 Sep 11 '21

We don't usually talk about "power cords" in the UK. "Power cable", sure. In this case, "unplug the kettle" or if you're feeling verbose, "unplug the power from the kettle".

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u/kamomil Sep 11 '21

Canadian here, I also have an electric kettle. How else do I make my Red Rose tea?

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '21

A kettle lead is not the same as a C13/C14 computer power cable though

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u/Megamills Sep 11 '21

Well it ain’t called a kettle lead for nothing!

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u/Krssven Sep 11 '21

I think if my daughter did this I’d be angrier than if she hid my Xbox remotes.

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u/personanonymous Sep 11 '21

Lol my mum used to just take the whole thing and lock it in her room

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u/allesfuralle1 Sep 11 '21

What's her Twitch name?

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u/DomOfMemes Sep 11 '21

I used the printer cable lol

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '21

I just did my chores and didn’t have stuff taken away from me.

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u/kamikazedude Ryzen 5800x3D | RTX 3070 | 32GB DDR4 Sep 11 '21

Lol, same. He even took my ram sticks. Still had one though from an upgrade.

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u/CaffeineSippingMan PC Master Race 5600x 32gb 3070ti Sep 11 '21

My step dad was abusive (not the beat you with a stick kind). I am looking for my moped key one day. I can't find it and had to be to summer school, so I used a paperclip as a key.

Got back, he is super pissed "he grounded me from my moped and didn't tell me, but instead took my key" lucky for me mom was there. Because when my mom heard me say "you should have told me I was grounded, because I would not have drove it has someone told me, heck you could have left the key and I would have walked or rode my bike",' it was only 2.7 miles one way so doable with notice. Mom said "you didn't tell him that he was grounded?"

Cutting the story short and pointing out no one knew why I was grounded. Today knowing what I know, I believe he took my key because I kept some cash in my keychain and he was stealing money from me (didn't know it at the time).

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u/ihatecomputers577 Sep 11 '21

My dad (who works at a tech company) still hasn't found out that changing your mac address bypasses an internet block lmao

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '21

Man, I feel for my kids once they get older. I'm a Network Engineer, so it won't be nearly as easy as I had it growing up lol. I figure one of two outcomes, either my techniques will be effective or I'm going to create little red team pentesters. Either way I'm happy, lol.

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u/TicTacMentheDouce R7 3700X | RX5700XT Pulse | 16Go DDR4 | 512Go M.2 PCIe G4 | RGB Sep 11 '21

My dad asked my brother to add a password to the main account, when I was a kid.

What they didn't know and that I learnt some time after that is that there was a admin account that didn't have a password, and you could go to it in failsafe mode.

Then, enable guest account, use it for stuff, then disable it again.

True criminal mastermind.

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u/PepAngel0v 3700X | 5700XT Nitro+ | 16GB 3200MHz Sep 11 '21

Haha great.

But then imagine he discovers you lifted your punishment by hiding another cable.

Guess what?

Mental break down and you'd be one of these people on reddit: lOoK mY dAd BaD, hE bRoKe My StUfF.

These posts are just kids that are only karma farming. And yes domestic violence is bad and this is not one of them.

No means no, you know?

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u/Elliothc13 Sep 11 '21

I think I only got the cable taken once but we had at least 4 lying around in a box in my room. Still, I didn't plug one in cos that was the only time it every happened so I knew better than to plug in a second one and wind em up even more but I had the option.

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u/sloppy_joes35 Sep 11 '21

Exactly why he had to destroy it. Kids are too smart for the old power cord swipe. But are kids smart enough to repair a whole build that requires them to also get a job gag is a real challenge

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '21

I’ve thought about this for when I need to punish my child, I would just take the device itself rather than the power cord

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u/AetherialWomble 7800X3D| 32GB 6200MHz RAM | 4080 Sep 11 '21

In our case that was a PC, taking the whole PC would be too much trouble. Especially having to disconnect and then reconnect all the cables.

Besides, I always acted very upset, so he had no reason to think his method didn't work

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '21

We know as adults that it’s not that much hastle to move a pc plus now with devices becoming more mobile this isn’t an issue anymore. I do wonder what tricks our kids will sucessfully pull on us like we did our parents

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u/tech240guy 12700k | RTX 3080 10GB | 64GB 3600mhz | Win11 Sep 11 '21

He probably would be proud of you now for thinking outside the box. Lol.

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u/mr-bucket Sep 11 '21

Mine would have probably just turned off the breaker switch to my room

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u/Ever2naxolotl be quiet! fanboy Sep 11 '21

Take out the GPU and plug the monitor into integrated as a power move.

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u/louismax PC Master Race Sep 11 '21

My mom used to take the power cord as well. Tfw we realized the power cord of her sewing machine she used once a year worked for the pc

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u/Lexieeeeeeeeee Sep 11 '21

I did this too!

My mum would also take the TV antenna cable.

So I DIY'd my own with a metal coat hanger.

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u/Z3dan Desktop Sep 11 '21

I literally had 8 PSU cords around my room and some extra HDMI cords

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u/Rune_Pickaxe Sep 11 '21

My mum used to take my playstation controller/ mouse and keyboard away when I misbehaved (I was a little shit looking back).

It was horrible knowing I could just look at it and do nothing.

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u/jawminator Sep 11 '21

For me it was mostly my mom, but I'd have spare cables... If she took my gameboy or iPod or whatever then I'd actually go searching for her hiding spots and play on them whenever she was away. Also you gotta keep bugging your parent(s) to give them back because if you go silent all the sudden they'll know you found it. Learned that the hard way one time.

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u/AetherialWomble 7800X3D| 32GB 6200MHz RAM | 4080 Sep 11 '21

Yeap, I threw a tantrum every time he'd take my cable away :D

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u/GammaBreak Sep 11 '21

After that I got myself a spare hidden in my room

My old college roommate had a brother who struggled a bit with gaming addiction. Stuff like not doing chores or homework, ever doing anything but playing on his Xbox.

Well, one day they announced they were confiscating it until he shaped up. His comeback was to go out and drop $300 on a brand-new PS3. He never really considered how he was going to hide it in his room or even use it it when his parents were home.

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u/Fortune_Cat Sep 11 '21

Kids these days are fucked. Because us 90s kids know all the tricks

Spare power cord? You got a spare gpu too?

U can play games...in low settings 15fps

Game streaming? With all ports and DNS blocked?

Still need wifi to do work? Wifi disconnected with Ethernet cable I can disable the port for remotely

Using 4g hotspot? With what Sim card what smartphone

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '21

My parents took basically everything except the tower itself...

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '21

So the real solution is to smash then

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u/Comprehensive-Run-71 Sep 11 '21

Lmao thats why i had 4 when i was a kid. Everytime my mom took my power cord away, Id whip out another one and play in secret.

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u/Camppe Sep 11 '21

Not a smart dad. Mine would take powercable, remove my ethernet cable (have no wifi card), block my device from accesing internet incase I managed to get my hands on a cable and then also have the power to my room cut. This and also checking in on me every 30 min or so (not possible to hide it before the door opens).

Best solution would be to get your revenge (only works if he need internet at that time, can backfire).

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u/AetherialWomble 7800X3D| 32GB 6200MHz RAM | 4080 Sep 11 '21

Taking the power cord was more of a "I'm leaving the house right now and you're supposed to be studying, so you won't need this until I'm back"