American Reacts to British Plugs!

Buckle up as we navigate the fascinating world of British plugs and outlets! In this video, we'll explore the unique design and efficiency that make British electrical systems stand out!

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[ruairidhalexander]

Nobody in the UK has ever thought about 'load balancing' their electrical circuits, it's just not a thing

[TheWanderingStarPlays]

I've seen this video before and this guy is 100% stretching for downsides.
No one cares about the size, load balancing has never been an issue in my experience, checking that something is switched on is a no-brainer and only a chaos goblin who hates their feet would leave a plug lying around prong-side up! 😂

[chunkychops]

The guy complained that British plugs are bigger, but when plugged into the wall, they are much more low profile as they are flat, and the cable goes straight down, so furniture can be pushed right up against the plug socket

[spacefanatic]

I live in the UK and have never experienced load balancing. I do not even think this is a thing. Also you are unlikely to tread on the plug as they are usually left in the socket because you can turn them off as he stated earlier in the video.

[ChloeAndBetty]

There is absolutely NO downside to British electric plug.

[BinnyBongBaron_AoE]

As a Brit that spent 2 years living in America, I never could understand those god awful power plugs. Man, they just fall out, they feel flimsy : (

[G]

We need the type of person/people that designed our plugs to run the country now 🇬🇧

[joecroft]

When I was a kid at school in the UK in the late 80s, they actually taught us how to wire a plug, and all about electrical systems. The idea was that anyone could replace a plug or cable.

[Tass...]

Load balancing is a problem of yesteryear. Unless you live in a place with very old wiring in the UK and in that case it's time to have new electrics fitted anyway. It's not a problem for 90+% of UK homes.

[MrChewy]

Bro was reaching with his reasons they suck. Never heard of overloading in UK. You plug in anything you want, where you want

[Aengus]

It was a long flight from the UK to Vancouver so when I got to my mate's house I put the kettle on... And waited, and waited... It took forever to boil a couple of mugs of water.
Then I remembered, 110V! Dire, absolutely dire!
Edit at 13:40, I'd never heard of load balancing before he said it & I'm a 59 year old Brit. Not once, ever!
And the size isn't a problem because the cable runs down the wall & doesn't protrude into the room like American ones do. For instance, we can push chairs, cupboards, bookshelves ect. up flush to the wall even with an occupied socket there, can you?
And as for standing on them, we rarely unplug them because of the switch. He's thinking of how he has to pull American plugs out to make sure appliances are off. It's not something we do here l.
I think his bad points about our plugs is him trying, and failing, to save face.
As for the ring main system it was introduced after WWII because do many homes were bombed into rubble or damaged that a massive rebuilding was taking place & the ring main uses much less copper, which was scarce, than the American profligate radial system.
Oh! And the fuses in the plugs doesn't mean we don't have a fusebox. We do, on top of the fuses in every plug.
Redundancy!

[chrisellis]

Seen a lot of reactions to this and I never fail to laugh at how hard he reaches to find "flaws". Just making stuff up at that point😂

[auldfouter]

Electric kettles in the UK boil in jig time thanks to the higher voltage ( allowed by all the safety features).

[archiebald]

Never heard of a problem with overloading.

[andyonions]

In the UK, we have radial circuits as well as ring circuits. Lighting is usually radial. Cookers are radial. We also have 'fuse' boxes where the power comes into the house. Every circuit (radial or ring) has a mini circuit breaker (electronic fuse). The whole lot (sometimes groups of circuits) have an RCD (small current trip to stop you killing yourself (even if you stick your finger in the socket). Nowadays, in new installations, usually every circuit has a combined MCB/RCD. It's almost impossible to kill yourself now. EDIT: NOONE load balances in the UK. A radial circuit generally carries less juice than a ring. The MCB is downrated accordingly. We don't umplug stuff so you don't tend to stand on plugs. We sometimes switch things off at plugs, but mostly leave things 'on' but in standby.

[kevingraham]

I am 75 years old and have never stepped on a UK plug. I also do not know of anyone who ever has.

Love your videos JJLA

Kevin

[scifihack]

He really reached for those negatives, 1. Why un-plug when you have a switch. 2 size its part of the design it has grip assists in the sides for people with arthritis. Plus the wire going down, how many type A’s have you wrecked when something (furniture) is banged against it.

[markjones]

I used to be a product designer and quality auditor, I worked with countries across the globe and international standards made my life a lot easier, I could converse with factories in any country in the world and we'd all be singing from the same hymn sheet, except the US, if you even mentioned the term international standards they'd spit in your face, we do things our way, and by their way usually meant the most time consuming and inefficient way possible, which always confused me as when I was training to be an auditor they taught us that the US were actually the original pioneers of a system of international standards anyway, they just decided not to adopt them themselves. I wouldn't be surprised if the real reason you guys never adopted our plugs, was because of sheer bloody mindedness! This is tongue in cheek btw, I'm not knocking the states, it's just I never get why they blindly refuse to acknowledge any system of international standards when every other country in the world does, except for North Korea maybe! 🤣 It's probably because all International Standards use metric measures as standard?!?!

[gotmygoodelf]

we are taught in school how to change a plug and how to service it etc

[angeladormer]

We don't pull our plugs out normally, unless they are temporary use items, then we put them away. I'm over 70 and never in my life have I known anyone stand on a plug. Also because all our sockets have an On/Off switch too. We do not allow sockets in our bathrooms except shaver points and all light switches inside the bathrooms must be string pulls, light switched are on the wall outside the bathroom. We also have fuse boxes in case one of those ring circuits gets tripped. Our inside walls are not just plasterboard either. British houses are strongly built. The older the house, the stronger the house.😊👵🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🌹🌹