xkcd #3186: Truly Universal Outlet
Title text:
Building Inspectors HATE This One Weird Trick
Transcript:
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3186/
xkcd #3186: Truly Universal Outlet
Title text:
Building Inspectors HATE This One Weird Trick
Transcript:
Transcript will show once it’s been added to explainxkcd.com
Source: https://xkcd.com/3186/
I’m not sure I fully get the joke, considering the literal existence of outlets like this. Did Randall not know they exist?
Randall isn’t suggesting a universal wall plug, he’s suggesting you cut holes in your existing plates to make them “compatible”. (At least that’s how it reads to me)
Typical wall outlet in china. Any plug will hang loosely in there and work. Dangerously
Only if the socket is worn out and you are using a plug without inherent safety mechanisms.
Plenty don’t fit that. Type i for instance.
Can’t speak for all of them, but type I does fit
I’m guessing seeing one of these was the starting point for this cartoon.
Also wouldn’t surprise me if he threw in 1-2 types that don’t exist.
These were all over Vietnam when I travelled there. Didn’t even need an adapter.
silly Caspase8 Vietnam doesn’t exist you were in Finland