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This is a conveniently transparent mains plug in South Africa. It appears to have a similar design to our plugs in the ...
09/13/2025

This is a conveniently transparent mains plug in South Africa. It appears to have a similar design to our plugs in the UK, except for the round pins (which I actually prefer).
Observations are three fold; there is no fuse in the plug, similar to the US system.
Also, this one appears to be wired in an unsafe manor. In the UK (and I assume by design, here too) the idea is that a tug on the cable should pull out the live and neutral BEFORE the earth, and this looks like the live and neutral have been cut too long. The colours are wired correctly, I get that. Stop harping on about the colours lol.
Last but not least - no insulated shielding on the base of the pins. What standard does the manufacturer of this plug abide by? No mention of any standard eg ASTM, ENā€¦, BSā€¦ SABSā€¦
55, 12 hour flight to get here, and genuinely have Africa by Toto as the first track on our South Africa trip play list.

What's the dullest car ever made for the UK market?I put forward the humble Vauxhall Cavalier mk3. Car of the working ma...
09/13/2025

What's the dullest car ever made for the UK market?

I put forward the humble Vauxhall Cavalier mk3. Car of the working man in GL trim. Car of the sales rep doing 120 in the overtaking lane in SRi trim (shown below).

Dull handling (unless in turbo/GSi2000 trim using the Calibra fully independent rear suspension chassis), dull interior, no particular weak spots if you didn't get them wet and easy to live with/service.

Or does the Subara Impreza-like viscous coupled 4wd on some models along with some pretty good tech (like the trip computer on the CDi and others and the full window closure on holding lock etc) make it semi interesting? The infamous red top Opel rally engine?

Growing up in the 60s we had a metal cabinet in the kitchen called a "meat-safe". It was used for storing meat and dairy...
09/13/2025

Growing up in the 60s we had a metal cabinet in the kitchen called a "meat-safe". It was used for storing meat and dairy. We also had a "kitchenette"; that comprised of an all in one folding worktop with cupboards. In the bedroom we had a "tallboy", which was basically a chest of drawers, and on the bed was an "eiderdown" (duvet) sometimes covered with a "counterpane", that was a decorative bedspread.
What words do you rarely hear these days?

Genetics.I was watching a show yesterday where the main character deduced someone's child to be theirs because of preaur...
09/13/2025

Genetics.

I was watching a show yesterday where the main character deduced someone's child to be theirs because of preauricular pits. Apparently less than 0.1% of the populous has them. Although my parents don't have them, my cousin and I both do. There's also a rumor that it might be a mutation for humans to have gills in the future.

I also have this random thick red hair on my eyebrow that'll grow two inches if I don't pull it out every once in a while. My dad has the same obnoxious hair on his eyebrow in the exact same place but now it grows in white.

My mom has black spots on the whites of her eyes and my oldest has the same.

My grandfather had a third set of teeth (not a full set, but some) and now my youngest is going into a specialist because they may have spotted it on his new xrays.

Currently pregnant and wondering what this one will have. Perhaps the red eyebrow hair or maybe an actual set of gills.

I'd like to hear some quirky fun genetics. Mine certainly don't do anything detrimental (maybe the teeth one) but they're just weird.

34, F, 8.5 Bananas were too big to show the pit

Today I took delivery of a dehumidifier unit. It was one recommended by Martin Lewis as a good way to dry washing in the...
09/13/2025

Today I took delivery of a dehumidifier unit. It was one recommended by Martin Lewis as a good way to dry washing in the winter months. It has a laundry setting in fact and much less energy thirsty than a tumble drier. I was very excited and did two large loads of washing to put it to the test. I put it all in my wc, small room as it makes sense as would draw out the moisture more efficiently in a smaller space. I set the dehumidifier going. Iwas a mixed load, a variety of fabrics and thicknrsses, from pants to towels. 4 hours. All dry.
52, 5ft 4, excited by clean laundry

After recently moving to the UK from India, I realised how much the world is missing Bananas. The UK supermarkets basica...
09/13/2025

After recently moving to the UK from India, I realised how much the world is missing Bananas. The UK supermarkets basically have 'a' banana, which is tasteless and has only purpose, thicken your smoothie..
World is missing on so many varieties.. Sweet ones, soft ones, hard ones, seeded ones...
And don't get me started on the cooking bit of it. Plantain Chips/crisps, stir fries, and the list goes on it.
And we use the leaf as disposable plates, as cling film, and as tin foil. And you can cook the stem and the flower of a banana plant..
Adding lot of bananas for scale.
35M, recently moved, extremely nostalgic.

Every now and then I come across a certain road marking (UK). Whilst Iā€™m pretty sure I should know this as Iā€™ve been dri...
09/13/2025

Every now and then I come across a certain road marking (UK). Whilst Iā€™m pretty sure I should know this as Iā€™ve been driving for close to 15 years, I really donā€™t know the ā€˜rulesā€™ of it. Are you allowed to overtake because it isnā€™t a solid white line? Or do the hatches mean you shouldnā€™t enter it?
ā€˜Fun factā€™, I tweeted South Yorkshire police about this and they couldnā€™t give me an answer. This was at least 2 years ago so itā€™s been bugging me since then.
Picture for explanation, taken from google street view. A57 Sheffield towards Beighton.
33, acts and feels like Iā€™m 25. Works in IT. VERY dull. Size 6 in heels, 7 in trainers.

09/13/2025

Another question for our American chums.
When speaking on the phone to someone do you often hang up without saying some form of goodbye, or is that just tv and film land?
It infuriates me in films and tv that someone doesnā€™t say a bye, toodlepip, adios, laterz, tata, seeya, tara or any other form of conversation ender when putting the phone down, snapping the case shut or tapping the screen.
I often find myself saying to the tv screen ā€œoh, ok then, see ya later you rude gitā€ in lieu of this basic human courtesy.
I donā€™t care how dramatic the situation or your status, a polite thanks and byeeeee should be the minimum so that the other person is in no doubt things have finished as opposed to wondering sheepishly if theyā€™re stood there like a lemonā€¦.
Byeeeee.

I have terrible news to share Banana milkshake for scale
09/13/2025

I have terrible news to share
Banana milkshake for scale

Hello fellow dullites, this is my first post so I thought something appropriate will get you going on a Saturday night. ...
09/13/2025

Hello fellow dullites, this is my first post so I thought something appropriate will get you going on a Saturday night. Here is a picture of a fence from my boys local school, I took this on my way to collect them the other day. It really bothers me and my CDO intensly, for obvious reasons, I think, it is not straight and doesn't line up with the other fence panels. Anything not straight such as a wall, shelf or picture etc.. drives me bon bons. Does this bother you too? Male 47, almost 48, size 12 UK.

For reasons totally unknown I stumbled across this incredibly dull Rover 75 today and bought it. It has only covered 482...
09/13/2025

For reasons totally unknown I stumbled across this incredibly dull Rover 75 today and bought it. It has only covered 48235 miles which equates to 2009 miles per year.
The previous owner must have been as dull as can be as he kept a record of every time he fuelled it - date, miles, amount and cost in a little red book.
He also kept every single receipt for everything purchased/spent on it.
I have no need of a different car and no idea what Iā€™ll do with it.
40, size 10, slightly over weight, grey and hair thinning.

Just a little something for the weekend. This is the gear train to drive the sleeve valves on a 14 cylinder Bristol Herc...
09/13/2025

Just a little something for the weekend. This is the gear train to drive the sleeve valves on a 14 cylinder Bristol Hercules aero engine. Enjoy.

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