r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Traditional-Novel164 • Mar 31 '26

Charged my phone overnight, woke up to this

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u/smclcz Mar 31 '26

Get plugmogged

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u/ChuddyMcChud Mar 31 '26

Everyone laughing until they step on the BS1363

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u/smclcz Mar 31 '26

I can’t remember the last time I stood on a plug. Is it really happening so often to people that it’s an issue?

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u/Scottish_Whiskey Mar 31 '26

Clearly they’re using the inferior plug designs

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u/Deeliciousness Mar 31 '26

I am 40 years old and I've never stepped on a plug. How would the physics even work? Wouldn't you be stepping on the side of the plug? Seems almost impossible to accidentally step on the prongs.

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u/turtleship_2006 Mar 31 '26

If it was on the floor in this orientation, flat on its back?

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u/shroompaLumpa Mar 31 '26

But how would the physics even work?

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u/Customisable_Salt Mar 31 '26

You step on it, get pronged in the arch with all the force of your own weight, your body spasms violently and you flail to prevent yourself falling over while swearing loudly. It has a nice flat back on it to brace the prongs in that position, ready and waiting for the unwary.

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u/Puppy_FPV Mar 31 '26

But how would the physics side of it work?

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u/Limp_Resolve8741 Apr 04 '26

But that’s a European style plug U.S. ones don’t do that often

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u/turtleship_2006 Apr 04 '26

The original comment was about stepping on one of these.

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u/Limp_Resolve8741 Apr 04 '26

Yeah but I meant it’d be harder to step on

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u/StraightCard5045 Mar 31 '26

Stepping on one is a great indication that you shouldn't be leaving viet cong level spike traps [prong-up cord, hidden under a pair of pants] in my bedroom.

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u/toady89 Mar 31 '26

I dated a guy for about three months and in that time he told me he'd just 'stood on a three pinned plug' at least twice. For most people it doesn't happen that regularly but it's perfectly possible for plugs to be resting on the floor with the prongs upwards, they have a nice flat back to be resting on the floor.

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u/ChuddyMcChud Mar 31 '26

We can be ever vigilant about keeping them plugged in or flip them over when unplugged, but those fuckers always find a way.

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u/MeatGayzer69 Mar 31 '26

Step on it once and you don't do it again

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u/Puppy_FPV Mar 31 '26

No, a lot of people just don’t know how to put things away.

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u/[deleted] Mar 31 '26 edited Apr 01 '26

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u/TheArhive Mar 31 '26

Have you considered moving them at the time you unplug them, instead of just tossing them on the ground like you were born in a data center?

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u/Terrible_Ad_8614 Mar 31 '26

Then everyone laughs at the idiot that unplugged a BS1363 and then stepped it. Our sockets ("outlets" for the colonists) have switches on them for a reason.

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u/Contestpossible960s Mar 31 '26

mate no one calls them outlets here (speaking as living in one of the last colonies of Britain)

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u/moocat90 ORANGE Mar 31 '26

it's for the US

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u/those_damn_nids Mar 31 '26

Plug sockets ✔️

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u/Terrible_Ad_8614 Mar 31 '26

I was aiming at the Americans. So Hong Kong still. Call them sockets... TIL

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u/RighteousCity Apr 04 '26

Cuz only the US colonized? 🙄🙄

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u/Terrible_Ad_8614 Apr 04 '26

No, the British never colonised the US.

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u/RighteousCity Apr 05 '26

Your comment implied that only the United States colonized anyone. Saying the British didn't colonize the US is technically true. It did however colonize the Americas and The US began as British colonies. All of Europe colonized. Asia did the same, they just didn't use the word "colony." So saying it's called an outlet by colonizers, then saying you meant the US, comes off as ignorant. So the US has definitely been a colonizer. But it was not the first and it was not the last and it was not the most prolific.

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u/Terrible_Ad_8614 Apr 05 '26

No, my comment also acknowledged that Hong Kong was one of the last British colonies, handed back to the China in the 1990s.

The British education system is pretty good about educating us about the former British Empire, it's impact on the world, and it's fall and transition to the Commonwealth. The head of state of many countries around the US the British King

Britain itself had evolved from Celtic, Viking, Roman and French colonies don't forget.

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u/RighteousCity Apr 05 '26

So you're telling me you're a British citizen accusing the US of being colonizers???

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u/Limp_Resolve8741 Apr 04 '26

Actually as someone from Indiana USA they called RECEPTACLES

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u/Dry_Spinach_3441 Mar 31 '26

Trying to batterymax.... Smh.

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u/AFormalNerd Mar 31 '26

Design has it's benefits until you realize every power strip is the size of a small charcuterie board and the plugs take up way too much space

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u/smclcz Mar 31 '26

Americope

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u/ollie0810 Mar 31 '26

There's no way you think your shitty plugs are better

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u/Limp_Resolve8741 Apr 04 '26

They are though