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Originally posted by Keith Webb
Yes, it's that thing Alex mentioned starting with 'V' and ending on an Aussie's toast.
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Or M and ends on an Englishman's toast.
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As for our voltage - of course ours is superior - ask any Englishman - 240v 50Hz, not the insipid 110/60 some countries have
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Absolutely, let's have some mains grunt, all 3kW a socket of it. 175 countries use real 240v mains, 39 wimps have the namby-pamby 110v; and some 53 countries use the robust, fused, British 13A mains plug.
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- even our TV is better with many more lines of resolution,
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And in 2008 we get 16:9, 1080p HD digital TV everywhere to say nothing of the advert free BBC1, 2, 3 and 4.
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and although I hate to have to remind you types again, if CMPs are right-hand drive then isn't that the way things were meant to be? Hmmmm?
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Quite so, and your sword hand is free to ward off footpads and blackguards from the opposite direction.
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Then I could go in with how long it takes to boil a kettle, how much less copper we need to use in our power cables, the list could go on and on.
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Using my 3kW kettle, just 80 secs for 0.5L from stone cold out of the 6ft deep mains water pipe.
Can't be doing with advance notice for tea and a severe case of Ghandi's flip-flop.
R.