Visit to the doctors

[Knobhead]

I had cause to visit my doctors yesterday. While in the waiting room I noticed all the sockets had the child covers on. I got talking to the doctor about this in his consulting room and just to prove a point I took one of the covers off a socket at the side of his desk, upended it and shoved it in the earth and then showed him the open L / N shutters. He’s on the phone like a shot to the practice manager to come and have a look at it. Showed them the Fatally Flawed web site and left them to panic!

 

[telectrix]

not so daft after all then, mate. LOL.

 

[Knobhead]

You can remove them just drill with a 2mm HSS bit into the plastic then screw a drywall screw into the hole and pull out the plastic pin, I've had to do this on more than one occasion with mobile phone chargers breaking off there pins. Socket being turned off course

Nice idea but it doesn’t fit in with the fleece the customer ideology of this board.

You sell the customer the new sockets, take to old ones home, do them up and sell them on to the next customer.

 

[ian.settle1]

my pregnant wife has tried to get sisinlaw to remove them but her husband says "jimmy says you need these for the weans jimmys a farmer FFS my broInlaw is a PILLOCK

Would that be the same Jimmy the farmer who has a 6" nail as his overcurrent protection instead of a fuse?

 

[mattmoo1974]

Did you get the Standard finger test?

 

[pennywise]

Nice idea but it doesn’t fit in with the fleece the customer ideology of this board.

You sell the customer the new sockets, take to old ones home, do them up and sell them on to the next customer.

Damn will have to improve lol. Personally would rather be in and out quickly, call out fee and off and not to start pulling plates off not knowing the condition of the wiring behind and a simple job turning into a mare

 

[accordfire]

It seems to me that kids have a one in three chance of actually hitting the earth terminal with something pointy/long enough to open the shutters on an L or N anyway......

Six kids, and never a socket "protector" in the house. They were all full of ruddy gameboy chargers!

Seriously - they're more dangerous than no cover at all. Health visitors should, IMHO, be rounded up as a collective and shot - most of the ones we ever had didn't have a clue anyway, interfering busybodies, most of 'em.

Well, maybe that's a bit harsh, but they do come out with some right stupid junk.

 

[telectrix]

i got pulled up on a review ( my lady does respite care at home ) fo having an extn. lead plugged into another one ( just IT equipment ) and leads behind desk. FFS.

 

[i=p/u]

whats wrong eith them, and if you buying sockets now, what do you ask for? ive always just asked and watever they give me, they give me, we job on monday changing few of them and other we jobs, kids in the house, so what you ask for? Bs what? 1363?

 

[Knobhead]

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[Knobhead]

Health visitors should, IMHO, be rounded up as a collective and shot - most of the ones we ever had didn't have a clue anyway, interfering busybodies, most of 'em.

Well, maybe that's a bit harsh, but they do come out with some right stupid junk.

Well to give you a laugh we had a health worker / child psychologist visit us. He’d been in the house for less than a quarter of an hour before I suggested he leave. The wife was ready to deck him! 5’ 0” of shear hell cat had she started!

How the hell do you take a moron that arrives wearing a woollen coat knitted by his children using their thumbs (Moroccan Touareg style) seriously?

 

[truckster]

It seems to me that kids have a one in three chance of actually hitting the earth terminal with something pointy/long enough to open the shutters on an L or N anyway......

Six kids, and never a socket "protector" in the house.

six kids??? Obviously no protector in the house and you are obviously better at finding the slot

 

[accordfire]

six kids??? Obviously no protector in the house and you are obviously better at finding the slot

Yup.....find a slot in the dark from nine inches away every time .......

 

[truckster]

Yup.....find a slot in the dark from nine inches away every time .......

Wow! a nine inch torch...Maglite? Three battery

 

[Wiredspark]

the nine inches is just to give him a 6 inch run up lol

 

[RogertheBodger]

Just reminded me - having 9 inches isn't always a good thing!


A man wakes up in hospital, bandaged from head to foot.

The doctor comes in and says 'Ah, I see you've regained consciousness.
Now you probably won't remember, but I'm afraid you were in a pile-up on
the motorway.

You're going to be OK, you'll walk again, everything seems to be OK,
but there is a bit of bad news and I'm going to break it to you as
gently as I can. Your ---- was chopped off in the wreck and we were
unable to find it.'

The bloke groans a bit (as you do) but the doctor goes on, 'We've
checked your insurance and you've actually got up to £9,000 compensation
coming to you and the good news is that we have the technology now to
build you a new ---- that will work just as well as your old one,
better in fact.

But the thing is, it doesn't come cheap. It is one thousand pounds an
inch.'

The bloke perks up a bit at this (as you would.) 'So it's a simple
decision,' the doctor says, 'you need to decide how many inches you
want.

But it's something you'd better discuss with your wife. I mean, if you
had a five inch ---- before and you decide to go for a nine inch ----
now, she might be a bit put out. But if you had nine inches before and
you decide only to invest in a five inches now, she might be a bit
disappointed.

So it's important that you consult with her to help you make the
decision.'

So the bloke agrees to talk with his wife. The doctor comes back the
next day.

'So' he says, 'have you spoken with your wife?'

'I have.' says the chap.

'And has she helped you to make the decision?'

'Yes, she has' he says.

'And what is the decision?' asks the doctor.

'We're having a new kitchen.'