peter green wrote:

>> True. And you sure know that, to get rid of those nasty UK/Ireland
>>  sockets :-) you just have to put a small piece of metal or plastic
>> into the vertical slit, having it open the other 2 plugs, and then
>> drop in the standard European Plug...
> 
> I would strongly reccomend against this, we brits use relatively high
> current socket cuircuits as the norm. This is especially important in
> older buildings which may well have the socket cuircuits protected by
> a rewirable fuse (which is particularlly slow to blow) and no RCD
> protection

Of course I know! :-)
Just an emergency measure/trick when you get into the hotel at late 
night, and don't have an adapter with you.

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