"Invisible" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message 
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> It's amazing what you can find out on teh interwebs...
>
> For example, that plug you use to plug normal equipment into the 
> electricity grid. Apparently there's a name for it. It's called "BS 1363". 
> (Memorable, eh?)

We use both of these:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:M_plug.jpg,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:C_plug.jpg

It's irritating, as the two require different sockets and so people tend to 
have a number of convertors lying around to allow the 2-pins to be used. All 
the wall sockets are for the 3-pin only.

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