I’ve lived in Britain my entire life and I don’t think I have lived in a house that didn’t have a central breaker/fuse box. Maybe some older houses don’t have them, my parent’s house is inter-war and that’s the oldest house I have lived in.
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No the fuses stayed in the fuse box with a number of ring circuits, and each plug was also fused to protect the device (the fuses in the fuse box will largely have been replaced with trip-switches).
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The genius of the British plug is that in times of war you can strew them across battlefields to cripple advancing infantry.
LEGO blocks are the Danish equivalent.
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I still don’t know what either of you are talking about
Those %^&%$# coffee pods. Trash the environment while habituating folk to inferior coffee.
Even the inventor of the Keurig machine regrets having done so.
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The damn genie won’t go back in the bottle!
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“Good British plugs” - now you’re talking!
(I’m still a bit disappointed about how Cenelec’s attempts to create the Grand Unified Pan European Plug never went anywhere.)
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One of the kind with a hinge that clamps on to the can and a crank to turn it. If you google “Can opener clamshell packaging” you’ll see what kind I mean
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I’d say “plastic” in general as an invention that’s done more harm than good.
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What @timd said, plus many more
And, no, I have no idea why anyone would look at any of these and think ‘popcorn’.
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Or… one of these
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Lead in gas was to include ethanol in gas: the ingredient was tetraethyl lead, and it prevented knocking the same way ethanol would, increasing the effective octane rating.
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Amazon sells this handy-dandy clamshell package opener…
… which arrives in clamshell packaging.
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None of those would be considered popcorn ceilings - just textured. A real popcorn ceiling definitely will look the part.
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Maybe it was just a British name for them. I definitely had one of the toys (but mine had skinnier, synthetic string) and I donʻt recall ever hearing them called clackers. They did make that sort of sound, though.
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To be fair, that’s just raised spackle. This is a “true” popcorn ceiling in the US, with bits of stuff mixed in the spackle that’s sprayed onto the ceiling.
ETA: Oop, @bashful got this before me. I owe them a Coke.
Oh, and Clackers was the brand name for the most prolific set sold in parts of the USA.
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As others have pointed out, popcorn ceiling is different. But still badly named, since it actually looks almost exactly like cottage cheese.
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Amen.
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Glitter.
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