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Do you know what the beers in this picture are? I don't recognize any of these and nobody answered when I asked on /int/.

>> No.18058360

>>18058354
Do Americans really float European power plugs in their pools?

>> No.18058371

>>18058354
That is because those beers are from a time long, long ago.

>> No.18058372

>>18058354
>>18058360
I don't know why this became an American vs Euro thing. The round plugs and rubber jandals plus a grill for snags makes me think it's pure Australian.

>> No.18058374
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18058374

a bunch on the right look like krombacher

>> No.18058375

>>18058354
Who cares?

>> No.18058393
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>>18058375
Internet autists.

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>>18058372
It's an ancient shit post.
That picture has floated around with this caption for over 15 years.

>> No.18058417

>>18058354
I don’t get what is so bad about it, the plug is a SURGE PROTECTOR, those stop electrocutions

>> No.18058425

>>18058354
Did they died?

>> No.18058427

>>18058354
>>18058402
Now some super autist find out which country this is.

>> No.18058439

>>18058402
I know it's ancient, though I had never seen the extra-long license plate picture. It just struck me as an Australian thing to do.

>> No.18058457

>>18058372
I looked up what Aussie plugs look like and they don't have the grounding pin in the socket. I'm certain it's the type C socket, I just don't know about the beers.

>> No.18058471

>>18058457
it's type F in the image

>> No.18058476

>>18058417
>surge protectors always work
Hahaha. Are you some dumbshit that feels safe regularly putting a gun in your mouth and pulling the trigger because the safety is on? You know what the best safety is? Not doing stupid shit.

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>>18058471
Right, my bad, whatever is compatible with these.

>> No.18058486

>>18058476
You might survive that way, but you'll never live.

>> No.18058498

while it's a fucking terribly stupid and dangerous idea, they're not in too terribly much danger so long as they don't get near the plug or in any way get close to the cord and appliance

>>18058417
surge protectors protect from high voltage transients (voltage spikes) on the power line. They do not stop unintentional short circuits. The thing that stops that would be a Ground Fault Current Interrupter (GFCI). No, a fuse doesn't protect from shocks either. They prevent overcurrent into the circuit. You can absolutely electrocute yourself without ever triggering a fuse.

>> No.18058505

>>18058417
>>18058476
Modern fuses and breakers will usually keep you from killing yourself. Death by electrocutions on household circuits from dead shorts is rare, even without ground fault protection.

>> No.18058507

>>18058498
>You can absolutely electrocute yourself without ever triggering a fuse.
Not easily on a line to line short in fucking water.

>> No.18058510

I drank so much krombacher in my life bros..

>> No.18058511

>>18058505
>Modern fuses and breakers will usually keep you from killing yourself.
no they will not
fuses and breakers protect circuits from overcurrent, not humans from leakage current

>> No.18058518

>>18058498
I tried and failed. Wanted a classic toaster-in-bathtub suicide, but only succeeded in tripping the safety twice before running out of dry toasters and resorting to taking all the pills I could find instead, which only resulted in me waking up covered in vomit.

>> No.18058521

>>18058511
A dead short in fucking water at an outlet is overcurrent, you fucking amateur landlord doing your own electrical work. Go fuck yourself and drop an extension cord in your bathtub. OH WAIT, that wouldn't kill you, it'd just hurt.

>> No.18058537

>>18058471
>>18058481
Looking at it again, it looks like type E to me.

>> No.18058546

>>18058521
ah the classic "an uppity sparky things he can deign to condescend to the electrical engineer" episode
I didn't say shit about a dead short through water, I'm talking about currents which cannot trigger a fuse still being plenty fucking lethal to whoever has the misfortune of bridging the circuit

learn your own electrical codes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpgAVE4UwFw

>> No.18058561

>>18058457
Australian plugs are three pronged fuckhead, what so you think the prongs are for?

>> No.18058569

>>18058402
These people look like west slav or maybe balkan.

>> No.18058570

>>18058561
I meant the grounding pin isn't in the socket like in the picture but in the plug itself.

>> No.18058586

>>18058569
Sir, phrenology was dismissed as quackery 160 years ago.

>> No.18058599

>>18058586
Yeah, genetics is a lie. You just get random bodies. Fuck DNA. Mentioning it will get your prizes yanked.

>> No.18058601

>>18058569
I don't think they're west Slavs if it really is Krombacher, they usually don't buy imported beer when local satisfies them for much cheaper. Since it appears to be type E socket, that leaves the French and the Belgians. I don't know how Belgians feel about German beer, so I'm leaning towards the French.

>> No.18058603

>>18058427
says right there that they're americans (do they really?)

>> No.18058606

>>18058599
Of course you'd say that, you have the brainpan of a stagecoach tilter.

>> No.18058616

>>18058537
not to me. it's not uniform enough and too long to be a pin. it's shaped like a tab. the sockets are at 45° angle too.
t. type F user

>> No.18058630

>>18058616
Okay, you convinced me. The length seemed to check out to me, but the shape looks off when I zoom in. Type F it is then.

>> No.18058688

>>18058498
>while it's a fucking terribly stupid and dangerous idea, they're not in too terribly much danger so long as they don't get near the plug or in any way get close to the cord and appliance
So is the dangerous thing basically the high voltage in the line and it's only dangerous when close because voltage decreases by the inverse of the square of the distance

>> No.18058744
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>>18058688
Kind of. Since the water is a continuous conductor (meaning infinitely many paths the electricity can take), it effectively takes all of them all at once. However, the majority of the current takes the least resistive path. That will be directly between the contacts of the male and female plugs. The "voltage gradient" would drop off dramatically away from the plugs since the electrons really wouldn't have any business going anywhere but towards the plug and socket contacts.

Problems start happening if you start getting close to the plug. By definition since you're not infinitely thin, and because the voltage is a continuous gradient, there will be a non-negligible voltage between two sides of your body. Your body is conductive, and by necessity, current will flow. This is called a "step voltage".
There's going to be a step voltage everywhere in that pool, but it gets much more dangerous the closer to the plug you get. If you somehow got into the pool with one hand holding the appliance and the other the power strip, and you get everything wet, you're in big fucking trouble.
If the plugs were separated at opposite sides of the pool, I would be scared for those people.

this is also what makes downed powerlines so crazy fucking dangerous and yet most normies are more afraid of lightning than a downed powerline