SCREAM!
(Context for Americans: until relatively recently mains appliances in the UK came without a plug—you had to fit your own. Also they're fused and have to carry 230vac, so getting it wrong is a BAD idea. And this is Very Not Right Indeed.)
https://mastodon.ie/@iolo/113248676764884541
Attached: 1 image I asked ChatGPT how to wire a standard UK plug using the new canvas feature...
Ditto in England, but then I am an old (and tired) moose.
I also remember the Hawkwind album (P.X.R.5) that was withdrawn from sale because it had a deliberately mis-wired BS1363 plug as sleeve art, with Live, Neutral and Earth swapped - a nod to the track "Death Trap", I imagine.
The Elves who drink Safe Tea[1] were unimpressed and unleashed the Consumer Protection Act on the record company.
[1] Elfin Safe Tea is very important in these litigious times.
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