On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:57:27 -0700, J G Harston chauvinistically opined:

Whenever I see most foreign, and particularly america, plugs it seems so
much that they haven't evolved past the two-nails-bashed-through-a
piece-of-wood stage, whereas the BS1363 was actually /designed/.

For those who want to see whether the plugs of other countries really
are like that, or are in fact designed to a national standard, and even
trans-national compatibility, may view the photographs at

http://www.powercords.co.UK/standard.htm