On Fri, 23 Dec 2016 15:08:58 -0500, wrote:

On Fri, 23 Dec 2016 18:52:37 -0000, "James Wilkinson Sword"
wrote:

That's the normal way. Down for on, off for up.

Not here.
The limeys "open" a switch to turn something on, too, while the rest
of the world "close" it.