On Tuesday, April 17, 2018 at 3:16:25 PM UTC+1, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Tue, 17 Apr 2018 15:03:39 +0100, Max Demian wrote:

On 17/04/2018 14:03, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Tue, 17 Apr 2018 09:13:11 +0100, Nightjar wrote:

On 16-Apr-18 5:16 PM, Brian Gaff wrote:
Children have small fingers. However some of my plugs are not
shrouded, as
they are quite old but then I have no children....

Is that because they have all been electrocuted? :-)

People make far too much fuss over electricity, I've received 240 volts
many times and it never killed me. And yes some were when I was a
child. Children are not different to us, they can handle the same voltage.

Yes, people make far too much fuss over children.

It wasn't so bad when I was younger. A few people had those silly plastic pretend plugs in sockets to cover them when not in use, but that was about it. Any child clever enough to have access to screwdrivers knew what electricity was anyway.

As a child I'd go windsurfing in the local lake (hiring a windsurf from the park rangers) in a pair of shorts. Nowadays people think even adults will die if they get a bit chilly. I remember all of us shivering quite hard when we did it in spring for a few hours. One ranger once asked me why I wasn't wearing a wetsuit - he said "how are you going to keep warm?" - I said "why would I want to keep warm?" and he just looked at me confused. The wetsuits didn't work anyway, I was no colder without one as wetsuits let the water straight through. I especially didn't want to wear one when my friend told me when he needed a **** he just did it inside the wetsuit. It probably rinsed away fairly quickly but.... YUCK!


Wetsuits are supposed to let in water, that's why they're called wetsuits. A layer of water, trapped in the suit, warms up to your body temperature and acts as an insulator.