On Wednesday, 12 June 2019 10:32:32 UTC+1, Max Demian wrote:

This is a pointless discussion as obviously plugging a continental
2-round-pin plug into a 3-square-pin socket (if we are still talking
about that) isn't quite the correct thing to do, but you can get away
with it in many cases, like sticking bare wires into the socket and
relying on the shutter to hold them in place. (You used to need
matchsticks.)

a mains plug beats matchsticks, it used to get used in lieu of a 2 way adaptor, or when something had no plug.


NT