Your phone charger can electrocute a toddler who pokes a fork into the socket. The British plug cannot. That difference comes from a 1947 engineering project that refused every shortcut and turned a household plug into one of the most deliberately safe objects ever mass-produced.
Britain published BS 1363 in 1947, built for the post-war housing boom. The country was wiring millions of new homes at once and needed one standard that would work safely for everyone. They picked the most paranoid option available.
The earth pin (the large top prong) is longer than the other two. When you push a British plug in, the earth pin goes in first. Inside the socket, it presses a lever that opens two metal shutters covering the live and neutral slots. A fork pushed into an empty British socket hits only shutters. The shutters block it.
The two conducting pins are also coated in plastic for their lower half. A plug halfway out of the wall is still safe to touch. You would have to pull it completely clear before any live metal is exposed.
Inside every plug is its own fuse. UK homes wire their sockets in a loop called a ring circuit, which runs at 32 amps, enough to melt a lamp's cord if the cord fails. So each plug carries a fuse matched to the appliance: 3 amps for a lamp, 13 for a kettle. When something goes wrong in your appliance's wiring, only that plug's fuse blows.
The standard US plug (flat two-pin or three-pin) has none of the pin coating and no individual fuse. American building codes began requiring shuttered outlets in new construction in 2008, decades after Britain made shutters standard. Even those newer shuttered versions lack pin coating and plug-level fuses.
Britain's plug is bulky because a fuse, a shutter mechanism, insulated pins, and three contact prongs all need room. The plug looks the way it does because safety engineers refused to sacrifice any of those features to make it smaller, and that decision is now 79 years old.
Someone ordered another round of food for me. I went to pick up at the hotel reception and returned to my room upstairs.
Delivery guy called to say “Má, you will pay for delivery”, I asked how much (even though the person didn’t say anything like that), delivery guy said 2k and then the call went cracky cos of bad network,
When the thing reconnected, I asked again to reconfirm, and then he said “5,500”, so I said from where to where?
He then said “you can pay 5k ma”.
I said okay send your account details, so he sent Opay.
I got back to my room and called my sponsor just to confirm where the food came from (as per distance). He asked why and I told him, so he said not to send anything cos everything has been sorted.
I wasn’t calling my sponsor to ask because I didn’t want to pay. That food is worth five times the fee requested but I knew something was off cos I’ve been cheated like that before.
I’d picked up something sent by a loved one from a delivery person some time ago, and they made me pay another delivery fee. Since then I vowed to always confirm before sending out money.
Tell me why the guy called me again to say he has sent account details but hasn’t seen the money.
I simply said “I am not supposed to pay anything because it’s been sorted”. And he said “okay ma”.
Ole oshi. Òfòn!
Come online to call your staff illiterates, the actual people doing the labour for what you are selling and you think i’d patronize you again? God forbid bad thing.
If you think leaving the country is the solution. Go with everyone you know, nuclear family, extended family, friends and everybody you care about. If you can’t do that shut up and fight for your right to life.
LAKOWE!!!!
Come outside!!!!!
All of you that hype this place are liars.
First, they barely have any activities and their tariffs are so high. How can you have such a large expanse of land and they’re so under utilized? The play area is just one tiny space for kids without interesting activities. Just slide and swings?
No exhibition of wild life???
It doesn’t even seem tourist friendly. It’s only golfers that will enjoy it there.
Then!!! All their food areas close at 10??????? When you get to any restaurant apart from their main restaurant after 10, they will not attend to you even if their staff are there. They will tell you they’re closed. They have one lounge that they will not allow anybody in. They said it’s for golfers only!!! Hello!!! You mean after I paid so much money to access the facilities in a so called resort, you’re telling me I can’t hang out somewhere???
How tf will you also tell me your pharmacy doesn’t open on Saturdays fgs?????? How can you tell me ‘if it’s an emergency, call the pharmacist. He doesn’t live far??’ Ahhhhhhhhhhh
Also!! Their breakfast and dinner buffet menus are so limited. Gosh!!! The entire thing just felt like a waste of money. Honestly. God abeg 😭😭😭😭
I’ve been to Epe resorts and Ikogosi and the experience was 1000000xs better than what we had a Lakowe. Abeg! Never again!!!
Omo! Who knows when food delivery became this expensive?
Like… it wasn’t like this before.
You'll see food on the app for like 4k. When it's time to checkout it’s almost 7k+
Where did all these extra charges come from, please?? I’m actually confused
In February 2026, Nigerian consumer Dolapo Adedeji filed a lawsuit against Chowdeck over alleged lack of pricing transparency.
SWOOP announced their $7 million dollars raise and expansion to Lagos, Nigeria with an interesting proposition.
Transparent pricing…
100% delivery fees go directly to its riders, the company charges 7% service fee to cover operations.
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I need more women to speak on this especially because of the younger generation. It is better to masturbate when you’re single than have multiple sexual partners.
And masturbation is not a sin.
Designing your stage & lighting in such a way that when fans pull their phones out to record, it gives the illusion you are on top of the world BUT they are the stars & universe you exist in…
is insane creativity. 🔥
“You generated over 1,000 megawatts in the 1960s, yet almost 60 years later you can’t generate 4,000. A state in Nigeria twice the size of Netherlands can’t feed themselves. That’s a failed Government”
— Peter Obi
“The girl with the coral necklace”
A 21st century rendition of Johannes vermeer’s “Girl with a pearl earring” (1665) by myself.
This is one of my many art & archaeological projects that aim to recenter African indigenous culture referencing early baroque & renaissance art.