Neal Gravestock

Complicated

[Rob Myers @RobLMyers]

If Woody has gone past double yellows at the marshall's post, it doesn't matter what the timing/data says. There's clear precedent and he should lose that lap.

GPDA rep not setting a great example... #F1 #AustrianGP

[Neal Gravestock @DarkPhoenix89]

@phaseknight_ Same

[Rob Myers @RobLMyers]

So, the @fia becomes a dictatorship. @Ben_Sulayem has systematically weakened governance structures and now we're in "president for life" territory.

This is an absolute farce. #F1 https://t.co/697KtSj4az

[Terry Hague @TezzaBelle88]

30° abroad: “let’s explore this town.”

30° in the UK: “I may not survive this Sainsbury’s trip.”

[Neal Gravestock @DarkPhoenix89]

@F1 You mean when Nico crashed into Lewis because he couldn't stand being beaten by him.

[Neal Gravestock @DarkPhoenix89]

@MOONLIGHTGLG This image shows characters Marike and Jaime from the 2022 film You Can Live Forever, set in a 1990s Jehovah's Witness community in Quebec
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Honestly how hard is that to put on the post!!

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

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.

[Rob Myers @RobLMyers]

@haremach @LewisHamilton @Blonde_Nutter @romy @LisandarrenK @Sareyware Amazing to have witnessed it in person!

[Vincenzo Landino @vincenzolandino]

Lewis Hamilton isn't back...

...he never left.

[Lewis Hamilton @LewisHamilton]

Thank you Team LH, love you all

[Luke Littler @LukeTheNuke180]

we did it🙌🏼🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏆 @lukeh180

[Lewis Hamilton @LewisHamilton]

REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE

[Richard Brunning @richardbrunning]

🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
All British F1 podium!

[Rob Myers @RobLMyers]

Well done to Ferrari for the strategy. It's been a big weakness for them in recent years, but they absolutely NAILED it today.

Really aggressive and put Mercedes under pressure. They reaped the well deserved reward! #F1 #BarcelonaGP

[Rob Myers @RobLMyers]

LEWIS HAMILTON WINS FOR FERRARI!!!

OMG! What a race. What a driver!

That's win number 106(7) for the #F1 GOAT! #BarcelonaGP

[Rob Myers @RobLMyers]

Merc busy looking at the legal options because Woody’s Monaco non-score might impact the championship fight.

They should’ve pursued the legal options after the #F1xed #AbuDhabiScandal when @fia rule-breaking actually changed the championship outcome. #F1 https://t.co/7gwNYOqcMH

[Rob Myers @RobLMyers]

You do have to wonder why the @fia can admit an obvious error in Monaco and correct the result, but couldn’t do the same when their race director broke the rules and robbed Lewis Hamilton of an 8th WDC at the #F1xed #AbuDhabiScandal… #F1

[Neal Gravestock @DarkPhoenix89]

@AorusOfficial Okay, this is kinda cool...

[Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @MayorofLondon]

Complaining about nightlife when you *checks notes* choose to live in Soho is like living in South Kensington and complaining about the museums.

Or moving to Hackney and grumbling about creatives. Living in Richmond and hating green space. 

It's all getting a bit silly, isn't it?

[Neal Gravestock @DarkPhoenix89]

@BocaBola_ Fiber