Will Holmes

Lots of sports and memes, and a little bit of serious stuff occasionally… 100% dog dad.

[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.

[Will Holmes @WHolmes94]

The Social Network is one of my Favourite ever movies.

Not everything needs a fucking sequel.

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

Jeremy Strong's voice as Mark Zuckerberg in ‘THE SOCIAL NETWORK’ sequel.

“I’m not 2 years out of a dorm room anymore Charlie!”

[. @tosinmm_]

A certain football club spent £500,000 in 2002, mind you they had severe financial issues. A year later, the same said club, in 2003, spent £121.15 million.

It’s been an arms race and a slippery slope ever since.

[Will Holmes @WHolmes94]

@housewelf I mean you don’t need to start drama, you can just RSVP no, stating you can’t organise childcare.

It is frustrating when kids are often not invited to weddings, but at the end of the day it’s the couples’ choice who they invite, and you have to respect that.

[͏b͏l͏a͏n͏c @dqveed]

They’re slowly taking away the second amendment see

[Will Holmes @WHolmes94]

@Mr_spacely777 @zdrdim So you’re saying there are entire countries that teach there are only 6 continents?

[David Rattigan @davidmrattigan]

buying this and then dying immediately and forcing my descendants to finish building it over the next 100 years

[Will Holmes @WHolmes94]

@mexicola25 @SimonBrundish Klopp also liked to have a small squad.

Yes there are downsides. But it also led to one of the greatest sides ever, and a lot of my happiest times as a fan.

It’s not like a more measured approach guarantees success either?

[Will Holmes @WHolmes94]

@nemoserves @neilt1978 @GrandZeroGaming Yes, you don’t need a passport or id to travel from one European country to another, that’s a well known fact 👌🏽

[Will Holmes @WHolmes94]

@nemoserves @neilt1978 @GrandZeroGaming It is - but there’s also the requirement of having a passport, which Americans don’t require to visit another state.

What I find disingenuous is treating Europe as one homogenous block.

[Will Holmes @WHolmes94]

@nemoserves @neilt1978 @GrandZeroGaming Distance isn’t the only contributing factor, though?

FWIW, I find both sides of this argument somewhat disingenuous.

[Will Holmes @WHolmes94]

I do think it’s a shame they couldn’t have announced it before the last game, and allowed him to get a nice send off at Anfield.

It might be the right decision, but don’t think the club have handled this very well.

[Liverpool FC @LFC]

Liverpool FC can confirm Arne Slot is to depart his role as head coach with immediate effect and that the process to appoint a successor is under way.

He leaves with a Premier League title to his name and our deepest gratitude and appreciation.

[Will Holmes @WHolmes94]

Oh wow.

[Liverpool FC @LFC]

Liverpool FC can confirm Arne Slot is to depart his role as head coach with immediate effect and that the process to appoint a successor is under way.

He leaves with a Premier League title to his name and our deepest gratitude and appreciation.

[Will Holmes @WHolmes94]

@MartinSalgado48 @tweeth_mitchell Where did I say I thought he was better than Sam Snead?

[Will Holmes @WHolmes94]

@MartinSalgado48 @tweeth_mitchell If we want to start pointing out context from different eras, I think we should look at the strength of some of the events Snead etc won.

I think he’s Top 10 all time, so yes, better than some of those guys

[Will Holmes @WHolmes94]

@MartinSalgado48 @tweeth_mitchell Wait so first the criticism was he’s not at the top of the rankings, now the rankings aren’t that important because they’re more recent?

The idea that he’s less great because he doesn’t have those ‘peak’ years is missing the point that one sign of his greatness is longevity.

[Will Holmes @WHolmes94]

I hope everyone in Dublin is holding up ok.

[RS Archer @archer_rs]

Apparently climate change is a myth.

[Will Holmes @WHolmes94]

@MartinSalgado48 @tweeth_mitchell He’s spent the 5th most time as No.1 golfer in the world.

[Will Holmes @WHolmes94]

@OmniFinn @jerguismi That’s such a terrible take, and there are plenty of examples regarding safety that would demonstrate how silly that is.

You can still be in favor of a free market while agreeing some limits and regulations should exist and can be mutually beneficial.

[Will Holmes @WHolmes94]

@OmniFinn @jerguismi Because leisure time and time off work is a good thing. ‘Forcing’ people to spend time not working and doing other things they want to do is beneficial for the worker.
In the same way that days off every week are mandated in a lot of countries, to stop people working all the time