deon

Just me. MUFC.

[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.

[Nick Harris @sportingintel]

Reminder that FIFA president Gianni Infantino was investigated for multiple ethics violations within months of taking office in 2016. The charges went away when he, in effect, closed down the unit investigating him. 1/3

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The drinking is the easy part. Finding a beer from Iran is the hard part.

Iran banned alcohol in 1979. Brewing it carries lashes. So the "Iranian beer" in this photo is Istak, a non-alcoholic malt drink that became the country's workaround and now sells hundreds of millions of bottles a year.

Saudi Arabia is fully dry. Their entry is Moussy, the non-alcoholic malt that dominates Gulf supermarkets precisely because real beer can't exist there.

Then come the import problems. Cape Verde's Strela and Haiti's Prestige barely leave their home markets. Curacao and Jordan qualified for the first time ever, which means almost no exporter ever bothered building a supply chain for their beer.

A 48-team World Cup quietly created the hardest beer scavenger hunt on Earth. Qualification expanded faster than beer distribution did.

The man found all 48 anyway.

[Cantona Collars AKA Larry @Cantona_Collars]

Good luck to my pals whose nations are taking part in the World Cup

I won't be watching

FIFA sold the soul of this competition years ago. The corruption, the greed, the sportswashing, the political posturing the acceptance of racism

I dont recognise the tournament I once loved

[Ray @RayDepuis]

@jonmikesav8

[ET Heisenberg @UtdHeisenberg_]

In 1996 I thought Jordi Cruyff and Karel Poborský were the signings.

Turns out the Treble was built on a Norwegian I'd never heard of and a centreback from Besiktas nobody was talking about.

A useful reminder that football fans know absolutely nothing.

Happy Birthday Ronny 🥳🇾🇪

[Christopher Wade @chriswade74]

I Inherited a signed Man United shirt from a late relative. These are the 3 signatures I need help with Any help greatly appreciated.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own.

Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve_news

We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.

Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊

[deon @deondj40]

@elreygitanos @BROCCOLIBARM @GNev2 Thanks Dan 👍I’ve been in that pub years ago.

[𝔻𝕚𝕡𝕤 @dipsMUFC]

Takes a big man to admit when he’s wrong. Bruno handled the whole Keane incident with class. All Keano had to do was say he misquoted him, apologise and move on. Shame it’s dragged on like this. Suppose that doesn’t get you clicks though. Disappointing.

[Lauren @laurennUTD]

The headloss is absolutely fantastic to see.

Utterly deranged if you can’t see he deserves it. He’s been incredible.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Thread! 🧵

Please read, like, share & send the article to your friends.

#TheHarbourneReceipts from @thenerve_news.

Important accountability journalism into Nigel Farage & his crypto pals.

Follow the money 💰 💰 💰

[Supertanskiii @supertanskiii]

Farage, with a very different accent, explaining how to exploit and profit from the very same system that he claimed to rail against.

Including using one’s wife to account for financial irregularities.

Well, it apparently works when trying to explain away house purchases, eh?

[deon @deondj40]

@piersmorgan @_DeclanRice Piers ranting for clicks. Leave him be , we all love Bruno …

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

NEW: The Crypto Connection. @thenerve_news brings you…Part 1 of The Harbourne Receipts.

A forensic examination of the cryptobillionaire’s donations & Nigel Farage’s crypto announcements.

And guess what? There’s a pattern. Starting with the now infamous £5m gift.

By @charlienotold & @LuciaOC_
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[deon @deondj40]

@AndrewH54227028 @93rdmin @EssexPR Poes…. Kids you taking a cheap shot at !

[Paddy Power @paddypower]

Pep Guardiola is leaving Man City after 10 years. He won six Premier Leagues, a Champions League and countless other trophies.

Just goes to show what can be achieved with limitless financial resources and an elite team of lawyers.

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

Sky News just did an extended piece on the UK being the world's largest importer of jet fuel, with zero production capacity.

They managed not to mention the closure 2 years ago of the Grangemouth oil refinery which produced jet fuel.