According to Electroboom Australia is doing it right too.

Stand on one pointing up and tell me it’s good.

This is anti Australian rhetoric and I will not stand for it. You are all beneath us in plug game, UK included

I moved to California last year from Oklahoma. Occasionally I will say something about moving from Oklahoma and people are like, "oh that makes sense, you have a Midwestern accent sometimes". We all sound normal to ourselves but everyone has an accent. Like the way California people say their O's.

People in other countries use all sorts of crazy "languages". We don't bother with that here, we just talk normally.

Take the adapter off, moron.

One of worlds longest running experiments is when an european tourist visited america and tried to boil water using a kettle and a travel adapter.

The paper published on the experiment noted that water finally reached temperatures of 63c in 2017.

I didn't realize because I am too used to it.

Because it reads like this:

“In other countries, like [those in] Europe or South America”.

The only places I’ve found that take USD are really poor places that really want USD, and maybe Mexico. Even some of those places will really take advantage of the exchange and you get way less than what the USD is worth if you just pay with USD.

I travel all the time and tourist locations, barring the ones I mentioned, don’t want anything to do with handling USD when tapping a card or phone to pay is vastly preferred.

Houses in the US generally have 220v too but not at ordinary wall outlets

There's a technology connections video on it if you're interested in the specifics

Oh don't worry about that, just plug in your 110V appliances and watch them run twice as fast

Why would you start a joke post with "this is going to sound really stupid"?

Euro plugs are perfect. They connect well, have no live metal exposed, power strips are safe, it can handle 230V Without a problem. They are being copied everywhere because they are well designed.

i like the compactness of this triple-plug design used for Type-J, used in switzerland and lichtenstein, although it missed some other points (no insulated pins, no on-off switch, etc)

European plugs have the same problem. And you only get like, one outlet per receptacle? Guess you're shit out of luck if you wanna plug anything else in the same spot.

The standard amount of outlets per receptacle here (Sweden) is two. Maybe in very old houses it would be only one, but that's rare. If you run into that, there are splitters that make one into two, you don't need to have an extender to split it.

I don't think it's fair to judge plugs by how they behave when dropped on the floor (unless they're exposing live wires). Do you often have a lot of loose plugs lying around? If you find yourself unplugging things a lot to turn them off, you may be interested to hear the switch was invented not long after the light bulb for exactly this reason.