Mildly Infuriating

Yo, what’s wrong with your goats?

Oh look that's something ninjas spread on the road when they run.

You just brought back memories of my siblings and I walking around outside barefoot to the point these things penetrated our shoes more easily than our feet.

In rural southern Utah these things are literally everywhere. If you go out with cheap foam flip-flops, the entire bottom of the shoe will embedded with dozens of these seconds after you start walking around lol

Kind of oddly satisfying to pull them out of the soles of shoes tbf

I've always heard them called sand spurs, and they're the devil. Nothing in nature needs to be that sharp, ffs.

At least chestnuts have the decency to be really localized and large, despite being spikey balls of evil. These little fuckers are miniature, everywhere, and can hide in carpet for a solid six months before you notice them the one time you decide to go barefoot.

I'm so glad we don't have these where I live.

I’m glad they’ve never managed to puncture my sneakers while hiking, because god knows I’ve had enough embedded in my soles when I check.

I think the switches are nice but in the modern world you really don't need to unplug a vast majority of things. Even my $30 120V USA space heater shuts itself off if it tips over or gets too hot. My cell phone charger pulls functionally 0W while idling.

They do some things right in the UK. But does every toilet need to be hidden in a basement labyrinth?

Yeah, I think brits and other europeans can generally agree on american plugs

So how does it work in the US then? Is there a law that everything needs to be isolated very well, no metal shells allowed or people just getting electrocuted from time to time

I have, but it was a foot-safe surface mount package

https://xkcd.com/927/

No, the cable comes out perpendicular to the pins (ie parallel to the wall).
Which pretty much guarantees foot-pain orientation

That's from a power brick that came with attachments for different regions.

I've handled normal plugs as well and they tend to orient themselves prongs up too.