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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, March 18 2013 @ 08:19 AM EDT |
The British have some very good standards, that the rest of the world seems
intent on ignoring, though some of them are less relevent now than when they
were created.
Driving on the left side of the road:
In the days before power steering, and where the majority of people are
right-handed, keeping your stronger hand on the steering wheel when doing
distracting things like changing gears seems remarkably sensible. (And having
the keys on the *left* side of the steering coloumn on a British car also seems
really sensible - think about someone trying to mug you in your car, reaching in
to take the keys to remove your escape)
999 for emergency services:
Think about an old rotary telephone. What number is the hardest number to mess
up when you are panicing? The one where you just keep going until your finger
stops moving. Which would be the "9". Anything else requires you to
stop *yourself* at a specific location. There may be a better option for
numeric keypads, but I would expect it to still be a repeating single digit, due
to less search time for the finger pressing the buttons.
British Standard Domestic Power Sockets:
Just _*TRY*_ sticking a screwdriver in one of those and getting a connection to
a live wire. Just try it. It's do-able, but its hard (though much easier with
two screwdrivers, but then you're probably earthed if you're doing that). It
also encourages manufacurers to actually earth their products, as they have the
pin on the plug anyway...[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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