Re: New Regs to kill DIY HA?

["Mal Lansell" <mlansell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Not only do other countries allow sockets in bathrooms, but they also
don't insist on all the metal items in bathroom being connected
together with nice green and yellow stripy wires, so that when a
fault occurs everything sits there at a pleasant 230V (as it did in
my parent's house).

The most dangerous thing in this country right now is a bored HSE.




--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, Martin Howell <martin.howell@g...>
wrote:
> I find this whole idea of government trying to protect people from
> themselves as absolutely ludicrous - go to sunny Spain, and there
are
> power cables hanging out of walls and sticking up out of pavements,
the
> bathrooms not only have light switches but power sockets as well,
and
> I've yet to go there and find the streets and toilets strewn with
> bodies.  Most deaths from electrocution are probably the result of
> terminal stupidity on the part of the victim, and all the Part Ps
in the
> world ain't gonna make 'em any smarter - if anything, the price of
> professional help will go up and encourage the DIY approach.  I
suppose
> the good news is that, if all the planks electrocute themselves,
> preferably before breeding, then the average IQ of the remaining
gene
> pool would rise and electrocutions become less commonplace.  Is
that Mr
> Darwin I hear calling? :-)
>