Is it me or do the plugs here annoy you? I find that they are all different sizes and more often than not, you can't put two plugs into a dual socket cos they don't fit cos no two plugs are the same. Just a trivial point but wondered if anyone else felt the same?

It's you.

Its not just you!

Could do with a hybrid of the two.

Uniformity of the Uk with the size of Aus.

I have lost count of how many times I have stood on one and bent the prongs, they are so thin and weak.

The bendy gay prongs piss me off. Always having to push them back into shape. Nowhere near as good as the stiff upper lipped Great British plug for sockets found across the empire

The key failing seems to be that the cable ends up coming straight out, perpendicular to the socket. In contrast the UK plugs route the cable flush with the wall. That, and that 10Amps isn't as handy as 13 when it comes to higher power requirements.

When you stood on the U.K ones did they pierce your foot?

I, too, have a long-standing penchant for standing on electrical plugs and have found the experience to be entirely unsatisfactory in Oz.

Some of them even only have 2 prongs! What kind of country is this?

I avoided UK plugs as they were robust strong units not to be messed with.

Australian plugs to me typify the Australian "thing" - which is to take another country's product, then "improve" it. Usually changing it from good to dreadful. But, at least, "Aussie".

There are so many things wrong with the plugs it's amazing that even the Aussies have accepted them. The ones you buy retail are so flimsy they almost fall apart as you pull on them. The ones that are sold integral with an appliance are so badly designed with the bit you pull on so small it's impossible to grip - and so weak that after a few months it begins to part company. The way the fit-yourself plugs have the wire coming out at an angle means they interfere with transformers alongside. The prongs on all are very bendable - and they do. The angled layout of the prongs is presumably meant to ensure good contact but makes them difficult to locate correctly in unsighted positions. Outdoor sockets have the holes hidden and tilted and this makes it a process of trial and error trying to plug in.

And the average circuit is only 10A - just small enough to be a hindrance in some cases.

Aussie plugs: a disaster!

So you've adapted well then, dumbed down for Australia so to speak?

Yes. They're rubbish. Houses the size of aircraft hangers, fitted with sockets that wouldn't look out of place in a dolls house.

No it's not.

They also have no fuse. I know that with RCD's there is less of a risk, but I am sure there are houses in OZ without them.

I have changed over 100 plugs to Ozzie ones and although they're not great, they do work ok.