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Sep 3rd 2014 | 2:40 am

#16

Yorkieabroad

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Re: WTF EU!

And my first ever selfie reveals quite a lot about how often I use one of the other aforementioned appliances

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Sep 3rd 2014 | 2:46 am

#17

Pulaski

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From: Dixie, ex UK

Re: WTF EU!

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Originally Posted by Yorkieabroad

And my first ever selfie reveals quite a lot about how often I use one of the other aforementioned appliances. ....

You used an excessively powerful vacuum cleaner too often?

Sep 3rd 2014 | 2:53 am

#18

Yorkieabroad

Joined: Nov 2002

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From: Where bad things rarely happen in movies

Re: WTF EU!

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Originally Posted by Pulaski

You used an excessively powerful vacuum cleaner too often?

I blame the EU!!

Sep 3rd 2014 | 4:58 am

#19

rpjs

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From: Sleepy Hollow, New York

Re: WTF EU!

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Originally Posted by Yorkieabroad

Get your point, but UK seems to have managed OK driving on the wrong side of the road and having funny shaped plugs....

Yebbut the UK (and Ireland and Malta and Cyprus) can't forbid the importation and sale of LHD vehicles, it's just with a plentiful supply of RHD vehicles, who would buy them. I shouldn't be terribly surprised if the Single Market regulations are written to make UK and Continental plugs valid everywhere in the EEA but again, you wouldn't be able to sell many items with UK plugs outside the UK/Ireland and vice versa.

And electrical voltage standards have been nominally harmonized to 230V from 240V in the UK and Ireland and 220V elsewhere.