@cstross

How the Holy Hell did they generate that? I mean, the UK has had more than enough competing designs over the years (some more dangerous than others), but that one's a physical impossibility.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC_power_plugs_and_sockets:_British_and_related_types

I've used most of those, over the years, plus the bizarre one with standard earth pin, one round pin and one rectangular (rotated 45 degrees) with fuses for both small pins (Bi-phase 240V centre-tapped to Earth!) That one was at Dunlop, and now gone. (Thank the Gods.)

@brettezeleliquide

Superb!

Then there's the classic British film:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cl4pJwcE7JI

@Uilebheist @cstross

(Some) lawyers can (and will, if paid enough) argue against physics, but their chance of winning (other than the money you're paying them) is less than infinitesimal. (They're hoping they will be paid more than they get sanctioned for.)

@ASprinkleofSage @cstross

Ratshit, then.

@mwshook @PavelASamsonov

The Laundry books are like that, a nice Lovecraftian (or other) horror story spliced with Cold War bureaucracy and IT.

This moose got nowhere near "death march" programming and Agile, but did have to endure ISO9000/BS5750 and "Lean", plus "Race to the bottom" Outsourcing/Offshoring, "Everything at the cheapest possible price", and every problem/change management system being worse than the one before.

I'm retired now. I have no regrets.