Interesting thread here:
http://www.screwfix.com/talk/thread.jspa?threadID=627&tstart=0
about how they do things in France.
http://www.screwfix.com/talk/thread.jspa?threadID=627&tstart=0
about how they do things in France.
Vive la difference!
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Maybe it's because it's quicker and they're too busy making white flags before the Germans arrive ( arf arf )!!!!! 
No - they're too busy languidly seducing Mrs Beasley during their 2-hour lunchbreak whilst you eat a cheese and pickle sandwich with a pair of wire strippers in your other hand.... 
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This makes me wonder, how many other countries use Ring Mains wiring? The US does not, and in fact if I understand ring mains correctly, it's actually a violation of our codes!
Isn't it bizarre how one country can virtually insist on it,and make cogent arguments in favour of its safety, and another one can actually ban it.
It does make you want to always question the sanity, purpose, reasoning and justification for any regulation.
But I've done that, and that way lies madness, recrimination and angry exchanges...
It does make you want to always question the sanity, purpose, reasoning and justification for any regulation.
But I've done that, and that way lies madness, recrimination and angry exchanges...