Date   : Sat, 12 Sep 2009 14:33:26 +0200
From   : rick@... (Rick Murray)
Subject: Leccy @ Acorn World '09

Jonathan Graham Harston wrote:

> It always gets me when I see the classic bathroom dangers cartoon
> of a child in a bath with a radio/hairdryer/toaster precariously
> balanced at the end.

Ridiculously over-emotional publicity. Who the hell would balance a 
TOASTER on the end of a bath? :-)

As for radios, I find a little battery one works best (danger! batteries 
may explode! though I can say many years ago when I was pushed in the 
school swimming pool, I had a few RS rechargables in my pocket and they 
didn't so much as get warm, never mind blowing up).

Hairdryer? This makes more sense, but surely the time for hair drying is 
once you get out of the bath? Personally I find washing my hair to be a 
complete trauma - I'm not a praying mantis, my neck isn't designed to go 
that way!


> Surely, the easiest route for the electricity to flow is back out along
 > the neutral?

Oh, no, no... It is best for the electricity to leap out of the toaster, 
into the water, and fry the kid with lots of bright flashing lights. I 
saw it in a movie once so it must be true! <giggle>

You ever watch "Pulse"? No, not the nifty Japanese examination of 
lonliness, but the '8os one with the possessed electrical stuff... [*]


Best wishes,

Rick.


* - this is in much the same vein as "crashing computers have showers of 
sparks erupting from within, and exploding keyboards" [#] which we all 
know is technically just not going to happen!

# - yet, oddly enough, after a reboot or whatever, must of said 
computers seem to work afterwards!

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