NationStates Jolt Archive


The Electrical Appliances Act

Cobdenia
20-12-2008, 17:53
The World Assembly,

SERIOUSLY ANNOYED by the fact that I have once again bought the wrong type of batteries at the little chemist down the road,

ADAMENT that I really wouldn't mind if my MP3 player was half an inch bigger, allowing it to take AA batteries as opposed to AAA batteries

DECLARES AAA batteries the spawn of the devil. Also screw fit light bulbs

SERIOUSLY, what the hell is the point of screw fit light bulbs?

DECLARES screw fit light bulbs gay. Bayonet fixings not good enough for you, eh? Wankers

ALSO, why do I have a drawer full of bloody adaptors? How many conceivable ways are there of sticking a bloody plug into a fucking wall? I mean, look at this one! How the hell are you supposed to know which way in to put it? And what's more there's no ruddy earth pin! It's dangerous if you ask me

DECLARES foreigners as cretins, and hopes they electrocute themselves on a Corby trouser press due it's lack of earthing

HARRUMPHING deeply

The WA, hereby

INSTITUTES three types of disposable batteries. A little round one for watches, AA for other things, and those square 9V whatsits for things that need 9 volts. None of those little AAA things, or those stupid big ones. Anyone making any equipment not using these sizes must make the batteries rechargeable without the need for removing them and stucking them in one of those stupid special plugs things, or face execution by being force fed double edged razor blades.

FORCES light bulbs to have bayonet fittings, and only one size. About this big at the bottom should do. That includes you, Ikea. Also, whilst we're at it, Ikea will be forced to make beds in the same sizes as other bloody beds, so you don't have to buy the sheets, duvet, duvet covers and all that malarky from there as well. That's right, I'm onto you, you Swedish bastards. Failure of Ikea to comply will result in the conviscation of all their Dime bars from the checkouts, which is the only reason we really go there instead of MFI anyway

FORCES you bloody foreigners to accept a sensible design for you plugs. One at the top, which is called an earth - I know electonic safety is not your strong suit, but you'll soon grow used to it - and then you have two at the bottom, left one live, right neutral. Having it like this means you can't plug it in upside down and short out half of your already poorly lit city and it's dog poo covered pavements.

Anyone found taking this resolution seriously will be sent to Ikea to buy me Dime bars
Bears Armed
20-12-2008, 18:04
OOC: Feeling a bit better now? ;)
Aundotutunagir
20-12-2008, 18:10
The Aundotutunagirian People support this proposal.
Urgench
20-12-2008, 18:14
The government of the Emperor of Urgench would like to have those silly halogen light bulbs which fit into tiny spotlights in kitchens and cooker hoods banned also since no shops in the known universe seem to carry them and they last about 48 hours and buying them in bulk doesn't help because 1 in 2 are faulty when you take them out of the packet.

Oh and exotic mobile phone ephemera too, we can't find the adapter that allows us to plug our earphones into our mobile phone anywhere ( including the damn company that makes them's website ) and we have many good tracks stored on it.

Oh and that leads us onto websites for mobile phone companies....SERIOUSLY WHY? DO YOU WANT ALL OF YOUR CUSTOMERS TO DIE OF STROKES BROUGHT ON BY RAGE AT HOW STUPID YOUR WEBSITE ACTUALLY IS????


Yours in the spirit of calm and inner peace,
Charlotte Ryberg
20-12-2008, 19:02
Stress relief, I suppose... but I have to point out (OOC) that MFI is in administration and has ceased trading.
Cobdenia
20-12-2008, 19:10
No! I'd rather sit on orange boxes then traipse back into the pine infested, ABBA playing hell hole. All the Dime bars in the world won't tempt me
Gobbannaen WA Mission
21-12-2008, 02:29
Oh, come on, be fair. I've only ever bought one bit of furniture from MFI, and that's a wobbly wardrobe that isn't actually deep enough to cope with a coathanger. At least IKEA's stuff stays together, and it has the major plus of having given me an excuse to drive the largest lorry I could hire on an ordinary license.

Screw-in light bulbs, though, are the work of the devil.
Subistratica
21-12-2008, 21:02
[OOC: Even though there are RL references, I'd support this in a second.]
Charlotte Ryberg
21-12-2008, 21:43
Oh, and ban these annoying refrigerator and freezer dials that don't actually tell you cold it would actually be (those with single-digit numbers). It just made my ice creams melt like lava: those damn freezers just ruined twenty kuna's worth of frozen food!
Unibot
22-12-2008, 01:02
dog poo covered pavements

Discovered that point on my little sabbatical last year, they never show the dog shit in those romantic films that take place in Paris. But then again, that would really ruin chick flick kissing moments, the girl lifts her leg up in a moment of intense romanticism to find it stuck in shit.
Sasquatchewain
22-12-2008, 11:10
Oh, and ban these annoying refrigerator and freezer dials that don't actually tell you cold it would actually be (those with single-digit numbers). It just made my ice creams melt like lava: those damn freezers just ruined twenty kuna's worth of frozen food!

Very much agreed. Plus, they never mention what the numbers mean! Is it power or temperature? Is putting it on 9 hot (9 degrees) or cold (highest cooling power)?
Cobdenia
22-12-2008, 11:21
Oh God yes. I once froze everything in my fridge due to a similar problem!
James Bluntus
23-12-2008, 03:13
The Commenwealth of James Bluntus does not support this proposal.
The Most Glorious Hack
23-12-2008, 17:03
Congrats Cob. This is almost, but not quite, better than the Inflatable Gandalf Act.
Flibbleites
23-12-2008, 17:49
Congrats Cob. This is almost, but not quite, better than the Inflatable Gandalf Act.

Bite your tongue Hack, nothing is better than the Inflatable Gandalf Act.
Bears Armed
23-12-2008, 18:21
Bite your tongue Hack, nothing is better than the Inflatable Gandalf Act.
OOC: The words "Mad Sheep", and "Railgun", spring to mind. and, of course, Hippos are really quite large... Had you forgotten that proposal? :D
New Leicestershire
23-12-2008, 18:26
OOC: The words "Mad Sheep", and "Railgun", spring to mind. and, of course, Hippos are really quite large... Had you forgotten that proposal? :D

Mad Sheep Railguns is the greatest proposal in the history of NS.
Flibbleites
24-12-2008, 03:38
OOC: The words "Mad Sheep", and "Railgun", spring to mind. and, of course, Hippos are really quite large... Had you forgotten that proposal? :D

The Inflatable Gandalfs tell those proposals, "YOU SHALL NOT PASS!!!"