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[–] turtlesareneat@piefed.ca 26 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Are you supposed to do it? No. Is it safe? Also no. But did lots of our grandfathers run their Christmas lights with an odd mismatch of cords including one of these? Yesss with a cigarette in one hand, a beer in the other, they sure as hell did.

[–] Bad_Ideas_In_Bulk@lemmy.world 7 points 17 hours ago

Those of us that remember our grandparents getting away with it are a product of survival bias.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Never even heard of this - is this an American thing?

[–] iocase@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Is burning down your house or electrocuting the linesman fixing your power outage because you backfed onto the transformer with your cheater cord and energized the neutral to 25kv? Fuck yeah! It's an American tradition!

(I'm Canadian btw and we have much the same stupidity here...)

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 3 points 8 hours ago

TBH one does not simply patch into a UK-style ring circuit. Those who do have chosen death.