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Love Wins (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 31 points 1 week 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.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    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...)

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