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paulca:

--- Quote from: themadhippy on July 15, 2020, 07:39:41 pm ---
--- Quote ---The reason for the blue/brown is due to some common colour blindness seeing red and black as the same colour.
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Another example of snowflakes interfering. A  colour blindness test used to be part of the interview prosess before being offered an apprenticeship  ,fail it  and  your out.But of course failures not allowed anymore.

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You remember we used to wire our own plugs?

You also realise that it's not just trades men who feck about with installation electrics.
bd139:
Bad idea that was. At school a friend of mine was entrusted to wire a plug for the new TV in the library. The librarian turned it on and quickly found out that the idiot had wired Earth to live  :palm:. She was ok just a bit shaken by it.
vwestlife:

--- Quote from: themadhippy on July 15, 2020, 07:39:41 pm ---Another example of snowflakes interfering. A  colour blindness test used to be part of the interview prosess before being offered an apprenticeship  ,fail it  and  your out.But of course failures not allowed anymore.

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Approximately 1 in 12 men have some form of color blindness, so I doubt "snowflakes" had anything to do with it; simply rather the commonality of this vision defect. (Only 1 in 200 women have color blindness, though.)

And you're still required to take a color blindness test to become an electrician, at least in the UK. Some forms of color blindness are more severe than others and may cause you to fail the test:

https://www.tradeskills4u.co.uk/posts/colour-blind-electrician
Syntax Error:

--- Quote from: bd139 on July 15, 2020, 07:42:46 pm ---Bad idea that was. At school a friend of mine was entrusted to wire a plug for the new TV in the library. The librarian turned it on and quickly found out that the idiot had wired Earth to live  :palm:. She was ok just a bit shaken by it.

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B'coz brown is the same colour as earth -> :-BROKE
themadhippy:

--- Quote ---You remember we used to wire our own plugs?
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flexible cables had there colours changed way back around 1970,keeping them different to the fixed wiring colours was an ideal way of separating what mr diy could or couldn't touch,but no we had to be in harmony with the rest of europe and also bring  in silly rules that banned  everybody,including qualified sparkys from  doing domestic work unless they signed up to one of the cartels .

--- Quote ---You also realise that it's not just trades men who feck about with installation electrics
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unfortunately yes,but cant complain as fixing their mistakes used to pay the bills
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