60yr old house in the UK, we have one breaker per socket circuit for example. It uses 2.5mm wire which can handle 30A, so that would be the max recommended fuse rating at the breaker. That way it’s still protected if there is a break in the circuit anywhere.

We also have a separate lighting circuit with 1.5mm wire and a lower breaker fuse rating.

It can lead to some annoying fuckery though. I recently updated a ceiling light and was frustrated at why it wouldn’t switch on after triple checking every connection. Had to get out a multimeter and investigate all over the house. Turns out at some point in the past a previous homeowner had not bothered to connect the neutral wire back to the fusebox at an entirely different ceiling light, leaving the neutral floating. It was sitting at 110V rather than zero. Somehow it was OK to do that with old lights.

The central fuse boxes only protect the house wiring. You need a lower rated fuse for individual devices. That 30A central fuse ain’t gonna protect the wiring inside your 6A lamp.

Also who the fuck would want to go around replacing all of the sockets in their house with a new standard

Within a neighbourhood you usually open one house and all the others and their occupants are “paused” mid-activity. However Sims from the “paused” houses can randomly visit the one you have open without breaking the continuity of their own household.

E.g. you leave one house with the sim in the shower, go play a different house and hey presto the sim that was in the shower comes to visit. You then switch back to the other house and the sim is still in the shower.

So the murder clown would be paused in his house doing nothing yet still be making cameo visits around the neighbourhood.

“The greatest argument against democracy is a conversation with the average voter”

Same thing with pots in the dishwasher. They either survive or I don’t want them.

Yeah the tree:land ratio of my back garden is highly in favour of the trees. Every autumn the entire area gets coated in a thick layer of sycamore leaves that can easily take a year to decompose even in a compost pile. I rake that shit into piles over my flowerbeds for the winter, then into the compost during the spring. I would mow them but it’s the UK so it’s rare to find an autumn day where the leaves aren’t too wet and soggy.

Whenever I see someone writing “Ahh” I like to imagine that they are using voice typing while at the dentist, which works in two ways for this one

Jaguar had no choice. I was working for one of their suppliers until a couple of years ago and their sales figures were not good. Nobody was buying their saloon cars anymore, and their SUVs were selling well but were essentially eating into Land Rover’s market share, so they had to do something different. It is easier to sell low numbers of outrageously expensive cars than to mass produce cheaper ones so that’s what they’re gonna do.

I assume anyone with one of those BMWs with the giant grilles is a psychopath.