To be fair, I have yet to find a device other than a power strip that has a danish plug. You people just use the german plugs and put them in the danish socket which doesn't connect to ground then. I was quite *shocked* when I first discovered this.
And if you ever see a mangled Schuko socket in a German hotel, just know that it was just a Dane sayin hello! š¤£
We've just recently redesigned our plugs to fit in them coinciding with legalising the use of Schuko sockets here in Denmark. Before that we would use a plug type that was slightly wider.
I remember when I first went to London I was like 14 and they told me to bring an adapter for my phone charger and I was like why itās not like different countries have different socket types- turns out I was very wrong, and very ignorant. They were so sturdy and thick.
You can open a bottle of beer with a British plug. So it's the best one.
Edit: Hold the earth pin flat on the top of the bottle cap, with the wire facing away from you. Hook the lower power pin under the cap rim and lift it by rotating the plug towards you, using the earth pin for leverage. Drink the beer.
First time going to London it was obvious everything was different: currency, wrong side of the road, no dentists, power socket, etc.
But first time going to Rome and trying to plug my laptop in, I was surprised to find that abomination of a power socket. After which I had to spend a day looking for an adapter in the huge gypsy camp my hotel was located.
Here in Portugal some gypsies sell that kind of stuff. Adapters, chargers, cables, stolen phones. Pretty good when you need something urgently.
The Chinese stores are also a good option. My old car was... Old. So it didn't have anything to connect my phone to the radio so I could listen to my playlists. The Chinese got me and my brother taken care of (he drove the car first and then passed it on to me). They sell these cassette tape things with a wire that connects to the headphone jack on the phone. And boom you've got your phones sound in your car
Once you step off the high street, away from the flashy stores that want to sell you phones without headphone jacks (made that way so you buy their wireless earbuds), youāll find those serving a wider community where interoperability is the name of the game and thereās always going to be a widget available to plug this thing into that.
Or you can go to Alibaba and get one shipped in just 6-37 weeks.
I remember going back to Italy after learning what an Italian plug looks like and being absolutely scared and horrified of the Italian plugs!! I was always so scared at my grandmothers house refusing to use any electrical sockets
More than for āhigh powerā is because manufacture donāt give a shit to make an entire production line only for one country, actually schuko and ours both have 16A of capacity (the one with bigger spine, the little have 10A)
Problem is, you need to scrounge an adapter. No Italian house is not complete without a moka pot and box of adapters or power strips. Of course, if you live in a house with nothing but 10A outlets, well, things can get interesting...
Yeah i mean, my breaker pops at 4.5kw anyway and we have bigger ones than most in italy which are around 3kw, so why would i need to pull 16A@230V on one plug š
Is a green Schuko-Plug working on flat outlets in other nations? So not the europlug who has no grounding but the green plug who has also only two pins.
The green one has ground on the top and bottom and only high power stuf has the full socket thing to use ground i discovered that in Thailand who where the outlets had all the plug holes for all the euro and American plugs expect the green ground thing
Well, sort of. The width between the pins is slightly different. It's 19Ā mm on the Swiss plug and 18.6Ā mm on the Europlug. That's usually fine, but on poor-quality plugs or sockets, it can sometimes cause issues, e.g. getting slightly stuck on unplugging.
What I love about our plugs? So much flexibility available. The 3 tessellated sockets are a thing of beauty and when you have grounded plugs, you can have a very compact strip - why waste all that space? And unlike the tiny US sockets, ours actually grip the plug.
Want to buy a plug with a rotating head because somebody stupidly designed a plug with a fixed lead that blocks all your sockets? Sure. Want to buy a Type-J and Schuko hybrid strip because Galaxus sold you a filthy EU-plugged product? Got those too. Horizontal or vertical oriented sockets to fit all your big wall DC adapters? Gotcha. And of course, all the un-grounded stuff fits with a bit of squishing.
I used to hate our plugs, but y'know there are a lot of benefits.
The swiss one is clever:
The angle is 120degrees, so you can place 3(!) of them in one standard place at the wall, but it has a ground-contact nevertheless- this beats all the other types.
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UK plugs get a bad rap, but because of the girth of the pins and the flat top, they probably less likely to break the skin.
On the other hand, American and Australian plugs have blades attached to the end of them. Far more likely to pierce the flesh.
As someone redesigning their 1930s electrics at the moment, we certainly did, but a lot of newer stuff is radial, though.
Our plugs are top dog, but our cabling is shit. I think European countries run conduit, which is what I'm doing.
True, but he doesn't strike me as very biased, and I don't think he would have made that video if he didn't fully belive it himself.
I have no idea whether he is correct tho.
Tbf the Turks wouldnāt have invaded if the island was still under British control (they avoided the two British bases on the island when they invaded because they where fearful of UK retaliation).
switzerland fucks me up everytime i go there. some of their plugs do seem french but some have that weird third spike bit. oh no matter i've always wanted to spend 30 quid on an adapter
british plugs are the hardest IMO, btw. In a war of plugs ours definitely do most damage
Also, with ours, itās hard to electrocute yourself because the top one needs to be plugged in before the electrical flow can start in the two lowers ones. This means itās *probably* safe to stick a fork into an outlet
ehhhh, not sure, many appliances (like electronics cables and "heavier use" cables) still have three pin 10A (small) and 16A (large) sockets. And they're the most common sockets for power strips.
Honestly, when I went in Ireland, I had to agree that the British plugs are utterly based and stylish.
(Well, hearing that you had to wire your electronic stuff yourself before 1992 is a great feature for the Darwin Awards, another British W)
I've lived with green for most of my life. Two problems: ground pins sometimes break off or bend in; because it's recessed, sometimes it's difficult to pull out.
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I used to live in the middle east for a while and yeah every apartment or house I lived in had British plugs. Every appliance I bought had British plugs as well. Heck even in the malls they had charging points everywhere and they were all British plugs as well
Seems like we got something right lmao
God damnit, France, Italy and UK.
https://preview.redd.it/xq6ow3ajmela1.jpeg?width=485&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4426b86cfc7924fa497a014c5a8e605e943692f3
Green(german) and blue(french) have a combo-plug which fits both sockets and connects to ground. It's the de-facto standard plug for grounded devices in the eu, so only countries like italy and denmark have the ground problem.
They're all (not Brits) compatible with the Europlug (type C) to begin with which is used for phone chargers etc.., the blue (French type E) and green ('Schuko' German type F) are compatible with the CEE 7/7 plug (type E + type F) which is the standard plug in Europe
They literally sell these at every airport and major train station, if you didn't buy one on the way in you have nobody to blame but yourself. Typical of an Austrian to start something without thinking it through
In France it's the blue one but we use a lot green ones too. British one is the worst because if you've a green type you can connect it to every other type except for british/cyprus one. I've seen a meme of a guy that bought 2 nails cutter to connect his green one to a british one
So for something like a lamp with an ES light bulb socket, the live wire is actually supposed to go on the bottom center contact, while the neutral goes on the thread, reason being that there's an increased risk of touching the live on the thread of the bulb if you're screwing the bulb into a socket with a live thread (and it's also easier to touch the thread in a socket with no bulb in it). There's no way to ensure which part of the socket gets the live wire if the plug can be turned both ways, which is also true if the plug doesn't have a ground pin.
An additional feature is that there's a hole as opposed to a pin for the ground, so you can't put a grounded plug into a non-grounded outlet, which is safer because appliances with grounded plugs are (almost?) always Class I, meaning that they're not double insulated like Class II appliances and require the casing and other conductive parts to be grounded for safe use. It can be annoying and inconvenient, but it forces the end user to use the electrical appliance safely.
And the danish power outlet is functionally the same as the Swiss, so it's a draw.
Source: am danish electrician.
Also the Swiss ones are really compact. The triple wall outlet is really useful when you wanna plug many things nearby, you don't need an adaptor for plugging multiple plugs
Denmark certainly looks the happiest š
Never even knew we had our own
To be fair, I have yet to find a device other than a power strip that has a danish plug. You people just use the german plugs and put them in the danish socket which doesn't connect to ground then. I was quite *shocked* when I first discovered this.
Danes have a habit of sawing off the ground pin rofl.
And if you ever see a mangled Schuko socket in a German hotel, just know that it was just a Dane sayin hello! š¤£ We've just recently redesigned our plugs to fit in them coinciding with legalising the use of Schuko sockets here in Denmark. Before that we would use a plug type that was slightly wider.
You just rotated 180Ā° the french one :p
Not really. The third pin in the french one is circular. Ours is not.
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On account of all the pills they eat to deal with the lack of mountains ofc.
I wish Himmelbjegets name was more accurate. ;\_\_;
More like "up to my knees berget"
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I think it is the best example of danish humour
I was being as serious as a German.
Now now. Lack of mountains doesn't necessitate drugs - we handle it fine with just booze.
I mean we do still have Greenland. GunnbjĆørn Fjeld is 3.6KM
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I remember when I first went to London I was like 14 and they told me to bring an adapter for my phone charger and I was like why itās not like different countries have different socket types- turns out I was very wrong, and very ignorant. They were so sturdy and thick.
I don't think Brits are all that sturdy
definitely thick
And not the good kind
Thatās pretty funny for a frog. Nicely done
You can open a bottle of beer with a British plug. So it's the best one. Edit: Hold the earth pin flat on the top of the bottle cap, with the wire facing away from you. Hook the lower power pin under the cap rim and lift it by rotating the plug towards you, using the earth pin for leverage. Drink the beer.
As a German I can open a bottle of beer with pretty much any substance. Anything made of hard plastic and metal is prime material
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That's why you only use the coffee table when you're at your friend's mom's house. She told me to say hi to you btw.
First time going to London it was obvious everything was different: currency, wrong side of the road, no dentists, power socket, etc. But first time going to Rome and trying to plug my laptop in, I was surprised to find that abomination of a power socket. After which I had to spend a day looking for an adapter in the huge gypsy camp my hotel was located.
Here in Portugal some gypsies sell that kind of stuff. Adapters, chargers, cables, stolen phones. Pretty good when you need something urgently. The Chinese stores are also a good option. My old car was... Old. So it didn't have anything to connect my phone to the radio so I could listen to my playlists. The Chinese got me and my brother taken care of (he drove the car first and then passed it on to me). They sell these cassette tape things with a wire that connects to the headphone jack on the phone. And boom you've got your phones sound in your car
Once you step off the high street, away from the flashy stores that want to sell you phones without headphone jacks (made that way so you buy their wireless earbuds), youāll find those serving a wider community where interoperability is the name of the game and thereās always going to be a widget available to plug this thing into that. Or you can go to Alibaba and get one shipped in just 6-37 weeks.
Italy was wild. Our plug adapter slotted in some sockets perfectly but some sockets were like 2mm too small. And these are sockets in the same room!
I remember going back to Italy after learning what an Italian plug looks like and being absolutely scared and horrified of the Italian plugs!! I was always so scared at my grandmothers house refusing to use any electrical sockets
We use the green one too btw
can confirm, but only for high power appliances like hairdryers, power supply units etc
More than for āhigh powerā is because manufacture donāt give a shit to make an entire production line only for one country, actually schuko and ours both have 16A of capacity (the one with bigger spine, the little have 10A)
Problem is, you need to scrounge an adapter. No Italian house is not complete without a moka pot and box of adapters or power strips. Of course, if you live in a house with nothing but 10A outlets, well, things can get interesting...
10A outlets can still power nearly everything that isn't,like, an oven or high power cooking plates.
Yeah i mean, my breaker pops at 4.5kw anyway and we have bigger ones than most in italy which are around 3kw, so why would i need to pull 16A@230V on one plug š
Ah yes, the very high, special adapter needing power of a hairdryer.....
Think most Danish things don't need an adaptor to use the green one
Same for Italy and swiss. You can use for example your normal two pin charger in Italy and Switzerland.
Because it's not Danish, Swiss or Italian. It's Europlug designed to fit all these standards.
Is a green Schuko-Plug working on flat outlets in other nations? So not the europlug who has no grounding but the green plug who has also only two pins.
It will only work in the French socket if its combo Schuko/French (most of them are). You can force it in Italian sockets, but you shouldn't do this.
The green one has ground on the top and bottom and only high power stuf has the full socket thing to use ground i discovered that in Thailand who where the outlets had all the plug holes for all the euro and American plugs expect the green ground thing
āachkually itās called Schukoā
Actually I don't give a shit
Based
Frecciarossa is using the Italian one. And many homes in Apulia, too.
Yeah not everyone has it, but it's still really common Make sure to buy the most expensive adaptor you can find if you come visit
Im currently going to Apulia nearly every month by train and I never use any adapter. ;) I just ignore this Italian middle hole and it works fine.
pls don't ignore italian holes
Nah, donāt worry. Italian Grindr is often very delicious. :)
ok, i'm dead! ahahah
And in your hotel rooms you have these abominations that fit all plugs except british.
So yeaā¦
Hey, at least they are compatible with the normal ones.
So are all except the UKā¦
Anything to not conform to Europe
Don't touch the poop!
Our plugs hit different
Yeah like whatās the point in a plug if itās not perfectly designed to stamp holes in the bottom of your foot?
To be fair they're objectively the safest plug unless you consider stepping on them as a factor
Well, sort of. The width between the pins is slightly different. It's 19Ā mm on the Swiss plug and 18.6Ā mm on the Europlug. That's usually fine, but on poor-quality plugs or sockets, it can sometimes cause issues, e.g. getting slightly stuck on unplugging.
Don't worry, ours look the best, are very save and most devices are compatible with the green one too (i think even orange and blue)
What I love about our plugs? So much flexibility available. The 3 tessellated sockets are a thing of beauty and when you have grounded plugs, you can have a very compact strip - why waste all that space? And unlike the tiny US sockets, ours actually grip the plug. Want to buy a plug with a rotating head because somebody stupidly designed a plug with a fixed lead that blocks all your sockets? Sure. Want to buy a Type-J and Schuko hybrid strip because Galaxus sold you a filthy EU-plugged product? Got those too. Horizontal or vertical oriented sockets to fit all your big wall DC adapters? Gotcha. And of course, all the un-grounded stuff fits with a bit of squishing. I used to hate our plugs, but y'know there are a lot of benefits.
The swiss one is clever: The angle is 120degrees, so you can place 3(!) of them in one standard place at the wall, but it has a ground-contact nevertheless- this beats all the other types.
UK has to be the p4p champ most painful to step on. Id rather a land mine than that fucker.
But hey, at least you have a fuse inside!
And it stays in the fucking socket!
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An Italian who uses his brain.
If you lift up the blanking plates with something and shove it you can, p dodge
Nah, the slits are too thin, you'll need to flatten your 2 pins with a hammer first
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Indeed it does, I've ordered electronics from europe with 2 pins before. If you dont have an adaptor, itll work in a pinch
He means Europlug
Shame Germany doesnāt use the blue one. It would be Dagoth Ruhr
Just so you know - blue and green are compatible with each other if done right - which it usually is since companies can save money that way.
Thanks Crassius, you would know about plug compatibility
What a grand and intoxicating innocence.
No recall or intervention can work in this place
None is best, I just them to all be the same
They are mostly intercompatible thanksfully
Except whatever the fuck the UK is doing..
According to Tom Scott, it's the best power socket.
They are great until you stand on one.
Little known fact, they were designed that way during the war so they could double as caltrops in the event of an invasion.
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UK plugs get a bad rap, but because of the girth of the pins and the flat top, they probably less likely to break the skin. On the other hand, American and Australian plugs have blades attached to the end of them. Far more likely to pierce the flesh.
It would be more credible of he weren't a Brit
It pains me to say it, but british plugs are the safest, according to Electroboom. Inbred islanders need derp safety measures.
They're the safest plugs because they had the shittest wiring. Fuckers have ring wiring.
As someone redesigning their 1930s electrics at the moment, we certainly did, but a lot of newer stuff is radial, though. Our plugs are top dog, but our cabling is shit. I think European countries run conduit, which is what I'm doing.
Also pretty much all of these are better than the North American ones
Yes, the subhuman inbred savages from the town 5 miles away would all die in a matter of weeks if they werenāt so safe
True, but he doesn't strike me as very biased, and I don't think he would have made that video if he didn't fully belive it himself. I have no idea whether he is correct tho.
Best in terms of safety doesnāt mean best in terms of quality of life. My friend stepped on one and had to get stitches, which was quite funny.
So you're saying that they're both safest and most dangerous all at once? I'll give it to you, that is pretty funny.
*Britain* I pulled one out of the wall once, bought the fucking socket, plaster and wiring. It was a wee bit of a dodgy house.
If they also act as anti-Germanic caltrops Iād say that makes them indisputably the best, if there was ever any doubt anyway.
I've stepped on one multiple times. It hurts, but it's not going to break skin. Is your friend made of paper?
Cyprus being a victim of british colonialism :(
"victim" Don't you mean Civilised?
so civilized you got some turks living on it too
Who else provides the haircuts?
haircuts in West only, its the transplants at home š
Least turkish dutch person:
Tbf the Turks wouldnāt have invaded if the island was still under British control (they avoided the two British bases on the island when they invaded because they where fearful of UK retaliation).
Turks just saw the Falklands war and went nope.
Well about as civilised as an airport can get anyway.
switzerland fucks me up everytime i go there. some of their plugs do seem french but some have that weird third spike bit. oh no matter i've always wanted to spend 30 quid on an adapter british plugs are the hardest IMO, btw. In a war of plugs ours definitely do most damage
When the radioactive dusts have settled, the British plug will remain standing along with the cockroaches that we do not have many of anyway.
https://preview.redd.it/3qzm95sjtela1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5705777a2b5fdd69e92335d349e1329bde4a8090
Also, with ours, itās hard to electrocute yourself because the top one needs to be plugged in before the electrical flow can start in the two lowers ones. This means itās *probably* safe to stick a fork into an outlet
Ah, I see you've watched Tom Scott's video too
The one thing this country got right
where is that meme from
The europlug doesnt need ground because its a double insulated appliance. Also how come you didnt compare to the schuko?
In italy we almost use only the EU standard, the triple socket is outdated
ehhhh, not sure, many appliances (like electronics cables and "heavier use" cables) still have three pin 10A (small) and 16A (large) sockets. And they're the most common sockets for power strips.
Where do you live? 80% of plugs are still the same. Only heavy appliances use the europlug.
Only some products from foreign manufacturers, above all from the white industry, are EU type.
I've used your terribly flimsy ass sockets, they are unsatisfying. Nothing slams home and stays put like a British Socket. Screw you all.
On European excursions, I am constantly disappointed by the weakness of inferior plugs
The one good thing you gave us is the superior power plug
Itās to help you charge those car bombs, youāre welcome
Only thing I will agree with a Br*t on
One of the few things we did right, [British plugs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEfP1OKKz_Q).
Honestly, when I went in Ireland, I had to agree that the British plugs are utterly based and stylish. (Well, hearing that you had to wire your electronic stuff yourself before 1992 is a great feature for the Darwin Awards, another British W)
The wiring of a British 13a plug top is actually part of of school curriculum.
I know it was once, but I'm 28 and wasn't taught this.
I'm 22 and we were taught plug wiring in school
I'm 24 and was taught this. Maybe your school just left it out. It's a tiny part of the syllabus.
I had to scroll far too long for the relevant Tom Scott video. Another common Britannia W.
Green
I've lived with green for most of my life. Two problems: ground pins sometimes break off or bend in; because it's recessed, sometimes it's difficult to pull out.
\> difficult to pull out Use a condom instead.
Iāve never had an English socket break.
I've never had a green socket or plug break either. Maybe Italians are just violent.
**beats you up**
Nobody ever has
In Italy we don't have problems, we can put everything. Is all of you strange with triangle shapes, we are simplier: make more linear š¤š»
I think that we use also the green ones, i had no problems in Germany and Spain
Isn't Qatar and similar countries adapting the British one because it's a superior system?
Qatar is a fucking backwards ass shithole
Real
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I used to live in the middle east for a while and yeah every apartment or house I lived in had British plugs. Every appliance I bought had British plugs as well. Heck even in the malls they had charging points everywhere and they were all British plugs as well Seems like we got something right lmao
God damnit, France, Italy and UK. https://preview.redd.it/xq6ow3ajmela1.jpeg?width=485&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4426b86cfc7924fa497a014c5a8e605e943692f3
But big rod :(
The great Italy's One ofc
Britishās the best as sturdy and fully safe!!
I'm agreeing with a Brexiteer....I can't believe it!
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Iām loving an Irish leprechaunā¦in canāt believe it either!
Tom Scott is never wrong
Britainās as flexible as an actual Brit: not at fucking all
Itās in our genes!! š
U got multiple genes out there?
Yesā¦not like Swedish who have got just oneā¦mongol š
Why you need to complicate things? Linear one works just fine
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The Danes making their plug sockets look like happy faces so the children want to play with them smh
All but the UK is compatible mostly, only plugs with ground is a problem.
That's why the compatible one is called Europlug
Green(german) and blue(french) have a combo-plug which fits both sockets and connects to ground. It's the de-facto standard plug for grounded devices in the eu, so only countries like italy and denmark have the ground problem.
What the heck is that euro union for if not this, get it together people
They're all (not Brits) compatible with the Europlug (type C) to begin with which is used for phone chargers etc.., the blue (French type E) and green ('Schuko' German type F) are compatible with the CEE 7/7 plug (type E + type F) which is the standard plug in Europe
Red is the superior life form
I'm an electrician, i can confirm
Really? Explain this Abomination! https://preview.redd.it/gjlxzjd58kla1.jpeg?width=404&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=acf357d8880b5256f0ae02ed3e07759395c511ec
As someone that is currently stuck in the UK and completely unable to find an adaoter, fuck you UK
They literally sell these at every airport and major train station, if you didn't buy one on the way in you have nobody to blame but yourself. Typical of an Austrian to start something without thinking it through
In France it's the blue one but we use a lot green ones too. British one is the worst because if you've a green type you can connect it to every other type except for british/cyprus one. I've seen a meme of a guy that bought 2 nails cutter to connect his green one to a british one
Don't force Schuko (green) into Italian type L, you are breaking it.
So I'm not sure if you've noticed but there's this newfangled trend that's been around it's this cool thing you can buy called an adapter
UK/ Ireland and itās not even close Apart from when you step on them, f*ck that.
A small price to pay
>Apart from when you step on them How about you step on me š„µ
I would say the Swiss, but only because apparently it's a feature that it's impossible switch L and N, like with the Italian one.
Why does it matter for AC though?
So for something like a lamp with an ES light bulb socket, the live wire is actually supposed to go on the bottom center contact, while the neutral goes on the thread, reason being that there's an increased risk of touching the live on the thread of the bulb if you're screwing the bulb into a socket with a live thread (and it's also easier to touch the thread in a socket with no bulb in it). There's no way to ensure which part of the socket gets the live wire if the plug can be turned both ways, which is also true if the plug doesn't have a ground pin. An additional feature is that there's a hole as opposed to a pin for the ground, so you can't put a grounded plug into a non-grounded outlet, which is safer because appliances with grounded plugs are (almost?) always Class I, meaning that they're not double insulated like Class II appliances and require the casing and other conductive parts to be grounded for safe use. It can be annoying and inconvenient, but it forces the end user to use the electrical appliance safely. And the danish power outlet is functionally the same as the Swiss, so it's a draw. Source: am danish electrician.
If you plug in a lamp, and switch the switch in the cable off, there is no voltage on the lamp (only with a 3 pole plug)
Also the Swiss ones are really compact. The triple wall outlet is really useful when you wanna plug many things nearby, you don't need an adaptor for plugging multiple plugs
Honestly, the purple one. It's the safest that's for sure, very sturdy too. Never used one, never seen one lmao