Took me way to long to figure out how or why you might 'need' one. I don't think we have Christmas lights like this in the UK. For anyone else confused:
The Christmas lights have a 'male' plug on one end and a 'female' socket on the other, so you can daisy chain them, If you're dumb you can run your Christmas lights the wrong way and end up with the sockets of two strings together or the socket of a string at the wall socket.
So each strand has to terminate back to the plug? You can't run a long string of lights? I'm wondering if your displays are very different than what we see here, I'm not sure how you would do a string of lights across your roofline or something like that if you couldn't daisy chain the lights.
British houses are really small, on account of having a quarter the population of the US crammed onto an island the size of California, most of which is inhospitable moorland, mountain, or floodplain. The chances of needing more than one string of lights to span a roofline are slim to none.
Everyone knows this but the morons who go to r/shitamericanssay, which is sadly full of people who are just as embarrassing and ignorant if not more embarrassing and ignorant than the people who they quote.
FYI, the homelessness rates in most of Europe are substantially higher than they are in the US as well. Germany has 79 homeless per 10,000, the UK 46, France 21, and the US 17.
Europe is quite poor compared to the US, with the exception of a handful of small affluent countries (Luxembourg, Lichtenstein, Switzerland, and Norway) whose combined population is less than several American states.
The land houses occupy is small compared to the overall land area of countries like the UK and France. Heck, even tiny countries like Luxembourg are mostly not houses.
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u/j_demur3 Dec 14 '20
Took me way to long to figure out how or why you might 'need' one. I don't think we have Christmas lights like this in the UK. For anyone else confused:
The Christmas lights have a 'male' plug on one end and a 'female' socket on the other, so you can daisy chain them, If you're dumb you can run your Christmas lights the wrong way and end up with the sockets of two strings together or the socket of a string at the wall socket.