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DerekT-P wrote: Shouldn't make the lights go off.
If you have an earth-leakage circuit-breaker on your house/apartment's main electricity board (required in all Israeli construction), then it will shut off all electricity to the house/apartment. This includes lights and everything else.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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In the UK we have multiple circuits in the home; typically upstairs lights, upstairs sockets, downstairs lights, downstairs sockets; and often a separate one for cooker and/or shower. We use ring mains, rather than radial distribution, and each circuit is independent of the others. So when there's a problem with one thing, you can usually find your way to the problem because the lights are still on.
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I don't know the technical name, but the Israeli design for homes is as follows:
- A single connection (single-phase or three-phase) to the grid.
- This connection is protected by an earth-leakage circuit-breaker, which breaks the connection to the grid if earth leakage is detected.
- Behind the earth-leakage circuit-breaker, there are separate circuits (upstairs lights etc.), each protected by a fuse.
Most electrical faults trigger only the relevant fuse. The only time that I can recall the ground-fault circuit-breaker jumping was one winter, when we discovered that an external power point was inadequately waterproofed. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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So you have gone from deep thoughts to Deep Purple thoughts!
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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No play it like you know it even through the solo and she'll go up in smoke anyway.
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Since yesterday's CCC solution was Half Inch, being Cockney rhyming slang for Pinch.
The answer to OriginalGriff wrote: If your girlfriend asks you to play "Smoke on the water" should you not throw a toaster in her bath?
must be She'd be brown bread. (i.e. Toast, but also Cockney rhyming slang for Dead).
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I remember buying a book from Radio Shack about how to program graphics on the TRS-80 Model II.
That was in the '80s. Good times.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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yep. there was a small moment in time, where RadioShack was King.
then the internet came and all was lost.
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Those were the days. When people cared about documentation, when there was at least one cool electronics shop within biking distance, when people got together monthly for "user groups" that were hosted by big tech companies for free, when processors ran at 1 Mhz and that seemed fast enough.
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Ooo, I have a copy of this book somewhere.
I don't know why as I was more interested in the 6502.
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You were probably keeping an eye on the competition so you could disparage it!
6502/6510 ruled all of Britanica. (Ultima reference)
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Half inch is a common phrase meaning to take or steal ( pinch )
in is half of inch
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Didn't even get close to that ...
I look forward to tomorrows!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Was it too British ?
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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No, it was obvious once you told us! 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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It was a common phrase 40 or 50 years ago perhaps ...
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I would think most people would have heard of it - that said a good cruciverbalist would have got it from half inch (in) 
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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pkfox wrote: I would think most people would have heard of it
Well perhaps most Brits over a certain age. But this is an international site ...
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It is but it makes compiling clues even harder than they already are - I do try and make them fair 👀
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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And you are also far better at it than me. 
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I can just imagine all the whingeing if team clued for 6 (ice hockey) or 12 (Canadian gridiron).
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And the answer would be ?
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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