Having moved to the UK a few years ago, I have to say that, bulky though they may be, I&#x27;ve grown quite fond of the British plugs. Switches on the sockets, fuses on the plugs, sockets that mechanically require the ground pin to make contact (in theory, anyway. You can have a plastic ground pin...) before the live pins enter the socket. There&#x27;s actually a fairly large amount of security built into them!