Electricity!: Live from La Farine CCIV: June 25, 2014
Twitter / kjhealy: @dsquareddigest @EpicureanDeal ...:
The British fear electricity, and guard against it using giant red switches and a plug the size of the USS Missouri. http:://pic.twitter.com/EFWpOEF1Ra
Paweł Morski @Pawelmorski: @kjhealy @delong if our kettles took an hour to boil, I wouldn't mention other people's electricity.
Ryan Avent @ryanavent: @Pawelmorski @kjhealy @delong And yet the electric dryers here can run for 12 hours straight without managing to dry anything...
Paweł Morski @Pawelmorski: @ryanavent @kjhealy @delong buy a washing line like normal people
Ryan Avent @ryanavent: @Pawelmorski @kjhealy @delong I'll get right on that as soon as I find the bus that takes me to the 19th century.
Dan Davies @dsquareddigest: @ryanavent @Pawelmorski @kjhealy @delong stop pretending you know what a bus does.
Ryan Avent @ryanavent: @dsquareddigest @Pawelmorski @kjhealy @delong The number on the front is the minimum height to ride, if I'm not mistaken, in centimeters.
Dan Davies @dsquareddigest: @ryanavent @Pawelmorski @kjhealy @delong stop pretending you know what a centimetre is
Epicurean Dealmaker @EpicureanDeal: @dsquareddigest @ryanavent @Pawelmorski @kjhealy @delong Your plug-in electric tea kettles are pretty cool, though.
Dan Davies @dsquareddigest: @EpicureanDeal @ryanavent @Pawelmorski @kjhealy @delong I have a kettle that you don't even have to plug in. We call them "iPhones".
Kieran Healy @kjhealy: @dsquareddigest @EpicureanDeal @ryanavent @Pawelmorski @delong See how a Valley startup plans to disrupt kettles with this burning stick...."