Have you seen a table lamp with thin zip-cord wired to a 15A BS546 plug? Now that really looks like overkill.....
You should visit South Africa sometime where everything hangs on one of these! They look perfectly normal after a while.
A lot of my 240V gear here in the US is still on these because I have not come across any 240V power strips, besides which all these plugs are paid for!
Here's the front of my bench: 240V left, 120V right:
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