About appliances "blowing up". Well, I must have gotten it wrong. (misinformation)
The only thing that still bothers me is: why in a british PLUG (not in the socket) do you HAVE to put the brown to the Live (which is fused) and the blue to the Neutral. It would be as safe the other way round.
[This message has been edited by Belgian (edited 10-20-2002).]