When I spent some time in England in the good old days (about 30 years ago), you often got to screw your own plug onto the end of a power cord. Having random en

When I spent some time in England in the good old days (about 30 years ago), you often got to screw your own plug onto the end of a power cord. Having random end-users do that didn't seem nearly as safe as having a plug permanently molded onto the cord. Does that problem still exist? And then there were the fuse boxes with end-user-accessible wire in them.[1] If the circuit keeps tripping, then just use more wire strands when you replace the "fuse". I'm surprised that half of London (the older half) didn't burn down every year. :-) [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuse_%28electrical%29#UK http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuse_%28electrical%29#UK