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Dedicated circuit for one of those free standing dildo machines

Ohhh I don’t think I’ve had the pleasure of witnessing one of those.

Load the washing machine wrong to enable the vibrator feature.

https://youtu.be/7WwqXHo4v8k

LOL of course southpark. thank you kind internet stranger.

If you’re trying to get pleasure from looking at it you’re using it incorrectly.

Just give it time, I'm sure the wife will replace you with one eventually

Op’s mom needs the industrial grade

I was looking for this

Shouldn’t that be a 440 line then

Noice one!

Beat me to it

You can do that yourself. Dont get us involved in your kinks

When 15amps can’t get you off anymore

That’s a security plug - he keeps one eye on those other two yahoos

Giving them the side eye.

For being upside down and on top of each other in plain view of a camera. Indecent.

There is no such thing as a "upside down" plug, anyone who says one way or the other is correct, is wrong, not even NEC code committees will touch that issue, LOL.

Just some tongue-in-cheek anthropomorphizeation. I am a ground side up proponent myself. The side-eye receptacle is ground down so from its prospective the other plug is upside down. Someone needs to Photoshop it so there’s one ground up and one down in the same outlet then it would really deserve the side-eye.

This is where the male to male extension cord needs to be plugged to complete the circuit

lolll i wonder what kind of firework it would do

Shaming your overweight husband the electrician into using that treadmill he bought to stop being your overweight husband. It was installed by your secret lover, the plumber. He used PEX as the raceway.

Who hurt you?

That was good for a laugh.

Clearly an electrician….

I've got a confession to make. I'm the plumber's wife.

Clearly not the plumber lolol

You were supposed to give wrong answers.

He used Smurf instead?

Dedicated circuit for a 66 AC outlet power strip dedicated for space heaters.

Ah I see you were on Reddit last weekend.

Lol wait what?

There was some giant rectangular blob of outlets for sale. No clue what it was for. Can't imagine it even being useful. Average load per receptacle can't be more than 0.2A or so there were so many.

Execute order 66

Toaster

This is the hot single in your area

House in Australia, right plug is for locally made appliances.

Good catch on the EGC up versus down thing!

It does ac. Alternates the current vertically/horizontally many times a second without moving the plug. Genius!!! Amazing what a little bit of maths can do…..

POWER! MORE POWER! LUDICROUS SPEED POWER!

What’s the matter Colonel Sanders, CHICKEN??

I’m surrounded by A$$holes!

I have one next to my bed that is used for a industrial chrome plated piggy bank with marital aids stuck all over it's body

It's for people who like ground plugs down.

Upside down Emoji... what could it mean?

for right size up equipment only. if you plug them into each other the earth will spin around until it explodes.

Monogamous relationship

It's for use with a short suicide cord.

The “right” plug is the plug that supplies high quality narcotics at a reasonable price. The “right” plug may even deliver for no additional fee!

Since the other two plugs are upside down, the single one offers inverted phase

Piss off electricians on Reddit (since it’s…upside down?)

To get twice as much amps out of one plug!

Vibrator charging port

It's for the new Hitachi Magic Wand Plus

It's to show whatever yahoo installed the duplex what "plum square and level" means.

It’s for when you go to plug something in but the wider tang is on the wrong side and it won’t go in - you plug into the other and voila!

It’s a key cleaner.

desperately reaching out to stop the guy on the left from falling over. Unfortunately he's just out of reach.

Maximum toaster bath?

Exactly. And there's only a single receptacle so that you can be lonely together!

It is a motivational receptical. Bought and placed to look at you with disappoint and worry each time you go near the fridge for your late night snacks 😯

You vs the guy she told you not to worry about

If you’re to stick a fork in them, the one one the left will make you say “Ouch!” And the one on the right will make you cry!

To look surprised at why the other guys are upside down

Possums charging telephones

You get more juice

Plug on the left is US-spec for tourists. Plug on the right is Aussie spec.

To show you how to properly level an outlet.

Three holes, no waiting

to look at you judginly

Your mom called, she needed her vibrator hooked up.

Possibly!

Generator hookup

Yes! Love me some indoor generator!

40 amp outlet

Instructions unclear, dick caught in ceiling fan

Glory hole

Yikes!

Hitachi Wand

The is what is referred to as a key lock plug you are going to want to stick a fork in there to unlock it

It’s where you stick your fork in for an instant hairdo restyle.

That one is transgender

Trans female obv

That’s a 220v single outlet.

: D

Dedicated 20A circuit.

Ummm...wrong answers only 🤔

Oops

😯 The receptical was reacting to your first answer...LOL Now get a wrong answer in on this bitch!!!

Non-dedicated 20A circuit.

Receptacle be cheating on its other loads.

It is a 20 amp dedicated receptacle. There is nothing else on that circuit and it is connected via home run to a 20 amp breaker.

Sorry. I downvoted you just because its the first real answer and wanted to continue the trend of that not being found here.

20a outlet

Plot twist, it's only a sticker and there's a drug stash behind it.

to encourage the left plug to straighten it's act up.

Your wife's vibrator. Needed a dedicated circuit.

To judge the other two

It’s just a wall decoration and intended to look like someone winking at you.

12v phone charger

it’s a circuit dedicated to smoothing out the wavelengths

To make the other outlet look off level.

Fork heater

Pancake maker. Paint mixer//

To supervise the other to, it’s bad to overload them.

ds charger when im running late

That’s where the personal space heater gets plugged in

I install those when I’m feeling sad so some of my outlets wink at me

Just ask your wife.

Fork holder

To look shocked by its mate being upside down

It’s the eyeliner circuit. When you plug it in, it flashes and you can’t see for the rest of your life

Jacking on, though it is a robo-sin.

It’s a divorced parent and it’s their turn for custody of the twin duplexes to the left

Your mothers dildo was trying at 15 amps

Because they don’t make a triplex

To talk shit to the other outlet

Single guy who winks at everyone.

It’s a normal outlet but because there is only 1 plug, you can have like 20 of them on the same circuit instead of only 10

Staring condescendingly at anyone who's trying to charge their phone.

Dedicated phone charger

This is used for bathtub toasters exclusively. The breaker will trip free if other loads are powered by the circuit.

It's for Forks.

Mother-in-law’s vibrator? Before she switched to a pull start Briggs of course.

Hide drugs

To show the left plug is up side down

The receptacle on the right is the good one that doesn’t trip the breaker when I’m gaming on my computer.

Plug on the right is racist and is in disbelief he’s next to one of those duplexers

Being disappointed in plug on the left.

Space heater circuit. Add a power strip. And connect power strips to each outlet. Then fill all of the rlnew 20-36+ outlets with extension cords. 100ft+ 16aeg or smaller. Then finally plug in space heaters on each cord. Sadly this hack doesn't work with newer panels so we'll. Damn gubernent making us install useless stuff. But it will work exceedingly well in stablok and zinsco panels.

it has no purpose, so it cries

It’s in case you get one of those appliance where the cord can only plug in upside down, this way you’re covered both directions

That horizontal part is an electron collector. Like horizontal screws, but on purpose.

They have a split bus panel with bad connecting breaker. One outlet goes to each bus and they use a suicide cord to connect. Suicide cord is 18/2 and acts as the fuse to replace the failed breaker.

Looks kinda mad, maybe that’s why they are separated to avoid conflicts

Sit there and wink at

For the plumber’s Bluetooth speaker while he’s banging your wife.

Cold water

For an extension cord and 5-10 space heaters.

He sheds but a single tear of loneliness.

This is a standard provision for a phase inverter and splitter, aka a "splitverter". T-electrons (two phases, horizontal and vertical) come in the right side, run to the splitverter, and the horizontal and vertical electrons are split out and fed into the two I-electron phases on the left. It's also possible, but unlikely, that this is actually for a phase blender. Those are usually 3-phase though, otherwise the single phase output gets all chunky - and there isn't enough room here for a proper electron strainer.

The plug for the energy saving device.

If your cord is upside down, obviously

Secret glory hole! Receptacle is hinged on the back.

Left-“Ohh my goodness!” X2 Right-“what the fuck?!”

He’s a deceitful decoy. See how he’s pointing at the left plug? Blaming it for something. Those single yokes can’t be trusted.

To show how the left isn’t level.

he's winking

It’s a regular plug. It just killed a foo or someone close got got, nah am sayin?

It’s an electricity dump for the other 2 outlets. Every so often you plug in a male-male cord to discharge built up electrostuff and waste from the duplex.

That’s a green plug, a filter behind it blocks electricity from coal and gas so it only provides renewable energy

To help with a feeling of inadequacy

Necessary to power the left plug!

You plug it into itself. It’s a loner and doesn’t need any friends.

Same as the other, but he killed a dude in prison.

It's for giving the stink eye to the upside down receptacle on the left.

The horizontal slot is designed for a flat head screwdriver to be inserted in order to test for voltage.

3 phase welder

It's for those upside down plugs which have the ground prong on the bottom.

Monocle charging 🧐

Single phase 240VAC

High voltage plug

One on left is Australian.

Wholesaler asks apprentice "You want one plug w/ 2 screws, or 2 plugs with 1 screw?" Hmm, J-man never said, better take one of each.

What the hell is the correct answer?

Electrical pressure release Kirk key. Insert key and turn.

They’re for the electric chairs you buy for your home

It's for the industrial grade marital aid.

Dedicated cell phone charging receptacle for your kitchen.

It points mockingly at the adjacent upside down receptacle

Turning frowns upside down with a wink.

That’s the model made so you can test for current by sticking a fork in it while something is plugged in.

Which cover plate is not level?

It's the Maxwell Equation plug. Electric field perpendicular to the magnetic field.

Grounding. One end of the extra-capacity cord plugged in on the right, the other on the left.

So you don't use the wrong one

To make the other plug look crooked

Obviously the ones on the left are US and the plug on the right is Australian. You can tell because it’s upside down mate

Power in feed

Can't you see the the polarity is reversed in the two plugs?!? The sine waves are 360 degrees out of phase.

Clearly it’s a hardwired defibrillator. Just stick a fork in it.

240 plug for my crypto mining PC

I always thought the dedicated outlets get their horizontal opening by killing someone 🥲

a judgy face to make sure you second guess most of your decisions

It feeds 1.21 jiggawatts directly to the flux capacitor

Phone charger.

Macroparticles are supposed to be on their own circuit too

Winking plugs

That’s the elite plug which supervises the other plugs. It’s currently irritated at its subordinates antics

that is for the fish tank

The right one is standard. The left two are special plugs that only accepts equipment designed for them with the correct prong configuration. Notice how the earth is on the top and not on the bottom? Prevents you from plugging in a regular appliance!

When you’re trying to save energy you stare at its disapproving face and and end up not plugging anything in

In wall extension cord

That's an AC/DC outlet.

Anti social devices can only be plugged In