• Problem-based person@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      There’s xmas lights you can daisy-chain. People put them the wrong way around and end up with the female connector going to the outlet. Rather than fixing their mistake, they try to have a male-to-male wire made, hence “at this time of the year”.

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      Some people have whole house generators for when their power goes out for extended periods of time. The simplest/ bad way to connect the generator to the house is a male to male connector to the breaker box.

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      My guess would be to connect two strands of Christmas lights, since those tend to have a plug on one end and a socket on the other.