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True, but OTOH, if you stand on a US one, the pins will often get bent. Best thing is to avoid standing on plugs :)

> if you stand on a US one, the pins will often get bent.

That would be the point. Better to damage a plug slightly than get the plug through your feet.

When I was 14 years old, I went through a growth spurt and often passed out when I got up too quickly. One day, I got out of bed in a hurry, passed and and came to lying next to a broken (UK) plug, with a very sore head. It appeared that I had fallen head first onto the prongs of the upturned plug. Looking back, I was lucky not to have done myself a serious injury. A disadvantage of UK plugs versus those in other countries.

Just leave them plugged in, UK sockets have on/off switches.