@Stallion Curse you! Now that song is stuck in my head.
/me shakes fist

@bph Electrical tape to cover it.

@bph nothing a pair of pliers can't fix.

@bph You can't, but they aren't super bright or anything so I really can't imagine that the lights would ever actually annoy anyone, especially if they are in a place that the colors aren't annoying.

@Tin_Foil Agreed. They serve as a reminder of what we thought were stylish between 1977 and 1983.

@Stallion Give it a shot. Worst case scenario, you end up having to buy a new house.

@Stallion I think it's all good so long as you keep it under 15A. If your house burns down, I never wrote this reply.

@DJP519 Good question.

Wait, ORANGE light? Ugh.

@escapecar

@G1 *For all you SAE folks, a metric fucktonne converts to 117 threesomes, 4 uncomfortable one-night stands, and spectacular oral sex from an overweight man w/ a great personality.

Going the other direction, an SAE fuckton (sic) converts to ~941.66 centircourses.

I'm still working out the SAE assload-to-kilorectum conversion. Details to follow.

Weirdest. Grant. I. Ever. Got. Approved.

-Z-

@baqui63 That's what they called me in high school

I never would have guessed!

@mehdaf, it was the price.

@mehdaf Colour blind decorating is so much easier than picky woman decorating.

@Thumperchick "He who hesitates is..." lucky she missed the junky meh offering.

@comics360 I HAVE THE POWER! perfumed-colossal-fang

@SpenceMan01 seriously. and I'm kinda mad about it.

@ponagathos Exactly

@RedOx Dude, they have a GOD for that!?

So... Like... Harbor Freight is a sorta TEMPLE!? That... Well, that actually makes a weird kinda sense.

@ZenAtWork correct - the Temple of the Holy Busted Knuckle, domicile of the Shrapnel-in-Eye Djin where you can find the shrine of the Raging Rounded-Bolt.

@dptalia What does living on the east coast have to do with anything? I live on the east coast and I bought some and you could have too.

@dptalia Hordes of very meh, indifferent, blasé people on the east coast hover over the 'meh' button at 11:59 PM. We curse in unison as the page loads, and when (not if) we get Irk singing 'Something went terribly wrong', we get wildly excited, just in case. Even the day after a fuku, hope springs eternal. Come to the dark side, where all the Easter bunnies are delivered without ears, where Halloween bags always contain rocks, and all the birthday presents are socks. You too can change your life to revolve around midnight EST.

@tysontomko I was planning on using all 4 in one power strip and plugging in my space heater, laser printer, toaster, food dehydrator, hair dryer, and refrigerator. Should work okay, right?

@cengland0 I would plug one of these adapters into another adapter before plugging into the power-strip. That way you are just more protected. Safety first.

@tysontomko no desire to have a surge protector between the wall and your precious phones?

@cengland0 You still have 6 unused outlets! Are you sure you won't be running at least a vacuum cleaner, a blender, and a roaster oven at the same time too?

@OldCatLady Thanks. I needed that.
My order is envious-mystical-shame. How did they know?

@OldCatLady Friday will now and forever be "Furry Man Friday" to me.

@sammydog01 Or 'First Responder Friday', another great category.

@OldCatLady the paint is peeling in that room.

@OldCatLady He sure makes me yawny. ;)

@RedOak There's paint? And a room? Didn't notice.

@deg10204 today's Meh purchasers now collectively holding breath, hoping today's product is not the same as that Harbor Freight one.

@deg10204 those are the same that are at Dollar Tree, just in white.

@RedOak But... But... I like the pretty colors.

@clonetek It was called out in the specs:

•Orange nightlight with automatic light sensor turns on in the dark (ignore the packaging that says "soft white light," the light is orange)

@narfcake I didn't see that in the specs, but that's my fault. However, with that said, I'm still not sure how this could be considered a nightlight.

It's fine, I bought it for the plugs, but I was surprised and just how crappy the light is. I'm assuming that's how meh ended up with them.

@PurplePawprints Too bad the light's not red, then you would have your own mini Cylon Centurion nightlight.

@Barney Zooommg, you're right! That would have been worth all the monies. Also, the fact that you know this makes me adore you for more than just our shared love of purple.

@PurplePawprints Aww...

@narfcake "•Orange nightlight with automatic light sensor turns on in the dark"

Is there really an automatic light sensor on these things?

@fjp999 Yes, I took on apart to see what the "light" was. Not an LED, IMO. There is a light sensor on the left side as you face it.

I think you are a red marker away from a cylon nightlight.

@williamsbrenner soooooooo the light sensor BLOCKS a third of this night light from shining BRIGHT!

@fjp999 , no, the light sensor is about the size of a pencil eraser, just kinda wired and floating behind the lens. What keeps it from "shining" is the light source is a small glo bulb, as you might find in a lighted AC rocker switch on a outlet strip or power indicating wall switch. About 1/2 the size of a pencil eraser. It's totally unsuited for the task advertised. The miracle may be the lens, which makes the most of this "bulb" for sure.

@williamsbrenner Totally amazing description - I probably understand as I have a powerful nightlight with what you describe (from the power company). But the one I have seems to be a LED.

@DeadTaco Are there char marks or melted plastic that show which way the power went? Often when the smoke comes out, it leaves some evidence behind of what went wrong.

I recall a power strip failure involving smoke. The surge suppressor wiring inside the power strip was not insulated. The power strip had a metal case, and a lead on one of the MOVs shorted to the case. It blew a fuse. The smoke stuck to the case clearly indicated where the short was.

Post a picture of the damaged parts so we can see how it failed.

@DeadTaco Mine had a HORRIBLE smell of bad electronics! It wasn't a smell of bad plastic, I didn't think. Very odd.

Sorry to hear you had trouble.

Really terrible night light also. NOT even at all - with at least a third of the light missing just like the photo above shows.

@hamjudo Not really easy to tell which way the current decided to go, but here's the inlet that died. The power outlet is one of the black ones and very hard to see the char marks. On a side note, I recall most of the smoke coming out of the left side of the outlet.

@DeadTaco Thanks for posting this. Better to be safe than sorry; mine are going into the trash.

@DeadTaco That convinced me too. Perhaps meh would like them back? I've only opened one so far, but I don't have anything disposable to test it on. With. Whatever. Wait, somewhere I do have a circuit tester, but I'd just as soon not fry it deliberately.

@OldCatLady I was thinking the same thing. I opened one, but now a bit scared to use it.

@DeadTaco Have you let meh's customer service know about it? It'll give them something to do on an otherwise boring Monday. Seriously, they're good about responding to Situations.

@DeadTaco all the scorch marks are pointing at the prongs. The full AC power is supposed to go to the prongs. I was hoping to see smoke indicating power in the wrong place.
We could blame the triple outlet adapter, if there was an exposed piece of metal with AC power on it. We can't blame the adapter for providing AC power at the three AC outlets.

@hamjudo I opened it up to take a look at what popped. It looks like the positive rail got pushed into the negative rail because the prongs inside were mashed up. There is a nice scorch mark and melted copper where the two touched. Just really bad luck for me.
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@DeadTaco Thanks for the images.

Was the phone killed in the encounter, or by dead phone, you just meant the battery was still dead?

@hamjudo I should have updated my post. The phone wouldn't charge at all so I assumed it was toast, but it looks like it's just the charger that isn't working anymore. Luckily I have many spares. The phone charged fine when I plugged in one of the spares and gave me a sigh of relief.

@DeadTaco That makes much more sense.

In addition to the smoke, there was a lot of heat. A chunk of the copper was vaporized. That happens at a much higher temperature than the melting point of solder. I can think of a few ways that that much heat could have damaged the plug on your charger.

You have a good case for saying that Meh owes you a replacement charger.

@hamjudo If Meh.com was the manufacturer then I'd agree, but they're just a reseller and not really responsible if something explodes. They've been so good to me in the past that I have no hard feelings whatsoever. I just wanted to get the word out that this certain product may kill your robot butler.