this is what i fucking get for living in a place that was built in the 60s and never had its electrical wiring renewed
@tom fuck this reminds me of some friends of mine, their old house had some issues with the lights blowing out constantly, and Miq used to be an electrician, so he's like "ah let me check it out I might be able to work out what's going on at least". Popped open the light switch in question, pulled it out, took ONE look at the ALL RED WIRES, put it back in and went "NOPE. Call an entire team of electricians holy shitfuck."
@tom It was a council house tho so they got to call the Council and go "hey uh, our wiring definitely needs looking at, send some people down please."
and they eventually did.
and the electricians looked at the ALL RED WIRING THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE HOUSE and went "...uh... yeah so... do you have a place to stay in the meantime cause this is gonna take a while" c_c;
ENTIRE house needed rewiring to standard.