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Dear sir, I live in London and I can assure you that we do have mixing taps. We keep installing separate ones for the amusement of the foreigners looking for th
by surfingdino 3y ago
Dear sir, I live in London and I can assure you that we do have mixing taps. We keep installing separate ones for the amusement of the foreigners looking for the remnants of the British Empire.
- shiroiushi 3y agoIn all seriousness, maybe this is some online meme or something, but I have read British people online defend the separate taps: something about the hot water being non-potable or something. Maybe it's only in older buildings?
- surfingdino 3y agoIt's a made-up media story. In the old days cold water came from the mains and hot water came from a storage tank in the loft where it could be contaminated and for that reason hot water was considered unsafe for drinking. Another reason was difference in pressure which could force water coming from one source into another.
- HPsquared 3y agoUK building regulations being extra cautious. Like the fused power plugs.
- surfingdino 3y agoThe best power plugs in the world, sir.
- shiroiushi 3y agoI hope you're joking, because they're really not (partially because of their ridiculous size, but mostly because of the dumb fuses). The best power plugs are the (northern) European "schuko" plugs, although they're still a compromise. The idea of having separate fuses in each plug is ridiculous; any decent modern electrical system uses circuit breakers at a central point to protect whole circuits from overcurrent conditions.