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As an aside, the UK is a great tourist destination, especially if you leave London right after landing. Beautiful landscape, the best breakfast around, really

As an aside, the UK is a great tourist destination, especially if you leave London right after landing. Beautiful landscape, the best breakfast around, really nice people, tons of sights to see.

tsukikage 2y ago
...plenty of weather, scenic potholes, medieval plumbing and occasional trains.
monero-xmr 2y ago
Yes the end result of rich western nations that get strangled by government is to be a museum
- FredPret 2y ago
  I agree it’s tragic but out of all the ways a culture can strangle itself, museumification is the least horrible
  - stavros 2y ago
    There's always the option of, you know, not strangling itself.
    - pas 2y ago
      don't kinkshame the lovely people of the Isles, they apparently have a penchant for many things, like separate cold and hot water faucet and a bit of autoerotic asphyxiation.
      - rsynnott 2y ago
        > like separate cold and hot water faucet This was, oddly, for regulatory reasons; the concern was that a blocked mixer unit could cause hot water (considered potentially unsafe) to be forced into the mains supply (presumed safe). This hasn't been a concern with mixer designs for a long time, but it took til the 90s to get the rule changed.
        FredPret 2y ago
        The hot water was considered unsafe initially because early hot water cylinders over there were open tanks subject to incursion by vermin
        rsynnott 2y ago
        This is a weirdly persistent myth, but no, that's not the case (think about it; what would happen if you had an open hot water tank? It would cool down very quickly, and you'd have horrendous humidity problems). _Cold_ water tanks used to be like that (sometimes still are), which I suspect is where the confusion comes from. Hot water getting into the mains would be a concern anywhere; in particular, unless all equipment is in perfect working order, there's a legionnaires disease risk, but there are many other risks.
        pas 2y ago
        Thanks for the details! (Completely randomly just a few hours ago I got a many-many years old Tom Scott video recommended to me on YT about this topic.)
    - FredPret 2y ago
      That would be splendid although it seems to have been a controversial choice until recently
grogenaut 2y ago
Best Breakfast Around? That's not one I've heard touted before. Expand plz. The stereotypical british breakfast in my head is undercooked bacon, beans, hard cooked eggs.
- weberer 2y ago
  Yeah, the "Full English" breakfast is popular worldwide. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_breakfast https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_breakfast
- FredPret 2y ago
  You forgot the sausages! Compare and contrast to the "continental" "breakfast" which is usually a muffin.
  - wrboyce 2y ago
    And you forgot the black pudding! Not to mention tomatoes, mushrooms (if you insist) and of course fried bread and/or toast. I won’t complain if hash browns or white pudding make an appearance either. You can’t beat a good fry up!
    - deleted 2y ago
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As an aside, the UK is a great tourist destination, especially if you leave London right after landing. Beautiful landscape, the best breakfast around, really nice people, tons of sights to see.

tsukikage 2y ago

...plenty of weather, scenic potholes, medieval plumbing and occasional trains.

monero-xmr 2y ago

Yes the end result of rich western nations that get strangled by government is to be a museum

FredPret 2y ago
I agree it’s tragic but out of all the ways a culture can strangle itself, museumification is the least horrible
- stavros 2y ago
  There's always the option of, you know, not strangling itself.
  - pas 2y ago
    don't kinkshame the lovely people of the Isles, they apparently have a penchant for many things, like separate cold and hot water faucet and a bit of autoerotic asphyxiation.
    - rsynnott 2y ago
      > like separate cold and hot water faucet This was, oddly, for regulatory reasons; the concern was that a blocked mixer unit could cause hot water (considered potentially unsafe) to be forced into the mains supply (presumed safe). This hasn't been a concern with mixer designs for a long time, but it took til the 90s to get the rule changed.
      - FredPret 2y ago
        The hot water was considered unsafe initially because early hot water cylinders over there were open tanks subject to incursion by vermin
        rsynnott 2y ago
        This is a weirdly persistent myth, but no, that's not the case (think about it; what would happen if you had an open hot water tank? It would cool down very quickly, and you'd have horrendous humidity problems). _Cold_ water tanks used to be like that (sometimes still are), which I suspect is where the confusion comes from. Hot water getting into the mains would be a concern anywhere; in particular, unless all equipment is in perfect working order, there's a legionnaires disease risk, but there are many other risks.
      - pas 2y ago
        Thanks for the details! (Completely randomly just a few hours ago I got a many-many years old Tom Scott video recommended to me on YT about this topic.)
  - FredPret 2y ago
    That would be splendid although it seems to have been a controversial choice until recently

grogenaut 2y ago

Best Breakfast Around? That's not one I've heard touted before. Expand plz. The stereotypical british breakfast in my head is undercooked bacon, beans, hard cooked eggs.

weberer 2y ago
Yeah, the "Full English" breakfast is popular worldwide. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_breakfast https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_breakfast
FredPret 2y ago
You forgot the sausages! Compare and contrast to the "continental" "breakfast" which is usually a muffin.
- wrboyce 2y ago
  And you forgot the black pudding! Not to mention tomatoes, mushrooms (if you insist) and of course fried bread and/or toast. I won’t complain if hash browns or white pudding make an appearance either. You can’t beat a good fry up!
  - deleted 2y ago
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