There's something not right with the Brits - Home security
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Red on Mon May 05, 2008 3:09 am
There's something not right with the Brits.
The cartoon jailor key opens the front door to my house.
And that's not right.
There's something not right with the Brits - Hot Water
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Red on Mon May 05, 2008 3:01 am
There's something not right with the Brits. They can't even get water right.
There is an enforced law on the books that says that you can’t have hot and cold water lines mix. This can be waived in your house, but in places like the office, they have to be separate.
This is because the hot water tank can have germs in it, and needs to be protected from the safe-drinking cold line.
Pure unadulterated hot and potable cold water that must remain separate. As a matter of convenience, they often come to the same spigot. Two small orifices side by side, one with refreshing chilly water, one with scalding hot.
So, you want to wash your hands with some reasonably hot water. You turn on the spigots, give your hands a quick rinse, then apply soap to your wet hands. In the time it takes to build up a lather, the taps have gotten to a steady-state temperature. You rinse off your hands and simultaneously freeze and scald your hands. The goddamn water is both hot and cold at the same time.
So, the new method of washing your hands is to turn on the hot tap only, and rinse your hands until the water gets too hot to tolerate, and call it a day. This takes just a few seconds, so your diligent hand washing has been reduced to a quick damping.
This forced bastardization of the hand washing procedure practically eliminates any germ killing. This spreads more germs than mixing hot and cold lines ever could.
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