… how do you get water that is neither scolding hot or freezing?
In the UK, the warm water systems are not considered safe for drinking water; thus you don’t mix.
A bit backwards, but not the most backward thing in the UK.
Run, or you risk seeing a shower.
It is perfect for having the right temperature in the drain or if you want to have one hand freezing and the other one burning hot.
In older houses, hot water was heated by a separate tank in the house to the cold “normal” water system. This hot water may not be 100% safe to drink if there are contaminants in the tank, so taps are separated between the safe “potable” cold water, and the possibly undrinkable hot water.
I though it was always cold on the left and hot on the right? Unless this picture has been flipped?
Why are they getting confused about our sinks?
Jesus. Good luck understanding these things we sleep in. We call them “beds”.
Sigh. You don’t understand how it’s supposed to work. You’re supposed to move your hands following a high frequency two phase sinusoidal signal between the two faucets. The amplitude should be equal to the space between them. The frequency should be high (> 10 kHz) in order to meld together the hot / cold nervous signal before they get to reach beyond the four inches layer of fat and alcohol that cover the typical British brain. You can then apply a phase modulation on your movement so that your hand stay longer on the hot or cold side in order to set the desired temperature.
Legend tells that to reach the ideal temperature, your phase modulation must contains a “God Save The Queen'” music, transmitted as a 16 bit PCM audio stream encoded to an AC3 (at least 128kb/s, muxed into TS) stream, modulated under the DVB-T2 standard (256 QAM).
Barry, is it even practical?
Just don’t start making fun of their weird, bulky plugs and sockets. Then they’ll have nothing to be proud of anymore.
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They’re for washing things. You wouldn’t get it.
… how do you get water that is neither scolding hot or freezing?
In the UK, the warm water systems are not considered safe for drinking water; thus you don’t mix.
A bit backwards, but not the most backward thing in the UK.
Run, or you risk seeing a shower.
It is perfect for having the right temperature in the drain or if you want to have one hand freezing and the other one burning hot.
In older houses, hot water was heated by a separate tank in the house to the cold “normal” water system. This hot water may not be 100% safe to drink if there are contaminants in the tank, so taps are separated between the safe “potable” cold water, and the possibly undrinkable hot water.
I though it was always cold on the left and hot on the right? Unless this picture has been flipped?
Why are they getting confused about our sinks?
Jesus. Good luck understanding these things we sleep in. We call them “beds”.
Sigh. You don’t understand how it’s supposed to work. You’re supposed to move your hands following a high frequency two phase sinusoidal signal between the two faucets. The amplitude should be equal to the space between them. The frequency should be high (> 10 kHz) in order to meld together the hot / cold nervous signal before they get to reach beyond the four inches layer of fat and alcohol that cover the typical British brain. You can then apply a phase modulation on your movement so that your hand stay longer on the hot or cold side in order to set the desired temperature.
Legend tells that to reach the ideal temperature, your phase modulation must contains a “God Save The Queen'” music, transmitted as a 16 bit PCM audio stream encoded to an AC3 (at least 128kb/s, muxed into TS) stream, modulated under the DVB-T2 standard (256 QAM).
Barry, is it even practical?
Just don’t start making fun of their weird, bulky plugs and sockets. Then they’ll have nothing to be proud of anymore.
https://preview.redd.it/rl0uc505bs1d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5a62ddbad4651807d8020ee6c83af439f5d91e87
This is why
It’s for washing your hands after you use the toilet. I wouldn’t expect a bog-dwelling mutant like yourself to understand
Hot water in the UK is sometimes not considered clean enough to drink, but the sewage-contaminated stuff coming out of the other tap apparently is.
These are for old houses only
well you see, these are called “sinks”, we use them to wash dishes and to keep ourselves clean.