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   Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Jun-2023 23:17:02 JST Eugen Rochko

   • かき@GNUsocialJP

   I’m in a hotel room where the sink has separate taps for hot and cold water, opposite sides of the basin. How are you supposed to use it?

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     Play Ball and Fight Fascists (cafechatnoir@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Jun-2023 23:18:15 JST Play Ball and Fight Fascists

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     @Gargron
     Plug the drain and fill the basin.

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     Hasko 🇪🇺🦄🌻 (lontrachen@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Jun-2023 23:19:29 JST Hasko 🇪🇺🦄🌻

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     @Gargron these words are not in the bible

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     Stefan Scholl (stefan_s_from_h@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Jun-2023 23:19:34 JST Stefan Scholl

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     @Gargron Don't drink the hot water! That's what I've learned from a Tom Scott video about the taps in England.

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     Artyom Senna (irishcarbomb@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Jun-2023 23:20:09 JST Artyom Senna

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     @Gargron only english people can answer. 😂

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     星辰宇宙中的sine(再也不想写论文啦) (divinercecilia@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Jun-2023 23:21:16 JST 星辰宇宙中的sine(再也不想写论文啦)

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     @Gargron 这题我会，我们小时候有个应用题，一个水池子，一边一个水龙头放水，一个水龙头出水，最后算水什么时候充满这个池子，你也可以整一个，

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     Marc Robinson :mastodon: (marcintosh@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Jun-2023 23:21:58 JST Marc Robinson :mastodon:

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     @Gargron My Dad got one of these. https://www.amazon.co.uk/RETROMIXER-adaptor-separate-kitchen-bathroom/dp/B072Y7XVDY?th=1

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     Jack Yan (甄爵恩) (jackyan@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Jun-2023 23:22:16 JST Jack Yan (甄爵恩)

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     @Gargron Run them simultaneously to get the temperature you want. This was the norm when I was growing up.

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     Brynawel (brynawel@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Jun-2023 23:22:25 JST Brynawel

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     @Gargron
     LOL! You are in UK?

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     Dik Fraser (dikfraser@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Jun-2023 23:23:02 JST Dik Fraser

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     @Gargron close the drain, run h & c to taste, use warm water for whatever, open drain, rinse sink if socially woke, wonder why you started this thread.

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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Jun-2023 23:24:08 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     • djsumdog
     I hate those too, so annoying and I can’t imagine it would cost too much to upgrade them.
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     djsumdog (djsumdog@djsumdog.com)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Jun-2023 23:24:09 JST djsumdog

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     Those were common in Australia/New Zealand. I hated those. They were from an era where people would fill up the sink first.
     
     You can always rig a plastic bottle
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     Simon (embraboy@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Jun-2023 23:24:58 JST Simon

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     @Gargron Some careful tap dancing required

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     MJ (wpgne@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Jun-2023 23:25:41 JST MJ

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     @Gargron Tom Scott gives a pretty good explanation for why this still is the case in Britain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfHgUu_8KgA
     I used to have them in my old home too in one washroom -- you stop up the drain and let the two streams mix in the sink, then use that water.

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     Jorge Candeias (jorgecandeias@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Jun-2023 23:26:33 JST Jorge Candeias

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     @Gargron Been there, done that.

     Sometimes you just open the hot tap and just use it while the water gets warmer and warmer, shifting to the cold tap if it gets too hot.

     If hot water is too quick to come, you just use the cold tap. Or cup cold water in your hands and add quick spashes of hot water to it until it's warm enough.

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     Fuck Elon :mastodon: (fuckelon@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Jun-2023 23:26:45 JST Fuck Elon :mastodon:

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     @Gargron

     "Hardcore" plumbing.

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     Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Jun-2023 23:27:06 JST Eugen Rochko

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     Thanks for the answers; indeed, I’m in the UK. Plugging the sink is exactly what we did, I was just curious if that was the canonical method.

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     Davide Aversa :fatpikachu: (thek3nger@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Jun-2023 23:27:37 JST Davide Aversa :fatpikachu:

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     @Gargron With a simple hack.

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     karlggest (karlggestd@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Jun-2023 23:27:37 JST karlggest

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     @Gargron
     Carefully

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     stx (stx@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Jun-2023 23:28:38 JST stx

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     @Gargron like this!

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     jayknight@mastodon.social's status on Wednesday, 14-Jun-2023 23:29:01 JST jayknight

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     @Gargron
     How? Not sure... But why? Here's Tom Scott: https://youtu.be/HfHgUu_8KgA

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     Steve Fenton ➜ (stevefenton@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Jun-2023 23:29:11 JST Steve Fenton ➜

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     @Gargron you burn one hand and freeze the other - but your face gets nice warm water.

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     Urban (banur@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Jun-2023 23:30:27 JST Urban

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     @Gargron
     One Hand cold, the other hot, and then rub them together...

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     Jordan (Damn Good Tech) 4hire (damngoodtech@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Jun-2023 23:33:46 JST Jordan (Damn Good Tech) 4hire

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     @Gargron While I've never been over in the UK I experienced a sink like this only once in the US at a university I attended.

     It was in the athletic building. Literally the only bathroom on the entire campus that had that sink, and it was the only type of sink in the bathroom. Never understood why they didn't replace it. Further didn't understand how to properly use it.

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     Max (maxed9@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Jun-2023 23:40:28 JST Max

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     @Gargron just leaving UK, know the struggle, but the last Hotel in Glasgow had a one hand mixee tap, all the other hotels or B&Bs were the old style. But it doesn't bothered me, it is hot enough atm for just using the cold water. 😂

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     Minkiu (minkiu@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Jun-2023 23:46:39 JST Minkiu

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     @Gargron I turn on both, and move my hands from one to the other like a pendulum while seething through my teeth when the scorching hot water burns my skin.

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     jonnydeane (jonnydeane@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Jun-2023 23:47:22 JST jonnydeane

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     @Gargron Weirdly, mixer taps have become pretty normal in the UK these days except where foreigners might need to use a sink. I think it might be deliberate trolling.

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     serklarvel@mastodon.social's status on Wednesday, 14-Jun-2023 23:53:59 JST serklarvel

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     @Gargron you have to open both taps and switch your hands quickly between them, from hot to cold then hot water etc. Repeat this until you your hands are free from the soap.

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     Matthew (mrblissett@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jun-2023 00:08:24 JST Matthew

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     @Gargron
     You get your mix on, in the basin.

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     JustChapman (justchapman@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jun-2023 00:17:42 JST JustChapman

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     @Gargron with skill and determination?

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     Scott1984FP (scott1984fp@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jun-2023 00:26:40 JST Scott1984FP

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     @Gargron ,Uk Stupidity Likely, Taps Linked To Some CONSERVATISM Friends Decades To Centuries Ago, & Won't Change To Mixed In One Sensible Taps Either 😞

     Enjoy #Uk ,However Its Not My Chose Of Countries, & I Sadly Lived In Uk All My Life Too 😞

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     Indigo (1ndig0@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jun-2023 00:29:16 JST Indigo

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     @Gargron you just turn both on and run your hands back and forth between the taps….

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     Borys Pierov (ashald@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jun-2023 00:30:21 JST Borys Pierov

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     @Gargron I need to see this! 🤣

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     3dcandy (3dcandy@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jun-2023 00:43:36 JST 3dcandy

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     @Gargron Welcome to the UK and welcome to the best way to use a sink! Once you get used to it you won't go back....

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     Marcel Abraas (kritischelezer@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jun-2023 00:47:06 JST Marcel Abraas

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     @Gargron All sinks will look like this in the future. It prevents the wasteful practice of e.g. washing your face with the tap running. Save water. Don't cross the streams.

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     Samer Farha (samerfarha@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jun-2023 00:50:58 JST Samer Farha

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     @Gargron welcome to England!

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     joan faires (flutterby@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jun-2023 00:59:42 JST joan faires

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     @Gargron it's kind of like doing the hokey pokey except with your hands over the sink instead of over your knees.

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     Andreas K (yacc143@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jun-2023 02:19:42 JST Andreas K

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     @Gargron
     https://www.amazon.co.uk/RETROMIXER-adaptor-separate-kitchen-bathroom/dp/B071CVWFJ1

     Don't ask why it's an Amazon UK link.

     Well technically you can fill up the sink a bit, and mix the water to a bearable temperature.

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     Alan Brookland (alanbrookland@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jun-2023 02:21:44 JST Alan Brookland

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     @Gargron Canonical behaviour is start with the hot for the second or so before it's scalding, then switch to the cold while complaining under your breath about why can't we have bloody mixer taps.

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     Tony Wells (tonyjwells@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jun-2023 02:24:00 JST Tony Wells

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     @Gargron It's embarrassing (for me) how many people realised you were in the UK.

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     Peter Adams (praest76@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jun-2023 02:33:11 JST Peter Adams

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     @Gargron How to say you are in the UK without saying you are in the UK...

     If you haven't had the "continental breakfast" yet, prepare for disappointment.

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     snadylady@mastodon.social's status on Thursday, 15-Jun-2023 02:48:22 JST snadylady

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     @Gargron you sound like a college grad LOL

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     Andreas K (yacc143@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jun-2023 02:51:16 JST Andreas K

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     @Gargron Well, don't tell the Britons, but when our daughter had her "English language week", we actually had to sign a waiver that included that we acknowledge gems like "UK building standards are not up to European standards" (that was before the BrExit referendum).

     But yes they still install appliances like lamps permanently connected to the wall plug (with a cable that cannot be unplugged). Here in AT we stopped that for washing machines 25 years ago or so.

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     Sandhu (sandhu@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jun-2023 02:53:43 JST Sandhu

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     @Gargron plugging sink and using that water is gross though.

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     Eshu Marneedi (eshumarneedi@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jun-2023 03:26:11 JST Eshu Marneedi

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     @Gargron “Oy mate we need to install a mixer tap eh?”

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     Danie van der Merwe (danie10@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jun-2023 05:27:19 JST Danie van der Merwe

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     @Gargron that's what the basin part is for ;-)

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     iris ✿ sandwalker (irisherself@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jun-2023 05:56:12 JST iris ✿ sandwalker

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     @Gargron welcome to my life mate 😬 #downunder

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     Franziska von Breitenbuch ⛵ (franziskavonbreitenbuch@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jun-2023 06:11:36 JST Franziska von Breitenbuch ⛵

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     @Gargron close the drain. Fill it from both sides to a suitable temperature. Wash and drain.
     All sinks used to be like this 😁

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     Catherine (mowcherie@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jun-2023 12:16:41 JST Catherine

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     @Gargron I turn on both taps halfway. I cup my hands and fill halfway with the cold, then add the hot on top. Then I rub the mix all over my hands. Repeat with soap and then repeat to rinse.

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     Purple_Sky (purple_sky@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 15-Jun-2023 21:58:05 JST Purple_Sky

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     @Gargron

     Don't tell me the next public statement is about sockets—to plug-in any cables—free of charge.

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     Deadly Headshot (dheadshot@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 16-Jun-2023 04:15:01 JST Deadly Headshot

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     @Gargron Isn't that normal? It is here...

     If you want cold water, you use cold and hot water for hot. You aren't expected to want to mix them...

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     Deadly Headshot (dheadshot@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 16-Jun-2023 04:15:59 JST Deadly Headshot

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     @Gargron So maybe it *was* you I saw at the station the other day?! I just assumed from all the other times that there are a lot of people who look like you...

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     Toni :mastodon: (coloco@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 16-Jun-2023 05:16:39 JST Toni :mastodon:

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     @Gargron Los dos a la vez, ya has pagado por eso.

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     Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 16-Jun-2023 06:17:13 JST Eugen Rochko

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     @dheadshot Which station?