@Gargron the UK keeps confusing me greatly.

@Gargron some 30 years ago, a british host explained us, that there is no way to use this. He decided to replace it with a mixer from Germany.

@Gargron Brit here. No, the canonical approach is to ignore the cold tap and wash your hands under only the hot tap, which will be cold when you turn it on, and hope that by the time you've finished it's just reached a pleasant temperature rather than scalding you.

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Remind me of one thing.
Could someone please tell me……What is the canonical method for washing my hair in a tub 🛀

@Gargron I've certainly never had any luck with the alternative that occurred to me, which is saving my hands back and forth really fast under the taps. :)

@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.

@Gargron we call that method “tap dancing”

@Gargron the canonical method is to wash your hands in cold water. It’s to do with how older houses’ plumbing works, and even now that we have more modern systems available to us, we often don’t use them, because we’re British and we’re like that.

@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 😞

@Gargron If I go to the bathroom soon after my wife, my strategy is to just turn the hot water tap on and swear as it burns my skin for 5 seconds. When I get the bathroom done we will get a mixer tap!

@Gargron I find it to be more exhilarating to rapidly move my hands back and forth between scorching and freezing 😂

@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.

@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.

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

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

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

@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...