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kurtist04
As a mobile user, I hate you and your tiny text.
30Minds
Older sinks in America can also have two separate taps.
ipsumlorem
Why the hell is there a picture of several Jean-Pierre Pernaud ???
squindiggly
link of the 2 vids for the lazy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cht4">CSDmY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cht49ZCSDmY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfHgUu_8KgA
Snooj
Old houses here in the US have some separate taps. I grew up with them. I have a sink with one. They fucking suck.
iprettymuchonlypostcats
Sink from the 30s. Yep
doomgerbil
Yep, my bathroom sink has separate taps. And the cold is broken, so it's all hot water, all the time.
MargaritaPancakes
Yup, I work in an old building where all the bathrooms have sinks with 2 taps...so annoying
Sarahwhatever
In South Africa hot taps are pointless because the air is hotter than the hot tap most days.
ManlyGirlscout
I'm dying, this is so funny
maggymooooo
wait... are hot water bottles seriously just a UK thing???
zimirken
No
goodguyC
I just asked my mom if she ever used a hot water bottle, and her response, "Yeah, when your dad and I we used one while visiting Ireland...
nchips
Put plug in sink. Turn on cold tap. Turn on hot tap. Fill sink to desired height and temperature. BATHE YOUR HANDS LIKE A SIR! Simple.
Redrumofthesheep
Huge waste of water, suitable only for those who wish to rape our planet,
JhericFury
"Cold tap never had contact with hot water" hah, i live in the UK and my cold tap is warm for a good few seconds.
Ravenuser
How do you wash your hands without freezing/burning them?
lawyerboi
You dont
InspectorGoole
9/10 the hot tap starts off warm and gets hotter after running for a bit.
peppelep
numb your hands with cold so you can quickly wash them with the hot
Rezerkity
As a Brit, I have never had any of these issues.
OneAndOnly2G
Why are some of these texts microscopic?
NotAtTheTableCarlos
http://imgur.com/IDlDT8Y MFW I live in the US but have two taps on my sink
ZebraStripedRose
The double taps drove me crazy in London. Fucking useless.
Narushima
Jean-Pierre Pernaut.
LeMecEnSlip
Si Si tu le sais !
BrokenTrollbot
Only 4chan would have an argument about water that goes on for over 100 posts.
monkeyonastring
Meanwhile, Twitter argues about dresses
FMZerek
Possibly a slow day on /pol/
ninmonkey
I'm upset they don't use a `column-width` before screen capping.
Absorbedboy
well, water is a little tiny bit essential
VodkaReindeer
Oh look, 196 comments sorted by best.
buisnessenderman
This is fucking nothing. These things can go on for hundreds.
hugh705
Or how to shit.
Protean2648
Girl posts on /fit/ wanting exercise advise, entire thread turns into a huge argument on bread. Girl told to piss off.
Millillion
Threads on 4chan derail so hard sometimes. You can go into a YLYL thread and come out talking about the warcrimes committed during WW2.
Beepity
ESPECIALLY on /tg/ /a/dN0p3
NickFurryTheSecond
Some of the /tg/ threads that start out with shit posting and end with discussions on the sun's diameter impacting its temperature. Gold.
HeyLookABunny
I hadn't heard about that. That is fantastic
illegalacorn
YL?
Millillion
You Laugh, You Lose.
TheBlasphemingTomatoGuy
There is nothing wrong with 2 taps trust me
iHaveToPoop
As someone from Ethiopia, I don't understand the purpose of running water at all, we have the mud hole only 16 miles from our village
silaswanders
Your username is so on point.
redditbroughtmehere
But you do understand the purpose of running for water i guess?
Wataah
Your comment pissed me off a great deal
Annutty
you must have journeyed 7 days and nights just to post this comment
ReadySteadyYo
Ethiopia doesn't measure anything in miles, nor the rest of the world. Only stubborn assholes do.
iHaveToPoop
I bet you're fun at parties. Everyone in America uses miles, and it was a joke, calm down lady
ReadySteadyYo
I'm fun at metric parties.
stormstereo
Why would you build your village as far from water as possible?
CanadianLadyMoose
Sorry mother England, but we're with big brother USA on this one...
Chronomechanist
It's okay Canada. We knew we had lost you years ago. We didn't say anything because we didn't want to hurt your feelings, but it's okay. 1/2
Chronomechanist
You are your own country now. Go, be free. America has already converted you on a great many things, but all we ask is that you remember us.
CanadianLadyMoose
we love you momma, we promise to brush our teeth and use your "u"'s in words like colour.
Chronomechanist
2/2*..... (3/2)
d199y
what is this sorcery
DocEMP
We trusted you, you were the chosen one!
RedroverRedrover
I'm Canadian and have lived in more than one house with the two-tap system. It's not a big deal. One tap is better though. Although I 1/?
RedroverRedrover
prefer the two-tap, one faucet deals. Where you pick hot and cold separately but they come out of a single faucet. The ones where you 2/?
RedroverRedrover
just start at cold and turn it and it gets hotter suck ass. They don't allow you to control the water pressure at all. When you have it 3/?
RedroverRedrover
all the way cold, hardly any comes out. Pain in the ass to fill my humidifier. And then when you turn it too hot, again hardly any comes 4/?
RedroverRedrover
out. You only get decent pressure in the middle, at lukewarm. Oh also I love my hot water bottle. Who doesn't like hot water bottles? 5/5
PhysicsAndRomance
wish that they would've added 2 more faucets for hot and cold chocolate milk. (2/2)
RedroverRedrover
I do!!!
itscoldhere8monthsoftheyear
I always felt like I was in the ghetto when i encounter 2 taps
RedroverRedrover
One of my favourite houses I ever lived in had two taps. Depends on the city. If it was a big city I agree, smaller city not unusual.
Imghurrr
yeah I think I've seen those in really old decrepit buildings.. and the water is nasty and full of rust and lead
LurkN
thank you hat!
ChangedMyName
Here's why the UK is like that. https://youtube.com/watch?v=HfHgUu_8KgA
MegaDeuce
Thanks!
Imghurrr
Ah, that makes sense. Still a terrible system of course but at least I know why they do it now.
VEpsilon
Why is it a bad system? Works perfectly fine for me, and a lot of houses in the UK have mixer taps anyway -- same difference for everyone
thewaddlingpenguineapig
Poor things have deluded themselves into complacency
HighrockTendales
I swear we have in many regards. For a first world country we put up with some terrible things.
lawyerboi
'first world'
asciicat
Why didn't you just do one huge image? In firefox: Press shift-f2, type screenshot filename.png --fullpage
HighrockTendales
Oh sure, then right after that I'll just build a moon lander.
ZacMuerte
doesn't work in chrome. must be stupid. /s (but seriously: firefox has so many really weird tools built into it...)
iamthisguy247
This was interesting but brutal to read on mobile. SrChangSmallNoteSquint.gif
Railsmith
I gotcha.
Genericcaptain
*Tries to read tex, taps image by mistake, imgur freaks out*
BrokenTrollbot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c">49ZCSDmY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cht49ZCSDmY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfHgUu_8KgA
AIComments
The Tom Scott video is excellent and could have ended the discussion on post 1. Bunch of mental masturbation fuckwits.
harthram
Dammit, I typed it out before scrolling down to you...
actuallyMikeTyson
thanks for this. Seems like bullshit still.
skellious
Thank you for linking Tom Scott. I was about to do that.
ihaveanamenow
that has to the worst way to wash hands i have ever seen
thescarydude
Why would you wash your hands with the hot rat water? Is it just because the other one is too cold that you would risk getting the plague?
hellifiknowwhatsgoingon
well that explains why my ex's family always boiled their drinking water when they visited america.
KingOpulence
OH MY GOD
BMANN
Hold up, hold up, where does soap even come in to this equation?
LurkN
this is madness!
fifidarlingf
Maybe you should get with the 21st century and update your systems...just a thought
InspectorGoole
Maybe it's stupidly expensive to change the pipes and boiler system in your house. No point in changing it until it's broken.
irna
UK, what the heck?!
LoadedPotatoSkins
ya see this is why we revolted.
actuallyMikeTyson
http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/i/2014/01/27/PARKS-REC-JERRY.jpg MFW live in US and have divided taps
esperx
This is how America was made.
egonronay
are revolting*
supremecx
Good riddance I say *adjusts monocle*
supremecx
Good riddance I say *adjusts monocle*
xDownSetx
Instead of glasses Brits wear a monocle on each eye for hot and cold vision.
ApatheticDropbear
Bunch of berry-pickers.rockpeg
NobodyofParticularConsequence
Dude, your mammoth meat is showing.
ButterfaceTaintClown
America is still revolting.
EtherealRune
lol, get that man to the burn ward
watersbottled
USA USA USA
twostepsfromlost
duh, but don't pretend the way they say aluminum didn't play a factor.
ObamaLlamaDuck
... The guy who named Aluminium called it Aluminium. (Admittedly he used several names at first but he settled on Aluminium) You can't win
SliceofLife309
But seriously though, get it together Brits. No excuse for this silliness.
nexusdog
Which bit precisely? Tis a silly thread.
ZeRootOfAllEvil
It's only a model.
Vespii
Im confused, we have it together? Some landlords just don't bother changing the taps.. Ive had one combined tap in my homes for years.
Xeynid
How is something so incredibly innocent the most hilarious thing I've seen from 4chan?
EntropicLogic
The only hilarious thing I've seen on 4chan
ClearlyYoureLying
Because you have the sense of humor of drywall
Xeynid
Wow Rude.
tacticalneckshirt
I was so goddamn entertained reading this that I became this guy:
CardinalTrou
There is a part of 4chan where you talk about finance.
IDontSeeEnoughDarkTowerOnImgur
I was pretty meh until the last two photos, then I cracked.
Muttons1337
>up until the 1970's they had two seperate steering wheels for turning left and right http://www.somegif.com/gifs/1361358379706393167.GIF
CatSnakePlissken
For real this is in probably my top ten heartiest laughs at 4chan.
SanAnStrangler
It's always been this way tbh. The best stuff is always silly as fuck.
TheTorben
Without 4chan there'd be no OC. 4chan is love, 4chan is life
TheUnmitigatedGall
I'm crying right now this is so funny.
Stonebank
Watching people argue over asinine shit is always the best. I watched my parents argue about soft or hard toast... Laughed the entire time.
Muttons1337
Brb, about to start WWIII between my parents.
imguryousuck
soft toast masterrace
causality
How is that an argument? If it's soggy it's not even toast yet, just warm buttered bread.
Stonebank
Ehh, it was that oven cooked Texas-Style toast type deal. You'll have to argue about that with my Father.
RobotBeardThePirate
That's different it's intended to be like that however toast in a toaster is supposed to be crispy otherwise it's halfassed texas toast.
waitforit
Excuse me sir/madam do you have time to talk about our lord and saviour TheDress?
Tsumino79
but no one gets into the kitchen sink most have a single tap with two knobs like the americunts have it
KeepCalmAndSnorlax
I don't understand some of the Brits' arguments. We can adjust the temperature we want by using both the handles...
wrincewind
they were trolling. no-one actually likes those taps. ... except on baths. they're good on baths. easy to manipulate with your feet.
Zodi
they are oblivious to a faucet that has both hot and cold. The handles only turn the water on/off, they don't have a range of temp.
RaefWolfe
The one thing I despise is those automatic water faucets in public bathrooms. That water is always a disgusting temperature. Never hot!
matrix86
The store I work at just opened...I sweat the water is 150 degrees.
matrix86
*swear
IsPepsiOkay
the water you sweat is 150 degrees?
matrix86
...........fuck
ZacMuerte
sounds like it was built for sanitization. the sinks in the back at my work easily hit 150, and go higher.
matrix86
I'm talking about for the regular, public restrooms, lol.
ZacMuerte
yeah, I just meant like they had hooked it up for sanitation, as it was easier than dealing with mixers
Absorbedboy
>he dont have one handle
Imghurrr
i dont think they realize that the single faucet can control the temperature from hot to cold.. they think it's just "luke warm only"
weeman5872
The two tap system should only be for those who have a water tank in their house. Newer houses with on-demand gas boilers have a shared tap.
Carger
Here's the great thing about being Australian: We see both of these fairly regularly so we don't find either of them strange.
101010011010100111101010101001
So which do you prefer?
Carger
Single faucet, which is lucky because they seem to be the most common. Separate ones seem to be more common in older houses.