At least all the sinks have a stopper attached to the cold water tap so I could waste lots of water just washing my hands. Oh well! Fredflange you are pathetic and overtly insecure. I suggest you look at the positive aspects of being in country with so much to offer rather than whining, and if these differences pose so much of a problem why not leave? Thank you, Alex, for proving comment 43 to be right.
No Brits are not good at accepting criticism. Also hilarious that your immediate response is to tell people to leave. The riots, the phone hacking scandal, the Jimmy Savile scandal. One might think that British society has some real problems. Fredflange you consent to a post that labels the British pigs with poor food hygiene standards,this makes you nothing more than a fool. I come from Afghanistan.
Once arrived here on , I was shocked facing absence of mixed taps! For anything you name it, either history, economy or whatever, I cannot understand that why in a multi-cultural society, many including English people should be tortured this way!
Even a very old house in my country if it has plumbing all sinks come with mixed taps… Anyway… I enjoyed reading this article. The idea that the US is well-qualified to teach the rest of the world, or just Britain, how to do things defies belief. But, hey, just like politicians and bankers the real purpose of Americans is to entertain the civilised world, is it not? Cold houses with poor insulation and poor heating. Cold water to wash your hands.
My house surprisingly has mixer taps! Cold water to shower. Sometimes there is not enough hot water in the house! Cold sandwiches, crisps, and other snacks for lunch. And people say the Americans eat bad. There are so much fat people around here…. Poor housing standards. Poor architecture. Red, beige, grey, brown brick.
Every house a carbon copy of the other. Everything a bit dirty by western standards. The year old bricks that nobody bothered to plaster and paint in bright colours.
Toilet floors. Shared housing that nobody cares to keep clean, small flats being rare and prohibitively expensive. Bad food. That said, some traditional dishes can be very good! Then I went for some shorter visits. My last visit was in If you do not count short visit in Gibraltar which is a little different, although in some aspects very British.
I read all the messages and I can see that the discussion becomes emotional. I must say that generally I have very good memories, but here I would focus just on strange things: I can note: - already mentioned taps — in the place I lived there was no shower and the bath had 2 taps. I prefer washing in running water so first I used a mug to mix water, then I had the already mentioned plastic device.
Such hate towards Britain from people apparently living, working or studying there. But so what if people want to go their own way? And how boring would it be if we were all the same, and if countries lost their own quirks and nuances? In short, calm down. Hello…love so many things about the UK from the rich history, landmarks, monarchy, architecture… But I can not understand the 2 tap system. When I wash my hands I want them washed thoroughly.
Please for the love of God, get rid of your 2 tap system!!!! Yep, British taps suck. Why is it so hard for some to admit that a particular aspect of their culture is objectively, unequivocally crap? No sane grownup is going to defend chavs or fried mars bars, so why the hangup abut bad plumbing? Most people prefer mixers although some prefer separate but what some people seem to forget here is that there is one key factor in this: Money.
It costs money to change taps, but even more so it costs money to renew plumbing systems, many of which were fitted a long time ago. The UK used to have only separate taps due to regulation. As somebody else already mentioning, this was to stop the potentially infected water from the old fashioned hot water tanks from back-filling the drinkable water and infecting the water supply. I believe ti may also still be a standard that at least one cold tap in a house must connect directly to the water mains and therefore not be a mixer.
However, regulations aside, for me it is simply a case of cost and habit. Some people choose not to, some people cannot afford it, whilst many houses are now owned by people making money out of the housing boom and they have no desire to replace taps for their tenants. To the person before asking why the hang-up about plumbing. Indeed, why the hang-up about a few separate taps?
Is it really going to ruin your visit that much? Some of those differences are good, some of them are bad. I have yet to come across a perfect society and I can tell you one thing now: We will never get anywhere near to a perfect society while we continue to hang on to historic stereotyping and hatred.
Yes people are influenced by what is around them and grow up feeling that what they are used to is right. Britain colder than Scandinavia?
Youre a fool or a liar. Its just a hangback to the old hygiene regulations for old boilers. Ive never really cared about washing my hands in cold water or even thought about it, Im sure many Brits feel or non-feel the same. Besides, its wasteful waiting for the hot water to come through just to wash your hands. British houses are insulated usually, and carpeted bathrooms… All these gripes sound just like the problems cheap or old housing, and cheap or old housing in Europe is far worse in my experience.
The French piss in the street, the Germans are incapable of standing and peeing without making a mess. Dont see whole pages from Brits complaining about that… With all this hatred its no wonder the Brits want to tell Europe to bugger off and stop milking it for all its wealth.
Try toytowngermany as a start. I mean, hellooooooooo this is , not And why does it look so often as a huge mess?
Even the houses themselves look like the only solution is to wipe it of this earth. I see so many beautiful things but so many disappointing too. And why wash your hands with warm water? This is just too funny so I must comment! Firstly, two taps? All the bacteria from the soapy water sticks to the plates, the washing-up liquid also does….
Thirdly, to those who like washing their hands with cold water…have you considered that cold water does not wash away dirt and grime? Happy washing everyone! It was googling for mixers that brought me to this sight.
Interesting people think one can wash under a running tap, if hands are dirty then one has to put the plug in and fill the basin and scrub! If your basin is dirty try cleaning it. I suppose you foreigners all think bathing is unhygienic but a soak is the only way to get clean. Also why is touching the basin disgusting but touching the tap faucet okay? Somehow England has become colder than Scandinavia what happened to reason?
All many of the comments here are testament to is the fact that some people who come to England are whingers with no love for the English. These people must resent having to study here in order to achieve the best education available to them so much! Your own foible. English people already have the class system to do that and I actually think the two could be related.
If you look at Hollywood there is a real emphasis on being unnaturally perfect to the point where people who have decent but inperfect teeth have them replaced with shining veneers. If you let these people control hygiene standards things simply get silly. When it becomes like this hygiene ceases to be good for you and starts being an impairment, something that stops you from being able to do certain things normal people should be able to do.
Find me one study showing the increased dangers of separate taps or touching the basin and I will heartily consent to the notion that separate taps should be phased out. More people should accept that they are a mere individual human who does not have the capacity to make these types of judgements, by trying to they are simply opening themselves up to phobia and mental hang ups.
Britain has no crisis with mass or even any deaths as a result of cold tap hand washing nor basin touching. Getting grossed out by such things is not psychologically good for you. If you were a landlord would you start ripping up plumbing over a convenience? Knowing something of the British housing market I can tell you most Brits are most concerned with things like the location of the house, the size of the house and how pretty the house is. If none of these work for you the only option is c leave England.
Telling someone to leave England sounds harsh but it is necessary since you obviously have some type of disagreement with the British people at the cultural level, as reflected by their cultural tendencies.
Anyone who suggests that this is cultural insensitive or that the people complaining need to live here and have no choice is being foolishly accommodating, there are plenty of places you can work and study abroad that have universities and job markets of equal calibre, even within merely the English speaking word, if you hate the British way of life you evidently made a mistake in coming here and genuinely should find somewhere more to your tastes!
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You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. But opting out of some of these cookies may affect your browsing experience. Necessary Necessary. British houses built after this period were typically equipped with a cold water storage cistern in the attic. One of the main purposes of this cistern is to supply the hot water cylinder.
Nowadays, such cisterns are subject to a number of strict regulations in order to protect the water from contamination. For example, they need to have a lid in order to prevent debris and rodents from getting inside, and they must have certain fittings which prevent the ingestion of insects which could otherwise find their way inside via travelling up the overflow pipe.
Insects, rodents and even errant birds in the loft space would occasionally find their way into the tank, drown, and contaminate the water — which would eventually be used as hot water for the taps.
It is this risk of contamination which is frequently cited as the reason why British taps are separate. It is argued that, in mixer taps, the hot water — which cannot be guaranteed as safe to drink — would merge with cold water from the mains and contaminate it.
However, there are a number of flaws with this argument. The cold water storage cistern usually supplies the cold water to the bathroom outlets as well as the hot. Another reason against this explanation is the taps themselves. As for mixer taps which do blend the hot and cold water inside the tap body, they require non-return valves to be fitted to both the hot and cold supply pipes. The other argument against this explanation is the pressure difference between the hot and cold water.
The following stage separates this solid waste from the remaining water. This is done by pumping the water into large settlement tanks, where it settles for a determined amount of time. Separation occurs during this process, which causes the solids to sink to the bottom of the tank. At this stage, even though the visible bits of sludge and solid waste have been removed, it is still most important to ensure that the smaller and sometimes invisible nasty bugs are also taken out. After that second treatment, the final wastewater is then passed through the last settlement tank, where the good bacteria sink to the bottom.
In the end, the final clean water is pumped over a separation wall near the top of the tank and out into the waterways. England has had a long and rich history with all things related to the bathroom. There are still unused sewers from the Romans underground, as well as visible remnants of Roman walls above ground. Bathhouses used to be in operation along the Thames River until the fifteenth century, then individual bathrooms began as early as the s and evolved into elaborate bathrooms by the Victorian Period in the late s.
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