Questions to you foreign people

[Mirage]

plugging it in? i don't have all day!

[Fynn]

Plus, you can still do that if you have a single tap.

[Fox]

Separate taps is also still a thing a thing because y'know it's a wash basin. You're meant to put the plug in and use the basin to collate a small pool of water for washing in.

I don't understand. You can do this with mixer taps too can't you?

[sharkythesharkdogg]

Two of the sinks in my house have separate taps, and I'm in America. It's not a European thing, it's an older house thing.

Maybe it's still more common in Europe because America is like, "It's old, tear that trout down!" and it makes me sad.

[Fynn]

I figure you guys got it from the English. Because I'm pretty sure continental Europe doesn't have that. I know for a fact that old homes in Poland don't have that for sure.

[Shauna]

I was raised to not drink tap water from mainland Europe (by my mother who was raised in mainland Europe), so maybe that has something to do with it? The fact that the water in the hot water tap was not suitable for drinking, but the cold water tap was?

[Loony BoB]

Just modern plumbing is my best guess.

[Fynn]

Whether you can drink tap water or not in Poland is actually a point people argue about a lot. Apparently, here in Western Polandthe water companies do a good job making the water clean and safe for consumption. What goes on with it as it goes through all those old pipes, however, is another issue

[Shauna]

Yeah so maybe it has something to do with that. I mean, if neither the hot nor cold water is safe to drink then why bother separating them and spending all that extra money on pipes.

[Loony BoB]

Buzzfeed to the rescue!?

https://www.buzzfeed.com/alanwhite/h...Jz5#.apkkqvB4a

[Shauna]

Yes BoB, Fox linked to that earlier in the thread which is where my own line of thinking has stemmed from. xD

[Loony BoB]

Well then. I'm just an idiot.

[escobert]

It's a Nerve and skin damaging disease that used to not be "curable" and disfigured many in ages past. I think the bible even mentions it.

Yup Jesus goes to a Leper colony to help them.

[Freya]

Do you guys have Air conditioning? I was told the UK doesn't have much for Air Conditioning once and mine just went out and I can't imagine being without it.

[Fox]

Do you guys have Air conditioning? I was told the UK doesn't have much for Air Conditioning once and mine just went out and I can't imagine being without it.

We have it everywhere in terms of public buildings/offices, but we don't all have one at home. A lot of people just use electric fans or buy stand alone AC units - I don't go to many flats or houses where they have one built in.