Hour rule

"pip bip - choose Corrour" (hhgttg69) 08/12/2020 at 02:39 • Filed to: None

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coffee time

Svend > pip bip - choose Corrour 08/12/2020 at 02:54

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I’ll join you, but with a mug of tea.

Not great lighting, it's 8am, curtains drawn with light coming from the over door glass. 

Nauraushaun > pip bip - choose Corrour 08/12/2020 at 03:05

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I moved away from coffee after midday. Is a fool’s errand.

Tea for me.

Tareim - V8 powered > pip bip - choose Corrour 08/12/2020 at 06:21

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That’s very close to the colour your tea should’ve been

pip bip - choose Corrour > Tareim - V8 powered 08/12/2020 at 06:33

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lol

i like it the way it is.

Tripper > Svend 08/12/2020 at 09:22

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Man, your description of the scene and that cup of tea brings up all kinds of good memories. My sister used to own a cottage in Kent that backed right up to a little airstrip. A field separated her garden from the airstrip, it was like living in a painting.

I’m a Coffee person unless there is PG tips which is the only “real” tea you can get in a supermarket in the US if you’re lucky. I go heavy raw sugar and maybe a little milk if I’m feeling it.  

Svend > Tripper 08/12/2020 at 09:51

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Ye’, sometimes I wake up and before doing anything (like open the damned curtains, etc...), I make a brew and sit back and let it gently wake me. The world can do it’s thing, but I’m starting the day on my own terms.

PG Tips is good, as is Yorkshire tea, but I’ve got a bag of Tetley t ea to get through first.

Tripper > Svend 08/12/2020 at 10:45

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Neat that you can make a cup twice as fast as I with dat 240v! I watched an interesting thing about how they manage the power grid during football games over there. During intermission most of the country gets up and switches on their kettles...Big time moves behind the scenes to make that work, really interesting.

Svend > Tripper 08/12/2020 at 11:09

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Not just sport but Soap Operas such as Coronation Street, Eastenders, etc...

They get an advanced copy of the Radio Times so they know and can plan for when certain things are on and when the adverts will be.

There’s a YouTuber who has done a couple of things on British electricity and how it varies slightly from European power supplies as they are all interconnected so the Hz rate fluctuates and how clocks etc... use the Hz rate to keep time, but if it fluctuates, the clocks can run ever so slightly slower than other parts of the world.

It’s amazing how something we never really think about can be so incredibly interesting.

For me, it's U.K. plugs, sockets and how houses are wired to make one of the safest systems in the world even with such high voltage. 

Tripper > Svend 08/12/2020 at 11:20

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Yea the water heaters in the shower really threw me for a loop the first time. My brother in law explained how it was safe but I was waiting to get juiced the whole time during that first shower haha.

Svend > Tripper 08/12/2020 at 11:43

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Ye’, many houses went from having a water tank in the attic space, that fed into the boiler. The boiler could be hooked into the radiator system and also supply hot water around the house. Then combi boilers, which would heat water for the radiators but also heat the water on demand from a cold water in pipe but the cold water pipe had to be routed to the combi boiler and then to where it’s needed.

Power or electric showers often just have a cold water feed and the electric coil inside would heat the water as required. Less piping, you simply run an electric supply to it and you’ve instant how water that you set by the dial. You can come off pretty much any cold water feed and send it to where you want it rather than via somewhere else.

A common complaint from Americans (amongst many about U.K. houses other than size, that sockets have switches, many sinks/basins still have two taps/faucetts, etc...) is our water pressure isn’t as high as yours so it doesn’t feel that powerful or have as high a flow rate.

Tripper > Svend 08/12/2020 at 11:57

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I actually like the switched outlets but the sinks always get me.

Given the times I cant wait until I can go and see one of those silly sinks again! Even when they do allow international travel I’m concerned about being re-admitted to the US.

Svend > Tripper 08/12/2020 at 12:24

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The two taps is because the hot water tap was fed from the boiler and tank in the attic and so it wasn’t guaranteed drinkable where as the cold water tap was safe, drinkable, potable water.

The common one is, ‘how do you wash your hands and face? Do you go from one tap to the other going ‘brrr’ cold to ‘ouch’ hot?’.

It’s simple. Plugs, sinks have plugs, fill the sink with the water you want at the temperature you want it by adding the desired amount of hot water and cold water from the taps. Pull out the plug then rinse your face with cold water (which closes up your pores after hot/warm water opens them as you clean your face, etc...).

Re-admitted!? You make America sound like an insane asylum! Erm, okay, I get you.

That’s if you get back in, the U.S. has been blocking some Americans and naturalized Americans from re-entering the U.S. if a U.S. customs in the foreign country had ‘reas on’ to think you were Covid positive, not necessarily Covid positive, but reason to believe you were.

Sorry, that got political. I won't do it again.